Balatro: Every Legendary Joker, Ranked

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Balatro has well over 100 Jokers to find, unlock, and collect. Each Joker is a unique blend of mechanics and interactions that help mould your run into something truly unique every time you boot the game. Whilst rarity doesn’t necessarily translate to power directly, rarer Jokers do tend to have more complex mechanics.

With that in mind, the exceedingly rare Legendary Jokers are some of the strangest Jokers going, with effects that can drastically change the course of a run. Unlocking Legendary Jokers is not the easiest of tasks, but we have a full guide here to help you out. In this guide, however, we will be ranking every Legendary Joker in Balatro.

More Balatro content:

Deck Unlock Guide | Planet Card Guide | Tarot Card Guide | Spectral Card Guide | Legendary Joker Guide | Modifier Guide | Blank Voucher Guide

Yorick is one of the most powerful multiplicative Mult Jokers in the entire game. Granting a flat x5 Mult to every hand is ludicrously powerful for a card that requires no scaling. Unfortunately, Yorick has one massive downside – it does nothing until you discard 23 times.

While this might seem like a minor inconvenience at first glance, in reality, Yorick becomes almost unplayable. At almost every stage in Balatro’s progression arc, Yorick is a potentially game-ending tax. When every Joker slot is valuable to break through each Ante, having a slot dedicated to a Joker that does nothing for 5+ rounds is devastating.

Sadly, Yorick’s activation is so slow that you will likely sell Yorick instead of going through the effort of grinding it out. You can get plenty of other Jokers who scale beyond Yorick, who do something every step of the way. Easily the worst Legendary Joker.

I want to preface this by saying the gap in power between 5th and 4th is canyon-esque. A veritable gulf that should not be underestimated. Where Yorick is straight up a bad card, Triboulet is genuinely fantastic – it just has some major flaws.

Triboulet grants x2 Mult for every King and