I’m trying to crochet something but it requires slip stitch and chain one every round (I’m making a amigurumi) and I have to do it but it leaves a ugly slanted line. Is there anyway to prevent it?
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Maybe try this technique:
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You don’t need to do a join and slst in amigurumi. Actually it’s generally better if you don’t. The only time it starts to matter is if you’re making stripes with color changes, and you want them to line up less visibly.
There are a lot of YouTube tutorials on clean color changes, if that’s what is in the pattern.
But as a general rule of thumb for amigurumi, you just continue the round with a sc into the 1st st of the round again and keep going.
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That technique is more for flat crochet in the round, than amigurumi. 
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Usually when working amigurumi we work in a spiral instead (no slip stitch, chain 1). This eliminates the visible slanted line that you refer to. Have you given this a try?
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It works for both, I’ve used it before when making colour changes (especially amigurumi with stripes). Your previous comment is absolutely right though, it’s preferable to work continuously in the round with amigurumi 
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Or you can skip it and keep going in a spiral. Use stitch markers.
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