Balatro

Balatro

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Completionist++

Completionist++

Earned a Gold Sticker on every Joker

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How to unlock the Completionist++ achievement in Balatro - Definitive Guide

Here's what you need to do for this achievement: to get a Gold Sticker on a Joker, it must be on your team after beating the Ante 8 boss on a Gold Stake run (the hardest difficulty level). Thus, every single one of the 150 Jokers in the game (some of which are quite useless) must be present at the end of one of your wins. Also, the game doesn't seem to register this achievement right away; even after collecting all the stickers, I had to win another Gold Stake run before it triggered.

Just a warning to start with: this is a massive investment of time, and it may ruin your enjoyment of the game. Balatro is balanced around White Stake, not Gold Stake, and I really don't know why the dev forced you to play so much on Gold Stake (which is far more RNG dependent and is much less flexible on Joker configurations) for completion. It's a small blemish on an otherwise wonderful game.

With that said, there's an exploit I found which does help a fair bit with the time investment. I don't know when or if it'll be patched on Xbox (which at time of writing is still stuck at 1.0.0b, which sucks because there are numerous balance patches we're missing). I'll update this solution if it gets patched out. But, for the moment, here it is. I've confirmed that the exploit no longer works. You'll have to earn the Jokers and Gold decks the slow way now. (On the plus side, some balance changes are coming which should make Gold much less annoying.)

Here are a few more tips that will be useful, even when doing Completionist++ the "correct" way:
- Like in most roguelites, you can cheat a little by making "checkpoints" using offline save techniques. If you load a game, go offline, play a little, delete your local save, then go back online and restart the game, you'll recover back to the point you loaded. This can let you preview a seed (particularly helpful to know what Jokers and deals might be coming up), or even fish for new Jokers near the end of a run.
- I mostly used the Checkered deck, but I've heard the Plasma, Ghost, and Abandoned decks are also a lot easier to win Gold Stake runs on. YMMV.
- Cavendish is a Joker that can only spawn after Gros Michel (the banana) destroys itself. Fortunately, Gros Michel is a great early-game Joker anyway, and Cavendish is almost a run winner by itself, so just be sure to buy Gros Michel when you can.
- Madness can coexist with eternal Jokers (and still powers up). Similarly, spectral cards that destroy Jokers will still work but won't destroy your eternals. It's interesting that eternal Jokers, usually a pain, have this minor benefit too.
- The Lucky/Stone/Gold/Steel/Glass Jokers can only spawn if you have cards of that type in your deck. You should use lots of Glass (and some Steel) cards anyway, as they're great at saving runs when you can't quite hit the blind target.
- The Legendaries are a pain. It actually took me 22 Soul cards to finally collect my 5th. If (like me) you get to the end of Completionist++ and are still missing them, the way to farm them is to constantly restart, looking for the "Mega Arcana Pack" skip tag on the first two blinds. Keep doing this until one of them has a Soul card. I was able to get one every 30-60 minutes this way, but it was very boring. I believe that this has been patched, so you're now guaranteed to get a Legendary you need a Gold Sticker for. You probably won't need to farm.
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13 Mar 2024 11:18

10 Comments
Congrats on completing this!
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By Mudlo7581 on 14 Mar 2024 17:42
Wow you really did well with this guide! Thx for the Info and thx for writing back the other day!
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By LizardKingv666 on 17 Mar 2024 14:26
Great explanation. Congrats on your win, and thank you for sharing your strategy with everyone.
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By Lamar Romney on 13 Mar 2024 16:30
Unfortunately, its now patched bummer
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By ZZouZZ Ben on 04 Apr 2024 01:29
The shop "glitch" is patched by the way.
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By Maka91 on 17 Apr 2024 22:50
With the newest 1.01 update, the best way to grind for this is Gold Stake on Anaglyph Deck, stock up on double tags, and from Ante 5 or later, grab a negative tag for easy and free 5-8+ negative jokers added. Carry them to the end and win.
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By Maka91 on 01 Jun 2024 04:31
I made a google sheets to keep track of the jokers I have completed. If anyone wants it you can copy it from this link. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A8wx3NjTMCA5PinG2uOg...
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By HMM265 on 18 Jun 2024 08:59
I found ghost deck to be the easiest since you are guaranteed a polychrome joker. It makes a lot of the jokers that do not add chips or mult easier to work into your run.

After I got my last gold sticker I had to play through another run to Ante 8 for the achievement to pop. I played the run on red stake for it to pop so it seems that you do not have to win another gold run after getting all the stickers.
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By CoolGator2018 on 22 Jun 2024 21:06
Tried a lot of different strategies, but for the final 50, I found Checkered Deck the easiest, and targeted investment tag skip at the first or second blind. Found it's very possible to win with only 2-3 scoring jokers, getting the rest of your points from planet and tarot cards. Leaves you the opportunity to grab 3+ useless jokers to grab gold stickers on if you're lucky enough to get a negative or ectoplasm. Use Wheel of Fortune to get "useless" jokers to have some value. It also takes the brain power aspect away as playing flush is pretty mindless and you can quickly figure out if the run if worth continuing or restarting early. Boss blinds also offer little challenge more often than for other decks in my experience.
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By Maka91 on 30 Jul 2024 07:35
Just finished this yesterday, personally I thought the deck that gives double tags after each boss was the best for this. Doubling up negative tags can let you get a bunch of random jokers done in one run and on runs where you don’t see the negative tag using the double tags to get a bunch of money is an insane power spike that can pretty easily carry you to victory. I originally planned to just use this one until I got to 25 or so left but it was working so well that I just rode it out to the finish.

