Now I want to hear NLs grocery tier list from 75 random foods

Rice is easily a 4/5, fits in many different archetypes, doesn't require much commitment to cook, and synergises well with more messy setups such as curries.

My top 3 cards on ironclad are strike, defend and bash because I play them in every single one of the decks I build.

Holy shit the most ambitious crossover

"It's not a game where you come to the game already knowing what you're going to do" "Hey errybody today we'll be playing as the defect, and we're gonna build frost focus."

Me: _sees hour-plus time, sets 1.5x_ Joinrbs: "Turn on 1.5 speed" Me: get out of my head

Jorbs: I don't have a top 3 cards. Also Jorbs: *takes every Piercing Wail he can get, everytime*

I always carbo load by eating some Fettucine Alfredo before fighting the Gremlin Nob.

I set it to .5x speed to enjoy the slow mode experience of slay the spire

Which Ironclad cards would make the best guacamole?

God I hope NL actually watches this, this is such a comprehensive explanation of the game. Thank you for making this Jorbs!

2019 Jorbs - You can't rate ingredients in a grocery store, and you can't rate cards in Slay The Spire. 2020 Jorbs - At least Slay-I Bot realizes that Defect rares are garbage.

Seeing you discuss ratings out of the context of Slay the spire and more in a general sense made me realize and become more aware of why I myself often seem to disproportionately struggle to actually rate things when requested. There's so many variables, so many contexts to consider, and even in a vacuum how do I even decide where the scale starts and ends in case my 10/10 pick suddenly gets beat out by a better option in the future? Thank you for that, it's actually quite validating to get a more defined description of my rather vague issues on the matter.

I'm so bad @ Ironclad I slowed the video down.

This is my favourite kind of content. Chilled, thoughtful, humble, likeable.

Great video! I am trying to make a modded character, this view of how cards are balanced made me realize that my current card pool is severly lacking in some jobs. Thanks JoINrbs!

Love coming to find out my favorite slay the spire teacher watches my favorite adequate egg

I imagine JoINrbs actually rating all the cards saying "So this one is somewhere between a 2 and a 10. Probably closer to 4 most of the time, but if you have..."

Garlic is clearly the best of all ingredients. #1.

Super cool that some of my favourite internet personalities are interacting. Thanks for the video Joe in Ribs!

"There is no value in not liking something." "If I put a cleave in my deck I am upset." Hmm...

Hey Jorbs! I’ve been binging a lot of your KZfaq content lately to have a chill time after work, and I just wanted to mention that you’re incredibly articulate - it’s enviable! :) Thanks for the good vibes. edit to add a long ramble: Thanks for the aside of “there’s no value in not liking things” being a life lesson. It put into different words something I’ve had to learn as well in my life which was nice to hear both because it’s a pleasant sentiment and because of solidarity or whatever. Cheers!

Excellent content for playing in the background while getting murdered by book of stabbing!

Psst, you should probably link to NL's video in the description.

25:36 This is why I really like picking poision stab early in act 1. It is a good single target damage source that also works as a scaling card later in the run.

Thank you, Coach Z! This was the viewpoint I needed into the game to improve where I felt I was stagnating.

So, what white wine would you say goes best with a claw deck that’s going up against Donu and Deca on ascension 13?

Thank you so much for making this video. I really enjoy watching the both of you !

Great video! Very helpful! I have been really struggling with exactly this where I don't know when and how to ensure specific deck-needs. I would love to see example cards for these categories for the other classes as well. :)

The only reason I'd like to see you coach northernlion is cause I think it would be some quality content

@Jorbs , I beat ascension 10 with ironclad after watching this. I had failed like 5 times in a row before that. Thank you!! Tl;Dr - I was so excited about my deck that I accidentally took the last relic from the last non-boss chest instead of getting the shard to go fight the heart -_-;

Is this a diss track I'm about to watch? Thanks for this video in advance tho

You are awesome man. Great talk at the beginning (haven't watched the rest yet :))

I never understood Joinrbs before, now my mind is blown and my respect for this man just went up a ton

I think that anyone who wants to get better at something knows that nuance is important, but as long as people keep that in mind then simplified systems like ratings help people just getting into the game or hobby help people wrap their minds around important concepts about the game or hobby. I guess what I'm saying is, when I first learned Slay the Spire I knew that no one card was better than the other because that's not how most games work, but I didn't know what I didn't know so latching onto a specific mindset helped me to more easily jump into a type of game I had never encountered before. So just conceptually, Nothernlion's video is probably just as important for new players as this video is. Well, I will say I agree that there is importance in making this kind of video because I admit a lot of people take ratings and just run with them forever and never really think about the deeper implications.

