yea true that! i'm aware of this strategy, i always switched out to random for few sec if i see some fireworks with 10 garbage are sent to me! that's crazy
The game lets you target people in different ways. Having it set to KO will go after the players that are the closest to dying. Having it set to attackers will send a line each line you clear to those that target you. Building up your blocks to the point of you being the closest to die will get you targeted by a bunch of people wanting to score kills early. Combining that with attacking attackers will let you send a bunch of blocks to all the people attacking you. I have never played the game so I'm not entirely sure that this is how it works. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
I believe you also get a junk multiplier depending on how many people are targeting you to make it fairer to the person getting sniped by all 98 other contestants at the start of the game, lol. Meaning, anyone foolish enough to attack him in this defensive HELL will get a straight-up deluge of junk. You're right though, a normal Tetris player would take a long time to be as fast as Tafo, so I'd suggest going a couple lines lower than his towers are until you're very confident.
He's intentionally setting up his blocks really high so he can bait people who are targeting easy KOs, then switching his target mode to his attackers and blasting them with garbage.
@@warriorcatsofmysteryclan2240 A.k.a., baiting, because people think he'll die quick and thus take the bait. I also wonder if he sends more lines stacking so close to the top.
Tetris 99 was / is my first ever Tetris game, so the first 50 matches or so were pretty rough...but lately I've been adopting variations of this bait-and-wait strategy and assuming I don't repeatedly misdrop blocks everywhere, I've been regularly placing 10th-20th with a fairly sizable handful of top 5s. Haven't gotten a win yet (three 2nd places...) but I've been having a lot of fun with this!
Honestly wish they'd try ranked match making and instead of levels have your average win/loss/rank ratio match you with others because I just want to play Tetris with a new spin, not swim in a sea of sweat the likes of which I have never seen.
This is just a risk and reward tactic. Personally I don't think its broken, but it definitely is ballsy and you definitely have the guts to do it. It plays on people's greed; people want to get quick/easy KOs and I've noticed that in so many multiplayer games.
it seems relatively safe considering blocks drop very slowly in the early game and if enough people target you clearing a single line is enough to get rid of anything they throw at you
You obviously can't make mistakes, but when you send out that much stuff at once it seems impossible for other people's garbage to matter. I guarantee those people targeting him were sending garbage, but it was all getting cleared and sent back at them.
I just recently got into Tetris 99 and I'm simultaneously intimidated and intrigued. Your videos have helped me get better, but I have such a way to go.
I dropped 27 the other day doing this. They need to buff KO mode or something, this shit is quite broken. Or the new meta is just gonna be "never use KO mode".
The meta should be (don't use KO mode when you could get baited) Obviously at top 10, there isn't enough people to make gaming KO mode players worth it, so trying to kill someone weak with it pretty good. Edit: actually, just switch attackers as soon as you get sent 10 or so lines at once, regardless of mode, you have targeted someone who is already being massively targeted, and fighting back, and you don't want to fight anyone so empowered.
There's no reason to be in KO mode if you're not ready to send garbage. I think that's the mistake that a lot of players are making, either switching to KO too early or staying in it after they've emptied their board.
I've done similar before. I usually build a 1-wide well on the right, stack up until I get into "danger" so that people on KOs targetting will go after me, then I start clearing tetrises. It never occurred to me that I could clear non-tetrises, though.
You can try to abuse the attacker bonus to target people with like 15 lines at once. A moment before clearing a line just switch to KOs and then switch back so you don't get the possible retaliation from the KOs
The "weird glitch" happens because of the pieces rotation design. When the green S and the red Z are blocked under their upper ledge (not sure if that's a good way to describe it), you can't rotate them in that direction. I also get tricked by it now and then and it feels like a glitch although it's always been part of Tetris.
I've gotten second place a number of times by doing the opposite, never ko anyone so no one targets you for badges and you go under the radar until you get your ass kicked in the end
I don't think the "glitch" you mention at 3:15 is actually a glitch, but rather because you're using a Pro controller. I kept thinking something was wrong with the game (lag?) early on when it happened to me, but after switching to Joycons instead it never happened to me anymore. It sounds like the D-Pad on the Pro controller will sometimes register an extra input by accident hard-dropping the next piece when you didn't intend to.
Have you tried using the double switch slide on controllers instead of the pro controller? I find I misinput a lot less because each of the move buttons are separate. When I started playing tetris I would constantly misinput hard drops on the pro controller to the point where it was unplayable for me.
