#Chicot
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violet vessel
@buoyant perch psst
Its not bad though???

Remove people that want to remove Chicot
Chicot hate is cringe
Chicot is good but like all other legendaries are better
I think Chicot could be reworked to instead reverse the effects of all boss blinds (kind of like that glitch that happens if you have 2 of them)
Chicot is better than trib and perkeo if your goal is to win as many gold stake ante 8 runs as humanly possible
Gold stake meta completely different than endless meta
TrueâŠ
Thats why game discussion should be split to endless and ante 8
me
Plant easiest boss ante8
chicot is not bad its just boring
please don't rank cards based on dopamine output
Maybe have it also give x2 mult on boss blinds
That would make chicot actually bad
Like huhh
Ă2mult but the boss counters you so u die
âalsoâ
thank you
i don't think he needs it
even if you're not about gold stake
he's the second best legendary for endless
Ok i feel like.that.is just Wrong??
i could see third bu ti don't see chicot being better for endless over trib or perkeo
Mayb i'm crazy though
trib isn't really that relevant when baron completely overshadows him
you can probably guess that perkeo is the best one
Bro I won with 5 chicots
It was a flush house build and the ending blind was like 2000
My flush house scored 90k
Also unrelated but 300k divided by 243 (the amount 5 chiclets would divide by) is 1.234,56790 repeating what is cool
You'll be disappointed
i'm guessing it was seeded
Thats fine
Mods
I tried to find the one I was using but I couldn't
Found it
Just start a random seed. Go to collection and press 3 over anything you want modded or not
Yes
Good idea. But I'm pretty sure I suggested this and it got like 5
's. So wacht out
we do not need the 10 billionth "chicot should reverse boss blinds" suggestion thank you very much
Chicot is good but like all other legendaries are better
It would make it more powerful but the thing is its already powerful. Making it reverse adds kick and makes players feel better about finding them
I don't think it needs it thats just the reasons others want it
the issue with "chicot should reverse boss blinds" doesnt come from it being too strong, but from that being an effect that cant really be effectively communicated to the player. its like matador, you have no reasonable way of knowing beforehand how exactly it will work with each and every boss blind.
its a very modded effect, i dont think it fits into vanilla
Canio exist
trib and perkeo are worse for high stakes
canio is the second best because fast scaling xmult is fast scaling xmult
it's not even bad for face card builds because you'll usually be focusing on 1 or 2 of them
Just have it say under the main description something like "hold shift over a boss blind to see effect" or have a chicot button on the blinds menu
that is. even more modded feeling
No way you just said one of the best cards for endgame is worse than can10
high stakes usually don't go to endless
so trib's main thing becomes far less important as other jokers can achieve 400k points in 1 round by ante 8 in a far easier manner
Trib is better if your already in a face card build. But canio i fits alot more builds
Canio hate is unwarranted
You can slot cannot into anything
What else do you want me to say. Have every effect in its description
you also can't choose which one you get
im saying that theres no way to add this into the game in a way that doesnt feel modded
Bro is you destroy every face card in your deck. You still have less mult than 4 face card with trib
you have to draw the 4 face cards every time you want to score
okay but to get that mult from trib i need to play 4 face cards
and you don't need to get canio to 13x for it to be useful
2 hanged men makes it outpace every other xmult joker
another benefit is that it applies after scaling +mult
also perkeo is an econ joker for high stakes
Ignore balancing, chicot just is more boring than the rest since it's an inherently more passive and less controllable ability
a very powerful one but guarranteeing a win is better
Chicot is strong. Arguably the 2nd best legendary, if not best overall due to removing the main challenge of 98% of runs
Its just kinda meh to play with, if that makes sense
Thank you
It's unengaging, not bad
I agree so much
Thats what I said early but in less good words (idk anymore for leader)
I meant that mine were in less good
yeah, and people conflate fun with viability a lot in this game
take idol as an extremely glaring example
Thats very, very true
I want chicot to get a rework personally, but it isnt even close to neccesary
it has an extremely high ceiling but the work you need to get there is genuinely extreme
oh yeah for sure but id rather have no rework than fucking reverse boss blinds i have a personal vendetta against that suggestion
(it's also completely outclassed by the other sunk cost fallacy joker but we don't need to talk about that)
Nah i fully agree
You are spot on in that- it reversing boss blinds would be a vague description and would still be boring IMO
Eh boring I disagre
it wouldnt really make it more engaging at the very least
But convoluted yes
More hype than current chicot? Yes.
