Idea for a relic, Egg Head, add 3 cleaves if youre playing as the Silent, add 3 well layed plans if playing as Ironclad, chance to spawn tinted rocks in the background, if you click on it heal for 5.
He could't kill them, strike plus strike plus pommel strike would have been 22 damage and the enemy had 25 hp, you were seeing the buffed strikes and pommel strike because he used armaments.
NL, the energy loss at the end is from Birbo the Birb Boss attacking you with "Sludge" (the 14 dmg attack). You have a debuff on you until the start of your turn, which says -1E next turn.
just fyi, if you want the Slime Boss fight to be super easy, get him as close to splitting as possible and wait for a new turn when you've got you're heavy hitters. If you have the health for it (~50+?) let him hit you with his big attack if you need to. You're gonna heal after the boss anyway, so getting hit doesn't matter as much in boss fights
Rob Monson you should’ve seen it when he did this strat on stream. I watched chat go ballistic then next turn when he split the boss with like 20 hp I felt so vindicated.
Classic strat but the splits hit less hard and if you have heavy attacks the next turn anyway then your likely to split the attacking T2 slime, so it has merit but not always the right play.
J B What sort of aoe could you have at that point in the game? Even if you eat a 30 damage hit, you have the next 3 turns to burst him so you can wait until you have some decent damage on the same turn. Splitting him at 40 hp make the rest of the fight a joke.
That moment when you watch nl get rid of several 0 energy defends when he either could use them to take less damage or use them to store block with barricade. NL: We have barricade so we can use flame barrier... but theres no point to getting armour for future turns along with dealing 4 dmg each time something hits me.
That's why I watch this serie. When I watch sport I usually root for the winning team. You have to admit NL natural luck makes it an even match sometimes so it keeps being interesting despite the misplays.
NL in the later fights not playing the Sever Souls is really bad. You have a 30 card deck and your fights aren't on average allowing you to cycle twice. Exhausting cards that you like doesn't matter as its unlikely you see them again, plus doing the additional 20 odd damage speeds up the fight so that you won't need to draw your Impervious or other block cards anyway.
Ghostneedle1 yeah but if youre going to make a perfected strike deck, that means ypu shpuld keep all your strikes, and wouldnt you agree itd be better to have upgraded strikes?
But if he has Arm+ those strikes will get upgraded anyway, plus strikes are often your worse card so you're the least likely to use your energy on playing them.
I can see your point for sure but the argument for removing a card since he has arm+ is strong enough that it'd be unreasonable to call it a misplay. I'm all for railing him on his misplays but this isn't one of his many.
You were already one of my absolute favorite UA-camrs, but randomly singing "All About The Pentiums"" By Weird Al Yankovic gained you about 30% more points from me. :D Also, you didn't fuck it up, which is impressive.
Watching our boy NL slaying the spire hurts me severely deep inside my soul. Not cause he's bad, but cause he just doesn't want to get better and run it by his own tempo instead of rushing the hell out. All through the series i'm getting a feel of the most intense sloppiness in a long freaking time.
Greg singer he is on Isaac Autopilot. He would win more consistently if he would stop talking and think his whole turn through before talking again. I have no problem with misplays or a little sloppiness but this is just too often.
Impervious and barricade markers body slam insanely valuable. You have clear synergy but don't take it because it's likely to get higher energy. You should remember that play much worse cards for 3 energy at times.
Bludgeon is generally an okay card, generally fine on its on but best when you can make it cost cheaper due to how there are common combos which can do far more damage for far less
He cannot unlearn and relearn anything. Once he internalizes something it stays that way for years no matter how wrong it is. He'll, it took him 80 episodes to learn that he needs to defend himself.
NL the ancient potion combos great with Flex though, if you play Flex and Drink an Ancient potion you straight up just keep the strength up for the rest of the combo
My girlfriend was pissed, and she doesn't even play. He's just that bad sometimes. Mostly StS these days, but he's a lot worse at some games (KSP made me question if he believes the Earth is round and gravity is real).
