Can You Beat Inscryption Without Taking Damageish? 

Imagine losing your challenge run because someone shoots you IRL

"I like to stop around 65-70" a very good damage range

The semantics are all correct! A scale system means that when he "deals" damage to you its actually more akin to him healing health. Shared health pool mechanics are neat

Actually CRIED with laughter at the "NOW I took damage." at the end 🤣 *Yeah actually that video is a **_quick time event_** and you're actually supposed to-*

Me: **sees Urayuli with an airborne sigil** Also me: *”THE FLYING UYARULI”*

It’s really nice to see more and more Inscryption content even after a year of it being around. Props to you on the challenge and its completion. Was really fun to watch

Turns out that against Magnificus, the only way to win is not to play.

The card drawing system is actually the same in all acts, it tries to give you a free card, a few random ones, and then the last one is meant to be a card that is playable this turn, unless you already have one in your hand. (which is why draugr was valid) Bones are dependent on how many free brittle cards you have (skeletons), and iirc energy is 1-2 energy cost cards. I think mox doesn't care about the color, as long as the card is a gem, but I could be wrong about that. Blood gives you a card with a cost equal to or less than the number of free cards you have in your hand, so a hand starting with 3 free cards would mean you could play a bear. (since the starting draw could only ever draw 3 squirrels, urayuli will never be valid)

"I like to stop between 65 and 70" *Has 69 attack* Man had to do it, legend

I think the reason the magic eye doesn't spawn until you lose after the first run is because of the scene where you use the camera from the ground, which wouldn't work if you already have the film. I actually won a few runs before losing and unlocking the eye, so Magnificus actually appeared to give me the hint to use the dagger (I assume it counts the number of runs since you got the dagger) even though that didn't work until just before he gave me the hint

it is possible to deal enough damage to Leshy during the first scripted loss, but if you do, it will just summon more bears

You know. It probably should have been obvious Magnificus' final battle would be time based but that genuinely never occurred to me. Also I audibly gasped with delight when I realized you brought the Lonely Wizard into your deck. Our boy needs that good S T I M U L A T I O N

I'm pretty sure you can still pass the phase where it's "too fast too soon"

I’ve always known that you can beat the scripted losses, but I never knew Leshy’s eyes stayed red. You learn something new every day!

Wow, you really went deep and used all the mechanics to your advantage! I really wasnt expecting such a professional run with such great planning. Great job.

Yeah eh honestly I had no clue what was happening because I closed my eyes and said "lalalalalalala" during the entire video but it's a Barely Alec video so I'm just gonna trust that it's great!

Yo! I was not expecting this challenge, but I am so here for it! Love this game and love seeing you doing a challenge run of it! Hype!

Was a grand display to watch live, thanks for all the wonderful entertainment you give

I just recently finished Inscryption, so seeing your run was a fun coincidence for me lol. It was super cool to see this challenge pan out :)

Wow!! I'm shocked this doesn't have more views. A really cool challenge run on a great game, and it was very artfully explained. 😄

I knew the fabled “Flying Urayuli” was going to be needed

When you got shot you tipped right. I think that counts as safe in your damishless run. 😁

18:15 "Right off the bat we got bad RNG. The magician is way cooler." When you said the first sentence I was literally thinking the second! Honestly worst RNG-controlled aspect of the game.

Holy shit this video is so underrated The humor is solid, the editing is fantastic, the pacing is great: this is everything I'd want from a challenge run! Props to you my good sir!

speedrunner who's only just started the video here: my first thoughts are with the start of act 3, there's a few fights you need to take damage on round one. I'm thinking that will be a major roadblock. after that it should be easy. act 1 would be tough judging from the fact you would have to do moon% two times but my guess is that it isn't possible without going below 5hp at all edit: watched it all now the way you played act 1 was very interesting and impressive. act 3 was played very smart, I never even thought about going up first, I had just thought that the first few fights always went down in eastern botopia. congratulations, you have earned a sub

The mechanic he is always talking about just makes it so you can always play a card on your first turn, which is really useful for Kaycee's mod when choosing the goat deck

I LOVE INSCRIPTION. I am so happy that you made a challenge for this beautiful game!!

