NL's rollercoaster ride of "NO! WE LOSE THESE! Wait, we win these? Aaah, hmmm, well, we draw these, but that's okay - ACTUALLY WE WIN THESE, GET FUCKED" is so damn funny every time
NL explaining why having an 8/50 crab is actually better than feeding your crab when by the time your crab is getting a 50 buff you want to consider finding a way for it to have better attack has this energy to it that's hard to describe.
He'll also willingly skip steak to keep meat which has me fuming every time. Its not my place to critique his decisions, but steak is LITERALLY an improved meat bone by 4 times, and skipping it impedes your own abilities.
There's a very specific cadence NL starts talking in when he's about to roll past an animal he should be buying to level up his squad. It's a fugitive state. There's nothing behind the eyes
Mid to late game when every enemy is at least 25 attack, an 8/50 crab is worse than a 17/1 unit. This is further compounded by the fact that a crab with meat can have no other equipment, while the aforementioned 17/1 unit can also have meat/steak/1-up/chili. The beauty in a crab is that you can accelerate a bit quicker while spending less money. That being said, In most cases a stat buffing unit will usually serve you better in the long term than a crab will.
This is true, NL is right that HP is extremely important, but he definitely underrates attack as a result. An 8 50 will never win against a 30/30, and as long as it's attack stays below 30 it will always trade evenly. for it to win against a 30/30 the easiest way would be to feed it a couple of stat buffs and then give it steak after the meat has become less useful. In this situation feeding the crab has more use than feeding the unit in front of the crab just to give the crab health
The game where he skipped a dragon with THREE tier ones in the exact same shop was so heart breaking. He would have scaled so much harder than he did if he got even SEMI lucky with tier one rolls like otter and beaver
Crab having no attack really cost a lot of wins in lategame. I do think he should've kept cat in his second? run and looked for pears or milks. A pear is almost as good as a meat anyways.
I knew I would love this content because it's SAP of course I will. But my god I wasn't ready for that "At one point in my life I had fuckin' size 8 shoes, dummy." bit. Holy fucking hell 🤣🤣
12:00 honestly I totally disagree with the idea that doing achievements is not worthwhile and not fun. It might not win as often, but you might be forced to recognize that some units leveled up are better than you might think that they originally are. Maybe instead of thinking of them as achievement hunting, think of them as challenge runs. It might even spice up the SAP content a little and maybe it's something more suited for RUclips exclusives.
The tiger placement sound is so familiar.. Pretty sure it comes from some other game, anybody know which one? Edit: Nvm, just remembered what it is. It's the sound that plays when SCP-939 bites someone in SCP: Secret Laboratory.
I don't know what it's like now on Twitch but I think the believer payout needs to be higher, like 8 wins. Believers win too often so it's less pog when they do.
I'm a little concerned over NL's influence over my (and others', from what I've read) internal monologue. I've been binging these and playing the game and I can't stop thinking things like "holy brsch" "him me him him you him me" "4 squad marty" etc. Pretty sure NL is some kind of fae.
Played my first SAP match today and I got 10 win streak no losses, all from watching the egg and his mistakes Edit: most importantly I got the name squeaky ice cubes
NL's Crab Doctrine is hilarious to me. "If you just have a kangaroo behind an 8/50 crab it's gonna attack like seven times!" OR you could just put the kangaroo behind the ?/50 unit ahead of the crab, get the same benefit, without a crab filling a slot. Fit in something with an ability that'll give you something besides just a wall of meat. Crab's got its place but dude's downright evangelical about it.
58:43 With him being such a music nerd, I was hoping for a joke like "'Soundtacks For The Blind' is one of the best experimental rock albums of all time!" But alas... I also would have preferred if he had bought Scary Forest, but well, his points, his joice...
Dodo rooster is pretty good, but lv3 Roosters are hard to get The real combo is Tiger Rooster though There are still a good number of sleeper strats that haven't kicked up yet that are really good; I'd really like to see NL explore these. Gorilla is an incredible offensive unit if you can get a chunky one, Tiger Rhino is being slept on, Tiger Mammoth Mushroom can steroid your team to near max stats, and chipmunk scaling isn't explored nearly enough; But honestly that one is hard to see people use cause 9/10 times you sell your chipmunk right after buying it (it's for canned food scaling).
