@@Reddragon212115Being on fire 20 is no excuse. Bad pathing, thinning his deck against hexaghost, fighting zero elites, and spending a ton of floors upgrading cards with an apotheosis already in the deck... That seed was so winnable.
I think that the dev team has proven themselves with 1 but tbh I'm not sold on it yet from what I've seen. if it doesn't have a bunch of very significant interesting changes to how gameplay works at a core level then I would've at least wanted 3 completely new characters rather than bringing Ironclad and Silent back. And looking at screenshots on the store page, most the cards shown aren't even new? Also might be just me but I think it looks uglier than the first game somehow
@@acblook it's not really that deep for me. Also, I'm guessing for the promo stuff they'll show mostly basic cards and are saving some of the new deck building styles for once it's released. Maybe they can do different events, bosses, enemies etc. in addition to the deck building mechanics. Also I'm wondering if they purposely iterated on the 3 characters thing to make a system similar to foreign influence work. Like balancing it around that idea like the first game. I think the modding scene for STS is huge and if you want more deviation from the norm, there's many modded in characters and cards in 1 already. I'm just excited to see what the devs cooked up themselves.
@@acblookthey pretty much said sts needed a complete rewrite before they could feasibly add more stuff to it, so sts2 is basically the rewrite where they'll add the stuff they wanted and turn it into sts1.5
39:54 I don't usually give advice but I've noticed NL is consistently misunderstanding the shadow thing with 999 HP and how it interacts with Wrath. Wrath makes you TAKE double damage but he doesn't DEAL double damage. Meaning you can hit him for half of the number over his head and he'll be at 0 when you're in wrath. There was more than enough damage in hand to 0 him out on that turn without using a potion. Great run though, well played :)
I groaned out loud when he exited wrath before playing expunger.. then played expunger anyways at the end. but this means we get one more video at least
@@qualifiedcornstarch6859even after that many runs of the watcher he's still so scared of being stuck in wrath that sometimes he will just rush to exit stance without thinking it through...
I've never someone snatch defeat from the jaws of victory so hard as NL did in those last 2 turns. Empty Body instead of Empty Mind for the draw. Not using Cut Through Fate to fish for Apparition. Truly just threw away the run. More Slay The Spire for me tho so I'm pogging
My first instinct is to scream at the screen when he misplays, but then I take a breath and remember that this means more StS content. I'm in my type B redemption arc
You're not totally wrong - it is bamboo. Search for "bamboo and wooden slips" and you'll see examples of the type of book the art of war and other old Chinese texts were written on.
I'm aware of the book, I just interpreted "Art of War" as a guerrilla warfare vietnam kind of strategy of hiding in the foliage. Makes sense with what the relic does too; sitting in wait playing skills and getting a benefit next turn to do attacks as an "ambush"
The misplay right at the end oh god... I saw the cut through fate and was like "it's his only hope of winning, using it and hopin for an apparition" but my man didn't see it
@@jubjubssy Not if that dies to Hexaghost. That fight was literally lost by a margin of one more attack being in the deck, be that a 9 damage strike or the 12/24 damage Flying Sleeves that blocks for 6 he passed up on.
I was thinking to myself that the egg was scrambled after taking that pandoras box even after already removing 3+ basic cards… BUT HE MADE IT THIS FAR… the decision making in this video was astonishingly bad i thought but i guess not????
Man, bonus Time Eater on an A20 run multiple times is brutal. I'm sure NL will get it, though. We'll be seeing some Ironclad or Silent runs in no time!
NL, you're going great, but one thing you should work on is that if you plan to leave Wrath, play any attacks that you're going to before leaving it. While it would not have saved you, you just threw away 63 damage on Time Eater by leaving Wrath before playing expunger, and you do this a fair bit.
Talks about how he needs to upgrade apparitions. Immediately gets an upgrade event. upgrades bandage up. then complains he needs to upgrade apparitions. I cant xD
It's strange to know that NL is far, far better at this game than me (my best Ascension win on Watcher is A6 vs his A19*, and the difference is even larger for other characters) and yet watch him make seemingly obvious misplays that I'm sure I would see not to do. It's like he's worse than me at the things I understand, and yet better at the things I don't understand, and somehow the second one is more important. it's also possible that if I watched myself playing in a RUclips video I would notice myself making just as severe misplays; I just don't notice they're happening when I'm in the game ('cause if I noticed I wouldn't make them!). But nah I could've fixed some of those choices. In reality I think the discrepancy is that he's good enough to let himself play fast which leads to mistakes if he goes TOO fast; whereas I HAVE to be paying attention at all times just to clear A6. *he actually did A20 in 2021.
