I am actually on this same challenge right now. Last night, I got this boss on a run where I was doing full houses... I bought riff raff before boss, I got the joker that gives + mult for diamonds and I literally drew a full house with like 3 diamonds in it! I still lost like next round though lol
That thief joker that gives you +3 hands and -all discards has a crazy interaction with "only play 1 hand" boss, you actually get 4 hands Dunno if that joker is banned for this challenge, though
NL taking his time and pondering over hands that will easily obliterate the ante and then wistfully breezing through difficult antes and fucking up will never fail to impress me.
It actually wasn't even close to the worst play in the video, not even joking. I don't think that was that bad, he had to take some risks, that run was cooked anyways. The crazy thing is how hard he tried to throw the last run, when he literally got the god seed. He won in spite of not paying attention to campfire on a new blind. That could have been a death sentence.
@@sixthesailor why are you reading comments before watching if you don't want spoilers? Of course people will be talking about the video in the comments on the video
@@sixthesailorSo if we aren't allowed to talk about spoilers, which is the entire video, what are we supposed to do, make gay jar-jar binks/morpheus jokes?
Guys I have 3 questions: 1) Is Tomo his wife, or his daughter? Why is he constantly saying hi Tomo? 2) Who is Andrew and why does he talk about Andrew this much? Something like a secret lover? But his partner can also watch the stream... 3) Why does he like dipping stuff in Mona Lisa's chili oil? Particularly what is special about Mona Lisa's chili oil in this context? Does Canada have a chili oil brand called Mona Lisa? If so then why? Da Vinci had expertise on many things but cooking like a master chef
just saying that castle with all those discards could be really sick 34:01 the chips u gain from it is no joke this early in the game and it scales really well, u can easily get more than stuntman in time
a flush with high cards on the first blind needs at least three face cards/10s/9s. Straight flush, high straight, and four of a kind will always get you there. Full house with high cards will get you there.
I finally beat this challenge with Malf, Smeared Joker and Dusk. Now I too can look down on the peasants who haven't gotten perfectly lucky with the perfect build yet.
ive been stuck on this challenge for weeks and he just does it? EDIT: HE WAS ABOUT TO SELL CARTOMANCER??? INSTEAD OF SELTZER? SELTZER IS GONE IN TWO ROUNDS, CARTOMANCES GIVES HIM THE MONEY AND WOULD ENABLE CAMPFIRE????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cant wait to see his attempt(s) at jokerless challenge and cruelty. I actually had much more tries at cruelty than jokerless. The latter took like 5 tries, while the cruelty I think was more like 50 😅
Challenge should give you the +4 mult joker at the start so you at least have something to beat the 300 blind with without having to restart over and over till you get a high straight.
I am 8 minutes in and I'm 100% convinced this is an april fools run. He does everything optimally bad. There's just no way. I know he's a better player than this.
@@gsdgsdgdhsadds It's the only one hand per round that put it over the edge for me. I was lucky and got burnt joker, wee joker, and ride the bus and those 3 were a good base that carried me to the end. Jokerless is real nasty though!
Gluttonous joker is 20 mult per turn, 1.5x is not as good with just abstract joker there, because 15 x 1.5 is only 7.5 mult. For comparison: Gluttonous Joker is 20 mult + 15 mult (abstract) x1.5 campfire (no sells) = 52.5 mult Arrowhead: 15 (abstract) x 1.5 (arrowhead) x 1.5 (campfire no sells) = 33.75 mult. Get math pilled
@Lucifers-Stepdad still wrong i think, cartomancer gave him like 4 or 5 hits on campfire, and would've given him more if he just sold all those useless tarots he was getting. That's 2.5x mult from cartomancer by bossblind, and it equals the arrowhead on the small blind
@@mylesthompson4485 okay that's true. But gluttonous here is 1.0.0 version. Before it had to get netfed for being too strong. It's not just 20 mult it's 20 mult before hand effects are applied
@@mylesthompson4485 obviously you keep gluttonous as it applies before glass and steel but the flush is already 12 mult and gluttonous adds 20 so 1.5x is more than the 15 from abstract joker. now include steel or glass and abstract joker does almost nothing. it was the obvious sell
This one might be tougher. I dunno, it's a toss up. Jokerless is rouuuugh but at least you can mess around with buffing your cards. One hand continually with discards debuffed is just brutal
1:18
Captain Hook with Alzheimer's after retiring from the Peter Pan hunt
+2
+1 (tried to count with my fingers but used my hook hand)
Biggest +2 ive seen all day
+2
+2
33:14 me when I'm playing Balatro and the rapture happens
so true
HOLY +2
+2
+2
27:55 Me when my friend says he’s just gonna be a minute, but class starts in a minute
+2
+2
+2
20:32 me when i'm informing the veterinarian about how my female dog ate a playing card
+2
Best one I've read a while sir, gg
This made me laugh audibly just so you know. +2
+2
16:00 when I finally find the little guy that turns the lights in my fridge on and off
the description still saying "wishlist balatro" is a really good bit, shout out Ennelle for that one
Mother Elizabeth's Copy Paste Oil
Well you still can.
