Automatic Automaton | Monster Train (Episode 24)

[@Hanatatami]

I love how NL talks about the rest of the units as cards, yet addresses Dante directly

[@Northernlion]

He commands respect

[@ashark8968]

He does address the stewards when yeeting them

[@Anto-vg3lt]

NL: "ARGH just give me a unit that benefits from Gorge!" Alloyed Construct: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@ashark8968]

He is also severely overrating the damage shield gorge, i would say the lifesteal is better in 95% of situations. Since with damage buffs, lifesteal is damage shield but better. The 5% situation where damage shield is better is against that Stealth 8 boss.

[@Anto-vg3lt]

A Shark agreed, multi strike is just too common for it to be that powerful.

[@L0LWTF1337]

Alloyed Construct sucks. Due to the gorge all umbra minions need to be tank and dps at the same time since they are infront. But construct has no sustain, no shield no lifesteal so it just dies to everything.

[@EmperorZ19]

@@L0LWTF1337 Its pretty feasible to generate a lifesteale morsel once in a while to heal it up

[@LostViking]

@@Anto-vg3lt and thorns aswell. good thing enemies don't utilize frostbite eh?

[@bosshunterman]

I just love the fact that "Resin Removal" does exactly what you'd expect based on NL lore :D

[@ashark8968]

Would be perfect if it removed allied buffs too

[@TILsquared96]

Absolutely perfect

[@joehemmann1156]

When I saw this card, I was pretty sure the developers must be NLSS fans.

[@scaltra6709]

Can someone please explain the joke with this? I have searched resin and couldn't really find anything beyond what you would expect.

[@clem-1917]

@@scaltra6709 As far as I understand as i have not seen first hand the reference, only from the repeated references. But it is from a dark souls item, pine resin. Which Dan touts as being easy mode for killing bosses.

[@lecram86]

That stubbornness to not fuel the construct and go to the lengths to fuel the expire card must be some kind of phobia, hate crime or madness.

[@Suthek]

NL: "Bounty Stalker, you are useless in this deck..." Bounty Stalker: *saves the run*

[@MegaAnno2]

The Absolut Disrespect for Alloyed Construct

[@TheMrTangamandapio]

more like ANNOYED Construct

[@Northernlion]

I named the episode after it!

[@MegaAnno2]

@@Northernlion That's a start to repay the minutes of abuse it had to suffer at your hands. :D

[@gonzo191]

Tell me about it. If he'd taken a Morsel Maker or Master it would've truly been automated

[@wheresisjoami5582]

Best part about this series is when NL goes "donky donky donky donk donk" to the in game soundtrack lol

[@ashark8968]

Excuse me, its “Dunky dunka dunk”

[@wilkic2]

If you like that, you’ll love Dan Gheesling

[@Godstrike101]

Did NL almost forget that his Bounty Stalker was endless? He seemed surprised to get it every turn and sounded as if he was considering throwing the run and not playing it on the second floor of the boss fight.

[@joehemmann1156]

He didn't forget it was endless, per the "we'll probably draw it again next turn". Based on those comments, I think he believes endless shuffles the guy into your deck rather than putting it on top (and guaranteeing you get it next turn).

[@Anto-vg3lt]

this killed me omg

[@Northernlion]

IT PUTS THEM ON TOP?

[@wysaab]

@@Northernlion if your endless minion dies every turn its like it had holdover

[@Anime9042]

I'll admit, as someone who only watches NL play this game, I had no idea Endless put them on top either O.o That makes Endless SO much better than I thought it was....

[@AsterSea]

It takes a big man to admit he made a mistake. You going back and removing that extra tank was the right move. You deserve the victory full stop. Great run. Thanks for the company, NL.

[@Northernlion]

Oh baby, thank you thank you

[@omniimmortal9950]

Great content NL, but wanted to say.. Stacking Fuel on those automatons is not a waste, and definitely worth it. 2-3 morsels every turn for them is no joke.

