A Minion To Winion | Monster Train (Episode 22)

[@Deliwashere]

"go ahead, hit my pyre. See if i care" *pyre explodes*

[@nativechatter999]

Heart this NL

[@knmrt2760]

Underated comment

[@DarkRaen666]

NL: shocked Pikachu.jpg

[@Chiavica]

I was watching and calculating in my head, started screaming when he ignored him after realizing he would’ve done like 3’000 damage.

[@ruvindap66]

classic self own. the true lionthrow.

[@Sir_Orange_Dinosaur]

"I'm loving monster train" We are all on board thss train brother, final stop isn't for quite some time conductor lion.

[@tarnin]

I figured I was gonna burn out on this too but every damn episode is just so enjoyable.

[@Awesomeness156]

There's so many types of decks and covenants he hasn't done yet

[@minernova]

next stop: 100+ episodes

[@JointSide]

Loving the Monster train content because even on ultra speed he still have hour long runs

[@Northernlion]

This train don't stop

[@kylep8183]

I see you haven’t seen malf play monster train yet 😂😂😂

[@JointSide]

@@kylep8183 We all know Malf loves to take his time.

[@bosshunterman]

18:38 - NL: "...I think we could abandon the bottom..." - Train Steward (on bottom floor): "Master?" - NL: "... I don't think we should abandon the bottom..." - TS.: 😊🙏 - NL "... And let the Train Steward die, I care not for them" - TS: 😭 🔫

[@MRCOLOURfilld]

Anyone remember the emote combo for “then perish”? It was lionbaby and then a gun emote from baer i think

[@nonstopdubstepman21]

Oh no he's got a gun - NL (circa; Fallout Series)

[@thomasfairchild5538]

"Go ahead, hit my pyre. See if I care" *record scratch* *freeze frame* Soooo yeah... You're probably wondering how I got here, huh?

[@playremember11]

"Be wary, triumphant pride precipitates a dizzying fall..."

[@MrMharv42]

“The buffoon is flummoxed.”

[@GogoT9001]

I was pogging when NL finally took damage shield on morsels, then came to the realization that he wouldn't understand that one hit against a morsel won't kill it

[@Deathwingburn]

thank you for saying what we all were thinking i saw so many times he wasted potential damage shield on his crucible warden

[@Mike91975]

I felt like I died every time he didn't have a morsel's shield pop.

[@crimzonzealot1061]

I think NL randoms awoken the most out of any, maybe he’s just meant to be a green boi

[@youreatowel1103]

Green eggs going ham

[@uwuowo691]

The best part about starting to watch a series late is you can just marathon NL’s videos.

[@halfwing3306]

'You are gonna live long enough to do some bad stuff to our pyre' . Photos taken moments before disaster. Monster train best series rn NL keep it up

[@jacobsyme5491]

24:00 Trample could have been nice on the sweep lord. When a sweep unit has trample, all the excess damage from every unit it kills is applied to the front living unit. Say your unit has 30 attack and is facing four units that have 100 life, 5 life, 5 life, and 5 life. Without trample, the front unit is reduced to 70 life. With trample, the front unit will die along with the rest.

[@sparks7235]

And here I thought Trample is just a bad Sweep. The more you know.

[@Ghostneedle1]

@@sparks7235 Trample IS just a bad sweep, is just turns out that they have a weird synergy with eachother.

[@leovaeg]

@@Ghostneedle1 yeah its kinda like Trample + Deathtouch in Magic the Gathering :)

[@Ghostneedle1]

@@leovaeg Only by the nature of two keywords coming together to have an extra powerful effect. I don't thing mechanically they're very similar. The MTG interaction just makes the damage transfer extremely efficient whereas in monster train, it's like extra damage comes from nowhere

[@holyproton8855]

He should have went with unit upgrade for daddy candles sticks..... sadly he views him as a worthless train stewart =/

[@Cherryflavoredgrape]

Just want to say, our boy has come a long way from not noticing capacity and thinking he could just put two units on each floor. Loving the series NL, keep up the great work and keep on learning my man!