Obviously there’s a lot of personal preference for deck choice, just thought I would share what worked for me.
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By Narsil46 on 20 Aug 2024 04:18
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Here's what you need to do for this achievement: to get a Gold Sticker on a Joker, it must be on your team after beating the Ante 8 boss on a Gold Stake run (the hardest difficulty level). Thus, every single one of the 150 Jokers in the game (some of which are quite useless) must be present at the end of one of your wins. Also, the game doesn't seem to register this achievement right away; even after collecting all the stickers, I had to win another Gold Stake run before it triggered.

Just a warning to start with: this is a massive investment of time, and it may ruin your enjoyment of the game. Balatro is balanced around White Stake, not Gold Stake, and I really don't know why the dev forced you to play so much on Gold Stake (which is far more RNG dependent and is much less flexible on Joker configurations) for completion. It's a small blemish on an otherwise wonderful game.

With that said, there's an exploit I found which does help a fair bit with the time investment. I don't know when or if it'll be patched on Xbox (which at time of writing is still stuck at 1.0.0b, which sucks because there are numerous balance patches we're missing). I'll update this solution if it gets patched out. But, for the moment, here it is. I've confirmed that the exploit no longer works. You'll have to earn the Jokers and Gold decks the slow way now. (On the plus side, some balance changes are coming which should make Gold much less annoying.)

Here are a few more tips that will be useful, even when doing Completionist++ the "correct" way:
- Like in most roguelites, you can cheat a little by making "checkpoints" using offline save techniques. If you load a game, go offline, play a little, delete your local save, then go back online and restart the game, you'll recover back to the point you loaded. This can let you preview a seed (particularly helpful to know what Jokers and deals might be coming up), or even fish for new Jokers near the end of a run.
- I mostly used the Checkered deck, but I've heard the Plasma, Ghost, and Abandoned decks are also a lot easier to win Gold Stake runs on. YMMV.
- Cavendish is a Joker that can only spawn after Gros Michel (the banana) destroys itself. Fortunately, Gros Michel is a great early-game Joker anyway, and Cavendish is almost a run winner by itself, so just be sure to buy Gros Michel when you can.
- Madness can coexist with eternal Jokers (and still powers up). Similarly, spectral cards that destroy Jokers will still work but won't destroy your eternals. It's interesting that eternal Jokers, usually a pain, have this minor benefit too.
- The Lucky/Stone/Gold/Steel/Glass Jokers can only spawn if you have cards of that type in your deck. You should use lots of Glass (and some Steel) cards anyway, as they're great at saving runs when you can't quite hit the blind target.
- The Legendaries are a pain. It actually took me 22 Soul cards to finally collect my 5th. If (like me) you get to the end of Completionist++ and are still missing them, the way to farm them is to constantly restart, looking for the "Mega Arcana Pack" skip tag on the first two blinds. Keep doing this until one of them has a Soul card. I was able to get one every 30-60 minutes this way, but it was very boring. I believe that this has been patched, so you're now guaranteed to get a Legendary you need a Gold Sticker for. You probably won't need to farm.
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13 Mar 2024 11:18

8 Comments
Great explanation. Congrats on your win, and thank you for sharing your strategy with everyone.
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By Lamar Romney on 13 Mar 2024 16:30
Congrats on completing this!
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By Mudlo7581 on 14 Mar 2024 17:42
Wow you really did well with this guide! Thx for the Info and thx for writing back the other day!
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By LizardKingv666 on 17 Mar 2024 14:26
Unfortunately, its now patched bummer
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By ZZouZZ Ben on 04 Apr 2024 01:29
The shop "glitch" is patched by the way.
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By Maka91 on 17 Apr 2024 22:50
With the newest 1.01 update, the best way to grind for this is Gold Stake on Anaglyph Deck, stock up on double tags, and from Ante 5 or later, grab a negative tag for easy and free 5-8+ negative jokers added. Carry them to the end and win.
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By Maka91 on 01 Jun 2024 04:31
I made a google sheets to keep track of the jokers I have completed. If anyone wants it you can copy it from this link. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A8wx3NjTMCA5PinG2uOg...
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By HMM265 on 18 Jun 2024 08:59
I found ghost deck to be the easiest since you are guaranteed a polychrome joker. It makes a lot of the jokers that do not add chips or mult easier to work into your run.

After I got my last gold sticker I had to play through another run to Ante 8 for the achievement to pop. I played the run on red stake for it to pop so it seems that you do not have to win another gold run after getting all the stickers.
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By CoolGator2018 on 22 Jun 2024 21:06
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To knock out this trophy, of course, you need to choose a deck in which after the boss blind a token for duplication is given, they need to be saved until a token for a negative joker comes across, thus in one passage you can earn a gold sticker for more jokers
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09 Aug 2024 02:10