You know people like to rip on the egg for going too fast or making questionable choices, but I appreciate his willingness to just play the game and make mistakes more and more these days, so many youtubers/streamers are so obssessed with the 'optimal' way to play and minmaxing the fun away, it's a good reminder to just play games and learn on your own instead of starting up every new thing worrying if you're 'playing it the wrong way', it's a mindset I've worked hard to break myself out of when it comes to leisure activities and it's been incredibly beneficial to myself doing so.
@@TheIllestBrewbaalor is superfast compared to guys like lifecoach and Xrecnar. It's so impressive to see especially Xrecnar play but when a run takes over 5h minimun, usually over 6h, it's not something I can watch often. Baalor and Jorbs take their time with some decisions but also play relatively quickly (a run is usually between 40min and 1,5h) to make the game more fun and the content more entertaining while also having top level plays.
@@TheIllestBrewwell, Baalor is tryharding, so that is a totally different approach than NL's. He has a much more subdue personality on stream than NL. So yeah, you watch Baalor when you want to see good gameplay and you watch the Egg for entertainment.
@Reddragon212115 the armor is good, but he had 6 cards for turn and multiple wishes so he needed his cards doing more, skipping fasting with 5 energy and Deva form is rough
People underestimate the strength so much! 1 strength with omniscience on ragnarok is 120 dmg. In wrath it’s 240.. if you take enough wallops you can just stay indefinitely in wrath. It’s glorious
Funnily enough, he actually had one of the few times Runic Dome is good. Playing your entire hand every turn is the main use case for the Dome, and Deva Form enables that.
Dome is still kinda just an optional anxiety modifier on the run though lol, especially in floor 3 praying for no spagetti monster cursing the shit outta you. Besides Deva takes multiple turns to get running and how are you supposed to know if it's safe to play it on the turn you draw it? @@misirtere9836
48:04 Pointing to gun at my friend who's been bitten, knowing that the zombie virus will only draw out his suffering and cause him to inevitably become a threat to the rest of the survivors in camp.
It’s really endearing to hear him so confident in his play, it’s grown exponentially in the past few weeks cause of the recent wins, his play by play has a whole different feel recently and I’m here for it
38:52 He had lethal with 1 self damage. 1x safety gets to 16 block, erupt takes it to 40 and gives a duality stack, 2nd safety gets block to 14, wheel kick kills.
Hi NL just wanted to say thanks for inspiering me to pick this up again to finally get the (A1) Heart kill with the Watcher, finally managed it last night. :D
Started always swapping my starting relic as the Watcher as well and on one run it gave me runic dome... I thought it was over but i just played the best defends i had each turn and then my strongest attacks and ended up winning the run lmao. It was only ascension 7 for context but ive been struggling to go through the ascensions as the Watcher so i was surprised. It's also literally the only time ive used runic dome
At 35:30 he totally should have played Omniscience on the Wheel Kick, and it pained my Type A side for sure. 40 damage, 4 draws, and 6 energy left to play those cards. It's pure gas.
Just a reminder to RUclips chat: overly sarcastic Monday morning quarterbacks were what made the egg stop playing this game last time. So while you likely could farm some likes by dropping a real cheeky zinger, you might also be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's desire to upload more glorious card-based roguelike goodness for our entertainment...
Man went from having lethal and taking 2 damage at 38:49 to having lethal at 42:19 taking 13 damage with 40 extra energy. This was the first hallway fight of the act, jeeeesus NL
Actually agree with the Choker pick somewhat, was what the deck needed at the time. Low immediate downside but the Deva, Omniscience and Enlightenment (all very similarly themed I'm just realising) grabs morphed it into a deck that dies to choker later as most good decks tend to. Choker coerces you to keep building around it the entire run. Long story short, this is what Choker is there for but it still loses to Dome here in my estimate.
Strike Dummy is best with Ironclad, because of cards like Wild Strike, Quick Strike, Twin Strike, and Perfect Strike. EDIT: Am I crazy for taking the Max HP hit on the Golden Idol most often?
@@rayanal-shikhi140 unless there's a shop not long after and enough money to remove it immediately. But that is splitting hairs because of how situation dependent slay the spire can be.
