I love your pacing and your patience to explain decisions, as well as your willingness to admit that some decisions are mostly based on "feel". It's clear that you have a deep understanding of the game and its nitty details. I've been grinding getting all seals on all decks and your videos have been instrumental in my steps toward being able to complete those runs. Thanks for the immense effort and the consistency in uploading. GO BULLS!
Comments like this are what keep me going! I felt we were getting a little in the weeds with the High Stakes runs. For educational purposes, I felt there could be some value going back to the beginning and breaking it all down in a more focused way.
November 2nd update: So far I've won Gold Stake runs with Red Deck, Black Deck and Erratic Deck just now. Learned a lot from classes (read: videos) and practice. Thanks teach!
I know I am very late to the game ( picked it up on the Thanksgiving Steam Sale ), but this video did wonders for my game. When I got to about the 50 minute mark, I started playing while watching this, and I went from failing to win white runs, to winning two in a row, and having a better economy and the money to tweak my game. Thank you.
Also, anyone who is interested in playing on mobile you can get the game for free if you have Apple Arcade! I get it with my Verizon subscription which is probably the only thing making me feel like Verizon isn’t bending me over and vigorously violating my wallet with a dry fist lol Immediately hooked on this game, despite the fact I scoffed when I saw it win so many awards. I said, pfff it’s a stupid card game how good could it be. I’ll eat humble pie on this one
This is an absolutely amazing tutorial. One thing I definitely suggest is watch out for tunnel-visioning on the hand that you want. There were multiple times that flushes were banked on when viable full houses were already achieved.
huge appreciation for all the insanely info-filled videos you’ve been making. it’s been a huge help in becoming a better player with all the thorough thought and execution explanations. i’ve been going through the balatro daily series slowly and have been really enjoying it.
this helped a ton! i was rushing through the early game without knowing how to get a good start but after watching this my runs have been loads better :)
Got given the game nine months ago by my son but bounced off it several times. At long last - thanks to your video - I am beginning to grasp the basics, and maybe some of the complexities. Thank you so much.
This video helped SO MUCH. I had about 20 hrs in and was tired of losing so much! This video goes into great detail to help you out early on. I went from my highest hand being ~10k to being >40 million! Definitely worth the time.
I don't always agree with every play, but my win rate has skyrocketed since watching even the first half hour of this series. This man knows the game well
Playing on higher stakes is, of course, different than playing on the starter difficulty. Scoring requirements are higher, and Joker quality is lower. Among other differences, you typically need to spend more in the first few Rounds to make sure you have enough material for Antes 2 and 3. If you get an early scaler like Ride the Bus, you should try to stack it immediately with strategically "non-scoring" hands. It'll take you longer to reach the $25 in the bank for interest, but you will have some insulation against "low rolls" in future shops.
@drspectred I'm having a lot of fun developing my own strategies and coming back to this series occasionally for ideas I didn't think of. Thanks for giving me some of the advice I wouldn't come across until later in advance! Your enthusiasm for the game has inspired me to play more and your knowledgeability helped me go from a long losing streak to clearing my first gold stakes.
After seeing how much econ is worth and how much you value each single hand, I'm feeling weird that Green Joker is my favorite joker, to the point I could be dominating a run by ante 3-4 and still consider taking it just cause I love the hand played jokers. My golden stake win had square and green jokers and I kept purposefully rearranging my jokers to play as many hands as possible. This game never ceases to surprise me on how crazy it can get, while remaining both challenging, yet extremely fair. Localthunk pulled a crazy balance between randomness, skill, variety and depth.
1:50:17 Tip for quickly adding up the value of a straight that doesn't contain aces or face cards: Take the middle number and multiply by 5. You'll get the exact value; no need to estimate or add them one-by-one. (Exception: If you're using the Shortcut joker, this method won't necessarily get you the *exact* answer, but it will be close enough - though if the value is very close to being exactly what you need to hit the target, you might want to add up their exact totals.) If you're using an ace as a 1, do the same as above but add 10 (since an ace is scored as 11 even if it's acting as a 1 in a straight).
