Having text on screen that provides related but very different commentary to what's being narrated is a galaxy brain strategy to get me to watch your videos multiple times. I have to watch it once for the memes, then again for the actual content. Then again because I enjoyed the first two so much. Top marks.
I was enjoying a drink while watching this video, and then you said, "Also, builder is here". Now there's cold beer all over my laptop screen, you evil man. To Lizard hell with you!
As with so many things, Adset really does help the faction. Having that much better of a chance to start with something useful to craft in the opening hand, especially a card that grants you a better option to interact on the board than "hope the lost souls goes your way", and knowing when NOT to play them in a given matchup means when you do play Lizards, you're in a better position to pull a win.
I watched all your faction guides and I just wanted to say Thank You and Good Job!! Absolutely love your editing, I laughed a lot while learning a lot! This is certainly the best kind of information to learn all factions. I highly enjoyed all the hours I passed in front of your videos :D
These are the best guides to root i have ever seen. The pruduction quality is insane for how many subs you have. Keep going, i am very exited for more.
holy moly the lisp adds so much, so glad i discovered this channel i know it must've been a pain to record all the voicelines with a lisp but know it was heavily appreciated
I have watched this video 3-4 times while drifting to sleep and failed to retain any information on how to play them. I played my first lizard game and WON. I simply absorbed the information from the video directly into my brain.
Dude your edditing is gittin gud! Love your humouristic style, yet full of details and insight. I consider to be a veterant player, but still learned couple of small tweeks here. I think lizards are one of the hardest to play, but definitively my favorite faction, for no reason other than i like them! Thanks for the video, looking forward for more and hoping playing against you on an async game :)
@@Nevakanezah_ Yeah I totally understand! Async is particularly painfull when people leave in the middle of a game. But I have to admit, with work and a baby to take care of, async give more control :P
19:01 I’ll have you know that I personally love the length of video because it strikes just the right balance between keeping pace while also giving me the information I need to know, and manages to be entertaining the entire time!
I played my third lizards game of all time after watching this video. I spent the entire game ahead of everyone else, and despite the rats efforts, I managed to clutch the win because no one else could score. Just as God intended.
I’m glad too; my lizard gameplay was terrible before lol. Actually, out of curiosity, have you decided what faction you’re going to make a guide over next? Also do you have a patreon or something because I would gladly help fund it
@@pongwong5463 i had a poll a while back, people seemed to very much want things chronological. As for patreon - havent thought much about it yet; id have to figure out what i could offer to make it worthwhile
Ah, that is good news indeed! The otters are probably the faction I understand the least of so that is definitely something to look forward to. As for the patreon, that’s fair enough. The only thing I can think of that you could have would be merch, which wouldn’t necessarily be enough to justify a patreon. I’d still probably buy merch though, you’ve got the sort of art style that you could kinda wear anywhere.
I am training myself on Root Digital to win with Lizards (and everyone really) on standard setup with base deck, just so that I don't have to always rely on adset and partisans. I've been doing fairly well, but I'm also not comfortable going past Easy AI yet. However, Lizards were the first faction I played the one intro game I played years ago, and while I lost spectacularly their playstyle and vibes really felt cool to me. What I'm finding out the more I practice on Digital is that I tend to favor the Insurgent factions - while I have so far won at least once with the original six except for Otters, I tend to get consistently closest playing Lizards, WA, and Vagabond. And I only played one game as Otters so far and am about to try them again using *your* guide (this is also why I can't wait to afford Underground and try the Crows out)
To me insurgents feel a bit more creative, allowing you to try a more freeform approach. Militants are of course more tactical; very rewarding when your plans succeed, but rigid in their options.
0:40 OK i am genuinley confused... why are these the only "good ones", what does he mean by "Good", and why are the WA VB Keepers and Moles considered "Not Good". I am actually confused, please explain someone
Lizards are OP, I dominated my first game playing as them... against 2 first time players, and misreading their rules to the point of agregiously cheating... So just do that
Kind of funny how the lizards hate the birds and the birds kind of counter the lizards pretty hard. They can take your dom cards and lock them away in the decree. They can build a huge army and wipe out your gardens. They often actually BENEFIT if you turn their roosts into gardens as now they can place another roost without turmoiling and if they have despot they get 2 VP for free.
24:11 did you run out of "pot of greed" cards to sneak in or why else did you use the "tower" tarot card there (btw, try sneaking in a Magic the Gathering card in there for once. It's the oldest and (aside from a lot of stuff happening nowadays thanks to hasbro) best tcg).
Ahahah oh man I remember a digital game where I was Lizards, and got into a sanctify-revolt cycle slapfight with WA. Birds imperialized their way over both of us
*rewatches the intro* Hold up, wasn’t Patrick involved in making the crows and warlord and not involved in making the cats, birds, or either riverfolk faction?
11:43 Which are the "blue circles"? They all look red to me... (Edit: Are they the two central western ruin clearings, one above the other? Excluding the river, they actually block off a total of *five* western clearings, including themselves.)
I stumbled upon this video in my recommended list and clicked it without any expectations. It turned out to be the best Root video I have ever seen. The video has everything from humor, dynamics, editing, tips, tables, and statistics - all of which are just unbelievably amazing! I am very grateful for this content and will definitely share it with my friends. Please keep up the good work! By the way, how should your nickname be pronounced?
Glad you enjoyed it! I tend to pronounce it with soft e's and a's. Neva (like "never") Ka ("car", no r) Nezz-uh (cant think of an analogue) I read it aloud at the start of most videos, also
Damnit, I thought I had corrected that before publication. ...Also "1/3" instead of "1.3." The "Blue" circles are the two clearings just west of the pass.
Any clearing! You only need the outcast suit for abilities printed on the faction board, hence why EE is so nice. You do still have to adhere to things like Rule, though.
this video makes me hate the lizards even more. knowing there is actually a way to win with them after all makes getting my sawmills pointlessly sanctified out from under me with a single ritual lizard to defend it even more annoying. Turns out "be annoying and end the game with 2vp but make it last 3 turns longer" isn't all they can do!
Yeah, there's part of me that wishes Digital's sanc-heavy meta actually paid off, but sadly it's self-defeating. If you like, my recent "grudge match" video has me playing lizards, and it's not a bad showcase of what they can manage with some reasonable RNG
They should get rid of Dominance and Dominance swaps, which is unintuitive and silly, and give the lizards crafting without needing outcast in exchange.
One of the most common complaints that new players bring into the Root community is that Lizards are very overpowered. The rote response the community will provide them is: "Are you allowing lizards to craft regardless of outcast?"
To be honest, I don't care what the balancing thing is, I just don't like Dom swapping. I would also put the calculations for Outcast at the end of Lizard's turn so they could spend the time between turns planning what they're going to do. Are these good changes? I have no idea. But they feel good.
Fantastic vid but could you perhaps turn the music off or at least make it way more quiet, it's annoying and it's fighting your voice. Doesn't really add anything just makes us understand less.. 😢
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