It's just like playing really agro decks in other card games. It finishes the game fast, but you win or lose depending on your draws basically. Honestly, I don't understand how people like playing clash decks. They are easily one of the least interesting to play archetypes.
Clash are really strong till 3rd floor..And they are so many ways to get fked up..For example,I singlehandely lost to nemesis with a clash deck because he filled my deck with burnss while i could do nothing..Curses also fk u up..If you have 2-3 severed souls and feel no pain,then you can maybe win,but it requires so many different cards..A blood deck or an exhaust deck are the top tier decks in my opinion
I won my first ironclad run yesterday. The deck was kinda weird. Barricade, Juggernaut, and a synergy that let me sacrifice HP to do damage and gain strength. I guess it was a little all over the place, but it was kinda just zany enough to work?
This was the worst Slay the Spire Play I've ever seen! Both in terms of his misplays, as well as in terms of deck building and shop decisions, and yet he did beat the final boss somehow... I'm actually amazed...
I barely use armaments anymore. It's kind of more boring more than it is bad. Also, it outlasts its own usefulness the later you go or the longer fights last and ends up being a waste as soon as most of your cards are upgraded.
Idea for a relic, Egg Head, add 3 cleaves if youre playing as the Silent, add 3 well layed plans if playing as Ironclad, chance to spawn tinted rocks in the background, if you click on it heal for 5.
Fabio Silva I’m not sure if this is serious or not. /:-|
it isn't.
Guess NL wouldn't be healing for 5 with that relic
And you can't use blocks
Fabio Silva You could as well make it heal for 100 because NL won't heal for anything with this relic
Every time he ends turn with Barricade active and 0 cost defends, my blood pressure rises.
Will NL remember to use all his energy each turn?
[X] Doubt
add 1 doubt to your deck
[X] Regret
7:30 "let's put up some block, then I'm like can I kill ya?"
That is the WRONG ORDER to preform those actions
i know.. i was like.. why not just kill it instead?
SLyM256 Can't teach a dumb egg new tricks
I'm just amazed he's finally over his fear of blocking.
IamI3rian I'm just glad he got over his love of cleave
He could't kill them, strike plus strike plus pommel strike would have been 22 damage and the enemy had 25 hp, you were seeing the buffed strikes and pommel strike because he used armaments.
May not have been succeeding (or playing well) lately, but these past few videos have been extremely entertaining to watch.
Nat breckenridge I would say the last 78 videos are fun
23:20 ''I decide to take 4 damage instead of playing my free defend. Never change Egg Daddy
Kasper Kunnerup he didnt want a dazed
GRathburn001 except he literally says that?
2:30 _"I think if we have the money we should go to the shop."_
Has 129 gold. What a good start we're off to...
He angered the mushrooms. Then he angered the youtube viewers.
Finally, the backlog hit the update. Fifteen days past. Good lord.
he really must have done some massive grinding for that big of a backlog jesus
22:29
*extremely misplay voice*
"We don't have any strength gain"
Lmao
NL, the energy loss at the end is from Birbo the Birb Boss attacking you with "Sludge" (the 14 dmg attack). You have a debuff on you until the start of your turn, which says -1E next turn.
"We're getting better"
Feed->Bludgeon
just fyi, if you want the Slime Boss fight to be super easy, get him as close to splitting as possible and wait for a new turn when you've got you're heavy hitters. If you have the health for it (~50+?) let him hit you with his big attack if you need to. You're gonna heal after the boss anyway, so getting hit doesn't matter as much in boss fights
Rob Monson you should’ve seen it when he did this strat on stream. I watched chat go ballistic then next turn when he split the boss with like 20 hp I felt so vindicated.
Classic strat but the splits hit less hard and if you have heavy attacks the next turn anyway then your likely to split the attacking T2 slime, so it has merit but not always the right play.
Luke Dewhurst no its always the right play because effectively you deal double damage
Skrelp oid it's not always the right play man, if he's gonna damage you for a lot and you have AOE attacks..