Straights, in texas hold-em, are easier, but harder than flushes in Balatro - so while the base scoring is representative of poker hands, when upgrading hands straights are favoured. Straights need a buff I think.
In a standard deck, there are about 2x as many possible straights as flushes in 5-card poker hands. Increasing the number of "seen" cards narrows the gap, but there will always be more straights available. Straights should always be more common than flushes, but discarding optimally in order to make straights is much harder than for flushes.
I’ve gotten up to blue stakes on checkered, but I want to learn just enough to get better but still figure things out on my own. I’ll be signing up for a course at Balatro University this year. And from the looks of it, people are as obsessed as I am if not way more. And I’m pretty obsesseded…..
My strategy is flush face card deck every single time. Usually easy enough to get your deck down to just two suits, face cards have a lot of good jokers if you're lucky. Highest score ever unseeded was a flush five king deck, all holo glass red seal cards and an ungodly amount of retriggers and some x mult jokers. Also started as a flush build.
To answer the "Luck or Skill? question on the thumbnail - It's both LOL Skill obviously matters, but you can still get screwed by a bad seed no matter how good you are
I feel like whenever I win, I get godly synergy’s and awesome cards, but when I lose it’s usually on an early ante with 0 good cards seen or been able to afford.
Sounds like a boring strategy; sometimes you learn more by losing. To each his own, but I think it's important to remember how boring a game you always win is.
@@m4rcyonstation93 I just find the strategy to be silly, sometimes you can have an amazing run even if you don't get that first round win in one hand. The game is so heavily RNG based, it's just more fun to play a run without that 'must win' mentality
@@bluupadoop I mean yeah you can play how you want but it's not like I'm resetting for a 1% chance here. Usually the majority of the time (what feels like 80%[based on vibes] of the time) I can win in one hand on the first hand. I think it's weird you're acting like it's some crazy rng thing we're resetting for when it's not
@@m4rcyonstation93 I mean you said it yourself brother. The OP said they reset if they can't get a win on the first round in one hand, so by your vibes he's giving up 20 % of his runs for a one or two dollar advantage in the first ante. That's twenty runs out of a hundred that they're just missing out on for a couple dollars. I don't think it's weird for me to think that's a wasteful strategy. Getting a single econ joker in the first few rounds will more than make up for the lost money in that first round.
12:05 might be doing my math wrong here, but im coming up with chances of 25% to pull any 2 of 10/45 cards in a 5 card discard, and ~35% of pulling any 1 of 4/45. even though there are more good cards in the former case, the fact that you have to pull multiple of them makes it less likely than going for the full house. obviously i dont expect anyone to be busting out n choose x equations for one balatro round, but my intuition was the same and i just wanted to double check
Thanks for the video. I bought this game because of the hype but i felt kind of lost. I'm not a card player so it felt weird to think in terms of cards in a deck
My biggest downfall is always bad luck on jokers like a run earlier tonight I got fantastic early luck with my first 2 jokers so I was able to hit 5k blinds with a single card but by the time I was into the 40 and 50k blinds all I was getting was trash (well stuff that was no use to the build ied currently got) it finally fell over on a 57k (it may have been the 50k and I was short 3k)when I was 3k short. This was also a round that killed a quarter of my deck and the lady must have been mad at me as all I was pulling was then dead cards.
I do like flush and to a lesser extent straight early on, but around ante 2ish I do try to move towards either strengthening the easier hands or sculpting my deck towards higher hands. I do feel like they fall off (flush more than straights imo).
I sadly have yet to win a game, but I’ve gotten really close a couple times! So that’s improvement. I went from not even reaching the boss to losing AT the boss! So probably soon, I’ll beat it! :3
Love the video. Great tips. Just an fyi, while high contrast cards might be nice for most people, it's absolutely terrible for colorblind people. It's basically the opposite of how some games have a colorblind friendly filter you can enable, this is like the screw colorblind people filter lol. Might be better for presentation purposes to use the different art sets to help distinguish the suits instead. Food for thought.
Unfortunately, it needs to be in your "final 5" and survive until after the boss. This means things like Banana and Mr. Bones don't give you the sticker if they expire.
