10 Top Tips for New Balatro Players! - Balatro for Beginners

Balatro is a deck-building roguelite where you must play poker hands and earn chips to defeat enemy blinds. Enhance your deck of playing cards, buy Jokers to modify each hand you play, and discover new and wild synergies to win!
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[@GothicLordUK]

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[@joseph-th7rs]

unbelievable how addictive this game is 😭

[@HuyTheKiller]

I spent like 16 hours after just a day of owning the game lmao back then I didn't realize the "unlock all" button is completely free because of my misconception about how "unlock all" works due to having played too many f2p games, thus spending as much time as possible to unlock/reveal jokers and other stuff

[@MeettheTings]

I was organising my jokers all wrong! Thanks for the tip about the multiplier positioning!

[@TooMuchBSToo]

I picked it up last night, and didn't even know I could arrange my jokers. I could probably have actually won a run last night if I knew that

[@BryanSolo_1]

Yes, this tip alone just blew my mind. I’ve logged 10 hours in the game so far and never once thought about the “order” of the scoring of each hand!

[@jmckendry84]

I honestly managed to fail to differentiate between cards that add to the mult and those that multiply it. No wonder I seemed to be hitting a ceiling 😂 Loving the game, it's easy to pick up but IMO the tutorial is poor. Unless I'm missing it, there's not an obvious way to repeat the tutorial so I missed a lot of info because there's a fair amount of detail to absorb at the start.

[@paradoxregina]

Frustrating, dropping that the jokers can be arranged and not showing it. And not explaining in what direction they stack. Hmph, must be a better video out there.

[@chri5toph_k]

​@@BryanSolo_1 lmao it's exactly the same for me. after 10 hours of constantly losing, I looked up videos on yt and i am 100% sure with this tip i would have won the last run

[@pallad4742]

Ordering by rank and suit can also be very helpful when dealing with face down cards. Let's say a face down card is between a 9(diamond) and a 7(spade). You know its either a 9, 8, or 7 from that position, and if you select that card, it will stay up so you can easily identify it when you shuffle to order by suit. Now that same card is between a 9 & 5 of diamonds, narrowing it down to being either an 8 or 7 of diamonds. It's not always accurate, but knowledge of your deck and card organization can help sometimes when its vital. Also, if you're on a run centering around certain high or low cards (like stacking aces for 5 of a kind, or using 4's for the walkie talkie joker) then if you're on the "first hand drawn face down" boss, ordering by rank and discarding 5 from the opposite side of the cards you want is the safest bet.

[@basenatic]

Thanks for the describing the difference in Mult. I didn't realize there was a difference and kept throwing out the cards that "only had X1.5 mult" cause "+10 mult is better" in my head.

[@kevinllado]

Same here, that information is so crucial, thank you so much! ❤

[@Jakey726]

yeah xmult is like a variable in algebra. +20 mult just adds a multiplication to your scores but xmult multiplies everything after it has been calculated

[@MasterHigure]

In the first run I won, I had Spare Pants and loads of planets providing some nice base multiplier. Then I had a bunch of x1.5mult and similar. A two-pair hand was routinely worth 200k-300k chips. I one-shot everything, until I suddenly didn't any more and lost after continuing into endless.

[@jmckendry84]

I made exactly the same mistake! Unless I'm missing it the game doesn't have a help menu or glossary (on Switch at least), which may have helped me avoid this pitfall. A longer, more detailed tutorial with some more example hands would have also helped.

[@music79075]

​@jmckendry84 this is on Switch?

[@directrix777shinyshinyamyt4]

You can deck out??? Makes me wonder how viable it is to go for a 5 card deck, with the perfect hand and nothing else.

[@MenacingBanjo]

I'm looking forward to seeing this in a KZbin video.

[@shaiadar4845]

Not viable. You'll only be able to get the points for that one hand, and then nothing else. You'll lose pretty quickly. Probably at the second ante at most.

[@MenacingBanjo]

@@shaiadar4845 you won't be able to thin your deck to five cards by Ante 2. By the time you do thin your deck out, you will likely have enough jokers to support the one-hand win.

