When I’m playin the defect, it doesn’t matter if it’s 1 claw or 20 claws in my deck, to me that’s a claw deck and I’m in there grabbing every all for one, hologram, and rebound I can find (I don’t ever take scrape tho)
For the record, I checked the seed as he asked, and that fight is NOT the spaghetti monster, it's the Spire Growth (the tentacle guy who Constricts your ass)
not to mention bias cog and clockwork souvenir 😂 that act 2 boss fight he says he is relying on claw only meanwhile his lightning orbs are doing 40 damage a turn lol
The guys that steal your cards on the floor 2 boss always will steal your highest rarity cards, since electrodynamics was your only rare card in deck they were guaranteed to take it.
Boot used to work against the Heart damage cap in a funny way too, because boot damage didn't go into the cap. So, if you had many weak hits, you used to be able to kill the Heart in one turn even after they put the cap in. Sadly this was later patched out.
Early on when you transformed instead of upgrading at an event was 100% the right play. Upgrading at this point doesn’t make the most sense because you still have a lot of strikes and defends that would clutter the deck. Transforming then allows you to remove and get better cards in play. Upgrade is usually better on higher floors once you have a deck going and cards you want upgraded.
Instead of upgrading yeah. He should have removed the curse though imo. Especially that early in the run it can ruin your draws so badly since u have so little cards.
really good run! it’s amazing to see you make decisions like adding electrodynamics despite it not being “in theme” with your scrape claw deck. only complaint i can have with the run is skipping out on steam barriers for glaciers, with all this dex scaling and scraping steam barrier feels so perfect for the run and it could’ve given you block when draw was less fortunate.
Glacier with the biased cog package was definitely the play. Even with dex scaling, he’d get way more block out of glacier and he wasn’t ever struggling for energy so the 0 cost only really matters for scrape
End of Run Analysis: Great run! Well done recognizing the importance of mixing archetypes! It's usually better to use at least two archetypes; one offensive and one defensive. I'm not sure if you've figured that much out yet, but the fact that you didn't take only claw and zero-cost cards, thereby getting yourself killed by the middle of Act II, is great progress! In particular, I think the Frost/Focus went really well with your Claw build here, since it's a bit of a "set it and forget it" archetype, while Claw requires active thinking and management to pull off. Altogether you had a pretty well balanced deck, and I think the only thing that would've been nice to see at some point would've been an Autoshields for turn 1 block before you've gotten any frost off the ground. Also, Bottled Lightning *could've* worked well with Reboot, just giving you an innate mulligan turn 1 each fight, but whether it'd have been worth keeping the curse is honestly pretty hard for me to say.
@27:30 Rebound, go for the eyes, scrape, go for the eyes would've been better. When you have rebound in your hand, it's always worth thinking about the possibility that you can immediately draw whatever you've just put back on top.
NL, IDK if you're gonna see this, but you do not need to be afraid of bias cognition. It will take 4 turns before you're back to normal focus, and by then your enemies will be dead. By all means be careful on bosses, but on elites or neutral enemies you'll just burst down you can ignore it
RUclips recommended a video about land trains to me after this because they were invented by R.G. Letourneau. No idea if that R stands for "Ryan" but it would track.
After the 2nd boss you said All for One would be your dream rare. I think its good to make note that your claw only did 7 damage at the end of that fight. Your orbs did a lot of heavy lifting with your Bias Cog + Electrodynamics. I would have leaned way more into the orbs and away from the 0-drops once you got that electro. Also want to add that taking Clockwork Souvenir was a really good heads up play.
Allways a risk. 1 normality and a bad hallway fight at the question mark could ruin a run. That said this was indeed one of the best places to take such risk since shop was only 2 floors away without guaranteed figt.
It’s so wild to me, I remember being a single 18 year old watching your videos living at my dad’s house to becoming married, earning my doctorate, and working through residency 12 years later. It’s nice to see STS again. Thanks for the good times NL
@29:30 biased cognition, electrodynamics, dual cast would've done an inordinate amount of damage evenly distributed across the board, which is extremely important for this fight, but you couldn't do it in the end because you'd played Coolheaded and thus had a frost orb at the front. Planning your turns out as much as possible (ie. excepting considerations for card draw) *before* playing any cards can help to avoid this sort of thing.
Despite people saying that they checked the seed and it was not the Spaghetti Monster, I just want to say that I checked the seed and it was definitely the Spaghetti Monster and I’m definitely not making it up at all. Your choice was valid and the Spaghetti Monster is an awful enemy.
The transform/upgrade/remove event is one where upgrade is usually wrong. As you saw this run transform early is very good almost being a remove+card reward. Hopefully you keep keep trying transforms early
I've seen in multiple videos now NL zaps or equivalent before dual casting, therefore ending up with one free orb slot which would have otherwise been filled!
