This is one of those runs that shows just how incredible the top tier players are. His on-the-fly analysis, creativity in decision making, and discipline in building his deck are truly on another level.
this is WITHOUT A DOUBT the craziest heart fight I've ever seen. Baalor refers to this run in a later stream and said something along the lines of "we didn't deserve to win that one" but he absolutelety did, this run is on a level of play I think Most of us could never achieve.
Yup. I had 0 idea how he was going to manage time eater, donu deca on 7hp and the heart... some games I see good players play and go "I kinda would want to be that good" but god damn this run was so damn stressful (plus you need giga brain for it), no thank you, I'd rather watch LOL
This isn't the craziest, even by Baalor. But the fact that it happens high in the winstreak when there are heavy stakes certainly makes it the most agonising to watch.
immediately after winning the run, he usually has a small post-win talk/analysis... in the he claimed straight away that this run did not deserve to win
i think it's poetic that the 6 max HP gained from Darkstone Periapt was necessary to survive the Time Eater fight. not that another relic couldn't have saved more than that much HP
Wow I never realized this. Another thing was the last Biased Cog upgrade. iirc Baalor said looking back that one point of focus allowed him to be block positive during that crucial turn. A lot of small decisions ended up being crucial to the win.
@@GreyWithCreamiumI think he would've been barely block positive without the Biased Cog upgrade. He was at +3 focus on that second-to-last turn, so his Recursion - Coolheaded - Recursion - Skim loop blocked for 16 and cost 12 in beat of death. With one less focus, it would block for 14 and cost 12, which is still block-positive. You can do that a ton of times to get to 100+ block, and then start interspersing the Recursion - Coolheaded - Recursion - Claw - Skim loop, which costs one block and plays a Claw. (Alternately, if you keep compile driver, you can use that in place of Skim in the first loop, and you're doing damage in a block-positive loop.) The harder question is how you do it if you don't get the focus potion, in which case his loop is only block-neutral on that turn. I tried to find a way to squeeze Hologram in this loop in place of Skim sometimes, but that ends up dwindling your hand size a bit. Perhaps a different infinite works in that case, but you'd have to plan everything differently (or maybe you could hold Biased Cog for one turn more without breaking the setup).
@@richardyannow650 Notably however, if he skipped that upgrade and did not get the focus potion, that turn ceases to be block positive. it would be 12 and 12. Man made the correct decision if rng didn't hand him that god potion.
Best run of StS ever. Remember watching this live in awe with the rest of chat, we were all so hyped. "Recursion, coolheaded, recursion, skim" lives on in my memory.
If there was a Slay the Spire University, this run would be taught in the master class. Amazing job staying cool under immense pressure and carefully analyzing the outs.
Yeah I became a huge chess fan about 6 years ago, and their are evergreen games of chess--immortal games--and this for me is absolutely right there with the most brilliant and creative games of chess I've ever seen.
So nice to see all the appreciation for this run in the comments. I straight up think this might have been the greatest single run of slay the spire I've ever seen. I was in awe watching this live.
Amazing! That deck just _scraped_ by. Well done staying so _cool headed_ in that final fight. Just when everything seemed lost, you _skimmed_ your opinions and _clawed_ back victory.
Hands down the most amazing run I've ever witnessed. Sitting at 1,861 hours played myself but certainly no pro, I have little doubt I'd have folded like a cheap suit by mid Act 3 when things started looking very grim indeed. The precision in manipulating the heart fight was awesome to behold. What a truly astounding comeback! EDIT: Ok, well, honorable mention should go to Jorb's insane break-the-spire Silent run, where the poison numbers got so big they led to integer overflows and the heart became immune to poison.
It's funny how Baalorlord had an infinite for the heart for a long time, a weird one, but still. Defend+, Defend+, Recursion (only plasma orb), claw and the recycle he can't get rid of. 16 block per cycle, 3x15 damage incoming from beat of death. Slow but steady infinite damage and block? And thanks to it not using any other orb types it's guaranteed to never get the wrong draw order when shuffling. The infinite Baalorlord found was a lot more fun however :)
@@FreeWillMind Time eater would have a lot of other issues as well, what I meant was only about the Heart, and how he was thinking about what infinite he could do at the end, (act 4 store, act 4 elites).
