Peglin – Basic Blade vs Spiral Slayer

What is the Difference Between Basic Blade and Spiral Slayer?

Be warned fair reader, this information is not for the faint hearted. Please, proceed with caution.

Dungeon Die has a secret mechanic where it can’t make your orb deal negative damage. So, for example, a 1/2 Matryorbshka cannot receive a -3/-3 debuff and is instead limited to -1/-2, so it is more likely to get buffed by the relic than debuffed by it.

Basic Blade applies before Dungeon Die, meanwhile Spiral Slayer applies after Dungeon Die.

Therefore, if Basic Blade turns a Matryorbshka into a 2/2, Dungeon Die can debuff it into a 0/0. However, if Dungeon Die turns a 1/2 Matryorbshka into a 0/0, Spiral Slayer can then buff it up into a 1/0.

So, what is the difference between Basic Blade and Spiral Slayer? The difference is that, for orbs that are 2/3 or weaker, Spiral Slayer makes the worst possible outcome of Dungeon Die +1/+0 better than Basic Blade would.

TLDR:

Spiral Slayer is slightly better with Dungeon Die than Basic Blade is.

I hope this was helpful to you!