24:10 "The Ironclad has so much room to play around with." - The guys that barely scratched the surface of what the silent is capable of. It will probably take you like 50 hours instead of the 5-10 that other people need but if you get a handle on a good silent deck. Oh boy you're gonna learn ...
10:10 Here’s a tip. You can stall for two turns to apply any debuffs or buffs and not wake the elite up as long as you deal 8 or less damage. Also never use explosion potion or fire potion unless it kills or halves slimes.
The gremlins (for example) are also valid uses for the potion, and so is stopping a huge attack from a single enemy. You're not wrong in theory, just in practice.
The gremlins? Sorry I don't know all the enemy names. Also yeah I should've said "stuns an enemy" instead of halving slimes since that is what I had intended. Good call.
During the first boss fight he could have saved so much time if he noticed that the boss takes 40 damage in attack mode and then switches to defense mode, he wouldn't have to worry about some attacks like the first 29 damage attack because it would have switched to defense mode.
Removing Strikes and Defends isn't bold at all. It's what you're supposed to do. For the Ironclad, remove Defend first, because you have Perfected Strike and Clash. (and also there is the chance of an event which removes your Strikes anyway) For the Silent, remove Strike first, because you have Escape Plan, Fletchettes and Burst.
4:18 Is an example of a turn where if you looked at the cards in your draw pile and thought about the likelihood of getting enough strikes, you could play bash and defend knowing you would probably kill next turn. Not that it's necessarily the correct play, but I think you'd looking at your draw pile and predicting potential draws would help you a lot.
He's mentioned before he considers that "cheating," which to some degree I'd agree with, if he bothered to try to keep track of what he's played and hasn't played yet. I use it all the time, BTW... so I'm hardly agreeing with him.
It's a game function. It's like crying about throws in a fighter, or radar in most FPS. I know a guy who plays Overwatch and turns the killfeed off because he thinks that means he's a better player. The reality is he's trash as he's missing valuable information literally everyone else has. It's objectively better to have the killfeed, like it's objectively better to check discard/draw.
NLs weakness is that he plays every game like Isaac, he rushes everything. He rushes reading in undertale and he rushes thinking in this game. If he just slowed down and thought about the game instead of treating it like a chore to play he’d do well
He's been treating everything he plays since like 2011 that's NOT on the NLSS as a chore to play. He really ought to just cut his RUclips output down, and run a fourth stream night, it likely makes him more money, and he's happier doing it.
Also the egg elite, you know you don't have to wake him up the first turn. If you don't do damage you can run some turns without waking him up to build up you own status affects.
Hey NL, at 18:37 you should use battle trance first and then armaments. An upgraded armaments only upgrades cards held in hand, so you could have upgraded more at one time.
NL cards that hit all enemies are the best attack cards in the game, just bc even against one enemy they deal more than a strike, and they help in all other situations aswell
Mad streak: 2 "oh yea, i fought this guy. lets not transform him and disable his 29 damage attack" UPD: oh yea, who cares about a free energy every turn
NL: I think it's really hard to recover HP in this game NL at the end of the video: oh this relic will heal me whenever I get to a campfire that's really good...but screw that.
NL, try to consider skipping card rewards. Often times deck size is much more important than a "slightly better defend/strike." This is especially true later in the game if your deck has a strong synergy.
"health is a resource and hard to come by" passes on reaper at the end, arguably the single strongest card in the game because of it's ability to get you hp back. passes on feather, because i can't even. barricade is bad and you should feel bad.
Perfected Strike is literally amazing. Just keep picking up cards with the word Strike and its Damage Increases. Was doing over 60 Damage at one point with one hit!
Hey NL I hope you read this at some point, for Ironclad Rampage is a must have everytime, it gets better and better, everytime you see it there is no shame in grabbing it, shrug it off is a strickly better block so grabbing it is almost always good, and combust is so broken it applys that damage every turn and like you said you get HP back all the time so that damage is great, otherwise keep doing what you're doing, a few tips keep up the content
Shrug it off, while being a great card, will put you into the large, defensive deck trap. It's objectively bad to take something because it's a "slightly better block/strike." you never need to pick up cards because they're a little better than what you have.
