#Chicot

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verbal plinth
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Please remove chicot it is low-key so bad for a legendary oh my god thanks

pallid obsidian
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violet vessel

ancient plinth
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@buoyant perch psst

round isle
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Its not bad though???

buoyant perch
tulip flare
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Remove people that want to remove Chicot

strong iron
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Chicot hate is cringe

late linden
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Chicot is good but like all other legendaries are better

scenic chasm
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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)

strong iron
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Gold stake meta completely different than endless meta

late linden
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True


strong iron
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Thats why game discussion should be split to endless and ante 8

drifting depot
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me

strong iron
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Plant easiest boss ante8

cursive crystal
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chicot is not bad its just boring

atomic fulcrum
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please don't rank cards based on dopamine output

blissful bridge
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Maybe have it also give x2 mult on boss blinds

strong iron
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Like huhh

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×2mult but the boss counters you so u die

buoyant perch
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“also”

blissful bridge
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thank you

atomic fulcrum
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i don't think he needs it

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even if you're not about gold stake

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he's the second best legendary for endless

cursive crystal
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i could see third bu ti don't see chicot being better for endless over trib or perkeo

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Mayb i'm crazy though

atomic fulcrum
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trib isn't really that relevant when baron completely overshadows him

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you can probably guess that perkeo is the best one

frank oriole
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It was a flush house build and the ending blind was like 2000

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My flush house scored 90k

late linden
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Ok well 5 is goated

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How did you do that lol

frank oriole
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Also unrelated but 300k divided by 243 (the amount 5 chiclets would divide by) is 1.234,56790 repeating what is cool

frank oriole
late linden
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Tutorial?

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Like did you use a tutorial

atomic fulcrum
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i'm guessing it was seeded

late linden
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Thats fine

frank oriole
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Mods

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I tried to find the one I was using but I couldn't

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Found it

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Just start a random seed. Go to collection and press 3 over anything you want modded or not

frank oriole
thick smelt
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we do not need the 10 billionth "chicot should reverse boss blinds" suggestion thank you very much

lunar plaza
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Chicot is good but like all other legendaries are better

round isle
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I don't think it needs it thats just the reasons others want it

thick smelt
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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.

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its a very modded effect, i dont think it fits into vanilla

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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trib and perkeo are worse for high stakes

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canio is the second best because fast scaling xmult is fast scaling xmult

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it's not even bad for face card builds because you'll usually be focusing on 1 or 2 of them

frank oriole
thick smelt
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that is. even more modded feeling

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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high stakes usually don't go to endless

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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

round isle
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Trib is better if your already in a face card build. But canio i fits alot more builds

lunar plaza
round isle
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You can slot cannot into anything

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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you also can't choose which one you get

thick smelt
frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
thick smelt
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okay but to get that mult from trib i need to play 4 face cards

atomic fulcrum
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and you don't need to get canio to 13x for it to be useful

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2 hanged men makes it outpace every other xmult joker

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another benefit is that it applies after scaling +mult

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also perkeo is an econ joker for high stakes

high cliff
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Ignore balancing, chicot just is more boring than the rest since it's an inherently more passive and less controllable ability

atomic fulcrum
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a very powerful one but guarranteeing a win is better

high cliff
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Chicot is strong. Arguably the 2nd best legendary, if not best overall due to removing the main challenge of 98% of runs

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Its just kinda meh to play with, if that makes sense

high cliff
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It's unengaging, not bad

frank oriole
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I agree so much

round isle
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I meant that mine were in less good

atomic fulcrum
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take idol as an extremely glaring example

high cliff
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I want chicot to get a rework personally, but it isnt even close to neccesary

atomic fulcrum
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it has an extremely high ceiling but the work you need to get there is genuinely extreme

thick smelt
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oh yeah for sure but id rather have no rework than fucking reverse boss blinds i have a personal vendetta against that suggestion

atomic fulcrum
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(it's also completely outclassed by the other sunk cost fallacy joker but we don't need to talk about that)

high cliff
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You are spot on in that- it reversing boss blinds would be a vague description and would still be boring IMO

round isle
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Eh boring I disagre

thick smelt
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it wouldnt really make it more engaging at the very least

round isle
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But convoluted yes

high cliff
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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

thick smelt
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becuase you almost never have control over it

high cliff
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Its cooler/more hype, not more engaging or smth to build around

lunar plaza
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The reason chicot is hated is because it:

