The luckiest build of all-time (Balatro)

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[@william14able]

“I know face cards are debuffrd by let’s play them anyway” Me: checks video length.

[@snarblox]

I did literally the exact same thing

[@powerlifting1012]

He had a stone card, so 4 kings plus that could have helped? Still didn't get there I imagine

[@nickgoesclick]

I hovered. Then I was like Nah I believe in egg Then the video ended

[@loganshaw4527]

Yup he wanted the run to end never play debuffed cards.

[@mennymoto]

The video length gives the biggest spoilers for roguelike content

[@crobodile]

11:02 who else noticed that the probability joker doubled the negative effect of the boss blind

[@sainttrish7544]

It's a nice touch lol I'm not even mad

[@deshelledturtle355]

it doubles everything, including bad effects like glass cards breaking. pretty interesting

[@6footdarkskin335]

I had pareidolia and went against the boss that draws all face cards faced down, went about as you expected.

[@sev463]

Hey everybody, welcome back

[@aB-vk5mg]

It’s bah lah tro

[@AngelJimenez-cs4yq]

⁠@@aB-vk5mgbowel-a-trow? Nobody knows

[@quinno.9253]

Bal a tro? Nobody knows

[@youburntmytoast4478]

Forget about this run, it was on stream and it died

[@Koltronn]

I alt-f4’d I think…

[@slobert]

His complete lack of reaction to "all face cards are debuffed" was hilarious

[@EDoyl]

-1 joker slot is fine, you can pretend you have Vagabond

[@killpioo2]

Oh god, I feel like there's a run behind this post. What's the video called?

[@jerecakes1]

the run conditions remind me of having a pre-nerf eternal juggler

[@gravitysuitguy2765]

It’s like blue deck starting with an eternal troubadour

[@dragonslaya16]

You can pretend to be a vagabond

[@JT-yl9yt]

painted deck is one of the best....its like having a better troubadour for free and is amazing for hand trigger builds.

[@mantar008]

Such a great run. "Oops all sixes" is possibly my favorite card in the game so far. And IMAGINE if he had gotten the lucky cat on this run! He would have flown straight past the moon and into the Asteroid Belt!!!!

[@perfectcuremt]

I really wanted to see double poly chrome oops all sixes

[@mcgoo721]

Oops all sixes is fun. Am i boring for loving hiker? I love an early hiker juat bulking everything up for some reason.

[@dudekazoo]

I was gonna pog so hard your head would spin if he got lucky cat.

[@Paranundrox]

​@@mcgoo721Hack Hiker and Hack Wee Joker are two of my favorite things. Very satisfying to use relatively mediocre cards and make them go crazy

[@TheoHiggins]

I wish with all that money he had just opened $4 buffoon packs to fish for something cool Could've stumbled into lucky cat or something else that synergises

[@franciscobernardo95]

youtube needs an option to hide length of video xD

[@LBandCOOLJ]

As soon as he started discarding non-face cards in that last blind I knew it was over lol

[@mentecato666]

*YES*

[@loganshaw4527]

Him underestimating how bad debuffed face cards are. O this video is going to end now do not need to look at the time.

[@RozKounelakion]

22:46 he forgot five of a kind is a thing ICANT

[@matejspevacek1226]

ICANT

[@froxical2128]

after all those planet x HOW COULD HE

[@kralevic3297]

Now a lot of his previous decisions make sense.

[@humanthursday199]

He beat that blind so what does it matter. There's a full 9 extra minutes of video after

[@RozKounelakion]

@@humanthursday199 nice 👍

[@nednevo]

watching NL level up full house and mostly skip playing them is golden

[@lucky_marz]

It’s making the urge to post type a chatter comments so strong.

[@lawncrow]

@@lucky_marzI'm no type A chatter I think, but this one was kinda making me reconsider.

[@Cryogenical]

​@@lawncrowit's like a mind virus. I'm typically a hard lurk but sometimes watching NL make decisions just wells up an uncontrollable urge to devolve into a type A chatter

[@thechatter7102]

mfer tried to cover all bases with "mostly" you disingenuous so-and-so

[@verbfrombonsai8852]

also discarding his stone cards which is his best card in that blind

[@ChrisProfrock]

Plays 4 of a kind Kings when he has 5 Kings in hand. Peak gameplay.