@@momoaa For as much trashtalk NL does about people with a 1000 hours in any game. He has 1000+ hrs in StS and consistently makes mistakes. Anyone here with 1000 hrs and a lukewarm IQ could get A20 wins
@@Justnothankyou132 for me its him pretending like he learns from each run when in reality hes just spamming games till he gets a setup too strong to lose, like a really good boss relic swap at the start or apparations
Because NL was in Wrath, the 100 was the result of 50 damage times two (50)x2=100. Hitting the enemy for 72 damage caused it to go to negative 72 Strength, so now it was (50-72)x2=0 (because damage doesn't go negative).
let me just exit wrath, and then to end my turn I will play my strongest attack
Classic
Did you expect anything else? :D
You're right but he still would have died the next turn so w/e
Those last two turns were one of the most frustrating pieces of media I've ever watched
@@Sheeprwerhe could have played the card to draw apparition
Apotheosis first card, IM ABSOLUTELY POGGING
Edit: Classic
NOOO
NL throwing such a good run is why I watch the madlad.
Bro sitting on the dupe postion for years.
@@JD-wu5pfhe didn’t throw, it’s A20
@@Reddragon212115Being on fire 20 is no excuse. Bad pathing, thinning his deck against hexaghost, fighting zero elites, and spending a ton of floors upgrading cards with an apotheosis already in the deck...
That seed was so winnable.
Were employed guys of course we watch this during our lunch break
I'm literally eating my lunch that I doordashed as I typed this 😂
Watching this in the restroom rn
Eating fish and chips right now lol
Truly the 9-5 favored streamer
We're work from home guys of course we watch this on our second monitor
I'm honestly really excited for Slay the Spire 2
I can't wait frfr
Still excited with sts 1 tbh
I think that the dev team has proven themselves with 1 but tbh I'm not sold on it yet from what I've seen. if it doesn't have a bunch of very significant interesting changes to how gameplay works at a core level then I would've at least wanted 3 completely new characters rather than bringing Ironclad and Silent back. And looking at screenshots on the store page, most the cards shown aren't even new?
Also might be just me but I think it looks uglier than the first game somehow
@@acblook it's not really that deep for me. Also, I'm guessing for the promo stuff they'll show mostly basic cards and are saving some of the new deck building styles for once it's released. Maybe they can do different events, bosses, enemies etc. in addition to the deck building mechanics. Also I'm wondering if they purposely iterated on the 3 characters thing to make a system similar to foreign influence work. Like balancing it around that idea like the first game.
I think the modding scene for STS is huge and if you want more deviation from the norm, there's many modded in characters and cards in 1 already. I'm just excited to see what the devs cooked up themselves.
@@acblookthey pretty much said sts needed a complete rewrite before they could feasibly add more stuff to it, so sts2 is basically the rewrite where they'll add the stuff they wanted and turn it into sts1.5
39:54 I don't usually give advice but I've noticed NL is consistently misunderstanding the shadow thing with 999 HP and how it interacts with Wrath. Wrath makes you TAKE double damage but he doesn't DEAL double damage. Meaning you can hit him for half of the number over his head and he'll be at 0 when you're in wrath. There was more than enough damage in hand to 0 him out on that turn without using a potion.
Great run though, well played :)
lol that shit was poorly played! That’s why we love it tho.
i was finally gonna write this comment but you did it for me. good luck with your deep voice, dude o7
Wow, TIL.
Not using the cut through fate to find an apparition on that final hand is one of the most tragic ways to lose an A20 run
I groaned out loud when he exited wrath before playing expunger.. then played expunger anyways at the end. but this means we get one more video at least
@@qualifiedcornstarch6859even after that many runs of the watcher he's still so scared of being stuck in wrath that sometimes he will just rush to exit stance without thinking it through...
Spoilers!!
37:10 I will never forget the spiker from last episode whenever these guys show up
I've never someone snatch defeat from the jaws of victory so hard as NL did in those last 2 turns. Empty Body instead of Empty Mind for the draw. Not using Cut Through Fate to fish for Apparition. Truly just threw away the run.
More Slay The Spire for me tho so I'm pogging
There was also a wrath exit before he played his biggest expunger ):
Get yourself a girl who loves you like nl loves 99 gold shops
0:26 when you find a nice pair of jimmy choo boots in your closet you don’t even remember buying
+2
+2
holy moly +2
+2
+2
That hexaghost fight was rough man
EDIT: him tossing fasting after all it did for him was wild. The Master Reality Expunger went crazy HE WAS SO CLOSE
My first instinct is to scream at the screen when he misplays, but then I take a breath and remember that this means more StS content. I'm in my type B redemption arc
11:08
Team Rocket the day after being launched into space again:
@@Kalslice HOLY +2
Thats a +2 if I ever seen one
A +2 if I ever saw one
This is so good
I didn't know art of war was a book either, I thought it was an old plank of wood/bamboo that's used as a shield and held up to camoflauge in trees
You're not totally wrong - it is bamboo. Search for "bamboo and wooden slips" and you'll see examples of the type of book the art of war and other old Chinese texts were written on.
