Don't Sleep On The Awoken | Monster Train (Episode 26)

[@devildog768]

Everyone saying he should have taken an overgorger is forgetting the fact this man loves to play units in front of his gorge units.

[@nomoturtle1788]

Everyone saying he could have done well if he did x is forgetting that the man will misplay any and all strats into damnation. He even took an overgorger in the past. Didn't feed it lol.

[@um536vids2]

Don’t forget to put the awoken champion on the back line every time.

[@papafade5092]

Depends, I've done very well using it to tank, 100hp is a lot and if you can get the full heal with holdover it's insane.

[@diearschmeister]

@@um536vids2 I'm gonna stop watching videos he does this in. Awoken is the easiest, most straightforward class and he is continuously having revelations about them that are not "tank units go in the front and get healed" which is just being obtuse at this point. He really thinks he is out smarting the game.

[@hrhomer73]

"We really misplayed this pretty badly." Immediately does the same thing on Seraph.

[@Actinjsh]

- "Playing Awokened Hollow on the 2nd floor was a mistake" - Does it again the very next battle Do you know what the definition of insanity is?

[@SABO_DB]

I am so ANGRY

[@josephlynch7655]

@@SABO_DB Calm down nerd

[@cmfireflies]

NL: I don't really see the value of the overgourger.. Me: well this is a L

[@EvanWantsSoup]

I wonder if he doesn't know what "permanently" means in this case?

[@arushnakhre9600]

i mean im not gonna lie when i first saw permanently i didnt even know what it meant so i just assumed it was every other gorge card

[@millennialgameplay9293]

Just once, i want him to take overgorger once, it will only take one for him to get it. Especially if its your literal first unit draw

[@gheromesilvestre7803]

RIGHT?? Overgorger early is sooo goooood

[@Doomroar]

It hurts so much.

[@GogoT9001]

NL gets Dante every single run, he can't keep getting away with this

[@Nazrega]

Am I the only one that hates Dante? I feel like he should only show up on 5% of runs, but instead he shows up on 75%.

[@greindes1579]

I got to covenant 20+ before seeing him for the first time. Also NL still haven't seen spiders

[@kylefairchild5167]

Been playing since launch, full mastered all classes, never seen dante once. :( Give me your dante luck!

[@jerredjones9900]

Yea im covenent 13 and ive never seen Dante

[@nightfox183]

I'm on Covenant rank 10 and haven't run into him once.

[@OllieJIF]

2:42 This man really has no respect for train stewards at all. He'd rather put them infront of a unit with 0 attack and 25 defence so they can tank the hits and die, nullifying the purpose of said unit

[@Quellan00]

It's possible this mistake doomed the run. Had he put them and the morsel behind he would have had just enough to kill the boss that turn. Which would save him the 16 pyre damaged suffered from the mobs that turn as well as the 10 damage the boss eventually did. That 26 health should be enough to suffer the mob damage he suffered on the final run. It's a rare instance when you can see the effects of a mistake on the first boss following through all the way to the final turn.

[@OllieJIF]

@@Quellan00 Especially considering the covenant rank starts him with 20 less health. Taking early damage is so dangerous just to grab a bit of gold from a trial

[@A1phaz0ne]

Even disregarding the disrespect towards Stewards, he's protecting a unit that WANTS to be hit. It taking damage means all those heals you're throwing onto it have more value.

[@nfix09]

also killed me right after that when he placed the 2 0 attack morsels on floor 2, when he could have put them 1 floor up to tank if he got a morsel with attack

[@cptKamina]

@@A1phaz0ne I believe NL is still one realization away from the favts that he may want a unit with trigger on heal to actaully be hit. I'll give it 20 episodes or one stream with that exact variant of the champ

[@watson3621]

Enelle whenever overgorger eats a morsel it gain +2 attack PERMANENTLY so for the rest of the run

[@greindes1579]

Well it has 15 health and NL doesn't like +25 HP upgrades c:

[@solomonj.solomon6973]

Gotta be honest I did not understand that from the card description. That's a game-changer.