I just wish I could get Tiger Rhino to pop! Maybe if after round 11 when you've unlocked all the tiers of units you could choose which tier to roll for or something, so tier 4's or 5's you're lacking on would be a bit easier to find.
@@swudurshchurf2386 Yeaaah I feel that. Really you don't choose the build, the build chooses you. Once you get a juicy lv2 Rhino though all you need is the tiger and scaling. Being able to pick sounds fun but scary.
29:00 you dont level crab or tiger unless you are in for at least level 2 penguin play. Therefore: 1. you get the benefit of tiger without it being weak at all. 2. you get to enjoy the higher damage of crab, although it may be better off with other level 2 unit anyway but its better early game, since its copies the tank in early and the damage can be scaled to late game without using a dodo but using penguin.
This series makes me go insane because I can’t tell if he’s just bad at the game sometimes or I just don’t understand how it’s played, I think its both
It's a little of both, he's been getter progressively better with each video. Of course he still has some misunderstandings about game fundamentals, but he was wayyyyyy worse in his first few vids.
Chilli crab is almost strictly better than meat crab. The total damage increase is the same (unless you're attacking the last unit), but chill crab hits 2 enemies which is good for removing melon armor.
If you have a monkey buffing the unit in front of the crab then surely if you use fruit on the crab that's good right? Both are being buffed so the crab still gets alot of HP but also its attack increases.
@@beasttaergaming6245 do you have a Mac computer?? cause on their website u can run it there it works rlly well for me on my macbook! but i agree i hope it comes soon!!
@@DunkMasterFlexyeah, but if the scorpion respawns, doesn't it respawn with the one hit equipment? if you have a 1/1 that respawns with death touch then you can tank a scorpion or break a melon before picking up a ko
The game is sweaty now. I started a few days after nl and it was easier back then. Only peice of advice I have is to abandon the game if you have a terrible team and are like 0-2-3, you're wasting your time at that point because the meta is too good.
Wtf Spooky Forest is my favorite and you promised me you’d buy Spooky Forest AND I WAS CHEERING FOR YOU THE ENTIRE TIME! >:( I take my cheers back, and I am devoting the rest of my life to inventing a time machine to take me back to this bet for the sole purpose of uncrossing my fingers.
1 up on the scorpion, would someone like to explain why it’s the worst play ever? Would it not remove melon armour and come back with the nut boi insta kill the enemy? Or does it not come back with the nut allergy smash?
Animals can only hold one item. Scorpion comes with a built-in Peanut item, which is what gives it the poison effect. Placing any item on a Scorpion removes the Peanut and now you have a shit-ass 1/1. That's why it's terrible.
What bonuses to damage and health stay after fight end? It seems that my ants gives bonuses after round but hippo buff is for that round only. Im a bit confused.
Most buffs given to your squad of animals during shop time are permanent (except horse and ladybug I think). All buffs given during fight time are for that fight only.
I'm still trying to figure out, how on round 6 my opponents have 25+ multiple pets, and I'm struggling to get a single 10+. Luck of the draw is strong in this game.
90% of the time its best to have your strongest unit at the front. The sooner the ant buffs, the sooner your team has its strongest unit at the front. +2 +1 on a 10/10 also isn't as impactful as turning a 2/3 into a 4/4. So at the end of it, there usually isn't any unit you WANT to buff. Its impossible to predict what unit will win its fight after receiving +2/+1 when it wouldn't have previously. A better way to think about it is there are certain units you dont want to buff. The last slot on your team wants to clean-up or simply survive. Dealing more damage doesn't usually help in either of those goals.
Dear NL, I love your streams but at some point you have to recognize when to ditch the kangaroo. At some point the units in front of the roo dies to one or two hits making it pointless. In conclusion it's great early to mid game but then you have to dump it for scaling.
It can scale into lategame, but it needs support. If you aren't rolling roos in the shop or you don't have enough food for it, it's a pretty mediocre unit, especially when your stuff starts getting one shotted.
@@CalvinAytch I agree up to a point but i think everything scales late game if you have the right pieces. But that first game if he would have yeeted the roo for the dragon his build would have been much better. After turn 10 or 11 id say kangaroo is about as useful as a fish.
The scorpions effect is "kill any unit damaged by this unit" Melon armor is "block 20 damage". Since the scorpion has 22 attack, it had 20 of it blocked, and the remaining 2 damaged the hippo. Since it dealt damage, it kills the unit.