@@drspectredok thx you. For now i'm trying to unlock every joker before doing the stakes. (Still not done a single red stakes xD). I struggle a lot with winning in less that 12 rounds and doing 100M chips. I'm such a bad player
I'm finding that unlocking new jokers via milestones its really dampening the experience due to a now inflated rng table. This a consisrent problem for me in most roguelikes, where the first few runs are fun but later on, it becomes unreasonably rare to come across basic drops that are necessary to survive in the first few antes.
When the shop decides on what Joker to give you, it decides on a rarity first and then gives you a Joker of that rarity. Most of the unlocks are Rare or Uncommon, so this does not impact the ability to find the early game Common Jokers which help get your run off the ground. The unlockable Jokers are largely xMult Jokers, then making it easier to score more with less components.
@@drspectred i figured that was the case as well, maybe I'm just getting dead seeds, but even after clearing stakes for 3 of the later decks, when I when back to the first 2, I was really struggling to get anything usable
I think I heard somewhere that when wheel hits it will hit either your oldest or newest joker at 50% chance each, but I can't find where I heard this. Can anyone confirm this, and if this is also the case for other cards such as ankh or madness?
I believe this used to be a thing for one of the demo versions of the game, and I commented on it in one of my Balatro Daily videos. However, I can confirm this is no longer a thing.
Ante 1 is pretty formulaic. Small Blind needs to be won in a single hand to ensure $6 winnings, bringing total to $10. Small Shop should be saved unless there's a very good joker (the voucher should 99% not be bought in the small shop) Going into Big Blind with $10 ensures 2$ interest, winning in 2 hands will bring total money to $18. In Big Shop I try to maintain Atleast 10$, so I can spend $8 on two basic blister packs or some jokers. My early goal is to get my money to $25 asap to Max interest. So one of my pickups in the big shop is something to boost economy (gold card, gold seal, $ generating joker). My other pickup will be something that helps with scoring, a decent basic joker or a good tarot or planet. My hope is that the ante 1 voucher is a crappy one so I can skip it, but if it's decent I'll make the investment and focus harder on boosting eco. By ante 2 the rng of the game is coming into play and you have to roll with the punches. But generally I aim to get 1 eco joker, 3 scoring joker, and 1 scaling joker.
At 14:09 I would have taken the faceless joker thinking that it could potentiall pay of after just one round + temperance later on. Is it too hard to pull off or why wouldn't you take it?
1:30:00 It really sucks that your Gros Michel / Cavendish advice here got patched out. I had been grinding for the Gros Michel and was really disappointed when I finally got it and got it to disappear only to find that the mechanic doesn't work the way you described anymore (i.e. now you only have a **chance** to **see** Cavendish in the **same run** you get Gros Michel **if** it disappears). Maybe you should put that correction in the description or pin my comment.
This functionality has never changed. The only thing which changed from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 was the probability of Michel perishing. 1 in 4 chance became 1 in 6. I didn't say anything wrong in the video but could have been slightly more clear here. Taking Gros Michel whenever its offered is sound advice. Still is, always has been.
Skipped for educational purposes, obviously. It is a very good early pick, even if it wasn't negative, though you won't see negatives that often, so not showing it off makes sense.
Now this is how a mobile game is done. Pokemon Pocket, eat your heart out. (Yes I know it wasn’t intended for mobile, but it’s like the NBA, while PP is playin rec ball) :) I absolutely love it so far. I can’t stop playing haha and I suck!!
There are plenty of things that use chance such as lucky cards or bloodstone that can drastically alter your score based on whether or not they activate.
it isnt necessarily a bad design choice, as it can help the feel of the game or bring some fun to it. i personally like how it doesnt display the score the hand gives before playing it
It's an intentional game design, the developer wants the excitement of seeing the number go up and calculate everything individually as you play. It's fun to watch
man id watch to learn but 2+ hours is too much for my blood. If someone made something like this that was way more concise without the slowlow playthrough you could cut this down to 30 minutes. Brevity is king.