J B What sort of aoe could you have at that point in the game? Even if you eat a 30 damage hit, you have the next 3 turns to burst him so you can wait until you have some decent damage on the same turn. Splitting him at 40 hp make the rest of the fight a joke.
That moment when you watch nl get rid of several 0 energy defends when he either could use them to take less damage or use them to store block with barricade.
NL: We have barricade so we can use flame barrier... but theres no point to getting armour for future turns along with dealing 4 dmg each time something hits me.
The order that he plays his cards is causing my blood pressure to go up
FINALLY, REAL SYNERGY! *Vigorous Applause*
"I'm gonna shrug it off just in case we get a 0 cost barricade" Literally after discarding barricade
5:11 "I will gain Gold to lose HP"
Exactly the reason why you want Gold!
Is it bad that I was rooting against NL this episode because of his early misplays?
nope
That's why I watch this serie. When I watch sport I usually root for the winning team. You have to admit NL natural luck makes it an even match sometimes so it keeps being interesting despite the misplays.
Ancient Potion is a lifesaver against the enemies with gimmicky debuffs (Chosen, Snecko, that constricting snake on floor 3)
Serpent*
M I S P L A Y D A D D Y
You have impervious why keep passing on body slam?
God I love you NL but your misplays are the reasons I drink.
Student A E S T H E T I C S .
..???..
Gb
I died inside when he hit the sludge with FEED FIRST THEN A FREAKING BLUDGEON FOR LETHAL IN THE SAME TURNNNNN
you can only feed off those if it's the last one alive
NL in the later fights not playing the Sever Souls is really bad. You have a 30 card deck and your fights aren't on average allowing you to cycle twice. Exhausting cards that you like doesn't matter as its unlikely you see them again, plus doing the additional 20 odd damage speeds up the fight so that you won't need to draw your Impervious or other block cards anyway.
Always takes Cleave, doesn't appreciate Whirlwind.
That's the egg I know and love.
That moment when NL goes and plays feed and THEN play bludgeon for the kill
....... NL pllzzzz xD
kyelle mitchell In this Update you can only feed on these enemies if you end the fight with it and not if they just get to regrow
has that gotten fixed now? i thought that was intended behavior
Hey has anyone figured out how at 1:05:30 he only has 3/4 energy?
Darkness debuff from boss.
41:23
I will never forget that.
Spit more bars
Goes with a perfected strike deck, refuses to upgrade all strikes and defends
It's not like it upgrades any other strike but the basic ones.
Ghostneedle1 yeah but if youre going to make a perfected strike deck, that means ypu shpuld keep all your strikes, and wouldnt you agree itd be better to have upgraded strikes?
But if he has Arm+ those strikes will get upgraded anyway, plus strikes are often your worse card so you're the least likely to use your energy on playing them.
Ghostneedle1 only if said strikes and defends are in your hans, upgrading all just seems like a better consistent choice
I can see your point for sure but the argument for removing a card since he has arm+ is strong enough that it'd be unreasonable to call it a misplay. I'm all for railing him on his misplays but this isn't one of his many.
NL,, you can get chests in question mark rooms. Thus the relic that gives extra is still good.
The amount of times you'd have taken less damage if you didn't just armament or block without seeing lethal.
58:23 actively avoids using feed to get the last hit for absolutely no reason
You were already one of my absolute favorite UA-camrs, but randomly singing "All About The Pentiums"" By Weird Al Yankovic gained you about 30% more points from me. :D
Also, you didn't fuck it up, which is impressive.
Entrench with barricade and impervious D:
"We don't want to use Impervious, we want to save it for later" You have Barricade, are you high?
35:39 i don’t know why, but this part is just soo funny to me XD
"Let's play it slow."
*Plays a bunch of cards without considering the consequences at all.*
"I should have rethought this..."