[@gimmecat6251]

He even could've put multistrike on it right away, multistrike overgorger can get disgustingly broken

[@bluewolf7111]

pretty sure he knows that very well, he doesnt take it because his experience with it was putting him on a floor where it did nothing and as such a 6 atk unit felt underwhelming for him. im hoping he manages to make it work in the future

[@neotwist]

I think I remember the run, he kept gorging other units so he never got any attack on his overgorger and he just didn't get it.

[@Onkruid]

Nl: *starts up monster train run* Dante: "Let me introduce myself"

[@blazinkid5178]

Monster Train, featuring Dante!

[@ancestoraleksey6612]

I think Dante used to only show up with melting remnants, now he is goddamn everywhere

[@Katekyo504]

Literally 1st round pick of Overgorger and nothing in particular to gorge. NL: I don't see it working for us.

[@theobliviousyeti7370]

it hurts me everytime he skips it.

[@CL32582]

I run into the problem of Overgorger dying due to not being tanky enough. Any tips on keeping it alive?

[@matejspevacek1226]

@@CL32582 unit upgrades

[@kenny_speaks]

@@CL32582 3rd floor placements, buff 1 hp upgrade but keep a slot for endless or multistrike

[@PongzeLor]

Chris L quick and multistrike is what I ran

[@crimzonzealot1061]

I patiently wait every day for the monster train upload, bless the consistent uploads

[@Northernlion]

Oh baby

[@austinseyer73]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@mattu10599]

NL once again putting his champion in the back. Love the series! Edit: Never mind he put dante behind the champion I'm pogged out of my mind.

[@ronaldduttweiler1578]

Gotta have your train stewards tank for the 0/25 that has stacked healing on it.

[@ashark8968]

+3 strength morsel +3 damage on champion +15 damage on dante Thats all

[@Mangiff]

Unfortunately you dont get to chose who gorges it's always the unit at the front and playing dante in the front is playing with fire

[@Drecon84]

@@Mangiff You can upgrade Dante to be a tank though.

[@ashark8968]

Mangiff They were solo on different floors at the time

[@arthurvalladares5451]

That play bothered me so much.

[@Sagemel]

Overgorger will remember that

[@piotreljasiak]

Hey NL, you can use Razorsharp Egde on enemy units to give them -2hp and possibly kill them. 23:45 would be good moment for that play

[@CoolyOh]

39:47 Awaken on the thorned hollow would have let you survive

[@inukami8963]

That would not have been enough, thorned hollow only gains 2 thorns from Awaken which is not enough to kill the units in the back. He could have played thorned hollow + awaken + restore and survived, but that would mean he doesn't play Dante.

[@HawkWasp]

@@inukami8963 it would have been enough because awake triggers rejuvenate once and the regen activates it again at the end of that round, so it would have had 4 thorns at the start of the next round

[@williammitchell6254]

@@inukami8963 he could have played on the next floor up to give restore another trigger so he would have 4 spikes and dante

[@TwoDementedGuys]

NL overgorger keeps the gorge buff from fight to fight, so if you pick it up early then later on it can absolutely crush

[@AlanMru]

Oh and Overgorger is basically Searing Blow from slay the spire where you can keep permanently upgrading them, in Overgorgers case by feeding him morsels. You get an Overgorger and Morsol Maker early and upgrade the overgorger with some hp and you can have an absolutely crazy boss card later.

[@neotwist]

"The crucible warden has been so amazing for us, often times." If good stuff means that every time a crucible warden appears you've lost the run...

[@greindes1579]

Hey, don't blame it on Warden, he's been a good boy!

[@bluewolf7111]

when he takes it he usually takes too many gorge units, the thing with gorge is that unless you have stupidly insane draw and morsel generating cards, you'll always want to focus gorge on one or two units at most, and NL has been taking more than two most of the time, even four wich makes it stupidly useless. as such he never has enough morsels or space to maintain his line of defense up.

[@nomoturtle1788]

@@greindes1579 Warden sucks. This post was made by collector gang.

[@teratoma.]

@@nomoturtle1788 my man

[@Ghostneedle1]

@@teratoma. I think I like warden the most on floor 3 when I already have a collector. That way I get max value out of spreading out my lifesteal and damage shield morsels since they pseudo make eachother worthless.

