Unlimited (Spell) Power! | Monster Train (Episode 12)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
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Monster Train is a roguelite deckbuilder that is clearly inspired by games like Slay the Spire but also puts its own spin on the formula, including spawning minions and an emphasis on positioning. It's one of the year's most enjoyable roguelites so far so I decided to play some more of it. Check it out!
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About this game:
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
imo the best part of these vids is when nl says "I shoulda read the text" when he shoulda read the text
ya the whole time he was purging i was like" noooo just wait... it gets better"
Huh, my favorite part of this one was when he put his massive 50/50 demon in front of the blasting imp. Gotta protect that 1/1 unit and make sure no one else can use the capacity! :)
He should've read the text
You mean you favorite part isn't when he uses vent on a random floor and removes spell weakness off the boss?
we can take a curse now to get better cards in the future. Immediate 2 seconds later. We can play these purge cards to get them out of our deck. XD
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Only in NL's World is taking 6 damage preferable over taking 2 damage.
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I felt like dying when he descended the rage unit only to ascend him again a turn later. Accomplishing nothing except dazing his own guy for 4 turns.
I was so happy when NL played an imp in front.
But then he went back to putting them in the back a couple times. Rip
SACRIFICE THE IMPS!!
everyone else: "I can use this cool event card to protect my pyre from a strong enemy!"
NL: "I will stun my own unit for three turns to overflow the capacity mechanic and create a mega floor"
ngl I respect it
I am just noticing but the sound track of Monster Train actually slaps.
It's REALLY good. NL has it turned down though
Its actually so pog, been stuck in my head all week
Slaps extremely hard man
reminds me of the Curse of Obra Dinn's more upbeat parts
The track for Fel slaps to high heaven
NL's spell weakness math is my new favorite meme.
I could no longer resist the siren's allure and bought it.
Update: It's real good, and I've won two out of the four times I've played it thus far.
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Glittering gold...trinkets and baubles
@@KR-bu7dk I started struggling around Covenant 4. I'm currently on Covenant 5 (nearly got Covenant 6 but I died tragically via a bad draw on the final turn while Seraph had over 150 stacks of spell weakness and only 220 hp. It's a very very good game.
*Boss halves buffs and debuffs*
NL: Spell weakness, rage, and sap?! Hell yes, brother!
Permafrost is a great tool in order to save your finisher card in your hand. It thrives in a spell weakness deck since your always looking to kill units with a high damage card.
Permafrost can be good but it's situational, Holdover is always ridiculous on anything that stacks
Yeah but it's like...a chicken breast is pretty good but holdover is a juicy ribeye steak...if you have the cash I think it's worth fishing for
@@Northernlion That's quite true, but also sometimes you're using a spell that you don't _want_ to play every turn. I used Crypt Builder with permafrost in a spell weakness build. That's a 60 damage spell for 3 ember. It's a bit pricey for holdover (you're supposed to play it via offering) but it's a fantastic spell to multiply with spell weakness.
Even a juicy ribeye steak might get boring if you eat it for dinner every day, but if you fast until turn 12, that chicken breast is gonna be so delicious.
@@Zebo12345678 not to mention emberdrain spells that you mostly want when the boss shows up.
Another permafrost example besides the emberdrains, are the "do X times your armor/spikes/dunnoiftheresmore amount of damage to the front enemy".
You stack a million of whatever it demands, and go full ham on the boss when it appears.
Also, consume spells that need to be played at some point, it's more reliable to give 'em permafrost and keep them at hand, instead of them cycling through your deck, messing your draw a bit, and then praying to get it the turn you need it.
Me, clicking video: I wonder if he's gonna do a big unit or big spell deck today?
NL: Yes
Oh no, he purged ember. Did the same mistake on my first run lol
Same haha
i did not.. but i didnt purge them for the wrong reason in a way.. i knew it said "upgraded" but didnt know what it was, but there was another run where i took the blight that dealt 100 damage when you purge a card, so i thought thats what it would have been.