I don’t understand this chasing strategy. High probability doesn’t guarantee to give you the cards you want. And if you run out of discard you end up with a small pair or even worst a high card. Everytime I try this strategy of chasing the combination I want, there will always be an unlucky round when the right card doesn’t drop.
Honestly, you get better by just playing higher stakes. Though it could be a trap since you might only play when the shops are good and leave you with very bad habits. But when you try to play it out and don't just restart every shop, you'll know what to prioritize very quick.
It's really nice to have the mathematical breakdown. I have tried to work it out on my own, but it helps hearing it in this format. Currently stuck on purple. I agree that it has made white stakes much easier, but the jokers that become good (insanity) and the ones that become bad (most that rely on discards) kind of switch around
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When I lose it´s a terrible seed that no mortal man could beat, but when I win I am god´s gift to Balatro and no other could do it how I can :)
same
@@drspectred LOL do you even lose at this point?
@@LucasOliveira-zy6fjNo joke, there really are some cursed seeds 😂 Thankfully they are few and far between but they do exist!
Even during his tutorials he just randomly pulls a brainstorm
I love your pacing and your patience to explain decisions, as well as your willingness to admit that some decisions are mostly based on "feel". It's clear that you have a deep understanding of the game and its nitty details. I've been grinding getting all seals on all decks and your videos have been instrumental in my steps toward being able to complete those runs. Thanks for the immense effort and the consistency in uploading. GO BULLS!
Comments like this are what keep me going!
I felt we were getting a little in the weeds with the High Stakes runs. For educational purposes, I felt there could be some value going back to the beginning and breaking it all down in a more focused way.
Now that Balatro is out on mobile, I'm happy to finally enroll in Balatro University. Having great fun with the game so far!
November 2nd update:
So far I've won Gold Stake runs with Red Deck, Black Deck and Erratic Deck just now. Learned a lot from classes (read: videos) and practice. Thanks teach!
How were you able to do that in the span of a week holy shit
@@drizzora you could probably do it too if you play the game obsessively for an entire week
@@drizzora Welp, we have a word for that it’s called *addiction*
I know I am very late to the game ( picked it up on the Thanksgiving Steam Sale ), but this video did wonders for my game. When I got to about the 50 minute mark, I started playing while watching this, and I went from failing to win white runs, to winning two in a row, and having a better economy and the money to tweak my game. Thank you.
Also, anyone who is interested in playing on mobile you can get the game for free if you have Apple Arcade! I get it with my Verizon subscription which is probably the only thing making me feel like Verizon isn’t bending me over and vigorously violating my wallet with a dry fist lol
Immediately hooked on this game, despite the fact I scoffed when I saw it win so many awards. I said, pfff it’s a stupid card game how good could it be. I’ll eat humble pie on this one
This is an absolutely amazing tutorial.
One thing I definitely suggest is watch out for tunnel-visioning on the hand that you want. There were multiple times that flushes were banked on when viable full houses were already achieved.
Yeah, but it depends on jokers and planet cards. If you have two pair mults and two pair planet upgrades then that's all you can play or you lose
Stop overusing adverbs.
@@jbs9473 2 adverbs over 3 sentences is overusing them now? Loosen up a little.
The amount of knowledge you have in Balatro is unbelievable. Thanks for making this University free.
huge appreciation for all the insanely info-filled videos you’ve been making. it’s been a huge help in becoming a better player with all the thorough thought and execution explanations. i’ve been going through the balatro daily series slowly and have been really enjoying it.
this helped a ton! i was rushing through the early game without knowing how to get a good start but after watching this my runs have been loads better :)
Got given the game nine months ago by my son but bounced off it several times. At long last - thanks to your video - I am beginning to grasp the basics, and maybe some of the complexities. Thank you so much.
Remember, every spectral pack you don't take WILL have a soul card!
😭
Really neat idea replaying different sections of the game to show different scenarios
my strategy specially for higher stakes is holding R 💀
I didn’t know you could do that, ty
For me that's just the button to buy stuff in the shop. What does your R normally do?
