If he didn't have that banana taking up a slot so he could have had 2x mult he would have hit that last round EASY. I was begging that banana to go extinct for the last 3 rounds.
You know I thought the game had gotten harder too and the I realised after hours of failure that actually what changed was me skipping way more for the bonues, as soon as I started skipping way less again I started winning again.
he described how i feel about The Arm exactly. it can be annoying early for torpedoing runs but if you live it’s not that and it’s usually an easy late Boss
Something fun they don’t tell you about Joker stencil (explicitly) is that if you duplicate it you still keep the 5x. Managed to grab 3 in a green chip run and it was an easy ante 8
NL is the best salesman of games ever, he has made me rage buy so many games. I watch him for a couple months until the type A is too strong then I need some time to recover and then he comes in with another new game to crit my wallet.
I just had a run with a eternal negative sacrifial dagger, eternal stencil and madness. Madness couldn't destory anything but it still grows in mult every time and dagger is sacking a joker and growing base mult all the time. It was glorious! Eternal means it can't be sold or destroyed. It comes with the higher stakes. Its supposed to make it harder, but it makes some jokers so much better
@TheThursty100 damn that really sucks, but I've seen the Madness joker be used on eternal jokers and it still works, I wonder why dagger is the exception
Eternal jokers should be rarely available in all difficulties, or obtained as effect through a spectral card. Also, all special editions should be more likely to appear, especially negatives. And shop should be bigger by default, so you can choose between jokers instead of being forced into one, if there's any at all, because rerolls are so expensive early on. It's just boring otherwise. Having to play so many mediocre games before the stars align and you get something special going.
Love the Balatro videos. Im 99% a Type B guy, but i do hate that NL gave in and turned game speed up, bc now hes playing faster too. I def dont want him to analyze every single play, but damn hes so on super speed auto pilot now 😅
I think it's the skipping, i got better at the game and started skipping a bit more and i started losing. Went back to playing every hand except the first one and my win rate went back up.
I'm starting to think trying to force a game of Balatro into the 20 minutes you have before you have to pick up your daughter doesn't lead to the sharpest game play.
in terms hed understand: he needs to think of the marginal benefits vs the marginal costs for each added joker with stencil. edit: took out the time stamp
With the jokers you started with the second run, a third card makes them better. 6*4 vs 9*3. And if you get practically anything with more mult, you're better off going to 4 jokers because thats still back to 24 plus whatever else.
it feels kinda like a bad design that u have to have some mult/chips joker quite early into the game or u die but they give u planets/tarots or just too expensive/ eco jokers and its basically impossible to not lose cuz u got nothing, at least give rerolls or force jokers to appear in the 1st ant or something otherwise its just stupid, at least in my opinion, there are so many dead starts
Balatro is still hot and my guess it will be for a couple of weeks more, games like SAP and Isaac will be returning in the future as they had hiatus already before once there will be a slow down on new games for NL to play
It does. Some jokers add chips, meaning if it says "+150 chips", it adds 150 points to the chips (the blue box). Some jokers add mult, meaning if it says "+10 mult", it adds 10 points to the mult (the red box). Other jokers *multiply* mult, meaning if you have 10 mult and then a joker with a "X 1.5 mult" hits, you get 10 * 1.5 = 15 mult. Now, let's say you have a joker that says "+10 mult" and another that says "X 1.5 mult". Let's also assume that your jokers will activate left to right after you've played your hand. What order do you choose? Let's see. If you arrange it: "X 1.5 mult" > "+10 mult" Then, because your first joker *multiplies* the mult, the game does that operation first, so: (40 * 1.5) + 10 = 70 Now, let's rearrange them a different way: "+10 mult" > "X 1.5 mult" Now, because your first joker *adds to* the mult, it does that first: (40 + 10) * 1.5 = 75 Aha, you now see that putting the "+10 mult" before the "X 1.5 mult" means the mult is greater than if they were switched. That means that, all else being equal, you'll score higher in the second arrangement than the first. This is why, in general, you want jokers that multiply mult to be further to the right than jokers that add to the mult.
@@H3110ification I'm glad you did a whole detailed paragraph on it but you could've just said that it follows pemdas rules where the multiplication at the end would make the sum higher instead of the beginning
Does anyone have any idea how he sped up the game I’ve gone over the setting a few times and haven’t seen anything. I love Baltaro but it’s a little slow for me.
trying to beat gold stake ruined the fun of the game for me, I'm pretty sure it's impossible without an assload of luck or looking up what the meta is DON'T GET IT TWISTED, UPPING THE DIFFICULTY WILL MAKE IT LESS FUN
Like others said, if you want to stick with it, you have to rely on getting negatives, which just isn't reliable. It's great early game, but its usefulness decreases almost exponentially as the game goes on. I think you just have to be aware that you should drop it earlier than you think, or else you'll find the blinds too big with not enough money or shops left to rebuild after you sell it.
