Last Chance to Abuse Monitor Lizard Before It's Nerfed!! | The Bazaar

[@Retromation]

A patch is confirmed to be coming later on in the day today!

[@RedFangg]

Any chance you do a quick patch rundown for the casual youtube-onlies so we understand what changed between your videos? Sometimes you talk about things that were patched and i feel a bit puzzled because i dont know whats the change

[@kibutsujimuzan5819]

can't wait to finally see less dooleys in ranked 🙏🏻

[@asais44]

Finally, haven't played this in a month, cause this patch was the worst

[@raihanmuzzammil1322]

Guessing a stream coming soon for the patch update

[@macbevan9017]

Mayor Reto, How do you respond to Reynad changing the name of your FAIRLY ELECTED POSITION to TRASHTOWN MAYOR. The denizens of tent city lend you their unwavering support in this trying time.

[@lordadamant8182]

"225 poison plus you're bald plus ratio" like dude he's already dead 😂😂

[@mdgraller]

25:20 Unexpectedly based reference Also, maybe a bit of a cope take, but I don't see anything wrong with documenting the meta through showing off the most powerful builds. It would be one thing if you pivoted your channel into sweaty try-hard just running the strongest meta builds every video and bragging about it, but showing off and discussing at some depth what the strongest builds are is totally acceptable, at least to me

[@Retromation]

I don't think there is anything wrong with it either, but I like doing it with the more "taboo" builds closer to when they're getting patched out. I don't want a hand in teaching people how to play lizard while we had a month left in the patch lol.

[@samuelstarrick8487]

Careful, our corporate overlords wouldn’t want us learning about ethics and consumption. Lovin the runs and loving the switch between crazy meta builds and making crazy shit work that has no right to do so.

[@WD_Gaster66]

6:12 You heal 18hp for every Shoe Blade. If they crit every single hit, you'd only be losing 2hp per hit, and every non crit you'd heal for the equivalent of 3 crits. So yeah, regen is great very early on.

[@maxhasert8426]

I appreciate you have fun playing the game. The spreadsheet is cool, piloting the meta is cool. Your passion for the game cones through the screen, and that is what makes me love watching you. And you happen to off-meta at the highest levels of the game, which is exciting in its own right.

[@RobertTaylor-mg5kr]

Absolutely love your videos dude, it’s makes the night shifts just a bit easier to get through. 😊

[@DoPtRiGGa]

You were the chosen one Reto!!! It was said that you would destroy the Lizard, not join them! Bring balance to the Bazaar, not leave it in darkness!!! 🤣😂

[@samuelstarrick8487]

Didnt i see you over at rhaps?

[@frostwolfnoku]

​@samuelstarrick8487 Yeah I was about to say the same thing! I swear I saw this exact comment when Rhapsody did a monitor lizard build a little bit ago

[@DoPtRiGGa]

@@samuelstarrick8487 Not me just lots of Star Wars fans out there 🤣

[@LiqnLag]

Your knowledge is unfathomably great about this game and its mechanics. My hat is off to you and your (normally) civilized play.

[@TheLogander]

I think it's cool that you try everything, the meta builds included

[@etherkye2]

That day 8 mirror match was funny. So glad that 'draws' are counted as wins

[@settogvoid9407]

43:00 because you repeatedly said you wanted to know which was faster I did a quick manual count on this fight: Race Carl activated 13 times First Ayden activated 9 times Even if I'm off a bit I'm certain that Race Carl activates more frequently on this board

[@Juggernautohyeah]

Clawrence may not be a meta pick, but he was what I ran in my first perfect victory recently. Also had Walter on board the whole game too.

[@DoPtRiGGa]

Walter is kind of a sleeper win condition, the longer you keep him on the more it ramps HP and progressively makes you stronger and stronger while also giving you a slot you can always replace. Can absolutely be the difference in 9 or 10 wins

[@tharucion]

First few times I encountered Monitor Lizard in the store I was like.. "Meh, that's rubbish" Seeing as it states: "When you Haste" I thought it was going of on a haste trigger from the item that provides it (So Item x hastes) which would mean only one trigger. Later on I found out (by being beaten up by that lizard) that the text should be: "When you haste an item, poison xx" This might be something that the dev's could go over. Because some items actually state that, and some don't but just do. Also, Quite enjoying your video's. Great that your explaining your thought process when picking items and choices :)

[@ProfZedi]

20:13 - Walter Cooler between Race Carl & Companion Core is fastest ramp since Race Carl goes off about once per second with this build! Loving the videos! 🙌

[@WaveTheEmeraldDragon]

Never ask City Mayor about his dark poison past. (He has video records of that on YT)

[@jacobadderley2643]

*sells virus* 19:15 •••uuuunfortunately I still feel sick* 😂

[@stephenp8232]

The lack of vials kept it from being abused i thunk... ive seen 50 to 100, and the worse was the 35 poison and 22 burn base with both rays. I was a hp pig but it wasny fair in the slightest i think it reached at least 100 of both by the end which was far too fast for a 30k hp piggy I am waiting for either a sunlight spear or maybe even a heal = damage run. Both would be great to see but also rng to do

[@RydWolf]

The game offered you Corrosive Toxins, but you refused. It offered you Corrosive Toxins yet again, but you remained resolute. Kudos on that. 53:48 I could have sworn I'd seen you do a build with DJ Robot, but now that I think about it, I've either confused it with somebody else's build, or you only took DJ Robot to get the Nanobots, and then sold the DJ.