[@WaterCat5]

54:55 This statement requires innumerable question marks. How is harness the titan not going to work on sting?

[@jobbette2950]

Also innumerable question marks when he ignored double-stack on Guardian's Amulet to make it 1 cheaper...

[@nomoturtle1788]

​@@jobbette2950 Especially in a deck with 30 freaking stings by the time he fights the boss. I was astounded he didn't copy the guardian amulet too, instead taking a unit that he couldn't fit. I guess he didn't realise that stings would be a problem on the Seraph?He evenspent a lot of time hitting units that would die on upper floors instead of hitting the boss, meaning his units were scarcely used. I legit think he's somehow getting worse sometimes.

[@Ghostneedle1]

@@nomoturtle1788 Nah, he is getting better, he's just really bad to begin with. His playstyle also fits some runs much more than others.

[@ClockworkEngineer]

The sarcastic commentary over obvious plays is comedy gold. I love it. Keep up the great work on this beautiful game.

[@Galloglaoch]

Doesn't get Trample because "it doesn't move the needle" immediately dies next round because his 77 attack champion hit a unit with 1 hp.... Yeah, Egg, that was a bad call. Not saying it would've worked out as you might not have drawn it. But if you're to be succesfull with Umbra you have to realzie Trample is their AOE.

[@SoushiMinashiro]

27:25 NL> "go ahead, hit my pyre, see if I care" Overcharged dude> Am I a joke to you?

[@Valron87]

I was going through life with a gourd that I'd never been pogged out of. Thank you for providing a remedy to that situation.

[@NessOnett8]

That first run...has units doing 100+ damage from like turn3. "I don't think trample does anything"

[@L0LWTF1337]

Livesteal is much much better then damage shield. Boss attacks 3 times 10. As long as your minion has more then 30 hp it heals to full each turn whereas damage shield loses 3 stacks per attack.

[@OhEmJemania]

Does he know that Overgorger doesn't lose his gained attack? The gorge is straight up permanent. Had a few overgorger runs where it gets like 200 attack without even focussing on it.

[@tiescoolen]

Overgorger, morselmaker and morselmaster on one floor. Gives straight up wins. Itll eat 4 each turn guaranteed

[@luminousdemoncracy445]

Its also great to focus, I had a 940 damage overgorger with multistrike and quick by the end of run. its the only time ive killed the seraph before relentless

[@jackhiggs5988]

If you think that is OP try legion of wax with double large stone multistrike. Straight dumpsters everything

[@Riskofdisconnect]

@@jackhiggs5988The only time I've lost with legion of wax is when I misplayed and didn't have enough space to play it, it's too good

[@Cherryflavoredgrape]

@@Riskofdisconnect Same here. Legion of Wax is an easy game winner with like a single upgrade.

[@Sir_Orange_Dinosaur]

18:36 that train Stewart had perfect comedic timing... It's as if it heard nl

[@acksOldPeople]

28:20 lmao it looks like he leans out of frame to turn on the dramatic music

[@randomtwist]

omg thats amazing

[@wilkic2]

“There’s no reason for 10 capacity because floors can only have 7 units”. NL, you’re smarter than this

[@wilkic2]

28:15 - oof, the L is taken indeed

[@raoulkurjah7036]

Pogged as always. Here's a tip NL, if you put trample on a sweep unit, even though sweep already allows it to hit all enemies, if it kills a unit, the excess damage still gets sent down to the other enemy in addition to the base damage. In most situations, it can be really good for wiping floors.

[@jackkindablack5562]

Title: hilarious Pogs: Up Monster: Train Let's go!

[@herbpudding]

at 19:50 you could put any of the morsels in front to save a damage shield on your big guy, since all of your morsels have a damage shield to tank a hit and then get gorged. Even if you didnt have the damage shield relic, the 4 health one could tank the 1 damage to save a damage shield. Loving the content, hope this tip helps!