It still has the same issues of not being able to build around it or try to extract maximum value from it. It's still just a Joker which removes the major difficulty from each run: except now it also helps during these blinds
becuase you almost never have control over it
It fixes none of my current issues with chicot
Its cooler/more hype, not more engaging or smth to build around
The reason chicot is hated is because it:
- Is generally the weakest legendary
- Is certainly the most uninteresting legendary
- It has the lowest power ceiling of any legendary
naw people just misconstrue 2 and 3 as making 1 true
exactly
1 - i think you should add that it's the general consensus, chicot is arguably one of the best legendaries for fitting in every build and removing th3 biggest hurdles most runs face
2 - agreed
3 - also has the lowest power floor out of aby legendary, which isn't me disagreeing it's just funny
canceling out the hardest part of the game is an uniquely powerful effect but people don't see it doing the work
- Chicot being versatile really isnât enough when you have three crazy xmult jokers and then fantastic econ from perkeo
It is when the effect dodges the major hurdles most blinds face
If you only see bad bosses? Yeah I agree
yeah
Getting bailed out of bosses who'd shut down your entire deckfixing, or prevent playing multiple of the same hand, is really really strong
I only really like perkeo. Because
Chicot sits there doing something. But isn't active most of the time
Trib froces you to play kings or queens. What really limits you playstyle
Canio is good but caps out unless you find things to destroy and add face card
(I can't deny that it's superfun with Para)
Yorick is pretty bad without many Andy or red deck (or drunkard ig). For a legendary that is.
Perkeo is not only strong but also allows about 14 quintillion different builds
(most of them ending up with Baron mime though)
You like legendarys to build around
Nah you donât get it, I can occasionally have my legendary be Juggler and give +1 handsize, or always draw -3 cards vs serpent! 
Sorry correction Yorick isn't bad I just think it's boring
calling yorick bad without extra discards makes you lose all credibility because it's the best joker in the game for high stakes despite blue stake massively hindering it
Trib is stronger imo
Rick is the best legendary and it isnât even close
But I like playing flush 5 anyway
trib has a higher ceiling
but that ceiling doesn't matter
yorick will cross the 400k point wall very easily
Yorik is probably the strongest for ante 8
My problem with trib is itâs kinda overkill and it can just randomly lose
Itâs strong but too inconsistent to be better than Rick imo
yeah
I like legendaries that work with more than like 4 builds.
That's why Baron is my 2nd least favorite rare
yorick, canio and chicot don't have that problem
and perkeo too dont leave out my boy
... yet you despise canio?
true
I just don't like canio since I always get it on abandoned deck
Canio is still solid on abandoned
Or when I already did deck fixing
Altough making him retroactive would be nice. It be way to powerful
Better than tribe atleast
confirmation bias is unfortunately quite common
OK I will change
(it's literally human instinct)
wtf
You know what thatâs kinda fair, I donât like campfire too much
Sorry to the campfire enjoyinger
Just feels kinda bad, I know itâs strong but it doesnât feel good to use
Just don't like having to sell 8 cards to get driver value
campfire starts at 1
It's good with riff raff or a tarot card generator like vagabond. Because you spend money to fuel the fire and then you have vagabond value
vagabond also fuels it himself
I changed it remove your X
that's someone else
That's what I said in the first half
this thread derailed pretty quickly
wdym this is totally still abt chicot
Every thread does
Every thread gets to chico except the chico thread
Except the ones that are sacrificed to the sheet
Smh yall missing the campfire Chicot synergy
True chico does scale it by .25
- Sells chicot * "yay +. 25 xmult.