Brother you have a 3 years backlog of SAP videos, just watch them if you want that type of content to watch, Balatro is new and got NL hooked on it plus he already said that the new SAP pack made the game way too convoluted for him
“Overcommitted to joker stencil”
- guy with 5 jokers
he literally decommitted to joker stenci. just selling gros michel or the chip only joker would have got him there
@@DonkeyKongaGuru I was screaming the whole time. lolol
@@DonkeyKongaGurunah not gros michel, definitely yeet chip joker
I ain't mathing, but was the banana actually detrimental to the overall mult compared to just not having it?
@@rollyproductionsyou need mult to multiply, gros with +15 is hard to beat early.
Skipping free Joker instead of taking it and selling it. He's so back your honor
Again and again
I would miss that too tbh
"let's get the economy going" literally 1 minute before rejecting free money
10:57 skipping free planets instead of using or selling them. I’m pegged
"The Serpent" advice. You always draw 3. Always. There's no handsize limit. There's no reason to discard more than 1 card ever.
Raised fist
@@CreamerHKH pedant andy has arrived in the building
Incredible advice! I’ve been doing 3 every time often lose to it thanks a bunch
Blackboard joker
dude thank you for writing this. i’ve fucked up against the serpent because of that at least twice now
NL is that guy that dislikes a particular Joker in Balatro, but loves another one.
+2
wait he's just like me
+2
oh shit, dat me.
This is a comment of all time
buys astronomer immediately skips the damn shop
You know he's pegged when his first hand played is a straight flush
If he didn't have that banana taking up a slot so he could have had 2x mult he would have hit that last round EASY. I was begging that banana to go extinct for the last 3 rounds.
fr he just needed to do the math and realize 15+18+whatever the hand's mult is is less than 18+hand's mult x2
I always take banana early for Cavendish later, watching it and willing it to perish
I hear the Balatro music in my sleep
NL the type of guy to make a queen glass, and then say he doesn't want to play it because it is glass and might break
Tbf he'd lose drivers license mult?
you know he's getting good when he turns on the 4x game speed
You know I thought the game had gotten harder too and the I realised after hours of failure that actually what changed was me skipping way more for the bonues, as soon as I started skipping way less again I started winning again.
Yep, you really need to play blinds especially in the beginning when you're cash poor.
@@TimTim3000especially in the late game actually
Yeah, you have to be very careful with tags; it has to be worth skipping both the blind rewards and the shop.
26:33 fellas find yourself someone who acts like this when they see your banana
16:19 mrw when I'm in a live cover band for the Gorillaz and Feel Good Inc is up next on the setlist
"Playing full house sets money to $0"
*skips big blind shop for a rare joker instead of spending $26*
you forgot beats boss no problem without playing a full house, nerd
@@myspicyclips6402 lmao sure, it's still incredibly risky and not very rewarding, though
@@KveruLars cope
he described how i feel about The Arm exactly. it can be annoying early for torpedoing runs but if you live it’s not that and it’s usually an easy late Boss
Dont worry they nerfed it it no longer goes negitive
It’s very nice that it no longer goes negative
stencil joker can work when you have a ton of negative jokers. The problem is getting a ton of negative jokers
it seems tricky to intend on a 4 of a kind run but they’re so fun to stumble into and then get that card that basically guarantees it
I once got ancient joker early, got a spectral card to dupe it, then accidentally played the wrong suit flush against a boss. 😢
Committed to stencil… with 5 jokers for 3 antes lol
The spectral not going negative 🤥
Something fun they don’t tell you about Joker stencil (explicitly) is that if you duplicate it you still keep the 5x. Managed to grab 3 in a green chip run and it was an easy ante 8
wdym duplicate it? like have two stencils?
Clearly made this epi for the type a chatters. Solid analysis.
*gets two strong early game four of a kind cards*
“UH OH I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO PLAY”
You’re not thinking infinite enough
NL is the best salesman of games ever, he has made me rage buy so many games. I watch him for a couple months until the type A is too strong then I need some time to recover and then he comes in with another new game to crit my wallet.
The bgm for Balatro really sucks me into an addictive headspace
Driver's liscense is actually the culprit for a loss. Imagine x2 on the last bind that's all I'm saying
drivers license still had potential, blue joker and gros michel were the dead weight
I cannot wait until NL gets the plasma deck.
Otherworldly levels of pog will be achieved.
Bold of you to assume hell ever beat orange stake
@@cringekid3993 um acktually plasma is unlocked from blue stake
Egg playing Balatro? Sounds like a good day.
He literally either gets stuck forcing things or forgetting wtf he said 2 minutes ago lol
I just had a run with a eternal negative sacrifial dagger, eternal stencil and madness.