[@Cormier66]

Yeah, lets give the guy who does 20 damage all the armor in history... what could possible go wrong?

[@TheVilivan]

Let's go! Monster Train is my favorite series right now :)

[@brandonfalcon236]

Same with me too

[@Northernlion]

It's close between this and baseball for me!

[@TheVilivan]

@@Northernlion I'm hoping that means this series will stay for a long-ish time

[@greytoeimp]

yeah it almost reminds me of the time before i unsubbed

[@lecram86]

NL's first run was not a win but he did a much better job to pause and think strategically. Especially he did a much better job at realizing his mistakes (although he repeated them XD) Next step, he should consider to synergy both decks his main and his support. Most of the times you want to use the main creature wise and the support for spells since the main is the one setting your deck archetype. But at times one deck may have that sweep minion you want on the first floor or those tanks to protect your frail damage dealers. That said, umbra does not need tanks in my opinion. But sweep and multistrike units are good additions as an example.

[@lecram86]

NL's challenge go would have been better if he realized the combo sting + incantate. Playing 0 cost spells by dozens with incantate creatures gets out of control pretty fast : )

[@lecram86]

Oh dear, that double-stack skip on sap 3 (0_o)

[@dylanashley799]

Thank you NL for the content through sick days! Also because of your content, you've helped me find so many good games including this one!

[@valharikgaming4185]

The first chance you get to upgrade Dante, you need to do it. Even just one +10 damage would have saved that first run.

[@MrPyro66]

I'm sorry, North, but your reaction from the first failure was beautiful.

[@icelandicbanks6473]

I'm also loving Monster Train, man!!! Got like 50+ hours already and I've got a 3 year old running around, haha! Basically, I'm saying the arrival of a child can't stop this Monster Train!

[@2ofspades124]

I’m loving the daily runs more then normal ones tbh, but overall just loving this series

[@ElPared]

I've found Feast is only good on runs where you have Morselmaker taking up too much capacity (usually cuz I have a Morselmaster on the same floor). You Feast to clear up some room and plop another unit down instead of the morsels. It's also good for immediately getting use out of the energy morsels, or adding a Damage Shield or some Life Steal to a unit who needs it now rather than next turn. Still it's situational enough that if I take it I usually end up upgrading it with permafrost.

[@Blazingzeo]

This train runs on POG brother lets fricken go

[@sedifric873]

Seeing my man sleep on Trample hurts me a great deal, especially since it would have literally saved the run (provided you drew it in time). Whenever you have an hard hitting unit (like your champion in this case) you should really consider it as a way to deal damage to as many units as possible, many times a 3 damage unit will spawn in front and will eat all your damage, which is what happened here. That said, you're learning very fast, series is pog, keep it up!

[@Bwhited2399]

The final boss is so unforgiving in this game. I have cruised through plenty of runs on Covenant 15 only to reach the final boss and get bodied. Run archetypes that fit the rest of the game often just lose to the final boss. Maybe I often overthink it too and that plays a role. Great video!

[@skyhops4618]

WARNING: Watching this Monster Train run may result in imminent POGGING and the loss of your GOURD. Viewer discretion is advised.

[@michaelleue7594]

At 5:45 I think Sharpen was a better choice for taking out small units. You've got a tanky champion and healing spells, may as well play up the spikes. At 21:26 Adaptive Mutation on Shattered Shell is insanely good, since you've buffed its health and are determined to keep it from taking hits anyway. At 23:58 I like trample here. Your champion will Gorge to be huge if you let it, and trample can be very useful when you've got a champion with over 300 attack (which is where this champ will usually end up heading by the end). 25:54 Harvesters of Death are a huge problem for Umbra runs. You need to have a plan for this fight because the Harvest guys will ruin you every time if you don't. The +5 spellpower card for Sting runs is kind of important, it's how you scale up once your deck starts filling up with Stings.