When your auto target is set to Attackers, the more players that are attacking, the more lines of garbage you send. A lot of players set their auto target to KO early in the game to build up their KOs/badges because KO targets players that are in the danger zone (flashing red). By intentionally building up your stack to the danger zone early, you can get all those players set to KO to target you, which, if you set your target to Attackers, lets you send a ton of garbage quickly (for example, Tafo sent 9 lines of garbage at 1:07 with just a non-combo single line clear!) to all the targeting players.
As you clear lines, is the number in the center of your screen how many lines youre sending? If so is that overall or to each individual person youre sending them to??
how are you rarely miss dropping with a pro controller? whenever I've used one the d-pad would occasionally press up or down when pressing left or right
Did this without really thinking about it the other day. Out of the 12 KOs that happened for positions 13th to 24th, I got 10 of them, but unfortunately 1 of the other 2 was myself. It was a constant badge stream.
is kill credit given to who most recently sent garbage, regardless of if the garbage lines had actually been put on the board, or is credit given to the player whose garbage lines were the last to be put on the board?
Haven't played Tetris 99 but I've watched a bit. Tafo is abusing new players using KO mode. Using this method his board is always 85%-90% full. Using a 4-wide, even when it's maxed out his board is only about 60% full. I'm guessing the way KO mode works is that it targets who's board is most full. With a maxed out 4-wide only giving about 60% people targeting him with KO mode would happen a lot less often.
@@musicbox7601 In the end, it comes down to what is counted as a dangerous board. Either it is % based as you say, or maybe it is based on how much space you have in the center rows. If someone that plays the game a lot could clear that up, it would be appreciated! But if not, I will check on the weekend.
I wanna see wumbo do this. I think it also would've been a good idea to go 3 or 4 wide to build up, then do singles up top. And combo your way down when people stop targeting you.
"We're just going to try and killsteal as much as we can." Ever thought you would hear that phrase on a tetris game?
I do that in Overwatch Deathmatch and Survival Heroes, didn't think it would be that way with Tetris, but it is a Battle Royal, so...
Right As I read this he said it
Alejandro Novielli Thought?
This tetris is an abomination.
*thought, and no, never.
No one even switched off of him. They all just died.
smesh doggo exactly lmao who targets someone
Immediately gets 10 lines cuz he cleared one
Then doesn’t swap away
1:22 - Right Board, 2nd Row, 6th Column
yea true that! i'm aware of this strategy, i always switched out to random for few sec if i see some fireworks with 10 garbage are sent to me! that's crazy
People on Badge trying to steal all his badges so they can get the multiplier for themselves
Probably thought it was from someone different, I don't know.
"why is" *KO* "no one" *KO* "close to death?" *KO*
Because they are already dead
@@thegenerate3730 damn dude you have an incredible sense of comedy! I wish I was as sophisticated as you so I could say r/wooosh for no reason!
Wyvernn ;~;
r/ihavereddit
Timestamp?
“Noone’s near death”
*Gets 3 kills in 10 secs*
In those few seconds he already made them near death
The bait strat literally works every single time for me. I guess people are just unaware as to why they are being sent 20 lines out of nowhere
I mean, if you get sent 20 lines out of nowhere, you’re probably going to get KO’d unless you have a full board ready to dish that back out.
smesh doggo yeah, as soon as I switch targets and then the red line goes up I’m like “nope” and switch back lol
just watch failboat's video "Tetris 99 but help me"
@@SodiumOverdose
hi sodium
"Unbelievable broken strat"
Me: doesn't understand a single thing done in this video
The game lets you target people in different ways. Having it set to KO will go after the players that are the closest to dying. Having it set to attackers will send a line each line you clear to those that target you. Building up your blocks to the point of you being the closest to die will get you targeted by a bunch of people wanting to score kills early. Combining that with attacking attackers will let you send a bunch of blocks to all the people attacking you.
I have never played the game so I'm not entirely sure that this is how it works. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
@@benjaminolsson2162 Thanks for the explanations :) he's still too fast x)
I believe you also get a junk multiplier depending on how many people are targeting you to make it fairer to the person getting sniped by all 98 other contestants at the start of the game, lol.
Meaning, anyone foolish enough to attack him in this defensive HELL will get a straight-up deluge of junk.
You're right though, a normal Tetris player would take a long time to be as fast as Tafo, so I'd suggest going a couple lines lower than his towers are until you're very confident.
He's intentionally setting up his blocks really high so he can bait people who are targeting easy KOs, then switching his target mode to his attackers and blasting them with garbage.
@@warriorcatsofmysteryclan2240
A.k.a., baiting, because people think he'll die quick and thus take the bait.
I also wonder if he sends more lines stacking so close to the top.