Bro spent more time on the Spiker than all the bosses combined, holy shit
spiker OP
43 energy and bro couldn't do anything. I was dying laughing
Greatest NL slay the spire moment contender for sure
He literally added no blocks and didn't even see he had a block problem when he started with only 3 blocking cards lmao. It was bound to happen
@@Mysticfateee He added block via Wish and kinda Omniscience, but he also removed one when he got rid of Vigilance...
The spiker’s valiant stand shall never be forgotten.
This spiker fight is one of the greatest moments in his entire ascension series, hands down. Forgetting he had velvet choker. So good.
Can you imagine if it didn't have a cap and kept increasing, amazing really.
The combo of Deva Form, Enlightment, and Velvet Choker is one of the most legitimately baffling builds ive ever seen lmao
The spiker play is top comedy, he is so in his own head. Lethal with no damage within reach, but never grasped.
+2
You know people like to rip on the egg for going too fast or making questionable choices, but I appreciate his willingness to just play the game and make mistakes more and more these days, so many youtubers/streamers are so obssessed with the 'optimal' way to play and minmaxing the fun away, it's a good reminder to just play games and learn on your own instead of starting up every new thing worrying if you're 'playing it the wrong way', it's a mindset I've worked hard to break myself out of when it comes to leisure activities and it's been incredibly beneficial to myself doing so.
Who are these minmaxing streamers
@ohmyyyy Baalorlord. Great content when you're trying to learn but taking 3 mins to think of the optimal way to win got boring fast
@@TheIllestBrewbaalor is superfast compared to guys like lifecoach and Xrecnar. It's so impressive to see especially Xrecnar play but when a run takes over 5h minimun, usually over 6h, it's not something I can watch often.
Baalor and Jorbs take their time with some decisions but also play relatively quickly (a run is usually between 40min and 1,5h) to make the game more fun and the content more entertaining while also having top level plays.
@@TheIllestBrewwell, Baalor is tryharding, so that is a totally different approach than NL's. He has a much more subdue personality on stream than NL. So yeah, you watch Baalor when you want to see good gameplay and you watch the Egg for entertainment.
One difference: NL plays for work/other's entertainment, you are not.
That spiker really had daddy egg on the ropes
Ive never seen someone sleep on wish's strength gain more in my entire life holy
sleeping on wish's strength when he has ragnarok
I think he was actually cooking with the plated armor, passing up on the fasting in the shop though was rough
@Reddragon212115 the armor is good, but he had 6 cards for turn and multiple wishes so he needed his cards doing more, skipping fasting with 5 energy and Deva form is rough
@@leadluigi I'll take the plated armor with mmm ... A side of plated armor
Mhm yes, deva form and velvet choker. Excellent choice my liege.
And miss out on Fasting which would have been a way to course-correct and make full use of deva form...
@@sloesty +2
@@abranubes9571 -2
He still underrates the strength from wish especially with ragnarok
Two cards I avoid like the plague 😂
2 turns worth of energy, it's not worth
@@Lopsinho not usually, but sometimes it just directly leads to a win
People underestimate the strength so much! 1 strength with omniscience on ragnarok is 120 dmg. In wrath it’s 240.. if you take enough wallops you can just stay indefinitely in wrath. It’s glorious
NL has filtered this option out of his egg
That spiker was actually a beast
the fabled white beast into sozu into toy ornithopter run!
"Velvet Choker is in the game for a reason"
The Clash in my back pocket:
Funnily enough, he actually had one of the few times Runic Dome is good. Playing your entire hand every turn is the main use case for the Dome, and Deva Form enables that.
Dome is still kinda just an optional anxiety modifier on the run though lol, especially in floor 3 praying for no spagetti monster cursing the shit outta you. Besides Deva takes multiple turns to get running and how are you supposed to know if it's safe to play it on the turn you draw it? @@misirtere9836
48:04 Pointing to gun at my friend who's been bitten, knowing that the zombie virus will only draw out his suffering and cause him to inevitably become a threat to the rest of the survivors in camp.
missing the first lethal on the spiker with erupt + wheel kick made me a type A
This whole run made me cringe a total of no less than 5 times.