Chicot should scale it by 25
unconditional 25x is pretty close to disabling a boss blind
Why can't campfire scale based on rarity
Common .25
Uncommen .25
Rare .5
Legendary 1
If Chicot was canonically pregnant would that fix all the problems
because it doesn't need to as long as you have a decent economy
It's like red card. You need like 4-16 $ to scale it well
Altough this scale 2x mult and red card +6
I see why it's a common
those 4-16$ are being used on something you already spend your money on
you just get +3 mult instead of being forced to take a suit changer
Red card is great
Yeah red card is solid
I think campfire shouldn't be a rare kinda.
Like it's too strong for uncommon so rare is good but f*uck campfire.
it's still a very strong rare
Tbh I just think campfire is boring
If you get it ante 6-8 youâre gonna win the run
But at some point you wanna take something from the pack. I personally and I really think you should know this. It's how I play what is actually taking things from pack or skipping them if actively bad. Red card can help a lot but I find myself needing the level up or tarot card more than 3 mult. Unless it's a mega pack where I can get 1 thing and skip it.
I think spectral pack with how much they can do it's great but they cause harm more than other cards so skipping them is fine.
Standard I think skipping is almost always worth it unless you find like a red seal poly stone. On a 4 card hand build like with spare trousers.
Most of the time for me I think fortune, green or bus is better.
Red card is great you can get +177 (or maybe 180) mult before endless if you get it first shop and get both -1 ante vouchers.
Damn that took long
What do you mean? its fire
fortune teller has a way higher cost to scale it which makes it generally unviable without tarot generation
But you can actually use the card
and most tarots and planet cards are worse than +3 mult
suit changers and lovers don't impact the game much outside of flush builds
mult cards are underwhelming
priestess is unreliable
chariot doesn't see much use in a meta where most of your base mult comes from jokers
Plus it's how I play where deckfixing joker. Or something to help Me stay alive early game are good
whar
I get your point of "red card scales fast" but I play with rocket and holo. Yes holo scales insanely fast for how easy it is. But rocket takes 3 antes till I catches up with golden
(4 x 9) = 36
(1 x 2) + (3 x 3) + (3 x 5) + (1 x 7) = 2+9+15+7 = 33
O more time I guess
whar
Sorry wrong number
what does this have to do with red card
It's not my playstyle
Having stability when game actively trying to fucking ruin your run is always great
okay
I mean I did say perkeo was my favorite. But not for strength but for uniqueness
I fact I prefer weak things a bit more. I still like strong cards, for example ouroboros in inscription.
Who actually upvoted this
@steel mason
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The most broken card ever
What, ouroboros?
Yes
Love that shit
I once sacrificed a mole man to it and it blocked every attack leshy tried and solo'd the moon
I'm on act three and my ourobot is so strong It can survive the hammer
It's a 205/205
I did as a joke
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nah it's the obilesk of the legendaries
I agree but
God protect this man
Yeah, so REALLY good
Obelisk is top teir
So is chicot
LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER
If u cant win with obelisk its a skill issue
It usually gets to Ă5-Ă8 when played correctly
Faster scaling than yorick or madness
i can win with it
but other jokers are just much better
Lmaoooo
Whats Better than faster than yorick scaling
And chicot gets rid of the thing that kills goldstake runs most of the time
retcon/directors cut
$10, then $10 to use, chicot is $8 at most and adds $10 to temprence
Also 1/3rd of runs you wont see retcon and youre almost never gonna see directors cut
like what?
(i'm already predicting the answer is either a top10 or bottom 10 joker)
yeah but directors doesnt take up a joker slot
like if you dont have it then chicot is still gamewinning but yeah chicot is pretty replaceable by directors
thats why i still consider perkeo to be better tbh
you can very easily finish a run with 4 joker slots if boss blinds literally don't exist
im not saying you cant but often times you dont have that space
like what if i took an early eternal that doesnt scale into the lategame?