@@Dharengoreset the run
@@fkingyeet3725 Does pressing it normally do anything?
i have a switch, I can't reset the ante
This helped me understand why stacking lots of +mult doesn't seem to help much and why the first few are critical. Thanks.
Your tutorials are great and a huge help for new or struggling players (like me), so thanks for making them!
This video helped SO MUCH. I had about 20 hrs in and was tired of losing so much! This video goes into great detail to help you out early on. I went from my highest hand being ~10k to being >40 million! Definitely worth the time.
I don't always agree with every play, but my win rate has skyrocketed since watching even the first half hour of this series. This man knows the game well
Playing on higher stakes is, of course, different than playing on the starter difficulty. Scoring requirements are higher, and Joker quality is lower. Among other differences, you typically need to spend more in the first few Rounds to make sure you have enough material for Antes 2 and 3. If you get an early scaler like Ride the Bus, you should try to stack it immediately with strategically "non-scoring" hands. It'll take you longer to reach the $25 in the bank for interest, but you will have some insulation against "low rolls" in future shops.
@drspectred I'm having a lot of fun developing my own strategies and coming back to this series occasionally for ideas I didn't think of. Thanks for giving me some of the advice I wouldn't come across until later in advance! Your enthusiasm for the game has inspired me to play more and your knowledgeability helped me go from a long losing streak to clearing my first gold stakes.
Just got Balatro and I'm obsessed with it. I've not been since FTL, Into the Breach or Dead Cells. Looking forward to your videos
As a new player to the game. I’ve put in about 10 or so hours into the game. This has been very helpful!
After seeing how much econ is worth and how much you value each single hand, I'm feeling weird that Green Joker is my favorite joker, to the point I could be dominating a run by ante 3-4 and still consider taking it just cause I love the hand played jokers. My golden stake win had square and green jokers and I kept purposefully rearranging my jokers to play as many hands as possible. This game never ceases to surprise me on how crazy it can get, while remaining both challenging, yet extremely fair. Localthunk pulled a crazy balance between randomness, skill, variety and depth.
i dont even play the game but i still love watching your balatro vids, great content man keep it up 🔥🙌💯
You should probably play it! It's amazing!
you gotta play it bro
Game is so fun and super addicting
Definitely give it a try if ya can.
Strange life!
It’s free if you have Apple Arcade 😎
This is an excellent video! And all 2+ hours is filled with good stuff. Really like how you explain your thought process.
This was hands down one the best guids and tutorials I've watched. Everything explained in detail and at very good pace. Awesome stuff mate great work
Totally agree 💯
1:50:17 Tip for quickly adding up the value of a straight that doesn't contain aces or face cards: Take the middle number and multiply by 5. You'll get the exact value; no need to estimate or add them one-by-one. (Exception: If you're using the Shortcut joker, this method won't necessarily get you the *exact* answer, but it will be close enough - though if the value is very close to being exactly what you need to hit the target, you might want to add up their exact totals.)
If you're using an ace as a 1, do the same as above but add 10 (since an ace is scored as 11 even if it's acting as a 1 in a straight).
I just beat my first run, this video series was a huge help. Keep up the great work!
Straights, in texas hold-em, are easier, but harder than flushes in Balatro - so while the base scoring is representative of poker hands, when upgrading hands straights are favoured. Straights need a buff I think.
Are they really easier? it's still 8 vs 9 if you have a draw, or are you saying that it's easier to get a straight draw?
Straights are already buffed via better planet scaling
In a standard deck, there are about 2x as many possible straights as flushes in 5-card poker hands. Increasing the number of "seen" cards narrows the gap, but there will always be more straights available.
Straights should always be more common than flushes, but discarding optimally in order to make straights is much harder than for flushes.
Best channel for this game so happy your videos exist
Had no idea how to play until I found your video. THANK YOU!
Exactly what I've been waiting for!!!!
I'm late to this game, this first part of the tutorial was very helpful to me. Thanks
Thanks so much man your knowledge is greatly appreciated and you are a great teacher!
I’ve gotten up to blue stakes on checkered, but I want to learn just enough to get better but still figure things out on my own.
