False Starts | Monster Train (Episode 23)

[@TheAwikak]

16:06 "We're just gonna run the exact same strat" Gets the same result! That's science dude!

[@MAdhvaryu]

Hey Enelle! Here's a tip, if you don't use the purge card from the event that you got (the one that kills any non-boss unit) for 2 rounds you get a secret unlock that converts all your purge cards to consume instead and unlocks an achievement.

[@leinguest]

change the purge with consume and you can upgrade the skull with hold over plus copy or remove the consume

[@Northernlion]

WHAT

[@dustinunger6049]

Beat me to it

[@rizkyekaputra9960]

I confirm this. On my run I chose the Damage Shield X card (with +3 relic). Didnt use it because I am a conservative RPG player (whom save a bunch of potion and ends up never using them). A moment later I got a continuation event granting relic that replace all purge on cards to consume instead. I removed consume, holdover it, and basically free +3 damage shield every turn. Carried me to the hell.

[@bluewolf7111]

yeah its amongst one of the best random events, and as many others it benefits from holding back on using it for a fight.

[@JPK314]

I cry when I see a 29 minute monster train video. Please father can we have some more

[@EveloGrave]

Hey NL, In the screen where you pick your clans in the bottom right you can see if you have won with that combination and at what covenant level.

[@Northernlion]

Oh baby, I'm pogged out of my gourd for this QOL

[@CL32582]

For other MT players out there: you can also click the settings gear in the "start run" screen to access the Logbook without having to go back to the main menu.

[@killisys]

14:22 Narrator: It did not have to be done.

[@killisys]

Once again, yolk daddy has blessed me twice with his love

[@vitz4499]

As long as these keep coming, I’m gonna keep watching, some of your best series yet.

[@mikejennette8478]

NL if you hold the petrified skull for a couple floors you get a relic that makes purge cards consume instead. Just won me a run yesterday

[@Ghostneedle1]

Oh interesting, does that happen with the other two cards as well?

[@ladygeneveve3805]

@@Ghostneedle1 yes

[@kinagrill]

I've had this and removed the consume and buffed cheaper... then I copied it 5 times.... it was hillarious killing off those horrid 200 armor enemies XD

[@EmperorZ19]

6:34 Cost reduction is not a unit upgrade that exists.

[@MrLoxinator]

I believe it did use to exist before the game released, which is why NL is confused

[@sarevok6]

You can get it from one of the blue cave events. But yeah, not from the merchant

[@Haughington]

Man I haven't gotten Dante once in 40-50 hours and he keeps showing up in every video I watch :P

[@playremember11]

"Do not ruminate on this fleeting failure, the campaign is long, and victory will come. "

[@joehemmann1156]

Is that a Wayne June?

[@Northernlion]

glittering gould...trinkets and bubbles

[@xdragoncraft8498]

This man is the only person on youtube who the ai generated subtitles match perfectly

[@killisys]

Holy shit, they really do match perfectly. The thing even got his murmured dunka.

[@nelson2163]

Maybe because the AI was modeled after white male voices. Jk. I don’t know. BLM. But in all seriousness the developers were probably white males so they created the AI using their voices in the most likely scenario.

[@ashark8968]

“or medic ative spells” ~ Northernlion

[@umbaupause]

Play me a trained steward please?

[@ashark8968]

“but the Animas dude diced of thorns”

[@maldoran9150]

28:00 - March of steel on your champion might have moved the needle enough.

[@randomtwist]

I wanted him to do it so bad I had to find out if it would work, soooooooooo: 35hp in front w/ max 5 regen, Boss at 411 hp Glimmer to 394, to restores to 364, thennnn... R1: champ 21 hp, boss 300 hp (regen 4) (+3 dmg) R2: champ 16 hp, boss 233 (regen 3) (+3 dmg) R3: champ 10 hp, boss 166 (regen 2) (+3 dmg) R4: champ 3 hp, boss 99 (regen 1) (+3 dmg) R5: champ dead, boss 47 (+3 dmg) [pyre can finish the fight at this point] R5: demon 9 hp (spikes 4), boss killed! Edit: I forgot to account for the Strike additional damage, fixed it.