[@Anime9042]

Funnily enough, when he finally committed to it at the end of the run, it wasn't tanky enough to benefit from it and almost cost him the run

[@ruchz2010]

Should give the super strong champion lifesteal more often. They do so much damage it's basically a full heal each attack.

[@OMGlers98]

yeah this was frustrating, watching him put lifesteal on the damage shield unit who cant utilize it instead of getting it stacked up on the champion hurt my soul

[@Actinjsh]

Endless on the Bounty Stalker was an incredibly POGGERS play

[@Kenshinnnnn]

not giving it burnout 1 made me cry

[@greindes1579]

Please don't ignore lifesteal, it's insane against bosses like Fel and Seraph. You loose damage shield much quicker than lifesteal, and bosses like Fel and Seraph always have multistrike.

[@solh0029]

It's actually so much better than damage shield, for the reasons you mentioned. The only downside is that lifesteal eats 2 stacks if you give collector multi-strike.

[@greindes1579]

@@solh0029 at least it doesn't expire if there is no enemies like fuel

[@Awesomeness156]

Huh, I never actually realized that was why I kept losing on fel...

[@solh0029]

@@greindes1579 Alloyed Construct is excellent at taking out mobs though, and is a snap-add at the beginning of a run. His stats are very strong.

[@CoolyOh]

Morsels synergize well with the wickless tycoon who gives 5 gold when any unit dies.

[@greindes1579]

It's synergizes well with any harvest unit

[@thomas9208]

@@greindes1579 Honestly I think the synergy might be too strong. The harvest units feel very underwhelming when paired with any other region, I can't help but feel they are balanced around the morsels.

[@ashark8968]

Well harvest works best with the 2 clans who have units dying as legit archetypes (Morsels and Melting). Any other clan, unit dies is time to cancel christmas

[@nomoturtle1788]

@@ashark8968 Harvest works on enemy deaths too. So if you set up a kill floor and plan where the enemies die, there can be big profit.

[@Northernlion]

Gold is for miners, I'm looking for pog

[@Wilks228]

NL: *Does something obviously very good and very smart that he has never done before* Everybody: "Great Move NL" NL: "Alright now you might think I'm crazy but ..."

[@WaterCat5]

Consuming retch was a colossal mistake. Filling your hand with morsels is really good because you can get lifesteal over and over every single turn. You massively underrate lifesteal when it's strictly better damage shield most of the time.

[@divsco88]

I think using it once and then consuming was a good play. If you use Retch too much you flood your deck with morsels and struggle to draw your key cards. It almost cost him vs the Trample boss when he was waiting for the Mine Collapse's and drawing nothing but morsels.

[@ZebraLord13]

Melting Remnant + Morsels = Harvest city

[@A1phaz0ne]

Honestly feels like Melting Remnant has better synergies with Morsels than Umbra themselves, which is crazy.

[@nomoturtle1788]

But not today lol

[@gman6765]

"Plus 5 health? Come on, who cares?"

[@Anime9042]

tbh (as someone who has only watched NL play this game) Harvest +5 hp does sound like trash in every combo except Umbra. It has synergies with Remnant, but just looks so much worse compared to the champion's other options. Ironically, it's also the only combo that the Reform option on the champion sounds so much worse due to your consumed pile being filled with random morsels (still useable, but worse than the other decks).

[@blue_bloodstar6949]

@@Anime9042 I thought it was trash form nl videos but when I tried it with umbra I was almost 100% first boss clearing every time

[@lvincexp3054]

"Pog, pog, pog." The sound of NL watching his morsel children come into existence

[@nomoturtle1788]

I'm still excited for this series, and congrats on the win. But man, this is like going to a football match and seeing your favourite team scoring a bunch of own goals every game.

[@Hakasedess]

"You're taking a lot of damage, don't get me wrong." Why don't you give him that 1 lifesteal to put him back to max HP, egg, it's a very good mo- "So I'm gonna give this other unit with 5 damage shield a single stack of lifesteal" Must you hurt us so?

