What do you mean you thought this video was about Lifetime Stew Sinclair?

Blud is so pressed he made a PREMIERE to his rant

From the thumbnail I predict that the worst EGO is single coin

Counterpoint: Hong Lu gets a magical girl transformation, and that makes it worth it

Sinclair not beating the "[On Tails Hit] inflict 7 burn" allegations 😭

You could say this ego is one in a krillion 🦐🦐🦐

Crazy how some of the worst egos are liquid related (Lifetime Stew and Soda)

ESGOO you've just invoked the curse, the walpurgis 00 is gonna be a hong lu poise ID... You fool..

It's a shame because I love the animation on Hong Lu's Magical Girl Transformation here.

Man the S.E.A. Event really is just absolutely cursed huh. Soda Hong Lu and Ryoshu Boatworks Sinclair The horrid grinding from the first few Intervallos. And of course the tragedy.

Can't wait for poise hong lu to appear out of the nether, just so ESGOO can look in horror that soda becomes 0,1% more useful

Soup segment incoming

"I have nothing but my sorrow, and I want nothing more. It has been, it still is, faithful to me. Why should I begrudge it, since during the hours, when my soul crushed the depths of my heart, it was seated there beside me? O sorrow, I have ended, you see, by respecting you, because I am certain you will never leave me. Ah, I realize it: your beauty lies in the force of your being. Because I know that on the day of my final agony, you will be there, lying in my sheets, O sorrow, so that you might once again attempt to enter my heart."

My only source of healing for most of Railway 2 was Soda Hong Lu. Needless to say, my plan became "don't get hit at all" when I realized my poor situation.

I do use Soda Lu in Mirror Dungeons, but never for the healing. It's usually "Oh, I'm about to use an envy resonance effect, and need as much Envy this turn as possible. Time to pull out the worst EGO in the game to make all the others better."

I can't get over that the corrosion has 5 tremor potency. Hong Lu has no Tremor ID. Why did they have to dip into TWO STATUSES that he can't support.

You had me fooled; I was 1000% ready for a ten-minute long Stew Segment.

You're in my walls? Aight good luck fighting the rainbow frog for space

ESGOO almost distorting at the mere mention of stew is just keeps getting better 11 minutes and the times stew is mentioned he displays twice as much hate in comparison to the ego of the video lol

can't wait for this playthrough of New Soup Sinclair Bros.

🦐🦐🦐 In shrimp we trust 🦐🦐🦐

yeah but hes so ~cute~ in the shrimp outfit~

blud really thinks we don't know it's Soda Lu

The next day, ESGOO woke up to every Hong Lu in their support tab rocking Soda in the Teth slot

That straight punch answer was beautiful

I’m glad he remembered the Envy bit, the one legitimate reason to use Soda since it gives Lets Envy teams bring whatever Hong Lu they want

to add insult to injury with soda's ego costs, you need 5 gloom for hong lu's base ego, land of illusion (which reliably refunds spent sanity)

I love Soda EGO so much, afterall, surely it will be a part of your Worst Railway team clear where you must use the EGO... it sounds truly entertaining dear Esgoo esquire

Consider. Soda hong lu has the best animations of any awakening ego. Therefore, it can not be the worst because it has a niche.

Ngl I actually really love when you just rant on about whatever upsets you. This is the peak Limbus content I'm all for

Thank you ESGOO. I will now uptie 4 soda hong lu.

counterpoint, Suddenly One Day exists, and the fact that this has to be pointed out is telling

It would be funny if the Walpurgis night made Soda Hong Lu usable ,somehow, thanks to the ESGOO curse.

Thats a nice video, however there is many reasons why it doesnt matters for me,i will name 3. First is that Hong Lu's ids are above average consistantly,if not one of the best ids,but egos are like below awerage. Second is you can beat the game as long as you not crippling yourself and reading,if it works,it works. And third is that my love for Hong Lu is undeniable,i will love all of Hong Lu's egos and ids no matter how bad those are for usual player they are,Praise be Hong Lu.

An ego that relies on heads hit that heals? Its gotta be fluid sac

amusing opinion esgoo, unfortunately i am inside your walls with: First Turn Start of an Encounter: all allies gain 4 Poise Potency and +4 Poise Count. When activating Pride Absolute Resonance, all allies gain 2 Poise Potency and +2 Poise Count at Combat Start.

Not only that: Hong Lu's ALL identity aren't meet this EGO need： Moon : You need Poise when head hit. Hong Lu : I don't have Poise identity Moon : You need Tremor when tail hit. Hong Lu : well, I'm also don't have Tremor identity Moon : You need Gluttony+Gloom+Envy for activate this EGO Hong Lu : ALL My identity's skill color only match 1of 3 of them

Oh! Finally, I can be on time for an ESGOO video!

We are about to see what is stronger, ESGOO curse or Soda silliness.