Right, but the thing is, it's not better "enough" than a regular defend. He does indeed take way too many cards, I rarely finish a run with more than twenty five or so, but often it's better to remove strikes first and focus on offense, and it's ALWAYS better to grab a relic or two and remove the curses than it is to drop a defend for a "slightly better defend." = )
Oh yes but we are touching on another bad habit of him having no respect for the mystery spots, so he rarely gets curses, however I pose that we agree to disagree as I see merit in your thought process
See, the thing is he learned on the stream that the "?" are always better than regular combat. I'm not at all sure why he's debating internally still. It seems that when he takes any kind of break from the game he loses a huge chunk of knowledge that he gained last time. It's like KSP all over again, only with slightly larger baby steps forward and slightly smaller leaps backwards.
Hey NL, at the 23 minute mark you could go for an attack, ticking the transform from 1 to 0. This stops the boss from attacking you, instead making him go defensive mode
Aggressive decks are incredibly hard to pull off, borderline impossible. You can pull it off with the ironclad with a power boost deck focusing heavy blade limit break and demon/inflame. Lucky draws and ice cream aswell obviously. You gotta tank through like 2-3 turns and you're set to shred everything in 2 or 3 attacks. 2 fights are gonna give you real trouble with that deck. World 2 elite - Stabby Book World 3 end boss
The mode shifts are all interrupts. You could have killed him a lot sooner and avoided damage by paying attention to how much damage was left before mode change.
Okay so chat in this game just echos advice which is commonly heard in other card games which may not be applicable in this game, health is not just a resource in this game because their is no board you can easily encounter situations where you have to take damage which is why you should pay attention to your health some in this game, however you also can do sometimes make decisions which are too cautious of your hp consider it heals to full at the end of each level.
@@crazytoot I was thinking the same many times already. I mean stupid plays... it happens, it happens to me too sometimes, but what he's doing thats just... It has to be on purpose.
i let out a long sigh when he didnt attack the boss to stop the 28 damage. then again, i should be used to this.. regardless of silly mistakes, keep it up man. i just hope you're reading the comments for tips, and the criticism.
NL pls keep the series going, it's 8/10, -2 for various mistakes. That being said, once you get used to the math, you'll reign Supreme egg lord in this.
immediately misses lethal and takes damage on the first fight. Strap in boys, its going to be a long night "any time we can make him deal 0 damage...." He says as he misses the ability to make him transition twice, and takes a bunch of damage instead... please....
So instead of dealing 10 damage and gaining 4 strength while preventing all damage from the boss via mode shift you block for 8, gain 4 strength and take 21 damage. Step up your game NL.
This is coming from someone who loves NL, but I literally fucking can’t watch these videos. After the 3rd atrocious misplay I just stop and go into the comments to see all the other dumb shit he did in the episode. Egg, please just think for 2 fucking seconds. It pisses me off so damn much. At least watch sleepcycles play who I KNOW you respect and enjoy watching so you can learn how to play this freaking game. This would probably be my favorite series on his channel right now if the videos didn’t actually make me want to stab a fork into my jugular. Also is this replacing Enter the Gungeon?
Noah Bobrow I’ve been watching sleep cycles play this too. Who actually is smart when it comes to video games...unlike NL. Who just dispenses references and rushes games
NL is probably one of the most intelligent people I've had the pleasure to watch, but the fact that he makes such poor decisions in tactical games boggles my mind.
didom lol I feel the exact same way. His experience in rougelikes gives him some pretty out of the box ideas, but he forgets the simplist things when he misplays
Well, the thing is, he is extremely illogical. He just got the most crazy memory for facts. In this game it shows really well that he can memorize the way a card works in a split second but he can't for the love of me create nor understand good tactics.