Art of War... you know, Sun Tzu
I have seen it the exact same way. I get that there’s a book called Art of War but I didn’t know old books looked like that
I'm aware of the book, I just interpreted "Art of War" as a guerrilla warfare vietnam kind of strategy of hiding in the foliage.
Makes sense with what the relic does too; sitting in wait playing skills and getting a benefit next turn to do attacks as an "ambush"
NL still not getting that in wrath dealing damage reduces transient by double the amount
You are obviously a hater. I hear all the time how he is getting better at the game :P
@@sathrielsatansonnot a hater, just referencing the transient fight where panics about the 120 dmg with a 50ish dmg sands of time in hand
@@joemama-kc7ez I was joking, yeah, he was surely surprised when damage from 120 went to 0 after he only dealt 72 :D
@@sathrielsatanson oh got it my bad gang
The misplay right at the end oh god... I saw the cut through fate and was like "it's his only hope of winning, using it and hopin for an apparition" but my man didn't see it
@@Mysticfateee its better to do the math after you play your cards
@@momoaa I know this is a joke but it wasn't even a "do the math" situation 😂
Calling "talk to the hand" "talk tua" is such a peak bit.
When you enter a shop with 86 gold all i think is just put the fries in the bag man remove a strike
7:35 plays Miracle+ and Protect+ in order to add +2 weak to a boss that has +8 weak, lol wtf
Judgement over a 2nd meditate on floor 28 made me spiritual so that it could hurt me on a spiritual level.
Jesus christ the misplay on cut through fate at the end hurt so bad
26:21 me when I'm performing a card trick and must play dumb in front of the audience
A type chatters are feasting with this one
We're college students, of course we throw on NL and put the ramen in the microwave during the 1hr break between classes
Misplays aside, that last lost was heartbreaking. I was rooting for the egg to win there.
Yea i think he had a chance😢
8:10 Firefighters when they arrive to the burning house
Holyy def +2 mayhaps even +4
I always thought Art of War looked like a palette of lumber.
The disrespect this man has for Like Water makes me so sad.
Not to be a type A but the rate of misplays per second in this one is quite high 😭
Vault followed by apparition is kind of crazy ngl
Lmfao I was wondering is he fuckin high?! Missing ginormous expunger plays but still somehow coming out smelling like a rose was baffling 🤣
58:30 my type A levy broke. I almost made it but ICANT.
Love you egg
I’ve watched this man take too many self repairs to start saying healing is always bad.
27:41 lmfao I always thought Art of War relic was a bundle of 2x4s too 😆 learn something everyday
Art of War... Sun Tzu
Me when I've been job hunting for 6+ months and my expected salary answer keeps getting lower
Rest in peace, he didn’t do the math
21:21 me when I’m helping a buddy back up their car but they won’t stop when I’m signaling at them
26:20 a boston native trying to find male hookups after a devastating breakup
11:53 Me when I'm at the global UN summit trying to explain what my geology lab knows about the natural disaster (I can't read my own handwriting)
bruh has bottled fasting and skips tantrum noooo
One of these days I will learn why he’s so afraid of Philosopher’s stone. Until then I’ll just keep pogging
"we need an attack"
Immediately removes an attack. The inner machinations of this man his mind are a mistery
if you're talking about 14:20, removing the strike there is definitely the right call. especially since he already added 2 non-strike attacks
@@jubjubssy and?
@@jubjubssy Not if that dies to Hexaghost. That fight was literally lost by a margin of one more attack being in the deck, be that a 9 damage strike or the 12/24 damage Flying Sleeves that blocks for 6 he passed up on.
24:09 Trying to shut the party down at 6am when a few people are still going hard.
I was thinking to myself that the egg was scrambled after taking that pandoras box even after already removing 3+ basic cards…
BUT HE MADE IT THIS FAR… the decision making in this video was astonishingly bad i thought but i guess not????
Society if NL had Cut Through Fate on the Time Keeper
The misplays on the first boss 😭
And the draw last on the last boss...
Super fun run! Thanks for the spire vids NL :)
The way this man doesn’t take vault every time he sees it makes me go crazy
The pathing of that first run was insane lol. Apo into 4 campfires 0 elites is something else.
It didn't matter in the end but n9t playing expunged while in wrath was a little insane
It could have mattered if he didn't misplay the follow-up turn by not fishing for an apparition
I love NL blocking every single time even though he had threaded needle and always had plated armor. Classic NL moment.
0:26 NL going bald, probably
I’m so insanely invested in these runs. Let’s go egg!
i love your slay the spire content, please dont stop playing after you beat A20 do some daily climbs
Id rather see A20H runs
I hate dailys 75% of the time. The modifiers are often way too absurd for my taste
I want to see him go for the heart
He won't, he stopped doing Daily Climbs because it got boring.
