I ranked every Defect card in Slay The Spire 

23:10 "I know I can exploit the shit out of my chat with this... we're going to make claw in its own tier... and for every five gifted subs, the row moves up" That was about the funniest thing I've seen all day ... laughed so hard, had a coughing fit ... 😹

Logically I know that Creative AI isnt that good, but every time I see one all thoughts in my head are replaced by "hehehehhohohohoheoheoheeheheheheoh"

Oh you think "X" card should be higher or lower on the list? Good to hear you're wrong hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

My favorite thing about go for the eyes is using it to predict attacks whenever I grab the dome relic that hides enemies intentions. Has saved my life a couple times

Timestamps: 0:30 Aggregate (B) great since buff; synergizes well with Reboot 2:49 All for One (B) with claws or snecko+Hologram infinte 4:43 Amplify (B) Only with a bunch of rare powers 6:24 Auto-Shields (D) Good in 1st Act; later unreliable 7:59 Ball Lightning (S) Wins Act 1 and later as well with lots of orbs 8:57 Barrage (S) Sucks early; Game-winning later(strength!) 10:37 Beam Cell (C) Subpar 11:44 Biased Cognition (S) Great in hallway fights 13:01 Blizzard (D) Either Central to deck or bad 13:24 Boot Sequence (B) Only get one 15:04 Buffer (B) Meh 16:05 Bullseye (A) Great early with dualcast and doesn't get worse 18:17 Capacitor (A) Take in late for good synergies 19:25 Chaos (D) Sucks due to randomness 20:12 Charge Battery (S) Fucking great but don't take too many 21:40 Chill (A) Lots of Synergies in late 22:36 Claw (S++) 23:25 Cold Snap (A) Great Early 25:06 Compile Driver (S) Take lots in late game 25:42 Consume (A) 26:43 Cool Headed (S) 27:00 Core Surge (S) 27:31 Creative AI (D) Demon form of Defect (Bait) 27:44 Darkness (A) Upgrade priority 28:35 Defragment (S+) Great beta art 28:52 Doom and Gloom (A) 29:39 Double Energy (D) Useless unupgraded; only sometimes great 31:04 Dual Cast (S) Bash of Defect; Don't take another one 31:55 Echo Form (S+) duh 32:20 Electro Dynamics (S) double duh 32:24 Equilibrium (A) Only take one 33:00 FTL (C) Meh 34:02 Fission (B) can be good; UPGRADE! 35:02 Force Field (B) Very good or very bad 35:33 Fusion (D) Slows you down 36:22 Genetic Algorithm (S) Even good taking in late mid game 37:56 Glacier (A+) Overrated 38:52 Go for the Eyes (B) Feels good 39:22 Heatsinks (A-) Underrated 40:18 Hello World (F) Terrible 41:10 Hologram (S) 31:35 Hyperbeam (B) Great in the 1% 42:17 Leap (C) Nothing special but decent 42:27 Loop (S) 43:58 Machine Learning (B) Meh 45:07 Melter (C) Niche 46:39 Metero Strike (C) Either sucks or great 47:17 Multi-Cast (C) 47:56 Overclock (D) Really bad in long fights 48:34 Rainbow (A-) Worse upgraded 49:22 Reboot (B) Great synergy with Aggregate 50:30 Rebound (C) Useful but not exciting 51:34 Recursion (B) Upgradepriority; Synergy with dark orbs 52:24 Recycle (A) Great Upgraded 53:03 Reinforced Body (C) If your deck lacks defense 53:59 Reprogram (C) Synergy: Prismatic Shard but bad 55:00 Rip and Tear (B) Wins Act 1 56:00 Scrape (F) Sucks 55:51 Seek (S) No question 56:46 Self Repair (A-) Noob trap 58:04 Skim (A) The later the better 58:35 Stack (C+) 58:56 Static Discharge (A) Awesome but complicated 59:53 Steam Barrier (B) 1:00:28 Storm (B) Good upgrade 1:01:30 Streamline (F) Only against Nob; Sucks 1:02:15 Strike (F-) 1:02:19 Sunder (D) Expensive and Clunky; Decent early 1:04:06 Sweeping Beam (B) AOE, cycle but meh 1:04:29 Turbo (A) 1:0:10 Tempest (D) Awkward 1:05:25 Thunder Strike (D) Clunky finisher 1:06:27 White Noise (D) It can give you Hello World... (BAD!) 1:06:53 Zap (D) Don't get another

I personally believe that overclock can be pretty epic for a number of reasons. It works really well in hallway fights, where you aren't going to cycle your deck as many times and draw into those burns. It also synergizes with all for one, so you can get more value out of those turbos you bring back into your hand. So while I'd only ever take one, I do think overclock deserves at least C tier, frostprime, you absolute cretin. Love the content, King Kong would win

I love creative AI. Is it good? Fuck no. Is it fun and can make or break? Absolutely. I think D tier is fair, but I still get hyped.

