A very important tip for newbies is, don't cover up the garbage hole unless you can resolve it quickly, you're just adding more pressure on your board. and try not to create holes, if you have to stack up higher on the sides, do it, the first 3 and last 3 columns can go past 20 lines from garbage without you topping out.
Maybe a higher level (SS/U?) downstacking and midgame decision making guide with you going over some actual SS/U gameplay (Tetra League replays) could be great
Great clear and concise intro into beginner/intermediate Tetris playing. Truly the go-to video for understanding the terms and strategies in Tetris. Thanks for the video!
what's the League thing though? what happens if you play 10 games? will you never be able to continue after that? I'm new to the game as in I started yesterday and went in blindly with no context while thinking it was similar to regular tetris so garbage really caught me off guard. I still have little context for almost everything in the game.
@@corncobbob2326 Garbage is sent to you when your opponent fulfils an attack requirement. So if you send a Tetris (or quad as they call it) you'd end up sending 4 lines of garbage. The chart is seen on 0:24. The league is pretty much like ranked in other games. It's to show off your skills and compete for points that will increase your rank. If you look a league game, your points go up and you're ranking may also go up, if you lose then your points go down and you may potentially derank. The 10 games you initially play is the games way of determining what league to put you in. Until then, you're unranked, meaning the game hasn't decided how good you are. After the 10 games, you can continue to play but now you're definitively fighting to rank up.
@@CouncilOfTheLostGoats I played 3/10 games which were all losses. what happens if i lose all of them? what would happen next if I only get better after all 10 losses?
@@corncobbob2326 You lost the 3/10 games so the game is going to give you easier and easier opponents until you start winning, then it'll give you a slightly harder opponent. It'll keep doing that until your win/loss ratio is around 1:1 in which case it'll rank you around there. After it officially ranks you and puts you in a league you can begin trying to go up from there, though it'll be a bit more stubborn because the game assumes your improvement will be incremental. These 10 games are only to estimate where to put you, but you can theoretically get to the highest league if you win enough. Don't worry if you lose every game, you can still go up in leagues.
I always felt like a good player when I play, but I can't recover from garbage at all so thanks for teaching me how to fix it (and crush the opponent before it even comes!)
just a note for apm, uhh high apm doesnt necessarily mean mega pro. Until I got to X, I had a good 20apm above my opponents (still do), but i send clean garbage, so I get absolutely demolished. A high apm doesnt directly translate to high skill.
1:13 Thats not necessary an I-piece dependency. Clever thing you can do is to use L or J piece, rotated so it's longer side will sit on a stack. This one block will just create a line that will disapear leaving place for future I-pieces
@@imfurr8239 lol, I used to believe u should only learn opener after ur midgame good ( this is a mindset carried over from chest ) but now I think it's good to know at least 2 opener for a beginner ( fullclear being one of them, and the other is up to the player )
@@thearmyofiron Openers are mostly overrated for beginners. Your opener will not win you games against a competent opponent. Your stacking fundamentals and downstacking skills absolutely will.
Cool video! Is there something we need to do to access the Eternal Exercise map? I signed into Jstris with my account, but it said I was forbidden from playing it.
Something about the dependencies, I'm a B+ to an A- and I've spotted some inconsistencies, don't take this as a hate comment, but just to point out, there is only 1 true dependency and that's the I piece dependency. The others can actually flip flop against each other. Like let's say you have an L dependency, you can put an I piece into that L dependency in order for it to change to a J dependency. But it still stays as a dependency. It's same for a 2 wide dependency for example.
I wish i saw this when i started playing but hey self taught s-. Also is it better to do midgame t spin set ups like dt cannon stsd etc or do just go with normal spin i usually just do tst, tsd, and cross spin or whatever its called. edit: became an s now
I definitely disagree with stacking on one side, I think 6-3 stacking is a much better habit to start off with, because it’s more ideal in higher ranks(S and above)
It's only good if you can T-spin, have good finesse, and have good stacking habits/fundamentals. For beginners, it doesn't confer any particular advantages.