Me when my friend takes me hiking instead of a luxurious boating trip: 8:56
+2
+2
Lol fuck I thought you just meant the what, but the next line sent me
+2
+2 out the gourd
36:53 me confessing when i get caught for counterfeiting $62
We’re Costco guys, of course we immediately die 10 times in a row on the first blind because we forgot we only have 1 hand
When he actually had a good flush and he played 4 hands I almost choked. Health hazard for people having lunch
These challenges scale from "i got one good joker ive now won handily" to "thank god i could make it past the first boss blind"
3:29 me after the car stopped in the middle of nowhere
+2
8:46 1 hand 0 discards boss blind is crazy
I am actually on this same challenge right now. Last night, I got this boss on a run where I was doing full houses... I bought riff raff before boss, I got the joker that gives + mult for diamonds and I literally drew a full house with like 3 diamonds in it!
I still lost like next round though lol
That thief joker that gives you +3 hands and -all discards has a crazy interaction with "only play 1 hand" boss, you actually get 4 hands
Dunno if that joker is banned for this challenge, though
@@Evoleo It is, like few other things that give you hands.
@@TheShut1 It doesn't work like that with the vouchers tho
@@Evoleo Yeah I know, I am answering your last line about banned things for this challenge. Thief and +1 hand vouchers are banned for this challenge.
2:39 me when I take a dump and there's nothing in the toilet
We're balatro guys, of course we click on new videos 48 seconds after they're posted
even after watching them on twitch
we're northernlion viewers, of course we repeat the same comment on every single video
😂
Some Balatro dunked in MAMA LIZ-
Amen
brain chemistry so fried I can watch the stream for the first time twice
thats called dementia brother
8:50 me when I'm a pirate and I lose my hook
That straight flush attempt was legendary
46:49 Me when I forget the 9 restarts of the challenge 46 minutes ago.
"3 Extra Dollars never hurt anybody" - Vagabond sad face
NL taking his time and pondering over hands that will easily obliterate the ante and then wistfully breezing through difficult antes and fucking up will never fail to impress me.
So what we play flushes? So what we score nothing?
39:39 Me when I took to long to drink my Lacroix and it went flat but I can't get another one because I'm broke
+2
selling the bank card with -20$ money was suicide lmao. I was losing it at that play lol
It actually wasn't even close to the worst play in the video, not even joking. I don't think that was that bad, he had to take some risks, that run was cooked anyways.
The crazy thing is how hard he tried to throw the last run, when he literally got the god seed. He won in spite of not paying attention to campfire on a new blind. That could have been a death sentence.
uhm spoilers wtf?
@@sixthesailor why are you reading comments before watching if you don't want spoilers? Of course people will be talking about the video in the comments on the video
@@sixthesailorSo if we aren't allowed to talk about spoilers, which is the entire video, what are we supposed to do, make gay jar-jar binks/morpheus jokes?
i’m glad everyone recognized my joke 🙄
Actually insane beating golden needle this quickly
Part of me is annoyed because this took me forever, but I think he deserves this after X-Ray walled him for ~5 hours
My wife and I beat it pretty quickly by getting luvky. Now the Jockerless challenge is a whole different story.
Watching NL look for a straight flush by discarding 3 cards at a time and then getting it just makes me feel
Guys I have 3 questions:
1) Is Tomo his wife, or his daughter? Why is he constantly saying hi Tomo?
2) Who is Andrew and why does he talk about Andrew this much? Something like a secret lover? But his partner can also watch the stream...
3) Why does he like dipping stuff in Mona Lisa's chili oil? Particularly what is special about Mona Lisa's chili oil in this context? Does Canada have a chili oil brand called Mona Lisa? If so then why? Da Vinci had expertise on many things but cooking like a master chef
just saying that castle with all those discards could be really sick 34:01 the chips u gain from it is no joke this early in the game and it scales really well, u can easily get more than stuntman in time
you have a point but like he still won
@@That-_-Guy true but he never even looks at this joker, its a decent scalling one thats why i mentioned it :p
The chips would cost $1 for discard and castle takes forever to scale.
