You're wrong about Chicot

Edit: To everyone who says "ya???? Well you need POINTS to win!!!", of course you do! But all the points in the world won't save you from the perfect boss. Just ask that guy who's never playing again because he lost on ante 12 with the negative bloodstone/S&B ;)

We've all seen the posts. Chicot sucks! Chicot needs a buff! Chicot is the worst legendary by far!

This couldnt be more wrong, and I'm here to tell you why.

First of all, there are two goals in every Balatro game: 1. Beat Ante 8 2. Get as far as you can in endless.

1 is not optional, if you don't achieve it you lose the round and can't even try 2.

Well, how many of your games have you lost on the boss blind compared to the small or big blind? I think it's close to 75% for me below ante 8, and 100% if we're talking about absolutely winning runs. How many times have you run into the face card debuff and lost when you were otherwise totally dominating? I was reading a comment earlier today that said that boss even needs a debuff! And I think this is true of endless as well.

So, basically, Chicot eliminates the biggest risk in the game to not achieving one or both of the only goals we're after. That alone makes it the best utility joker by far.

But it gets better. Because Chicot is always going to work with your run. There is no build that Chicot can't help. Whereas all of the other legendary jokers have some kind of requirement. Yorick requires you to have discards. Trib and Canio require face cards. Perkeo requires you to have a voucher and to have consumables that really help you.

Because of this, Chicot is easily the best negative legendary as it literally helps every single build. And early Chicot is basically a guaranteed cakewalk to Ante 8.

Will it get you to naneinf? No. But that's got nothing to do with how good it is.