That explains it pretty well. Imo he should slow down his gameplay and just think like 5 more seconds before making his plays. As you said it he can memorise and understand how a card works, but plays them in a suboptimal order, for example upgrading a debuff only to apply it to an enemy that resists debuffs, or applying vulnerability after he makes all the attacks on the enemy. I know its easy to spot mistakes when some1 else is playing, but i rly want him to do well and enjoy the game more.
I know it didn't matter but I can't believe you chose to block 4 damage while having 50+ hp in a fight you fully heal after instead of dealing 42 damage.
Northernlion, you need to check EVERY SINGLE TURN, SLOWLY, whether or not you can kill your enemy. over and over you are blocking to prevent damage when you could be killing the enemy attacking you, thus preventing damage and also shortening the fight. Use your head dude!
Cleve is not trash, imo. It's better than strike to a single target for the same energy and can do 21 dmg to 3 targets, not upgraded. Is good card, I think.
I picked up this game because of you (and Trump - the Hearthstone variety). I gained the Ruby achievement by stacking strength and using *Heavy Blade* . A good strat, it seems, is to grab a few *Strength potions/cards (Power)* then use an *UPGRADED Limit Break* . Give preference card pick to *Headbutt* which will allow you to gain stupid amounts of strength (apparently max = 999) by cycling *Limit Break* ad nauseam. This will allow for a devastating *Heavy Blade* attack (max = 5009). You'll want to pick up *Iron Weave* for defense; *Impervious* and *Barricade* are an especially amazing combo. *Reaper* , if you can get it, will allow you to stay topped off allowing you to be productive at rest sites rather than healing. It goes without saying that any of the aforementioned cards are better upgraded but the only one that is a must for this strat is *Limit Break* ... use it once and it will change your StS experience! Good luck, NL ... wish you the best in future games.
Post script ... you're really going to have read the buffs/debuffs/attributes of the stuff your fighting. 23:00 you could have avoided 21 damage by doing 10 damage (10 = 9 block + 1 hp) to the boss. He cancels his attack to shift modes.
Egg needs to learn the bosses; mainly that shifting modes and splitting interrupts attacks. Also there are like 3/4 playstyles to the Iron Clad that I know of which work: 1.Super aggro taking hard hitting high value cards whiling maintaining vulnerability 2.Stacking Strikes and going full berserker on that sheet 3. Becoming a wall with Entrench and an Upgraded body slam 4. Burnt branch corruption runs with all the skills (real interesting to see what the game gives you) Anything I missed I'm sure you lads will correct me.
There's decent hybrids as well (for example Body Slam is always good, you WILL be blocking, and upgraded it's free damage), there's also the "heal" play, with bloody idol, black blood, Bites etc... and you can use things like combustion and the cube without sacrificing anything in the way of HP. A couple upgraded metalicize will allow you to focus completely on offense with your cards, so the "heal" style is also a bit of a hybrid, if you get lucky with cards and relics. I had a snecko run recently too, where I traded my starting burning blood for snecko. That's an interesting run in itself, since you don't need to EVER worry about picking up 3 energy cards, since that's the idea. Grab mark of pain and you're off to an easy win most of the time.
Oh man his second elite fight was even more painful than first. With shell elite you can prepare for first 3 turns, for example disarm and then start next turn with the Bash + attack, it's so much value and looking at how egglord just scrapes off a little bit of Shell's defend and wakes it up... It's too much.
He doesn't know, he doesn't play enough off camera (which to be honest he should just record anyway... he can upload and render from any other computer in the house). We've ALL got much more experience in the game at this point, and it's going to be magnified by every session. He doesn't play for a few days at a time, while we keep improving. Gotta get those Isaac runs in. I haven't watched an Isaac video since before he restarted, that's how incredibly boring I find that to be at this point. Thank god he decided to only post up one video a day.
“Explosion is not a debuff, it’s a way of life”
- Northernlion 2018
Honest to god, this series makes me foam at the mouth like a lunatic
Hey NL. On the ocarina crabs if you don't break the shield it stays asleep for like 2 or 3 turns.