@@tonyloafpoundstone if u commit to scalling that it scales really fast, he was safe at that point + he had enough eco to use those $1
28:15 me when I see a seal
2:58 this is a fiasco already
what a start
Him thinking Gene Wilder is a member of KISS makes me very happy. Never change, Egg.
Gene Simmons when you use The Lovers tarot card on him:
@@JB-xl2jc+2
Wait til he figures out he should always be trying to one-shot the 300 blind, not just for this challenge
32:50 egg just chillin
33:44 me when i'm back from my pee break
the first 20 minutes of this video is the best balatro content Ive seen in a while.
The hardest Baldatro challenge is not getting addicted to the Egg making insane banter while discarding poker cards. (spoiler: it can't be done)
Definitely the hardest challenge due to all the RNG. Even worse when you run into boss blinds like 8:46
I guess you don't know about the last 2 challenges..
@@Lange007 jokerless took me way less time than golden needle, way less rng heavy.
@@zoe7696yeah but once you’re out of the hole and get your econ going, this challenge isn’t so bad. Jokerless is tough the whole way through.
Upon further review, your cards have been revoked for meme overuse.
You are no longer Balatro guys.
Thank you Northernlion for specifying that the Hardest Challenge in Balatro is in Balatro
idk why he’s so set on A,2,3,4,5 when 10,J,Q,K,A is right there multiple times lol (I get it once he starts fixing the deck)
probably cuz he forgot he can do that?
a flush with high cards on the first blind needs at least three face cards/10s/9s. Straight flush, high straight, and four of a kind will always get you there. Full house with high cards will get you there.
37:10 me when i’m playing GTA V for the first time and buy the strip club
I miss Infernus
3:29 me when im driving
+2
6:35 says he wants clearance sale…ignores clearance sale. That’s our guy
but he couldn't afford it?
@@deliriousagenthe could sell 1 joker and buy it. But alas
@@Tomatodog-cm6fh probably wasn't worth at the time
Straight flush builders be like "nah dude do it during a challenge"
24:03 me when i get subway and they substitute my chips for another sandwich
Am I sleeping on campfire or does NL just glaze it? I feel like glass joker, lucky joker, hell, even Baron in some situations pass it.
The fact that he was going to sell tarot joker when he could use it for free campfire boosts was almost going to make me backseat
Balabros are never dying
This could be the hardest challenge in Balatro history
and then they created jokerless
Actually extremely impressive that you managed to knock out this challenge in under an hour. Took me way longer.
this mf'er got 10 Hermit cards back to back wtf?
Idk if he shouldve said "I created that econ" when he was getting fed hermits lol.
We're Balatro fans, of course we rewatch runs we caught live on stream when they get uploaded to youtube
54:06 all this time i thought john darnielle made that up
hi tomo
I finally beat this challenge with Malf, Smeared Joker and Dusk. Now I too can look down on the peasants who haven't gotten perfectly lucky with the perfect build yet.
33:44 NL 30 seconds prior
One of the balatros of all time
ive been stuck on this challenge for weeks and he just does it?
EDIT: HE WAS ABOUT TO SELL CARTOMANCER??? INSTEAD OF SELTZER? SELTZER IS GONE IN TWO ROUNDS, CARTOMANCES GIVES HIM THE MONEY AND WOULD ENABLE CAMPFIRE????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cant wait to see his attempt(s) at jokerless challenge and cruelty. I actually had much more tries at cruelty than jokerless. The latter took like 5 tries, while the cruelty I think was more like 50 😅
egg skipping over To the Moon TWICE hurt me
Whats yalls favorite core aspect of pokemon? Is it the water types or the Mr. Mime's?
1 hand, dipped in Mama Liz's discard oiilllll!
51:26 I am fucking dead
This challenge drove me nuts... Had more attemps than Jokerless !!!
32:35 - 33:25 was Cinema
>Hardest challenge
>Not jokerless
What did he mean by this?
Gneedle is harder imo
In Jokerless, you can't just draw a high-card hand to a no discards boss and lose. You also have better deck and hand's stats in jokerless.
hahah best GOAT humor balatro run ever
hey, would you consider turning on colorful suits mode? You play pretty fast so it helps to keep up with your thought process
‘We’re gonna beat this challenge on the first try’ he says after losing how many times on the first anti 😂
I'm 3 minutes in. It's peak NL, I can't stop laughing.