[@joshhudson9839]

26 episodes in and the first play he makes is putting the sentient in the back. Magnificent.

[@extratanoshii4888]

3:32 While it's true that your champion deals 0 damage by herself, in some way it's 0 + attack of all units behind her. If you put her at the front, she deals 10 damage for 5 rounds and your two train stewards deal 10 and 5 for 2 rounds each. Think of it as a curve that starts at 10 and either stays high or slopes down quickly. (Although this mainly impacts boss fights, for regular waves you only get 1 round of combat and it's better to raise the "peak" of the curve rather than its "profile")

[@icelandicbanks6473]

Once again gonna direct pog all 41 minutes into the ol' gourd. I'm watching on 50x speed by holding the right mouse button.

[@greindes1579]

Small tip for you NL: ember morsels should always go for Gorge units, others get no benefit from it.

[@PhyrexianPhreak]

An even better tip: Cut the shadesplitters early because they are the absolute worst starter card of any faction. They can't be upgraded to consume and every other card that creates morsels creates much better morsels and has better effects.

[@greindes1579]

@@PhyrexianPhreak nah, stygian starting card is much worse. Sometimes you need more morsels, but 6 damage to front is like always trash.

[@A1phaz0ne]

@@greindes1579 Arguably not worse. You can at least kill the loot fairy with them. Can't do that with Shadesplitter.

[@michaelleue7594]

@@A1phaz0ne Not true at all. Some morsels have 3 attack. Stygian is definitely the worst. More than half the time 6 damage to front does literally nothing, but the morsels almost always at least have some effect.

[@PhyrexianPhreak]

@@michaelleue7594 What I'm saying is the other morsel cards GUARANTEE one of the good morsels, whereas Shadesplitter only has a chance and often just creates an ember morsel. Plus I think you missed the part about being able to upgrade trash starters to consume so that they don't clutter up your deck once they've been played (and they do better damage/heals in the process).

[@denniskoshta5322]

Monster Train is the absolute most pog series, thanks for the great content NL!

[@topace3000]

*NL starts run, immediately places tank champion in the back row* Ahhhhhh, well we all know where this is going. Edit: HE KEEPS DOING IT

[@HardCandy01]

What do you mean the champion holding two shields is a tank?!

[@bosshunterman]

Find yourself a partner who loves you as much as NL despises Train Stewards, and you will be happy in life.

[@Drewface14]

NL please stop putting energy morsels on floors that don't have gorge triggers when you have space on other floors that do have gorge triggers.

[@sarevok6]

2:50 The Ole NL tank in the back strat again I see lol.

[@GDmetallic]

Man i loved this episode of Slay The Pyre

[@Eclipse8502]

NL loves crucible warden so much and always takes it over the overgorger but I feel like in a run paired with awoken a damage source would be better than another tank especially with the lifelink trinket

[@WaterCat5]

Crucible collector is better anyway. The warden just takes gorges from actually good units.

[@pauloat]

I'm happy that NL finally used the tank champion as a tank. But sad that he gave 45 armor to the enemy that killed him. Hope he doesn't forget about using the tank as a tank.

[@ruvindap66]

29:15 wants train stewards to block, has cut all train stewards.

[@sonofhades57]

NL, never, ever sleep on an early Overgorger. It gains permanent attack literally every time it gorges and the earlier you get it, the earlier it can scale out of control.

[@Mankus100]

hello, Dante, my old friend You've come to take me to the end Because a loss softly creeping Left its seeds while i was *bleep*ing And the loss that was planted in my brain Still remains Without the sound of poggers.

[@TheRaquaza21]

As usual, NL, thanks for the god tier content!

[@ashark8968]

Really should have respected the spike boi, on the last battle you should have put him up top with ANY healing, and he would have gotten spikes 4 which wipes all the dudes going up to the pyre. Kept tunnel visioning by going insta heals on champion (who did benefit from it) rather than considering what spikes could do. Though i dont know if that would have saved from the harvest minion infront.

[@dahelme]

The last time I had an Overgorger it did arround 500 damage on the last fight. Giving it trample and quick felt pretty nice.

[@jamesputter9328]

Imagine if he actually took Overgorger then immediately gave it the multistrike and large stone. Bruh.