10:21 me when I'm an expendable worker in the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant
It’s really endearing to hear him so confident in his play, it’s grown exponentially in the past few weeks cause of the recent wins, his play by play has a whole different feel recently and I’m here for it
40:08 me at 7 years old, devastated when my parents ground me by taking away my legos
You won today's comment section, +2
+2
37:55 spiker play timestamp
38:52 He had lethal with 1 self damage. 1x safety gets to 16 block, erupt takes it to 40 and gives a duality stack, 2nd safety gets block to 14, wheel kick kills.
The Velvet Joker: Wanna know how I got these cards?
I like the fresh for RUclips videos because it's like we're friends and he's talking to me personally ☺☺
We getting parasocial in this
We’re parasocial guys, of course we base our entire personality off of our favorite slop creator
34:30 Gru from despicable me when his henchmen get sick
+2
I hope NL would consider doing ascension + heart boss with all classes if he finish all his 20 ascension runs
Or run the Downfall mod
He must have considered it already, thought for 2 seconds and went like "nah I prefer to have fun" 😂
I hope he just plays. If he can play Isaac for a decade then why not just stay Slayin' the Spire?
That moment when you realize Slay the Spire is almost a decade old 💀
I don't think he'll ever do heart lol. We need that sweet sweet banter and heart would require too much focus
switch from wrath into calm, then attack. You do that a lot
I don't know how he does it. Attacking in wrath before switching into calm should be seared into any watcher players' brains at this point.
23:46 me when I see Paul Allen's card
I’ll drop a +1 for that
I'll go as far as to say +2
Enlightenment looks like NL washing his hair in the shower
45:57 "wish, plated armor, hawk tuah hand"
Knowing that the egg might someday defeat the spiker without taking damage, it fills you with determination
28:58 my best insult in elementary school
+2
Wishing for plated armor instead of strength + ragnarok has me feeling feral
finished fights early, especially when eruption doubles the power of strength..... smh
39:22 "I refuse to take damage"
0:35 me when I push against a door
this got me good
0:42 me hypothesizing how to open the door
I lost it at that Spiker fight 😂
26:24 when the genie only gives me 1 wish
Screaming "take fasting you fool" at my phone like a bona fide type A psycho
Who would win: 42 Energy watcher or 1 spikey boy
37:58 holyyyyyy that spiker lmao
Hi NL just wanted to say thanks for inspiering me to pick this up again to finally get the (A1) Heart kill with the Watcher, finally managed it last night. :D
that spiker sequence had me ROLLING
10:22 [insert simpsons character] when mr. burns enacts his evil plot in [insert episode number]
2:47 You worked for it, King.
"Ragnarok is only good when we can enter a turn in wrath"
Proceeds to skip simmering fury 2 seconds later.
Brother that only works if you draw Ragnarok the next turn
Also proceeds to skip an upgraded rush down
20:46 Kenshiro posting on Reddit.
velvet choker was a sus as hell pick lol, then going another energy relic + enlightenment (with deva) just doubling down on the antisynergy :(
I mean its watcher the cards you take don't really matter unless youre going for heart
And then the sozu when he has white beast statue is just the Cherry on top
The Spiker was true end boss.
Super sick run, very close!!!
1:00:21 playing the consecrate was the winning line, very hard to keep track of choker and time keeper
Choker works super well for time keeper bc you can just play around 6 cards each turn.
Started always swapping my starting relic as the Watcher as well and on one run it gave me runic dome... I thought it was over but i just played the best defends i had each turn and then my strongest attacks and ended up winning the run lmao. It was only ascension 7 for context but ive been struggling to go through the ascensions as the Watcher so i was surprised. It's also literally the only time ive used runic dome
At 35:30 he totally should have played Omniscience on the Wheel Kick, and it pained my Type A side for sure. 40 damage, 4 draws, and 6 energy left to play those cards. It's pure gas.