[@ieatrawchicken6311]

so glaf someone else saw this

[@infangec33]

Stunned

[@lucyarisato6850]

Not to Type A comment, but playing unleveled 4 of a kind and being concerned that it doesn’t score high, *when five of a kind* is also there and hasn’t been leveled

[@OhiaderByeder]

He looked 5 of a kind in the face and said nah

[@loganshaw4527]

He got too good too fast disease for this run.

[@Draenix572]

"FOUR NINES JEREMY?" made me burst out laughing. Was not expecting a Peep Show reference lmao

[@fahlgorithm]

9:20 the reason people say to reroll down to your interest cap is that rerolls get more expensive each time you do it in shop. You should be rerolling each shop to make use of the cheap rerolls and if you are making enough money to be over the interest cap significantly then you can start adding in an additional reroll each shop. If you save all of your money until the last shop you will blow it all on expensive rerolls and get way less value out of it.

[@loganshaw4527]

Lol the " I am going to save" on a exponential needing game. The guy got out scaled.

[@n00dle_king]

He wasn't just passing up rerolls he was passing up packs and vouchers too.

[@philosophiabme]

Loving the IV Drip feed of Balatro content. Straight into my veins.

[@BeBenNova]

lol im so glad he caught the early math about the jacks and the hands left generating money

[@DocBees]

I love that he cackles when things go his way, what a great maniacal laugh.

[@casserCOM]

We paid the price to roll the dice, the luckiest build of all time. We skip past the blinds, on chips we did dine, while I write you this rhyme, sit down and unwind. Oops! All Six. With the odds now remixed, the luck that would follow you wouldn't remise. Polychrome and a shining dome, the cards that were shown had all our mind's blown. Now a throwback joker? Behold, the king of poker! As NL takes his throne!

[@ghostbeats3214]

Mad verse city ahh rhyme

[@RealAlex2035]

Chat gpt type beat

[@casserCOM]

@@RealAlex2035 this is str8 from the dome bro

[@RealAlex2035]

@@casserCOM nice 🤣

[@okparagon]

Guy’s got bard bars

[@toby2576]

NL: picks up skip joker also NL: Skips like 2 blinds total

[@nickstripp]

As a friendly reminder to everyone watching. When you’re upgrading your hands. Do pay attention in run info on what is your strongest hand. Seeing NL ignore his strongest hand, a Full House, the entire game was maddening.

[@altrivotzck6565]

My second run to get to ante 13 was a double-Hallucination (1 hallucination eventually got replaced with Blueprint) + Oops All 6s + negative Lucky Cat run where I eventually found the legendary joker that likes it when you destroy face cards, and I used Oops All 6s combined with glass cards to make that easier to happen. I eventually replaced Oops All 6s with The Family, in the late game, but it took a while.

[@altrivotzck6565]

I kept 1 of the hallucinations to the very end, because it got Polychrome'd by a wheel of fortune, and it was still pretty good with Blueprint, even without Oops All 6s

[@beaniiman]

I love when he gets rid of like a 10 to make a king instead of a two. He has his reasons, I just don't understand them.

[@deeznoots6241]

15:00 I wonder if he will realise he can just discard 1 card and will still draw 3 cards

[@vanixiii5657]

Pretty sure going full house with 3 kings 2 8's saves him at the end lmao

[@RandomAutist]

I watch these to overcome the tilt Baldatro gives me on a daily basis, at least watching the Egg, i can "pretend" i dont suck at the game

[@liltoblerone4681]

Im loving the straight-to-KZbin videos man, nice run

[@BenjaminBot]

This was a fun build. I also had a lucky card build with DNA and a bunch of duplicated lucky red seal 2’s. It was so fun

[@murmur9811]

skipping 4$ joker packs when he desperatly needs negative jokers... many such cases

[@MattTheSpratt]

My first thought with those two Jokers at the beginning: if Nor picks up Pareidolia, he's won the lottery.

[@HarrisonKC]

He figured out he's overrating hermit and underrating the others! Let's go!

[@augxe]

The luckiest build of all time is me when a new balatro video comes out.

[@DoctorMichaelMorbius]

the playing four of a kind instead of the power leveled full house is making me a type a chatter

[@Jacob-2796]

Your typos are making me flinch

[@DoctorMichaelMorbius]

@@Jacob-2796 punctuation is for cowards

[@FenderTele71]

Loved how different this build was.