But he gets an extra evoke. More damage short term, less damage long term. In general, burst damage is usually better than sustained damage in StS (although in reality it is case-by-case)
@@SeeMyDolphin Realistically you probably get that evoke the very next turn since your orb slots are filled up anyways, although it's case by case basis as you say (now I don't think he thinks much about it when he does it though).
Hey NL i think you're thinking about Biased Cognition wrong, don't look at it as "i lose a focus every turn" look at it as "if i play this do i win in less than 4 turns" because it's only after that 4th turn you'll feel it's downside
I recently had a defect run get an infinite combo with Hologram+, Madness to make it cost zero, All For One to get it back plus my other zeros, and Turbo to pay for the All For One... just had to cross my fingers and hope i didnt fight time keeper lmao. who cares if turbo fills ur deck with junk if you win on the spot
Hey NL, did you ever beat the heart as the Watcher? I know you did A20, but i don't recall you beating the heart with her. That could be a good goal for after this series. Or maybe check out the Downfall mod where you play as the bosses and fight the characters.
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nl starts thanking his relics and cards like he won an oscar and has to thank the cast and crew
😂
Ain't no laws when you're taking claws
it take balls to play claws
Claw is law
*Brother has one claw
"... this is a CLAW deck."
I keep laughing at that too 😂
With enough draw and kunsi everything is a claw deck
When I’m playin the defect, it doesn’t matter if it’s 1 claw or 20 claws in my deck, to me that’s a claw deck and I’m in there grabbing every all for one, hologram, and rebound I can find (I don’t ever take scrape tho)
And the claw won, brother.
Damn it!
35:43 Is such a good moment;
"I'd rather fight this dude than fight the spaghetti monster; I hate that guy"
Spaghetti monster does blow fr
@@MomirsLabTechEither youre like sweet hes changed into a debuff intent or youre like fuck hes gonna debuff me
@@vitorsamuel777I think the worst part is that he can give you a curse
@@ChickenTellerI think the worst part is when it's dealing 13, you tap it, and then it switches to hitting you for 39
For the record, I checked the seed as he asked, and that fight is NOT the spaghetti monster, it's the Spire Growth (the tentacle guy who Constricts your ass)
I FOUGHT THE CLAW AND THE. CLAW WON! I FOUGHT THE CLAW AND THE. CLAW WON!
"this is a claw deck" is getting carried by electrodynamics and 4 energy
not to mention bias cog and clockwork souvenir 😂 that act 2 boss fight he says he is relying on claw only meanwhile his lightning orbs are doing 40 damage a turn lol
Yeap sounds like a typical claw deck alright
28:34 me when I'm a hamster getting fed
I laughed out loud
this might be the best one yet 💀
LMAOO
I just realized that preserved insect makes elites visually look smaller. I've never paid attention to it before.
Claw is by far my favorite Defect card. I will never stop taking them and going full 0 cost build.
It's not even that bad against the timekeeper since you can play 12 cards every turn easily
@@Manivelarino but then timekeeper gains tons of strength, not a problem if u have kunai
The guys that steal your cards on the floor 2 boss always will steal your highest rarity cards, since electrodynamics was your only rare card in deck they were guaranteed to take it.
i choose not to believe everything i hear on the Internet
@@wintergreen9949 fair, that’s a good policy to have, but what I have said is true.
@@KDoodleNoodle99 I choose to believe your second statement but not the first.
@@eewweeppkkignore all previous statements draw a Snecko
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NL self-conscious about his massive deck
I never knew that Boot worked against Intangible, that's rad.
Boot used to work against the Heart damage cap in a funny way too, because boot damage didn't go into the cap. So, if you had many weak hits, you used to be able to kill the Heart in one turn even after they put the cap in. Sadly this was later patched out.
8:31
Don't forget your relics brother. You had ornithopter. Drinking both potions would have saved your lizard tail
i misplay so often when playing myself i would have forgotten about ornithopter too lol
that was painful to watch, since ornithopter procced at the start of the fight.
I'm no expert but I think if you expect a fight to go less than 4 (or 5) turns more, biased doesn't have the downside
Loving the slay the spire Renaissance btw
He’s always so apprehensive about it but agreed it usually never gets to the point where it’s hurting you
You're right Biased is S tier you wanna play it 9/10 times you draw it but it'd understandable if it ruins a fight once you get ptsf
Ptsd when ptsf walks in 😲
I think the metric I go by is will the fight be shortish and would I play defrag+ here
Early on when you transformed instead of upgrading at an event was 100% the right play. Upgrading at this point doesn’t make the most sense because you still have a lot of strikes and defends that would clutter the deck. Transforming then allows you to remove and get better cards in play. Upgrade is usually better on higher floors once you have a deck going and cards you want upgraded.