NL's rollercoaster ride of "NO! WE LOSE THESE! Wait, we win these? Aaah, hmmm, well, we draw these, but that's okay - ACTUALLY WE WIN THESE, GET FUCKED" is so damn funny every time
Idk why he says these instead of this
@@OneHunnitNoCapStannitOnBidnisz new york.
time stamp?
The “Noooo!” scream directly into the 10th win sent me.
NL explaining why having an 8/50 crab is actually better than feeding your crab when by the time your crab is getting a 50 buff you want to consider finding a way for it to have better attack has this energy to it that's hard to describe.
Yeah I was like… but it’s already at 50 health WHY DO YOU NEED TO INVEST IN THE FRONT UNIT THAT ALREADY HAS 50 HEALTH?!
The dodo was taking it to 43 damage and then later when he buffed the dodo it was a 50/50 crab.
@@brindynschultz The rant about scaling his crab was when he did not have a Dodo.
@@isingra ah my bad. I take that back.
He'll also willingly skip steak to keep meat which has me fuming every time. Its not my place to critique his decisions, but steak is LITERALLY an improved meat bone by 4 times, and skipping it impedes your own abilities.
The player named Fishladdie pulling up with that 43/45 fish at the end was glorious.
That was me a couple days ago. I had just picked up that leopard the round before I won
There's a very specific cadence NL starts talking in when he's about to roll past an animal he should be buying to level up his squad. It's a fugitive state. There's nothing behind the eyes
Time for the premiere Super Auto Pets youtuber. Would not have seen this one coming a few months ago
The auto battler arc has been building for a while now so we should have known.
Going for the achievements is fun. You'd be surpised at how many 10 wins you can crank out with oddball squads
I was so happy when I cranked out a Llama-centric 10 win, running a consistent 4-squad Marty is honestly really fun, it's just hard to get working
Mm, this is the benefit of the achievement system, it forces you to branch out
@@hdysicjegk shaking the gourd for more capacity
Oddball is an Halo game
Mid to late game when every enemy is at least 25 attack, an 8/50 crab is worse than a 17/1 unit.
This is further compounded by the fact that a crab with meat can have no other equipment, while the aforementioned 17/1 unit can also have meat/steak/1-up/chili.
The beauty in a crab is that you can accelerate a bit quicker while spending less money.
That being said, In most cases a stat buffing unit will usually serve you better in the long term than a crab will.
🦀 hater
This is true, NL is right that HP is extremely important, but he definitely underrates attack as a result. An 8 50 will never win against a 30/30, and as long as it's attack stays below 30 it will always trade evenly. for it to win against a 30/30 the easiest way would be to feed it a couple of stat buffs and then give it steak after the meat has become less useful. In this situation feeding the crab has more use than feeding the unit in front of the crab just to give the crab health
But what if he used a chili???
Crab build doesn't work well in the late late game. But if you rack up enough wins early enough then crab meta is more than enough
@@fdmugen4724 then he's just a 3/50 with chili..
He cant run another item as well as the meat..
*sells monkey with chocolate available*...."we're kinda getting dusted on scaling"
The game where he skipped a dragon with THREE tier ones in the exact same shop was so heart breaking. He would have scaled so much harder than he did if he got even SEMI lucky with tier one rolls like otter and beaver
this is what I'm talking about!
Crab having no attack really cost a lot of wins in lategame. I do think he should've kept cat in his second? run and looked for pears or milks. A pear is almost as good as a meat anyways.
Ah yes, the legendary level 1 Ant that is actually a level 3.
Prolly meant tier 1.
Lmao the streamer got the word wrong hahaha
@@pogusmaximus7162 lemayonnaise
I noticed that and was wondering if he was losing his mind 😂
Golden Poop isn't a hat - it's a credential. Even if you don't wear it, you've earned it. Nothernlion, GP.
I knew I would love this content because it's SAP of course I will. But my god I wasn't ready for that "At one point in my life I had fuckin' size 8 shoes, dummy." bit. Holy fucking hell 🤣🤣
Just waiting for the first season of SAP eSports to begin.
A SAP tournament just concluded, as it turns out.
Just this title tells me that the stakes have never been higher
~40:45 that was a dragon with 3 tier 1s, total 'freeze the whole shop' situation imo
Yeah, insta pivot for me too.
never thought animal emojis fighing each other would be so fun
The only situation where the crab would indeed benefit for being level two he doesn't level it up.
Buy Sellman, the secret merchant from Death Stranding.
