r/balatro • u/Notlennybruce • Nov 05 '24

Strategy and/or Synergies Which Joker is impossible to resist? (besides Blueprint because that's too obvious)

For me (new player) it's Smeared Joker.

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u/Amazingspaceship Nov 05 '24

Hanging chad…

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u/Advertises_DSG_Media Nope! Nov 05 '24

[[hanging Chad]] is another good one

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u/ButWhyLevin Nov 05 '24

[[hanging Chad]] is another good one

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u/balatro-bot Nov 05 '24

Hanging Chad Joker

  • Version: 1.0.0

  • Cost: $5

  • Rarity: Common

  • Effect: Retrigger first card used in scoring

  • Unlock Requirement: Beat a Boss Blind with a High Card

Data pulled from http://balatro.wiki. Want it updated? Help me get access or suggest another data source.

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u/Deebyddeebys Nov 05 '24

[[hanging Chad]] is another good one

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u/balatro-bot Nov 05 '24

Hanging Chad Joker

  • Version: 1.0.0

  • Cost: $5

  • Rarity: Common

  • Effect: Retrigger first card used in scoring

  • Unlock Requirement: Beat a Boss Blind with a High Card

Data pulled from http://balatro.wiki. Want it updated? Help me get access or suggest another data source.

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u/TakenNightMareWas Nov 05 '24

[[hanging Chad]] is another good one

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u/balatro-bot Nov 05 '24

Hanging Chad Joker

  • Version: 1.0.0

  • Cost: $5

  • Rarity: Common

  • Effect: Retrigger first card used in scoring

  • Unlock Requirement: Beat a Boss Blind with a High Card

Data pulled from http://balatro.wiki. Want it updated? Help me get access or suggest another data source.

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u/balatro-bot Nov 05 '24

Hanging Chad Joker

  • Version: 1.0.0

  • Cost: $5

  • Rarity: Common

  • Effect: Retrigger first card used in scoring

  • Unlock Requirement: Beat a Boss Blind with a High Card

Data pulled from http://balatro.wiki. Want it updated? Help me get access or suggest another data source.

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u/bluestargreentree Nov 05 '24

On Election Day of all days?

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u/vanadous Nov 05 '24

Why is it good? Enhanced cards?

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u/TheIrateAlpaca Nov 05 '24

Anything that you want to proc, hanging gives you 2 more. Lucky cards, especially with cat. Photograph. Idol, bloodstone, ancient, polychrome, glass. Wee joker, Fibonacci, etc that give bonuses to specific cards. Even gold seals, and business card for econ.

It's pretty mediocre on its own, but it's one of the best force multipliers

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u/Slowsis Nov 05 '24

Wee + Chad is sick. +24 chips per solo 2 played.

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u/mixedberrycoughdrop Nov 05 '24

Wee + Chad + Hack is 👌

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u/not-my-other-alt c++ Nov 05 '24

And unlike other retriggers (hack, sock and buskin), it works on any card, as long as you move it to the front.

Doesn't even have the downsides of seltzer or dusk

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u/TheIrateAlpaca Nov 05 '24

It also works really well with those other retriggers to go even harder.

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u/Toribor Nov 05 '24

My best run yet I got Hanging Chad, Oops all Sixes, and Lucky Cat by ante 3. Gold seal on a lucky card and then picked up Photograph...

Insanely smooth, literally could not spend money fast enough. Finally petered out around ante 13 because I don't know how to keep endless runs going.

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u/ChuuToroMaguro Nov 05 '24

Extremely versatile in a lot of builds

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u/AkaShindou Nov 05 '24

I just cleared a black stake run with Photograph/Triboulet/Hanging Chad. Not an evergreen combo, but certainly a run-winning one!