[@killisys]

Only 29 minutes long... I'm not angry, just POGGED to watch your failure.

[@killisys]

Yo, back at it again with the double heart from egg father.

[@direafterelife7465]

NL you have so much to learn but that's one of the best parts of watching you play!

[@AsterSea]

You can't win 'em all, brother. Great video regardless. Just a heads up at 5:58, there is no purchase-able slot upgrade for units to make them cost less. That can only be done through relics or spells. Thanks for the content, NL.

[@felixjackjinkam]

There was one in the beta which is probably why NL thinks that it is still possible.

[@AsterSea]

@@felixjackjinkam It kinda makes me wonder why they removed it in the full release 🤔

[@joehemmann1156]

This is why I intrinsically dislike any minion that costs more than 3. There's only a few, thankfully, but they just dictate specific relic or pyre upgrade needs that limit flexibility. I would only take them if I had already taken the relic that supports them.

[@Cherryflavoredgrape]

I can't wait to see how Enelle reacts to seeing some of the higher covenant conditions. They definitely start getting pretty rough later on.

[@Goryus]

NL, if you hold onto the purge cards (like that skull), you get an event later that remove the purge. :)

[@Felipe-hl6nh]

14:20 answers your question about quick v. explosion, I believe Quick takes precedence

[@Sagemel]

“Let’s not take Alpha Fiend again” Immediately takes Alpha Fiend again

[@greindes1579]

a tip for you NL, you already noticed that it was a good idea to ascend your alpha fiend at 27:32, but you also got March of shields on next turn, you can use it on your champion to put him in front. March of shields synergies with ascending very well, sometimes you even want to use it on enemy in the back.

[@looper7159]

I cry whenever NL sends The Sentient to the very back back

[@Akixkisu]

When you ascend the sweeper and play the animus on floor one, you win that battle with ease. Going for the fiend wasn't what lost you the run.

[@adamrae5042]

Keep trying brother. After seeing you dominate that hell rush on stream I have full confidence. Great series!

[@Oirad16]

Seems like every awoken run he takes the rejuvenation champion. Thorns does so much more for you in a boss fight or multi enemy encounter plus it opens you up for an amazing damage per thorns spell.

[@somewhatsomehow1491]

not to mention it can easily kill backline enemies too. i think of spike as an easy "pseudo-aoe" in early game

[@joshuadu2308]

Depends on how you like playing -- spores card makes your rejuvenation champion absolutely stomp. The problem with spikes/thorns is when you encounter cleanse Seraph - you basically have to build around your champion if you pick spikes there instead of in congruence with your champion.

[@crazzilla7203]

14:22 it did not have to be done, quick dude kills the explosive before it can trigger

[@johntank3418]

9:20 that play was making me pog out of control

[@hansardleopold1260]

Three floor champion. Legendary

[@venkatchait007]

damn well played

[@holdthephonexylophone]

Best series rn

[@pauloat]

NL 23+ runs in and still putting the tank champion in the back 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Nibas]

Not sure in what world ascending your tank to the back of a floor ever is a good idea.Why not the Alpha Fiend which would get stronger with each turn?

[@frankfilmic]

I think that first run could have popped off if you went for a spike build but hindsight is 20/20

[@twilitvigil5066]

Don't know how much this helps, but there is a button that lets you check the map in the top right corner. Took me forever to realize it, but it's really helpful when you're choosing something and need to know what options the next floor has. Thanks again so much for this series!

[@Rhino_Aus]

14:29 Quick units go before the bomb explosion

[@TrueIchor]

Funny tactic I like is ascending the messenger into the pyre room and having it blow the poor guy up.

[@missingknown]

I'm just waiting for NL to upgrade Dante. Nutty stuff happens.

