Balatro: All Legendary Jokers Ranked

The Jokers are the most powerful cards in Balatro. It’s tough to imagine progressing through Antes without powerful jokers in your game.

Whether trying to set up early runs or late-game boss blinds, you need solid Jokers in your inventory. There’s no shortage of Jokers in Balatro; they come in unique rarities and host unique bonuses for playing cards.

Among these Jokers are the legendary ones that can be obtained via the Soul Spectral card in the game. Once used, you’ll get one of five Legendary Jokers in the game.

Let’s review 5 Legendary Jokers in Balatro and see which ones are easier and more consistent to score.

5 Chicot

Avoid Trouble

Effect
Disables effect of every Boss Blind

Some Boss Blinds can be a pain, but most are doable. Most of the games you’ll play will have doable Boss Blinds, and if you’re building the deck with a strategy in mind, you’ll be able to smack those Boss challenges.

However, if you’re not targeting a high record run, Chicot is a good choice to complete most deck-specific challenges.

Chicot is the go-to option if you’re looking for an easy run where you don’t want to run into any Boss Blinds whatsoever.

You can look at the Boss Blind challenge in the Run Info menu

4 Perkeo

To The Planets

Effect
Creates a Negative copy of 1 random consumable card in your possession at the end of the shop

If you’ve redeemed the Observatory voucher, you will see mad numbers on the screen, giving you 1.5X Mult for Planet cards in your consumables slot for their respective hand. That’s how powerful this card is.

Unlike other Jokers, which focus more on the playing card in your deck, Perkeo allows you to stick to a more versatile playstyle. Your primary focus with it should be consumables, so use them to funnel more effects into your deck.

If you’re lucky with RNG, Perkeo can be used with a consumable card to strengthen your deck. You can focus on a tarot card; its effect will sprinkle into your deck after every shop. It’s far better than Chicot, in my opinion.

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3 Canio

Say Bye To Face Cards

Effect
The Joker gains X1 Mult when a face card is destroyed (starts at X1 Mult)

Chicot has no inherent multiplicative effect, Perkeo can still be used in setups where you can hit multipliers. But you know, what’s better? Jokers have multiple core effects.

Starting with the first Legendary pick is Canio, which boosts your Multiplier by one every time you destroy a face card. Now, you necessarily don’t need to destroy every face card you see.

You can use the Pareidolia Joker (a Joker that treats all playing cards as face cards) in conjunction with Canio to enhance the Multiplier. Mix that in with the Hanged Man and the Fool Tarot cards to thin the deck and further boost the Multiplier.

It’s not that tough to pull off, and you can easily see a good Multiplier with just a few good Arcana packs and other Joker effects.

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2 Yorick

Passive Effect Compounds

Effect
The Joker gains X1 Mult for every 23 cards discarded (starts at X1 Mult)

Yorick is a far safer and more consistent bet than Canio, which usually requires you to destroy cards in the deck.

I haven’t seen strategies where you don’t discard cards, and if you’re discarding cards, you might as well have some extra effects. Yorick satisfies that requirement.

As you progress through Antes and discard cards, you gain extra Multiplier alongside all other effects you have from other Jokers.

Yorick is a solid choice for an average Joe who’s not into nitty-gritty setups and is trying out the game for a few hours.

1 Triboulet

Exponential Runs, Here I Come

Effect
Played Kings and Queens each gives X2 Mult when scored

Many seals, Jokers, and Tarot cards help you enhance the playing cards in your deck. Among all the Legendary Jokers, I believe Triboulet is the one you can use to go for record runs.

You can retrigger face cards with Red Seals in conjunction with Jokers like Hanging Chat or Sockin and Bussin to funnel more Multiplier into the total with Triboulet.

Unlike other Multiplicative Legendary Jokers that require you to make significant changes to your deck, Triboulet poses no such restrictions.

That freedom makes it the best legendary Joker, especially if you are chasing records.