Is the unbelievable broken strat being really good at tetris
It's keeping his stack high so more people target him, and he targets attackers to send lines to as many people as he can.
Lol yeah pretty much. You have to be pretty good to do this strategy
THE ENDING LOL "I got 30 KOs hunny!" Sweet precious Tafo
w H a ?
a fabricated Rorschach situation... he's got it all, folks
TheMadman2045 what a Wyatt, come on man
Undercover Wyatt acting like a true opportunist baiting all the Susans into the Rorschach web.
This man's so overclocked he doesn't even need to go radio silence
this thread right here, this is the perfect thread.
At the end he really went full opportunist though
That's the evilest thing I've seen on youtube.
Maybe you just haven't watched videos about EA.
Lol love the profile pic
My man NL invented the Rorschach
Filthy Wyatts stealing our egg's strategies.
Oh my god this comment. Also when did the Wyatt thing get introduced
@@Hab2320 It tells you in the game tutorial.
Rotmg player wow
@@blaiden6 xd
@@Hab2320 First or second episode of NL playing Tetris 99
Tetris 99 was / is my first ever Tetris game, so the first 50 matches or so were pretty rough...but lately I've been adopting variations of this bait-and-wait strategy and assuming I don't repeatedly misdrop blocks everywhere, I've been regularly placing 10th-20th with a fairly sizable handful of top 5s. Haven't gotten a win yet (three 2nd places...) but I've been having a lot of fun with this!
Nathan Heath cool thing about Tetris 99 (for newer players esp) is stuff like this where there’s playing the game and then there’s _playing the game_
Same here, mate. I still have to try this but this game revived my love for Tetris again. I even clean the dust of my Tetris DS to play on the go.
I've played almost 300 games and only won 2 haha..
I’m in the same boat. Only problem I’m having is that as soon as I get into a groove and feel like I’m figuring the game out I get dumped on.
My personal best third place but I got wrecked by both other players clearing their boards at the same time while attacking me. Rip
Am I the only one then that switches who im attacking when im getting sent 15+ lines all of a sudden?
Yes, ppl don't know how to play the game yet so it's free candy for us master baiters
Lmao
That can be because you'll switch onto someone who has multiple attackers so they're trash will be boosted
And then the person you switch to sends 15 more lines and then you switch again. Then that dude sends another 12 and then you die.
it's because there's no tutorial at all, which is a bad move by the devs
Honestly wish they'd try ranked match making and instead of levels have your average win/loss/rank ratio match you with others because I just want to play Tetris with a new spin, not swim in a sea of sweat the likes of which I have never seen.
get good
@@nile2128 *gEt GoOd*
"I don't want to get better, I want everyone else to be worse"
Puyo Puyo Tetris is pretty decent at ranking you with similar skill level, sadly its like £35
@Eoin Doyle More like "I have a job, a life, and other interests outside of Tetris."
*Gets 30 KOs*
"I'm playing this as poorly as I possibly can"
Dude. Come on.
Tax fraud? In *my* Tetris?
It's more likely than you think.
I saw a comment a few weeks ago saying that they were hearing "gayhole" and i simply cannot unhear it now
Gayhole
Gay o
What? Ahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahjahaha now i hear it
Frick, now I hear it
Bruh
- There is no one near death...
-"K.O."
"This is a pretty good game so far"
Wumbo enters chat
This is just a risk and reward tactic. Personally I don't think its broken, but it definitely is ballsy and you definitely have the guts to do it.
It plays on people's greed; people want to get quick/easy KOs and I've noticed that in so many multiplayer games.
it seems relatively safe considering blocks drop very slowly in the early game and if enough people target you clearing a single line is enough to get rid of anything they throw at you
You obviously can't make mistakes, but when you send out that much stuff at once it seems impossible for other people's garbage to matter. I guarantee those people targeting him were sending garbage, but it was all getting cleared and sent back at them.
Its really not high risk at all, as far as you are being target by multiple ppl you can stay there with 0 risk.
The only risk is if you have 1 or 2 really good players targeting you or 4 above average players targeting you.
6:38 “I am playing this as poorly as I possibly can”
I just recently got into Tetris 99 and I'm simultaneously intimidated and intrigued. Your videos have helped me get better, but I have such a way to go.
I dropped 27 the other day doing this. They need to buff KO mode or something, this shit is quite broken. Or the new meta is just gonna be "never use KO mode".
The meta should be (don't use KO mode when you could get baited)
Obviously at top 10, there isn't enough people to make gaming KO mode players worth it, so trying to kill someone weak with it pretty good.