I love this so much. Insanely brilliant idea (as usual) JoINrbs

59:35 Can confirm. That's the roadblock I hit at Ascension 5 (Ironclad, The Silent) ~10 (Defect). Thanks for giving me the tools to try and get over that hump.

To bad his backlog is a year long

+sub because of Homestar Runner reference ......also for the great Slay the Spire discussions, I suppose. Learning how to think about and get better at great games...clearly just a side benefit, really.

I like whirlwind because of how it interacts with certian kinds of scaling. Obviously you pick it up if you have the X+2 relic, which turns it from all your energy in hits to a 0 energy card that hits everything twice and scales amazingly with strength if you play it at the end of your turn. It can really easily break certian fights both early and later.

G R E M L I N F L O B

Great video! I'd really appreciate one of these for Silent and Defect as well! Something to consider

Jorbs on NLSS frickin when

14:30 and onwards is actually profound

A chef would probably rate Salt as a top tier item in a grocery store.

It never really clicked for me why I made A20 ironclad decks that were great against act 1 and died at act 2. I assumed faster scaling/frontload/aoe were necessary, but didn’t think block would do much to help. Thanks for the tip!

Cheese is 10 out of 10! Must buy! Put it everywhere!

Thanks for making these guides. This combined with your overexplained videos were enough to help me get my first heart kill.

Awesome video. Great intro to some sts advanced concepts.

That moment when NL actually does make a grocery tier list

the gocery store tier list is a straigth up nlss bit tbh

Great video!

''He played XCOM, I'm not sure, if he does anymore'' Oh my sweet young boi

Your restaurant analogy makes total sense

I would like to see this more structured with visuals in the future if you do something like this again. Hello from Northernlions channel

3:26 Is this where NL got the idea for his grocery tier list?

First time I think I heard you explain your name and I always thought you were like a John or something that really liked ribs.

I appreciate the video and it's probably super helpful, but I thought you were going to rate cards instead of give me a flashback to grade 10 history class. Hope this reaches NL because God knows he needs it and every single bit of help he can get.

Your thoughtful and intelligent thought process shines. You could probably do in 1/3 of the words and increase your viewers 2x.

Well what about a tier list being about how situational or reliable a card is? Like, not asking Jorbs to do it, just what do you all think about it

Great content as always, sir. I'd love to see you do a video on drafting-- as in, using the custom drafting mode.

This is such a valuable lesson not just for playing slay the spire but for life in general. Context is everything, and specific qualitative information is almost always more useful than quantitative. As an alleged 'artist', I always try to think about the specific ideas in any creative work, rather than make something broadly "good." The latter approach usually results in something good yet lifeless, while the former results in something fiery and interesting, if very off-putting to some. But I'd rather have 1% of people LOVE something than 99% of people think it's pretty good. It's why I find sites like rotten tomatoes and metacritic so unappealing. I've seen countless movies that had 90%+ on RT but which I thought were a total waste of time. Not to mention the swath of INCREDIBLE films which don't even get enough reviews to have a calculated consensus.

Absolutely incredible that Egg and Jol had a crossover.

This gon be juicy

Slay the spire but explained with food

Will inflame, anger, or limit break be best with kinoa

You're about to get yolked my friend.

As a Top Chef binge-watcher, I can assure you that the top 3 items are saffron, sunchoke, and swiss chard.

Tier list for foods not valuable? Challenge accepted: Chef. You're trapped in a nuclear bunker and you'll be there for about 5 years. You can pick 10 food ingredients to make all your meals for those 5 years, what would they be? Such a list would demonstrate the most flexible set of ingredients. It could be used by not top chefs to make great meals.