15:34 Game: *INFERNAL BLADE*
NL: "Eternal Blade"
24:10 "The Ironclad has so much room to play around with." - The guys that barely scratched the surface of what the silent is capable of.
It will probably take you like 50 hours instead of the 5-10 that other people need but if you get a handle on a good silent deck. Oh boy you're gonna learn ...
Part of me loves the fact that you make these wild misplays, so really, do whatever and I'll be happy.
this is the greatest series of all time.
22:55 strike enemy to cause stun
10:10
Here’s a tip. You can stall for two turns to apply any debuffs or buffs and not wake the elite up as long as you deal 8 or less damage.
Also never use explosion potion or fire potion unless it kills or halves slimes.
The gremlins (for example) are also valid uses for the potion, and so is stopping a huge attack from a single enemy. You're not wrong in theory, just in practice.
The gremlins? Sorry I don't know all the enemy names. Also yeah I should've said "stuns an enemy" instead of halving slimes since that is what I had intended. Good call.
NL: Think I need some more attacks in this deck.
Also NL: *Proceeds to take another block*
During the first boss fight he could have saved so much time if he noticed that the boss takes 40 damage in attack mode and then switches to defense mode, he wouldn't have to worry about some attacks like the first 29 damage attack because it would have switched to defense mode.
14:34
>bash does 10 dmg
>there is a 10 HP enemy
>"we can't one hit kill"
missed the tinted lethal.
Removing Strikes and Defends isn't bold at all. It's what you're supposed to do.
For the Ironclad, remove Defend first, because you have Perfected Strike and Clash. (and also there is the chance of an event which removes your Strikes anyway)
For the Silent, remove Strike first, because you have Escape Plan, Fletchettes and Burst.
4:18
Is an example of a turn where if you looked at the cards in your draw pile and thought about the likelihood of getting enough strikes, you could play bash and defend knowing you would probably kill next turn. Not that it's necessarily the correct play, but I think you'd looking at your draw pile and predicting potential draws would help you a lot.
He's mentioned before he considers that "cheating," which to some degree I'd agree with, if he bothered to try to keep track of what he's played and hasn't played yet.
I use it all the time, BTW... so I'm hardly agreeing with him.
IamI3rian yeah I don’t get that on a single player game
It's a game function. It's like crying about throws in a fighter, or radar in most FPS. I know a guy who plays Overwatch and turns the killfeed off because he thinks that means he's a better player. The reality is he's trash as he's missing valuable information literally everyone else has.
It's objectively better to have the killfeed, like it's objectively better to check discard/draw.
i was bashing egg on his plays without playing the game then I decided to play it and I can still say that egg boy has a lot to learn
18:41 This play hurt me deeply
Misplays on the very first encounter. Beautiful.
I’m always surprised when the episode ends. 27 minutes is so short for my lust
> Watch NL play this game for 11 episodes
> Buy the game
> Defeat the end boss on the first try
I guess eggy's a good teacher :)
NLs weakness is that he plays every game like Isaac, he rushes everything. He rushes reading in undertale and he rushes thinking in this game.
If he just slowed down and thought about the game instead of treating it like a chore to play he’d do well
He's been treating everything he plays since like 2011 that's NOT on the NLSS as a chore to play.
He really ought to just cut his RUclips output down, and run a fourth stream night, it likely makes him more money, and he's happier doing it.
IamI3rian yeah you’re not wrong there
*Bash deals 10 damage, green slime has 10 hp* "We can't kill with one hit anyway."
if you have to heal at a campfire on the first level, it was not meant to be
bob baker I agree
"Explosion is not a debuff, it's a way of life." - Did NL just make a Konosuba Megumin Reference?
Also the egg elite, you know you don't have to wake him up the first turn. If you don't do damage you can run some turns without waking him up to build up you own status affects.
"theres some variance in this game"
*chooses card that increases the variance*
I fucking love the Beatles man, 18 seconds in and already pumped up
Hey NL, at 18:37 you should use battle trance first and then armaments. An upgraded armaments only upgrades cards held in hand, so you could have upgraded more at one time.