@@phillystevesteak6982 I think NL would mostly agree with you, that's why he stopped playing them.
“I thought this relic was called wooden box” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Im actually dying.
31:59 me on monday after spending all weekend with my two kids while my wife is on a girl trip with her friends
homie's winrate will skyrocket when he learns the wrath x transient interaction
EH EVERYBODY?!?! this gotta be it
Man, bonus Time Eater on an A20 run multiple times is brutal. I'm sure NL will get it, though. We'll be seeing some Ironclad or Silent runs in no time!
NL criminally underrates flurry of blows.
expunger x fasting actually crazy with it????
ah man... nevermind
Were employed guys, of course it doesnt matter because we watch from europe
36:17 the Stranger Things cast when they needed to find a force that could defeat the demogorgon
bro how you at 36 minutes posting 9 minutes after upload
@@joshtroufieldContent maxing on 4x speed probably
+2
On that first run he should've taken Fear No Evil instead of removing a strike, then used the duplication potion on Talk to the Hand.
Strike Tua, duplicate that thang!
as many are saying this: "draw last lul"
I heard it's best advice for card games :D
Funny that this is one if the best Art of War decks.
Hawk 4:29
Takes Wave and IMMEDIATELY removes a basic defend from the deck 🐐
Exiting wrath > expunger destroyed my crops
Hey "everybody"? I thought this was only for the gamers, now we're just letting anyone in??
11:06 me starting a new run of pokemon yellow
Such a great run
whos gonna tell him you cant remove a card tied to bottled tornado
but you CAN TRANSFORM IT HMMM that's new tech
NL, you're going great, but one thing you should work on is that if you plan to leave Wrath, play any attacks that you're going to before leaving it. While it would not have saved you, you just threw away 63 damage on Time Eater by leaving Wrath before playing expunger, and you do this a fair bit.
He doesn't read the comments my man
@@Paradoxikality but what if he did?!?!
Talks about how he needs to upgrade apparitions. Immediately gets an upgrade event. upgrades bandage up. then complains he needs to upgrade apparitions. I cant xD
Me and my favourite relic, the wooden box
No, that now how it went against the Spiker. Eventually you played 6 block cards forgetting about having Velvet Choker :D
Ash Ketchum when choosing his first pokemon: 11:08
Bro is straight yapping in this video
he dies on act 1 and neow's like "okay buddy no more boss relic swaps for you. you cant be trusted with that."
Who does not want flying sleeves now?
the hubris man
Draw laaaaaaast
noooo so close!!
It's strange to know that NL is far, far better at this game than me (my best Ascension win on Watcher is A6 vs his A19*, and the difference is even larger for other characters) and yet watch him make seemingly obvious misplays that I'm sure I would see not to do. It's like he's worse than me at the things I understand, and yet better at the things I don't understand, and somehow the second one is more important.
it's also possible that if I watched myself playing in a RUclips video I would notice myself making just as severe misplays; I just don't notice they're happening when I'm in the game ('cause if I noticed I wouldn't make them!).
But nah I could've fixed some of those choices.
In reality I think the discrepancy is that he's good enough to let himself play fast which leads to mistakes if he goes TOO fast; whereas I HAVE to be paying attention at all times just to clear A6.
*he actually did A20 in 2021.
If you sat down and played 1-2 hours every day for months you would probably be able to brute force your way to a winning line
@@momoaa For as much trashtalk NL does about people with a 1000 hours in any game. He has 1000+ hrs in StS and consistently makes mistakes. Anyone here with 1000 hrs and a lukewarm IQ could get A20 wins
@@Justnothankyou132 for me its him pretending like he learns from each run when in reality hes just spamming games till he gets a setup too strong to lose, like a really good boss relic swap at the start or apparations
Bro really lost a apothy start
12:09
NL: "I'm not going to throw the whole run away".
John Cena: "Are you sure about that?"
Reality 13:43
Devastating misplay, feels super bad.
11:07 satoshi ep. 1 pokemon anime
I pog for every run
41:29 can someone explain why this brought the dmg down all the way from 100 to 0 even though it was 72 dmg?
Because NL was in Wrath, the 100 was the result of 50 damage times two (50)x2=100. Hitting the enemy for 72 damage caused it to go to negative 72 Strength, so now it was (50-72)x2=0 (because damage doesn't go negative).
Any other Epic + NL fans go crazy everytime he says he's a different kind of beast? 😂
So many misplays in that last fight holy hell. Egg noooo
PLEASE TAKE 2 SECONDS TO THINK ABOUT YOUR PLAYS I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE
We’re… ummm, of course??
Do we think Slay the Spire 2 is going to be like Darkest Dungeon 2?
Draw last LUL
talk tuah
Do the heart please!
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