The chant of "what cards to play in what order" during the Donu & Deca fight just. Both cracks me up and blows my mind. And the precision and focus in the Heart, aaaahhhh. Sheer terror. These were amazing (stressful!) runs to be present for! I earned some Waffles off that bet!
1:30:42 That comeback after a disastrous Time Eater fight was some of the most clutch play I've ever seen. I thought he was dead for sure. Somehow, he managed to find the solution to beat the time slug and then, on 6hp, beat the deca and donut as well. Truly a top-tier performance and one we can all learn from.
Absolutely astounding. So many small decisions turned out to be essential for tipping the scales in this run. Baalor demonstrating legit mastery of StS here.
Amazing run. Even though I knew it was a victory, there were so many times through the last few fights that I felt there was no way. Even if I could have assembled the same deck (which I could not have) there's no way I could have navigated the puzzle of how to play them in a manner that wins. Bravo!
What a run… gotta say, it is especially satisfying to see you work through a very sub-optimal set of boss fights. So many runs, your deck is just so OP…. This one? Every decision mattered.
Absolutely bonkers run man....I would love to see a video on how to achieve these infinite combos for all the classes, could be a nice video idea! Thanks for uploading this gem of a run
Baalorlord, I am impressed by your english. The words you use are beautiful, and the sentences are incredibly smooth. I enjoy watching you slay the spire and I have learn a lot from you!
OMG what a run it was. It just shows that you can get out a lot of situations with proper mindset and preparation. Luck would not be enough especially for last 4 fights. Well Played Sir, Well Played. Astonishing run!
Dear god that was close. This is what separates most of us from the elite of Slay the Spire. Finding that path through all the damage, over the razor's edge, to victory. GG nerds, GG!.
GG indeed! What a run! It got so tense during Time Eater and the Heart, the odds against you, but you manage to find the solution and win! Its amazing how every and each decision was crucial! Congratz!
Takes a pretty good player to see that the Time Eater fight is close to impossible to win and then still putting in the time and effort to actually beat that fight.
The Time Eater fight here is exactly the reason Biased Cognition scares me. I see the benefits in shorter fights, but without Orange Pellets it feels hard to justify it in boss fights.
You can scale your dark orbs really fast then you recursion on them to retain their high damage, a lot better than you'd think and the main reason he was able to kill time eater. The fight you saw was the shorter version of him fighting him lol. He would have either somehow prolonged the fight then died, or just outright died.
Astonishing run. I was a little bored briefly when I thought “oh hell just go infinite and auto win, why are there still 30min left” Oh boy oh boy was I wrong. What a run
Baalor didn't actually need skim, hologram, cool-headed or anything for the infinite. Recursion, claw, recycle loop is block positive (you can't remove recycle) when frost orbs are at 9 from focus (recurses for 12 and -9 from BoD per loop) so the run wasn't over if he accidentally proc'd the plasma orb.
Wrong, the run would be over with your idea because he was losing focus and frost orbs were at 5 from focus on his second to last turn. That's 8-9, meaning he would be losing hp.
Oh my god Act 3 is almost over and there’s AN ENTIRE HOUR MORE? What sorcery is going to happen over these last 4 fights? Frozen Eye coming into play? Can’t wait to find out
Thinking about it, I really don't know if I agree with removing FTL over removing defend+. Having one less card to recycle to hit the unceasing top just seems so much better to me? I feel like he went and recycled defend+ a whole bunch of times immediately afterwards too. Edit: watched through the rest of the run. He did indeed recycle defend a lot, but he also didn't utilise unceasing top all that much. I think I was overvaluing that relic, as it's quite hard to utilise fully without med kit and/or blue candle.
Look at the game before he decided to remove FTL. A majority of the time he was playing enough cards that FTL didn't do anything other than give a very small amount of damage. Recycling defend gives him energy(that extra energy is more useful than 5 damage) and he can sometimes play it for some extra defense(which he did do a few times that really helped him out). Unceasing top takes too long to get into play cleanly, and when you're up against things like the heart and time eater, you need to be playing cards valuable enough to make sure you don't just die because they do damage/start turns based on you playing more cards. So even if you spend time setting up an infinite with unceasing top, it wouldn't necessarily be good enough.