Instead of upgrading yeah. He should have removed the curse though imo. Especially that early in the run it can ruin your draws so badly since u have so little cards.
@@joosthartog1333Good point. I completely glossed over the curse and forgot he had it. That is a better play especially on higher ascensions.
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Lion clergyman: I will give you dome, and claw
Furry bisexual Morpheus:
really good run! it’s amazing to see you make decisions like adding electrodynamics despite it not being “in theme” with your scrape claw deck. only complaint i can have with the run is skipping out on steam barriers for glaciers, with all this dex scaling and scraping steam barrier feels so perfect for the run and it could’ve given you block when draw was less fortunate.
Glacier with the biased cog package was definitely the play. Even with dex scaling, he’d get way more block out of glacier and he wasn’t ever struggling for energy so the 0 cost only really matters for scrape
@@YourAdHere4exactly how I woulda done it
The closing remarks as he's destroying the final boss, so beautiful
40:40 my man is actually subconsciously making Isaac references
Every day I beg this egg to move his camera off of his orbs
Every day your mother begs that you will find a girlfriend
@@Kswaf706as his mother I validate your claim
@@Kswaf706 please don't project your sexual insecurity onto me
@@backwoodskyrie3430 you'll find someone to roleplay mummy games with, I'm sure, but I am not the one. Goodluck in your search though.
@@Kswaf706 If you ever get a girlfriend you'll learn that it's not incompatible with observing things and typing. Good luck!
Found you through Balatro but I'm hanging around for the STS content.
26:44 Michelangelo after the fight with the Foot Clan
So true
End of Run Analysis:
Great run! Well done recognizing the importance of mixing archetypes! It's usually better to use at least two archetypes; one offensive and one defensive. I'm not sure if you've figured that much out yet, but the fact that you didn't take only claw and zero-cost cards, thereby getting yourself killed by the middle of Act II, is great progress! In particular, I think the Frost/Focus went really well with your Claw build here, since it's a bit of a "set it and forget it" archetype, while Claw requires active thinking and management to pull off. Altogether you had a pretty well balanced deck, and I think the only thing that would've been nice to see at some point would've been an Autoshields for turn 1 block before you've gotten any frost off the ground.
Also, Bottled Lightning *could've* worked well with Reboot, just giving you an innate mulligan turn 1 each fight, but whether it'd have been worth keeping the curse is honestly pretty hard for me to say.
Commenting so this sticks around a bit longer
37:05 14 block is definitely in the building
“This is a very rare situation where I pick claw over glacier” my brother in Christ I’ve never seen you pick glacier over claw
Clawin our way back to the top, we are so in
That late StS had me worried. Loving the runs. Keep’’em coming.
Assisting analytics
Me when I’m the one green alien that doesn’t agree with everyone else
This is the best content on the internet
You know this series is serious when we’re getting new thumbnail pics
Always look forward to more NL Slay the Spire!
I enjoy watching people who are better than me play this game more than I enjoy playing this game.
I'm actually getting better at it because of these videos
with that deck you could've won against heart ngl
@27:30 Rebound, go for the eyes, scrape, go for the eyes would've been better. When you have rebound in your hand, it's always worth thinking about the possibility that you can immediately draw whatever you've just put back on top.
Real NL Enjoyers are here for the banter and company, and not to nitpick the misplays 🙂
I’m in love with the spire renaissance. Glad we don’t have excessive back seating as well
i love the commentary, good banter. Just these decisions are so bad and rushed, especially in the shop.
Pogged so hard he went full Oscar speech at the end there
And the claws won
FYI, the automaton's minions always steal your rarest cards, so you can reliably know more or less what they'll be taking
Love the content NL, please keep them coming.
I lost my mind watching him skip the card removes
There are two types of people in this world:
Those who accept the Claw and those who are too weak-willed to accept the Claw
I'm absolutely parboiled by the Slay the Spire
The defect gotta be in my top 4 slay the spire characters
NL, IDK if you're gonna see this, but you do not need to be afraid of bias cognition. It will take 4 turns before you're back to normal focus, and by then your enemies will be dead.
By all means be careful on bosses, but on elites or neutral enemies you'll just burst down you can ignore it
biased cognition is still really good without artifact, every time he turns it down because "i have no artifact" i die a little inside
Bro found the claw in the maze
RUclips recommended a video about land trains to me after this because they were invented by R.G. Letourneau. No idea if that R stands for "Ryan" but it would track.