[@Gingerbitten]

I like on a loss that he will replay just for the benefit so we get to watch a full video thank you northernlion

[@SjorsTea]

My baby plays the Monster Train He goes and picks Umbra and then He plays the tank in front again To find me pogging for him

[@briancorkan2787]

I'm so glad you're loving the game as much as we love watching it.

[@greindes1579]

Ignoring second floor after getting extra capacity on it is why I watch NL!

[@Ghostneedle1]

I think that Deadalus fight was probably the worst piloted battle I've ever seen. The follow up battle was actually pretty good though I'm amazed he actually survived to get to it.

[@clickedcrispy5597]

Loving these hour long train rides egg man! Thank you for showing me this gem nl

[@matejspevacek1226]

Binge watching ur Monster Train series rn, absolute POGGERS quality content mr. Lion

[@Hakasedess]

I can't say I enjoy Monster Train as much as I did Slay The Spire, but I have to admit that's a real high bar. It's still really fun to watch.

[@diearschmeister]

Pog. Please stop falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy during shops. You should be buying every upgrade available. 10 spell power is worth it. Every time. You are never going to have no spells or units to upgrade even if you hit every spell or unit s shop in the game. You will stop winning if you are so greedy with your resources. They exist to spend. Love the content, genuinely my favourite youtuber.

[@Doomroar]

He lost at 28 minutes, that is a long enough video, but the L he took was so out of his mind he just felt like going for another 40 minutes. This is probably one of the rare games that have him doing things like those.

[@IndelacioLetsPlay]

28:13 understatement of the century

[@its_kuro]

"Go ahead hit my pyre see if I care." Oh egg the foreshadowing is your greatest feature, and your biggest flaw.

[@bluewolf7111]

the day NL stopped making the math of how much dmg his pyre tanks was the day he started to get random losses in awesome runs xD ngl I didnt realize either that the pyre was gonna die from that but RIP, it was a really good run

[@JPigxvi]

"Overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer"

[@willhouston4487]

I come for the Monster Train, but I stay for the dunky dunks.

[@affablegiraffable]

I really hope you do more of this game. It's so good

[@Ghostneedle1]

NL and choosing to accept pyre damage. Name a more iconic duo.

[@WaterCat5]

By the way NL, if you so happen to read this, know that adding endless to the offering monument is actually hyper trash since it retains all modifications. This means you will draw it, but it will have 1 HP since its health has been decreased. I found this out the hard way with a build I thought could go infinite, but alas it was not to be.

[@acksOldPeople]

Just a northern sir born and raised in Vancouve-er(?) took the monster train going PO-O-O-OG

[@joehemmann1156]

"You are going to live long enough to do some really bad stuff to our pyre"... such foreshadowing is usually reserved for Hollywood...

[@camelspiderattack4161]

I DON'T WANNA DO YOUR 1:17 OH YEAAHHH

[@wyattcullum3455]

You had it set to M for minion, when ya should've had it set to W for winion

[@certifiedgyrltheinnocentgo5115]

The ad for monster train that I had for this video used northernlion’s quote “Best deckbuilder of 2020”!

[@TwistedAttitudes]

I think 5 times copying+hold overing the spell that puts 3 stings in your hand immediately (preserved thorns) would have been more beneficial than a flat 5 copy of a base sting. Potential 15 stings vs 5 and it wouldn't affect your ability to draw units since you'd go through your whole deck before the stings got reshuffled in (and also you're drawing like 9 cards every turn)

[@TwistedAttitudes]

Also +5 magic power to all spells in hand would've been gravy, and you should've saved the draw totems HP for a turn where you could machine gun the boss

[@NroShock]

NL: Eyy everybody ME: Smashes like button

[@OllieJIF]

If your morsels have a damage shield you should always put them in front to tank a hit, they get eaten by the front-most non morsel unit regardless of their position

[@GodChaos333]

I love this series. Thank you for the content brother. Still raining pogs from me

[@Lunarimoths]

he pogged off on this epi for sure

[@Avatar32167]

More like a minion to onion- for crying out loud plays

[@soggz9190]

The armor dudes killed me every time i got greedy with morsel builds.