Do you use different keys for clockwise and counterclockwise rotations? I'm C rank and i use my up arrow key but for tspins (if i accidentally manage to make one hah i dont know how to intentionally create tspins) i have to soft drop the t piece to the gap and then rotate it thrice which takes a lot of time
@@Yurusan717 yeah that's why i don't feel like doing that since I'm a beginner and i could very definitely make stupid situations where id need a precise placement like that
Good video. It explains clearly what a beginner should focus on. One small gripe I have though, is that you made speed seem as unimportant to practice. High APM is great but you should aim for balance. I have 19 APM and 1.20 PPS at A-. I've been beating most of my opponents due to my speed. I do agree that you shouldn't place all your focus on your average PPS though. Speed is something that comes with practice but you need to practice it regardless
1.2pps is great for A-, but as you approach A+ or even A.speed wont matter as much since there are people who can downstack efficiently enough for the speed gap to not be negligible. Or there are people whose apm is almost 30 just because they are decently good at keeping b2b even if they play at 0.9-1pps
Do a right well i stead of left because its faster with the line block because when its rotated it goes to the right so if your on say level 19 its faster and prevents misplaces
While that is slightly correct, the idea of 9-0 stacking is to stack cleanly and remove all dependencies, and skimming (burning is the term used in classic tetris) breaks your B2B which is why we teach it at an early point to stack cleanly on both sides (if you really wanted to continue just 2 wide) plus you can't do that in the eternal exercise
I don't think knowing how to do a tetris will help you get out of C rank. I swear 90% of C players do tspins and openers. B rank players do consistent t spins and even PC openers. Although the weird shenaningans do mostly start from A and up.
A very important tip for newbies is, don't cover up the garbage hole unless you can resolve it quickly, you're just adding more pressure on your board. and try not to create holes, if you have to stack up higher on the sides, do it, the first 3 and last 3 columns can go past 20 lines from garbage without you topping out.
Maybe a higher level (SS/U?) downstacking and midgame decision making guide with you going over some actual SS/U gameplay (Tetra League replays) could be great
ua-cam.com/video/dB1D7ICAWuU/v-deo.html
he already did this
Yes because you really need a better midgame
yes the one hour long video kekw
When you watch this as a high U rank, crap, I'm still in these habits
Omg fucking mood
this is tru
@@SilicosisNotBeta Aren't you SS rank?
@@lololololol1342 yea
same but as an SS
I didn't realize how inefficient my staking was until I played the eternal exercise. Thanks for that!
Great clear and concise intro into beginner/intermediate Tetris playing. Truly the go-to video for understanding the terms and strategies in Tetris.
Thanks for the video!
what's the League thing though? what happens if you play 10 games? will you never be able to continue after that? I'm new to the game as in I started yesterday and went in blindly with no context while thinking it was similar to regular tetris so garbage really caught me off guard. I still have little context for almost everything in the game.
@@corncobbob2326
Garbage is sent to you when your opponent fulfils an attack requirement. So if you send a Tetris (or quad as they call it) you'd end up sending 4 lines of garbage. The chart is seen on 0:24.
The league is pretty much like ranked in other games. It's to show off your skills and compete for points that will increase your rank. If you look a league game, your points go up and you're ranking may also go up, if you lose then your points go down and you may potentially derank. The 10 games you initially play is the games way of determining what league to put you in. Until then, you're unranked, meaning the game hasn't decided how good you are. After the 10 games, you can continue to play but now you're definitively fighting to rank up.
@@CouncilOfTheLostGoats I played 3/10 games which were all losses. what happens if i lose all of them? what would happen next if I only get better after all 10 losses?
@@corncobbob2326
You lost the 3/10 games so the game is going to give you easier and easier opponents until you start winning, then it'll give you a slightly harder opponent. It'll keep doing that until your win/loss ratio is around 1:1 in which case it'll rank you around there.
After it officially ranks you and puts you in a league you can begin trying to go up from there, though it'll be a bit more stubborn because the game assumes your improvement will be incremental. These 10 games are only to estimate where to put you, but you can theoretically get to the highest league if you win enough. Don't worry if you lose every game, you can still go up in leagues.
for myself
3:31 - Downstacking
4:03 - Low Wells
1:54 - Learning an Opener
4:33 - T-Spins
You forgot the most important tip:
*PLAY MORE*
I asked Doremy how he got so good and he said this exact thing lmao
@@sondertekken doremy a different breed bro the guys top 500 in osu and a god at tetris
@@raccoon8345 play more in osu
This comment gave osu vibes
@@sondertekken oh no wonder it was doremy (play more is like a shit advice meme in the osu community at this point and he's a top player in Osu)
bro I went from chess to Tetris so I didn't need to learn theory but I still need to learn theory
Really good tutorial
Being somewhat good at placing pieces this helped me double my APM
this was super helpful, im currently in c- (was unranked for a little) downstacking and upstacking tips are incredible thank you so much
I always felt like a good player when I play, but I can't recover from garbage at all so thanks for teaching me how to fix it (and crush the opponent before it even comes!)
just a note for apm, uhh high apm doesnt necessarily mean mega pro. Until I got to X, I had a good 20apm above my opponents (still do), but i send clean garbage, so I get absolutely demolished. A high apm doesnt directly translate to high skill.