Exhaust can be used on unplayable cards, such as wounds for example. No need to think about only your own cards.
*gets rid of two strikes* “I think we need more attacks.”
removing strikes is good since every other attack is better
Also Armaments+ is incredibly good and I’m happy you took it.
22:45 bash would have caused him to shift modes and cancel his attack
Even with your horrible decisions i LOVE this series
NL if you drag the attack on the ennemy the computer computes the damage you will do .... LETS GOOOoOoOoOoO
NL cards that hit all enemies are the best attack cards in the game, just bc even against one enemy they deal more than a strike, and they help in all other situations aswell
Mad streak: 2
"oh yea, i fought this guy. lets not transform him and disable his 29 damage attack"
UPD: oh yea, who cares about a free energy every turn
I'm really digging this
NL: I think it's really hard to recover HP in this game
NL at the end of the video: oh this relic will heal me whenever I get to a campfire that's really good...but screw that.
Hey Ryab, spiky boss boi shows when he will transform on his buff/de-buff bar. Loving this NL plays series!
Watching NL take 29 damage on that boss when he could have initiated the mode shift and dodged all the damage was painful
NL, try to consider skipping card rewards. Often times deck size is much more important than a "slightly better defend/strike."
This is especially true later in the game if your deck has a strong synergy.
Bash for 10 the enemy with 10health? No thanks, I prefer to waste it on an enemy that I can't kill without wasting a card and an energy.
It worries me that many people watching don't see many of the misplays.
Deal 27 damage to the enemy with 16 health and 6 shield?
I'd rather block actually
bash 10 health slime disarm+ the other one which only does 3 damage essentially negating two enemies ... "nahhhhh"
Reaper, "Heal for unblocked damage dealt" in an offensive deck? Nah, take Barricade.
"health is a resource and hard to come by" passes on reaper at the end, arguably the single strongest card in the game because of it's ability to get you hp back. passes on feather, because i can't even. barricade is bad and you should feel bad.
Talks about getting roasted for slow playing then on first encounter makes a slow play that costs 4 damage instead of an easy kill shot.
NL you trigger me so bad that I bought the game and can't stop playing XD Love the vids
Check out the beta man. It's got more cards, more enemies and as far as I can tell no bugs at all, and it's super stable.
Perfected Strike is literally amazing. Just keep picking up cards with the word Strike and its Damage Increases. Was doing over 60 Damage at one point with one hit!
It stacks with itself as well, so when you have three of them, you're really slugging out damage.
Everyone is thinking it, Im just saying it: cancel Oxygen and double Slay the Spire
LETS DUCKING GO
I was watching ONI until he restarted. Sadly I would also enjoy two slay the spires a day.
Cancel everything but rainbow six siege and Slay the Spire
Suuri Tuhoaja NL will die of saltiness, and so will we...
But what a glorious death it will be!
Nl, you really need to learn the boss patterns: Sometimes attacking and forcing a phase change is way better than defending.
Wish he would get Charon's Ashes or the tree branch relic just once early on so he's be pushed towards building an exhaust deck, they're so much fun
I really enjoy these episodes. Also, what a cool game
Hey NL I hope you read this at some point, for Ironclad Rampage is a must have everytime, it gets better and better, everytime you see it there is no shame in grabbing it, shrug it off is a strickly better block so grabbing it is almost always good, and combust is so broken it applys that damage every turn and like you said you get HP back all the time so that damage is great, otherwise keep doing what you're doing, a few tips keep up the content
Shrug it off, while being a great card, will put you into the large, defensive deck trap.
It's objectively bad to take something because it's a "slightly better block/strike." you never need to pick up cards because they're a little better than what you have.
IamI3rian well that's what card removal is for take a shrug it off remove a regular block, NL takes too many cards in general
Right, but the thing is, it's not better "enough" than a regular defend.