[@jiv3o275]

You should check out the second Monster Train video yesterday. It was a stream highlight one and Dante was pogged out.

[@DomesticWithAnMD]

I bought Monster Train because of your series. It's the first card game that has really stuck for me in a long time. Keep it up!

[@pretentiousname01]

A tip perhaps You can use ascend cards to shove enemies into the pyre room. For example that loot fairy on the top floor. Also shield/healing enemies without an attack value Also there is no creature upgrade to reduce their cost from shops

[@kevinkent5095]

I press like on your videos because you give the people what they want. You make sure your viewers are getting decent content by doing multi run videos if they're short runs (like you did with STS) and by providing me with stuff to watch as I go through my day-to-day. 'Preciate it, fella.

[@nomoturtle1788]

If you refrain from using the purge card from the armageddon event, you get an artifact that 'makes cards consume instead of purge'. This also works on purge cards from other events, so you can get some really unique setups. Quick kills mines first, just like any other unit.

[@andregoepfert2745]

Keep putting your tank hero with ascend in the back NL, that's the pog were here for! :D

[@EveloGrave]

All aboard the Monster Train! Keep these coming. Loving the series.

[@dravinpendergrass1901]

Sometimes it’s not about the pog but the heart... can’t say that there was much heart though.❤️

[@ZemententeLP]

Okay, work with me here guys. Let's create an epic chorus: Eeeeyyyy everybody, welcome monster to Northern back plays Lion Train!

[@RandolfTheGrey]

Those ascends were dope af

[@Argomundo]

11:00 ... yeah ... dont upgrade your vent, just reroll, dont even think about it

[@skydoesstuff3492]

When he passed up Alpha Fiend for Animus of Speed I took 12 points of psychic damage

[@mm0013]

Small tip: The event with the purge-cards is really good. There is a second event (dependent on the first event) that makes PURGE-cards only CONSUME. You can than remove the CONSUME in the shop. And suddenly you have a free-kill card, and even more broken an X-Damageshield card giving you 2/3 shields for 0. You can even doublestack that card for even more fun.

[@icelandicbanks6473]

Now THIS is some hella relatable Monster Train 'tent.

[@1337Question]

I can't believe he wasted the purge skull like that....

[@TKLevis]

At 11:05 you could've taken Permafrost and Emberstone on Engraft, which would enable you to play your 4 Energy unit

[@Tshirt380]

Dante is basically Guppy, somehow NL gets it every run and I've yet to see him more than once.

[@walrider8073]

this series is awesome, pls keep going!

[@irelydontcare]

NL, not sure if you know, but you can also check your logbook by just pressing settings icon in the top right.

[@LeChuck4]

Another video, another step closer to that next covenant rank. I can basically smell those double digits already, but that also might just be the raw undestilled POG coming out of every single Monster Train upload.

[@goldskinn]

I love spikes builds... most late game bosses have multi strike or stealth... so spikes ruins them :) sharpen with reduced cost is sick

[@ChoiceBandAzu]

Choo choo! All aboard the algorithm train

[@MrJordyrodrigues]

My boy is becoming R A T T L E D. Fear not, here's a like to keep ur mojo up.

[@brielm9250]

Love this series NL.

[@rqgqr5]

His play has definitely gotten worth BUT I still love the content

[@carlwei]

29:00 :c This run had clever Ascension plays and was enjoyable regardless of the outcome. Thanks for the company

[@Chronoz0]

I'm sure you picked up on this, but having your 0/25 in the back is not a recipe for success - the march of shields + ascend is a good way to maintain form Loving the series! Thanks for the great content :D

[@GogoT9001]

NL if you hold onto the purge cards from the Armageddon effect it becomes consume instead of purge

[@kaganuni]

Dude you provided good commentery while doing your best and you provided two runs. Of course I will like the video, I enjoyed my half an hour free!

