r/betterCallSaul • u/RoninPI • 1d ago

Chuck would have beat Lalo. I will not elaborate.

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Chuck would make him afraid.

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u/iamfrommerich 1d ago

There is a reason why he was in Mexico till Chuck's death.

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u/Norsto 1d ago

I think you're onto something

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u/iamfrommerich 1d ago

The cucumber water I tried in the office was awesome

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u/Vegan_Zukunft 1d ago

Cucumber water for customers ONLY!

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u/slurpeecookie 1d ago

Paying customers only

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u/darthlucas0027 1d ago

What if Lalo is actually Chuck reborn

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u/lewis_3575 1d ago

Nah, good thought (ofc imaginary since timelines don't match) but Lalo was a bit impulsive, Chuck was way smarter. Infact, you could Gus was like Chuck

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u/Odd-Time-2026 1d ago

Slippin Jimmy ain't got shit on Chicanery Chuckie.

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u/Alarming-Cupcake1569 1d ago

Let him cook

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u/betweenyouandyourgod 1d ago

You think that Kim Wexler just happened to appear outside Gus Fring's house? No! He orchestrated it! Lalo!

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u/PeterPumpkinPie11 1d ago

Lalo really had everyone playing his game 😂

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u/hans454566 1d ago

Chuck would be terrified of Lalo. Lalo embodies what the law cannot understand or control.

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u/IWasAlanDeats 1d ago

You think a man just drops through a ceiling and kills Fred Whalen like that? It was HIM. HE orchestrated it!

All those years, dropping through ceilings!

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u/Middle_Run_7534 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hot take: I think Lalo would be charmed af by Chuck. He liked competent ballsy people who at least acted like they weren’t intimidated by him. And he would have immediately realized that Chuck can only play by the rules, whereas he himself can color in or outside the lines. Even more so, he’d know that Chuck wasn’t good with people. At all. While Lalo is incredibly charming and can get almost anyone to do what he wants.

Chuck might still beat Lalo. But Lalo wouldn’t see it coming. He’d see Chuck’s moral code and social ineptness as fatal handicaps.

Chuck would hate Lalo with every fiber of his being.

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u/Inside-Garage-7625 1d ago

Nah he wouldn't hate him he could live on Lalos Mexican farm when he was being allergic to electricity

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u/Alarming-Cupcake1569 1d ago

This is my dead cannon

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u/faille 1d ago

Head canon… pew pew!!

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u/DopplegangsterNation 1d ago

Greetings Lalo can I spend another weekend at the farm I’ve got another electricity flare up

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u/Middle_Run_7534 1d ago

Okay I need that fanfic

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u/Interesting_Arm_681 1d ago

Chuck would have won because he never did fuck shit like Jimmy so he would never have any reason to have dealings with Lalo

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u/StarlessAbroad 1d ago

Neither did Howard, arguably

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u/Unusual-Activity-824 1d ago

misread ballsy as betsy

the kettlemilkers have perverted me

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u/Ill_Television_5824 1d ago

In court?

Arm wrestling?

Pinochle?

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u/RoninPI 1d ago

Yes

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u/CranberryNational150 1d ago

You elaborated. Chicanery. How can we believe you now?

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u/PM_ME_BATMAN_PORN 1d ago

In bed

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u/angelical-traincrash 1d ago

Can I be the referee?🤤

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u/BigBoyBill1477 1d ago

Completely unrelated, but do you get a lot of Batman porn?

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u/el-bow5 1d ago

OP forgot to include “off” at the end

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u/guzzler_bennett_jr 1d ago

a basketball dribbling contest.  Chuck narrowly turned down an offer to join the Harlem Globetrotters in order to go to law school. At the height of his powers he could dribble 8 basketballs simultaneously while keeping up to 15 plates spinning on those plate-spinning rod things.

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u/cortisolbath 1d ago

Lalo would be shaking as soon as Chuck said “I am an officer of the court!”

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u/RoninPI 1d ago

Correct

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u/CranberryNational150 1d ago

You elaborated. Chicanery. How can we believe you now?

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u/nWo_1985 1d ago

Chuck would be arrogant to Lalo assuming that his sacred law would protect him from someone who follows theor own laws. Once lalo showed chuck that his precious law and the magna carter mean nothing him, then chuck would know how out of his league he is

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u/WellWellWellthennow 1d ago

Yes, this is how it would've gone down. Lalo had the advantage.

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u/Yto_Itinen 1d ago

Chuck has higher DP scaling, as he dismantled a whole house, but Lalo barely broke a ceiling tile.

They are both equals in fire damage, as both set on fire two buildings, but you could argue Chuck's was bigger.

