Pael's Tears...never used (Slay the Spire 2)

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0:00 gamers, we are back. having a great time playing slay the spire. i gotta tell you, we beat slay the spire as engine 10 as the ironclad on stream today, but i love playing... not the ironclad, sorry, the silent. i love playing as the silent, so we're gonna play as the silent. and i love all three of the options. you're gonna think i've lost my mind. i think we go stone humidifier. i'm testing a theory that it's actually good because hp is so important if you're fighting two final bosses.
0:28 that's my theory and i'm sticking to it regardless of the evidence. that's what science would want. now, number one most important thing as the silent. i'm telling myself not educating you because sometimes i forget. we need in our first few card rewards or the shop that we're going to go to, we need to get a card that actually does damage so we're not fighting an elite and just like watching them beat us to death.
0:58 precise okay snake bite solves a lot of problems snake bite solves a lot of problems especially upgraded applying 10 poison kills so many bosses by itself but it doesn't mean you have to go full poison on the other hand on the other hand man and then you could because snake bite has retained you could apply 16 poison in a single turn you probably get hit pretty badly but
1:28 maybe we're on a rare, uh, a rare for me poison build, man. i'll lose 3 max hp to upgrade a car. i'll do it again! i'll do it one... no, i won't do it one more time. that's that's too much. and then give me a skill with nimble 2. 13 block survivor kinda... kinda peak, man. and we're gonna rest anyway. come on, man. go ahead, add a clumsy. what do we get whenever you use a potion gain 3 strength? we're gonna rest anyway.
2:04 so i feel like fighting an elite is not that crazy. obviously we would have preferred to not have an aoe boss given the circumstances here, because poison is going to do better against a single target with the kind of setup that we got. but you're cooked next turn, which means... i'm like, do i attack you? if i end turn then you die. don't i get one full turn? either way it doesn't make a difference because i only have one attack. but if i pass turn, don't i get one free turn?
2:40 to hit the enemies or does it just go straight into combat? one free turn! one free turn to hit all the enemies! yippee! yippee! this will kill you before you get to act. that's big. now, our other poison card, bubble guts or whatever it's called, completely useless.
3:07 yeah, yeah, aggressively useless, but we got one dead and then we've got the enemies are not in sync, which is good. like two will attack this turn, but we should be able to kill you. oh my god, we got none attacks. oh my god. that's all right. you're still dead and then you two guys are on different turns or you're on different, different attacks i should say. let's put you in a position where possibly you could die next turn. i know it's not called bubblebutts, it's called bibble bobble, okay? it's obvious.
3:38 not retain? well, in that case we pass turn. we have to rest anyway. we have to rest anyway, so this is not that big of a deal. rip, no bubble guts? we don't want bubble guts now that i think about it again. don't kill me. don't, i'm dead. don't kill me. we have, our deck's literally good. our deck's, why is this the first elite you fight every single time? there's other, i know there's other elites. why is this the first elite you fight every time? every card i play is agony. my deck is agony. my deck is misery. i mean, i mean, tremendous malaise.
4:17 i'll do it. what do you got for me? blur follow through leading strike. phantom blades i really like actually. deadly poison doesn't really fit with the rest of the squad here, but i really like phantom blades and a cloak and dagger works with it. obviously. where are we? we're on the underdocs. just trying to think of what elites we could come across and whether we want to be aggressive because i actually feel like we got a pretty
4:57 pretty terrific setup here. just because like shivs with phantom blades do so much damage, man. i'll take one damage to get out in front of this though. reality kind of nasty for sure. excuse me. where's my... i was supposed to go to you by the way. where is my card that gives me shivs on my shiv deck? i was promised a card that gives me shivs on my shiv deck.
5:33 oh, there it is at the very bottom. how droll, niles. how very droll. i think you take one turn off and then maybe kill them both next turn. or at least kill one, put this on the other, and then you have nothing to worry about. i honestly think having one poison card might be good for the bosses that we're gonna be coming across anyway, or the elites for that matter.