Chill - "Yeah dude, I cant wait. Against 36 damage from the guardian, I cant wait to block for 2! *NFL theme*" I died. Watched that on repeat so many times. Then claw right after that. Gold. Thanks for the laughs, fp.

Multi-Cast combos so well with Double Energy and a single darkness orb. Build up damage on the orb then multiply it by 10+ depending on the set up

I think one of the reasons defect is my fav, aside from it being cute as hell, is that it has so many A and S tier commons

Streamline isn't very good, but there's absolutely no universe in which it's worse than Scrape or Strike. It's pickable in act 1 when you need front-loaded damage, and you can play it multiple times even in short fights with stuff like Echo Form, Hologram, and Rebound.

I never picked barrage before this video. Just did my highest ascension run easily thanks to the advice in this video. Awesome work! Love it and can't wait for the other classes

Sts general card tier list is impossible to make because card value changes with the overall deck.

Just watched this video and stopped about halfway through to play a round of Defect. Won my first Defect run. Thanks Frost.

If it's low in your draw pile, heatsink is usually just a card that says 'this card does nothing '. Same with storm. If heatsink is underrated than creative AI is, imo

yoo defect's the only class I've beaten A20 with, honestly most fun character in StS for me

God- I wanted to take a SHORT lunch, Frost!

I watched this. Twice. And youtube refuses to stop recommending it. RU-vid is holding me hostage. Love the content, regardless.

my new defect jam is barrage + pen nib , nice to also have a sweeping beam in the deck too if you can pull it off with akabeko (a little tricky with barrage as you need to get those orbs before your first attack) its also phenomenal ... but you can always wind up pen nib on a fight thats already over, or use defect's draw and defense to try and delay that first attack

I love Chaos cause upgrading it can evoke orbs and even basic, if you have upgraded Darkness, it can benefit, if you have Thunder Strike or Blizzard, it benefits. Also you have a chance of getting Plasma without using that 2 energy cost

Fission+ is probably the best card in the game for any class Definitely the best upgrade in the game

I'm sorry- what's in his pocket?

I remember on my very first ascension run I was grabbing back 7 cards with All For One. I didnt have sneko eye. FTL, Go For The Eyes, and more.

I was excited for this one because of the plentitudes of good Side B art for the Defect

Echo form saved my life so many times. I would use echo form so many times and ways that were unique. Being able to play high damage exhausted cards twice or being able to put two glaciers out for the cost of one or using two focus cards can change the game. Sometimes I would Have three going on at once having a high draw and getting rid of the eternal would make it where I would have opportunities to play this card here and there and eventually once I had it it was almost a for sure win. Getting this card early on will kill you though you have to be able to wait till you have a high draw and extra energy to spare. Using echo form on buffer a couple times means you don't even have to worry about defense

Am I missing something about Scrape? Works well with Snecko Eye. It also feels like a good way to draw a bunch of Claws. Stack your draws with Rebound and scrape them back, then play your Claws again. Plus adding stuff to your discard pile can be a good thing if you have Holograms in hand. Plus when you get to a part where all that's left in your draw pile is garbage, you Hologram for a Scrape to clear it and get a reshuffle. Is it garbage in most decks that aren't Claw decks? Probably. But it's got a niche and surely things that have a niche don't belong in F tier.

I'm watching this now, and I'm kinda thinking Charge Battery might be low S tier. edit: I paused before the beta art lol

Could you do an artifact tier ranking? I'm new to the game and have been watching all your related videos. Thanks for all the helpful info!

That feel when the first time you ever beat the Act 3 boss with the Defect was with a bunch of D tier cards because you're a noob who got baited. Lol. Great vid, learned a lot.

I've been looking forward to this

I once did a hyperbeam deck. Iplayed Streamline with draw cards and hologram early game, then switched to hyperbeam in act 2 and looped them permanently. It was insane 😁

I think you can negate the effect of hyper beam if you have an artifact. So if you already picked up that card that gives you an artifact, hyper beam might have no real downside in a lot of fights.

Hi. I'm trying to get all trophies in this game and your content is so goooooood that i had to subscribe and watch every tier list. 🥰

I learned so much from this and just beat my first a19. So many cards I would normally take every time that would do absolutely nothing for me.

Thinking about a fusion sort of rework- I think costing 1 Mana but exhausting would make it a bit more playable

The "powers" deck is my absolute favorite deck to play in slay the spire. Get 1 or more storms, an upgrade heat sink, and a mummified hand, and you've got a party. especially it you bottle the heat sink. It's why I probably overrate white noise which under those conditions and upgrade is a 0 cost draw 2 channel 1 or more lightning, then make another card cost 0. just an overwhelming amount of value!

I'm gonna hear that sub notification in my nightmares

Cant wait for “rating every relic in STS” list

29:37 I am confusion

Watching this video helped me beat ascension lvl 9. Thanks!

Another big plus for Compile Driver is some of the best Beta Art in the game

Self-repair even when you can't block enough to make it efficient is still alright as a pseudo-block with power synergies.

I keep hitting seeds where I get Amplify in my first 3 hallway fight reward choices, when I have NO OTHER POWER CARDS. Feels like crap to take it as a dead card there.