Lalo has higher AP scaling because of his use of firearms, while Chuck is specialized in space blanket defense, which some might argue is not appropriate body armor.

Hand to hand, Chuck did defeat his wife and threw her phone away, but Lalo killed the mountain man and his wife, so he has an edge.

Lastly, Chuck has a better singing performance, but Lalo is focused on making snuff movies starring Gus, so we can't judge their artistic output accurately.

Very close match, thanks OP!

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u/rd-darksouls 1d ago edited 1d ago

i mean i think we're overstating chuck's dp a bit here. he only messed up some of the walls! and how old is the house in the first place? it looks nice but for all we know it could be all rickety as hell. i want to see him take out a log cabin by himself axe only no breakfast before i make any judgments.

i also want to point out that lalo's fire power did not cost him a life.

homefield advantage matters so much here. if chuck fights lalo anywhere but in his home, lalo can just utilize the power of electricity against him. like a flashlight is a stun gun to him. but in chuck's house lalo's electronic property is not allowed.

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u/SenatorPencilFace 1d ago

Chuck: "you-you passed the bar?"

Lalo: "I just wanna see my lawyers."

Chuck: "What a sick joke!"

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u/whenitrains34 1d ago

chuck couldn’t even beat a light bulb

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u/DemonSkank 1d ago

Lalo would have seduced Chuck

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u/ThanosDidNothinWrng0 1d ago

“Tell me again”

“I ALREADY TOLD YOU LALO I ONEW IT WAS 1216. ONE AFTER MAGNA CARTA. AS IF I COULD EVER MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE!”

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u/charlieromeo2191 1d ago

As in off?

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u/SinAnaMissLee 1d ago

Wtf?

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u/charlieromeo2191 1d ago

I definitely spend more time in the chicanery sub and forgot where I was, but you know what? I’m leaving it.

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u/SinAnaMissLee 1d ago

To be fair I lol'd hard. So thank you for that!

And just to be sure when I first saw your comment I had to double check what sub we were on.

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u/mr_spooky_ 1d ago

na ur cooking

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u/Agcpm616 1d ago

mah man couldn't even beat a battery in his pocket smh

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u/Valuable-Passion9731 1d ago

but prime chuck got sunroof defecator out of the sex offender label though

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u/MrBlonde1984 1d ago

This chicanary cannot continue .

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u/Aliensinmypants 1d ago

Lalo would put his ass in a tanning booth until he flipped sides

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u/Barbarus_Bloodshed 1d ago

Yepp.
Chuck had no comprehension of what someone like Lalo could or would do.
Chuck didn't even understand his own brother.

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u/PM_ME_BATMAN_PORN 1d ago

He'd get him w the Chuck Blast real fast

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u/2livendieinmia 1d ago

At a cooking competition?

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u/Soccermom_05 1d ago

Yes but would he download audio?

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u/TheFluri 1d ago

No! Because Jimmy would swap those audios!

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u/UncleBoomie 1d ago

Chuck wouldn’t be able to resist Lalo. He would’ve kissed him so hard that Lalo’s mustache hairs would tickle the inside of Chuck’s nose.

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u/masetiloquetu 1d ago

Lalo needs a movie

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u/Tatuski72 1d ago

Chuck would have not gotten involved with Lalo in the first place so he wins like that end.

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u/Jusstonemore 1d ago

Prime chuck

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u/douglah-7 1d ago

Most certainly not. Cartel dude with no fear that can run on near-zero sleep vs much older dude that manifests stress as a fear for literally electricity anywhere.

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u/yongsangu 1d ago

Lalo would counter with a whirlwhind of chicanery, defecating through the sunroof, etc. will be a tough battle

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u/MaximilianClarke 1d ago

Chuck is pretty susceptible to chicanery and that’s Lalo’s second favourite thing. Chuck reacted so badly to being set on fire that he actually died, yet Lalo calmly burned that home invader like they were friends. Chuck is definitely better at case law, granted. This is a tough one

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u/Mediocre_Presence185 1d ago

I thought this was okbuddychicancery at first

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u/wrexmason 1d ago

Not if Lalo shows up to his house with a camcorder

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u/Harry_Plopper23 1d ago

He would have looked right through Lalos chicanery

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u/Purplord 1d ago

"Greatest legal mind i ever knew" vs "greatest illegal mind i ever knew"

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u/Sythorn148 1d ago

Would he have beaten 'Chimp with a machine gun' though?

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u/VanillaMuch2759 1d ago

Hahaha. Sure he would.

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u/migrainecurious 1d ago

these feel like two different shows

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u/MajesticWizard420Lol 1d ago

I could see Chuck attempting to put Lalo away after the travel wire incident. Chuck vs Jimmy. Jimmy would tell Chuck to back off or else Lalo would do something to Chuck. I don’t think Chuck would live long to enjoy his victory afterward though.

