Beginner's Guide to High Scores and High Antes (Part 1/2)
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Teaching you how to set up your own high-powered, high-scoring, and high-ante runs. In Part 1 (of 2), we focus on deckbuilding and managing our economy.
Seed: W6WZ9RV5
(Version 1.0.1f)
thank you balatro university i love seeing number go up
I liked number go up so much I started playing Antimatter Dimensions, and now number gone up to 1.30e1,132,557
@@matthewwhiteside4619 Literally playing AD while watching this video. In AD, NaNeinf is just the beginning!
I too love seeing the number go up
@@matthewwhiteside4619 no 1e1qt?
@@matthewwhiteside4619That is a ridiculous amount of zeros
Note that the scaling in endless mode is tetrational, proportional to x^x^x. At the moment, there isn’t a way to scale one’s hand at O(x^x^x), but this problem is obscured by the Ante 39 naneinf glitch.
True, but for now, we’ve found the end of Endless, in the same way the glitch screen in Pac-Man is the end of that game. If retriggers were multiplicative instead of additive, or if chip multiplication was a thing, we’d probably find a way to breach it, but for now, we’re just gonna have to settle for being bigger than floating point
Just noticed the king of hearts isn’t stabbing himself in the head in balatro. Definitely the worst part of the game imo.
1:33:01 'Do I wanna pick up Northernlion' absolutely killed me
1:17:00 Almost not hitting a 3. That is how I lost one of my straight runs. it happened on the final boss on ante 8. Just needed one 10 to show up and it never did. So after that, I stopped maining straights until I started watching Balatro University and have come to realize that I was just unlucky at the wrong time.
Can't win 'em all
I hate building on straights for that reason too. It feels like there's no backup, if you miss any straight you're done for. And even if there's like a 95% chance you hit on any given blind, that's a 5% chance to lose on any given blind.
Although it may just *feel* that way because it sucks and stands out when you lose with a straight deck because you score like 20k points against a 100k ante when you just scored 240k vs the last blind.
I just got naneinf on unseeded. My life is complete. Thank you professor
Going through this vid slowly. Learning so much from all of these great vids. Amazing content from these concentrated Balatro learning videos. Thank you as always!
1:05:50 you could have discarded for 15$. I'm surprised you missed it.
everyone saw that but only one fool took the time to point a single mistake in a 2 and a half hour video. Congrats!
This video is fantastic I love the way you describe strategy. Was talking with Malf earlier today about strategy for long runs versus strategy for just gold stakes make it through ante 8 so this is perfect timing you uploading this. Love your content you are awesome!
Oh also love the new pngtuber thing. So cute and perfect!
Just wanna add my vote and say that I love the pngtuber so much, and it’s because of how much of a rapscallion he looks, not despite it. Please never change or remove him, except to make him even better.
He looks like a medieval Mr. Moneybags (affectionate)
Yaoi hands is such a funny way of describing hand size in balatro
It's so good, I catch myself using it so much now
I will watch the whole video for the education, but somebody else will not have the patience to find that quote
Nice been waiting for something like this!
I love that you call the Blue Steel card Derek. (Zoolander Reference)
Professor what are your thoughts on them adding a negative edition for playing cards? Wouldn’t count for hand size, but would count for played cards.
Too powerful. Too easy to make copies of cards with things like Death and Cryptid.
@@drspectred Make it like ankh so copying a card removes negative edition
Give it a trait 'unique', cannot be copied.
@@drspectred Peter’s suggestions seems solid and in line with the game. Also I think negative jokers are so weak now in the current build that this would bring back some utility to that edition.
I was thinking about negative playing cards and drew the same conclusion--way too strong the moment you use Death on one. Redefining "negative" to include "copies don't keep negative" may be a reasonable solution (it is in line with how Invisible Joker already works, I believe, so simplifies that description; otherwise I don't think it comes up except maybe the rare Ankh on a negative).
42:04 Is there a reason you sold the runner over the moon here or did you just miss it? It ended up working out because you bought the sixth sense, setting you at 10 for interest, but it seemed like you didn't notice it was there since you were about to move on without it. In a vacuum, I feel like the value in the scoring from runner and opening the superposition slot for free was more than the extra dollar given from selling the runner.