[@alli-gator-forest]

is NL playing the game in 1.5x speed or something? i feel like im on a sugar rush right now

[@HaydnNitzsche]

You can change animation speed in the game settings, that might be what you're seeing

[@randomcat2000]

^^^ he's playing at 4x speed

[@tuxsbro]

Yeah it's way too fast. I feel like the in the YT exclusives NL is more intense too so the whole thing is very anxiety-inducing.

[@aspenlog7484]

NL when doing the most obvious thing possible, "now i know this looks, INsAne"

[@RobotnikPlngas]

I'm so sad the cat didn't show up, he could have gone full Gordon Ramsey mode.

[@kingambrose9919]

at 15:14 I believe with that boss your hand can actually go over your max size so discarding 1 card at a time to draw a bunch, 1 card for 3 more, is actually the best way to do it

[@loganmazurek7673]

My best run I’ve had so far was a lucky card build with like 5 negative jokers that all gave multiplier to mult and two copies of the ‘copy a joker’ one copying the cat that multiplied based on how many lucky cards have hit. Then I filled the deck with lucky A’s with the retrigger seal. Needed a few more specific jokers for better scaling but hit ante 15

[@MrBlahblah22]

Man gives well played out Balatro run, asked to stay

[@donkeykong315]

Spending on rerolls throughout the game is cheaper than holding the money for rerolls later, since the reroll cost resets with each ante. You’ll have a better understanding of yoyr deck and what jokers you need later on, but it will cost a lot more to reroll in fewer antes.

[@jordanleighton6893]

The hard counter bosses always hurt

[@rockstarrzz7171]

18:50 Not even looking once at Vampire there noooooo. Not sure if it would have been the correct play, but it would have pogged out with all those enhanced cards.

[@ace8780]

is this a curated and bespoke youtube run? POG

[@sebastianfranco1507]

Great run brother

[@exLightningg]

The boss didn't hard counter you, you hard counter'd yourself.

[@Zanaki113]

I'm 2 mins in and this man has been handed THE START of a lifetime, I am pogging!

[@Zanaki113]

30 seconds later and he's taken throwback on a run you really DON'T want to skip blinds, oh no

[@ilovehumongoushonkers]

plant is the run killer so often for me

[@Shield_OW]

am i crazy or this video seems like it's at 1.5x? even nl seems plugged in at 220v

[@laurenelliott3084]

4 nines northern lion!!! Are you insane?!??

[@jacobdumas7643]

I swear I am not a type A chatter at heart but sometimes he tests my resolve

[@isaacrobertson4374]

Am I the only one that notices how much money NL has leftover when he loses? He needs to be wayy more aggressive on the rerolls early on

[@isaacrobertson4374]

He lost with $90!!!???

[@troymcclure8012]

In before he clicks play hand without doing the math and then being surprised 😂

[@alexanderwales7870]

I wouldn't have it any other way.

[@ilovehumongoushonkers]

tbh i rarely do the math myself when playing i only do it if im like falling behind and need every chip and for early antes i just have hands memorized

[@aereonexapprentice7205]

Your wish: The luckiest build there ever was, so much so that NL would repeat "Maybe i should consider buying lottery tickets" over and over without realizing The monkey's paw's twist: You and NL already paid the price. NL by the 10+ in a row of not hitting wheel of fortunes and lucky cards in the past videos and streams, and you by watching said absurd and unsatisfying misfortune.

[@tzera_rhuon]

I see your misfortune and raise you schadenfreude.

[@davidtanase7753]

Honestly, i dont understand why throwback wasn't scaled when he had such a good base for more scaling

[@Replacemybatteriesplease]

Yeessss more card and quick talking guy!

[@99sins]

The next evolution of the type A chatter will be to use the seeds egg played through and then post their ante 14 run.

[@kyleolsen3305]

watching this man play balatro has made me go outside and touch grass just so i can justify playing more balatro

[@samliveshere88]

the way you should look at painted is you have 2 eternal +1 hand size jokers and 1 is negative

[@DeathByRabbit]

Enjoying the Balatro content. One point of concern on my part: Is NL going to burn himself out before he gets one of those just absurdly broken runs?

[@akev2794]

Hey Northernlion, could you make separate playlists for the streams and the youtube videos? It would make it easier to follow as I catch up with the game (only really starting watching your videos on it yesterday and bought it today!). Unless I've missed something of course, someone can let me know!