  1. Is generally the weakest legendary
  2. Is certainly the most uninteresting legendary
  3. It has the lowest power ceiling of any legendary
thick smelt
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naw people just misconstrue 2 and 3 as making 1 true

atomic fulcrum
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exactly

high cliff
round isle
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Well lowest without bugs

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But yes its always good

atomic fulcrum
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canceling out the hardest part of the game is an uniquely powerful effect but people don't see it doing the work

lunar plaza
high cliff
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If you only see bad bosses? Yeah I agree

atomic fulcrum
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yeah

high cliff
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Getting bailed out of bosses who'd shut down your entire deckfixing, or prevent playing multiple of the same hand, is really really strong

frank oriole
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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)

round isle
buoyant perch
frank oriole
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Sorry correction Yorick isn't bad I just think it's boring

atomic fulcrum
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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

lunar plaza
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Trib is stronger imo

buoyant perch
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Rick is the best legendary and it isn’t even close

lunar plaza
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But I like playing flush 5 anyway

atomic fulcrum
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trib has a higher ceiling

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but that ceiling doesn't matter

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yorick will cross the 400k point wall very easily

lunar plaza
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Yorik is probably the strongest for ante 8

buoyant perch
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My problem with trib is it’s kinda overkill and it can just randomly lose

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It’s strong but too inconsistent to be better than Rick imo

atomic fulcrum
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yeah

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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yorick, canio and chicot don't have that problem

thick smelt
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and perkeo too dont leave out my boy

atomic fulcrum
frank oriole
buoyant perch
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Canio is still solid on abandoned

frank oriole
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Or when I already did deck fixing

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Altough making him retroactive would be nice. It be way to powerful

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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confirmation bias is unfortunately quite common

frank oriole
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OK I will change

atomic fulcrum
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(it's literally human instinct)

frank oriole
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I changed

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Is this better

atomic fulcrum
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wtf

buoyant perch
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You know what that’s kinda fair, I don’t like campfire too much

frank oriole
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Sorry to the campfire enjoyinger

buoyant perch
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Just feels kinda bad, I know it’s strong but it doesn’t feel good to use

frank oriole
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Just don't like having to sell 8 cards to get driver value

atomic fulcrum
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campfire starts at 1

frank oriole
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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

atomic fulcrum
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vagabond also fuels it himself

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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that's someone else

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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this thread derailed pretty quickly

thick smelt
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wdym this is totally still abt chicot

frank oriole
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Every thread does

round isle
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Every thread gets to chico except the chico thread

frank oriole
buoyant perch
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Smh yall missing the campfire Chicot synergy

round isle
frank oriole
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  • Sells chicot * "yay +. 25 xmult.
frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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unconditional 25x is pretty close to disabling a boss blind

frank oriole
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Why can't campfire scale based on rarity

Common .25
Uncommen .25
Rare .5
Legendary 1

buoyant perch
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If Chicot was canonically pregnant would that fix all the problems

atomic fulcrum
frank oriole
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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

atomic fulcrum
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you just get +3 mult instead of being forced to take a suit changer

buoyant perch
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Red card is great

round isle
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Yeah red card is solid

frank oriole
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I think campfire shouldn't be a rare kinda.

Like it's too strong for uncommon so rare is good but f*uck campfire.

atomic fulcrum
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it's still a very strong rare

buoyant perch
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Tbh I just think campfire is boring

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If you get it ante 6-8 you’re gonna win the run

frank oriole
# atomic fulcrum those 4-16$ are being used on something you already spend your money on

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

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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and most tarots and planet cards are worse than +3 mult

atomic fulcrum
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mult cards are underwhelming

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priestess is unreliable

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chariot doesn't see much use in a meta where most of your base mult comes from jokers

frank oriole
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Plus it's how I play where deckfixing joker. Or something to help Me stay alive early game are good

atomic fulcrum
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whar

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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whar

frank oriole
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Sorry wrong number

atomic fulcrum
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what does this have to do with red card

frank oriole
tulip flare
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Having stability when game actively trying to fucking ruin your run is always great

atomic fulcrum
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okay

frank oriole
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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.