He does indeed take way too many cards, I rarely finish a run with more than twenty five or so, but often it's better to remove strikes first and focus on offense, and it's ALWAYS better to grab a relic or two and remove the curses than it is to drop a defend for a "slightly better defend." = )
Oh yes but we are touching on another bad habit of him having no respect for the mystery spots, so he rarely gets curses, however I pose that we agree to disagree as I see merit in your thought process
See, the thing is he learned on the stream that the "?" are always better than regular combat. I'm not at all sure why he's debating internally still. It seems that when he takes any kind of break from the game he loses a huge chunk of knowledge that he gained last time. It's like KSP all over again, only with slightly larger baby steps forward and slightly smaller leaps backwards.
Hey NL, at the 23 minute mark you could go for an attack, ticking the transform from 1 to 0. This stops the boss from attacking you, instead making him go defensive mode
Elegost i wante to cry
thanks Alphys
Yup. deal 10 damage, avoid 26 damage. Nope, block for 5 instead! :P
Just one of many misplays.
Don't fret, the runs I've won have all been defense heavy. Been trying aggressive builds and been having trouble.
Aggressive decks are incredibly hard to pull off, borderline impossible.
You can pull it off with the ironclad with a power boost deck focusing heavy blade limit break and demon/inflame.
Lucky draws and ice cream aswell obviously.
You gotta tank through like 2-3 turns and you're set to shred everything in 2 or 3 attacks.
2 fights are gonna give you real trouble with that deck.
World 2 elite - Stabby Book
World 3 end boss
Yeah Book of Stabbing ended bunch of my runs. One where I was close to the Unceasing Top + Anger dream. Just needed to get rid of about 5 cards.
book of stabbing was op as hell they just nerfed it in the newest patch
To be honest, i dont watch the vids, i just listen to him while i play this game. Seeing the misplay will probably break my heart quite a bit
The mode shifts are all interrupts. You could have killed him a lot sooner and avoided damage by paying attention to how much damage was left before mode change.
Okay so chat in this game just echos advice which is commonly heard in other card games which may not be applicable in this game, health is not just a resource in this game because their is no board you can easily encounter situations where you have to take damage which is why you should pay attention to your health some in this game, however you also can do sometimes make decisions which are too cautious of your hp consider it heals to full at the end of each level.
Welcome back to northernlion misplays the spire
How is every instinct he has wrong. I think he has to be trolling. Its just not possible to misplay this much.
@@crazytoot I was thinking the same many times already. I mean stupid plays... it happens, it happens to me too sometimes, but what he's doing thats just... It has to be on purpose.
You're not being made fun of for slow-playing, you're being made fun of for bad-playing.
18:43 Why would you armaments before drawing?! Omg egg you are killing me here
It's because he's a literal egg and thinks Armaments + Upgrades all cards. He either can't read or he is too full of himself.
Thanks Alphys
Smexy Beast Or he is trying to maintain decent commentary while playing a game.
god damnit
He actually wanted to upgrade battle trance, he thinks it's "so good" but it's just one more card and drawing before armaments would've been better.
Anger + Spinning top = infinite damage if you thin out your deck enough
i let out a long sigh when he didnt attack the boss to stop the 28 damage. then again, i should be used to this..
regardless of silly mistakes, keep it up man. i just hope you're reading the comments for tips, and the criticism.
Take cleve you mad man! 1 energy for 7 damage against all enemies. You always lose so much health to multiple enemies.
I knew what was going to happen when he exploded Lagavulin. I was half expecting the goblins to do it though.
I really hope someone out there is keeping count of how many times he says “health is hard to come by in Slay the Spire.”
"I am an idiot, and a stupid idiot who is a moron man", truer words have never been spoken :'D
NL pls keep the series going, it's 8/10, -2 for various mistakes. That being said, once you get used to the math, you'll reign Supreme egg lord in this.
It's hardly 8/10 mate. There's no commentary so all we have is gameplay.
The gameplay is atrocious. It's much closer to 3/10 +1 because egg.