[@agstah]

You've missed the fact that NL doesn't really care about KZbin at all and doesn't even make playlists anymore. So the chance of him making two different playlists is basically zero. :( My tip for knowing the difference between YT vids and Twitch VODS is generally to check the length. Twitch VODs are usually way longer because he spends 70% of the video ranting.

[@LiarJudas666]

lmao i’ve only been playing Balatro since it came out and i now fully understand his misplaced trust in Misprint. like yeah it’s better than none in most cases but it’s gambling in a gambling game!

[@BunBun_Velvet]

Mans going to the moon with all these runs meanwhile I'm out here like "What if I tried to make flush build work again for the 100th time" LMAO

[@manbearpig-ny2ib]

hey ah, minor tip. at 15 minutes (the serpent) you can go over the stated hand size because you "always" draw three cards. please try discarding one card at a time then making your hands.

[@tbenante]

Proba-build-ity 5:48

[@osamaobama3406]

The man has 5 Kings in hand and says "We gotta play 4 of a kind (unupgrated btw)" and it's the boss.

[@_kamayana]

I'm so sad he decided not to double Oops All Sixes, now I really want to see what would happen

[@ilovehumongoushonkers]

such a fun build i wish oops all 6s was better

[@relatedreality]

I hate he makes such horrible plays and yet still does better than me on average

[@toto_impersonater]

realest shit ever his plays make me enraged yet he does better than me

[@hugeant97]

I'm going to become -the joker- a type A chatter

[@TommyDangs]

This build is to make up for wheel never hitting but now he’ll never hit another one again

[@yoshiwaffles6682]

He holds his money too much he should be re rolling atleast twice with 80

[@Jack-dk7uu]

Would love to get a run like this and then actually get Lucky Cat

[@MrMrkman98]

Is there a reason he isn't using discards? It's kinda driving me nuts.

[@Leo790]

Let’s do it

[@Kryptnyt]

He was right, he was due

[@stefano173]

Bah-Lah-Tro. There you go

[@TechnoLogicPC]

20:01 me when my slave misbehaves

[@S_raB]

Why would you not use discards early, round 4, to draw more face cards & hopefully hit trips or fill house?

[@LittleRatLulu]

egg dad back at it again :3

[@lucasbatista9369]

Pretend I'm saying something really funny here

[@Qyubij]

+2

[@pretentiousname01]

My brother needs high contrast mode

[@Airless_Grind]

Balatro

[@jaasshh1849]

+2

[@blackfang04]

Luckiest build into the unluckiest boss blind.

[@CameronBrown-ph9do]

Its the new ayyy everybody days

[@naantjez]

gets joker that give x0.25 mult per blind skip; never skips

[@nerdtron8]

Double polychrome dice joker was stolen from us

[@acksawblack]

I am almost certain cards have weightings that tie them together. In runs it does seem like synergies occur at rates above random.

[@TinyTim_TV]

im pogging

[@sharkbait6699]

Yo NL, love the Balatro vids, so much so that I got the game for myself. Anyways, question for anyone who might know the answer, on one of my runs I had blue print and misprint (lucky early blueprint) and I swear to god when I set blueprint to copy misprint it would do a consistent +20 mult and misprint would do like +24. I looked it up and didn’t find anything from a glance over and I’m wondering if I was hallucinating, or maybe some other joker I had was doing the work and I just didn’t realize. So finally to my question, was I indeed hallucinating? Or is this a known kinda thing and I just don’t know how to google.

[@zakonsonic]

The luckiest build of all-time (probably)

[@derekwinsor4367]

Cant believe he skipped the spritzer :(

[@sp0ck1p]

Patiently waiting for the e video

[@QWEjames]

Not clickbait +1

[@johnny5731]

How does he always know what I'm going to say?!

[@takaneru6001]

he cooked

[@hrhaakash]

i've never actually been able to win a run in this game, any advice appreciated please!

[@boomboombruhin7626]

It’s weird knowing everyone who’s commented so far hasn’t seen the run.

[@bassheadgg]

Day 2 of learning NL that you can discard 1 to draw 3 on the Serpent

[@GoikOShea]

Sometimes the internet piles on a game and it's not clear why.

[@aprettycoolname4839]

I want this seem agaain but with antimatter

[@killedbyatreehugger]

He is so economics pilled sometimes lmao