6:00 let's add a second. maybe we have a little poison shiv setup going. i don't know. maybe they can exist. maybe they can coexist, man. certainly this. certainly that. i mean, five poison against an enemy with 23 hp. got me feeling pretty nice. one attack kills you. got to remember, sometimes high ascension, at least in slay the spire 1, it's not about building a perfectly synergistic deck.
6:39 it's about building a deck that gets through specific challenges. it's a bit like, you know, survival of the fittest, you know, whatever. there's no such thing as a best deck, man. there's a best deck for different conditions. there's a best deck based on the cards that you got access to. there's a best deck based on the bosses that you happen to roll. like everything is variable, man. even variety. got some shivs.
7:14 we still don't have that many shiv enabling cards, unfortunately. but i actually don't think you even need to play accuracy. not early anyway. not while you have one shiv creating card in your deck and it only creates one shiv. you don't need that. poison is gonna be a little bit more effective against the sewer clam. taking a turn off. huge news for a guy like me, cuz look at that. all of a sudden you're taking 11 damage next turn. there's no way it kills you.
7:53 i have to say it's probably worth taking 11 damage versus wasting a gigantic potion that we probably want to save for an elite here. crazy potion as well. now we're freaking talking, blade dance me. okay, we could be on to something big here. like tom hanks at the movies, one skill per turn. one skill per turn, not even that bad for a beast like me. especially if i can play footwork, which i can, which i can by the way.
8:31 gonna hurt me pretty bad on this one though. we might have to rest. resting with no humidifier is a little irritating for sure, but see what we can do man. poke and dagger. this, the shiv does 17 damage. oh dude, the chickens have large talons type cadence? how interesting man. about two of those. literally just need to play one shiv next turn.
8:58 literally not going to be possible, but i can still kill you right right right right okay? very in a bottle obviously huge man. that's so devastating that i got nothing out of the potion like an idiot um i like a noxious fumes cures artifact very well you know what we got fairy in a jar do it and it's kind of a oe now that i think about it attack skill and power for free that's big choose a card at three copies of it to your hand is this
9:39 is this crazy? is that crazy what i was suggesting there? oh, there was really one. but i think they're all dead anyway. either way, it's the greatest potion that's ever existed, that's for sure. at the start of each combat, upgrade two cards from the draw pile. okay, i like it. a dagger spray is a very nice card to have. thank you for upgrading a strike and defend. i mean, it's early. what did we expect? be honest with me.
10:19 tell me no lies. are you more calcified or are you more damp? i think i'm definitely at my age. i mean, you'd be doing me a great honor if you called me damp instead of calcified. let's just put it that way. this won't kill you. it will deal 12 damage. 12 damage doesn't kill you. but shivs with your, i still think you play it. we'll go down to 13. and then one, i think that's where you leave it and then this shiv will kill you next turn. i guess you die to a strike as well. so we probably shiv you.
10:58 neutralize you and end up using fairy in a jar. but that's what it's there for. i thought for a second i thought it wasn't gonna work and i was gonna be very upset but we're back. another blade dance huge. wait, something is gonna happen man. i do think we need the rest unfortunately. this is where stone humidifier would go crazy but blade dance got upgraded. that's awesome too.
11:35 this guy can be annoying. having a little bit of poison growing in the aggregate is going to be helpful. just keep our block and shiv going here. you're getting three poison every turn. you've got vigorous. well this is not awesome. i definitely don't think i can break you. let's save one shiv. this would deal eight. eight plus six is fourteen. takes you to seventy eight. you know what? we can break you.
12:07 which saves us from taking a little bit of damage now, but we really gotta get in there and basically i think we have to kill you next turn because you're gonna hit for like 38 or something. 36. put a footwork into a cloak and dagger? i live with 41, but notice the operative word in the sentence is live. too bad you will die.
12:35 and i mean, sure man, but up my sleeve kind of the goat as well. and then we do it again man cuz we got one more elite that we have to fight. assuming we make it through this beast right here. i obviously need some block too. that's all i can do man unless, no, cuz you needed accuracy. i think that was the right play. you can run the numbers but that has the feeling of a right turn to me. as the guy who's not gonna do the arithmetic that has the feeling of the correct turn.
