Photochad is a tyrant that straight up bullies the other jokers.

[Andromeda]

I consistently kill every other interesting Joker in this game for Photochad, and honestly it's starting to feel a little sickening.
I'm just annoyed that xmults that are applied when scoring are genuinely the only form of scoring in this game that matters for endless play. Like it's actually crazy to me that somehow a card like Throwback can be almost irrelevant in comparison to xmults that are applied many times. If there was some kind of way to scale up the number of times a card scores, that would be something interesting. Like Hanging Chad, but scalable. It's like that one card, mime, and maybe a couple others are secretly standing at the doorway of an entire new scale of scoring that basically is an xmultxmult. In that sense how are they not just obviously the strongest in the game, yk?
I guess ultimately Balatro isn't a game that's hard to "solve," but I'd love to see a take on this genre that keeps things fresh.

[ulzgoroth]

Balatro Ante 8 is a much better game than Balatro Endless.

Endless is an interesting gimmick, but it's not calibrated to be beatable (even though it technically sort of is) or make good use of most of the game's elements.

[AnonTwo]

Really? I usually kill photochad for mime build

Not really much better but still

and yeah as Ulz said, up to Ante 8 is a lot more interesting. builds like photochad usually take too long to wind up so they aren't as good in the first 8 ante's (still good, don't get me wrong)

[RazzberryMocha]

On higher stakes the investment needed to make photochad strong is enough to make you consider other options, although it is still incredibly good. It's for this same reason that Yorick, although scoring considerably less, is considered better than Triboulet for ante 8 gold stake runs.