[@hoozzahgames9209]

You should really take an overgorger this early if you get the chance and you don't already have something else competing for gorge or an excess of morsels. He gains +2 PERMANENTLY so we can get to hundreds pretty easily, you just need to give him some health and maybe get some defensive cards and by the end you won't even need to gorge too much because he'll already be so big, so you can put a tank in front for the boss if you want

[@valharikgaming4185]

Tough one to watch, but I'm loving these videos. 4 front line units is never going to be good. I think you would have been much better off by putting your champion up a floor and the thorn guy on the bottom. He's tankier and kills all the low hp guys in the back with thorns just like a sweep unit. Also, giving your champion a couple of attack on the bottom floor does almost nothing because he's basically going to just give a love tap to a tank with 100+hp most of the time. One other thing, don't dismiss the +25 HP upgrades. You took a 2 damage shield over a +25 HP near the end. Best case scenario, that would stop two hits from the guys that do 12 with multi-strike and you are still better off with the +25 HP. When you factor in that the HP can be healed and the DS doesn't come back, the HP is strictly better.

[@PTMxCh00bX]

19:18 yes you are insane those relics were amazing EDIT: Omg the throw im so tilted

[@hamishmcdog48]

NL runs are always fun to watch. Just getting ready to watch this now. Good luck NL.

[@GBKK99]

41 minutes is enough to keep me pogged trying to guess how he does

[@alexjones4219]

I pogged everywhere uwu

[@marcoluciani4790]

40:00 why not just play the Thorned Hollow on the top floor and use awake on it so it has enough spikes to kill every single 12/3 and avoid lethal?

[@blahthebiste7924]

NL doesn't know what Thorned Hollow does

[@NarwhalLM]

Loving the content! Excited for every Monster Train episode!

[@OrniKArnaud]

Thanks for the continued uploads on this pogged up game

[@Cruchto]

Btw NL, Thorned hollow gets spikes everytime you apply healing on him, so you could have used that in the seraph fight to kill all those 12-3 units. Think of it like a reverse flame imp

[@lecram86]

Ok. I have decided to keep things in one lesson per run. Today's lesson, and this is something our egglord has done like a hundred times, is the following: 3 floors, 3 tanks. You don't put 2 tanks on the same floor and you don't need more than 3-4 tanks if you want to have one on the bench. Then you use dps units or utility units on the back. It is easy enough to do and I don't think I have to explain why. Now let's hope NL does not do it for the 101st time.

[@KidVivacious]

Overgorger is gonna get its time in the sun one day. One day.

[@SpyCactus]

Some misplays and mistakes sabotaged this run, but it is a testament to how far the egg has come that despite all that he still made it to the final boss.

[@TwistedAttitudes]

NL in the second to last fight: "Alright we've ruined our gorge set up by putting the thorned hollow in front" NL the last fight: "If we put Dante [in front of the gorger] he's not gonna be able to gorge" > *Puts thorned hollow in front of gorger again*

[@LockpickGamer]

Pogged out of my gourd to see the (Hype) Train continue. Just picked up some MickyD's and it's time for NL.

[@johnwaynesmom]

wendell's and same

[@DeeGeeG]

The Awoken to me feel like the best Support group. And also a very decent main unit.

[@tehfelf]

What the Hell NL!? I have like 30 hours, on Covenant rank 12 and have, no lie, seen Dante ONCE. You get this man every freaking run. Give him my number.

[@Hymensintact]

What demons will NL be riding the rails with today! I don't know, but I'm excited to find out! WOOO WOOOOOOO!

[@brianjarema264]

spoiler alert, NL makes the same mistake twice proving to be his ultimate downfall.

[@Ahriman1000]

I mean, why on earth would you play the thorn hollow in front of the collector on the same floor, AND THEN not even heal him to give him spikes? He would've wiped out all those 3 hp strikers in the back easily...

[@blahthebiste7924]

@@Ahriman1000 Well he actually needed to play the thorned hollow on the top floor to wipe those enemies, since it needed 4 spikes, not 2 to kill them (meaning it needed to get the regen trigger BEFORE fighting them.)

