Nothing makes me appreciate NL’s Slay the Spire skills more than trying to keep up with him on this ascension climb. My man has a 40 min that is all gas and I’m stuck on the boss at 1 hr 20 min 😂
StS is one of those games where if it's brought up or I'm watching, I feel compelled to play. Such a fun game. Im glad you're still sticking to it, NL.
literally bought the phone version after he started playing again and working my way through low ascensions once more, it's such a peak, timeless classic
@@patrickhurd9207 \o/ Dude, hell yeah. It honestly felt really good starting over on the phone and going through that journey again. My KDr sure is better 😅 Super pumped for the sequel
@@stefaniegoodman4880 for real! He's always casually dropping that he played on his phone. I wasn't around when he first played, so I'm very appreciative he's gone back to the well. When I first started, I'd never had so much fun while simultaneously getting my ass kicked.
Hey NL! Happy you’re back in STS. As a quick tip, if you go to settings and check “show card quick select keys”, it will number the cards in your hand. It’s super useful for knowing how close you are to the 10 card hand limit and if you need to clear up space for new draws. It’s only on PC, not mobile sadly
28:13 don't forget that the daggers kill themselves after their string attacks. Since you were already intangible, there was no need to kill the left dagger.
He so wanted to remove a Ball Lightning, but couldn't bear the thought of doing so after he just bought it. He even hovers over it right before choosing dualcast
@@Morflow_ I am seriously loving this new era of like trying to learn and be good at Slay the Spire instead of Zerging it but... buttt... he is still our NL. :D
Dualcast isn't that good. It's okay when upgraded, but spending a draw for one extra evoke is pretty meh. That's assuming you'll replace the orb immediately. It's even worse if you don't channel, since you're also losing out on the passive effect you could have gotten for however many turns it takes to replace the orb.
Velvet choker is really good in a deck that is running mostly high cost, high impact cards. Basically just Ironclad with big cards, but in very specific decks it works well.
My man is sleeping on Consume. Losing one own slot for 2 focus is actually goated if you get either Inserter as a boss relic to get an extra orb slot every other turn *or* you get a couple Capacitors, *or* you get the capacitor relic, *or* you get a Creative AI to get Capacitors. The fact that it's reusable focus gain is absolutely broken if you have a way to get orb slots, or just start with extras. Hell, you can even make it work with a pure evoke build and just mull yourself down to 1 orb slot for 4 focus. It's a very good card.
the automaton's summons always steal your cards based on highest rarity first, so you can usually predict which ones they're going to steal if you look at your drawpile
29:27 prayer wheel is especially good when you have singing bowl: double the card rewards to exchange for HP. on top of that, getting question card with prayer wheel means you get to see 8 cards after each encounter instead of 3. more cards means more options to see the cards you want/need and more opportunities for rare card rewards!
I am standing here with tears in my eyes asking you to think if madness is a good idea for your deck before you autopilot them in instead of losing a meaningless 4 max hp
I usually do not watch pure youtube videos from NL, one of the things I like the most about him is his interaction with the chat, but these slay the spire ones are hitting the spot ngl I even started playing it and made to ascension 2 (it's not as excellent as peglin or balatro but a really good game nonetheless)
14:35 Only criticism from me is oricalchum was the best choice the shop could've offered you. Most of your block comes from Frost Orbs which means you're technically ending your turn with zero block (uness you use Loop or something). It would've basically been 6 block free every turn. Fire run though, good shit
Watching old slay the spire videos from you…. Your voice has changed so much. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. It just kinda goes crazy cause the banter is about the same
the smoothness of the interface could use some work and you're starting a new save but I'm brain rotten so I need a real video game to play when I'm out so yes
Take time to think through more than just the first card when picking a reward. You tend to reason through just the first option when the other two cards can be very beneficial. I think you're main issue is you reason based off of past performance rather than what the card can do for you currently in your current deck
He's taken a hardline stance against the toxic shadow of the erdtree twitch culture, but I know he's a real one because he really hit this one with the mist or beast.