@@XENOX-777 The benefit of FTL wasn't the 5 damage, it was the fact that it doesn't cost anything to play if you have to play it in order to proc unceasing top. You can always choose to recycle FTL if you don't want it and you can just play it a if you don't, but you are always *forced* to recycle defend, which is the difference. Look at 1:27:42, he recycles defend and then time eater immediately ends his turn, so the +1 energy isn't even used. Against the heart he also did not make use of the +1 energy from recycling defend, and he played it on a turn where he was already buffering the hit with excess block for BoD so it added nothing. I understand it's a bit of hindsight analysis to focus too much on these interactions, but imo the extra flexibility offered from not necessarily *needing* to recycle defend is more important than what you're saying.
@@Zxv975 But you're missing the fact that there were tons of times that he did use the one extra energy. If he recycles FTL he gets nothing other than taking it out of the cycle. Also he had an infinite at the end with defend+, defend+, incursion, claw, recycle that was block positive. He just missed it and it was a combo that was a whole lot easier to achieve.
@@XENOX-777 Is that really an infinite? You'd be procing recursion on the fusion orb for +2 energy right? So that'd be 3 defends per 1 recursion on fusion, so that's energy negative isn't it? Or am I missing something?
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This is one of those runs that shows just how incredible the top tier players are. His on-the-fly analysis, creativity in decision making, and discipline in building his deck are truly on another level.
totally agreed. those last boss fights were utterly crazy. Makes you realize how some players are indeed at a complete other level.
He also got a dumpy
@@BigPapiDanimal sauce?
@@BigPapiDanimaltf is a dumpy
Huge if true
this is WITHOUT A DOUBT the craziest heart fight I've ever seen.
Baalor refers to this run in a later stream and said something along the lines of "we didn't deserve to win that one" but he absolutelety did, this run is on a level of play I think Most of us could never achieve.
Yup. I had 0 idea how he was going to manage time eater, donu deca on 7hp and the heart...
some games I see good players play and go "I kinda would want to be that good" but god damn this run was so damn stressful (plus you need giga brain for it), no thank you, I'd rather watch LOL
@@homeyworkey exactly my sentiments
This isn't the craziest, even by Baalor. But the fact that it happens high in the winstreak when there are heavy stakes certainly makes it the most agonising to watch.
Yeah he said something like that in his stream with Jorbs, right?
immediately after winning the run, he usually has a small post-win talk/analysis... in the he claimed straight away that this run did not deserve to win
I love that it all boils down to that transformed claw from floor 0 that you joked about removing
Checkov’s claw lmao
i think it's poetic that the 6 max HP gained from Darkstone Periapt was necessary to survive the Time Eater fight. not that another relic couldn't have saved more than that much HP
Great observation
And it seems like darkstone tipped him deciding to take the curse for the relic, which was the top and very vital
Wow I never realized this. Another thing was the last Biased Cog upgrade. iirc Baalor said looking back that one point of focus allowed him to be block positive during that crucial turn. A lot of small decisions ended up being crucial to the win.
@@GreyWithCreamiumI think he would've been barely block positive without the Biased Cog upgrade. He was at +3 focus on that second-to-last turn, so his Recursion - Coolheaded - Recursion - Skim loop blocked for 16 and cost 12 in beat of death. With one less focus, it would block for 14 and cost 12, which is still block-positive. You can do that a ton of times to get to 100+ block, and then start interspersing the Recursion - Coolheaded - Recursion - Claw - Skim loop, which costs one block and plays a Claw. (Alternately, if you keep compile driver, you can use that in place of Skim in the first loop, and you're doing damage in a block-positive loop.)
The harder question is how you do it if you don't get the focus potion, in which case his loop is only block-neutral on that turn. I tried to find a way to squeeze Hologram in this loop in place of Skim sometimes, but that ends up dwindling your hand size a bit. Perhaps a different infinite works in that case, but you'd have to plan everything differently (or maybe you could hold Biased Cog for one turn more without breaking the setup).
@@richardyannow650 Notably however, if he skipped that upgrade and did not get the focus potion, that turn ceases to be block positive. it would be 12 and 12. Man made the correct decision if rng didn't hand him that god potion.