[@iACuteNighty]

that's what he did, yes and he got nanobots twice i think

[@skittlez0496]

I love the off-meta builds, too! Playing rank every time would limit the creativity you could have with that

[@gregorysmith9114]

Regarding the first Wasp Fight: In a normal run, no items would leave you at 6 HP. With your regen, you lived at 75. That means you regened 69 life. Nice

[@ANTX81]

I keep rewatching those mirror matches and can hardly tell how they worked out.

[@blaisetheginger]

The Doolgeneracy was real in this run

[@cavyv2751]

I'm really excited to see what comes with the new patch!

[@liberalideas8224]

While I was writing the following comment and about to post it, I thought last second to check to see if a new patch was out. It is. lol. Leaving this here to laugh at how off I might have been. My wild, no evidence-based guess at the next patch: 1. Monitor lizard gets pulled while they "look at what to do with it" 2. freeze skills have their durations reduced by 50% across the board due to those skills vastly overperforming in win/lose metrics (I am guessing, I do not know) 3. BOB and regal blade have their scaling reduced slightly and the level up option to increase health by 10% is lowered to 5% 4. Corrosive toxins gets called fine, it is "just a skill that feels bad to lose to". Update: Yep, mostly wrong lol, but I did get a little close to some things. They changed Monitor lizard and it still looks good, but not busted anymore, we ll see. Freeze seems to have received just the slightest of nerfs, with rapid thaw being made much easy to get and stronger and freeze skills slightly shorter. Corrosive toxins skill starts at gold tier and has smaller numbers, but it still looks like it could be a nightmare to run into.

[@FistaCuffLinks]

For all the whining you talk about this patch creating, I hope it is also recognized by those individuals how much good this patch did for game balancing purposes and future innovating. I've thoroughly enjoyed some of the things this patched changed, and I have even won more on this patch than the previous one! So, I personally think that many evaluations of this patch may be short-sighted. Of course, we'll have new complaints next patch!

[@raihanmuzzammil1322]

Hey reto, ever planning on starting Balatro. I would really love to see you play that game

[@Alex-vx3tp]

He did the thing

[@chie970]

Is Aiden faster than Carl for Walter's adjacency? I usually put Carl -> Walter -> Core 🤔

[@arandomguywitharandomname4187]

Cool Leds is literally just enchant the core with slow while this is on board Goofy

[@Big_Sixer]

Any word on release date?

[@salveteinfernum]

6:48 reto teaches us how to rizz

[@ZeCocodude]

Hey Reto, I think there's a typo in the title at time of writing this. English is not my first language but I think the title should say "its" rather than "it's".

[@iACuteNighty]

no.

[@noart4you]

It would have to be spelled "its" if he used the word "nerf" and not "nerfed"

[@ZeCocodude]

​@@noart4you yup, I think that was the case at the time of writing my initial post. It's correct now.

[@Bleeebloo]

It got buffed. Welcome to 2025. 🎉❤

[@mr_evil_kitty2862]

3:37 i feel called out

[@iACuteNighty]

i wanna like this game, i bought it, but getting disconnected 30 times a run and then coming back to various visual bugs is driving me nuts

[@BenJuvi]

Do you have a key left, to share with me? I'd love to try the game out.

[@iACuteNighty]

@@BenJuvi did you get it

[@iACuteNighty]

@@BenJuvi ye i tried to leave it as a comment on your 10 year old video but it got removed, if you want to give me your discord or some way for me to let you know the code then ill do it

[@enruzky]

It is poison day today 😏

[@TsieLeMoswang]

patch cant come quick enough

[@forlone_nosai498]

Photo finish 41:10

[@xbsdbsdbx]

It was fun to watch you do this once, but it would definitely get boring watching you run burn dooley and poison dooley every video, so I appreciate you doing videos of fun builds.

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

Hopefully the new character drops!!!

[@JemstoneGames]

Man, I struggled so hard during this patch grinding out gems and only just got enough gems to unlock Dooley and now it’s going to be all nerfed into the ground and it might be terrible playing Dooley next coming patch *sigh*

[@GOODGoodness-gj1fs]

I used to pray for times like this 🙏😔

[@blauerreiter3425]

Please stay varied and creative!

[@Shoe_Horn]

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[@kban6748]

Reto, i have never felt more insulted. Clawrence? Not a meta pick? Look at the tophat! Hes how you win in style! How is fashion not meta??

[@HaruIRAI]

I wonder what meta reddit will complain about now?

[@justsomeguy471]

how dare you do a meta build! :D

[@jakobgrunig6983]

I am happy😂

[@lankyfella]

Just make monitor lizard unable to be hasted by companion core.

[@mr.grunnson9302]

Try hard Tuesdays?

[@blasthf]

I have a question do you ever lose? because every video you get 10 wins. So do you do all this commentary over every game and then scrap the ones you lose? I'm just curious lol.

[@Dryskle]

He commented on another video that he will sometimes record several videos before hitting on a run that ends up both interesting and successful that actually gets uploaded. Man puts in the work to make sure the content stays varied and fun!

[@waxren922]

It's completely brain off The first time I booted up the game I played dually and got a 10 win before I knew anything about how the game worked

[@chrisosborn6401]

Despite the latest allegations of backroom dealings with lizardfolk, Trashtown Mayor Reto's standing in the popularity polls remain strong. (those who know, know)

[@QualeQualeson]

Disgusting.