Busted crown is so bad because of how rare cards are put into the card rewards. At the start of every act the chance to see a rare card is reduced to 0%, then it increases everytime you see a non rare card. Seeing rares in the shop also uses this same rare percentage. If you take busted crown you basically never see rares outside of boss rewards.
commenting so that nl keeps doing sts did defect on a2 while watching frost + calipers build, also had some power synergy going with mummified hand and creative ai got a bit dicey at act 3 boss, dono deca, but we got it done :)
I justify Prayer Wheel emotionally with this -- how often can you say "if I get X card, I basically win the game"? The prayer wheel is a future Glacier or Biased Cognition or whatever you think the deck needs. You could also read Prayer Wheel as "you can re-roll your worst card reward option" which is more exciting
"43 damage when 43 block walks in" is crazy
20:35
why dont you tawk tuah mental health professional
what's it hawk to ya?
Imma tawk tuah lawyer
comment again when you become funny
@@Sean.Thomas2 sheeeeeeeeeesh
@@Sean.Thomas2 don't comment again
I think he might be getting it back on the long tail with the doubled self repair
"If we do die we're not gonna heal for anything, so obviously if we die it's over." soooo true
Hahaha I was gonna type it if someone else didn’t
People die when they are killed moment for sure
I miss whenever he would say biased cognition hot n fresh out da kitchen every time he saw the card
"Ermahgerd it's a bursted blur!" Still lives rent free in my head
Nothing makes me appreciate NL’s Slay the Spire skills more than trying to keep up with him on this ascension climb. My man has a 40 min that is all gas and I’m stuck on the boss at 1 hr 20 min 😂
36:03 "I'm not gonna bet that you're gonna die, I'm gonna ensure it"
unfortunately, a bar 🔥
Honey wake up from your 6 year sleeper agent coma, NL is playing slay the spire on youtube
Ok
a couple videos late danielrock1059
@@linguiniskipped3168 never said I'm good at my job
Now to fall asleep to it and wake up to the one really long dome keeper run
we're so back
15:37 Learning that an artifact lets you keep your strength that would otherwise disappear next turn has changed my life
Even if you potion first then artifact
yeah most if not all "lose X buff" effects are considered debuffs so you can artifact them. same thing with biased cognition
It's definitely a great strat. Works with Mutagenic Strength, too.
"You can no longer see enemy in tents"
Gavin Newsom addressing his constituents like
so true
We're double it guys, of course we give it to the next guy
Best one maybe
Give it a few more ascensions and we might actually get a series thumbnail, folks.
@@kimgallagher1177 , don't you wish that evil on us
The thumbnail curse no!
NL before making bad decision:
"I think you [the viewer] will be proud of me for this one"
20:41 this man can come up with the absolute worst jokes but tell them with such a confident flow that they wrap back around to being good
StS is one of those games where if it's brought up or I'm watching, I feel compelled to play. Such a fun game. Im glad you're still sticking to it, NL.
literally bought the phone version after he started playing again and working my way through low ascensions once more, it's such a peak, timeless classic
@@patrickhurd9207 \o/
Dude, hell yeah. It honestly felt really good starting over on the phone and going through that journey again. My KDr sure is better 😅
Super pumped for the sequel
Saaaame. Even when he randomly references it it brings me back. Such a good game.
@@stefaniegoodman4880 for real! He's always casually dropping that he played on his phone. I wasn't around when he first played, so I'm very appreciative he's gone back to the well.
When I first started, I'd never had so much fun while simultaneously getting my ass kicked.
Hey NL! Happy you’re back in STS. As a quick tip, if you go to settings and check “show card quick select keys”, it will number the cards in your hand. It’s super useful for knowing how close you are to the 10 card hand limit and if you need to clear up space for new draws. It’s only on PC, not mobile sadly
Dude this run was actually clean as hell
Name a better duo than Northernlion and Echo Form
Mmmm... Echo Form and Northernlion, so NL get doubled.
Name a better trio than Northernlion and 2 echo forms
@@dkolonay258 2 northern lions and one echo form
28:13 don't forget that the daggers kill themselves after their string attacks. Since you were already intangible, there was no need to kill the left dagger.