[@nomoturtle1788]

That's like every damn video in the series, you're gonna have to be more specific

[@icantnotthink3282]

39:00 NL putting Dante on the first floor instead of behind his Crucible, which would have almost cleared the 2nd floor and saved his run was oof but I survived NL then IMMEDIATELY putting the Thorn unit IN FRONT OF IT on the next turn, COMPLETELY nullifying his reasoning for NOT putting Dante there tilted me so hard

[@xCateyez]

Yes good keep putting the rejuvenate tank in the back

[@blackfang04]

If he had played an Awake or Restore card on the Spiked Hollow that last fight I think he could have had enough spikes to kill the back units and saved his pyre.

[@borgar1765]

Starting the video. Oooh boy lets go. Pogged for more b a c k l i n e t a n k strats

[@jamesmatthews8096]

Hey nl, love your content like always(ur a treasure), I have a small tip for the seraph fight. In short, play your carries on the top floor for the seraph fight. Whenever you are playing a build that relies on building up your units(morsels, gorge, regen, spikes, rage, ect.), you want to make sure the unit you are stacking is played on the top floor because when the boss arrives, they move floor by floor until they reach the pyre. By stacking the top floor, you gain 2 extra turns to continue stacking your units. This is especially helpful for the cleanse Seraph, as she will stop cleansing once she goes relentless.

[@charlesbernier990]

Pogged to have won my first covenant 9 yesterday. Covenant 10 is one hell of a difficulty spike. Also the thorned hollow top floor + regen would ensure that all the 12/3 would suicide in the spikes. Could have made it.

[@Ghostneedle1]

Good luck for the rest of the levels, it gets waaaaay worse. First tip I'd give is it becomes much harder to rely on super thin deck, cost-reduce-all-your-spells-to-almost-free strats because they force your deck to start thicker and make all your ways to spend gold more expensive.

[@wesleyglaeser3535]

The less cost on healing spells would have actually been pretty sweet

[@williammitchell6254]

If he played the thorned hollow on the third floor he would have lived.

[@mindtime2113]

Hey NL thanks for the content, monster train has got my gourd pogged to the max

[@PassGoGames]

NL: "Crucible collector" Me: Crucible warden NL: "Crucible collector" Me: Crucible warden! NL: "Crucible collector" Me: CRUCIBLE WARDEN! NL: "Crucible collector" Me: Punches monitor

[@Ghostneedle1]

Duck season, fire!

[@DoctorShroom]

"Can't stop now, gotta find Dante."

[@tracyh5751]

NL: makes a mistake in the video, acknowledges he made a mistake in the same video. Comments: He's doing it on purpose. He must think the mistake is a good strategy. I refuse to watch any video where he makes this mistake in an effort to guilt the streamer for mistakes he made during a single recording session and hasn't had a chance to reflect on and learn from. Like geez guys, this is the guy that eventually got great at basically every popular roguelike that came out in the past ten years. Yet every time a roguelike comes out, whether it be Slay the Spyre, Dicey Dungeons, One Step from Eden, or what have you, everyone acts like NL not mastering the game in a single recording session is the end of the world. Have some chill and enjoy the content.

[@Mike91975]

NL you can put Stewards behind the unit you plan to heal over and over.

[@kenny_speaks]

first boss fight.. places damage infront of tank. PURELY to disrespect the trained stewards I can only assume. I'm pogged up to see the rest of this run

[@FilledCircle]

NL back again, getting me pogged up over virtual card games.

[@TankorSmash]

39:20 if you hadn't played Dante, put the spike Hollow on floor two, then spent both heals on it, it would have 4 thorns and killed 3/4 monsters who attacked it. Then you would have lived and only taken 12 damage to the Pyre.

[@acampinglamp]

Thanks for the company

[@nomoturtle1788]

Yeah Awoken is pretty powerful. Got a win recently on C25 with the exploding sentient with a doublestacked and copied awaken heal (regen8) as well as copying a 0 cost restore 5 times of all things. One of the most powerful setups from early on, scales very well to endgame. Regen will destroy any boss, keeps your unit alive, and casting several 60 damage explosions every turn is just nuts. The gilded wings were in tears. Void binding can also be good. Got a win once with a heldover doublestacked and copied void spike. It was ridiculous. I was getting 8 damage shield and 24 rage per turn.