Madness couldn't destory anything but it still grows in mult every time and dagger is sacking a joker and growing base mult all the time. It was glorious!
Eternal means it can't be sold or destroyed. It comes with the higher stakes. Its supposed to make it harder, but it makes some jokers so much better
I’ve played with eternal jokers a few times, when I got sacrificial dagger the possibilities seemed endless, my dream is to get an eternal egg
@@Cheldeo well an eternal egg is funny and all, but the dagger doesn't increase if it can't destroy unfortunately
@TheThursty100 damn that really sucks, but I've seen the Madness joker be used on eternal jokers and it still works, I wonder why dagger is the exception
Eternal jokers should be rarely available in all difficulties, or obtained as effect through a spectral card. Also, all special editions should be more likely to appear, especially negatives.
And shop should be bigger by default, so you can choose between jokers instead of being forced into one, if there's any at all, because rerolls are so expensive early on.
It's just boring otherwise. Having to play so many mediocre games before the stars align and you get something special going.
28:30 Joe Jackson getting ready to debut a band in 1964
Love the Balatro videos. Im 99% a Type B guy, but i do hate that NL gave in and turned game speed up, bc now hes playing faster too. I def dont want him to analyze every single play, but damn hes so on super speed auto pilot now 😅
Trying to get the economy going but skips 3 sellable jokers. Never change NL
stencil is great with leveling planets (so the deck NL was playing, but somehow basically never leveled any hands)
>skips jokers instead of taking and selling them
i feel nostalgic to the rage of issac blunders.
Not the cliffhanger I need to see how this run ends
bro it ended..
I think it's the skipping, i got better at the game and started skipping a bit more and i started losing. Went back to playing every hand except the first one and my win rate went back up.
he really ran face first into the wall on that first run
I'm starting to think trying to force a game of Balatro into the 20 minutes you have before you have to pick up your daughter doesn't lead to the sharpest game play.
Not grabbing the mult for hand queen joker was an L moment
Watching NL throw that last run was so hard to watch.
Boy howdy I'm early. Balatro content gets me here immediately.
The way he skipped bull he saved my ass multiple times.
I always feel too poor for the bull
Only discard one card when you always draw 3.
I don't watch Northern that often, did he always giggle and cackle this much? It's kind of strange.
Gets the perfect jokers for playing four of a kind, sells one of them (square joker). Never change NL.
Buys crap instead
He should've kept Stencil, Banana and Licence 🙈🙈🙈🙈
Bro doesn't know you can discard 1 to draw 3 on Serpent
Club me song @27:52 is too good 😂
Someone will change lyrics and invent time machine to get copyrights
This guys busting packs, me at the card pack store
Did he actually sell useless planets? The Type B chatter in me is sated
you can take stuff you dont want just to sell it btw
get offered a free joker that he could have just sold, not skipped
in terms hed understand: he needs to think of the marginal benefits vs the marginal costs for each added joker with stencil.
edit: took out the time stamp
Not sure I've ever been this early to a new egg video
He is wild card blind.... He missed full house playes, like in the last hand that wild 2 was a full house enabler!
NL got a tic his head always looks to his right while he’s playing
He’s glancing at chat lol
Blue joker was totally your downfall on that last run. If you trashed that youd have had x2 and probably made it
gros michel too, he was already getting +18 mult from the holo two pair joker which is more that the +15 from it.
I can’t beat even one run to save my life. Still loving the game but I def need help figuring out the best plays lol.
Oh man, you could have had an 11 hand size instead of the stencil commitment. Would have been so sick.
Woah, wait, did they change The Arm or did I miss something because his hands never went to level 0
I noticed it too while i was playing, played a level 1 two pair to roll my hand and it didnt downgrade
@@WordUser I'm certainly not opposed to the change. The flint and the arm are killer on early antes, but it certainly caught me off guard
yeah they patched it. it can't reduce hands to 0 anymore
Does NL know how wilds work? ICANT
can you see your randomly generated seed somewhere in this game's menu? would be cool to copy the seed and follow along like in the old isaac days
Only once the run ends, it appears in the end game stats
With the jokers you started with the second run, a third card makes them better. 6*4 vs 9*3. And if you get practically anything with more mult, you're better off going to 4 jokers because thats still back to 24 plus whatever else.
I love balatro
I had a lucky card hit for mult, then get retriggered and hit for cash.
You go NL!
How much gas does stencil plus hiker have? I feel like they'd be fun and then you buy enhancements and planets and shit.
Keeping shit blue joker for like +75 chips and losing X2 mult from stencil is making me lose my damn mind
Can some smart fella, tell Me, a fart smella, how the arm didnt decrease his poker hand to level 0?