Soda hongle feels like they forgot the % on the healing, truly impressive

I thought this would be about 4th Match Flame Yi Sang. While I don't think Soda Lu is *good* by any means, I always thought about Soda Lu as a "Fluid Sac we have at home" and I still use Soda Lu in my envy res teams that include Ting Tang Hong Lu. The current Opportunity Cost for equipping Hong Lu with Soda also isn't really that bad at the moment, It's either Soda or Roseate Desires, neither of which are great. Roseate is very niche in what it can do, and while Soda realistically only either heals HP or SP in negligible amounts that is a lot less niche compared to what Roseate can do. The only thing FMF Yi sang has going for it is that it's a 5 attack weight on a TETH and Slash, and it's going up against Wishing Cairn. Who has a higher floor than fmf's ceiling, has 3 attack weight, and is usable for it's EGO passive alone

Why do i feel addicted to your videos

sure your point is "valid" but does any other ego in the game have a magical girl transformation? yyyeah.

We've Been Tricked, We've Been Backstabbed and We've Been Quite Possibly, Bamboozled!

I like the animation, it's shrimple as that

a premier rant. this is gonna be good

I remember you talking about this in the podcast that got wiped... It would be really nice to have rn :(

4th Match Flame Yi Sang, TRUST. Edit: Damn I was wrong...

I like how Lifetime Stew is the EGO version of Mariachi Sinclair. It's objectively bad possibly even the worst but people still love it and or find it funny because of how Sinclair uses it Or maybe its just me, cause i just love how EGO is such a big deal in this game and its this thing that's supposed to peak your fighting capabilities yet LTS Sinclair completely fumbles using it having to catch his breath and regain his bearings everytime its used

that potential man of ego segment got me fearing for my life

The Umineko ost in the background,,, thats so awesom,e

Lmao was that a Binding of Isaac reference during the lifetime stew segment? Peak.

Change all [On Attack End] into [On Hit] effects and suddenly all healing gets multiplied by the effective Attack Weight, which can go as high as 3, becoming a 90 HP (or SP) heal. Not to say it'll save it by any means, but if we are to explore options that don't involve bringing back the % sign...

Holly hell i love your damn videos so much

I, for one, find a certain beauty in the fact Hong Lu, the man with no bad IDs, got the single worst EGO that reads like a multilayered in-joke. I'm sure he himself appreciates it, too.

Prepare an apology form for soda Hong Lu.

I really thought it'd be Yi Sang's 4MF because of how BADLY it rolls. Then I got reminded that Soda Hong Lu exists.. Thanks, very cool ESGOO for making me remember that cursed EGO :)

There's one thing this EGO is good for, and it's summoning ESGOO's wrath, manifesting this funny video.

Did you just turn British at 7:40 just for one funny? I respect it, honestly. Having seen your last meme review with Welvader and the others, I find it hilarious you have the same joke meme voice for Heathcliff that I do with my friends. The over-the-top cockney accent sounding like a hooligan

Ok, you have a fair point, and it does make sense However sailor moon transformation scene

Man, imagine after this video Hong Lu gets a poise ID on the upcoming Walpurgisnacht Banner, or even the next 0.5 event just to make Soda crit

I really wasn't epecting to see a Binding of Isaac Reference at 4:20, but here we are. I will become back my Lunacy ESGOO

YIPPEE ANOTHER UPLOAD FROM MY FAVCORITE KZfaqR

absolute fucking whiplash having this open in the background during the premiere, and showing a friend some roblox lobotomy corp stuff, and working with opened can of wellcheers we were like "where the fuck is that music coming from" and i just hear esgoo go "it's soda"

Bro hated the ego so much that he doesn’t even need an intro, that’s crazy

The esgoo curse striked again, we got a double ego banner.

you gave me a headache and took my will to live as I learned this I'll see you in therapy, Esgoo

Whelp, now I can't wait too see the 00 Hong Lu ID that's Poise focused for Walpurgis Night.

0:46 Okay, but to be fair, Molar Ishmael is good enough to make up for the rest of it. A 10-14 Evade is actually extremely useful in the current Canto, because so many enemies can stick down paralyse to force your first evade to roll minimum power.

I like how ESGOO Waited for PM to announce who we would get in warpulgisnatch so they wouldnt blindsing his video with them releasing a poise hong lu id

The thumbnail tricked me

I was just talking about this exact topic with my friend yesterday, it popped up during a conversation about how forgettable/unused some ids and ego are and it sat right there next to diecei Yi Sang for us.

I will now use Soda Hong Lu even more just to spite this man. I don't care that it's bad, it gives Hong Lu a Magical Girl Transformation into a shrimp and that's funny to me.

Now watch the Esgoo Curse work it's voodoo and then honglu NOT only gets a baller Poise ID, but also an amazing upgrade on Uptie 5.