There is an event that gives you either 0 cost damage shield or 10 damage times X with purge. But If you didnt play it for 2 floors you get a continuation event with free relic that replace all purge with consume instead. I think it is a secret bonus because the event doesn't say anything about it in the first encounter.
@@kingzut that choice in the event gave you 3 ember purge blight cards and a relic that damages the front enemy for 100 every time you purged/played a blight card. sometimes the last boss gave you "if this is in your hand your pyre takes damage at eot" blight cards that purged on use. otherwise that choice just gives you 3, 3 cost 100dmg nukes
I audibly groaned when he did it. Purge does not equal consume, big difference to learn in this game.
No brakes on this pog train. You’re a national treasure NL
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@@Northernlion intervancourvrial
Interpickleable
*duplicates 4 capacity unit*
"I can't believe we need more capacity"
23:35 Something you can do with March of Shields is use it to move a weak enemy unit to the front that you want to kill first, like one that gives haste or spikes.
I hadn't considered that play. I love how you can play with the cards like that; use them in out of the box kind of ways.
@@sainttrish7544 yeah the game has great potential using cards in weird situations. Like, for example torching your own champion to trigger their "revenge" and increase their damage (Wrathful path on the hellhorned) can usually grant much more damage than torching enemies.
I'm still just so pleased you decided to turn this into a series; I never really got into Slay the Spire but this is just so much more fun to watch.
Looking forward to Melting Remnant gameplay too!
*unit at 1 health*. *NL plays a card that does 32 damage*. NL- “Wait, you’re dead?”
The way spell weakness works is you take the damage, times it by the spell weakness + 1
So if it was spell weakness of 4 with a 10 damage spell it'd be 10 × 5 for 50 damage.
I think hes just confused on helical crystals bc it attacks twice
@@danielbonsu1139 no, he thought each hit would be 100 (he said so). I think his problem is that he forgets the base damage of the spell also hits, so he thinks he can strictly multiply the numbers, but if he were right then spell weakness of 1 would do literally nothing.
@@joehemmann1156 yaaaaa, spell weakness does EXTRA damage times the stacks of spell weakness. Have to add the BASE damage on to it :)
"Summon four to the middle floor? Oh no no no." The gourd declined the ultimate source of POG in this game. Embrace the zane
He could have hoped to rng into a stacked middle floor that also allowed him to effectively use his other units. His deck was pretty countered by the boss, so this rng relic might have been the only way to win.
@@CoolyOh the way I see it with this, if you have any ability to reorganize (the pull one forward card), and your units are generally good, it's amazing. It helps make it less of an RNG fest.
Not ALWAYS a good relic to take, but on THIS run? He was insane to not take it! It could have summoned all is large boys on one floor!In a run that has way too many units, it is good to take.
Cooly His deck was not countered by this boss, his deck was countered by having zero semblance of reason to it.
Gotta be honest... I skip that relic because I’m low T
I love how hes SO surprised by that stealth unit every time :'D
it is a pretty rough unit
Non Bosses heal to full. That's my run Killer. If I'm greedy and go far it there's always just one enemy that sneaks through and wrecks me.
Late game it can be rough. Having to deal hundreds of damage each floor
I feel liek spikes are the worst. I can handle everything else but spikes just body the purple and red heroes
I think it depends on your deck. For me, the potentially game-ending challenges are Spikes (for low-health unit decks), Damage Shield (for spell-heavy decks) or Heal on Ascend (for a lot of decks except heavy spell weakness ones).
That was a pretty good run of a mixed deck, though I think you screwed yourself a bit by running a deck heavily reliant on debuff (spell weakness) against the boss that counters debuff. After the backlog, you probably already understand to play around the final boss traits more when deckbuilding so you don't hard counter yourself. There'll also probably be a lot of comments on misusing the daze ascend/descend cards, but may as well include em. They can be used on enemies for the daze particularly and to reposition certain enemies to the back of a diff floor(like sending an enemy tank or a 0 atk unit to the back of the next floor). When used on your own guys, there's definitely a use case for it sometimes, but the drawback is you're dazing your own units, which can lead to pretty big tempo loss unless you're already strong enough without that unit's help.