It was determined that we could (and would continue to) one-shot without Runner. Therefore, we sell it. We only aim to score just enough points to pass every round and dedicate as many Joker slots as possible to building up our resources.
@@drspectred makes sense, thanks
Thank you! Your videos have helped me learn a lot. Can't wait for part 2
I think it can be possible for the voucher skip tag to be worth it for very long runs; vouchers can't be bought, and if you really need to fill out with paintbrush and antimatter before like ante 20 sometimes it's what will get you there
This is true. We just did it on stream minutes ago!
@@drspectred Are you planning to look at bribing the serpent in high antes? It's something I hadn't considered until recently, since the ceiling for a normal hand is a little bit higher in flush 5, but now I'm wondering.
Like if you can beat the ante 24 boss with baron, and you have enough retcon money, you should be able to pay your way as far as ante 31 or 32. i was short by a couple thousand bucks and an ectoplasm i needed to hit the ante 24 score check, but i did bribe the ante 23 boss. theoretically it's very possible!
@@sir3ntropy The issue is that the next small blind will kill you, if you can't beat a boss that isn't the serpant.
@@DrMonty-ng5fo not if you skip the small and big blind every ante and buy your way back to the serpent :) it can get pretty expensive to roll that much though
Amazing luck -- two Wheel of Fortunes hit back to back starting at 31:35. The game is never that kind to me!
I'm probably undervaluing the Tower - I see you're using it to remove it from The Idol's pool, does this affect anything else? Maybe I'm just too focussed on 'big hand' playstyles and don't usually end up in high card.
I’m not him, and I don’t know for a fact (I’m pretty sure most Jokers don’t care, but also some mods of the game accidentally recognize face cards below Stone), but a consistent way to win is “High Card” strategies. A more accurate way to put it is a hand-independent strategy. While planet cards can do work in the proper deck, it’s also easy to make any deck work at all with scaling mult, a consistent source of chips, and some times mults. The hard part is actually assembling the whole thing, but a lot of high Stake gameplay is working with what you have and not what you want anyway.
1:26:16 Should've used World on the gold 5 and gold 3, so that way they wouldn't be debuffed for the boss round.
For sure
1:36:53 when I ask the doctor where his fist went in a concerned tone
Can someone help me understand the discussion about skipping starting at around 11:20? If you skip the first small blind vs not skipping it, the only thing that's different is what you would have gotten in the first shop, and the money from unplayed hands. If you wouldn't have bought anything then you only missed out on the couple of dollars, which matters but isn't really that big of a difference. You do miss out on seeing a couple shop items, but I usually don't buy anything in the first shop anyway, so it seems like on average it's a small consequence.
Basically what I'm saying is that if I handed you two save files in an ante 2 shop, one that skipped the first small blind and one that didn't, the only difference would be a few dollars and the round counter would be off by 1. To me this seems to be a mistake similar in size to forgetting to discard for a gold card, which is something good players often forget to do. I acknowledge that skipping the first ante is usually not good, but how is playing the round better than skipping for $25, for example? I know you don't get the payout immediately, but it's still worth more than the $3 you get from playing the small blind and the extra $1 of interest you would have earned from the big blind.
Lets say you don't skip the first blind. You enter the second shop with $10. So, not only are you getting the $7, you're getting an entire extra shop. The difference between having 2 shops in an ante, compared to 3 shops, is massive. Also, even though $7 doesn't sound like much, it can snowball your economy into making more and more money. So basically, is that skip tag worth more than $10 in value, and skipping your shop, which you have a finite amount of? Well, sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. But losing a shop is a bigger downside than you realize.
@@DrMonty-ng5fo How is it $7? On a normal deck, like red deck, if you don't skip you will have $7 in the first shop and $14 in the second shop (if it takes you 1 hand for the small blind and 2 hands on the big blind). If you do skip you will have $10 in the second shop (again assuming 2 hands needed for the big blind). To me that means that you're comparing the skip reward to seeing the first shop with basically no money, and having $4 more in the second shop. The rewards from skipping are often better than that
@@brianmcmanus9110 On White stake, it's $10.
