If you have any other questions feel free to ask them under this comment or join the speedrunning discord and ask them there (linked in the description). Q&A: Q: "What does balanced mean"/"What deck is that"/"How do you get those numbers for a flush?" A: The deck used in this run is plasma deck, what it does is "balance" your chips and multipliers essentially making each equal to the average of the two values. For examples this turns 7 chips and 3 mult into 5 chips and 5 mult. Q: "Isn't that deck really broken?" A: Yes. Q: "How long did this take?" A: The entire grind was 27 hours long, with 3851 attempts. The session I got the run itself lasted just 19 minutes. Q: "What is going on?"/"What is the strat?" A: I was resetting for a very specific start with the plasma deck (explained above). Essentially i wanted a flush to beat the first boss in one hand into [[Stuntman]] (300 chips and -2 handsize) in the first shop. This is good enough to kill everything until anté 5 with one card, by that time I needed a [[Blueprint]] (copy the joker to the right). What having these to jokers does is give you +600 chips, which because of plasma deck is equal to +300 chips and +300 mult, carrying me to the end of the game. Q: "Why did you sell the joker at the end?" A: The joker i sold is one which triggers every time I play a hand. This is a timeloss because it triggering plays an animation. Not selling that joker earlier is a mistake. Q: "Is anything other than [[Stunntman]] and [[Blueprint]] viable?" A: A few jokers exist which might be worth while. If you're going for world record [[Bull]] (+2 chips for every gold) is theoretically the best, however the RNG required to get it working is insane. Aside from that [[Brainstorm]] (copies leftmost jokers ability) can work as a replacement for [[Blueprint]] and [[Invisible Joker]] (sell after 3 rounds to make a copy of a random joker) could give you an additional [[Stuntman]] if you get it early enough.
Based on the sound of the last part, I'm guessing mastermind cannot copy blueprint to double copy a joker? I haven't got both jokers at once to test, but a little disappointed admittedly
The set seed does it in 1:24 with Bull (2 chips for every dollar you have - if you have 100 dollars, you get 200 chips) and a bunch of money skips, so it's definitely gonna happen one day. It's just a matter of how long it takes for someone to get a seed that can do it
@@sairentoeko Eh, it's the best for quick and dirty chip builds *and* the best for taking nutty xmult builds to huge antes. There's a sizable middle ground where it's not good because chips and mult aren't that imbalanced
He's playing with a deck that balances his chips and his multiplier. The first thing he does is buy the joker that gives +300 chips, which then properly becomes 150x150 at the very least, because of said deck. He later finds a blueprint joker, which duplicates the +300 chips effect. Since he doesn't need to do anything more or even have the right hand to get a ton of points, he just rolls with it.
There are a lot of good speedrun jokers, but not quite as nuts as this obviously. Ice cream is a great joker for an average speed run, as well as the card that gives you chips for each card in your deck, or the one that gives chips for remaining discards
If you're going for world record, bull is theoretically the fastest, since you can one shot every boss with only one joker triggering. The RNG required to do that is insane though, maybe we'll see it a year or two from now.
Love the Balatro runs. I just released a "handless" deckbuilder after 5 years of indie development called "Mori Carta" and would love to send you a key but am not sure how best to do that.
thats the effect of the plasma deck. It will sum up chips and mult and put half of that in chips and the other half and mult and then multiply that for the chip total
yes, the plasma deck balance the chips and the mult making them even, so if you play a couple lvl1 with, for example, a K, the normal poker hand would be 5+10*1 = 15*1 = 15, but the deck would convert 5+10*1 = 15*1 into 8*8 = 68
So ik what the plasma deck does but the only joker I recognize is blueprint, can someone explain the other 3 (even tough it looks like the one never procs)
The first joker I pick up is Stuntman, it gives you +300 chips and -2 handsize, when copied by blueprint it gives +300 chips without the -2 handsize (which in this case is actually aw negative). The other two jokers are to the moon and abstract, to the moon gives you +13 mult per queen held in hand and abstract gives you +3 mult for every other joker you have.