like when
can i win with 3 joker slots? usually not
3 slots are enough to win if boss blinds don't exist
you have to be really unlucky for you to not be able to
sometimes you just arent scaling enough and need the space for xmult
you need a good scaling mult, a decent chip source (this includes blue seals) and atleast 3x mult to get through 400k
less if you're using 5 card hands which chicot pairs pretty well with
yeah and that 3x mult isnt super common
anyways it's too late for me to be arguing about this so i'll continue later
like its somewhat common but you can go a long time without seeing any
and id rather have something like perkeo to give me econ to let me dig for it
I think itâs more common that youâre locked into a build that doesnât benefit from Trib compared to Chicot
yes but also nobody was arguing that
perkeo's role as an econ/deckfixing joker is already held by a lot of options that are also very good
chicot does something no other joker does
yes but that doesnt mean that perkeo isnt extremely good at what it does and is worth it over all of those other options
and chicot does what luchador does literally so thats just objectively false
and once again, it also does what directors cut does
and also im not here arguing that chicot is bad i think its at LEAST a tier
yeah but that distiction isnt really relevant here
like it isnt a joker but it still serves the same role
it fills a role that's more powerful than what perkeo usually does for you in ante 8 runs
maybe, but that doesnt mean its not fully replaceable by a voucher
id rather have perkeo and directors than just chicot
but also perkeo is so absurdly powerful i dont really believe that chicot is stronger in terms of what it gives you
getting a legendary and a specific voucher is rarer than getting 1 legendary
it might just be a bit of a skill issue on my part but i find far more runs dying to being outscaled than those which die to bosses
what do your runs usually revolve around
usually pairs
i most commonly die to just not finding any xmult
like i can have a +210 runner and a +60 groker but without xmult that runs just dead in the water ante 6
you can double up on +mult if you need to
I feel like itâs as fair as the 3 or 4 joker slots argument, like it isnât some thing thatâs exclusive to Chicot
im not really sure what you mean by that
you can, but 210 and 120 is still not enough without xmult
it just lets you live longer
which is nice, but that doesnt mean youll find xmult
Like saying what if you have a bad eternal and youâd need to win with Chicot + only 3 other jokers, you could be put into that scenario with almost all the legendaries
it depends on when you find the soul tbf
Chicotâs kinda unique in that itâs actually a good late soul
yeah but if you only have 4 slots you should not be taking a late soul unless you have something fully replaceable
Tbf I feel like you can almost always lose a single joker for a soul, youâre not gonna be needing 5 entire jokers for scoring
i do agree but with 4 jokers its a lot more likely for that to be tight
like if youre relying on a chips joker instead of blue seals and you have like 2 x2 xmulters like
you cant replace anything there it is not worth it
and god forbid you have 2 eternals
This doesnt mean that its better, directors cut can be reallly expencive, i guess it really depends on the current state of ur econ,
Ultimately theyre different enough to have pros and cons to consider when theorizing on possible situations, retcon/directors is closer to a side grade of chicot rather than a replacement
it can be, but generally its worth going down an econ level in order to survive a boss blind
like the reason i say director's cut is usually just a replacement to chicot is like
imagine you already have one and you see the other
if youre getting rid of one its going to be chicot
and if youre not getting rid of one, your chicot is very replaceable still
sorry also if you have chicot and see director's cut, if your econ can take it i think id buy it?
like if youre stable enough to keep chicot youre usually stable enough to buy directors
and if you end up needing the slot, youre not reliant on chicot
Chicot also protects u from bosses that dont particularly counter u but still hurt you like the ox/tooth,
And directors cut is also a teir 2 voucher so youre not likely to find both in the same run persay, i just dont think the existence of director cut invalidates chicot
directors cut is in fact not a tier 2 voucher!
Wait is retcon the repeatable one?
but yeah thats true
but i dont think those are really super significant?
like if theyre game-losing youll reroll them
Rerolls the arm into the eye my biggest fear
real
tho in my 400+ hours of playtime ive never directors cut a boss that kills me into another boss that kills me
but yeah im not arguing that chicot is bad, and obviously saying chicot is ALWAYS replacable by directors is untrue but
im just saying i dont subscribe to chicot > perkeo
thats my entire point'
Ive been trying to get 10 gold stake wins in a row and its happened to me 4times
I failed to draw a pair 5times
Im insanely unlucky
;-;
Ive also had retcon kill me by spending all my money to avoid a boss that counters me
Arm -> eye -> wall -> plant
$30 spent, no econ next ante died to no money to buy planets
But again thats rlly bad luck
counterpoint: dont have a run that dies to plant
It didnt die to the plant
It died to underscaling bc i lost my econ
And i was rellying on telescope
oh i see mb
Dude maybe im just really biased against directors/retcon
Saying it in chat made me realize that these scenarios are like 1/1000
If you didn't have retcon, then you would have died to the arm
Who
can we tempt you? #1372557673123418173
Who should leave the server
Also imma get hate but I don't care.