I am at covenant 11 now and still forget to check last boss skills lol
Passing the branding rite killed him. Key floor was dead even before boss faze started. 100+ armour in a front line would save him. I am on covenant 15 and I must say I don't even bother reading the boss text - it is so insignificant - the deck which can hold together the waves kills any boss no problem.
I'm not convinced that the boss ability is what killed him. He just had no sustain, which is obviously pretty common in a Stygian/Hellhorned deck. The final fight is very long and his tanks were guaranteed to die eventually, at which point his entire setup crumbles.
I know i'm 2 weeks late but i'm gonna say it anyways, passing that artifact that shoves 4 random units in your deck onto the second floor also screwed him substancially, probably a lot more then any other reason mentioned. Think about it, he had a good descend card and a good ascend card, playing his cards right he had everything he needed to make floor 2 absolutely monstrous, but he passed an artifact that would have given him an insanely good start to doing just that. I physically cringed when he passed up on taking that tbh.
49:06 spell weakness winning him the game.
NL: Sap is what we need
Ice storm: am i joke to you?
Hey NL, LOVING the series so far! I checked through the comments of this video, and didn't see anyone mention it, but another thing you can do with imps that I'm not sure you've realized is that you can summon them to gain their effects, then if they're endless and you have a torch card, you can summon them, torch them to kill them, then they wind up on top of your draw pile. It's really good for things like stacking rage, or using the energy imp to get consistent energy gains on your turn. Great job with the series, can't wait to see more, there's very obvious improvement in every episodes and I can't wait to pog off every day when these go live!
Dazing his unit for 2 turns at the end with ascend when the battle was only 1 more turn... I love watching NL play this game
Enelle, I know you've been reading the comments lately, and I just wanna say, thank you for making this quarantine easier on all of us. You really are a one of a kind youtuber.
This one physically hurt because I knew what calcified ember was
12:20 NL: "We can play them because we don't spend energy on units". Me: "Did... Did he not read the PURGE effect on them?" Self evidently, he did not. Rip.
23:12 "I guess i should've read the text". Every NL video in a nutshell. We still love you though.
P.S. Permafrost is god-tier upgrade, but it is extremely situational. One of my recent runs as Umbra/Hellhorn i had artefact that let me retain mana between rounds, so i upgraded the umbra card that gave X damage shields to have permafrost. And then i would just keep it in my hand until the boss round and play it for something like 40 damage shields on my tank and win by default.
Looks at the boss (which removes buffs and debuffs)
Goes for spell weakness
"We've got hard countered by the boss!"
Me: watching in quiet fascination
FWIW, it's completely possible to kill that version of the boss with Spell Weakness, or even Frostbite which it hits much harder.
That poor branded warrior he passed 5 turns for no reason
I can only picture the unfortunate soul sprinting up and down a staircase; and as he sits wheezing, trying to catch his breath he hears a bald voice over the trains coms yelling "What are you doing !?! Go back up/down".
When you start messing with ascending you need big brain plays
I can't wait for the first Waxen Remnants video. They have quickly become my favorite.
Yeah, mine too, but burnout champion is kinda OP on low covenant
@@greindes1579 he's great especially if you take The Lady. I do like harvest and reform archetypes as well.
This series is my current favorite on your channel. The super mega baseball is also pogtastic, but this one pogged me enough to go out and buy the game. Funny how your channel is better at marketing games to me than the marketing teams for those games are.
Seriously, here's a list of games I bought because I saw them on your channel:
Baba is You
Slay the Spire
Monster Train
The Binding of Isaac
Sekiro
Hitman 2
Blood Bowl 2
Darkest Dungeon
Nuclear Throne
Spelunky
And no, I didn't _just_ get those because the game is good. True, I wouldn't have bought them if the game wasn't good, but I _also_ wouldn't have bought them if you hadn't exposed me to them.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and my wallet curses you from the bottom of its heart.
P.S. I'm loving the comment section interaction. Everything you've done this year has been spot on and your channel has reached a new peak. Your channel has _never_ been better! -(Except when you were still playing Grey's Anatomy)-
Spell weakness build rocks. One of my very early Stygian runs I killed Seraph with an Inferno that did like 1300 damage by itself
3rd slot on units is a proper rule-breaker! Awesome!