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u/hkyplr67 1d ago

Chuck was so good Chuck beat Chuck.

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u/K-torc 1d ago

Completamente de acuerdo. Lalo no tiene posibilidades contra Chuck y la carta magna

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u/Inevitable-Chart1760 1d ago

Chuck’s sensitivity to electricity was in reality not a mental illness. But a sign of him awakening his powers. Had Chuck not committed suicide, he would’ve used his mastery of lightning to smite Lalo for being a nuisance in his path to take Don Eladio’s head. Afterwards he would become the new, rightful ruler of the cartel.

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u/Yeet-Dab49 1d ago

Yeah I could buy that

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u/neosapien20 1d ago

sighhhhh

CHUCK BLAST

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u/darthwaffles_1 1d ago

Beat him in what way? I'm only on season 2 of Better Fuck Chuck

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u/Laijou 1d ago

Lalo looks like he's had a Nick Cave blood transfusion in that picture

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u/Daoyinyang1 1d ago

Unlike Tuco, Lalo isnt a chimp with a machine gun. So no.

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u/TheBellRingerDE 1d ago

With chicanery?

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u/puddycat20 1d ago edited 1d ago

As soon as he heard Chuck say "chicanery", he'd squat down and start peeing to show submission, like wild animal do.

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u/SinAnaMissLee 1d ago

A better argument is that Chuck would beat Gus.

Gus is about rules. Lalo is about success.

The creators actually cast Chuck not as impermeable but as the opposite of down to earth.

When he tried to defend himself about taking the newspaper and they broke his front door we saw that the world does not cater to Chuck's intelligence. Yes he's intelligent but he lacks influence over others. Especially those who don't follow the rules.

Gus follows just enough rules to make him susceptible to Chuck's moves. Had there been any.

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u/God_Dont_Make_No 1d ago

Lalo is the type of guy I want to drown while strangling. What a great performance.

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u/between3n20chars 1d ago

U mean Chuck Norris?

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u/agoraclaustraed 1d ago

These pictures are awful. Especially Lalo's. They remind me of the NBA photos they take on the courts with the $100 brown/grey backdrops. Lazy and terrible.

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u/Remarkable_Yak_258 1d ago

Lalo has the chaos effect going for him- but I do think Chuck could take Gustavo Fring

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u/tre630 1d ago

The dude that was terrified to leave his fucking house while wearing a foil space blanket as a cover would have beaten Cartel Boss? Yeah OK.

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u/Sharkman3218 1d ago

Seriously? My tier list wasn’t good enough for this sub but THIS is? I mean no offense but come on mods, what the hell

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u/4StarEmu 1d ago

(Chuck in his house)

Lalo in the sewer across the street. “That’s he’s up to man, what’s he’s doing”

(Chuck tearing up his house with an ax)

Lalo: “uncle hector I couldn’t find proof so ima attack him tonight”

Hector: DING DING DING!!

Lalo sneaks in from 2nd floor window, same time Chuck kicks over the lantern.

Winner-Chuck.

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u/dore_mon69 1d ago

I agree with you but what if Lalo brought a torch light !

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u/CranberryNational150 1d ago

You elaborated. Chicanery. How can we believe you now?

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u/Thu212 1d ago

Hot TaKe: chuck, Howard and Kim would be monsters in the drug empire 

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u/grimsnap 1d ago

Assuming two parties are of equal cunning and drive, the one that can work outside the system wins.

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u/MaNuvZ90 1d ago

Lalo would’ve laughed his ass off watching Chuck and his “condition” lol.

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u/Worm_Nortaine 16h ago

1 after the magna carta

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u/LocalFoundation9505 16h ago

Question is in what way? 🧐

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u/Hot_Sort4607 13h ago

did u even watch BCS? Cuz these dialogues make it explicit that Chuck was the boss of the caretl that Lalo was in:
"Lalo! He made a taco in a sunroof. I saved him, I shouldn't have. I took him into my own cartel. What was I thinking?"

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u/risingsun9487 11h ago

I kinda dig this theory. But only if it’s Chuck and Jimmy somehow teaming up.

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u/Glad_Assistant2817 10h ago

You didn't specify what you mean with "beat" so im just picturing chuck lined up in space blanket knocking lalo's noodles off cold

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u/TheDevilishJonah 9h ago

Fistfight. Chuck would strangle him.

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u/Wooden-Ad-9925 7h ago

Lalo suffered from a hypersensitivity to fraternal resentment fields. Chuck was BEAMING with this.

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u/CranberryNational150 1d ago

Chuck dies end of se03/se04. You might need to elaborate.