half snow
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Who actually upvoted this

lunar plaza
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@steel mason

ancient plinth
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💀

frank oriole
nocturne notch
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Yes

frank oriole
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Love that shit

nocturne notch
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I love getting a 200/200 unkilliable being

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For only 2 blood too

frank oriole
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I once sacrificed a mole man to it and it blocked every attack leshy tried and solo'd the moon

frank oriole
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It's a 205/205

steel mason
unborn swift
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🐮

strong iron
frank oriole
strong iron
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Obelisk is top teir

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So is chicot

waxen heart
strong iron
strong iron
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It usually gets to ×5-×8 when played correctly

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Faster scaling than yorick or madness

strong iron
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but other jokers are just much better

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Lmaoooo

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Whats Better than faster than yorick scaling

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And chicot gets rid of the thing that kills goldstake runs most of the time

strong iron
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Also 1/3rd of runs you wont see retcon and youre almost never gonna see directors cut

atomic fulcrum
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(i'm already predicting the answer is either a top10 or bottom 10 joker)

thick smelt
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like if you dont have it then chicot is still gamewinning but yeah chicot is pretty replaceable by directors

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thats why i still consider perkeo to be better tbh

atomic fulcrum
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you can very easily finish a run with 4 joker slots if boss blinds literally don't exist

thick smelt
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im not saying you cant but often times you dont have that space

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like what if i took an early eternal that doesnt scale into the lategame?

atomic fulcrum
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like when

thick smelt
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can i win with 3 joker slots? usually not

atomic fulcrum
thick smelt
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sometimes???

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but not generally

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it depends on your jokers tbf

atomic fulcrum
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you have to be really unlucky for you to not be able to

thick smelt
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sometimes you just arent scaling enough and need the space for xmult

atomic fulcrum
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you need a good scaling mult, a decent chip source (this includes blue seals) and atleast 3x mult to get through 400k

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less if you're using 5 card hands which chicot pairs pretty well with

thick smelt
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yeah and that 3x mult isnt super common

atomic fulcrum
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anyways it's too late for me to be arguing about this so i'll continue later

thick smelt
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like its somewhat common but you can go a long time without seeing any

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and id rather have something like perkeo to give me econ to let me dig for it

buoyant perch
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I think it’s more common that you’re locked into a build that doesn’t benefit from Trib compared to Chicot

thick smelt
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yes but also nobody was arguing that

atomic fulcrum
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perkeo's role as an econ/deckfixing joker is already held by a lot of options that are also very good

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chicot does something no other joker does

thick smelt
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yes but that doesnt mean that perkeo isnt extremely good at what it does and is worth it over all of those other options

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and chicot does what luchador does literally so thats just objectively false

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and once again, it also does what directors cut does

atomic fulcrum
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chicot is reusable

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and directors isn't a joker

thick smelt
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and also im not here arguing that chicot is bad i think its at LEAST a tier

thick smelt
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like it isnt a joker but it still serves the same role

atomic fulcrum
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it fills a role that's more powerful than what perkeo usually does for you in ante 8 runs

thick smelt
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maybe, but that doesnt mean its not fully replaceable by a voucher

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id rather have perkeo and directors than just chicot

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but also perkeo is so absurdly powerful i dont really believe that chicot is stronger in terms of what it gives you

atomic fulcrum
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getting a legendary and a specific voucher is rarer than getting 1 legendary

thick smelt
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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

atomic fulcrum
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what do your runs usually revolve around

thick smelt
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usually pairs

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i most commonly die to just not finding any xmult

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like i can have a +210 runner and a +60 groker but without xmult that runs just dead in the water ante 6

atomic fulcrum
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you can double up on +mult if you need to

buoyant perch
thick smelt
thick smelt
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it just lets you live longer

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which is nice, but that doesnt mean youll find xmult

buoyant perch
thick smelt
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it depends on when you find the soul tbf

buoyant perch
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Chicot’s kinda unique in that it’s actually a good late soul

thick smelt
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yeah but if you only have 4 slots you should not be taking a late soul unless you have something fully replaceable

buoyant perch
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Tbf I feel like you can almost always lose a single joker for a soul, you’re not gonna be needing 5 entire jokers for scoring

thick smelt
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i do agree but with 4 jokers its a lot more likely for that to be tight

