Put this run in a museum (Slay The Spire) 

Not now babe, NL just dropped a new Slay the Spire YT vid and judging by the title alone this one's going to be epic.

Showing up to my marriage: 👕👖 Showing up to new NL STS: 🎩👔

"What is he doing?" "He is beginning to believe."

"I'm guilty in Slay the Spire of essentially I would say tunnel-visioning on the most recent piece of advice I received" Every game, NL. That's... why we're here

He really teases the A20 with the twitch run and then drops this bomb on us the next day. What a pog champion

This looks like it will be an awesome run. One thing I want to say about that intro is: don't be afraid to throw a Hail Mary and replace your starting relic if you do not like your normal options. I have won multiple runs relying on Runic Pyramid of all things, because it makes it so much easier to set up those big Wrath/Divinity turns as the Watcher. Worst comes to worst you lose the run early and get three free combats which could be better than your other options anyway.

I feel like the the oscillating issue Ryan has with the watcher is a result of the way her cards all work. On any given run you either just have an incredibly powerful set of disparate cards or you don’t and there isn’t a need to worry about a cohesive deck in the same way you would for the other three cause you just power through and destroy. You’re left dying to a bad draw and not being taught what was the issue with the deck.

The deck really just feels like an upgraded base watcher deck. No special synergies, no fancy stance dancing, no a million attack with talk to the hand, just really straight forward solid basic one card one effect stuff. Well, and of course 2x vault, scrawl, gambling chip, act 1 molten egg, act 1 lesson learned...

When bae says she wants to go out to eat but NL is crushing it in Slay the Spire

Ascension 19 down! My prostrate swells in anticipation for that A20 victory.

The final lesson learned proc was him not opening the chest!

You know the runs gonna be good when the title is THAT spicy

The audible pog I released when he didn't open the chest

I know you said you think this was a lucky run, but I don’t think it was luck that got you this win. You did get a bit of luck with your rare cards and some relics. Your Vaults and Gambling Chip allowed you to curate your hands so you didn’t get a bad hand. Vault also allowed you have set up turns where you could play powers or add Safety’s to your hand OR have an overly aggressive series of Wrath turns in a row knowing the enemies cant hit you back. Obviously that played a big part in why you won, but notice how easily you destroyed the last boss despite Gambling Chip only affecting your first turn and both Vaults being LONG GONE from the deck? I think what helped you the most this run was taking the inverse style of cards that your normally take. What I mean is that is you look at the issue the Watcher has (how do I make sure I’m in the right stance on the right turns?) and your solution normally has been to take the cards that retain and enter stances then exhaust while not taking too many other retain cards so you don’t clog your hands up. Not only that, but those stance cards exhaust meaning you’d normally take multiple copies of each. That ends up giving you turns where you’d draw bad hands full of cards that don’t do anything aside from entering a stance. This time you took Battle Hymn and Deceive Reality so your hand would contain attacks and defends that retain, while also not taking any of those stance cards that exhaust. You pretty much always drew a playable hand. Every stance change card you had in your deck did something other than change stances and exhaust, and you just waited for the right stance to unload all your retained Smites. I think this is definitely the way you want to build this character. You didn’t get lucky, you constructed the most pogged Watcher deck.

Now that run was just like the ocean under the moon

Just blazing through A19 with the Molten Egg. How fitting.

Hey NL, this was an absolute banger of a run, neatly showcasing what makes the watcher fun. I have also noticed that you seem to somewhat undervalue strength gain on the watcher. Whenever you enter wrath all damage is doubled which essentialy doubles any strength buffs you have. At a low count it understandably does not make much of a difference, but once you hit +3-4 strength even the weakest attacks are suddenly hitting like an upgraded strike. But hey, your run, your rules. This has been my TeD talk thanks for reading.

NL sure learned his lesson from the previous runs.

8 energy and wish is too expensive. Lovin the spire content, keep it up

NL, just a reminder that wish can also be played for gold. I would argue gold gain is the intended use for wish during floor fights (coupled with omniscience its worth a LOT of gold, easily a couple of relics worth). Please don't view it as just "plated armor for 3 energy".

I'm gonna be honest here, I think this is definitely one of the better "performances" by NL, if not the best. He didn't overthink it, he picked some cards he doesn't always respect and he really looked at the run as a whole. And for me personally, I gotta say, I kinda yearned for a run that wasn't empty fist, empty mind into empty my soul. Well done Ryan, very well played.