[@jaysee17]

When NL plays a rubble morsel on the bottom floor to be pointlessly eaten instead of behind his construct for fuel "because 2 fuel is too much" it really makes me wonder if he's intentionally trying to sandbag the runs and extend the series. Lol

[@raoulkurjah7036]

Extremely pog. Quick tip NL, when morsels get eaten on the same floor as a harvest unit, they get harvest triggers. It can be really good with enough capacity.

[@Hellscrye]

Man I could watch twice daily uploads of this game from you. It's go so many complex layers and choices that it's constantly engaging.

[@missingknown]

I see early Dante, my interest is POGGED. Simple as that

[@Snipehsheep]

NL, when it comes to cards like Resin Removal, buffs are green icons on the unit (rage, spikes, regeneration, etc) Debuffs are red icons (sap, emberdrain, silence etc) Purple icons are triggered abilities (slay, harvest, incant, etc) which are disabled by silence.

[@sonofhades57]

NL, you're sleeping on Alloyed Constructs. They're amazing Gorge units even with the occasional fuel limitation, and with the Remnant necromancy you can keep them fed in perpetuity.

[@Turb0y]

Once our boy found the place for Bounty Stalker, nothing could stop his delivery of POGs to LIKE BUTTON station

[@dascandy]

Watched NL play this a bunch of times, occasionally closing a video because *oh my the misplays*. Then I bought it myself, and had to click myself away, because I made some even worse misplays. You're good NL.

[@danieljudy2641]

Bounty Stalker is probably my favorite card in Monster Train, I love his goofy hat so much

[@dutchlane2681]

So I’ve never played and have no evidence to base this on, but I think the harvest gain health champ is perfectly designed to pair with the umbra. It’s basically the pure tank equivalent of the gorge penumbra. I assume it caps out at plus 20 health on harvest which means he could get insanely tanky from eating morsels.

[@Ghostneedle1]

yep

[@Chromodar]

When a unit has both a lifesteal and a damage shield stack, combat goes like this: Enemy hits get absorbed by damage shield, you lose stacks but stay at full health. Then you attack, losing a lifesteal stack even though you were at full health. The only case where you would want both is if your unit is low on health, in that scenario the damage shield can save it long enough for the lifesteal to do it's thing. This goes for regeneration too, you wouldn't put that on a damage shielded unit either unless it was hurt below the damage shield stack.

[@tachikazetyler2916]

I'm enjoying these fail runs, we all have them and sometimes they can teach you things! Daedalus got tough after I hit covenant 7 for sure.

[@Kubolons]

So honestly, having Umbra as an ally is the one situation in which i think you could try to use the HP gaining champion of the Remnant. Still, pretty pogged to watch another episode of this great series, thanks bróthęr!

[@solh0029]

One of the best tanks in the game that still falls short of the crucible lords, but that flicker still lacks damage which is already remnant's biggest issue.

[@Yuggy]

The morsel pog noise is me every time I see a new monster train episode :)

[@FATxAZZxGONExCRAZZZY]

Loving the Monster Train. Please commit this to memory though: Endless units that die gets placed untop of the drawpile. Your Quick + Endless bounty hunter is perfect to be played on floor 1 upfront every time (except the boss wave of course). Cheers

[@chuck22diesel]

I do completely agree w/ you about melting. They feel absurdly strong. The champion alone solos most bosses. Good Game NL!

[@7_fly814]

Alloyed Construct finally gets to shine. Nice win NL!

[@ih8t2lose3]

Great run NL, you made some mistakes but you learned from them throughout the run and improved from it!