I’ll be signing up for a course at Balatro University this year.
And from the looks of it, people are as obsessed as I am if not way more. And I’m pretty obsesseded…..
The perfect video for a beginner like me. Thank you.
Thanks!
Big thanks for this, I look forward to seeing more from you!
My strategy is flush face card deck every single time. Usually easy enough to get your deck down to just two suits, face cards have a lot of good jokers if you're lucky.
Highest score ever unseeded was a flush five king deck, all holo glass red seal cards and an ungodly amount of retriggers and some x mult jokers.
Also started as a flush build.
New to Balatro and this video is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, dude! Subbed!
Finally something a bit more my speed 😅
“Let me offer you… the banana” is so funny lmao great video!
This is the BEST Balatro series!!
To answer the "Luck or Skill? question on the thumbnail - It's both LOL
Skill obviously matters, but you can still get screwed by a bad seed no matter how good you are
I feel like whenever I win, I get godly synergy’s and awesome cards, but when I lose it’s usually on an early ante with 0 good cards seen or been able to afford.
One thing I always try to do is to close the first blind (ideally the first two ones) in a single hand. I restart the run if i can't.
Sounds like a boring strategy; sometimes you learn more by losing. To each his own, but I think it's important to remember how boring a game you always win is.
@@bluupadoop but like, you very much can lose? it's just a small advantage
@@m4rcyonstation93 I just find the strategy to be silly, sometimes you can have an amazing run even if you don't get that first round win in one hand. The game is so heavily RNG based, it's just more fun to play a run without that 'must win' mentality
@@bluupadoop I mean yeah you can play how you want but it's not like I'm resetting for a 1% chance here. Usually the majority of the time (what feels like 80%[based on vibes] of the time) I can win in one hand on the first hand. I think it's weird you're acting like it's some crazy rng thing we're resetting for when it's not
@@m4rcyonstation93 I mean you said it yourself brother. The OP said they reset if they can't get a win on the first round in one hand, so by your vibes he's giving up 20 % of his runs for a one or two dollar advantage in the first ante. That's twenty runs out of a hundred that they're just missing out on for a couple dollars. I don't think it's weird for me to think that's a wasteful strategy. Getting a single econ joker in the first few rounds will more than make up for the lost money in that first round.
watching this as I've been stuck in purple stake(yellow deck) for awhile now lol
12:05 might be doing my math wrong here, but im coming up with chances of 25% to pull any 2 of 10/45 cards in a 5 card discard, and ~35% of pulling any 1 of 4/45.
even though there are more good cards in the former case, the fact that you have to pull multiple of them makes it less likely than going for the full house. obviously i dont expect anyone to be busting out n choose x equations for one balatro round, but my intuition was the same and i just wanted to double check
Thanks for the video. I bought this game because of the hype but i felt kind of lost. I'm not a card player so it felt weird to think in terms of cards in a deck
An excellent guide. Thank you!
@ 1:21:52 - would you agree madness is best when eternal jokers are enabled?
My biggest downfall is always bad luck on jokers like a run earlier tonight I got fantastic early luck with my first 2 jokers so I was able to hit 5k blinds with a single card but by the time I was into the 40 and 50k blinds all I was getting was trash (well stuff that was no use to the build ied currently got) it finally fell over on a 57k (it may have been the 50k and I was short 3k)when I was 3k short.
This was also a round that killed a quarter of my deck and the lady must have been mad at me as all I was pulling was then dead cards.
I do like flush and to a lesser extent straight early on, but around ante 2ish I do try to move towards either strengthening the easier hands or sculpting my deck towards higher hands. I do feel like they fall off (flush more than straights imo).
Yeah I really prefer the pair/two pair/three/full type of build. Lots of good synergies. Heck you can even do a high card build
I wish this video had chapters :(
Great video still!
The more I'm listening, the more he sounds like slime (ludwig's friend). Am I crazy?
Video is great btw thank you for this.
For orange stake Ive just been reseting till I get free shop/+15 boes and reseting after anti 2 if I dont have good jokers
Same, but it gets tiring fast 😅
What are boes?