Play your free defends while you have barricade you absolute madman
"Matroyshka is shit but Black Star is dope"... my dude
Watching our boy NL slaying the spire hurts me severely deep inside my soul. Not cause he's bad, but cause he just doesn't want to get better and run it by his own tempo instead of rushing the hell out. All through the series i'm getting a feel of the most intense sloppiness in a long freaking time.
Greg singer he is on Isaac Autopilot. He would win more consistently if he would stop talking and think his whole turn through before talking again. I have no problem with misplays or a little sloppiness but this is just too often.
Impervious and barricade markers body slam insanely valuable. You have clear synergy but don't take it because it's likely to get higher energy. You should remember that play much worse cards for 3 energy at times.
When nl tries to explain out of his stupidity 20:20
NL, going Bludgeon was the right choice
that card is honestly my favorite.
TheRoboticRonin Its such a good gap closer. Probably my favourite direct damage finisher
Say that again once you start dealing 300+ damage with a limit break deck and heavy blade
@Liliputian07
you're comparing the effects of multiple cards to one, my dude.
Bludgeon is generally an okay card, generally fine on its on but best when you can make it cost cheaper due to how there are common combos which can do far more damage for far less
Snecko Bludgeon is one of the most satisfying loadouts
"Only the last hit point matters". That frame of mind is what screwed that run up, not armaments.
Sky Ellis he took this advice so wrongly. This was meant to be “only the last hit point matters on the boss fight” and I don’t think he ever fixed it.
He cannot unlearn and relearn anything. Once he internalizes something it stays that way for years no matter how wrong it is.
He'll, it took him 80 episodes to learn that he needs to defend himself.
Someone tweet this egg that you can find chests in question mark runes, making Matryoshka not a dead relic.
Seymore Glass question mark ROOMS mate. People are saying ROOMS, not runes.
58:23 what wassss that orderrrrrrrr
NL the ancient potion combos great with Flex though, if you play Flex and Drink an Ancient potion you straight up just keep the strength up for the rest of the combo
It physically hurt me to watch you pass up Limit Break for Feed
To be fair it would have literally done nothing in his deck.
Upgraded limit break doesn't exhaust, which means he could get infinite strength in an extended fight off a single proc of the shuriken
My girlfriend was pissed, and she doesn't even play. He's just that bad sometimes. Mostly StS these days, but he's a lot worse at some games (KSP made me question if he believes the Earth is round and gravity is real).
Rate the relic that gives him more relics when he says relics are the most important thing omg
thx for posting i love ur vids!
I liked these videos before I started playing. These misplays are so painful.
Clash decks are strong he says...
When you make a body slam deck that can easily deal 150 damage per hit you'll never want to look at clash again.
It's just like playing really agro decks in other card games. It finishes the game fast, but you win or lose depending on your draws basically. Honestly, I don't understand how people like playing clash decks. They are easily one of the least interesting to play archetypes.
Aren’t clash decks the go-to speed run deck?
Yeah, because they are easy to play and have fast damage potential.
Clash are really strong till 3rd floor..And they are so many ways to get fked up..For example,I singlehandely lost to nemesis with a clash deck because he filled my deck with burnss while i could do nothing..Curses also fk u up..If you have 2-3 severed souls and feel no pain,then you can maybe win,but it requires so many different cards..A blood deck or an exhaust deck are the top tier decks in my opinion
As much as the missplays hurt the random flashes of light are giving me headaches. Can you please find a way to fix it cause it's so annoying..
stauner32 sadly it's a bug in the game. He can't do anything about it.
I mean... It's an OBS bug, not an StS bug, but there's still nothing he can do about it.
I have the same issue without using any streaming software and it is reported by many users in the forums. Sure hope they can fix that.
the new update makes the nemesis so much more reasonable to fight against. he was so painful
Hey NL, while listening to this, I just played an Ironclad run where I was running an exhaust deck. If you can make it work, it is so fun.
I'm sorry to ask this a year later, but do you still have the stats on what cards you had?