You should try the BALATRO seed
Big number = big dopamine
Thank you for making me play better and for contributing to my funny jonkler game addiction
I just started playing last week and im trying to get all the decks unlock before worrying about high score. Currently i havent tried the higher difficulties but on white stakes i keep getting walled at Ante 11. It feels like such a big wall that unless you break the game you cant pass it
That is somewhat by design, though usually the big jumps happen at every 4 antes, especially past 8. Getting stuck at 11 isn't unheard of though.
Beating 8 is enough to be considered a win; everything past that is gravy.
Awesome vid! I wish so many of these types of vids are on highest difficulty, though
Different people play the game in different ways and for different reasons; I think that's part of what makes the game so accessible to so many people.
Folks interested in a challenge typically play Gold Stakes to Ante 8 (possibly chasing the Completionist++ achievement). Folks interested in record-breaking big numbers and crazy synergy typically play on the lowest difficulty. There isn't a huge market for Endless content on High Stakes.
However, I think the Challenge runs would greatly benefit from you being able to customize the difficulty with Stakes. I dabbled in doing challenge runs on regular non-Challenge decks, even going so far as to do a Jokerless Gold Stake (on Abandoned Deck). If this is the sort of thing which interests you, maybe check out the Completionist++ playlist.
Regarding the clearance voucher (2:01:50 ish), doesnt the effect just balance out? Less cost means less sell value which means less return from Temperance, but you dont need as much money due to the discount so it all levels out. And with Gift Card especially, you can continue to scale back up to the Temperance cap.
The Voucher doesn't reduce the cost of Rerolls, which is where most of your money is going. You get a dollar discount on 4 Booster Packs and maybe another dollar or two from Tarot Cards you buy from the shop.
You still want the Discount in the long term, but you can wait to take it after the Big Blind is defeated.
@@drspectred Makes sense, don't know how I forgot about rerolls. Thanks for the quick reply, even on an old video!
Where is part 2 though ?
following your guidance i got myself in a great position with perkeo which i got a wraith which i used to build my deck i ended up with perkeo, the duo, bloodstone, swashbuckler, negative baseball card, negative baron and lusty joker i got my deck to kings and jacks hearts with still quite a few random useless card but i couldn't make any money other than selling 1 wraith per round 4g and as i had no money couldn't roll to be able to switch to a better hand than 1 pair as i needed the other kings in my hand to keep up with scoring and eventually the antes got me but only on 9th it felt such a great run but i got lost in the middle and didn't know how to go about generating money as scoring became more and more important so the run just sort of ground me down. i watch a lot of your videos and you make it look effortless especially the generating income bit which is the bit that i find very difficult as i feel like i'm always worried about my score.
You're crazy with making money. 3 econ jokers in a high scoring guide thats wild
I have a question, I had a baron mime build and i was farming serpent, at one point the game stop to give me serpent (I did 1k reroll and the game was just giving me the 5 same boss) any explanation or I must just go cry (I was at e140, with just 2 mime and 3 baron and still cap at 5 joker so I had a lot of room to go way higher)
And I had a negative bus so I was in positive in money, it was quit a perfect run until this
No idea. Sounds like a bug.
@@drspectred really been shit on by the game at least, this is fun
I'd love to see another 15 Deck Winstreak speedrun! Maybe even live?
Also, I think the discussion about interest at 19:35 is misleading since you have to calculate interest on a case by case basis. Once you hit the interest cap the compounding effects stop, so the price for buying the voucher is the base $10 plus the $2 in extra interest per round, but only until you hit the cap. If you would hit the cap in 2 rounds without buying the voucher and 4 rounds without you only made an extra $4 of interest. Plus you're unlikely to maximally greed with the extra money and instead you're likely to just spend it on something else. The telescope and a celestial pack allowed BU to survive without picking up a joker, but had he not bought telescope he would have needed to spend money elsewhere to survive, so the benefits from the interest aren't all that big. I don't disagree with the decision to buy the voucher, but I think there's a lot of nuance to calculating the impact of buying something vs not that isn't explained.
what if superposition gave you a saturn if it was an ace low flush? would that be too strong?
