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

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

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

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.

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 <3

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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'm sorry- what's in his pocket?

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