I won my first ironclad run yesterday. The deck was kinda weird. Barricade, Juggernaut, and a synergy that let me sacrifice HP to do damage and gain strength. I guess it was a little all over the place, but it was kinda just zany enough to work?
If it's just over an hour it's a win or last boss death
It's the mushroom decision, hot and fresh off the kitchen...
yay I just finished watching the last episode, whee
Miss played forever
So lets say you take Snecko Eye, and you draw an Armaments+ and a Barricade that costs 2. Does playing Armaments+ reduce the Barricade's cost to 1?
I believe so. I know that discarding cards with eviscerate will lower the cost even with snecko eye.
I dont know because madness seems to cost 0 when upgraded (even if it was 3)
Ngl I died a bit inside when he didn't play that free impervious
what are you talking about? it's not the flu season that was 3 months ago. wait...
No clue how shit goes....but skipping entrench for thunderclap made me a little sad.
Oh.....he died right away. Sweet. Guess that one didn’t matter. Haha
brianseem anyway, taking entrench is awful with no extra energy. With 3 energy, the most block he would’ve got from it would be 5
Thanks for the company.
him not killing the fire dude and focusing on the minions when he would take no damage anyways is really upsetting me.
at 17:40 the calculation is off by 1 you should have taken 5 damage not 6
17:07 IS THAT A NICOB REFERENCE!?
ancient potion is the best potion in the game. probably.
Put fast mode on please Egg.
Egg is still far behind fast mode territory. It'll be atleast 5 years before the backlog catches up 😄
Nice one despite the rough start!
Simple misplays like 58:13 and 58:48 hurt me the most
Impervious over WW?
26:25 That was exquisite
NL, if you've played today, I want to see that episode so bad. Dev says their hotfixing it, but it has an, uh, very timely bug
What happened?
58:16 WHY
You didn't play a 0 energy block with barricade... The small mistakes NL, the small mistakes...
Jesus NL you make me so mad my dude
1:04:16 and now we play our free defends and win the video game.... right NL?
I know the misplays hurt, but the red slavers were doing 6 damage when they should have been doing 5. Why? Is eggboi handicapping his true potential?
Welcome to another edition of NL skips whirlwind
8:50 I AM MILDLY UPSET
These Barricade plays, man...
Video released 1min ago, Vod bois?
*GOD* bois
I had no idea there were cards other than Flash of Steel and Dual Wield...
I can't watch these anymore. His plays stress me out too much. That's all on me, I know.
Every time he chooses to remove a single card instead of upgrading 9 cards I literally scream and scare my neighbors.
It's not a bad call if he has arm+
IM HERE BOYS FOR MY DAILY DOSE OF MASOCHISM
Andre Martins faz-te bem
Upgrading armaments instead of resting wasnt even that bad a choice. Taking a second unupgraded armaments probably killed your first run tho
there is no U in matryoshka, egg, you've been told that like a hundred times
After 78 episodes, I need to say the first run was a disappointment.
7mn in. He got dead branch. If he passes on corruption during this run i'm going to tilt. I'm calling it.
Nevermind.
This was the worst Slay the Spire Play I've ever seen! Both in terms of his misplays, as well as in terms of deck building and shop decisions, and yet he did beat the final boss somehow... I'm actually amazed...
I barely use armaments anymore. It's kind of more boring more than it is bad. Also, it outlasts its own usefulness the later you go or the longer fights last and ends up being a waste as soon as most of your cards are upgraded.
As NL is mega bad at StS he almost never upgrades his stuff as he needs to rest often, so armaments + is a good call for him
1:50 8 + 12 is FUCKING 20 EGG.
EGGGG UPGRADING STRIKES AND DEFENDS IS GREAT.....why
78 episodes, off camera runs, streams, and he still has 0 fucking concept of how strength works
17:40 he was actually right on his math, he should've only taken 5 but he took 6. New glitch?
Same thing happens at 18:42 some new glitch with the slaver I guess
Dem relics!
23:23 nice eg