Best run of StS ever. Remember watching this live in awe with the rest of chat, we were all so hyped. "Recursion, coolheaded, recursion, skim" lives on in my memory.
one of the best StS runs ever, a real nailbiter for everyone watching live at the time.
Big stress energy in Twitch chat at the time! lol
damn, my heart is pumping fast after these last few fights 😅
Wake up babe, new baalorlord vid just dropped
If there was a Slay the Spire University, this run would be taught in the master class. Amazing job staying cool under immense pressure and carefully analyzing the outs.
Yeah I became a huge chess fan about 6 years ago, and their are evergreen games of chess--immortal games--and this for me is absolutely right there with the most brilliant and creative games of chess I've ever seen.
Halfway through that time eater I was blown away by the fact this deck wins… well played
So nice to see all the appreciation for this run in the comments. I straight up think this might have been the greatest single run of slay the spire I've ever seen. I was in awe watching this live.
Amazing! That deck just _scraped_ by. Well done staying so _cool headed_ in that final fight. Just when everything seemed lost, you _skimmed_ your opinions and _clawed_ back victory.
This is StS in its finest. A peak player challenging the game at its peak difficulty while craving his mark in StS history. 👏👏
Hands down the most amazing run I've ever witnessed. Sitting at 1,861 hours played myself but certainly no pro, I have little doubt I'd have folded like a cheap suit by mid Act 3 when things started looking very grim indeed. The precision in manipulating the heart fight was awesome to behold. What a truly astounding comeback!
EDIT: Ok, well, honorable mention should go to Jorb's insane break-the-spire Silent run, where the poison numbers got so big they led to integer overflows and the heart became immune to poison.
It's funny how Baalorlord had an infinite for the heart for a long time, a weird one, but still.
Defend+, Defend+, Recursion (only plasma orb), claw and the recycle he can't get rid of. 16 block per cycle, 3x15 damage incoming from beat of death. Slow but steady infinite damage and block? And thanks to it not using any other orb types it's guaranteed to never get the wrong draw order when shuffling.
The infinite Baalorlord found was a lot more fun however :)
Wow. You are right. Its hard to know this infinite since its very rare to consider unceasing top in an infinite.
Probably wouldn't work on the Time Eater Fight due to Slime blocking Unceasing Top
@@FreeWillMind Time eater would have a lot of other issues as well, what I meant was only about the Heart, and how he was thinking about what infinite he could do at the end, (act 4 store, act 4 elites).
How would he get rid of the frost orbs though? Unless he didn't play them earlier, but seemed like he needed them.
@@DrPizzazz Dualcast gets rid of them nicely
2:12:13 That's the first time I've heard Baalorlord curse
The chant of "what cards to play in what order" during the Donu & Deca fight just. Both cracks me up and blows my mind. And the precision and focus in the Heart, aaaahhhh. Sheer terror. These were amazing (stressful!) runs to be present for! I earned some Waffles off that bet!
This had all the plot, narrative arc, tension, and pay-off of a TV drama. Completely hooked from start to finish. Incredible stuff!
both the time eater and heart fights are wild. I can see myself giving up thinking at turn 3
1:30:42 That comeback after a disastrous Time Eater fight was some of the most clutch play I've ever seen. I thought he was dead for sure. Somehow, he managed to find the solution to beat the time slug and then, on 6hp, beat the deca and donut as well. Truly a top-tier performance and one we can all learn from.
Absolutely astounding. So many small decisions turned out to be essential for tipping the scales in this run. Baalor demonstrating legit mastery of StS here.
Possibly the greatest claw run in Slay the Spire history.
Was excited to see this run after hearing you talk about it with jorbs. That was an intense heart fight; not to mention the time eater fight too.
Amazing run. Even though I knew it was a victory, there were so many times through the last few fights that I felt there was no way. Even if I could have assembled the same deck (which I could not have) there's no way I could have navigated the puzzle of how to play them in a manner that wins. Bravo!
What a run… gotta say, it is especially satisfying to see you work through a very sub-optimal set of boss fights.
So many runs, your deck is just so OP…. This one? Every decision mattered.
Absolutely bonkers run man....I would love to see a video on how to achieve these infinite combos for all the classes, could be a nice video idea! Thanks for uploading this gem of a run
Baalorlord, I am impressed by your english. The words you use are beautiful, and the sentences are incredibly smooth. I enjoy watching you slay the spire and I have learn a lot from you!