13:15 you're gonna need footwork against the fella. you're gonna need to play a defend. you probably don't care about noxious as much as you care about accuracy, i think. you need phantom blades. and being able to play one shift per turn is basically, well, except when you have a million block. but most of the time, one shift per turn is gonna be all we need. we should hit him again anyway. it's important to keep him on the multiples of 15. and then 17 block.
13:59 i don't know what i thought i was gonna play there. neutralize? goodnight? we're dead again. it's true, it's true, i swear. i beat ascension x as the silent today. it was a ship build! it was a ship build and we started with knife trap. you can look it up. don't talk to me about the chicanery involved, okay? it was a great run! it was a great run and we deserved it. nutritious oyster, raise max hp by 11 or greed? i mean, greed is mighty tempting, man. i think we're gonna raise max hp by 11 though.
14:40 slurp up that nutritious oyster. i told you, did i tell you or did i not tell you that we're gonna keep taking max hp focused items regardless of whether the evidence says they're good or bad. because i believe that they're gonna be good. by the way, details for this relic will be revealed in the future in case you're curious about what it does. at least you're just befuddled by what plus 11 max hp is. i wonder how they came to 11 as a number, right? it's, i mean, it's a nice round number.
15:13 not as round as like a 10 or a 12 maybe but i'm a believer in a lot here, but i am a believer in the snakebite. chad has forced me to be a believer in snakebite and i don't even think they're wrong about it, man. we need a way to deal damage. seven poison is actually a pretty good amount of damage. again, this has the feeling of being right because you're gonna die next turn which means we can focus all our energy on you, all one of it.
15:47 and then you come back and you're dealing a ton of damage, which i can get around just barely. i think it's a nothing. i must have like a cat hair on my mouse or something, man. aimbot and slay the spire, like it's mouse pointers jumping all over the screen. there, i got it. i freaking got it. i'm gonna take a skewer just because i always complain about needing ways to deal damage. forget this chosen cheese, man. i love it and i like it.
16:22 now i'm not feeling too bad. what do you got for me? remember what the deck does. it plays snakebite. bassen is mighty interesting and then focusing on removing strikes instead of blocks. it's a very interesting idea. i'll hit you for eight, go ahead. there will be a turn, i believe, where snakebite is the right play, man. but for now, as long as i have great defense,
16:58 i would be loath to take any damage. like i'm not gonna take a power that makes defending substantially easier and then be out here like willfully taking even one damage. it's not how i roll. don't really discard. i don't think we need another dagger spray. i do think piercing whale can be good. you know what? i'm gonna take another dagger spray. just thinking of what we could be going up against. he's just studying it. dump it. i wanna see fasten.
17:45 look at that, look at that beautiful turn. stop attacking me so much, taking 10 damage wasn't really on my bingo card today. do people still say that? do people know what bingo is? are we the last generation to know what bingo is? are we the last generation whose moms and grandmas went to bingo? i'm just talking. i'm not saying it means it, maybe it's good, maybe gambling is bad. a lot of people have suggested it for sure.
18:26 i'm just not really impressed by anything that this deck does except play snake bite. no, wait, we have a bunch of dagger sprays. this isn't that bad. four has to go first. it's like 4132 or something, something along these lines. well, damage coming out. we need to do damage as fast as possible. i'm just wondering if we're gonna duplicate, and i don't think it's a bad idea. if we're gonna duplicate, what are we gonna duplicate?
19:02 i think dagger spray doesn't make sense. i mean, you play the card but i think duplicating it doesn't make sense. you could duplicate fasten and then your defense would be crazy. but it showed up so late that i kind of resent it. it's still probably the play i think. might seem insane. i think i don't wanna play the backflip cuz i don't wanna accidentally draw our dagger spray, which is like such an important card for us. it also picks up a kill.