[@Mankus100]

poor dante, he just wanted some attack buffs

[@jamespark3510]

NL: "I dont even know why i chose bounty stalker, its useless" NL: after 6 stages "Dont talk to me and my bounty stalker son ever again"

[@Ghostneedle1]

and it won him the run

[@dragonfig6460]

I loved NL's reaction to the wonderful art on mortal en-gross-ment

[@colinmiller9941]

Egg!! Try Subsuming Blade!!! Its honestly one of the strongest cards in the game, imo. Particularly if you give it holdover and -1 cost. It grows to obscene damage that way, especially if you can get it early. Either way, it seems like you really undervalue piercing. You always seem to scoff at the damage spells that have it. It is SO good, especially in the latter stages when you often have front units with massive HP but relatively low HP (like the bird tanks with 15 hp and 100 armor). Not only does it take care of those units very easily, but it also goes through any spell or damage shields as well, which can be really helpful depending on the circumstances! Please give piercing spells a chance! If you upgrade them even a little, I promise you wont regret it!

[@geraldvanlaar]

I will admit that I disrespected Horn Break for far too long because I didn't understand the power of piercing. Lo and behold it was part of my first set of golden cards :) And speaking of armour, I'd like to draw everyone's attention to another synergy (it doesn't have anything to do with piercing but does involve armour). Alloy of the ancients plus Battering Ram! Seems kind of an obvious mid-tier synergy, but combine this with spell weakness and you're doing 1000 damage to kill Seraph before the fight phase.

[@acksOldPeople]

I'm 7 minutes in. I'm already nervous about the idea of him getting a bunch of gorge units and having them all get summoned on the middle floor.

[@Biomechanic2010]

"if my brain is puzzling this one out correctly" was your first mistake

[@blaidddrwg-ye9dy]

Says "you're worthless" to bounty stalker. Wins him the game.

[@Hellhunter120]

You should reconsider putting Lifesteal on units that are stacking Damage Shield. They proc the Lifesteal on their next attack, so if they haven't taken any damage due to their Lifesteal it ends up getting wasted every time. In this case, your champion is a great candidate, and the Alloy Construct would benefit too. Honestly, try utilizing him more. Giving him damage-increasing morsels helps more due to his multi-strike. Great episode, though, keep up the good stuff.

[@nintonintendo1]

I really hope that in the future egg realizes how amazing Dante can be if he upgrades his strength

[@alecschilling2691]

Just a little thing to mention but you can access your logbook through the options gear when selecting your clans before your run so you don’t have to constantly back out

[@ashark8968]

He replied to a comment which said the same thing last episode, remember backlog

[@LightningbreakZinOC]

NL thinks he's losing it because he's struggling now is because he for a lack of a better phrase got very lucky in some of his earlier runs or he basically just used ascend or descend cheese to stack a bunch of minions on one floor. Like when he gets those events that makes a super behemoth of a minion and stacks them all on one floor, or he gets extremely lucky with relics like with the sting spells or when he gets the relic that increases units damage when they get reformed by plus 10 or when he got the relic that gives 3 extra stacks of burnout every time it's applied. NL skipping out on harvest and going for reform when he's just going to reform a bunch of garbage morsel units is what lost him that run. Harvest is basically designed to be used with umbra reform with umbra is just flat out garbage. If you have 5 dead morsels per turn and one decent unit. The chances of reform hitting a non morsel is basically none. He also just often straight up skips - one energy cost and rerolls to look for hold over when he could have easily gotten the - energy cost AND the hold over before he rerolls. He for some reason thinks making a one cost spell 0 cost isn't worth 20 gold when he gets a hand that has a total combined energy cost of over 5 (I'm talking about previous runs).

[@jamisonballard3590]

Cuts the Crucible Warden with PLUS 2 Damage Shield. I love egghead

[@GodChaos333]

I also love the melting remnant. They have such great cards. The legion of wax with a large stone is so damn useful. Especially with the card that triggers extinguish ability without killing the card. Makes so many Units. It’s a crazy wall. Ascend or descend a dps unit behind them and watch the boss melt.

[@randym5824]

Fuel your robot, man!

