Idea: When you lose on gold stake (which isn't often) can you play it again using the seed so we can see a run where a different decision or two might have won it? In fact you can do a compilation video with all the lost seeds and see if you can win them in order. This will also help answer the question "are all seeds winnable".
Is there a reason as to why players like Doc seem to be pivoting to spamming pair as opposed to high card recently? Feels like I've seen more high-level Balatro players doing that these days. Is there theory that's deemed pair as the better hand?
Mercury gives 50% more chips so, which translates to 50% more points if you don't have chip jokers. In general it's easier to get chips high enough where you can replace the chip joker with eco or xMult. Additionally pairs work with more jokers (or work better than high card eg lucky cat). Most people experience a higher win rate with pairs so they switched.
Who's "pivoting?" Starting to lean more into playing Pairs doesn't necessarily mean "pivoting" away from anything specific. For me, it's a shift from playing for fun (Straights and Flush Houses) to playing for win rate. High Card hasn't been my meta call since before the 1.0.1 patch (which changed Orange and Gold Stakes), with the notable weakness that High Card inherently scores a low amount of points (and often automatically loses to several bosses which punish that). That was over 1500 game play hours ago for me, and 5 months of real time. I expect many people are perfectly capable of figuring out on their own why Pairs have a higher success rate, but given the popularity of this channel and the notoriety of myself, it is conceivable that some folks might be more interested in giving Pairs a chance after watching me succeed there, specifically. As for my personal reasons for leaning into Pairs, it's a hand you can always play 4 of in a round. It's a hand which doesn't care what's in your deck or what cards are in your hand. This allows you to more easily get value out of Gold cards, Gold Seals, Purple Seals, but most importantly Blue Seals. These statements are true about High Card as well, but Pairs score more than High Card without much more effort.
@@drspectred Thank you for the detailed explanation! Perhaps "pivoting" wasn't the best word to use, I was simply curious to hear a more high-level explanation of the rationale and apparently I was working from an outdated assumption. It's also not just you that I've seen playing pairs over much else, I've seen other Balatro players with long gold stake streaks such as CardGameAndy also favoring pairs in their runs. I'm currently trying to get gold stake on all decks and I've been stuck at Orange for a little bit, so any little bit of info that helps improve the consistency of my runs is appreciated.
erm actually those verb endings in giveTH and takeTH are only used for singular and not plural third person, our modern S ending (giveS, takeS) replaced the archaic TH endings from ages ago
Idea: When you lose on gold stake (which isn't often) can you play it again using the seed so we can see a run where a different decision or two might have won it? In fact you can do a compilation video with all the lost seeds and see if you can win them in order. This will also help answer the question "are all seeds winnable".
Seconded! This is an amazing idea.
Inside of you there are two wolves.
Both play pairs with supernova
I like my vocuhers drippy bruh
absolutely loving the face card art ❤ kitty knight is so talented
Is there a reason as to why players like Doc seem to be pivoting to spamming pair as opposed to high card recently? Feels like I've seen more high-level Balatro players doing that these days. Is there theory that's deemed pair as the better hand?
Mercury gives 50% more chips so, which translates to 50% more points if you don't have chip jokers. In general it's easier to get chips high enough where you can replace the chip joker with eco or xMult.
Additionally pairs work with more jokers (or work better than high card eg lucky cat). Most people experience a higher win rate with pairs so they switched.
Who's "pivoting?" Starting to lean more into playing Pairs doesn't necessarily mean "pivoting" away from anything specific. For me, it's a shift from playing for fun (Straights and Flush Houses) to playing for win rate.
High Card hasn't been my meta call since before the 1.0.1 patch (which changed Orange and Gold Stakes), with the notable weakness that High Card inherently scores a low amount of points (and often automatically loses to several bosses which punish that). That was over 1500 game play hours ago for me, and 5 months of real time.
I expect many people are perfectly capable of figuring out on their own why Pairs have a higher success rate, but given the popularity of this channel and the notoriety of myself, it is conceivable that some folks might be more interested in giving Pairs a chance after watching me succeed there, specifically.
As for my personal reasons for leaning into Pairs, it's a hand you can always play 4 of in a round. It's a hand which doesn't care what's in your deck or what cards are in your hand. This allows you to more easily get value out of Gold cards, Gold Seals, Purple Seals, but most importantly Blue Seals. These statements are true about High Card as well, but Pairs score more than High Card without much more effort.
@@drspectred Thank you for the detailed explanation! Perhaps "pivoting" wasn't the best word to use, I was simply curious to hear a more high-level explanation of the rationale and apparently I was working from an outdated assumption. It's also not just you that I've seen playing pairs over much else, I've seen other Balatro players with long gold stake streaks such as CardGameAndy also favoring pairs in their runs.
I'm currently trying to get gold stake on all decks and I've been stuck at Orange for a little bit, so any little bit of info that helps improve the consistency of my runs is appreciated.
51:40 you could've had all of the common + mult scalers (apart from stinky fortune teller)
grimbo is stinky too
@@brisky3252 true
erm actually those verb endings in giveTH and takeTH are only used for singular and not plural third person, our modern S ending (giveS, takeS) replaced the archaic TH endings from ages ago
Just got my first gold stake win thank to your videos. Looking forward to the hologram record tomorrow. Thanks professor 🫡