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