I watched one stream and it was great! Thanks for making this!

just played through inscryption + kaycees mod recently and this was sick to watch after :) nice video as always, the work you've been putting into your channel is very clear!

This is the first ever Inscryption video I’ve ever seen so I have no idea what’s going on, but I’m enjoying it

Inscryption is one of my favorite games! Love to see a challenge for it!

38:52 gotta love alec's humour :')

Yoooooo another video!!!🥳Really love your vids! Pls keep making these!😊

Wow finally 😂😂 I was waiting for this my whole life so awesome video and inscription is my favorite game :)

best advice i have for anyone wanting to do this run themselves: in Act 3, a sigil combo of Guardian, Sentry, Touch of Death is virtually unbeatable by anything P03 throws at you. the Sentry will always immediately move into place whenever P03 summons something, trigger Sentry to attack it immediately, and always be guaranteed to 1-shot it (except Shield Bots) due to Touch of Death. this also works against Bounty Hunters, and it doesnt matter how much health it has, as long as it doesnt have Nanoshield (which i dont remember if they even can have). this combo will essentially make it almost impossible for P03 to ever do damage to you once you get it. and if you put Unkillable in this combo as well, you can just resummon the card whenever it dies. I suggest putting this combo on a Sentry Drone, as it is only 1 energy. You can _also_ Gemify on your Sentry and it will make your Sentry be summoned for free as well (when you have blue gems). some other combos i suggest playing around with: 1. Touch of Death and Bifurcated Strike on Snipers. 2. Burrower, Sharp Quills, and/or Nano Armor on Leap Bots. 3. Brittle Latch or Nano Shield Latch on cards with 1 HP and 1 cost, optionally also Gemify to make this card free, and dont give them Nano Shield. For these 2, there's really a lot of potential Sigils in various combos you could substitute with Brittle/Shield latch, these two are deceptively quite strong (especially Brittle Latch).

Decent run video! Thanks for uploading!

Glad I'm getting recommended this one year later.

It's not really universal in card games that your deck will be more consistent the less cards you have. It works well in this one since it doesn't have cards that need to be in the deck to work, but not in every card game. It's just that less cards increases your chances of drawing specific cards. So in games where you can add more and more cards that do similar things, while having cards in your deck that you absolutely need to not draw because they only function from, or function best in the deck, adding more cards (that you want to draw) can actually increase a deck's consistency by increasing the proportion of cards that you want to draw vs cards that you don't.

I like this concept of challenge, its clearly explained and not clickbait/literally impossible so feel like an enjoyable watch (love the drawings btw!)

I love this game, I haven’t played it or seen anyone play it in like a year soon but it will always be a good game.

"damageish" is my favorite thing I think

Using pliars to pull one of your teeth in a 'no damage run' is a delightful level of semantics

Completing this challenge must've been hell. Glad you did it though.

as soon as I saw the Urayuli with the flying sygil, I think we all know what I thought next

Great video! My only problem with this run is you waited out Leshy. I love when the scale disappears and the two of you decide to not keep score and keep playing.

Great, I love these challenge runs

Oh my god this is amazing really good inscription run

This guy makes amazing pikmin and inscryption content this is peak

Out here making Cleveland Show references in 2022. My man. 🤝

A good Idea for this game, well done!

I love how Luke getting shot at the end of the game is framed as "unavoidable damage."

Feels like the video ended twice that’s how good it was!

Damageish just sounds so stupid and I LOVE IT

hope to see more of my favorite side character in the future

"or just close your eyes and say LALALALALA for 30 minutes." The challenge hasn't even started and I can already like and sub. Keep up the level of comedy!

I am sad I haven't seen this sooner. I love Inscryption and have thought about if this was possible I just didn't know a mad man would do it!!!!

That semantics joke had me laughing so hard oooOOOooOooOo SEMANTICS

I love this game, enjoyed the video and challenge!!! I wish I could play the game blind agian, it's so good!!

