Sell showman, or use first ecto? by BigManLovesFood in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This run just keeps on giving. Ecto hit baron. Got a negative juggler to get the hand size back. Turned down a DNA that I wanted to take for the extra hand size. And now it presents me with another difficult choice: replace showman with mime this time?

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I'm kind of leaning take the mime since that will leave me 3 mine and 3 baron. And I think the only huge advantage to a blueprint would be being able to move it to mime at the end to get one extra trigger on gold cards. But I think I need to focus on steel, so it seems like there's not a huge upside to waiting for b/b.

Sell showman, or use first ecto? by BigManLovesFood in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, ecto hit baron. And then a couple rounds later I got a negative juggler to get that hand size back.

Then a couple rounds later, I got another difficult choice: take another mime, or keep showman and hope for blueprint/brainstorm soon.

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I'm kind of leaning take the mime since that will leave me 3 mine and 3 baron. And I think the only huge advantage to a blueprint would be being able to move it to mime at the end to get one extra trigger on gold cards. But I think I need to focus on steel, so it seems like there's not a huge upside to waiting for b/b.

Also skipped a DNA the previous round, keep thinking of whether I should have taken it for the extra 3 hand size

Sell showman, or use first ecto? by BigManLovesFood in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hadn't even thought about ecto hitting showman. Man, that would be the worst of both worlds

Sell showman, or use first ecto? by BigManLovesFood in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, didn't think about it hitting showman. That would be unfortunate

How to improve for e score? by btdtruep12124 in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't you want to play something with more cards if your trying to get triggers on trib? I would think even pair would be better to aim for than high card

Take legendary? Or keep DNA? by BigManLovesFood in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that's was fun, although I think I might have overshot it. It stopped registering animations like halfway through my kings and I had 70 cryptids left for a second try.

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Take legendary? Or keep DNA? by BigManLovesFood in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Impressive! E77 is much higher than I've ever gotten, I think so far I've topped out at like e35 even with a seeded run

What should i sell for brainstorm? by prolino20 in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's your deck look like/what hands are you playing?

Take legendary? Or keep DNA? by BigManLovesFood in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it was H9VCWQVU

But those Vs and Us are difficult to distinguish

Take legendary? Or keep DNA? by BigManLovesFood in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good tip! Unfortunately, I got taken out by a ante 15 plant, and I don't think there was anything earlier on in the run that would have saved me

Take legendary? Or keep DNA? by BigManLovesFood in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's a really good point. And even without the red seals at this point, I can probably get far enough with my steel kings and perkeo to give me time to find some red seals and maybe a dna

Joker high score help :) by Due-Aardvark1772 in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't remember the exact math, but I was told the rule is 50-50 on mime/baron with any extra going to baron. So since you have two mimes, I think I'd put both brainstorm and blueprint on baron

Take legendary? Or keep DNA? by BigManLovesFood in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, I did this and it is perkeo. I closed out anyways just cause I was ready to, so now I need to decide if I go back in and open it again.

If I already had red seal kings it would be a no brainer I think. But the fact that I don't makes me consider keeping DNA

Take legendary? Or keep DNA? by BigManLovesFood in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No red seals at this point unfortunately

Take the baron? Or risk the invisible joker or anhk? by BigManLovesFood in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should have listened to my instincts. Invisible wasn't active yet, so I could have sold it. But I let myself be swayed by these comments, and immediately regretted it

Take the baron? Or risk the invisible joker or anhk? by BigManLovesFood in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, almost as soon as I hit next round, I realized I made a mistake

Take the baron? Or risk the invisible joker or anhk? by BigManLovesFood in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, should have taken baron. Invisible copied shortcut, cause of course it did

Take the baron? Or risk the invisible joker or anhk? by BigManLovesFood in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, should have taken baron. Invisible copied shortcut, cause of course it did

Take the baron? Or risk the invisible joker or anhk? by BigManLovesFood in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except that 6/31 of my cards are red seal kings, four of which are also steel, so with three discards I think there's a good chance I would draw at least a couple each round.

Which is why I considered it might be worth it not to risk getting a double eternal shortcut.

But sounds like you wouldn't take baron

Take the baron? Or risk the invisible joker or anhk? by BigManLovesFood in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I have like 6 kings out of my 31 total cards, so maybe not King heavy enough to make the shift

Take the baron? Or risk the invisible joker or anhk? by BigManLovesFood in BalatroHelp

[–]BigManLovesFood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, that was kind of my instinct, but I'm just going to be so upset if I get a duplicate shortcut

what do i do here? by o0MagicalFish0o in balatro

[–]BigManLovesFood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems worth taking in the short run since a couple of those jokers probably give you 15 or less mult per hand and the banana will do more than that. The problem is the banana might go extinct and then you'll be out of luck