Thank you, super useful
I sadly have yet to win a game, but I’ve gotten really close a couple times! So that’s improvement. I went from not even reaching the boss to losing AT the boss! So probably soon, I’ll beat it! :3
Love the video. Great tips. Just an fyi, while high contrast cards might be nice for most people, it's absolutely terrible for colorblind people. It's basically the opposite of how some games have a colorblind friendly filter you can enable, this is like the screw colorblind people filter lol. Might be better for presentation purposes to use the different art sets to help distinguish the suits instead. Food for thought.
algorithm food comment. thanks for the instructive video!
how did you change to color of your suits?
oh high contrast cards lol my bad
Immensely helpful video! Thank you so much 💗
To have the golden stake chip on Joker, do you have to win with it in your jokers or you just need to buy it once during the run ?
Unfortunately, it needs to be in your "final 5" and survive until after the boss. This means things like Banana and Mr. Bones don't give you the sticker if they expire.
@@drspectredok thx you. For now i'm trying to unlock every joker before doing the stakes. (Still not done a single red stakes xD). I struggle a lot with winning in less that 12 rounds and doing 100M chips. I'm such a bad player
1:32:00 I looked up the spawn chances on the current patch:
70% common
25% uncommon
5% rare
I'm finding that unlocking new jokers via milestones its really dampening the experience due to a now inflated rng table. This a consisrent problem for me in most roguelikes, where the first few runs are fun but later on, it becomes unreasonably rare to come across basic drops that are necessary to survive in the first few antes.
When the shop decides on what Joker to give you, it decides on a rarity first and then gives you a Joker of that rarity. Most of the unlocks are Rare or Uncommon, so this does not impact the ability to find the early game Common Jokers which help get your run off the ground. The unlockable Jokers are largely xMult Jokers, then making it easier to score more with less components.
@@drspectred i figured that was the case as well, maybe I'm just getting dead seeds, but even after clearing stakes for 3 of the later decks, when I when back to the first 2, I was really struggling to get anything usable
I think I heard somewhere that when wheel hits it will hit either your oldest or newest joker at 50% chance each, but I can't find where I heard this. Can anyone confirm this, and if this is also the case for other cards such as ankh or madness?
I believe this used to be a thing for one of the demo versions of the game, and I commented on it in one of my Balatro Daily videos. However, I can confirm this is no longer a thing.
Why did you not play the ace when you showed a straight hand at 6:20?
Thank you for the vids.
My guess is to demonstrate that it would be enough even without it
Ante 1 is pretty formulaic.
Small Blind needs to be won in a single hand to ensure $6 winnings, bringing total to $10.
Small Shop should be saved unless there's a very good joker (the voucher should 99% not be bought in the small shop)
Going into Big Blind with $10 ensures 2$ interest, winning in 2 hands will bring total money to $18.
In Big Shop I try to maintain Atleast 10$, so I can spend $8 on two basic blister packs or some jokers.
My early goal is to get my money to $25 asap to Max interest. So one of my pickups in the big shop is something to boost economy (gold card, gold seal, $ generating joker).
My other pickup will be something that helps with scoring, a decent basic joker or a good tarot or planet.
My hope is that the ante 1 voucher is a crappy one so I can skip it, but if it's decent I'll make the investment and focus harder on boosting eco.
By ante 2 the rng of the game is coming into play and you have to roll with the punches. But generally I aim to get 1 eco joker, 3 scoring joker, and 1 scaling joker.
My girlfriend sent me this channel so I can finally get good :>
Do you play any other games besides Balatro? Love the way you explain concepts man!
Yes more balatro
At 14:09 I would have taken the faceless joker thinking that it could potentiall pay of after just one round + temperance later on.
Is it too hard to pull off or why wouldn't you take it?
100% should’ve taken that
1:30:00 It really sucks that your Gros Michel / Cavendish advice here got patched out. I had been grinding for the Gros Michel and was really disappointed when I finally got it and got it to disappear only to find that the mechanic doesn't work the way you described anymore (i.e. now you only have a **chance** to **see** Cavendish in the **same run** you get Gros Michel **if** it disappears). Maybe you should put that correction in the description or pin my comment.