Egg, pay more attention to Mode Shift on the transform boss, you could have canceled his attacks so many times by just attacking.
immediately misses lethal and takes damage on the first fight. Strap in boys, its going to be a long night
"any time we can make him deal 0 damage...." He says as he misses the ability to make him transition twice, and takes a bunch of damage instead... please....
the secret of NorthenLion gameplay is that it's him commentating on someone else playing the game /s
Jeroz.... I'd watch that in a heartbeat.
So instead of dealing 10 damage and gaining 4 strength while preventing all damage from the boss via mode shift you block for 8, gain 4 strength and take 21 damage. Step up your game NL.
This is coming from someone who loves NL, but I literally fucking can’t watch these videos. After the 3rd atrocious misplay I just stop and go into the comments to see all the other dumb shit he did in the episode. Egg, please just think for 2 fucking seconds. It pisses me off so damn much. At least watch sleepcycles play who I KNOW you respect and enjoy watching so you can learn how to play this freaking game. This would probably be my favorite series on his channel right now if the videos didn’t actually make me want to stab a fork into my jugular. Also is this replacing Enter the Gungeon?
Noah Bobrow I’ve been watching sleep cycles play this too. Who actually is smart when it comes to video games...unlike NL. Who just dispenses references and rushes games
sleepcycles first few games are just as tough to watch. The secret? Sleepcycles learns from playing. = )
IamI3rian pretty much lol
Press 1 for double time slaythespire
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NL is probably one of the most intelligent people I've had the pleasure to watch, but the fact that he makes such poor decisions in tactical games boggles my mind.
didom lol I feel the exact same way. His experience in rougelikes gives him some pretty out of the box ideas, but he forgets the simplist things when he misplays
Well, the thing is, he is extremely illogical. He just got the most crazy memory for facts. In this game it shows really well that he can memorize the way a card works in a split second but he can't for the love of me create nor understand good tactics.
Wisecrack. Check them out if you want to see actually intelligent people on RUclips.
That explains it pretty well. Imo he should slow down his gameplay and just think like 5 more seconds before making his plays. As you said it he can memorise and understand how a card works, but plays them in a suboptimal order, for example upgrading a debuff only to apply it to an enemy that resists debuffs, or applying vulnerability after he makes all the attacks on the enemy. I know its easy to spot mistakes when some1 else is playing, but i rly want him to do well and enjoy the game more.
I know it didn't matter but I can't believe you chose to block 4 damage while having 50+ hp in a fight you fully heal after instead of dealing 42 damage.
Would've interrupted the attack too mate.
lol the misplay at 22:48
I don't know why but when he took runic cube instead of mark of pain my heart kind of stopped
I know exactly why. = )
I think part of the fun of this series is watching NL crit-fail every common sense roll he makes.
the guardian stops his attack if you force him to mode shift
1 hp left on this transformation when hes dealing 1 trillion damage. Time to put 2 bashes in the deck instead of attacking
Nl, you know u can tell when that one boss is gonna shift phases, you coulda prevented 20 damage
I am down to watch a 2 hour video if the egg thinks 5 minutes before making any move.
I’m only mad at NL because I love him and I want him to succeed 😍😍
Seeing him finally remove cards made me so happy! Made the deck so much more balanced
25:08
This is where you’re playing too slow
Play more aggressive on boss fights since you heal afterwards
Northernlion, you need to check EVERY SINGLE TURN, SLOWLY, whether or not you can kill your enemy. over and over you are blocking to prevent damage when you could be killing the enemy attacking you, thus preventing damage and also shortening the fight. Use your head dude!
He skipped using spot weakness THREE FUCKING TIMES on turns he was attacking... just fucking how?!
There really isn't any reason to remove cards that aren't curses, unless you find you are drawing things that mess up a synergy.
False. Removing standard defends and strikes is a key component to building a powerful deck.
You sir, are wrong. Thanks Alphys.
That rubix cube relic was the dumbest thing to ever grab. Jesus Christ it gave me an aneurysm
i beat my first run as the silent and im exited about it!