Seeing Leshy always having red eyes makes me think that hes angry about that.

3:17 The Stoat is having a party! No seriously they only get angry if you sacrifice them during a game, this prevents them from getting sacrificed but you can still use them to get in

This was very entertaining to watch

him just waiting on the final fight is fucking hillarious

Huh. I don't remember the pink moon board. But it's been a while since I played though the main game instead of playing Kaycee's Mod. Thanks for the video.

Small tip! When I was power leveling my ouro in act 2 I did a similar thing except I added 2 necromancers so that everytime I hammered my ouro it would die 3 times and give me even more ouroboroses

I was hoping you would make the joke I thought you would at the game's ending and you did not disappoint Took damage, run's over

Great video! At least I think so, I couldn't see or hear most of it

interesting fact about the first scripted loss: since it's meant to unlock the candles, it's the only fight in the game where if you somehow get past the bears, leshy will summon more bears

avg challenge run: "can you beat game without doing thing" Procceds to do thing*

Persoanly i would say magnifies fight theres no scale technically sinxe they are numbers not a scale but didnt know a couple things so i now know some bew things thanks for some new infomation :)

you can avoid getting shot irl by using the phone to call the police. or alternatively buying the illegal pistol from the same place to buy the floppy disc reader.

Such a good video.

24:12 I didn't enjoy all the jokes in this video, but that one had some great subtlety while also being childish af. Loved it

I don't know what came over you to attempt this. IT'S WHAT CAME OVER ME, THE FLYING URAY-

great video! well edited, probably took you hours

I loved incryption. It only took me around 100 tries to even win act 1💀

I remember when I beat the first run in one try, it feels very good

I like to pick up the Oroborus from the glitch clock, its super handy as an emergency win button

37:00 A Very broken combo on this boss is make his first turn summon leap bots everytime a card dies, then on the second phase make it so the cards take 1 damage every single time a card die if you do this correctly, sacrificing one single leap bot, will trigger on death of everthing, then they will respawn, and die, respawn and die, after like 6 or 7 times of the same loop, p03 will get enough of this and disable the first rule you did.

I swear to god my dyslexic ass thought the title was can you beat inscryption without taking Bangladesh and I was like yeah probably

amazing video

I thought you were doing endless not story I’m very impressed

Never even thought of this game being challenge runned Color me interested

I swear i beat this entire game but I had no idea what a boon was until now, or the lucky clover, or that dark room in act 2, or that bomb detonator thing in act 3

the candle-introducing battle still tips your scale to the left

this is awesome, more inscryption challenge runs please! edit: spelling

With regards to the candle tutorial, speed runners figured that out a while ago, you can win that one

Does anybody else just hear "FLYING URAYULI" whenever the name is said?

Bro tried sneaking in a Cleveland Show reference at 22:19

Can you do the mario kingdom rabbits thing again? The new type

Barley Alec when he sees the tipped scales challenge in kaycee’s mod

Are we not gonna talk about in how he PASSED THE BEAR WALL?!?!?

Wow, pal. That was hella impressive, for sure. Have you ever been close to getting hit in Act 2, I wonder?

leshys fight is still the most depressing out of the final

Nice video

Honestly have no idea what’s going on but the game seems interesting! Watched it ‘cause you know, it’s a Barely Alec video :> I’d watch the Mario Rabbids streams but I’m pretty busy ^^’ I’ll try my best though!!

18:15 "right off the bat we got bad rng - the magician is way cooler" LMAOOO true

Never have I ever heard of the Archivist being called the final boss in act 3

went on 4 whole runs without dying than... I died twice by accident I was aiming to win the whole time and I was suprise to get what feels like a rare cutscene, Magnificus painting...when I got it I still didn't get his eye I was just in shock. I always had trouble at the trapper but you just gave me the best advice ever I always saw the elk and mouse as useless cards... now I know they are useful against the trapper. other wise they're kinda meh, not bad but too expensive to justify useing them in something like this.

I can't believe you didn't take orobot I am both screaming and crying.

You know, I don't even play card games and yet I wish Inscryption was its own actual card game.