Relic Tier List

Rarity of the stat beats the size of the number

“I love relics like these which give bonuses to things that are otherwise hard to increase.”

The core principle. Orb speed / thorns / attack speed / bot range are hard to raise any other way, so they rank high despite small numbers. Damage is available everywhere, so it ranks low despite bigger numbers.

Double dip

“you get 5% extra damage twice”

Ult damage also buffs the Spotlight multiplier; crit factor and crit chance count twice via the UW crit card. Double dippers land between A+ and S-.

Works for EVERY build

Thorns, orb speed and bot range help eHP AND glass cannon, so they get S. Anything for one niche only — damage/meter needs SL+ — gets C-.

Slot opportunity cost

“This one is equally useless but its only wasting a blue slot, yay.”

The same junk stat is punished harder in a purple slot than in a blue one — the purple slot could have been something good. 5% cash = F, 2% cash = D.

Repetition / creativity penalty

“I am dropping this down a full tier, due to lack of creativity.”

The same relic twice in one event costs a full tier step (5% crit factor: A+ → B+). In the extreme case, a spite-F.

'Feels' is a legitimate criterion

“you can disagree with this point but youd be wrong”

He grades on dopamine, openly: watching the SL multiplier climb, crit chance above 100%, orbs spinning faster. Declared subjective and priced in anyway.

Breaking a threshold

A relic that crosses a line — 100% thorns without a substat, 98% def in tournaments — is S+, even when the number is tiny. What it unlocks is graded, not what it adds.

Stonks — ratings get revised after patches

He re-rates in the open: damage/meter D+ → C after UW dissonance, health regen A- → A+ with attack dissonance, knockback down after fleets. The old grade stays visible and the change is named.

The event grade is calculated, not felt

Points per relic tier from a fixed table, summed. Rerun relics counted half at first and nothing at all since 2026-04-17 — the grade rests ONLY on the four biweekly relics. He settles borderline cases with the arithmetic ('stopped at exactly how much was needed for S tier').