[@Jakey726]

if you build your entire deck and score system around a singular hand and have the jokers to support it plus the joker that makes your most used hand spawn in planet packs, you can infinitely upgrade the hand and make it possible to scale @@shaiadar4845

[@nathanzwing7406]

It's possible but there is little incentive to do so because u can play multiple hands and also discard 10 to 20 cards anyways

[@extrashoddy]

Great tips! It might be helpful to have an in-depth scoring guide with all the small intricacies that come with them (i.e. how glass cards work, multipliers that apply to played cards vs. those that apply after the entire hand is scored, how to re-order cards in your hand prior to scoring, etc.) It might take a week or so to really understand what's new with 1.0, so it's probably not something that needs to happen right away.

[@SupaRush]

i played like 18 hours before i realized Xmult should be at the end, no wonder i was losing all the time. Now the game is much easier

[@Mouthwsh]

So you failed 2nd grade math?

[@kennya5165]

@@Mouthwsh This isn't pemdas, it's order of entry.

[@kennya5165]

I appreciate this video because it didn't spoil too much strategy and just pointed out mostly mechanics I wasn't understanding. Was trying to avoid watching any full games to try to figure this game out myself but was struggling.

[@Higuysitsrandy]

Indeed. Glad i didnt spoil anything for myself. Also WE WINNING THE DIVISION THIS SEASON -DIEHARD DOLPHINS FAN

[@whyofcoursenot3507]

omg we got the r key from the bidning of isaac, but seriously the right click to deselect is life altering

[@gorpazorp7309]

glad to see some helpful tips for such a new but incredible game. i noticed you in the credits btw and its no wonder with your prowess 👏✨

[@pcareo-dactyl3327]

Damn, I've been following from the beginning and still learned a thing or two

[@yastremski]

Thanks, Gothic! Peeking at face down cards is brilliant

[@markusjentzsch7932]

This actually helped me on 2 points. Very good!

[@GoodMomo]

Oh wow, I don't think the game made it clear enough between the difference of +3 MULT and 3X MULT. I have made some really bad decisions thinking they were the same!

[@Mouthwsh]

You have brain damage

[@Azeazezar]

If you have a powerful pc, balatro will try to use that power to render at higher framerates. Same some power by enabling vsync at your gpu's control panel or the game settings.. Looks just as good, but now with silent fans and better for the environment.

[@DefineLines]

Lol for the environment. Get real.

[@kenshiman90]

if you actually thought your gpu usage made a diff to the environment, why are you using it to play fucking video games?

[@yy-sf1xq]

@@kenshiman90 why does it always have to be in absolutes? If it looks the same, why not enable vsync to save on energy?

[@kenshiman90]

​@@yy-sf1xq of course you can. you've completely missed the point. also, another point you don't understand is that "saving energy" is not necessarily good for the environment, just like using energy is not at all inherently bad for the environment. you're the one thinking in absolutes with no real understanding of things or subtlety of thought, sorry.

[@Jakey726]

you are the one thinking in absolutes dude you just stated that everything is somehow always in absolutes even though what they're talking about has no relation to the word@@yy-sf1xq

[@dirtyjohngaming]

Great tips dude, thank you

[@awalker300]

cool tip about the tarot cards on the boss blinds that have face down cards!

[@dickoon]

So many videos in one day! \o/

[@dickoon]

It makes perfect sense that today has been the all-the-videos day. I hope you've had a great day, and that you enjoy tomorrow and beyond just as much! I listened to the first 3-4 hours of the stream live, then switched to watching the recorded videos, and am catching up on the rest of the stream.

[@GothicLordUK]

There are more special videos to come! Thanks for the support

[@dantealighieri1265]

I didn't know you could select the order of jokers, nice to know👌

[@FedericoTrentonGame]

You said more in a 4 minute video than half the vids I had to spend 20 minutes just for them to say things like “check what combo scores most points!” 😅 The joker order thing was shocking! Thanks a bunch!!

[@Mouthwsh]

I don’t know how you people even get dressed in the morning. It’s 2nd grade math.

