I have made a spread sheet in Microsoft Excel to analyze ascension mode The Silent difficulty and I can confirm through my data that mathematically NL is just being a big ol' baby.
EGG. DID YOU NOT REALIZE YOU WERE GETTING 1 STR PER TURN WHEN YOU PLAYED BRUTALITY AND RUPTURE?! AND THEN YOU SAY YOU HAVE NOTHING TO ENABLE LIMIT BREAK. AND ITS THE GAME THATS TOO HARD?????
I usually just skip to the end too see how the deck is once finished but today i felt like watching it in all its lenght and oh boy,let me tell you, I won't be doing this again
Lolling Kantus my theory is that it's a whole new NL each episode. There are hundreds of thousands of clones of him that just melt and die after each episode
Yolvas Chandra he did he just made a very disappointing sound and was too ashamed to say anything, as his mouse almost hovered over the one extra energy 😂
OH MY GOD. HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE STRENGTH GOING UP IN THAT BOSS FIGHT??? EVEN BLIND COULD SEE THAT! Sorry for caps, but this episode is so so bad I wish I have never seen it. Now excuse me I will put Hurt by Johny Cash and cry myself to sleep.
My DUDE. Please. Just please slow down. My first time commenting. I LOVE your videos. I watch daily, BUT YOU HAVE TO SLOW DOWN AND THINK. You have so many things that work together and you aren’t using them. Thank you for the company. You’re wonderful, egg.
2:50 Has 3 defends in hand Enemies are dealing 14 dmg Plays 2 defends and keeps 1 energy for no reason whatsoever “Where still gonna take 4” Classic egg
Literally less than five minutes in I can immediately tell the comments are gonna LOVE this one. You achieved a dream synergy after your first combat, then not only ignored it but then also 1/3'd us. EGGMAN I LOVE YOU BUT WHAT
First time Ive ever disliked an NL vid. I love the guy, but we HAVE to send a message and maybe giving a video a huge dislike bar will make him see finally... Then again, he probably seen our comments at this point but we wont see the results of it before august 2034 because of the rediculous backlog...
look at the cards. read the words. you assume you know what cards you have but you're always wrong. always. you're wrong about the synergies you don't have. you skip blocks with excess mana and take damage. you don't dropkick a vulnerable enemy. read your cards. they have words.
Okay NL you can stop the gimmick now. Because it's getting legit hard to watch these...are you actively trying not to improve? Or playing super fast without reading any cards on purpose? Hahah ok I get it haha... please stop.
If you go back to the Silent soon, I highly recommend trying Grand Finale. It's not as hard to enable as you'd think - just keep your draw pile in multiples of 5 and make sure you have Well Laid Plans. Plus, it's extremely satisfying to enable and fun to work with.
HitchensImmortal I'm the opposite 😂 Just have a little bit of card draw, well laid plans, and keep the draw pile in multiples of five. It's not easy to FORCE into a deck but when it works it works.
How ironic that in a run where he complains about difficulty and balance is also one in which he displays exactly why he has no clue on how to play the game. Seriously READ the cards you pick, you literally had a game winning synergy in Brutality + Rupture. I implore you to watch the first 10 minutes of this video to see the number of incredible MECHANICAL missplays, not including all the deck building ones. I don't care if you aren't a MLG pro, i am however incredibly annoyed that you are complaining about something you have no clue about. And it hurts the videos because you're spending time talking about what you lack and how the game is not giving you a chance despite it actually being there and that became incredibly annoying from the moment it started. There is no "Some people might disagree" you are just bad and until you actually try to pay attention you are never going to improve.
a third of a demon form is hardly a game winning synergy but it's still painful for him to ignore it also yeah you're so right, he needs to pay attention and he's learn so much faster
Ghostneedle1 It comes with an extra draw, it benefits from having cards that deal damage to you and he was offered limit break, it is absolutely game winning.
MyDreamWave he's one of the few that has had a permanent spot on my subscription list. This ... Makes me rage. Sinvicta plays the game decent doesn't have many vids tho
im sorry my dude i know ur smart but u gain 1 strengh per turn for 1 mana if u play brutalety and rupture. u got it on the first flor. it made u win on the first flor boss and its not the first time u hade it to. pls read this and consider it my dude
NL baby, please, just slow down and play. We watch you because your commentary is great, we wont get bored If you just slow down and think about your strategy and deck makeup. I believe in you Egg, I. Believe. In. You.