What determines that it will be clean garbage or ugly garbage?
the column a player clears lines from is the column your garbage hole will be in
1:13 Thats not necessary an I-piece dependency. Clever thing you can do is to use L or J piece, rotated so it's longer side will sit on a stack. This one block will just create a line that will disapear leaving place for future I-pieces
1:16 : it's better to put the J piece in the left well, and then start doing 2 wide.
*SPIKY*
that burn would decrease the stack to 3 so no quad with the combo. it's better to just stack without burns to be more efficient.
Widing is cheap and doesn’t require much skill, which this video is trying to combat
@@DespOIcito Combo stacks require a decent level of competence to execute consistently. Especially as your gap increases.
4:16 is the best tetris advice I ever received. Just changed my whole life and my family respects me now.
playing 2wide is enough to get from D to S XD
personal experience.
But after that, it hits a limit
yup just like only relying on an opener
@@imfurr8239 lol, I used to believe u should only learn opener after ur midgame good ( this is a mindset carried over from chest ) but now I think it's good to know at least 2 opener for a beginner ( fullclear being one of them, and the other is up to the player )
i was S+ with 2-wide but that's where the wall is
@@Zhuinden u can go to SS with 2wide, just need more pps, but after that it seems to be hard to go higher with just 2wide
@@thearmyofiron Openers are mostly overrated for beginners. Your opener will not win you games against a competent opponent. Your stacking fundamentals and downstacking skills absolutely will.
bro why are you a flower
bcz its a character
like some ppl wanna be birds or smth
fair
@@mlsanica7618 lmao u waited 2 years
Blower
bro why is he a blover
Another til is if you get a quad combo quick enough you can send extra lines depending on how fast you were.
Cool video! Is there something we need to do to access the Eternal Exercise map? I signed into Jstris with my account, but it said I was forbidden from playing it.
Same issue for me.
On Jstris click your username top right > settings > scroll to the bottom > tick the experiments box
changed the link so you don't have to log in, hope it works for you
@@25pi25 Thanks! It works now.
Never thought I'd see a goddarn Movelist for a Tetris Game.
Something about the dependencies, I'm a B+ to an A- and I've spotted some inconsistencies, don't take this as a hate comment, but just to point out, there is only 1 true dependency and that's the I piece dependency. The others can actually flip flop against each other. Like let's say you have an L dependency, you can put an I piece into that L dependency in order for it to change to a J dependency. But it still stays as a dependency. It's same for a 2 wide dependency for example.
Well of course you can use an I piece, but the idea is to not waste I pieces on the stack and use them to clear lines as much as possible
1:14 Isn't this just a double well? If the right side is built out a little more, one can skim a line with an L, J, or T to get tetris-ready.
3:35 howd you fit the blue l?
Really well made tutorial!
I wasn't gonna leave a comment but I heard chao garden music so you earned it
i never got these t spins and how to just rotate the piece, i never realise i can't fit the block in the hole :D i'm really beginner
Thanks for the video, it really helped me improve in tetra league!
4:51 what type of tetris game is that?
I wish i saw this when i started playing but hey self taught s-. Also is it better to do midgame t spin set ups like dt cannon stsd etc or do just go with normal spin i usually just do tst, tsd, and cross spin or whatever its called.
edit: became an s now
using more elaborate t-spin setups midgame is viable IF it's convenient, if you look at twowi.de puzzles they usually take 4-5 pieces to make a setup
why do i feel violated when he said I piece and not long bar.
thanks for the tips bro!!! im gonna improve my skills now!!!
What is the control to "hold" in Tetr.io? ;-;
c
in 1:06 can't you just put T in columns 1,2 and Z vertical in columns 4,5? And then skim?
真的是太棒了 講解的真好 讓我學到了很多
I definitely disagree with stacking on one side, I think 6-3 stacking is a much better habit to start off with, because it’s more ideal in higher ranks(S and above)
Many beginners don’t really know how t-spins work so 6-3 will be quite confusing for them
It's only good if you can T-spin, have good finesse, and have good stacking habits/fundamentals. For beginners, it doesn't confer any particular advantages.
@Veronika Zaglotova no
6-3 can be hard to maintain a good stack
Thank for information what the heck never know it this deep !
5:00 may i know what application is this?
The Eternal Exercise is driving me crazy.
I can't believe im Getting taught by a flower, AND IT'S WORKING
1:23. couldnt u have put a t, l or j piece?
Do you use different keys for clockwise and counterclockwise rotations? I'm C rank and i use my up arrow key but for tspins (if i accidentally manage to make one hah i dont know how to intentionally create tspins) i have to soft drop the t piece to the gap and then rotate it thrice which takes a lot of time
I use the number pad for rotations (2 ccw and 3 cw) but if you need rotations i would set up all of them on keys next to each other
thanks dude used to be a d 700 now a A- 10800
dumb question how do i save and pause?
extremely late but the only way you can save in tetr.io is by playing Zen
it says your discord is invalid (or something similar , i cant add you)?
it's case sensitive
im d+ and it helped me so much! I finally learned an opener, mko might be a bad one tho. idc im using it
Any advice on getting better without practicing?