[@LofiWandererMusic]

omg this was so helpful!

[@GothicLordUK]

I'm so glad! Enjoy your new knowledge!

[@treehann]

Incredible, a tips video that’s thoroughly useful! I wish the game would tell you the right click and hold-R bits! I was looking for both. This game is so well-designed, i’m not surprised the dev(s?) have so many useful features.

[@GothicLordUK]

1 solo developer!

[@Taraxacum10]

Thanks. That’s just saved future me from raging when my deck doesn’t cycle.

[@GothicLordUK]

It was a tough lesson to learn the first time!

[@FiiXa]

Very nice tips dude...i have 35 hours in this game and still not knew everything. Greetings from Germany^^

[@pyaehtetaung]

I suck at deck building but love it.

[@samporterbridges8600]

Amazing guide, thanks very much

[@GothicLordUK]

Glad it was helpful!

[@samporterbridges8600]

@GothicLordUK Any idea if the planet cards if held top right add to multiplier or what might trigger it? I saw a stream and the Earth card was granting 1.5X but I have no idea why?

[@GothicLordUK]

@@samporterbridges8600 vouchers come in pairs. Telescopes partner/upgrade is called observatory and it provides 1.5x milt if your hand matches your consumable planet held

[@samporterbridges8600]

@GothicLordUK Oh that's amazing, thank you for clarifying sir.

[@GothicLordUK]

@@samporterbridges8600 I gotchu

[@FemboyStrategy]

nice guide

[@nitemare74]

A LOT of people are gonna finally understand the difference between +Mult and ×Mult 😂

[@pizzacore5598]

Oh I had no idea about the rearranging part of the joker and how it affects the scoring, I’ve been playing the game wrong 25 hours in.

[@GothicLordUK]

@@pizzacore5598 we all have to learn some time! Enjoy your new found strats!

[@BootyBandit999]

thanks!

[@orestlehinovych465]

Wouldn`t it be better to make fix for 4x speed to show the cards for a little bit of time instead of going back and forth to change the speed?

[@shadowking2926]

I think that x2 should be the default, and 1 a "slow" option for those that want it.

[@anthonyloomis9780]

hell yea. balatro rules

[@Crystalgamer007]

For switch gamers, touchscreen works perfectly. Great way to enjoy the game

[@mikeruiger7174]

Damn some of these are like common sense and I totally missed them!

[@HolyDeviant1]

Some more advanced tips: >A card can have three bonuses on it: An Ehnancement, A Seal, and an Edition. >Editions are Foil, Polychrome, Holographic, and Negative (Jokers only) >Enhancements are Bonus, Glass, Golden, Steel, Mult, and Lucky. >Seals are Gold, Red, Blue, and Purple. It's important to remember which are which, as Vampires will remove Enhancements but leave Seals and Editions alone, for example. >If you can play an 'impossible' hand, you should do so - not only are they high scorers, doing so will allow you to buy their respective planets. >It should be noted that while a Royal Flush - a flush straight with ace, king, queen, jack, and ten - is scored slightly differently and has a different name, but *does not have its own planet*. >Pay close attention to planet purchases - late game, you might have pushed a 'lesser' hand to be stronger than a 'better' one. Look in Run Info if you're uncertain about it. >Finally, "contains" in a Joker's text regarding a hand means that the hand only needs to occur within the play - it doesn't need to be what it scores as. For example, a four of a kind contains high card, pair, three of a kind, *but not two pair*, as two pair is classed as two pairs of different rank. Likewise, a full house "contains" a three of a kind, and a pair. Some Jokers will notify you when their conditions are met. If one of your Jokers is twitching, check why.

[@GothicLordUK]

>It should be noted that while a Royal Flush - a flush straight with ace, king, queen, jack, and ten - is scored slightly differently and has a different name, but *does not have its own planet*. This is not true. A royal flush scores the same as a straight flush, it just has a different aesthetic name in the panel on the left. It uses the same planet and scoring as all other straight flushes.