It’s fucking killing me. I’m dying NL, literally picked up rupture and brutality to kill all viewers by not playing the game winning combo and further exhaust your 4 defends throughout combat but wonder why you lost 😂😂
Ariel Henry my favorite part is when he uses corruption to play 2 defends when he can legit just play 2 defends and 1 strike and achieve the same play. And then he wonders where his defends are haha
Why is whirlwind the best card? Wouldn’t it only be good because of double tap, then double tap would be the best card? Anyways I vote on offering too. Gimme them resources for a little hp
Just wanted to say that powers still count as cards even after you play them, so things like Brutality and Combust will activate Rupture, it took me a while to figure it out myself so it's understandable to not notice, especially while recording a video. Keep up the good work NL I love watching your Slay the Spire videos every day!
northernlion literally started out with a top tier deck and then everything went down hill from there. Brutality + Rupture = happy fun times. Also, corruption is only good if you have dead branch, other than that it kills your survivability.
Corruption works really well with feel no pain too and in hyper aggro decks where you're using all your energy to kill the enemies as fast as possible before they can hurt you too much. I've heard hyper aggro gets less viable in higher ascension levels though since enemies are less squishable and do more damage.
18:53 love these moments where he realized that he made big mistake, and actually take away the mouse cursor from close to the potion just to avoid the little possibility that he click nonetheless
Lane Wiles think he’s in Korea now and this is just like a month ago backlog, I remember watching Austin stream Slay the Spire once after the patch where the Artifact triangle boy elites on the first floor started giving dazes instead of wounds and then I remember watching an NL Slay the Spire like a week and a half later and they were still giving wounds in the video. So I imagine he’s like a couple weeks behind implementing literally any feedback
NL please take 2 seconds to read and understand cards. Brutality causes you to LOSE HP to draw a card. Rupture gives you strength when you LOSE HP. Hmm.
NL I'm so disappointed in you. 88 runs not including all the streams and you're only a tiny bit better than your let's look at. Here's your list of mistakes. Try not to make them again: 1. rupture-brutality is THE definition of god-level synergy. This is the second time you've had it and been oblivious. Do not make me spend several hours tracking down your contact information to tell you personally. 2. Sentries (your octahedral nemeses) are EZ money. Kill one of the outside ones first. Then you will only have to deal with 1 attack per turn 3. Corruption is typically a late game card for when you've already got loads of high cost skills that do great things. It's fine that you took it, but don't use it to play defends for free. You only have 5 and you can't finish the fight before they would be useful again. 4. you keep trying to play fast. SERIOUSLY, SLOW DOWN. if you would take an extra 3 seconds per turn you would make 90% fewer misplays, and you would always be in a better position.
i know, but if I decided to list out every mistake It would be a several page document. So I focused on three (I included sentries because he's always complaining) and lumped everything else under #4
NL I love your content and sometimes, you magically change your play style from taking almost every card you see. The funniest part is that in this episode and the last silent run you mentioned spreading out into too many archetypes at the same time. I know you like to take your time with games which is totally fine and I hope that I can come back and watch episode 120 and see you destroy the game with ease!
Hey NL when fighting the floor 1 elite the three sentries, try focusing on one of the outside two first. They attack together every time, and eliminating one means you only have to block 9 that turn instead of 18.
So I have a question for all the folks in the comment section losing their minds over his misplays. Why exactly do you even watch this man's channels? You know that's how he plays. You know it takes him time to get good at a game. So why do you hurt yourselves like this?
obviously this means the only solution is about 10 slay the spire episodes a day in order for all of us to be killed by an overdose of misplays and then you will be reborn again
Brutality and rupture combo together, you could be gaining one strength a turn. and be drawing a card........ for the lose of your hp... its ok we are not prefect your still one of the best streamers I have had the privilege to watch. keep up the good work.
Please, for the love of God, rewatch this video. I've watched nearly every single episode of this series and I have never seen sloppier play. I love you, NL. Your Isaac videos have gotten me through many a tough time, and I always check you out to see what kind of crazy ideas you can give me in that game. I KNOW you aren't this bad. :( I watch your Isaac stuff because I know how good you are.
Generally when the comments are all like "oh my gooood the misplays what are you doingggg" it annoys me but jeeeeez egg... We've covered rupture/brutality before.
The annoying thing is that this isn't like Isaac where he isn't paying attention and misplays because he's talking about something completely random. Literally every episode of Spire is him narrating exactly what he's doing.
18:42 and wondering if he realizes he's not just exhausting the curses while leaving energy unused.... I guess part of the fun of NL is that I feel like I improve faster watching his videos - without owning the game - than he does playing the game.
I was typing out all of the terrible decisions in this run but then chrome started complaining about being "out of memory" and restarted how did this happen Im not good at computers. Does he know Brutality and Rapture is a combo?
Problem with taking a boss relic at the start is far too many of them buff enemies, when you don't have any tricks up your sleeve to deal with it. It's hurt me far more than it's helped me.
Anybody here that plays slay the spire temselves: dont undervalue corruption. Corruption allows you to have a thicc deck but be able to make it thin, corruption + dark embrace + anger/clash is insane, not aiming to build block i ended up with 300 block one one turn w/o barricade bc i cycled thru my deck with corruption and dark embrace