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like if youre relying on a chips joker instead of blue seals and you have like 2 x2 xmulters like

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you cant replace anything there it is not worth it

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and god forbid you have 2 eternals

strong iron
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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

thick smelt
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it can be, but generally its worth going down an econ level in order to survive a boss blind

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like the reason i say director's cut is usually just a replacement to chicot is like

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imagine you already have one and you see the other

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if youre getting rid of one its going to be chicot

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and if youre not getting rid of one, your chicot is very replaceable still

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sorry also if you have chicot and see director's cut, if your econ can take it i think id buy it?

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like if youre stable enough to keep chicot youre usually stable enough to buy directors

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and if you end up needing the slot, youre not reliant on chicot

strong iron
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Chicot also protects u from bosses that dont particularly counter u but still hurt you like the ox/tooth,

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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

thick smelt
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directors cut is in fact not a tier 2 voucher!

strong iron
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Wait is retcon the repeatable one?

thick smelt
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but i dont think those are really super significant?

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like if theyre game-losing youll reroll them

strong iron
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Rerolls the arm into the eye my biggest fear

thick smelt
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real

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tho in my 400+ hours of playtime ive never directors cut a boss that kills me into another boss that kills me

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but yeah im not arguing that chicot is bad, and obviously saying chicot is ALWAYS replacable by directors is untrue but

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im just saying i dont subscribe to chicot > perkeo

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thats my entire point'

strong iron
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I failed to draw a pair 5times

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Im insanely unlucky

thick smelt
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diagnosis: skill issue

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luck is a skill just get good

strong iron
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;-;

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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

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But again thats rlly bad luck

thick smelt
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counterpoint: dont have a run that dies to plant

strong iron
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It didnt die to the plant

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It died to underscaling bc i lost my econ

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And i was rellying on telescope

thick smelt
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oh i see mb

strong iron
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Dude maybe im just really biased against directors/retcon

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Saying it in chat made me realize that these scenarios are like 1/1000

pearl gorge
frank oriole
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Who

drifting depot
frank oriole
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Who should leave the server

drifting depot
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uh

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nvm

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what are you typing

frank oriole
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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

pearl gorge
frank oriole
buoyant perch
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Yorrick is good for how quickly it reaches 2x and 3x, it’s fast enough early game and it scales into late game

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Unlike Canio it’s consistent, getting 20x mult on Canio doesn’t matter if you can’t make it out of mid game

frank oriole
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What's your list then @buoyant perch

buoyant perch
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Yorrick
Perkeo
Canio
Chicot
Trib

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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

frank oriole
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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.

buoyant perch
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You don’t need to discard all 5 cards at a time, and doing full discards becomes less effective later antes

frank oriole
# buoyant perch I mainly like Perkeo cause it enables cool hands rather than just pair every tim...

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

lunar plaza
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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

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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which is what i think thunk balances things around

frank oriole
# atomic fulcrum consistency is valued more than ceiling for higher stakes

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.

atomic fulcrum
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the whole process of building towards yorick is playing the game normally

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also i'm pretty sure a 3x canio is going to give you way more than hack scaling would

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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when did you mention plasma

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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when did you mention plasma before that message

buoyant perch
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Basing balance on plasma yuck

atomic fulcrum
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also that

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1 deck shouldn't be the deciding factor

frank oriole
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Who said balance

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This is about why I like some jokers more than others

atomic fulcrum
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you're ranking legendaries

buoyant perch
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If we’re talking which one is the strongest then basing it on plasma is kinda silly

atomic fulcrum
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is that not what balance discussion is

atomic fulcrum
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so it's just favorites

frank oriole
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Yes

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
buoyant perch
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I based mine on strength and consistency at gold stake personally, I usually base balance discussions on where the game’s the hardest cause anything can win on white stake

atomic fulcrum
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i love moving goalposts

frank oriole
atomic fulcrum
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it's a statement

frank oriole
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I changed it are you happy now

thick smelt
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10 billionth balatro argument started by someone not differentiating actual power from personal enjoyment

thick smelt
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naw its fine bro dw im just messin around

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just make sure to make it clear youre talkin abt personal preference in the future

frank oriole
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I just changed it