Bought this game yesterday because of your videos. Best financial decision I have made almost all year.
A close run especially considering how off the deck felt. Still almost worked. Your play is improving everyday egg
This game is a lot deeper than it appears at a glance. I thought NL was absolutely cruising here, but never even considered that the final boss was a hard counter to everything he was doing.
That's 80% of runs honestly. Everything can be easy but then Seraph, Fel, and the bird boss are just different beasts. Bird mostly because of the stealth 8 that's a guaranteed -1 floor that you need for the waves too. The others just have such tanky and high damage units it's a struggle unless you have a broken run
Really liking the new series! Got this game because of your let's look at
Hey NL, loving the new energy in your videos! We're truly in a pogged gourd era.
blessed egg lord, i beseech thy power to feed my life-cycle.
1 hour. Every day. I can not contain myself.
I think you should consider playing your imps in front. Once the summon trigger goes off when you play them, all they do is take away capacity from your stronger units.
I feel like that relic that summons 4 random minions on floor 2 would’ve been disgusting on this run. Especially with all those massive units. It’s risky but he had plenty of movement options
Hello NL. The reason your spell weakness damage sometimes seems off, is that you use spells that deal x damage several times, and the enemy dies before all the hits connect, resulting in 'lower' numbers. For example that first boss would have taken double that amount of damage from helical crystal, but the first hit dispatched him to the stratosphere.
He's aware it hits twice (4:21 "100 twice"), he just intuits X spell weakness as X times more damage when it's X+1 times.
This series has become my favorite, I look forward to it every dau
Offering Token is also really good as a free Incant trigger as well NL.
Best series out rn
Back on the Pogster Train and I couldn't be more thrilled, can't wait to see what the last clan is!
Love how NL gets surprised at outcomes after the majority of his plays lol
The pog heavens have opened up once more and blessed us with this divine content on this fine evening :)
NL the math for this is simple...the spell hits twice but only shows one number because that's all the damage it needed to do...4 stacks of spell damage adds 100 damage per hit (200 total bonus damage) then the 50 that the spell originally does gets you 250...the damage shown was 125 half of 250 since the spell hits twice...hope this helps clear it up sorry if I'm bad at explaining
Every monster train episode has me pogged out of my freaking mind dude
Oh no, he's purging the Calcified Ember.
33:41 - NL completely confused by Hook
1:00:58 - NL completely not confused by Siren's Song
Wow NL has a big backlog of these video’s. He was pogging up for the claw card on monday’s stream and in this video he’s like what are these cards. Will take descent
48:59 I filled up with POGs when I saw the clean 700
NL to the final boss: you are so pathetic, I will keep my rage fiend dazed for 3 turns for no reason just so this fight is a little more difficult.
Unrelated to the video but I beat my personal plunder record on warzone with 24 kills. So Pogged.
Related to the video. Love the series gotta have it everyday my dude.
If you have sweep and spell weakness on the stygian champion and pick frostbite from a later upgrade, the frostbite and sweep work together perfectly. Of course it's better in a deck more focused on frostbite, but now you know ;)
Also.. "Capacity is a problem" *places blasting imp at the back* Gotta protect that 1/1 creature :P
"Let's stop you from doing damage. Oh but you're gonna buff the other guys so they do more damage....I can live with that." - NL 2020
Never has there been a video series that causes me to speak to the screen soo much.
Probably late to give tip comments for this series, but when given the choice between the card that sends a unit to the bottom or the claw that takes the unit to the pyre, I was thinking the claw would be a fantastic thing to remove an enemy tank unit that deals no damage and feed it to the pyre. Meanwhile, the low HP damage units don't get to hide behind the tank anymore. Just my two cents :P
So nice. Spell powered twice.
Choo choo comes the monster train, straight out of hell with a fresh cargo of POG.
*Starcraft Archon noises* "Power Overwhelming"
Just picked up some of the merch can’t wait for more monster train
Hearing NL constantly say "Pog off" is very unsettling
Interesting build on that one. Great episode. Can't wait to see NL play the new faction!