[@cecilandblues]

The restore champion can be tricky to use correctly, very good use of ascend against the bosses bouncing the champion up a floor to get more restore triggers, but bad plays when you ascended her to the back of the line. Since she does no combat damage you need her up front to soak hits against the relentless waves while power hitters do the damage from the back line. Card draw and reduced spell costs are what make that champion build run..

[@ThatOneIrishFurry]

Idk why NL chose "kill one unit one time" Over "do 10X+3 damage to all units on a floor ignoring armour and damage sheild one time"

[@ChoziNet]

Hopefully he will realize the sinergy between ascending tanky units and marching them in front to protect the dps guys, like in that last fight he had a chance. It's fun to try to compete with him on Covenant ranks, everytime he puts a video up It makes me want to do a new run to catch up to him or get the lead again :p

[@Chunkosaurus]

NL I think at some point Costanza meta might help you because you are very good at convincing yourself the cards that you like are always the right choice.

[@rogerguillem3696]

29 minuts POG RUSH WIN for sure.

[@Anime9042]

....NL still doesn't realize that monster units don't have a "reduce ember cost by 1" in the shop, does he?

[@AdrianVM19]

Thanks for the content, dude!

[@michaelyepez2715]

Hey NL! Tip for awoken the best strat is stacking one rejuvenate unit with an insane amount of regen triggers and have that unit in front to tank the boss. The regen triggers, and tankyness can kill almost any boss. I beat 25 covenant with this strat on my first try

[@exquisitemeat5845]

Thank you Father for delivering unto us, P O G

[@noelgorecki8363]

At 27:00 he could have killed all the enemies on bottom floor with pyre shards

[@SanosukeSagara55]

around minute 6 I died at NL not making his fiend quick and then died more seeing as it could have been a quick multi-strike. Would it have been a good move? who knows but it would have been hilarious.

[@johntank3418]

The first loss was fun and mainly not your fault

[@Schmeisserinho]

MUST BE A SPEEDRUN

[@Anto-vg3lt]

Hey NL, just a heads up that petrified skull (and the other purge options) will have consume after another battle or two, so if you don't use them, you can get an incredible spell every battle. Even better is if you upgrade it to not have consume, and my personal favourite, adding holdover after. Giving you a 1 cost kill an enemy every turn.

[@colinmiller9941]

Yeah I love skull. That run would have been nutty if he had taken the sword and done that though... with the relic, he gets a minimum 30 point AOE every turn that ignores armor and shields. That is some nutty stuff :D

[@Anto-vg3lt]

Colin Miller oh true! I always just take the skull and hard search for the combo. But with that relic the sword is def better for dealing with the armour tanks, thanks for pointing it out!

[@nomoturtle1788]

The misplays are becoming painful to watch. NL is somehow unlearning his lessons, which sucks beacause I want to see him reach C25 and basically play like Rhapsody, or the version of NL that once played Slay the Spire. I hate seeing him fail to stupid mistakes, especially the same mistakes over and over. It was cool to see him finding out he could ascend emeny units out of battle. And ascending the champion to do more rejuvination triggers was hilarious, good old scorched earth tactic. Ascending his tank champion with regen to the back of the line where it isn't tanking was just moronic, he both removed the extremely useful tank role and forced the demon fiend to compete for the healing with the rejuvinate boss. Two birds with one dunce. And this was the mistake he was making on ep 1-8 or so. Putting the tank at the front allows the dps units to hit more times before they die, which is literally the difference between (at 28:22) 147 damage and 370 damage (before even playing anything on that turn, so it would have been an easy kill. That could have even achieved this after making that blunder by using the armour card on sentient to bring her to the front. He keeps playing stewards in spaces that block his other units, but that's not the train stewards fault, that's NL's fault. He shouldn't put them there. He should think about his unit setup first. Every battle will have an ideal unit setup that shouldn't be hard to figure out with likely only little variation, making compromises only with the unit draw you get. His hatred for the train stewards is sometimes unjustified. You remove train stewards not because you hate them, but because their role is better served by another unit. If you don't have another unit, or have spare capacity, then it's probably too soon to yeet them. Yeet a crappy reacurring spell instead of a 'consume' train steward.