YESSSS One of my dreams comes true

Realizing that building synergies comes second to ensuring a deck can perform a variety of jobs, has been the biggest driving factor of my improvement in this game lately.

Dude, did you just say "Northern Ryan is an ..."? *lol!* I'M really up to see your own comments on that rating as I strongly disagreed with him on several cards oh and yes, it was a joke and a great episode TBH :D

flex is also great with artifacts but again that's rare. Just shows how much depth there is to even "bad" cards.

I dunno about that chef analogy. If you ask a chef what his favorite ingredients are, some might tell you that the meal is what's important sure. But you might also get a chef talking about what an incredibly versatile ingredient that (whatever) is. How it could be used to make sides, deserts, and main courses. Or that it functions as a 'glue' in many meals, giving a subtle but important bit of texture to make a wide variety of meals better. There's more to Italian cuisine than tomatoes, but if you took away tomatos, you'd be causing a lot more harm than if you took away tofu. I really feel you could do this with cards. Yes, the cards are situational. But some cards fit more situations than others. Some cards are just generically good, almost regardless of circumstance. Footwork, for example. Other cards are good because they're versatile, like Exhumes ability to bring back any number of powerful cards on command (Reaper and Feed being prime choices, but you can always use an extra Disarm or Pummel as well). There's nothing wrong with a tier list prefaced by "But remember, the most important thing when choosing cards is not this list, it's your deck and your relics, and your position on the board." While I do like your lengthy explanations, I do find you seem to have an overly strong aversion to giving simple answers. It's either a ten minute long video on a single card, or nothing. Which is odd, because you still seem fine summing up every one of those videos with things like "Good in most occassions" or "Good only in specific occassions". And that's all I'd expect of a Slay the Spire tier list.

I am so glad you did this. I didn't even know you knew him! The whole time I was watching it I was just thinking how much you would tear him apart.

17:58 With Heavy Blade, literally how I beat Act III my first time.

I love how casually Jorbs predicted the Grocery Tier list

I see that Flight of the Conchords campaign

im new and i just beat my first ironclad game by using c9rruption i never realized its potential till this video! thanks dude!

im at 0:00 and i just wanna say THANK YOU

Amazing video!!

Ohhhh man. I love the idea that "there is no value in not liking something". Life lessons through a Slay the Spire nerd. Awesome.

The clickbait is EVOLVING

It makes me happy that u like northernlion- because i like you both

I feel like the opening segment was written while hungry.

I've never clicked faster on a video before!

The egg being reviewed

Thanks, JoINrbs. This does help. In two other card games that I enjoy (Hearthstone and Dominion), my preference is to grab cards that are superb at one role and decent at another or that are solid at two different roles. These are kind of the bread-and-butter cards. Then add a couple of interesting, powerful-in-the-right-circumstance cards and cards to support them. Seems like StS is similar in that regard. I think this helps explain why White Beast Statue isn't god tier. The naïve view is that WBS adds a zero energy, zero card resource with automatic Retain (and exhaust) every single battle. Some of the effects are powerful enough that you'd pay energy for them if they were cards in your deck even after accounting for the card loss, like explosive potion. That isn't something that you can say about many relics. But because the potions are random and there's limited space to hold on to your potions between combats, you can't depend on one to fulfill a role that your deck desperately needs.

I like his voice AND his hair

0:27 An excellent Ironclad player***

The point of ratings and top lists is that they're fun. That's it.

3:30 White rice is 8/10, bananas are 9/10. Case closed

Damn he never did one for Silent or Defect huh? Would be really nice.

If Northernlion even listens to the whole thing, I'll fix my sleep schedule. (As if either will happen, but there's hope.)

I always try to go with a guacamole archetype when I play Ironclad, does that make me noob?

The secret to perfect guac is avocados. Now hear me out, the creamy texture and flavor is vital to the dish.

Hey that 2 rating for flex lasts until the end of the turn

HOLY SHIT LETS GO

Ratings are a label - it matters less what you call it and more what it actually is/does

Scrambled eggs for breakfast.