Honestly would kill to see the egg go in on Pokémon Showdown. The plays would be legendary
8:45 oh the humanity
Challenge should give you the +4 mult joker at the start so you at least have something to beat the 300 blind with without having to restart over and over till you get a high straight.
That would make it the first time in human history I was happy to see the Standard Joker
It's not hard to beat the first blind consistently, but it is expensive
@26:05 is all you need to know
dipped in mama liz' singled handed oil
oh god the beginning of this video is the fucking best! so funny hahahaha
This challenge is so brutal but NL playing instead of me makes it fun
Oof this was a rough one. Might be the first NL video I couldn't get through.
It gets better
Just skip through the video and watch the ante counter and that’ll tell you whether it’s worth watching
"hardest challenge" just wait bro, just wait, you still have to do jokerless
When will he learn flushes aren’t doing the work
It's an easy trap to fall into, flushes are great in lower stakes/early antes/ for unlocking decks. Past that, though...
the easy make EASSSSSY make--- nooooooo- got me
Tough first couple of minutes as a type A guy.
I am 8 minutes in and I'm 100% convinced this is an april fools run. He does everything optimally bad. There's just no way. I know he's a better player than this.
47:39 why did he say this
This was the hardest challenge by far and it's not even close
Jokerless is much harder. You can get some luck early to beat this with econ, but jokerless is an uphill battle the whole way
@@gsdgsdgdhsadds Jokerless is easy if you know what to do. Golden needle can just lose to bad RNG even at ante 1.
@@gsdgsdgdhsadds It's the only one hand per round that put it over the edge for me. I was lucky and got burnt joker, wee joker, and ride the bus and those 3 were a good base that carried me to the end. Jokerless is real nasty though!
Perfect.
i watch balatro video when i play balatro
He’s cooked
I would take 19 golden needles over one more jokerless
45:11 my man sells the polychrome arrowhead instead of a gluttonous joker ICANT ICANT
No that was right. The correct option is selling cartomancer but obviously he'd never sell that
Gluttonous joker is 20 mult per turn, 1.5x is not as good with just abstract joker there, because 15 x 1.5 is only 7.5 mult.
For comparison: Gluttonous Joker is 20 mult + 15 mult (abstract) x1.5 campfire (no sells) = 52.5 mult
Arrowhead: 15 (abstract) x 1.5 (arrowhead) x 1.5 (campfire no sells) = 33.75 mult.
Get math pilled
@Lucifers-Stepdad still wrong i think, cartomancer gave him like 4 or 5 hits on campfire, and would've given him more if he just sold all those useless tarots he was getting. That's 2.5x mult from cartomancer by bossblind, and it equals the arrowhead on the small blind
@@mylesthompson4485 okay that's true. But gluttonous here is 1.0.0 version. Before it had to get netfed for being too strong. It's not just 20 mult it's 20 mult before hand effects are applied
@@mylesthompson4485 obviously you keep gluttonous as it applies before glass and steel but the flush is already 12 mult and gluttonous adds 20 so 1.5x is more than the 15 from abstract joker. now include steel or glass and abstract joker does almost nothing. it was the obvious sell
I hate how good you are at baiting my comments with your play. god bless you.
Too bad all of these accolades belong to the player known as 'P1'
Wait till he gets to Jokerless challenge.
This one might be tougher. I dunno, it's a toss up. Jokerless is rouuuugh but at least you can mess around with buffing your cards. One hand continually with discards debuffed is just brutal
@@JB-xl2jc Golden Needle seems really hard at first, but it didn't give me nearly as much trouble as jokerless
It seems people will either have the most trouble with golden needle or jokerless, and for me it was golden needle :,)
@@JB-xl2jc They are definitely two of the most difficult. For me, jokerless was worse, I won after 10 days of pain and suffering.
We're so due btw
Did he forget about full houses?
It seems that way
NL not knowing how to sort by suit after 400,000 hours of this game is crazy
im stuck on jokerless challenge >.< its hardddd
Genuinely you need a lucky card pack to build around. Like a polychrome or red seal early or restart.
We’re balatro guys, of course we play 4 card flushes without that one specific joker by accident and throw the attempt /not that serious but funny
Please sir could you spare us some more shadows of doubt?
I will never understand why the egg chooses to discard less than 5 cards at a time