[@joeyfromanimalcrossing]

love when my damage shield unit doesnt get to block

[@jamisonballard3590]

39:43 repeats identical mistake

[@jacobsocia3966]

Overgorger is so good though

[@Marzipaniv]

*every single boss fight easily handled by massive regen on champion* "I don't feel like our regen is winning us the game"

[@Nibas]

"We don't need 22 regen, we could be winning with like 7 regen."

[@MoogleEmpMog]

NL's struggle with these higher covenants in one sentence: "Draw is by far the worst, in my opinion."

[@jerredjones9900]

Truth, I pick draw over any other buff

[@Lunarl4ndr]

It was looking good. If you had played 2 regens on that spike awoken the back guys would of killed themselves.

[@nicholasbeshel813]

This is a great series of videos.

[@ethanstone300]

Monster train top tier series

[@MrDimox]

Omfg the first round. Plez help my brain is bleeding.

[@colbytroutt6019]

Super enjoyable run, and I'm seeing signs that he's learning, but I die a little inside every time NL plays anything in front of the The Sentient. Actually the best tank in the game, a champion designed to benefit you every time it takes damage (for every archetype of the champion, too), so putting it behind other tanks hurts. Still, it felt great to see that & Dante tearing up the bottom floor together.

[@Ghostneedle1]

Edge prior is the pick at 18:21 , I don't think he even read the card now he's internalized it as bad. It makes all your healing spells 1 cheaper which means you can spam them all extremely easily.

[@zombine64]

I mean if i was heaven i would be kinda envious of Hell, because of their high tech railroad. All heaven got was a stairway.

[@sekofoni]

Hey NL in case you can tell buffs and enhancements apart by looking icons below creatures. buffs are on green debuffs red, enhancements yellow and there are buffs w conditions (like resolve incant harvest) above hp are shown as purple balls. i'm pointing this basically because i think you are undervaluing resin remover (XD) but i think you haven't tough purple orbs as buffs and this knowledge might make decision making easier

[@HaleFast]

Let the good times roll!

[@bamboospout]

Not a bad run. As you say, it was a decent run. You could have held it together long if you summoned the thorny awakened unit at the bottom to allow the low health units to dash themselves into oblivion against your spikes. Thorns are super effective at the bottom to get rid of the rift raft, and single target dps like your champion’s effect is better on later floors where only strong enemies remain and weak ones have been filtered out. Good luck in future runs, NL

[@Riotlight]

I'm so mad. NL gets Dante every run and after 70+ hours iv never had it!

[@leovaeg]

its cuz he never gets off the POGTrain to head your way!

[@bobfrommars321]

Dante pogs keep flowing

[@Marzipaniv]

Overgorger on the first fight and multistrike in the first shop. gg2e... oh wait he didn't take it

[@ThePloftis]

I feel like veryone playing this game should really start with putting their champ on 2nd or 3rd floor so that way you encounter the "1st" wave of enemies with 5 fresh cards and your champ in play and 3 full energy on 2nd turn

[@exquisitemeat5845]

How much pog could a pup pug pog if a pup pug could pog pog?

[@randym5824]

NL is definitely an Umbria man

[@GarbanzoGoon]

Hey Enelle, there is an Umbra deck archetype where you try to get all your cards to cost 0 mana via card selection and spell shops, and then stack emberdrain with no downside. You should give it a try one run if you start with an Umbra emeberdrain card.

[@ricardocavaco1910]

I think he knows what "permanent" means guys

[@Sir_Orange_Dinosaur]

I duplicated a void binding that had holdover and no consume can lead to pretty crazy situations, especially if you get a few of them

[@EDoyl]

Might as well give me *Damage* *Shield* *1* because I'm pogged out of my Gorge

[@zachdig4067]

Don't be afraid to cut some shadesplitters

[@riley7036]

One of my fav runs was umbra/awoken but mainly bc I was able to duplicate space prism 5x and pog off like no one has ever pogged before

[@maldoran9150]

The disrespect on the morsel master - double morsel miner doesn't sound good enough?

[@gamefuler]

quick, put the TS's in front of the zero attack champion!