I cried literal tears of joy when you got claw right away! Claw is law!!!!!!!!
When youre only half way through the video at the end of act 3, you know youre in for a treat
I watched this one live and again on here and this may very well be the best StS run I've ever seen. Incredible.
OMG what a run it was. It just shows that you can get out a lot of situations with proper mindset and preparation. Luck would not be enough especially for last 4 fights.
Well Played Sir, Well Played. Astonishing run!
The depth of this game is incredible. It's one of my favourites in the 35 years I've been playing video games.
Never been more blown away with a run. At such a high streak count, it's even more impressive
Winning with claw as the only damage. Reddit approved claw is law
What do you call six germans sharing a drink? A Hexaprost!
The skill. the seasonedness of the player. Baylor continues to inspire with the skills to overcome in his runs. crazy just crazy
Dear god that was close. This is what separates most of us from the elite of Slay the Spire. Finding that path through all the damage, over the razor's edge, to victory. GG nerds, GG!.
Such an incredible run. Amazing play, Baalor!
Phenomenal run. I knew how it came out and I was still on the edge of my seat the whole time.
So many tight finishes, it's amazing how well you do with your back against the wall!
Such great content, you had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. A run for the history books, legendary.
I loved the bit where you said that claw wouldn’t be a source of damage!
What a run! Thanks for all the content. Just recently getting into the game and your channel is both an excellent and entertaining resource. Much love
GG indeed! What a run!
It got so tense during Time Eater and the Heart, the odds against you, but you manage to find the solution and win!
Its amazing how every and each decision was crucial! Congratz!
Baalor did THAT while on a streak? Holy…
Takes a pretty good player to see that the Time Eater fight is close to impossible to win and then still putting in the time and effort to actually beat that fight.
Incredible that you had THIS RUN at THIS TIME.
Amazing. Bravo.
I totally would not be able to skip that med kit like that. I love that card way too much
It's either completely necessary for what you're doing or nearly useless.
That being said, I'll take it every time it looks even slightly useful.
Best run of StS I've ever seen. Very well played 👏
Recursion Coolheaded Recursion Skim Recursion Coolheaded Recursion Skim
More beautiful words have never been spoken
best run so far amongst hundred runs i've seen for you , just crazy
The Time Eater fight here is exactly the reason Biased Cognition scares me. I see the benefits in shorter fights, but without Orange Pellets it feels hard to justify it in boss fights.
You can scale your dark orbs really fast then you recursion on them to retain their high damage, a lot better than you'd think and the main reason he was able to kill time eater. The fight you saw was the shorter version of him fighting him lol. He would have either somehow prolonged the fight then died, or just outright died.
CLAW IS LAW
Glad I watched this, what a incredible display of mental fortitude.
Astonishing run. I was a little bored briefly when I thought “oh hell just go infinite and auto win, why are there still 30min left”
Oh boy oh boy was I wrong. What a run
This run is the Slay the Spire equivalent of Walt defeating Gus in Breaking Bad.
last chance to look at me, mr. heart
I'm only like 6 minutes in, but this already looks like "Claw is Law" manifest
This is the best run I've ever seen, amazing
2:24:00 When he's doing the infinite here just for block, Skim only draws two cards. He could have kept Compile Driver and been dealing damage.
This is truly your immortal run
best one ever... happy to catch live
I'll never pilot a deck like that, what a run
1:47:11 Minecraft Villager spotted
What... a... run... that was craaaazy!
Baalor didn't actually need skim, hologram, cool-headed or anything for the infinite. Recursion, claw, recycle loop is block positive (you can't remove recycle) when frost orbs are at 9 from focus (recurses for 12 and -9 from BoD per loop) so the run wasn't over if he accidentally proc'd the plasma orb.
Wrong, the run would be over with your idea because he was losing focus and frost orbs were at 5 from focus on his second to last turn. That's 8-9, meaning he would be losing hp.
Congratulation champ. I've heard there is now a picture of you on the "grit" page of the wikitionnaire.
This run defines you as the BEST STS player imo!!!
Easily the craziest win I've ever seen
INCREDIBLE HEART FIGHT
Does anyone have a link to the original stream?