[@Egalia_1]

Only 30 min? He either balls out of control or gets killed by the Fel boss, calling it

[@super37david]

Every time he plays this Awoken build he ALWAYS ends um puting him at the back. XD ffs

[@Galloglaoch]

Is this where the Egg learns that in fact, no, you don't put your 0 damage tank begind your scaling damage unit? xD Also brother, you can't leave us with 29 minutes of Monster Train today...it's Sunday!!!! You can't do this to us! Is this some kind of payback for the bonus video last night? Come on man, give us another one!

[@MikkaMissed]

Dear egg, if you don't play a purge card after a fight there's a chance you can get a relic that makes purge cards consume instead

[@kokosan09]

it do be like that sometimes /nods solemnly

[@TheAsadJK]

I think the biggest issue in these runs is you kept trying to go for tricksy plays over just placing down your units. So by the time the bosses came you have 2/3 units on the board

[@fakesmilez1]

Yo NL on the New Run screen in the bottom right corner it tells you if you have won with a specific combination before. Makes it a bit easier than having to go back to check the logbook everytime.

[@Warlock8ZERO]

NL fyi it's not one extra spikes, it's everyone level of spikes do +1 dmg which is basically double dmg spikes, a lot stronger than the other champion power. 20 spikes dmg vs 15 nuke dmg.

[@ewanmaccoll6298]

I NEEEED MORE DEMON CHOO CHOO

[@EvermoreDrive]

Please define POG

[@Lolatusername]

You dont have to go to the logbook to see if you won with a certain permutation, it tells you on top of the "depart" button

[@Boamere]

False Starts and Big Sharts

[@harisiregar232]

27:34 why not ascend your own unit to the second floor?

[@walrider8073]

you know sth will go horrible wrong when the episode is only 30 minutes long

[@Drecon84]

Personally I'm practicing a bit on lower Covenant levels to build up experience. It feels like it helps me to get better, although everyone has their own taste in that of course.

[@Nibas]

I'm trying to get a win with every combination on Covenant 1 before jumping up to my current Covenant which I think is 5 or 6. Not sure if it would be better to just do the max each time to get better.

[@Drecon84]

@@Nibas I currently climb coventants per combination. I've noticed that I'm really good with Stygian but suck with Umbra. I just need different Covenants for each combination to feel like I can handle the challenge.

[@thomasfairchild5538]

My daily dose of pog

[@purplepeople3960]

So is no one going to point out that he only played the purge by complete accident thinking it was Vent

[@guillaumest-jacques8816]

NL. Please upgrade your units with stats when you have the opportunity to. That +5/+10 on the 30/4 quick unit would have made it disgustingly good early...

[@ArielVolovik]

29 minutes? Must be a speedrun

[@vanphoenix676]

Me playing monster train - Good deck , good run , smart plays. One hour later - last boss fight , draw everything you dont need for the first 3 rounds. This game bends you over

[@MattSmithIllustration]

Hey NL if you have an iPad you can get the steam link app and play it on there. It rules. Just FYI

[@ShikaarM99]

Hey NL, the clan select screen shows whether you have a win or not with the two clans that you're choosing, it's in the bottom right corner

[@jennietsai1260]

Hey NL, have you thought about lowering the covenant rankings on some of your runs so you can unlock more cards and potentially get more synergies?

[@greindes1579]

It's not a big difference at all

[@LainiWeiz]

Plus you don't need to win to unlock cards just earn XP/score during a run, winning with a covenant rank just unlocks the gold border.

[@buzzk5130]

Say whatever you want egglord im still gonna like the video so that the youtube alogir---- HELP POGS ARE RAINING DOWN FROM THE SKY