[@terrydactyl2077]

So if you hold onto a tarot or celestial card it won’t appear in the shop? Will it possibly show up in a booster though? Or is it that that card you’re holding into won’t show up at all?

[@GothicLordUK]

It wont spawn with RNG anywhere at all!

[@terrydactyl2077]

@@GothicLordUK this is definitely changing things for me!

[@elaa673]

you can use a Tarot MID ROUND?? and here i thought you could only use them when you open a card pack. 😅

[@Jakey726]

Another cool fact, planet cards give you chips and mult but most people use them outside of blinds and the game just immediately erases it if you are not in one. you can save a planet until you find the hand in your deck, play the planet card, upgrade the hand, get extra mult and chips, and then double whammy

[@Code3AndaHalf]

@@Jakey726 the planet cards upgrade the poker hand assigned to it permanently for the whole run. You can use them as soon as you get them and it will upgrade the level of your poker hands until the run ends. You can check the current level of your poker hands using "run info" on the left right above options.

[@jazzlover420]

​@@Jakey726 not true

[@markrolle2527]

gahhhh! Order the jokers as if it were a math formula! Of course!!!

[@odog6009]

I have like 3 hours on the game. Probably played 15 runs, never have made it past ante 2 and I am not sure where I am going wrong.

[@CalamityBaird]

What if I decide to "unlock all" then change my mind? Can you reset and or relock everything?

[@GothicLordUK]

You can delete that save file and start from scratch

[@Quarrel47]

I still don't know what the ante on the bottom left is for. (4/8 ante etc)

[@GothicLordUK]

Ante is like the "floor of the dungeon" it's just a track of your progress through 8 sets of "small blind/big blind/boss blind"

[@Quarrel47]

Ok, so what happens when I get to the max?@@GothicLordUK

[@LucaDellAglio]

20 hours and the max ante that I reach is 7/8 with absolutely no possibility to reach the 8/8. All regular here or am i missing something?

[@ALEX19960609]

I play on 4x from the beginning, other speeds are too slow

[@davestar4718]

I dont get what the planet cards do. I get nothing for using em

[@GothicLordUK]

Planet cards level up your hands. This increases the base value of the chips and mult awarded for playing them before any bonuses are applied.

[@user-qt1kt7ss8s]

How to refresh round on Nintendo switch?

[@GothicLordUK]

Pause to main menu and start new run. No hotkey on switch.

[@the_real_octavio]

i dont understand the joker order!!! 😢

[@GothicLordUK]

Base 5mult , X2 =10, +10mult = 20mult Base 5mult, +10mult = 15, X2 = 30mult Xmult on the right to get more value from them

[@the_real_octavio]

@@GothicLordUK oh!!! ok ok... + mult = just adds to the red X mult = multiplies everything

[@rufiooo7]

Got addicted to this game two days ago and been “grinding” but really just smashing my head into the wall trying to beat 50k, currently learning so much from this video and the comments😅🙏

[@GothicLordUK]

Glad these tips are helping

[@daddyov2]

I’m 10 hours in with no wins so I definitely consider myself a beginner still

[@Mouthwsh]

Mentally challenged

[@matimk_]

Tip number 1: Turn music all the way up.

[@GothicLordUK]

@@matimk_ it's a banger!

[@Leikjarinn]

IOS version soon i hope

[@GothicLordUK]

It's in the works!

[@Leikjarinn]

@@GothicLordUK ohhh wow!

[@Leikjarinn]

@@GothicLordUK hey have you made a video on the Obelisk card ?

[@roadroller5289]

O🎉🎉🎉 Wow

[@thewise3551]

I’ve only been playing for 45 hours and I didn’t even notice the difference between + mult and x mult. FML…

[@Mouthwsh]

You have a mental handicap

[@ropocop]

Hoo boy, 3 hours in and this video made me realise there exists a + and x mult. *facepalm*

[@Mouthwsh]

Mental disability

[@quick8009]

quite unhelpfulll jk

[@docrock3234]

🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠i didnt know about rearranging the jokers … 🫤🤦‍♂️🔫

[@GothicLordUK]

@@docrock3234 now you do! Enjoy