Ribbit Rogue Relic Tier List

Relics are how a ten-die pool becomes a build. Steam 1.0 advertises 120-plus of them. This page ranks the ones we can name from official screenshots and patch notes, then groups the rest by job. Take relics that multiply a face you already roll. Do not take a relic that would be strong on a different frog.

S — run identity

Blacksmith Hammer. You can forge at campsites. That is extra anvil visits without extra map luck. S on any pool that still has blanks. Slightly less mandatory if your map already prints forges.

Fine Cutlery. Permanently upgrade a die side when that side defeats an enemy. It is a forge that happens in combat. S when you concentrated a kill die. F when your damage is spread across four pokes — nobody gets the kill credit cleanly.

Twin Die (boss). Extra reroll, Twin fires three times. This is not a relic in the row so much as a cube, but it belongs in the S conversation because it is the reward you plan a first boss around.

Spirit Jar. Every two blank sides you roll in a turn deal 4 to all enemies. S with Blank Die, Cursed Ring, or any project die you refused to clean. It turns a C-tier net into AoE. Useless if you already exiled every blank.

A — always happy

Spare Pouch. Leftover rerolls become +1 next turn. Teaches you not to dump the meter. A in every character.

Floppy Disk. Conserve up to three rerolls between turns. A on blank-heavy pools and on bosses.

Pocket Watch. +2 effect to Quick and Slow when they activate. A if you actually sequence. C if you click faces left to right.

Empty Hourglass. +2 effect for the final remaining die. Same skill test as Slow. A for disciplined players.

Skull. Heal when an enemy dies (later notes mention a static HP value, not a percent). A in packs, B in duels.

Medkit. Restore a chunk of HP if you die once (demo play said 25%). A safety net for learning bosses. Less exciting once you stop dying.

Hand Lens. Reroll relic rewards once. A because relic quality is the run.

B — situational, not bait

Amulet. +4 rerolls on turn one, −1 afterward. B on elites and bosses that you want to spike. Poor in long fights unless Floppy Disk covers the later turns.

Trick Coin (Heads / Tails). +1 to even or odd faces. B after you know which coin you took and you forge toward those numbers. D if you ignore it.

Cracked Sword. Gain 2 Might and 4 Weakness at battle start. B if your first turn can spend the Might before Weakness matters. A trap if you needed that first turn to shield.

Pill. 1 damage at the start of every turn, heal 5 after every battle. B on the Hero, who already refunds HP between rooms. Risky on a low-HP armored frog.

Crit capsules (gumball event). +3% crit chance per Crit. B that becomes S if you stack several and your faces have numbers worth doubling. See combat.

C — only with a plan

Start-of-turn shield relics are C if your shield die already covers the modal telegraph, A if you have no shield die. Random-damage-on-blank relics that are weaker than Spirit Jar are C. Shop-discount relics climb to A on Swamp Depth and fall to B on base difficulty where gold is looser.

Character tax

The Hero’s post-battle heal makes Pill and chip-damage relics safer. The wizard-hatted frog in screenshots sits at 90 HP with five rerolls in one fight — that frog wants Floppy Disk and Pocket Watch more than Medkit. The armored frog at 60 HP wants Medkit and a shield relic more than Cracked Sword. Rank relics after you pick a character, not before.

Level-up discipline

Level-up screens show three cards. Pick one job:

1. Economy of actions (rerolls, forge access).
2. Math on faces (Quick/Slow, even/odd, crit).
3. Insurance (Medkit, Skull, post-battle heals).

Do not take two insurance relics and zero engines. Do not take two engines and zero ways to survive a 17. The build guide pairs these with dice jobs. The run planner has a relic slot checklist you can read during the pick, not after you misclick Fine Cutlery onto a spread pool.

Launch week will name more of the 120. When a new relic shows up in a patch, slot it into a job, not into a vibes list. Jobs survive patches. Vibes do not.