These videos never fail to entertain me. Keep up the good work
1 Unit in common.
"Very similar squads."
If you guys work hard enough you too can become a Super Auto Pet.
Every episode in round 2/3: “So let’s buy a fish…”
The good content just keeps flowing
Hi NL!
You are THE best circumcised SAP streamer out there!
Thanks and hope you have a good one!
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave
Carefully, he's a hero@@MajorasWrath1
Oh man that bit at 45:15 about the crab with meat and the size 8 shoe analogy had me dying, so matter-of-fact about it
This game is really hard, I played it for a while and I always get stuck at 5-6 wins, props to NL you're good at this game
Wow the disrespect for the badger. You put a 50/50 badger on front and you get 10 wins 100%
50/50 badger with a turtle behind it is legendary.
yeah okay cool if only you could get 50/50 badgers every game
12:00 honestly I totally disagree with the idea that doing achievements is not worthwhile and not fun. It might not win as often, but you might be forced to recognize that some units leveled up are better than you might think that they originally are. Maybe instead of thinking of them as achievement hunting, think of them as challenge runs. It might even spice up the SAP content a little and maybe it's something more suited for RUclips exclusives.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
How do you justify levelling up crabs, tiger, cats and such.
The tiger placement sound is so familiar.. Pretty sure it comes from some other game, anybody know which one?
Edit: Nvm, just remembered what it is. It's the sound that plays when SCP-939 bites someone in SCP: Secret Laboratory.
I'm actually a little mald bald man doesn't steak his grab once he gets one
I don't know what it's like now on Twitch but I think the believer payout needs to be higher, like 8 wins. Believers win too often so it's less pog when they do.
One would say it's a believer paradise ...
I'm a little concerned over NL's influence over my (and others', from what I've read) internal monologue. I've been binging these and playing the game and I can't stop thinking things like "holy brsch" "him me him him you him me" "4 squad marty" etc. Pretty sure NL is some kind of fae.
I have never been this happy about NL winning,
That background literally burned my retina, all the way to my brain.
Oh my god. 900k on the horizon. I am so happy for NL, congrats in advanced! The ride has been unbelievable and to all the new people welcome!
Holy cow he also just hit 1 billion video views. Incredible.
Played my first SAP match today and I got 10 win streak no losses, all from watching the egg and his mistakes
Edit: most importantly I got the name squeaky ice cubes
You need a Gordon Ramsay-esque catch phrase and my suggestion is "You DODO!"
NL's Crab Doctrine is hilarious to me. "If you just have a kangaroo behind an 8/50 crab it's gonna attack like seven times!"
OR you could just put the kangaroo behind the ?/50 unit ahead of the crab, get the same benefit, without a crab filling a slot. Fit in something with an ability that'll give you something besides just a wall of meat. Crab's got its place but dude's downright evangelical about it.
NL refusing to level the crab to 2 when it would've been buffed by the penguin only to sell the penguin and get the snake to level 2 saddens me
The SAP NL arc is the best arc
58:43 With him being such a music nerd, I was hoping for a joke like "'Soundtacks For The Blind' is one of the best experimental rock albums of all time!" But alas...
I also would have preferred if he had bought Scary Forest, but well, his points, his joice...
Dodo rooster is pretty good, but lv3 Roosters are hard to get
The real combo is Tiger Rooster though
There are still a good number of sleeper strats that haven't kicked up yet that are really good; I'd really like to see NL explore these. Gorilla is an incredible offensive unit if you can get a chunky one, Tiger Rhino is being slept on, Tiger Mammoth Mushroom can steroid your team to near max stats, and chipmunk scaling isn't explored nearly enough; But honestly that one is hard to see people use cause 9/10 times you sell your chipmunk right after buying it (it's for canned food scaling).
I just wish I could get Tiger Rhino to pop! Maybe if after round 11 when you've unlocked all the tiers of units you could choose which tier to roll for or something, so tier 4's or 5's you're lacking on would be a bit easier to find.
@@swudurshchurf2386 Yeaaah I feel that. Really you don't choose the build, the build chooses you. Once you get a juicy lv2 Rhino though all you need is the tiger and scaling. Being able to pick sounds fun but scary.
Dearest Egg,
I like the jumper. (That's sweater but in crumpet land.)
Sincerely,
Crumpet
29:00 you dont level crab or tiger unless you are in for at least level 2 penguin play.