19:45 here before you can act so that's effectively like eight block. i genuinely think we might have something here. it's not perfect, but it's we might have something prayer wheel early. prayer wheel early that doesn't happen all that much man. i do like red mask as well. i'm gonna get a little greedy man. i think fast and can wait a little bit. i definitely feel like hello world.
20:29 not 100% sure how i feel about that. uh... by the way, i'm not saying it's bad. i'm just saying i don't know how to feel about it. it doesn't mean bad. he's beginning to understand the value of retain, man. it's like that card that i wanted to play, i just wait till it turns like this when i can actually play it. look at that! look at that! we gotta deflect for free. oh my god, we gotta deflect for free.
21:05 maybe hello world is actually goated. maybe a card i've never taken on purpose as the defect except when i have like a power synergy can actually do something. bro, you're dead. you're dead. i just had to poison you one time and you're dead. i just have to hit you with anything and you've died. that was good, man. i do like a prepared, of course. i almost feel like, wait, we have expensive skills? snake bite? you could just pounce and then play snake bite for free, bro. blade of ink is really good too. i think we've got something here.
21:44 i'm not feeling that confident. let's not go crazy. what are we doing by the way? what is this? what is this gonna be? we don't discard enough for reflex. discard just a little bit. i don't need another skewer. strangle? we're not really strangle coated at all. i honestly think you just take dagger throw cuz it's like, it fits. it just fits in a deck. dying here would be very humbling. i think the dream is,
22:34 drawing seconds crazy, but we knew we were gonna play hello world we want to get as many as many written number things as many snake bites out there as possible this it's you for 12 play a block for free i need my snake bite. all right. okay, we hit you you have to get snake bitten draw this card can't even play a dash play this bro. i need my fast next turn fast and snake bite, please. oh
23:11 fasten, no snake bite, but okay. poison's getting on there more slowly than i like to see. piercing whale, sure, then probably just, i mean, a dash does do 10 damage. you really just play two defense? i think you do and you rely on your poison damage. we're gonna need our hp for the revenge phase. bro, where's my snake bite? bro, bro, where's my freak? pardon me, where's my freaking snake bite? it's always at the bottom.
23:57 this is big though, a pounce into a leg sweep, deflect, do a damage, it's literally the bottom card. i can't with this. pounce, at least give me pounce, at least draw into pounce. my god, well, i have to put it on you as soon as possible. of course i have to put it on you. look, he's gonna be doing 41 damage. pounce, pounce into a leg sweep to keep, if i can keep you weak during the phase at which you, no, you probably reset your d bus, we'd have to put weakness on you again. prepared me.
24:31 dump a dagger spray. draw another card. dump a strike. i'm not even messing with you, there is a chance. i don't even think it's that crazy of a chance too, but it's amazing to like in my head run the calculations of how different this run would look if i actually drew the snakebites even slightly earlier, man. like in a manner of speaking, they're trolling a little bit is what i'm trying to say. they're trolling. dump it. okay, you're gonna do 56 damage.
25:22 we have one weakness in there let her fly boys. we didn't get it. however, wait, however, oh my god, we live with one. can you believe it? who isn't triggered an additional time? yeah figured an additional time. yeah. yeah. yeah. so when we if we put 10 poison on you it'll actually put 20 if we've played the power first which seems really good and
26:05 i would happily go pales tears. we have serious energy problems and then just take the question mark path, man. okay, see what you're cooking up here. passing is just big, but even with no... nah, you can't be running it with no defense. you save snake bite for the wombo combo, which we do not have. however, however, and we can't get a kill, however, but to work on you, we play another defense. 15, you're doing 20, taking five damage, not that bad.
26:55 not that good, but not that bad. this is the wombo combo. because we can play pounce to kill you and then put 20 poison on you? but you can only take 9 damage per. but you take it... oh no, poison is triggered. okay, now why didn't you say so? why didn't you say so? i get it now. so the poi... that's crazy! that's so much better! if i put 10 poison on you, you'll take 9, 9.