Edit: actually, just switch attackers as soon as you get sent 10 or so lines at once, regardless of mode, you have targeted someone who is already being massively targeted, and fighting back, and you don't want to fight anyone so empowered.
I honestly don't know if it is a stupid or brilliant that this game actually has a meta.
There's no reason to be in KO mode if you're not ready to send garbage. I think that's the mistake that a lot of players are making, either switching to KO too early or staying in it after they've emptied their board.
I mean, just enter ko made when sending the trash and then switch out of it
This was absolute PINNACLE Wyatt!
What a monster, damn.
A forced Rorschach situation that's just genius
"I got a 30 kill game, honey"
"what?"
This guy is the biggest Wyatt in the game
Fastest sender in the West right here
I've done similar before. I usually build a 1-wide well on the right, stack up until I get into "danger" so that people on KOs targetting will go after me, then I start clearing tetrises.
It never occurred to me that I could clear non-tetrises, though.
You know you're pretty good when you're admiring the colors when you're this high on the board
The distance between your blocks and the top of the screen gave me a n x i e t y. You are so good.
Don't mind me I'm just here for my Tafo happy ending.
I don't even have a switch nor have I ever played Tetris in my life..... but I still watch all these videos hahahaa
Zack Bernal-Silva
Play tetris then
Reading the comments, holy crap there's so many egg bois here. Egg father what have you done?
The egg has ascended
Glad you’re stepping up your thumbnail game!
Tafo: No one is near death right now.
Tetris, 3 seconds later: K.O.!
You can try to abuse the attacker bonus to target people with like 15 lines at once. A moment before clearing a line just switch to KOs and then switch back so you don't get the possible retaliation from the KOs
No clue wtf is happening, but I enjoyed it
Damn... Tafo has become a monster now that Tetris has made him popular. His diss game is evolving too. Eventually he'll be making a diss track.
Tafo: I got 30 kills, honey!
The video: *Plays ad for Honey*
20 Bomb?!?!?!?
Where did freaking hear that butter
Dont understand well but can understand well enough, good shit tafo
YOUR BREAKING THE TETRIS 99 META!
(Also this is some clean ass tetris gameplay)
The "weird glitch" happens because of the pieces rotation design. When the green S and the red Z are blocked under their upper ledge (not sure if that's a good way to describe it), you can't rotate them in that direction. I also get tricked by it now and then and it feels like a glitch although it's always been part of Tetris.
Damn double pump is really op
I've gotten second place a number of times by doing the opposite, never ko anyone so no one targets you for badges and you go under the radar until you get your ass kicked in the end
WOW that was crazy!!!
You are a BEAST bro. I have to much to learn from your videos🤩
im sure tafo has had a 40 bomb later in this same stream LOL
1:10 what is that number 9 10 11 12 represent? is that the number of garbage sent to enemies? or just the number of people that targetting you?
I like watching these videos because it makes me feel good about losing, never had any chances against guys like this
Tafo: I got a 30 kill game honey
Wife: whaa?
Tafo: (excitedly) its 30 kills in one game hehe
He kills almost 10% of everyone he plays against, absolute legend
I don't think the "glitch" you mention at 3:15 is actually a glitch, but rather because you're using a Pro controller. I kept thinking something was wrong with the game (lag?) early on when it happened to me, but after switching to Joycons instead it never happened to me anymore. It sounds like the D-Pad on the Pro controller will sometimes register an extra input by accident hard-dropping the next piece when you didn't intend to.
It's definitely a glitch, the first day T99 came out most people were complaining about it and people continue to complain about it.
That's terrifying, you have to watch the KOs you're going for now just to make sure they aren't doing this
Makes one missdrop on purpose 10 people attack me I'm just clearing lines like bup
Have you tried using the double switch slide on controllers instead of the pro controller? I find I misinput a lot less because each of the move buttons are separate. When I started playing tetris I would constantly misinput hard drops on the pro controller to the point where it was unplayable for me.
Jonathan Weng I was confused while reading this but figured it out, anyone who doesn’t understand, he means the joy cons
This man is so chill about a 30 KO game. If I pull that off I'm blasting #1 Stunna in my house while doing the cabbage patch.
3:15, random hard drop isn't a glitch, it's a physical malfunction with the switch pro controller that reads left/right on the d-pad as up
He was playing on the top part of the screen... HE WAS PLAYING ON TOP THE TOP PART OF THE SCREEN! 😱
Guy: *is doing multiple lines in seconds*
Me: DO THE FRIGGIN TETRIS ALREADY AAAAAAAA-
Can somebody breakdown how this strat works?
It's pretty simple.