Is it a disadvantage having the well on the right? I'm used to building a right well because I play classic tetris
for sprints it is advantageous to have well on right as opposed to left. applies the same way in modern tetris
Your model is really cute! 🍀
(Also thanks for the tips! Trying to get back to the game after some years!)
Amazing explanation!
I see so the bar or the botton left is does nothing ? I thought it gages how many lines are sent
that's what it does, you just don't want to worry about small lines of garbage coming your way
Eu my jod Pi with another Banger Video
The plant character is so cute
How do I improve from h rank :(
h rank is the pinnacle of tetris
dawg the counting to 4 part was so hard 😭 i can barely count to 2
How did you hard drop but not automatically place the tile??
set your sdf to infinite in config->handling
@@25pi25 Thanks, now i know now :)
But wouldn't it be harder to do tucks since soft drop brings it all the way down?
@@Yurusan717 only very specific tucks (mostly floating tucks), some you can work around
@@Yurusan717 yeah that's why i don't feel like doing that since I'm a beginner and i could very definitely make stupid situations where id need a precise placement like that
thank you for the very good tutorial
Im hardstuck b+, I still need to learn downstacking and openers. Its very hard for me to remember.
I when I see him playing at 0:12: "Why is he building a left well?"
2:23
You should have mentioned an all clear
why you sound like you on the nokia model g150
how do you soft drop so fast
bro why r u stacking on the right??
Uhhm im new to tetris idk how people do a hard drop but they can still move
@@archaeas thanks but i just set to very high instead cuz there are some moments that i need to put it in the middle of smthing
2:09 Oh boy I hope Cab doesn't see this.
I mean, DT is a really bad opener on Tetrio but under SS it's fine
@@ecchou3217 doremy in shambles rn
Good video. It explains clearly what a beginner should focus on.
One small gripe I have though, is that you made speed seem as unimportant to practice. High APM is great but you should aim for balance. I have 19 APM and 1.20 PPS at A-. I've been beating most of my opponents due to my speed.
I do agree that you shouldn't place all your focus on your average PPS though. Speed is something that comes with practice but you need to practice it regardless
1.2pps is great for A-, but as you approach A+ or even A.speed wont matter as much since there are people who can downstack efficiently enough for the speed gap to not be negligible. Or there are people whose apm is almost 30 just because they are decently good at keeping b2b even if they play at 0.9-1pps
i can do all these (except maybe t-spin)
but im still stuck at c rank
BECAUSE I HAVE A FUCKING 2-SECOND REACTION TIME
Do a right well i stead of left because its faster with the line block because when its rotated it goes to the right so if your on say level 19 its faster and prevents misplaces
Only on classic tetris. Here it doesnt matter if you play with arr 0
@@diegomastro5681 o
very useful knowledge
Good end music
thanks it helped a lot
My favourite flower
All PC'S at 4:41
that was not an I-dependency. a J, L, or T all could have gone there to burn a single and fill the gap
While that is slightly correct, the idea of 9-0 stacking is to stack cleanly and remove all dependencies, and skimming (burning is the term used in classic tetris) breaks your B2B which is why we teach it at an early point to stack cleanly on both sides (if you really wanted to continue just 2 wide) plus you can't do that in the eternal exercise
I met you in tetr.io one time btw
tried the mod. did not realized how much i suck
What if ur ss
pls help im always the punching bag in a server
thank you
now make a mid game guide
I don't think knowing how to do a tetris will help you get out of C rank. I swear 90% of C players do tspins and openers. B rank players do consistent t spins and even PC openers. Although the weird shenaningans do mostly start from A and up.
you're overexaggerating it. half the a+ players ive battled only stack
@@whatthehell_utg Maybe I am just unlucky then.
As a B player I can confirm that I do do tspins but I've never seen pco, I dont I haven't ever ever perfect cleared lol
I also use tki
@@hongxiawang2049 I assume that most of C is populated by "smurfs" or people who don't know how to play.
1:45 haters will say this is sped up
this is slowed down
thanks
the only way i know was stacking, and i sucked at multiplayer cuz of garbage.
I’m s and I don’t even use openers yet lmao
me S- but dk how to do t spin 😀 im so embarrassed
Be happy that you're built different (ig?)
I made an alt once and played tetra league and I somehow got 41 apm I’m b-
Awesome
this is like an educational video but no
yay
3 FUCKING DAYS OF ME TRYING TO AVOID TETR.IO RABITHOLE WHY
blover
first again
Not first again
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