It balances your chips and mult making them both the average of the two values. So something like 7 and 3 would become 5 and 5. It really is op, the only catch is that every blind is 2x larger.
Okay, I'm having a fucking blast with this game but what am I missing? When I play Red Deck the highest round I have got to was I think 16. Never in the realm of needing over 80,000 chips to beat a round but how the actual fuck do I get multipliers that would even get me there? I think there's a component beyond boosting hand classes and jokers to increase my multiplier that I am simply missing.
the strategy that works for me most of the time is: get a chip joker, like odd todd, castle or square joker. Get a flat mult joker like Scholar or Abstract and get a multiplicative joker like vampire. With that you can get pretty consistent to ante 8.
This run uses the plasma deck, which balances your chips and multiplier effectively turning +300 chips into +150 chips and +150 mult. This deck is completely vanilla, no mods or cheats were used, if you're still wavering on the legitimacy of the run it was verified on the official leaderboards.
This run was done using the plasma deck, which balances your chips and multipliers thus giving you a higher score. That deck is completely vanilla. If you still have doubts about the legitimacy of the run, it has been verified by the official speedrun moderators of this game.
![The Unseen Side of Speedrunning - 4:58.941 All Attempts [SMB1 Any%]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/X_eXSzyZudM/mqdefault.jpg)
If you have any other questions feel free to ask them under this comment or join the speedrunning discord and ask them there (linked in the description).
Q&A:
Q: "What does balanced mean"/"What deck is that"/"How do you get those numbers for a flush?"
A: The deck used in this run is plasma deck, what it does is "balance" your chips and multipliers essentially making each equal to the average of the two values. For examples this turns 7 chips and 3 mult into 5 chips and 5 mult.
Q: "Isn't that deck really broken?"
A: Yes.
Q: "How long did this take?"
A: The entire grind was 27 hours long, with 3851 attempts. The session I got the run itself lasted just 19 minutes.
Q: "What is going on?"/"What is the strat?"
A: I was resetting for a very specific start with the plasma deck (explained above). Essentially i wanted a flush to beat the first boss in one hand into [[Stuntman]] (300 chips and -2 handsize) in the first shop. This is good enough to kill everything until anté 5 with one card, by that time I needed a [[Blueprint]] (copy the joker to the right). What having these to jokers does is give you +600 chips, which because of plasma deck is equal to +300 chips and +300 mult, carrying me to the end of the game.
Q: "Why did you sell the joker at the end?"
A: The joker i sold is one which triggers every time I play a hand. This is a timeloss because it triggering plays an animation. Not selling that joker earlier is a mistake.
Q: "Is anything other than [[Stunntman]] and [[Blueprint]] viable?"
A: A few jokers exist which might be worth while. If you're going for world record [[Bull]] (+2 chips for every gold) is theoretically the best, however the RNG required to get it working is insane. Aside from that [[Brainstorm]] (copies leftmost jokers ability) can work as a replacement for [[Blueprint]] and [[Invisible Joker]] (sell after 3 rounds to make a copy of a random joker) could give you an additional [[Stuntman]] if you get it early enough.
Based on the sound of the last part, I'm guessing mastermind cannot copy blueprint to double copy a joker? I haven't got both jokers at once to test, but a little disappointed admittedly
@@AlongTheBorderSide It can actually! I have just never considered that possibility because it's so damn unlikely with only 7 shops
Ironically the "balanced" mechanic is not balanced
Isn’t it called brainstorm, not mastermind?
@@lucasc8972 you're completely right, I have no idea where I got Mastermind from
"One quick game of Balatro before i go to bed"
Never ends well 😂
And never is fast 😂
We all know that feeling
Beats the game in 2 minutes.
Jimbo: "You dealt with that pretty well."
Nice work! I saw from your reddit post that it was a massive grind. Enjoy the WR while it lasts aha!
"Balanced"
Wow man I can’t imagine how much time u put into this. It looks easy but i can tell it took days to get the dream run
Yeah the RNG required for this run was insane. In total it took 27 hours to do it.