You game the KO algorithm, so that everyone targets you, which makes the attackers mode send 10+ lines.
When your auto target is set to Attackers, the more players that are attacking, the more lines of garbage you send. A lot of players set their auto target to KO early in the game to build up their KOs/badges because KO targets players that are in the danger zone (flashing red). By intentionally building up your stack to the danger zone early, you can get all those players set to KO to target you, which, if you set your target to Attackers, lets you send a ton of garbage quickly (for example, Tafo sent 9 lines of garbage at 1:07 with just a non-combo single line clear!) to all the targeting players.
@@trofl I think attack attacks just deal damage to them all
The true Wyatt
LETSSSSS GO!!
John Wick of Tetris: Tafo
As you clear lines, is the number in the center of your screen how many lines youre sending? If so is that overall or to each individual person youre sending them to??
How has no one thought of this ? This makes so much sense !!
its ballsy and risky af, you ned guts and balls of steel to pull it off
This is so satisfying to watch
i really hope they include an option to turn off the particle effects or make it less intense
This is the only battle royale game, and I MEAN ONLY, where third partying is lethal. Not for the enemy, but for YOU.
Bro you’re so close to being the thanos of Tetris 99
*you should watch wumbo play tetris*
While I'm placing the third block Tafo has already filled half the screen and got 3 k.o.'s lmao
how are you rarely miss dropping with a pro controller? whenever I've used one the d-pad would occasionally press up or down when pressing left or right
Same lmao
Awesome win.
I like how “broken” strats in this game still require a lot of skill.
A true Wyatt at work
This is terrifying
This guy is the king of the wyatts
Did this without really thinking about it the other day. Out of the 12 KOs that happened for positions 13th to 24th, I got 10 of them, but unfortunately 1 of the other 2 was myself. It was a constant badge stream.
Maybe I need to try this bait strategy too... though knowing me I'll probably end up meeting a lot of early deaths XD
This is so crazy! Totally going to try this out soon.
Is the strat staying at the top so people decide to aggro you? That's a cool strat
me watching with high anxiety while he talks so casually and plays at the speed of light ✨👄✨
Top ten anime villains
What controller do you use?
Whats the keyboard in the background? Someone playing starcraft or something?
Its the sound of the Tetriminos moving across the board
I heard it too. It's not the sound of the tetriminos moving, it's coming from the mic. You can hear it briefly at 3:25
@@Crdavis1996 No it isn't... It's a keyboard, as I said.
Does your nosey ass have to know? Can you sleep at night without knowing?
The new punchline for 2019
PAY YOUR TAXES
is kill credit given to who most recently sent garbage, regardless of if the garbage lines had actually been put on the board, or is credit given to the player whose garbage lines were the last to be put on the board?
I know it's a strat, but damn it was tough to wait roughly 3 minutes until he finally dropped the I-Block into the perfect gap to get a Tetris.
How do you use the pro controller for this game without the phantom up inputs happening?
From what I can see, side 4wide should be pretty effective (maybe even more so than the setup in the video). I could be wrong though.
Haven't played Tetris 99 but I've watched a bit. Tafo is abusing new players using KO mode. Using this method his board is always 85%-90% full. Using a 4-wide, even when it's maxed out his board is only about 60% full. I'm guessing the way KO mode works is that it targets who's board is most full. With a maxed out 4-wide only giving about 60% people targeting him with KO mode would happen a lot less often.
@@musicbox7601 In the end, it comes down to what is counted as a dangerous board. Either it is % based as you say, or maybe it is based on how much space you have in the center rows.
If someone that plays the game a lot could clear that up, it would be appreciated!
But if not, I will check on the weekend.
Lets go Tafo
I wanna see wumbo do this. I think it also would've been a good idea to go 3 or 4 wide to build up, then do singles up top. And combo your way down when people stop targeting you.
copper4eva wumbo has been doing this
So the more people you have targeting you, the more power your counterattacks have?
What is the controller you are using!?
A nintendo pro controller I guess
Those people had families... YOU MONSTER!!!
You got lots of KO's huh. Wow, your just way tougher than I thought.
“Why is no-one near death” as he is getting kills
I literally just came from Wumbo's video and how he lost by doing this lol
It's risky. You can only make a few mistakes or you're KO'ing yourself. Not broken at all honestly.
weirdkid5 Gaming Yeah. High risk high reward. Wumbos Tspin strategy is low risk but high skill.
When it gets to the 10 players remaining it’s hard and it goes by very fast
How do u play so well with the Pro Controller when the d-pad is fucked?
Can someone explain how he's sending lines without combos?
If you’re set to attackers you send more garbage the more attackers you have