7:32 Me when I'm in first grade and didn't learn about negative numbers yet
We're slay the spire guys, of course we echo form our echo form echo form our echo form echo form our echo form...
I screamed "DUALCAST!?" at 12:36 an my GF yelled back from the kitchen "Northernlion?"
He so wanted to remove a Ball Lightning, but couldn't bear the thought of doing so after he just bought it. He even hovers over it right before choosing dualcast
@@Morflow_ I am seriously loving this new era of like trying to learn and be good at Slay the Spire instead of Zerging it but... buttt... he is still our NL. :D
It's a fine remove I think
Dualcast isn't that good. It's okay when upgraded, but spending a draw for one extra evoke is pretty meh. That's assuming you'll replace the orb immediately. It's even worse if you don't channel, since you're also losing out on the passive effect you could have gotten for however many turns it takes to replace the orb.
Like he had so many strike+ cards idk why he didn't remove a strike even if it's upgraded
Hey @Northernlion can you please move your face cam a little up, maybe under the relics? Also love your videos and streams great stuff
Yeah, it blocks the orbs
These make for perfect breakfast videos, thanks NL this is my new SAP
0:48 already horsing less than a minute in 🤣
The rumors of STS's demise were greatly exaggerated
i see two runic domes
This man doesn’t miss with the video titles.
NL playing slay the spire again means that I'll learn more bad habits and maybe get lucky once in a while so I can finally beat accession 20
Velvet choker is really good in a deck that is running mostly high cost, high impact cards. Basically just Ironclad with big cards, but in very specific decks it works well.
My man is sleeping on Consume. Losing one own slot for 2 focus is actually goated if you get either Inserter as a boss relic to get an extra orb slot every other turn *or* you get a couple Capacitors, *or* you get the capacitor relic, *or* you get a Creative AI to get Capacitors.
The fact that it's reusable focus gain is absolutely broken if you have a way to get orb slots, or just start with extras.
Hell, you can even make it work with a pure evoke build and just mull yourself down to 1 orb slot for 4 focus. It's a very good card.
28:14 dude its wild how quickly he forgot about the intangibility
Listening to this while working without having played Slay the spire in 3 years is like listening to the ravings of a mad man.
2nd floor music is so nostalgic to me how sad is that dude lmao
the automaton's summons always steal your cards based on highest rarity first, so you can usually predict which ones they're going to steal if you look at your drawpile
these videos have shown me the power of runic pyramid
29:27 prayer wheel is especially good when you have singing bowl: double the card rewards to exchange for HP. on top of that, getting question card with prayer wheel means you get to see 8 cards after each encounter instead of 3. more cards means more options to see the cards you want/need and more opportunities for rare card rewards!
Great run NL, loving the STS content it's fantastic. Please keep it coming!
nl forgetting about intangible right after saying he's intangible is the most nl thing ever
He has been so funny in these. Loving that slay the spire is back
god i love NL, especially when he fills me up with his slay the spire content
A comfortable series. It is fun to watch you develop new strategies
every day is the best day ever if he keeps it up
I am standing here with tears in my eyes asking you to think if madness is a good idea for your deck before you autopilot them in instead of losing a meaningless 4 max hp
You will, indeed, see me next time
I usually do not watch pure youtube videos from NL, one of the things I like the most about him is his interaction with the chat, but these slay the spire ones are hitting the spot ngl I even started playing it and made to ascension 2 (it's not as excellent as peglin or balatro but a really good game nonetheless)
Prayer wheel is insane. The rare chances go up so much that you can build good 40 card decks just because you see SO many cards
One midroll at 20 minutes, in case you wanna skip it. Said by the man himself, even.
this dude is racking win after win after win and i still have never beat the game 1 time and ive owned it since 2020
Thank you for this pogged up content 🙏 the perfect follow up to our daily balatros
Ennelle got so many echo forms im going crosseyed
Appreciated.
Always taking echo form is not a bad thing. It's probably the Defect's best card.
14:35 Only criticism from me is oricalchum was the best choice the shop could've offered you.