@@evilpancake397 much love dude that’s very cool
I can’t tell if both of you are being sarcastic or if the first person doesn’t know about seeded runs
@@ThatOneKat511brother the category is random seed
@@ThatOneKat511 he held down r and a new run appeared with a random seed
The best part about this video is that it constantly flashes "balanced" whenever he plays a hand.
It truly is the most balanced deck
You think they knew what they were doing? 😂
Cant wait to watch Summoning Salt talk about the chase for the inevitable sub 1:30 runs
130? I think it’s gonna be sub 40 seconds
@@yohaAlt only if game speed gets increased imo. with all the transitions under 50 seems sorta impossible
The set seed does it in 1:24 with Bull (2 chips for every dollar you have - if you have 100 dollars, you get 200 chips) and a bunch of money skips, so it's definitely gonna happen one day. It's just a matter of how long it takes for someone to get a seed that can do it
holy shit i didn't realise how insane the speedruns of this game would be absolutely pop off
Dude really hits those blinds with hollow purple
Just unlocked plasma deck today. It's bonkers lmao
it's okay, but definitely not the best deck for ante 12+
The fact that you say that but it effortlessly clears literally everything before is absurd@@FourOneNineOneFourOne
@@FourOneNineOneFourOne for beating the game it's good
It's good until you get to purple stake and up, then it quickly drops
@@sairentoeko Eh, it's the best for quick and dirty chip builds *and* the best for taking nutty xmult builds to huge antes. There's a sizable middle ground where it's not good because chips and mult aren't that imbalanced
I don’t understand what’s happening but it looks meat
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He's playing with a deck that balances his chips and his multiplier.
The first thing he does is buy the joker that gives +300 chips, which then properly becomes 150x150 at the very least, because of said deck.
He later finds a blueprint joker, which duplicates the +300 chips effect.
Since he doesn't need to do anything more or even have the right hand to get a ton of points, he just rolls with it.
Thanks for the explanation!
Oh that deck sounds extremely broken. Makes sense then.
@@Draffut2003 it is, but all the antes are higher, and pretty much any +mult jokers are useless, so there are still tradeoffs
Damn I really thought I was onto something when I beat ante 8 in 10 minutes lol
It still pretty fast. You good bro
"You dealt with that pretty well!"
Yknow I was proud when I got my first win last night. I think I’m gonna get back to grinding.
Bro rolls 4 times, gets blueprint.
You seem to have missed the hundreds of runs in the background to get this one
Well played!
So when is the "All gold stickers" speedrun?
@@arthurblack-petersen4213 It's currently being uploaded, unfortunately the run is 22 days long so it might take a while, sorry.
@@evilpancake397 Unfortunate D:. Can't wait!
this mustve been a pain rng-wise
It really was lol
Unseeded? God damn
So impressive! Good job!
of course, stuntman and blueprint with plasma. Is there anything else you might take besides those two and brainstorm?
There are a lot of good speedrun jokers, but not quite as nuts as this obviously.
Ice cream is a great joker for an average speed run, as well as the card that gives you chips for each card in your deck, or the one that gives chips for remaining discards
If you're going for world record, bull is theoretically the fastest, since you can one shot every boss with only one joker triggering. The RNG required to do that is insane though, maybe we'll see it a year or two from now.
Good shit, congrats
Why he wins with only 1 card?
Love the Balatro runs. I just released a "handless" deckbuilder after 5 years of indie development called "Mori Carta" and would love to send you a key but am not sure how best to do that.
How do you get the animations to go that fast?
Options -> animation speed
i was like how until i realized 4x game speed
I don't understand the balanced thing?
thats the effect of the plasma deck. It will sum up chips and mult and put half of that in chips and the other half and mult and then multiply that for the chip total
Now this is gaming
I love this game so fkn much and this run was a W
Why does the flush become 37x37? A certain deck?
yes, the plasma deck balance the chips and the mult making them even, so if you play a couple lvl1 with, for example, a K, the normal poker hand would be 5+10*1 = 15*1 = 15, but the deck would convert 5+10*1 = 15*1 into 8*8 = 68
@@Luky.73 Wow. This makes the deck one of the easiest to win with then?