Therefore:
1. you get the benefit of tiger without it being weak at all.
2. you get to enjoy the higher damage of crab, although it may be better off with other level 2 unit anyway but its better early game, since its copies the tank in early and the damage can be scaled to late game without using a dodo but using penguin.
But buying golden poop would be a waste. Egg hat is best hat.
yeah thats the point.
7:03 "kangaroo behind krab has avengers endgame status here" What.
Just by the title I can tell this is gonna be an absolute pogcity banger
The glorious 10-win Marty.
the cutoff at the end got me
ok NL loves the fish but does chat not tell him to fill out his board then combine the fish always missing stats
This series makes me go insane because I can’t tell if he’s just bad at the game sometimes or I just don’t understand how it’s played, I think its both
It's a little of both, he's been getter progressively better with each video. Of course he still has some misunderstandings about game fundamentals, but he was wayyyyyy worse in his first few vids.
Crab plus chili is rad and can be worth more than meat a lot after essentially doubling your attack
Northernlions choice of sweaters is pretty pog imo.
You can't even see most of it. What if there's a big ol swastika on the front?
15:00 well, dog shrimp is actually an interesting idea if you think about it
Buying Lava Mountain, a strict downgrade from spooky forest, was the ultimate betrayl.
Feed the unit in front of a max HP crab makes sense
Wouldn't the 1up on scorpion be not that bad as 1st attack purges melon armor and the second attack gets death touch?
Any effect put on scorpion overrides the deathtouch effect. Ergo he'd have a 1/1 that dies and respawns as a 1/1.
Getting dragon woulda won him the game
Chilli crab is almost strictly better than meat crab. The total damage increase is the same (unless you're attacking the last unit), but chill crab hits 2 enemies which is good for removing melon armor.
If you have a monkey buffing the unit in front of the crab then surely if you use fruit on the crab that's good right? Both are being buffed so the crab still gets alot of HP but also its attack increases.
@@monky1285 right so it makes sense to split the buff and give the crab more attack rather than just spam the unit in front
I don't understand why NL disrespects steak so much when he likes the meat/crab combo so much.
Does anyone know if this game will be coming to iOS or planing to be??😳
they said on twitter it’ll be coming to ios but there’s no official timeframe
@@pseudowander dang, I just wanna play it and I don’t got a pc or android :((
@@beasttaergaming6245 do you have a Mac computer?? cause on their website u can run it there it works rlly well for me on my macbook! but i agree i hope it comes soon!!
Animal diversity at an all time valley.
I had to pause and comment at "the thing that will help my odds the most is a scorpion with a steak on it"
Dodo behind crab might be contender for real early 50 50
Oh this title is juicy, this will be the highest viewed NL video of the month
doesn't one up on scorpion break melon armor than on the respawn kill the opposing unit?
one up scorpion could be genius for counter scorpion/melon breaking
Sadly, the scorpions 1 hit ability is considered equipment, so you can't replace it with a one up or it won't have the 1 hit ability
@@DunkMasterFlexyeah, but if the scorpion respawns, doesn't it respawn with the one hit equipment? if you have a 1/1 that respawns with death touch then you can tank a scorpion or break a melon before picking up a ko
If only the snake was behind dog... Like crab is good and all. But snake would have dealt like 60 damage if it was behind the dog. 🦀
What is going on. I have watched only a few of these videos, and decided to play. Legit 10 hours maybe and no 10 win...
Ok so hear me out...
When you decided to play you started playing, right?
So why not decide to win?
The meta is constantly bulding and improving. It's like starting playing counter strike when everyone else has 2k hrs and expecting to carry the team.
Imagine thinking you can get a 10 win like that. Just git gud.
Get you a dog on turn 3 and cycle my man. GG
The game is sweaty now. I started a few days after nl and it was easier back then. Only peice of advice I have is to abandon the game if you have a terrible team and are like 0-2-3, you're wasting your time at that point because the meta is too good.
Going for the achievements is fun now. Might be less fun when they add win rate and ranking system
NL you should do a tier list for shop items
25:38 sprey WHAT ? I've rarely ever heard NL say a swear word like that 😳
I’m a new player and when you said you think the dodo-rooster combo is the best combo rn I was so proud because that’s my favourite combo 😂
Black cat could have upgraded the dog since it doubles the chocolate buff (and it's +2/+2)
No, it only multiplies attack and defence.