Most of your block comes from Frost Orbs which means you're technically ending your turn with zero block (uness you use Loop or something).
It would've basically been 6 block free every turn.
Fire run though, good shit
he really doesn't know how powerful hologram is...
I just finished an epic NL Balatro binge so going from that direct into STS hits like crack.
NL is sleeping on Consume, tons of ways to add orbs and repeated focus increase can make boss fights trivial.
His camera covering the last orb on the left is giving me psychic damage
17:20 I am beside myself that you recalled and utilized this interaction (a lethal attack doesnt consume an echo form proc)
overclock would have been good to take since all the frost created blocks the burn and its very good to take with a recycle to exhaust the burns
Echo Form, the series.
The awakened one Reborn: Reborn
Hang tight this means we're only about 8yrs out from a return to SAP
Excellent episode, and well-played.
Daily StS with NL like the good ole days.
Watching old slay the spire videos from you…. Your voice has changed so much. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. It just kinda goes crazy cause the banter is about the same
It turns out the real poggers were the spires we slayed along the way
Engagement bait. Thanks for sts content I'm running through defect ascension right here with you
They took ur gold, def should have played that defrag.
I love the “this does not spark joy” level gameplay we’ve been getting
25:49 Lisan al Ghaib after he gets some sand in his eyes
if he skips a membership card one more time im gonna go krazy with a k
Exact change is such a good STS moment
*Insert Kylo Ren yelling MORE! here* < Me when I see NL posting Slay the Spire.
Praise Egg
⚜️🥚⚜️
slay the spire has been so pog
He starting to believe
NL 2 seconds after playing echo form
"Ohh yeah I have echo form"
Slay my Spire guys, is mobile StS worth the buy? i hear it’s not fun but the egg mentioning it makes me a believer
unfathomably worth it
the smoothness of the interface could use some work and you're starting a new save but I'm brain rotten so I need a real video game to play when I'm out so yes
Absolutely yes
@@lostmycat5671 this was all i needed im buying it on twelve devices
Take time to think through more than just the first card when picking a reward. You tend to reason through just the first option when the other two cards can be very beneficial. I think you're main issue is you reason based off of past performance rather than what the card can do for you currently in your current deck
He's taken a hardline stance against the toxic shadow of the erdtree twitch culture, but I know he's a real one because he really hit this one with the mist or beast.
He's too good....
Busted crown is so bad because of how rare cards are put into the card rewards. At the start of every act the chance to see a rare card is reduced to 0%, then it increases everytime you see a non rare card. Seeing rares in the shop also uses this same rare percentage. If you take busted crown you basically never see rares outside of boss rewards.
Call NLs head the runic dome
first time i’ve heard “hey everybody” in a WHILE
let's gooo, we're slay the spire girls ofc we're pogged out of our damn mind seeing this shit on the feed
Goated striamer goated gmae
Keep em coming
I used to think Runic dome is the worst thing ever but ended up getting my first heart kill with it :D
Killer run, dude!
22:05 my brother in chrsit you have potion belt.
24:48 egg doesn’t understand if he’s trying to draw echo form again, you SHOULDNT take the ethereal one, 2>1 🤦♂️ “the man’s echo maxing” lmaoooo
commenting so that nl keeps doing sts
did defect on a2 while watching
frost + calipers build, also had some power synergy going with mummified hand and creative ai
got a bit dicey at act 3 boss, dono deca, but we got it done :)
I justify Prayer Wheel emotionally with this -- how often can you say "if I get X card, I basically win the game"? The prayer wheel is a future Glacier or Biased Cognition or whatever you think the deck needs.
You could also read Prayer Wheel as "you can re-roll your worst card reward option" which is more exciting
Giving up hope that'll he'll ever move his camera so we can see all the orbs :(
Don’t have any constructive advice but StS content has been amazing.
29:23 nl doesn't understand prayer wheel
All the opportunities to remove strikes he didn’t take 😭 I always trim those out with defect.
this is my type A moment
A20 HEART RUNS A20 HEART RUNS A20 HEART RUNS A20 HEART RUNS
That's how I woulda did it, I can see why they call this game Deck Builder 3