This functionality has never changed. The only thing which changed from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 was the probability of Michel perishing. 1 in 4 chance became 1 in 6. I didn't say anything wrong in the video but could have been slightly more clear here. Taking Gros Michel whenever its offered is sound advice. Still is, always has been.
amazing vedio realy help me out
This game is so fun to watch but too difficult for me to play, I guess I’m not smart enough for this game lol
Im pretty sure Flower pot counts wild cards as all 4 suits
been play 30 hours still haven'r got passed ante 8
Is buying vouchers early not recommended?
1:42:19 you can do a street with A2345, great video thanks
For me it's always like: I loose at second boss or I crush everything (because I was lucky with Jokers)
Holy shit you can rearrange cards in your deck view 😭 how did I not know
Is Ace a face card?
No, it doesnt have a face
balatrology
My Balatro journey 😭
I have never loveda game so much, but also hated it so much at the same time haha.. i tried to win with so mant strats and just fail every time..
I found out how to mod Balatro so now I have reverse tarot cards >:)
They exist in the game already
@@abdulazizmohammed8797 bro what are you on about
@@abdulazizmohammed8797 Nope!
Not me just finding out that you could discard multiple cards at a time and it counts as one discard..................
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nice vid
(Also first)
Not gonna lie, while I loved the vid, skipping that negative card made me cringe a little 😅
Keep it up!
...the video. not the negative skipping 😂
Skipped for educational purposes, obviously. It is a very good early pick, even if it wasn't negative, though you won't see negatives that often, so not showing it off makes sense.
You know what would really kick ass is a mod which simulates a million draws to show the odds of each outcome
watching this channel cause i fucking suck so far even if im getting scores. 😂
7:28 minutes in picked up the game last night love indie rouguelikes cool gonna b a great time but FUCK it’s so much math!!!
do u play with a calculator open? or r u just sick like that?
1:23:30 mrow :3
50:24
I actually think you may be an economics or statistics professor irl 😂
Could there be a more traditional casino Poker game in the future from Balatro?
I have a BS in Balatronomy and I buy banana joker.
Now this is how a mobile game is done. Pokemon Pocket, eat your heart out. (Yes I know it wasn’t intended for mobile, but it’s like the NBA, while PP is playin rec ball) :) I absolutely love it so far. I can’t stop playing haha and I suck!!
Is there a reason the game can't display the score for the hand before it's submitted, or is it just a bad design choice ?
There are plenty of things that use chance such as lucky cards or bloodstone that can drastically alter your score based on whether or not they activate.
it isnt necessarily a bad design choice, as it can help the feel of the game or bring some fun to it. i personally like how it doesnt display the score the hand gives before playing it
It's an intentional game design, the developer wants the excitement of seeing the number go up and calculate everything individually as you play. It's fun to watch
Yeah, I love balatro keeping it hidden
41:24
I always make this mistake xddd
man id watch to learn but 2+ hours is too much for my blood. If someone made something like this that was way more concise without the slowlow playthrough you could cut this down to 30 minutes. Brevity is king.
I don’t understand this chasing strategy. High probability doesn’t guarantee to give you the cards you want. And if you run out of discard you end up with a small pair or even worst a high card. Everytime I try this strategy of chasing the combination I want, there will always be an unlucky round when the right card doesn’t drop.
Honestly, you get better by just playing higher stakes. Though it could be a trap since you might only play when the shops are good and leave you with very bad habits. But when you try to play it out and don't just restart every shop, you'll know what to prioritize very quick.
Any skill takes practice, but telling folks "just play more; you'll figure it out eventually" seems unnecessarily callous and not at all constructive.
It's really nice to have the mathematical breakdown. I have tried to work it out on my own, but it helps hearing it in this format.
Currently stuck on purple. I agree that it has made white stakes much easier, but the jokers that become good (insanity) and the ones that become bad (most that rely on discards) kind of switch around
Er, and I realize now it's called Madness, not Insanity