[@randym5824]

C'mon, please lol

[@KyleRoller24]

He removed the gorge lord with the damage shield buff and then bought the exact same upgrade for the gorge lord he kept later. absolute galaxy play.

[@joshuathompson1467]

Honestly, I think NL's biggest problem is that he takes too many units. He ends up splitting his focus between them and tries to keep them all live but doesn't have the resources to do so and ends up worse off than if he had just focus on 1-2 lanes. It also has the side effect that he thinks he need to take capacity to accommodate all these units, where generally, he would be better off taking draw. Most of the time your champion can do about 80% of the work. You may need a unit to block for him. After that, you may want 1 other lane to clean things up or just rely on spells to do that. That's really about all you need to do to win. No need to over complicate things.

[@SoushiMinashiro]

Okay, at this point I am convinced, that taking Dante every time and not upgrading him ASAP is NL strat to make us rage.

[@crimzonzealot1061]

I was waiting for the bounty stalker to be amazing with how much NL runs reform strats but this one is the only melting run to not do it

[@joehemmann1156]

NL, endless, you ALWAYS draw them the next turn, they go on top of your deck... As they say in MtG, RTFC my good sir.

[@alexanderkalma4300]

Nice run. Enjoyed every second.

[@xXZHeatWaveZXx]

NL man, seeing you feed the damage morsels to the damage shield lord instead of Dante hurt me on a spiritual level.

[@edengoodwin1399]

The dante disrespect makes my cry every episode but this was a pog filled episode otherwise

[@starkad_91]

Congratulations for that win. I liked the morsel play a lot.

[@Jay-hp7km]

if you do another run with melting remnant/umbra remember that burnout units synergize really well with the emberdrain buffs. its like the morsel synergy on steroids

[@TheShinyDunsparce]

'youre taking a lot of damage' puts lifesteal morsel on another floor with damage shield unit

[@pixelpastiche]

I NEED A UNIT THAT BENEFITS FROM GORGING!!!!! Literally written on the card: Gorge to make this unit do mad damage

[@andregoepfert2745]

Bounty Hunter Endless combo MVP - POG

[@thomasfairchild5538]

This man needs his mojo back, and he will not stop until it is returned

[@Mofriese]

"Can't say Burnout 2" good one Lion

[@briancorkan2787]

That was a great run,and fun yo watch

[@mestiarcanus]

Morsels go "Yeet!" "Pog!"

[@fftkey]

Hey NL, don't sweat it too much covenant ranks tend to overwhelm you before you know it, the individual effects don't look that bad but when you add them all together it quickly becomes very difficult to eek out a win.

[@2014Alm]

You know what, I did enjoy this episode. Like button goes pog

[@Ireadsometimes]

The way he didn’t use the lifesteal on his champion against fel really pains me

[@Drewface14]

You passed on fatal melting and harvest units when playing with morsels. Those are such good combos :(

[@Qwompus]

Dregs: grglrlglrlglrlglrlglrlg Morsels: POG

[@georgekennedy946]

Yo, my girlfriend broke up with me yesterday, and your vids are giving me a good laugh. It’s a little rough in my mind at the moment, so cheers for the mood boost bröther.

[@DiscoFever55]

Lovers come and go, NL's pogs are forever. Hope you're pulling through brother.

[@hipiticlivi7400]

One minute in. Episode is 1 hour and 9 minutes, NL picked the artifact that puts 4 random units in the middle floor with the melting. I'm expecting multiple runs.

[@solh0029]

Don't be afraid to dream big. Sometimes Shadow Siege or Legion of Wax will show up, then upgrade and dupe for carnage.

[@ghiblet]

Too Many Irons in the Fire sounds like a low budget Game of Thrones porno parody

[@HaleFast]

Keep your chin up and keep truckin' bud.