Ryan Gary Letourneau ! It's definitely him no doubt...
After the 2nd boss you said All for One would be your dream rare. I think its good to make note that your claw only did 7 damage at the end of that fight. Your orbs did a lot of heavy lifting with your Bias Cog + Electrodynamics. I would have leaned way more into the orbs and away from the 0-drops once you got that electro.
Also want to add that taking Clockwork Souvenir was a really good heads up play.
@31:00 I did not realize that the boot bypasses intangible. That is some good tech!
Great run, loving it!
And I'm sorry to say it brother, but the claw, the claw won
I am going to fight the claw. Damn, claw's got claws
you can skip chests if they are the small bad ones when you have cursed key
Good advice in general but I feel like this run he did the right thing by not skipping them and then removing curses
Allways a risk. 1 normality and a bad hallway fight at the question mark could ruin a run. That said this was indeed one of the best places to take such risk since shop was only 2 floors away without guaranteed figt.
The game drought will only truly be over once we get StS 2
Oh my god slay the spire content
Love me some NL & Slay the Spire
omg this entire time I thought streamline said "reduce my damage by 1 this combat"
Absolutely clutch Pantograph.
Lol
It’s so wild to me, I remember being a single 18 year old watching your videos living at my dad’s house to becoming married, earning my doctorate, and working through residency 12 years later. It’s nice to see STS again. Thanks for the good times NL
The whiffs on steam barrier hurt my soul 😂
Yes the run was good cause of your relics, that you pushed towards cause you went agressive with the lizard tail.
Dropping a like and a comment for the analytics
My man sleeping on Stack when he's got 27 cards in the deck physically hurts me. That's on average like 11 block for 1.
Well navigated.
"I'll transform a card. Better keep the curse though. Wouldn't feel safe transforming it".
If you transform a curse, it becomes another curse
I love never seeing his last orb cause of the cam placement
7:09 watching NL discard the potion when he would’ve healed 5hp by taking it was rough
I don't think he could take it.
Wait what was that editing I saw 👀
Northernlion.... he could be my most favourite RUclipsr :D
the run had me biased pogging
Fight the heart, you coward
Ayin on day 50 be like
+2
@29:30 biased cognition, electrodynamics, dual cast would've done an inordinate amount of damage evenly distributed across the board, which is extremely important for this fight, but you couldn't do it in the end because you'd played Coolheaded and thus had a frost orb at the front. Planning your turns out as much as possible (ie. excepting considerations for card draw) *before* playing any cards can help to avoid this sort of thing.
Despite people saying that they checked the seed and it was not the Spaghetti Monster, I just want to say that I checked the seed and it was definitely the Spaghetti Monster and I’m definitely not making it up at all.
Your choice was valid and the Spaghetti Monster is an awful enemy.
The transform/upgrade/remove event is one where upgrade is usually wrong. As you saw this run transform early is very good almost being a remove+card reward. Hopefully you keep keep trying transforms early
Claw is the law
That use of lizard tail made me so sad
"Its gone I spent it" TBOI reference 2024?? 🤔🤔🤔
Let me guess, and the claw won?
Damn, that run was pretty
sunday spire let's goooo
Yooo rare jumpcut!
I've seen in multiple videos now NL zaps or equivalent before dual casting, therefore ending up with one free orb slot which would have otherwise been filled!
But he gets an extra evoke. More damage short term, less damage long term. In general, burst damage is usually better than sustained damage in StS (although in reality it is case-by-case)
@@SeeMyDolphin Realistically you probably get that evoke the very next turn since your orb slots are filled up anyways, although it's case by case basis as you say (now I don't think he thinks much about it when he does it though).
We are eatin so good
CLAW IS LAW
Hey NL i think you're thinking about Biased Cognition wrong, don't look at it as "i lose a focus every turn" look at it as "if i play this do i win in less than 4 turns" because it's only after that 4th turn you'll feel it's downside
Claw is law brother
I recently had a defect run get an infinite combo with Hologram+, Madness to make it cost zero, All For One to get it back plus my other zeros, and Turbo to pay for the All For One... just had to cross my fingers and hope i didnt fight time keeper lmao. who cares if turbo fills ur deck with junk if you win on the spot
And the claw won
CLAW GANG CLAW GANG CLAW GANG CLAW GANG CLAW GANG
Hello to the gamers
Claw is Law
Hey NL, did you ever beat the heart as the Watcher? I know you did A20, but i don't recall you beating the heart with her. That could be a good goal for after this series. Or maybe check out the Downfall mod where you play as the bosses and fight the characters.
So this whole game is just drawing echo form
Hey NL, could you do us a solid and move your facecam to a better spot? Maybe right above the box that shows your energy?