@@buzzerede Bummer.
I fully expect NL to try chicken come the new week.
People who don't watch SAP must be confused by the title
Lava Mountain is "cooler"
* sensible chuckle *
Thoughts on Monkey, giraffe, dodo, rooster, turtle? Have had a good bit of 7+ runs with this and a solid amount of clean sweeps.
Giraffe is terrible and should not be part of a final squad
@@henwin6817 he is definitely the flex unit on the squad (first to get the boot) but for the scaling that he adds to dodo it is pretty nice
Could work if you get that setup early enough
At 1:02:14 why did the crab’s stats go up so much with fusion rather than just +1 +1?
Wtf Spooky Forest is my favorite and you promised me you’d buy Spooky Forest AND I WAS CHEERING FOR YOU THE ENTIRE TIME! >:( I take my cheers back, and I am devoting the rest of my life to inventing a time machine to take me back to this bet for the sole purpose of uncrossing my fingers.
NL has done Crab cascade, but has he done dodo cascade yet?
12:08 NL down on playing for achievement hunting... how times have changed...
He's learnt 🥲
super auto pets name tier list when?
I hate that NL has made me obsessed with this game but im so terrible with the worst luck
I laughed so hard at the title 🤣
1 up on the scorpion, would someone like to explain why it’s the worst play ever?
Would it not remove melon armour and come back with the nut boi insta kill the enemy? Or does it not come back with the nut allergy smash?
i believe no peanut on respawn since its an effect that comes with the animal when u buy it from the shop
1 up replaces death touch, so your scorpion would do poke damage.
Animals can only hold one item. Scorpion comes with a built-in Peanut item, which is what gives it the poison effect. Placing any item on a Scorpion removes the Peanut and now you have a shit-ass 1/1. That's why it's terrible.
Thought so ty ty
What bonuses to damage and health stay after fight end? It seems that my ants gives bonuses after round but hippo buff is for that round only. Im a bit confused.
Most buffs given to your squad of animals during shop time are permanent (except horse and ladybug I think). All buffs given during fight time are for that fight only.
@@markvanvelzen7559 Oh! I see, thank you :D
10:08 breaking bad moment
Thanks to the Egglord I got my first 10 wins! one more juice, one more squeeze
Hey, ya level up a crab and maybe you’re scaling into scary range off a penguin, yourself
Lol watching this after he got 100% achievements
And after he put the 1 up on the scorpion too 😂
Am I late to the party by asking for cat parrot build?
Golden Poop? Bumbo?
I'm still trying to figure out, how on round 6 my opponents have 25+ multiple pets, and I'm struggling to get a single 10+. Luck of the draw is strong in this game.
Please tell me someone is numbering these things.
Can anyone tell me why he doesn’t put the ant and which ever animal he wants to buff at the end so he can guarantee the buff?
Ants give buffs randomly
90% of the time its best to have your strongest unit at the front. The sooner the ant buffs, the sooner your team has its strongest unit at the front.
+2 +1 on a 10/10 also isn't as impactful as turning a 2/3 into a 4/4.
So at the end of it, there usually isn't any unit you WANT to buff. Its impossible to predict what unit will win its fight after receiving +2/+1 when it wouldn't have previously. A better way to think about it is there are certain units you dont want to buff. The last slot on your team wants to clean-up or simply survive. Dealing more damage doesn't usually help in either of those goals.
Dear NL, I love your streams but at some point you have to recognize when to ditch the kangaroo. At some point the units in front of the roo dies to one or two hits making it pointless. In conclusion it's great early to mid game but then you have to dump it for scaling.
It can scale into lategame, but it needs support. If you aren't rolling roos in the shop or you don't have enough food for it, it's a pretty mediocre unit, especially when your stuff starts getting one shotted.
@@CalvinAytch I agree up to a point but i think everything scales late game if you have the right pieces. But that first game if he would have yeeted the roo for the dragon his build would have been much better. After turn 10 or 11 id say kangaroo is about as useful as a fish.
48:14 how did the scorpion kill through the melon armor?
My guess is it adds the enemies HP to their attack for their buff so since the scorpion had more than 20 attack it was able to go through melon armor.
The scorpions effect is "kill any unit damaged by this unit" Melon armor is "block 20 damage". Since the scorpion has 22 attack, it had 20 of it blocked, and the remaining 2 damaged the hippo. Since it dealt damage, it kills the unit.