If the opponent does collect them, steal if you have the pumpkin before he decides to use them.If the opponent does manage to place it and you have the character that can steal gems from the opponent's field, do it before he can collect them.Again, your opponent is completely helpless against this move. Also useful when the opponent's current piece is an I. Yet another form of strategic attack, and easier to do to boot. If an opponent does get a piece with an orb, immediately use an attack to make it pop off of his screen uncollected.This is also a good way to snag Is, and provided you've starved your opponent of orbs to this point, there's NOTHING they can do about it. If it looks like your opponent is going to place their piece first, and you want the orb, use an attack if you have one to snag it, even if it is level 1.This is good, because you'd never get a single orb if it did. Note that while the CPU is smart enough to attempt to snag, it does not know to go for the pieces with orbs. If you manage to starve the opponent of orbs, you are pretty much guaranteed a win. Because the pieces with orbs come every N pieces (settable in options) it's pretty easy to get in to a rhythm that lets you grab all of the orbs, unless your opponent is also aware of this trick. Try not to let the opponent get any pieces with orbs.The pumpkin guy's 3 orb move, for example, is to steal the opponent's collected orbs.īasic strategy follows, for use against computers and humans. When you have 1 orb, you can usually use a small attack or a defensive move, 2 orbs usually messes with the other person's screen or controls, 4 is a powerful attack, and 3 is something unique and different for each character.

However you also want to let the opponent have the pieces you don't have a spot for, and get the ones you do want. This brings a lot of strategy for the timing of your piece drops because you want to get the ones with orbs, and leave the ones without orbs for the opponent. Whoever places the next piece gets the one at the top. Both players draw from the same 3 piece preview.This tetris game has the following unique features. This page does not have language versions.

Tetris battle gaiden