I'm no longer heavy
+2
Gratz on the weight loss
the vigilance cut was wild, but also I hate vigilance its too expensive and I hate playing it
EDIT: The spiker play was so good man
40:27 best turn ever
What an absolute rickety rickshaw of a rollercoaster that was, SHEESH
Velvet Choker was absolutely something
that spiker fight was so painful to watch
That spiker was the funniest single fight in any of these episodes.
Many people are saying what a long strange trip it's been, there are dozens of us!
I'm so glad that Lesson Learned has been upgraded from "best bad card" to "sexy card".
That spiker fight is the new pot play
absolutely insane Pandoras box on that boss swap 10:35
My king forgets that leaving calm gives him energy... Please milord your citizens are at the gates you need to stance dance properly
The cowardly lion fears the spiker more than anything else. I threw my phone against the wall
I'm hoping this series never ends coz its such good sleep fodder
Just a reminder to RUclips chat: overly sarcastic Monday morning quarterbacks were what made the egg stop playing this game last time. So while you likely could farm some likes by dropping a real cheeky zinger, you might also be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's desire to upload more glorious card-based roguelike goodness for our entertainment...
I love when you can watch his whale bonus and already know the run is lost.
6:28 Chino Moreno at the beginning of Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
Stressing over potion use with white beast statue will never not make me chuckle
Man went from having lethal and taking 2 damage at 38:49 to having lethal at 42:19 taking 13 damage with 40 extra energy. This was the first hallway fight of the act, jeeeesus NL
velvet choker with deva form is another criminal act.
I am devastated by this finale :(
He missed a safety that would have saved his life for one more turn at the end by not playing the deceive reality
44:48 mossad agent in twitch chat when the streamer starts to notice their messages
58:05 When you Omniscienced the Deceive Reality and then proceeded to look for more of Deceive Reality was crazy
that was an amazing as. 20 run ! SO freaking close ! :D
10:22 me when i fall down the trapdoor in the nuclear power plant
Northern "gimme a little plated armor" Lion
Fun run. Omniscience into double Omega would have been fun to see.
greatest spiker fight of all time
Puts up 24 plated armor. Acts as if he had 0
Actually agree with the Choker pick somewhat, was what the deck needed at the time.
Low immediate downside but the Deva, Omniscience and Enlightenment (all very similarly themed I'm just realising) grabs morphed it into a deck that dies to choker later as most good decks tend to. Choker coerces you to keep building around it the entire run.
Long story short, this is what Choker is there for but it still loses to Dome here in my estimate.
That stings so hard, gg
I always feel upgrading Eruption first is the best call with the Watcher. It doesn't always bite you in the ass but it helps more than not.
The spiker fight was content 😂😂
yo, white beast statue sozu combo just dropped!
the decision at 23:56 ruined the whole run. thems the breaks kid.
Ah, he's finally gone insane.
oh my god dawg that last run 😭
it's so painful seeing him end turn with 1 energy and a fear no evil in hand
NL at ascensions 16-19 played his best runs since starting the climb. He hits 20 and it all goes downhill
Almost winning fire 20 Watcher with Velvet Choker. Egg only.
Fire 20??? Caveman notation +2
Only a Thad would call it fire20 😂
I'm feeling enlightened right now
that spiker did earn it
Big spiker energy praise egg the spite
That Ragnarok, Insight, Omniscience play was absolutely beautiful. This is why Slay the Spire is one of the best games ever made.
The Spiker play omg
2:45 the NL mew will live on forever
1 Hour Stream? Oh man bro must be cooking!
(10 minutes later) Oh man, bro is GETTING cooked. lol
I was praying for an omniscience into omega
Me when my friend asks if I've heard the goss
we're enlightened guys, of course we slow play the spikers!
what a long strange trip it's been
Like 6 years worth of tripping
Strike Dummy is best with Ironclad, because of cards like Wild Strike, Quick Strike, Twin Strike, and Perfect Strike.
EDIT: Am I crazy for taking the Max HP hit on the Golden Idol most often?
No, that's the best one, curse is literally the worst one.
@@rayanal-shikhi140 unless there's a shop not long after and enough money to remove it immediately.
But that is splitting hairs because of how situation dependent slay the spire can be.