Ever since you started the A20 grind for watcher I've been trying to keep up, was a pretty cool experience competing haha, glad to say today I've managed to complete A20! Keep going nl you got this :)))

Pogging up for this run! I believe in you NL

That 1 damage you took in the last fight hurt me deeply:(

That one damage when you had a defend in the final fight :(

Nice storage space flex at the beginning

Give me your heart, make it real or else forget about it.

If 15/20 is halfway there, then 20/20 is two thirds of the way there.

Amazing run NL, very good job maaan

HE'S DONE IT HE'S COMPLETED THE FIGURE OUT WALLOP IS A GOOD CARD CHALLENGE

I think the tantrum would've been nice another way to enter eruption

Gambling Chip OP. Legit OP. Limit it to two cards, and it'd still be incredible. With a thin deck, you can basically draw whatever you want on turn 1. With a thick deck, you can have poor construction, poor luck, and still squeak by. In a deck that relies on set-up you get punished way less for not having high stall potential. It's just super fucking good. I could maybe be convinced it's not the GOAT, but it's definitely gotta be top 5, and in my mind, it's in direct contention with boss relics.

This episode reminds me of infinity war

If not on the lookout for backseating skip When you have Lesson Learned, floor fights have increased values over events. (similar to other "snowball when killing creature" other attacks).

What a gangster move

i’d say that sash whip is an unsung hero on that last fight the weakness did a lot of work

He do be getting there

NO UMBRELLAS ALLOWED. NOITA. (great run btw)

NL really Learnt all his Lessons in this one huh

Unrelated to the video but does anyone have any information regarding NL drip availability/ what the prices usually look like (with/without transport for EU people)

I was losing my mind at him not taking tantrum or crescendo and literally only having one way to enter wrath I'm so glad he beat that last fight but it would've absolutely been 5 minutes faster if he had literally just a crescendo

Incredible run, really good!

Masterful. Looking forward to the A20 win!

The slavers fight was so fun!

poggy run

He took foresight! Pog

Love these vids man

pogged and Gourded

Oh no. Who wants to tell him that Lesson Learned works on the minions too :)

that was indeed spicy run

AMAZING RUN

That was a joy to watch

That was a joy to watch!

1497 on A19. Color me impressed!

Hello of a run. Well done, eggdaddy

this is a run for the history books

Well played!

Believe in the Eggman power

I came, I saw, I pogged

love these

Awesome!

Good plays NL!

NL fishing for lesson learned is comparable to Dan playing Isaac

Nice hard drive space flex

S... So strong...

Devotion is pretty good with vault

I'm sure he knows this, but you can ancient potion with the flex potion to get a 5 strength boost for the entire fight since the artifact negates the strength down end of turn. Just putting that out there for anyone else that hadn't realized that.

pog size: large

7:50 soooo many missed lethals

TIL the Powerlord doesn't gain strength from powers in phase two.

its less that we are more able to play it

very nice

Man remember when Egg said Lesson Learned was bad?

Sir I have to say: you have a nice deck 😏

lots of scry + lots of draw 🥵

6:50 do the math!

2.7 terabytes oh no need to brag now

Hi NL I woke up early just to ask if I can please get just one “trade offer” in a future video, for ‘ol times sake.

gret job

So now that we've reached Ascension 20 are we going for a heart kill?

EGG

I clicked on this thinking it’s WarioWare. Not disappointed tho

why does he never go for the heart?

Pog

gg

Incredible run, just incredible Wish is an incredible card btw. Can this be the most recent comment you pay attention to plz?

Nl turned into those really annoying JRPG bosses that simply tank all damage while dealing homeopathic damage that will surely kill your entire party but in a very maddening way. Well done.

50 minutes. Must be two speed runs

Next The Defect ascension streak pls?

I know this question has probably been asked a million times but I can't find where someone has asked on a recent episode but, does anyone know why the key pieces to reach the heart aren't available to him on a his runs?

Is it my RU-vid or this recording has a lot f dropped frames?

Day 35 of working out to northernlion slay the spire

northern lion i swear if you don’t play that pawnshop game imma lose it 😡😡😡😡 PLAY IT IM TOO POOR TO BUY IT

Skips to the end to see if it's a win gang

Why would u fr just not take a free relic. I need whatever NL smoking

Really dumb misplays. Wtf was he doing in the first floor elite fights lol!