[@cascadiadb]

I think we are all set, our units do literally nothing but we can do 500 points of damage a turn in Stings Seraph: *has 2500HP*

[@skeledaaw]

More monster train , hooked like I was on slay the spire

[@mrgreen497]

Narrator voice: he was already taking 49 damage

[@MRCOLOURfilld]

Copying the sting spell 5x instead of the Preserved Thorns is the biggest misplay ever. Why get 15 sting spells when you can get 5 instead.

[@Nibas]

I had a run like this except I actually stacked up a full Incant floor to use it with, which seems foreign to NL.

[@doomboom21]

If we dont get 600 episodes out of this game to contest with slay the spire I'll be sad.

[@DefinitelyNotReal627]

The Morsel Floor. So pogged.

[@jacobsocia3966]

Why would magic power not effect sting NL?

[@nicholasbeshel813]

The title! Lmao. Great stuff.

[@nonconventional0z7]

Anyone notice that the Umbra Champion and the morsels are pretty much just the nightmare version of the boiler room guy from Spirited Away?

[@PongzeLor]

Damn trample is one of my favorite buffs to put on my gorge champion

[@raizel_z]

Monster train is the good stuff, keep up the amazing content 😎

[@knmrt2760]

Let's hop in the train destination Winion !

[@Goryus]

Found this game because of NL, and just got my first cov-25 win!

[@thismightbeyou]

So glad they changed how morsels being eaten don't count as 'deaths' in that july patch. Lost synergy with Remnant but I hated that unit with the harvest triggers, made umbra so useless for a long time if they were on the floor with your gorger unit.

[@davvv5419]

Hey NL i commented in the last video, but just in case; there's a menu option that stops you accidentally scrolling/mousing between floors when having a card selected! Super useful and run-saving even!

[@joelhenry3766]

I literally have installed a chrome extension to hide your video lengths. Since with these types of games. The length can sometimes spoil the result. And I need all the hype I can get when watching some monster train

[@scoutswell]

Hey there, nice episode my guy

[@darksun9243]

I won that daily event and got barely over 30.000 points for the achievment. I can't even imagine what you need to do to get the 50.000 lol

[@NessOnett8]

*Enhance all spells with magic power +5* NL: "I don't think it's gonna work on sting" Why? Why would you think it wouldn't work on sting. That card is literally DESIGNED FOR STING.

[@KingofBattle008]

Made a monster train shiv deck I’m diggin it.

[@cowboi61]

watching my man skip trample was so painful :'(

[@SuperRoxasXIII13]

the last run was insane for any one that hasnt watched it i can only recommend

[@Mankus100]

you didn't care, but the pyre did

[@Zilican]

Copying sting 5 times not preserved thorns :(

[@15kalas15]

nl is a decent player but he misses a lot of these huge value plays

[@looper7159]

F

[@friesplease]

Dunka dunka dunka dunk dunk

[@tim-o-tee_0338]

Dude! I got an add for Monster Train on youtube, that even has a quote from NL featured in it.

[@Yuggy]

That first pyre death was just out of nowhere... A shame that run seemed to be going really well :P

[@anthonyrupprecht8659]

5x unupgraded preserved thorns > 5x unupgraded sting

[@anthonyrupprecht8659]

Passes on harness the titan NL: " I don't think it works with stings" Me" oh egg. First thing you did this run was give sting 20 magic power. Then upgraded one with 10 magic power. Why wouldn't you be able to give spells ( that sting is) 5 magic power. "

[@L0LWTF1337]

Pew just got Covenant 9. Would have hated falling behind egg.

[@DanimalHype]

It does work on sting.

[@callumdixon5177]

Adaptive mutation is s tier on with Dante You can get 50 hp for 40 gold Then swap it for damage