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@@Baalorlord amazing, thank you. i needed the post-game commentary on that
Truly incredible gaming. What a rollercoaster. G
That act 2 boss music do be bopping tho.
Remeber him thinking take or not this plasma orb? .... Game savier
Jesus Christ this run is LEGENDARY
incredible gameplay, I have no idea how you pulled this one out gg
Oh my god Act 3 is almost over and there’s AN ENTIRE HOUR MORE? What sorcery is going to happen over these last 4 fights? Frozen Eye coming into play? Can’t wait to find out
This run truly proves that claw is the greatest card of all time
Hello TH-cam! 1:44:00
Dude that was insane
Thinking about it, I really don't know if I agree with removing FTL over removing defend+. Having one less card to recycle to hit the unceasing top just seems so much better to me? I feel like he went and recycled defend+ a whole bunch of times immediately afterwards too.
Edit: watched through the rest of the run. He did indeed recycle defend a lot, but he also didn't utilise unceasing top all that much. I think I was overvaluing that relic, as it's quite hard to utilise fully without med kit and/or blue candle.
Look at the game before he decided to remove FTL. A majority of the time he was playing enough cards that FTL didn't do anything other than give a very small amount of damage. Recycling defend gives him energy(that extra energy is more useful than 5 damage) and he can sometimes play it for some extra defense(which he did do a few times that really helped him out).
Unceasing top takes too long to get into play cleanly, and when you're up against things like the heart and time eater, you need to be playing cards valuable enough to make sure you don't just die because they do damage/start turns based on you playing more cards. So even if you spend time setting up an infinite with unceasing top, it wouldn't necessarily be good enough.
@@XENOX-777 The benefit of FTL wasn't the 5 damage, it was the fact that it doesn't cost anything to play if you have to play it in order to proc unceasing top. You can always choose to recycle FTL if you don't want it and you can just play it a if you don't, but you are always *forced* to recycle defend, which is the difference.
Look at 1:27:42, he recycles defend and then time eater immediately ends his turn, so the +1 energy isn't even used. Against the heart he also did not make use of the +1 energy from recycling defend, and he played it on a turn where he was already buffering the hit with excess block for BoD so it added nothing. I understand it's a bit of hindsight analysis to focus too much on these interactions, but imo the extra flexibility offered from not necessarily *needing* to recycle defend is more important than what you're saying.
@@Zxv975 But you're missing the fact that there were tons of times that he did use the one extra energy. If he recycles FTL he gets nothing other than taking it out of the cycle.
Also he had an infinite at the end with defend+, defend+, incursion, claw, recycle that was block positive. He just missed it and it was a combo that was a whole lot easier to achieve.
@@XENOX-777 Is that really an infinite? You'd be procing recursion on the fusion orb for +2 energy right? So that'd be 3 defends per 1 recursion on fusion, so that's energy negative isn't it? Or am I missing something?
@@Zxv975 two defends, not 3 defends.
Baalor, when can we see an events explained vid?
holy that was awesome
One of the most utterly filthy displays of sts play ive ever seen
Would have thrown this run on Time Eater let alone Heart. Just WOW! GG!!
Incredible run
u might want to take down guiness logo; they will strike the video.
what are cullalass cards?
Colorless cards
this is the most unlikely A20 victory I've seen. what a run
Damn, this was one was intense
amazing survival instincts
amazing how you were able to do so much with a single plasma orb and recursion
no gg for that time eater fight
?
@@phillystevesteak6982 he lost 77 health and used two potions. usually says "gg" after killing a boss but not that one
@@soxandbears oh i see now
Can this guy do audio books?
This was bonkers
If you put claw on the thumbnail I have to click. Claw is the law!
What a psycho run
INCREDIBLE
That was chinny-chin-chin x100
デフラグ・コンデンサ0で心臓倒せるとは思わなかった。素晴らしいプレイだった。
A reminder that Claw.
Is Law.
What was Baalors best streak before this one?
I think 12 or 13
I believe he hit around 17 or so
@@NoMrSupermanNo don't think it could have been 17. Jorbs got the record of 17 shortly before baalor got this record 20 run
@@Daryl_Sweet you are right. I remember watching the video of baalor and jorbs talking about it. Thats why I mixed the numbers up