It's almost never relevant in practice, but my favorite thing about recursion is that channeling lightning or frost with it increments thunderstrike or blizzard respectively.

Another day another victory for the claw gang.

I’ve had a fight as the defect that lasted like 30 mins and it was just a regularly enemy btw it was my first defect run and the reason was I didn’t have enough damage to 3 shot a one of the enemy’s that had 60 health. Also another enemy healing the big tank back to full

When I see Creative AI in D: *angry Power spam noises*

Only found this video after seeing ur poll, fucking love it though

Hope we get a Relic tier list

Is the complete tierlist available somewhere so I can use it for reference?

Finally the character I have the most fun with yet am the worst at

Ngl I just have the notifications on to know when it's dinner

I love how me and all of his chat is like "Buffer S Teir" and he's not even gonna look at the beta art

12:13 I took Wraith form years ago when I first started, I was doing an endless run with a thousand cuts and panacea. But this was og Wraith form, the rest of the deck was stuff that affective costed 0 and drew cards or emptied my hand for top, and I eventually killed them with the power triggers or a skewer for 15+ times

When are we going to have a tierlist tierlist?

Lol did you sneak some Dragon Ball aura sound fx into the ball lightning part?

CLAW IS LAW

My first thought on the thumbnail was “wait, the one that drains Focus is S tier??” And then he instantly disclaimed why

Great video! Really looking forward to the Silent tier list

I needed this

I like how he says "Biased kok"

Hype for card opinions.

Heatsinks vs machine learning Imagine getting free draw after something you already want to do, play powers! Except now you have less energy to play those cards. Imagine drawing an extra card at the beginning of every turn... 😊

@FP I love your videos dude 22:20 is why I subscribed

Hopefully he does one of these for relics

i want a beta art tier list, and double tap better be sss tier

Creative AI in D-Tier is outlandish

This video is incredibly poggy

some of these are hard to evaluate in my opinion. like chill. you see it as only 2 blocks, but a channeled frost is worth much more than that. also you can combo it with capacitor,yes. but also when you dont obtain additional orb slots, you can take more advantage of evoking them - ergo more block. since most battles dont last too many turns anyways to stack up slots, and fill them up sometimes.

Ironclad: Bash head into wall... Silence: Do several things to get around wall... Defect: Study wall, blow it up anyways... Watcher: About to take 25 damage from the wall; get angry at wall, take 50 damage from the wall. Die. Hermit: "See, I have gun."

I just had a creative AI sneako eye run and that was so much fun, dupe endless powers and win.

I remember getting a deck with like 8 loop+ cards it was fucking insane

Double energy is insane in the right decks. 22+ energy on turn one is a thing that it can do.

ngl, ball lightning is S tier, I fucking love it, Ill take 4, I love the strike plus, its so fkn good glad to see you agreed

Buffer would be S tier with retain. You can't change my mind.

what is your ranking for claw tho?

Sorry to ask but are you going to make a silent cards list?

This is my first ever Frost Prime video, can someone pls tell me what critter is in his pocket 😭

Yo that buffer B tier hurt me.

Banger

Storm + Tempest + Lightning Strike can be quite strong together.

Some of my best runs have involved a couple of Storm+ ...granted my idea of "best runs" includes managing to "make things interesting" with the Heart 🤔😣🤦‍♂️

I really can't believe you put All For One in B tier. I was expecting A Tier and then the way you talked it up made me think it was going in $ tier.

I will forever disagree with where you placed melter. A card dog.

Weird. I felt like your tier list on the silent and the ironclad was pretty accurate and reasonably. However i seem to have to compeltely disagree on a lot of ranking choices on my favourite character defect.

as the beta artist for dualcast im a little sad he skipped that one

Is turbo a reference to the RU-vid turbo?

These beta arts are golden. The MS Paint energy is strong with them.

Does reprogram that bad? The only two times I've beaten was with that card. As the dexterity and strength were increasing, I was able to block 40 of dmg with only two blocks, and my claws could deal 40. :c

For me I'd say I'm most excited seeing Electro Dynamics, Echo Form and Turbo lmao. I think Turbo is such a busted card early and late

Amplify the echo form or loops. Recursion upon recursion.

Using this ranking as a general rule of thumb has made me a better player

I'm just so confused about how boot sequence and amplify are in the same tier. Am I the only person for whom amplify is like D tier?

I won my first defect run today and Aggregate+ Single Handedly carried the run.

Relic tier list whan?

I don’t care what he says I love white noise, it will at minimum just give you a power for 1 energy, at most you get 2 free energy plus the effect of the power

White noise and creative AI have won me so many runs - creative AI alone is a win condition, with enough time, you'll get enough strong power cards to exponentially scale to beat the fight

Hmm. What is rainbow gave you a Plasma first, then followed by the 3 other orbs. Would it be busted? Or playable

Sick

If you have Echo form stacked twice (so that your first two cards are played twice) and your first two card plays are Amplify + some power, does that power get played three times?