Cleve is not trash, imo. It's better than strike to a single target for the same energy and can do 21 dmg to 3 targets, not upgraded. Is good card, I think.
I picked up this game because of you (and Trump - the Hearthstone variety). I gained the Ruby achievement by stacking strength and using *Heavy Blade* . A good strat, it seems, is to grab a few *Strength potions/cards (Power)* then use an *UPGRADED Limit Break* . Give preference card pick to *Headbutt* which will allow you to gain stupid amounts of strength (apparently max = 999) by cycling *Limit Break* ad nauseam. This will allow for a devastating *Heavy Blade* attack (max = 5009). You'll want to pick up *Iron Weave* for defense; *Impervious* and *Barricade* are an especially amazing combo. *Reaper* , if you can get it, will allow you to stay topped off allowing you to be productive at rest sites rather than healing. It goes without saying that any of the aforementioned cards are better upgraded but the only one that is a must for this strat is *Limit Break* ... use it once and it will change your StS experience! Good luck, NL ... wish you the best in future games.
Post script ... you're really going to have read the buffs/debuffs/attributes of the stuff your fighting. 23:00 you could have avoided 21 damage by doing 10 damage (10 = 9 block + 1 hp) to the boss. He cancels his attack to shift modes.
... and again @ 25:07
the silent needs an evade card tbh, like where you completely dodge one attack
That would be super OP.
Like i get it for roleplaying sake, but lets be real it would be super unfair
SLOW DOWN!
Btw mark of pain is very good and runic cube isn’t
The Cube is great with Combustion, but he's scared to death of spending HP for any reason.
NL, u gotta read the abilities of the enemies, especially bosses!
First combat: coulda just murdered the enemy and defended instead
NL.... when you hover an attack over the enemy it will show you exactly how much dmg it will do ( if they are vulnerable for ex.)
Egg needs to learn the bosses; mainly that shifting modes and splitting interrupts attacks.
Also there are like 3/4 playstyles to the Iron Clad that I know of which work:
1.Super aggro taking hard hitting high value cards whiling maintaining vulnerability
2.Stacking Strikes and going full berserker on that sheet
3. Becoming a wall with Entrench and an Upgraded body slam
4. Burnt branch corruption runs with all the skills (real interesting to see what the game gives you)
Anything I missed I'm sure you lads will correct me.
There's decent hybrids as well (for example Body Slam is always good, you WILL be blocking, and upgraded it's free damage), there's also the "heal" play, with bloody idol, black blood, Bites etc... and you can use things like combustion and the cube without sacrificing anything in the way of HP.
A couple upgraded metalicize will allow you to focus completely on offense with your cards, so the "heal" style is also a bit of a hybrid, if you get lucky with cards and relics.
I had a snecko run recently too, where I traded my starting burning blood for snecko. That's an interesting run in itself, since you don't need to EVER worry about picking up 3 energy cards, since that's the idea. Grab mark of pain and you're off to an easy win most of the time.
The ironclad is a better fit for NL, because the healing covers the ridiculous number of small mistakes that he makes.
Oh man his second elite fight was even more painful than first. With shell elite you can prepare for first 3 turns, for example disarm and then start next turn with the Bash + attack, it's so much value and looking at how egglord just scrapes off a little bit of Shell's defend and wakes it up... It's too much.
He doesn't know, he doesn't play enough off camera (which to be honest he should just record anyway... he can upload and render from any other computer in the house).
We've ALL got much more experience in the game at this point, and it's going to be magnified by every session. He doesn't play for a few days at a time, while we keep improving. Gotta get those Isaac runs in.
I haven't watched an Isaac video since before he restarted, that's how incredibly boring I find that to be at this point. Thank god he decided to only post up one video a day.
NL there is this thing called a UI. it contains valuable information in most games. You should try reading it sometimes :)
When does egg learn...
Shop (if you have enough money) > ? > Elite > Reguar Combat
16:17 What the fuck was that turn????!!?!?!?!