27:32 9, 8, but then it'll still kill you. okay, yeah, yeah, all right, wait a second, wait a second, this changes the game, man. okay, let's not take any trash. i mean, that's a little bit beneath, i might be a little bit desperate, i'm not that desperate. you need accelerant out there, how about a backflip into a survivor, huge. and then you can save a snakebite for like maybe this turn, maybe a pounce into a snakebite. it is gonna make the poison depreciate faster.
28:08 but most of the time we'll be considering that to be like a huge bonus. not this time because it doesn't do any damage to the shield, that's right. still, literally necessary plays there. what do you got for me? another snake bite? how quickly? we've changed our tune on this card by the way.
28:37 it only took a really, really, really long time. wait, now being able to retain the pounce until you see snakebite again as well. still not a believer. i'd like to lean the deck out a little bit if we can. this is an easy one, man. snakebite needs to be perfect fit. love this path right here. i'm gonna take the gold. i'm gonna take, i'm sorry, i'm gonna take the gold.
29:12 remove two strikes at an ultimate strike. we'd literally like to remove two strikes at an ultimate strike. it's less strikes, but also it gives us more defense, which are the things that fasten works with. let's make this skill free. i think we want a potion up here. this could be a little spicy. let's make you vulnerable. pounce, play a survivor for free, and then defend. that will stun you. i can't remember, do you scale like crazy?
29:53 you have the makings of a unit that scales like crazy. any chance we draw accelerant? no, he's gotta go. that kills him before we have to worry about it again. we take five damage, whatever man, life goes on. accelerant, easy turn. accelerant leg sweep, lose fasten for nothing. good play, really strong play. you were already weakened. sorry, i don't know why i got so sad. honestly, okay, shuffle it all up so you get
30:42 you get a snake bite because it always goes to the top. and then the poison goes twice. let's get working on you. you got a lot more to work with. you need some block. don't kill me. bartering face. don't kill me. don't kill me. don't kill me yet. you're already weak. you're already weak. leg sweep here is crazy. okay. we basically needed that. you're doing 18 damage. literally have to play this or i die.
31:29 now i've why is why are both of them alive? why have none of them died? why have none of them died? one of them should have died. take 10 poison. taste my blade. okay, well i'm not feeling as confident about going to the elite fight without resting anymore. but we did we did make it. even more poison. even more poison. okay. honestly, i think we need double campfire. the money ain't going bad, man. regal pillow.
32:07 i have to try to fight an elite. please be, well there's still one elite here. okay, fight one elite just to test the deck. you're also an elite man. you're also an elite. by any other word, huge, huge. dump it. honestly, do a little bit of damage, dump it. okay, two snake bites means we're really waiting for a pounce. no pounce i'm afraid. no pounce i'm afraid. okay, i'll tell you what, skill potion, bullet time. that, okay.
32:45 great preview of a card that would actually be insane for us if we could get it from the boss because it is a rare reward. next skill you play costs zero whether it's this turn or next turn huge. accelerant anybody? another snake bite. accelerant, you're dead. totally fine. we will take the lantern key. i think it's good.
33:21 sometimes you can have to, like it exists in this game where you can have too much of a good thing. but let's give it a shot, man. let's give it a shot. i don't know how we're gonna get through you to be honest. you can't play pounce first. you have to like maybe weaken and then goes, they already start weak, bro. then go straight into calculated gamble. thinking this is a big single snake fight dagger spray territory. this is gonna be rough. it's probably the worst elite we could have possibly gotten, i think.
34:01 you need accelerant. you need some block at some point. now we need pounce again. another accelerant. and then the question is will i live? as of right now, the answer to that is no, right? this is gonna go 432. it's not even close. we have to play him at some point. the point does not have to be now. put up some block. still in a real rough spot. we're dead. we're dead. we've died. play your worst one cuz you still die.
34:58 than one of these but it doesn't get you there. you die by 2 hp bro. oh it stings! it stings so bad but still i think we had a great series of runs there. not quite great enough to be good but great in their own way. for now thanks for watching, hope you've enjoyed them. if you did click the like button, subscribe if you want to see more in the future. good night!