They nerfed the Arm to not be an early game death sentence
it feels kinda like a bad design that u have to have some mult/chips joker quite early into the game or u die but they give u planets/tarots or just too expensive/ eco jokers and its basically impossible to not lose cuz u got nothing, at least give rerolls or force jokers to appear in the 1st ant or something otherwise its just stupid, at least in my opinion, there are so many dead starts
Certified blind skippers wya? 😈
Did they nerf the arm? It used to bring you down to level 0.
Yep, was in the first patch
i miss sap
it's crazy that NL has played so much SAP but doesn't buy sell free jokers
No more SAP?
Balatro is still hot and my guess it will be for a couple of weeks more, games like SAP and Isaac will be returning in the future as they had hiatus already before once there will be a slow down on new games for NL to play
Quick question does rearranging the jokers actually help?
Yes they have a trigger order that sometimes benefits the score when you rearrange
It does. Some jokers add chips, meaning if it says "+150 chips", it adds 150 points to the chips (the blue box). Some jokers add mult, meaning if it says "+10 mult", it adds 10 points to the mult (the red box). Other jokers *multiply* mult, meaning if you have 10 mult and then a joker with a "X 1.5 mult" hits, you get 10 * 1.5 = 15 mult.
Now, let's say you have a joker that says "+10 mult" and another that says "X 1.5 mult". Let's also assume that your jokers will activate left to right after you've played your hand. What order do you choose?
Let's see. If you arrange it:
"X 1.5 mult" > "+10 mult"
Then, because your first joker *multiplies* the mult, the game does that operation first, so:
(40 * 1.5) + 10 = 70
Now, let's rearrange them a different way:
"+10 mult" > "X 1.5 mult"
Now, because your first joker *adds to* the mult, it does that first:
(40 + 10) * 1.5 = 75
Aha, you now see that putting the "+10 mult" before the "X 1.5 mult" means the mult is greater than if they were switched. That means that, all else being equal, you'll score higher in the second arrangement than the first. This is why, in general, you want jokers that multiply mult to be further to the right than jokers that add to the mult.
@@H3110ification I'm glad you did a whole detailed paragraph on it but you could've just said that it follows pemdas rules where the multiplication at the end would make the sum higher instead of the beginning
Well well, I've never seen an NL video say "No views" lol
Does anyone have any idea how he sped up the game I’ve gone over the setting a few times and haven’t seen anything. I love Baltaro but it’s a little slow for me.
It's the very first setting. Options -> Settings -> Game (tab) -> Game Speed
Lets goooooooo
Hi Tomo Hi Tomo Hi Tomo Hi Tomo
I win many rounds with double Joker Stencil
Is it BALatro or baLAtro
go next
trying to beat gold stake ruined the fun of the game for me, I'm pretty sure it's impossible without an assload of luck or looking up what the meta is
DON'T GET IT TWISTED, UPPING THE DIFFICULTY WILL MAKE IT LESS FUN
You're just bad i hate black stake "I broke the game" while onte easiest difficulty Ronalds
Stencil joker feels like super bait to me
Its just so reliant on getting decent negative jokers that i almost dont feel like its even worth the trouble
Brother he was getting 60k on like round 4. Every joker he added brought down his hand values 😅
Like others said, if you want to stick with it, you have to rely on getting negatives, which just isn't reliable. It's great early game, but its usefulness decreases almost exponentially as the game goes on. I think you just have to be aware that you should drop it earlier than you think, or else you'll find the blinds too big with not enough money or shops left to rebuild after you sell it.
I found success with it by keeping one empty joker slot. X2 is amazing with other jokers creating mult.
just don't rely too hard on it
you still need support either through hand levels or mult jokers for the mult mult to even be useful
he skipped a vampire, and he skipped a ramen. that would've scaled him.
A hemomancer
Vampire takes a pretty long time to get going, even if it is some of the best scaling in the game.
When he said: I feel like we could skip so we can get as much money as possible, while skipping Seed money voucher, I just Alt + F4.
Bro 4x is too much
why didn't "the arm" boss decrease his full house and flush to lvl 0?
it doesn’t decrease to level 0 anymore
@@314Marvin nice, I hope someday that update gets to the console port (I'm still waiting for the wheel of fortune increased chance)
FIRST! I LOVE YOU NL ❤
the real first
Oh no, hes omega washed.
Super auto PET me please
Brother you have a 3 years backlog of SAP videos, just watch them if you want that type of content to watch, Balatro is new and got NL hooked on it plus he already said that the new SAP pack made the game way too convoluted for him
Who is Tomo?
His cat!
@@epaomirimiri Thanks! Kept on hearing him say that name in a high pitched voice, was really curious haha
wait he reads youtube comments now? I was being mean as hell in every balatro episode cause I thought he stopped reading them im sorry enelle😭