This game has a high dose of pogness. But please, play more of Umbra and Hellhorned.
imagine a 5x duplicated endless imp that gives rage. entire floors super buffed with a wall of imps to shield the super buffed monsters
I had something like that with armor imp, and also endless chomper, that was fun.
"This is now the imp floors. All of them"
10 minutes in...has NL finally realized the power of the tentacle boi?
This guy's content it good, show it to more people, and show me more like it.
Imps live to be consumed or die unless you have a specific unit card but you should always take those consume and imp do whatever the imps just take up space after using there summon
Just when I was hoping for a new monster train video. Eggman delivers!
Monstertrain is making me hit the bell, like, and comment
I wanna preface this with I absolutely love the Large Stone upgrade, but its important to realize that while good, its not always the right call. If you struggle with capacity, you should try not to take too many large stones on too many units.
It didn't really work in this deck because it was all over the place. A large demon fiend is my favourite unit though he's so chonky and pogged up
Everytime I want to do a spell run, Seraph has the consume debuff..arghhh.. Good run man. Next one will be a winner.
I think the ascend/descend mechanism works on enemies as well as allies, which would be the point of having descend with daze
It's an amazing mechanic on enemies. Especially those bird bastards in the last fight. It can get a little spicy because you have to think carefully about what you're moving though. Idk if NL will ever be able to utilise it fully
I've been watching for 6 years, this is the most pogged I've ever been for a series
Ice and Pyre with Permafrost until the boss to do 90x damage seems like such a missed opportunity.
That horrible descend play on the final boss... Pogged
@northernlion you can speed up the damage phase even more if you hold the right click
Consider perhaps not playing your two spell weakness bros at the front when your entire plan revolves around getting lots of spell weakness effects on the final turns.
That poor warrior was dazed the entire fight kek
NL pogging out over a 25/60 alpha fiend was weird because it just became a worse demon fiend that he chose not to take, with 2 less energy cost
Another awesome episode!
Oof at the end....need to take some time and think of your moves....like chess.... call forth the spirit of malf to help...lol I watched his 3 hr run
3 hours is a little too much thinking
You need to plan out your floors before hand so you can have the best combination of units on a floor
Aaah watching you play this game is taking over my life 🤣 I reckon you would have done well if the first floor was Tethys with two of the tankiest units, followed by one floor up with the Molluscmage.
i feel like this would have been the 1 to try the frost build on since you had strong units
Melting remnant run time, ohhhhh baby
Continue to make titles that are memes and you will receive all the likes. A+ love the content man. Especially Monster Train. Bought the game because of you.
NL is trying to use the ascend/descend but give dazed spells on his own units, but they're best used on enemies so that they don't deplete your health before the boss fight. imo NL was struggling in terms of damage because he allowed his tanks that were also massive damage dealers get so low, and then the bosses that have fairly hefty attacks came in and made sure those tanks only got at most a few swings. Aka he's trying to play an awoken style, leave tank at front to absorb damage while keeping them healthy so that they can inflict heavy damage on the boss, without the capability to keep them healthy.
Yeah I've found the big demons are really good with awoken for healing, but lack any tank support otherwise
@youtube this guy is good, show me more of this guy
I realize this episode is like a month old and you probably already figured this out, but here's the formula for spell weakness. Damage(Weakness+1)
So if an enemy has 4 spell weakness and your spell does 25 damage... 25(4+1) = 25*5=125 damage.
An easy way to calculate this would just be to have a spreadsheet like google sheets in another tab with the formula plugged in. You enter damage in A1, weakness stacks in B1, and total damage shows in cell C1 or something.
EDIT: Or you could hover over the icon, like you did, which I didn't realize worked.
*Against Seraph of Chaste*
"Let's build a deck 100% reliant on debuffs"
Hey NL, cool episode. just a little tip, you can Ascend and Descend enemy units too.
Was excited that he checked the artifact shop first, but it was worthless anyway :(
mr lion of the north, you can torch your own imps sir