I my opinion Yorick is not the best not second but 4th. Because in most runs you get around 13-16x mult by ante 8 what is good. But you get that much with trib with 4 face cards. What is easy to draw. And by the time you're at ante 8 you could get a Chad or red seal and get 32-256 mult on a 5oak. But it's better than canio (by a little) because it's... Actually they're around the same level. Trib is still annoying to play around because every run is kings or queens. Perkeo gives money, scoring or both. Chicot the star of our show is 2nd but non the less really boring.
So basically. It depends on your playstyle. For me it's
Perkeo
Chicot
Trib
Yorick and canio
For you it's probably different but this is my list
You're the second person to say this
Triboulet gets screwed by the Plant and the face cards are face down boss
It's the mark.
But I get DC every chance I get so it doesn't matter that much
Yorrick is good for how quickly it reaches 2x and 3x, itâs fast enough early game and it scales into late game
Unlike Canio itâs consistent, getting 20x mult on Canio doesnât matter if you canât make it out of mid game
What's your list then @buoyant perch
Yorrick
Perkeo
Canio
Chicot
Trib
I mainly like Perkeo cause it enables cool hands rather than just pair every time, my first black deck gold stake had Perkeo copying Death with Lucky Cat and red seal lucky jacks
Yorick is really strong but without extra hand size I find myself having to discard cards I want to play or scale Yorick slower. I can't deny the fact that it's the strongest scoring wise if we don't count endless.
You donât need to discard all 5 cards at a time, and doing full discards becomes less effective later antes
Same. But I like it because it fits with almost everything.
For the others
Yorick can't fit with burglar run what are common and grimbo, banner or ramen builds Altough it works with most builds.
Canio can't fit with most builds that all ready have been deck fixed but it's still not bad
Trib doesn't work in any builds that don't use kings or queens.
And chicot works with everything except serpent NANEINF. But no endless so chicot go brrrr
yeah great but i dont think a joker's versatility really makes up for the fact that it has by far the lowest power ceiling of any of the legendaries
What chicot :chess mistake:
I get that but I like it for it versatility. It's bad in endless but other wise it's pretty good because your don't need to worry about a boss blind killing your build. You get more time to scale
consistency is valued more than ceiling for higher stakes
which is what i think thunk balances things around
I rarely play higher stakes. But still like more consistent jokers because, I don't get them in the beginning often. And so I apply the deckfixing and scaling potential for like ante 4 instead of round one. That's why chicot is so high and canio/Yorick so low. They can work only if you build with them. If you spent have the run setting up a wee joker run and got like 20 2's then the 3x that canio can give from the leftover face cards is good but not as good as something like hack.
the whole process of building towards yorick is playing the game normally
also i'm pretty sure a 3x canio is going to give you way more than hack scaling would
Not really. If I had to give up a joker for a wee build the extra 40 chips per hand is a lot nicer than 3x mult on a 15 mult hand. (on plasma deck)
when did you mention plasma
Because 1080 chips with 15 mult on plasma is a lot more on plasma
when did you mention plasma before that message
Basing balance on plasma 
you're ranking legendaries
If weâre talking which one is the strongest then basing it on plasma is kinda silly
is that not what balance discussion is
This isn't that though
so it's just favorites
Yes
This is my opinion
And this is @buoyant perch 's
you started your sentence by stating "yorick isn't the best"
I based mine on strength and consistency at gold stake personally, I usually base balance discussions on where the gameâs the hardest cause anything can win on white stake
i love moving goalposts
And ended with it depends on your playstyle. Plus I said it was my opinion
it's a statement
I changed it are you happy now
10 billionth balatro argument started by someone not differentiating actual power from personal enjoyment
Sorry bru
naw its fine bro dw im just messin around
just make sure to make it clear youre talkin abt personal preference in the future
I just changed it