I can’t wait for the soda hong Lu buff now that the Goo has talked about it

Hello goo man, this is a bit late but I was thinking about Soda Hong Lu because of this video and I wanted to hear your thoughts about this idea I had to make the EGO better and more interesting. For the awakening, how about making it on hit instead of on attack end? This would make the healing notably better as with no crit it would be 45HP to 2 allies which is still below average but much better than it currently is, and with crit it would be 69HP to 2 allies which is actually quite average (I'd say average health is around 200HP, and Pursuance heals 30% so that'd be 60HP; with excellent HP (around 250HP), it'd be 75HP). However, what I'm interested in is the potential the SP healing would have. It could heal 45SP to 2 allies with no crit and 69SP to 2 allies with crit. Obviously, this is REALLY GOOD and would give this EGO a niche that hasn't been filled by anything else in the game, (relatively) single-target high SP healing. And because of its high SP healing along with its moderate cost, one might be inclined to use this in the beginning of fights to jumpstart their SP economy which would mean that the passive the EGO has would also become better due to a more cohesive design. The best part about all of this is that it's so simple, it's just changing the on attack end to on hit, nothing is drastically changing in what the EGO itself does, it's just effectively making the numbers better in a more roundabout way. Also, we have nothing that gives allies SP on hit so it'll make Soda Hong Lu more unique as well. As for the corrosion, there's the simple boring idea and the hopefully unlikely idea. The simple idea would be to make the actual power on the EGO better (either change the coin power to be -7 or change the skill power to be 33, both lead to the base becoming an 18 instead of a 10) and change the bind from a 1 to a 2. That's it, boring but it would make the corroded EGO not completely dogshit and instead only slightly dogshit. The more cool and unlikely idea is to not only add the things from the boring idea, but to also add a reversed effect that harms those who are hit instead of healing allies. On tails hit, deal HP damage to target; on heads hit, deal SP damage to target; on crit hit, deal HP and SP damage to target. It's pretty basic, but it would give the corroded EGO some much needed damage or utility and it thematically makes more sense than the current corrosion we have for this EGO. Appreciate you reading this if you did, I would like to know if I'm healing everyone 10% of my max HP or giving everyone 7 burn. tldr; SODA❗❗❗

Unexpected Happy Maria!

SODA I WILL ALWAYS LOVE U

Deadass I forgot that Stew and Soda were a thing so I thought you would be talking about 4th Match Yi Sang or something

The fact that i sharded soda honglu several days before this video

I guess at least soda doesn't get your hopes up before setting your team on fire.

i love your enthusiasim about this, i will now never touch soda honglu

So excited for uptie 5 when this video becomes obsolete

The best part of Soda Hong Lu is how cool it looks

I kinda excited. Im putting my money on Soda Hong Lu because at least soupclair at least has a descent passive if your using ninclair and a burn team while Soda Lu is just really boring. Or if your factoring opportunity cost I could see an argument Tele Faust the EGO i actively forget that I have because its not fluid sac but once Faust gets a good charge id then I imagine it will pop off (although I blame the existence of that ego for why PM has been hesitant to give her any new ones)

It must be Lifetime stew! No way is my favourite magical shrimp transformation sodaLu!

Hong lu is getting an edgar family butler poise/haste id, trust

Hmm is this... Some short of future predictions shenanigans? Cause I feel strong aura of walpurgist here

The moment I saw the gloom cost I knew the problem, as someone’s been running an Envy Res team since Line 3 dropped, that gloom gen has been a problem, I had to switch Captain Ishmael to Reindeer Ishmael to get that gloom gen

As bad as Soda Hong Lu is I still have to give the title of worst EGO to Soup Don as it is currently the only EGO in the game to have a passive that is an active detriment unless you only intend to spam it.

Soupclair and Soda Lu are the obvious candidates, but I'm going to guess something perhaps a little bit unexpected with Garden of Thorns, which is just horribly designed in every way.

but... but Soda Hong Lu's animation is so fun...

Saw this coming after the 50000 soup segments

I use it because I love Hong Lu and magical girls transformation

ok but i like the aoe damage and the funny lil animation :33

Can't wait for them to make an uptie 5 and force him to put soda on SSS tier for value gained tier list

THAT'S MY PRINCE OF DOGSHIT OFFENSE LEVEL!!!!!

bro rolled a tails on soda hong lu and lost a clash

I personally just find it funny that between Hell's Chicken and the Boatworks event, the on banner event EGO for both were either niche or terrible. Stew back on its release I could *almost* see a use case when the encounters had less health than sinners by default and were kind of squishy. The clash potential was vexing, but workable. Soda... Had the clashing potential, sure. But the healing and targets were lackluster and the effects are everywhere and also... Just small. The tragedy of Soda is that it was an EGO that shined in the way a lucky penny would due to the sheer absence of healing options on its release for sinner teams that didn't center around gloom, lust and Pride. The only other option at the time was soup. But even that was unreliable given that during those levels, the burn could stagger you out and make you regret using it. Then fae lantern Sinclair came out. This EGO has aged about as well as Blade Lineage Sinclair and every other Meursault ID that isn't Blade Lineage Instructor. In that they're technically usable... But there are significantly better options.

I would watch seriously but I was too distracted by how cute his sprites are.