@@ourtinywindows yeh pretty much, ig thats why the wr is played with it
After lots of reroll i had stuntman and brainstorm, last blind was super big blind at 600 000 didn't had enough hands to finish it 😢
How to unlock this deck?
Can som1 plz explain what happaned? I don't understand, I just play this game for 2 days 🥶🥶🥶
Gambling go fast 👍
what kind of effect balances your points
It's the plasma deck.
balatro
It's as shrimple as that
I wh huh thi- what?
It’s done already?
Why dont the -2 hand sizes stack with blueprint
Because blueprint can't change your hand size
Insane man gg
So ik what the plasma deck does but the only joker I recognize is blueprint, can someone explain the other 3 (even tough it looks like the one never procs)
The first joker I pick up is Stuntman, it gives you +300 chips and -2 handsize, when copied by blueprint it gives +300 chips without the -2 handsize (which in this case is actually aw negative). The other two jokers are to the moon and abstract, to the moon gives you +13 mult per queen held in hand and abstract gives you +3 mult for every other joker you have.
@@evilpancake397 I dont think i've ever seen that queen one but I'm p sure To The Moon is the joker that doubles your interest
@@mochalettuce8490 oh yeah you're right I mixed them up. The queen is called shoot the moon.
@@evilpancake397 yeah that makes sense actually. Kinda weird named for a queen based Joker imo
@@mochalettuce8490 pretty sure it's a reference to shooting the moon in hearts
Very lucky
can you do a video where you sing the balatro soundtrack? great work!
now do the set seed run!
How does that deck work? It seem op af
It balances your chips and mult making them both the average of the two values. So something like 7 and 3 would become 5 and 5. It really is op, the only catch is that every blind is 2x larger.
Meanwhile I have over 75 runs and I've won 1 time....
hardest plasma deck run:
"Balanced"
Okay, I'm having a fucking blast with this game but what am I missing?
When I play Red Deck the highest round I have got to was I think 16.
Never in the realm of needing over 80,000 chips to beat a round but how the actual fuck do I get multipliers that would even get me there? I think there's a component beyond boosting hand classes and jokers to increase my multiplier that I am simply missing.
Yes
the strategy that works for me most of the time is: get a chip joker, like odd todd, castle or square joker. Get a flat mult joker like Scholar or Abstract and get a multiplicative joker like vampire. With that you can get pretty consistent to ante 8.
Can you pass the seed??
It should be visible on the win screen
What deck is that?
Plasma deck, which balances your chips and multiplier
Wtf is going on, it insane
Can someone please explain to me what the fuck just happened
Insane
what does balanced mean? i only have like 6 decks unlocked so idk
Plasma deck, before scoring, adds your base plus multi, then splits it in half and makes both equal that number. It's huge points.
yo thats actually crazy@@KevlarGorilla
Plasma plus stuntman broken
Hoooooly
Nice
Wowwwww🎉🎉🎉🎉
Plasma deck = shouldn’t count
What
Dam
bro wtf
Runs one joker card that does +300 in chips, -2 hand size. Puts up a single ace, 24,000 chips. What cheats are you running guy?
This run uses the plasma deck, which balances your chips and multiplier effectively turning +300 chips into +150 chips and +150 mult. This deck is completely vanilla, no mods or cheats were used, if you're still wavering on the legitimacy of the run it was verified on the official leaderboards.
@@evilpancake397 i was busting your balls lol. I knew it had something to do with a specific deck just didnt know which one
Wtf
Heh?
this is modded. i dont get these numbers for a flush.
This run was done using the plasma deck, which balances your chips and multipliers thus giving you a higher score. That deck is completely vanilla.
If you still have doubts about the legitimacy of the run, it has been verified by the official speedrun moderators of this game.