I can't believe he forgot about the moneeeey at 1:05
Love your content, love this game, and hate math. I also have not found Yurick . My last Joker to get, I also need to find the final voucher I unlocked. Working on blue yellow deck so I can unlock all decks. Been close. Do we know when the update is coming to the console?
It's insane how easy you make this look through your thought process...then I try to do it and it goes to shit XD
it's a tough game ngl
hello. I am really stuck on the jokerless challenege. I know you have a video where you go straights and win, but would you mind putting a video out on how to do that challenege successfully post patch?
I tried the flush blue card deck and got to ANTE 7 but the halfing chips/mult took me out quick and clean (no boss reroll unfort). Thank you if you even read this.
I actually have a playlist of Jokerless runs on the non-challenge decks such as Jokerless Magic Deck and Painted Deck. I even did Jokerless Gold Stake on the version 1.0.1.
None of the Joker changes apply to the Jokerless Challenge. The main changes with 1.0.1 are this: The early Blind sizes are lowered, so it's even easier to get off the ground. Blue Seal now gives you the Planet Card of your last played hand instead of a random Planet Card. This is a huge buff which guarantees late game scaling. And then finally, Saturn Cards give more Mult, so it's easier to score with Straights than before.
Basically, any lessons from the previous Jokerless Challenge still apply in 1.0.1. You're going to need to get better at leveraging Card Enhancements from Tarot Cards. Because the Jokerless Challenge removes Jokers from the shop, you'll see 4 times as many consumables.
Regardless, the Flint (half chips and mult) is a huge pain. Hope to not see it. +Mult Cards from Empress and Bonus Cards from Hierophant can help mitigate this, since those bonuses are applied after the Flint's effect.
@@drspectred awesome this is super helpful thank you very much
10:00 In my opinion, there is one tag that is worth it in the context of a mega long run. The voucher tag can give you extra chances at getting the best vouchers in the game, the antimatter joker which gives you an extra joker slot, or the extra hand size vouchers, which can allow you to take an ectoplasm card, indirectly giving you an extra joker slot. Still I would never take this tag without a bonus tag, and i would never get a bonus tag from anywhere else than diet soda. (I would prioritize diet soda highly though)
1:02:33 "Uranus is free, so I don't mind selling for a dollar."
Come on !
i got super lucky just a few days ago on plasma deck with 3 tribulet and 2 sock and busin, with no red seals i got to ante 20 and i truly realized how long super far runs take
Let’s go class is in session
1:16:40 The probability of not drawing a 3 there was (11÷15)×(10÷14)×(9÷13)
×(8÷12)×(7÷11) = 15.4%, not terrible but not ideal odds.
Not discarding for the money on round 12 killed me
This. This is what I can't do yet
I wish the character in the bottom right was a bit smaller
I sense a great number of new high scores are going to start showing up on Reddit
It would be nice if the avatar didn't do the little "hop" animation when you started talking.
I feel Balatro University would be peoud. i got a trubador shoot the moon seed and got all the way to ante 11 with all red sealed steel queens. I wanted to get a baron or a mime and strength the queens but I never found them in the shop.
great vids dude
wake up babe new balatro university guide
Easy sub good info!
My highest point hand is 67m, 149 jokers out of 150, 2 challenges beaten. I’ve got to orange stake on 2 decks. But I haven’t been able to beat orange stake at all yet. The 2 discard limit basically makes the game not fun anymore. I get lots of unlucky draws and RNG. I am trying to get better, because I want that last joker and gold stickers so bad.
Keep at it! This channel has a good series of tips for how to play better if you haven't checked it out. While they may be difficult, you can beat the orange and eventually gold stake
I have 4 decks completed on gold, my win rate for orange/gold is probably 5%. The best thing you can do is reset for a good starting joker and get your money to above $25 for max interest before you start spending. Those 2 things have done a lot to make my runs more consistent
Muh-neeeee?
Crazy how a single human being is worth 12 going on 13 ante dollars
1:12:42 nice
For the moneYYYYYYY
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