Summary
Balatroexploded into the video game world with flying colors, delivering a simplistic poker-like experience, combined with addictive rogue-like elements to keep players hooked for hours on end.Each seed brings something new, and each run feels distinct as the shop offerings vary and more and more cards are unlocked to combo into the millions.
With over 100 unlockable cards, picking between spectral card generators and insane multipliers can be a difficult task; as the numbers go higher, it’s hard to decide between playing the long game or trying to scrape over the finish line using every last one of the discards and hands.
10Triboulet
Fit For Kings And Queens
When going for the higher score, face cards are an assured way of hitting them. Triboulet is the perfect card for a face-card deck, adding seemingly small multiplier that can scale up quickly when played in face-oriented decks.
Players can access this powerful joker right out of the box, but being legendary, it is hidden behindthe wall of the soul, making it difficult to find but extremely powerful if players can find it.
9Blueprint
Unmatched Flexibility
Ever found an insane deck with a powerful Joker, only wishing for more? Blueprint gives players exactly that, duplicating a specific effect that can turn a multiplier from a few digits into astronomical high scores.
The best part is that unlocking it is as simple as winning a single run, then afterward, every run can be turned into calculator-breaking insanity thanks to the simplistic power of the blueprint.
8The Family
Three’s A Crowd, So Four’s A Riot
Being a family is great. Sticking and working together is always better and leads to the best outcome for everyone. So it makes sense that playing a close-knit hand of all the same cards ends up with insane multiplication potential andsome added incentive to holdonto the lower-scoring numbers.
Much like the others in this set, the unlock requirement is to win a run without playing afour-of-a-kind, a pretty easy requirement that leads to wielding a potentially game-winning Joker. While it does lack slightly in terms of flexibility, with the right deck and team of matching Jokers, victory is all but guaranteed.
7Burnt Joker
Sacrifices Must Be Made
Burn it all to the ground. Having a burnt Joker in the deck is flexible, it scales, and it provides constant value throughout a run that very few others can match. Selling 50 cards is all it takes to unlock, so it should appear in the collection with little to no effort.
It’s also a card that players do not have to overthink and put all the eggs into, as a deck can be constructed around a specific theme orset of common Jokers, as the burnt Joker slowly builds up, and by the end of each ante, atwo-of-a-kindcan turn from a throwaway hand to a monstrous scorer.
6Wee Joker
Small But Mighty
It starts out slow but soon becomes ridiculous. Wee Joker is the gift that keeps on giving. When acquired early on, players can start ramping up the effect with strong hands likefour of a kind, and by the eighth ante, triple and quadruple-digit chip additions are assured.
Very few Jokers can reach even similar levels, and when played in decks like the abandoned, 2s are abundant and easy to come by. Winning a run in 18 or fewer rounds is the condition for unlocking this Joker that rivals the levels of insanity that evenmodded runsstruggle to keep up with.
5Smeared Joker
Blur All The Lines
It doesn’t look pretty, but it sure packs a punch.One of the best Jokersout there, being able to have a semi-homogenous set of cards that can be played all together makes buildingflushesalmost a guarantee, and when paired with Joker like the tribe, the numbers go flying.
It makes sense that the unlock requirement is to have three or morewild cardsin a deck, as those act as any suit for a single card, while this Joker goes above and beyond, transforming the entire deck into a smudged mess of instant high scores.
4Throwback
Straightforward High Scaling Multiplier
Sometimes, it’s fine to skip. And, when this Joker rewards the player for doing so, it seems like a no-brainer. By ramping up the multiplier with each skip, it gives the opportunity to collect reward tags along the way and have a strong multiplier by the time ante 8 rolls around.
The unlock could not be easier: continue a run from the main menu. Then, it’s off to the races, giving a very consistent scaling choice that doesn’t require careful decision-making and can pair excellently with chip-generating Jokers and simple multipliers.
3Hanging Chad
Triple The Value
A buff’s best friend, the hanging Chad Joker offers a crazy single-card effect that can make a modified ace hand hit seven digits with little to no help. It has great synergy with a lot of other common Jokers like the photograph, changing the x8 multiplier into x24 all thanks to this card.
Beating a boss blind with ahigh cardcan be a tricky requirement, but it shouldn’t take too many attempts to accomplish, and it’s more than worth it. Just be sure to re-order the hand, making the left-most the target for this insane effect.
2Stuntman
It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane
All good things come with a price. And this is a really good thing. The downside does appear scary at first, but there are plenty of Jokers that can offset the negative, like the juggler, but with such a strong upside, players will hardly even notice the reduced hand size.
Low scorers are the key.High card,pair,andthree of a kindbecome nuclear-sized chip scores and can clear entire antes with little to no help. The requirement is heft, hitting at least 100 million chips in a single hand, so it’s a later unlock but something to look forward to.
1Brainstorm
Blueprint’s Long-Lost Brother
If the blueprint isn’t to the player’s tastes, then maybe a brainstorm can kick things into gear. Duplicating effects is incredibly powerful when used correctly, so pairing this Joker’s effect with mid-round generates, like mail-in rebate or scaling ones like erosion, can lead to some insane combinations and endless possibilities.
Discarding a royal flush can feel like a knife in the gut, but it’s a one-time requirement for a full-blown run-defining monster. Once the pain has subsided, there are plenty of copying strategies that players can find and discover that break runs in half and topple the chip high scores.