[@Ybarchov21]

The Alloyed Construct's Gorge ability might as well say "Gorge: Do fuck loads of damage". I feed that boy up till I can't feed him anymore, sometimes stacking 20+ fuel with damage shields/lifesteal/health/damage to boot. If you invest in him early and just feed him to the end, it's easily a thousand or more damage on a boss. It's basically like burnout. Why would you keep burnout on the bare minimum when just continuously stacking burnout on a creature/hero benefits you more? Same with fuel. The more you invest, the better your endgame is. Like roughly 48 minutes in you were basically throwing morsels to chump block to squeeze extra damage out when feeding the construct and making him huge would have definitely confirmed the win.

[@Ghostneedle1]

Nl if you're going to have multiple gorge floors (which isn't a bad idea btw if you have the capacity and the morsel generation) make sure to give pretty much all your damage shield to one unit, and all your lifesteal to another. Lifesteal goes down even when the unit is on full health which means it's easily wasted when the unit is on full health from having damage shield anyway. Of course, applying damage shield to allow a unit to survive long enough to heal from lifesteal, or giving lifesteal to a damaged unit with damage shield still makes sense but as a game plan you need to spead them out for max value.

[@acherow]

“i feel like bringing morsels back is bad” says NL. revscarecrow would like to disagree. my man got 50+ health and 100+ damage morsels every turn, and just absolutely crushed the final boss

[@marcoluciani4790]

Gotta love how on the second run he did not play a Burnout 60/60 champion but played the 9/3 Dregs and then used a card which increases their Burnout count... You know, the same thing that the 60/60 is weakened by...

[@williammitchell6254]

Nl damage sheild is straight up ass against seraph and fel they both always have multistrike burning through all stacks very fast.

[@killisys]

A very strange victory, but a victory nonetheless. Thanks for the comPOGny.

[@TylerPederson]

I can't believe I saw NL say no to Snecko Eye

[@Tassadar237]

NL disrespects the Battlestone, but a well-played run!

[@bobthazombie]

dont mind me just tending to this rich pog garden

[@kinagrill]

NL on harvest +5 hp... ehh. Me on it... WOW! Seriously, you get +5 hp when an enemy on same floor dies, when an ally on same floor dies... and you have MORSELS! you can buff up that champion into the stratosphere! Aww, what about Wickstone on Bounty Stalker!? burns out one turn after being in play - gets +10 attack from it. you just gotta keep the burnout going if resummoned so the unit will be combat capable!

[@bigge3697]

Seeing bad morsels getting placed behind good morsels makes me sad

[@user-vy2jr6pb1z]

Harvest + Gorge? am I not wrong to assume that is the poggiest combo, and this man decided he'd rather the champion reform a random morsel per turn?

[@Pensuke628]

The absolute disrespect to the bounty hunter though. That unit is disgusting. Especially with endless.

[@Nibas]

Exactly. Not hard to make it a 200x2 by the end of the game if you try to.

[@snickersonson3732]

Pog! A win, even without using the harvest synergy

[@drakhoon]

do we care if you have fuel....yes yes you do, more fuel equals more damage it cant be wasted and you had enough morsels to go around at that point

[@RottedMushroom]

Giving your unit with damage shield lifesteal is pointless as lifesteal triggers regardless of whether it will actually heal or not.

[@Ghostneedle1]

The fuel mechanic had NL so confused that he would rather feed his morsels to his champion over the construct because the construct was 'wasting fuel'. Egg, how is it less wasteful to not give your unit fuel? I'm malding pretty bad over here guys.

[@leleo1o]

I was almost crying seeing the wasted potential on not giving the multistrike 8 unit not getting a few enhancing, the Burnout was wasted most of the time

[@koiiinu]

rip alloyed construct such disrespect

[@bazZy33K]

Nicely, nicely!

[@A1phaz0ne]

Don't forget to leave a Like on this video. Make sure Ryan knows we want MORE of this series

[@Drecon84]

I'm gonna return to say that it's okay to go back a few Covenants to get some experience.