The garbage in Tetris Friends and Tetris Online Japan / Poland is pretty clean, so garbage can be cleared pretty quickly. Garbage Blocking means delaying the insertion of garbage until a combo breaks. Note that the numbers for Tetris Battle stand for the Arena mode bombs will always switch columns after each row. However, in Tetris Battle, lines sent through combos and back-to-back are treated as separate attacks, resulting in more messy garbage there. An attack usually means all garbage sent by one line clear (including combo and back to back bonus, also note that multiple line clears can become one attack in Puyo Puyo Tetris when stalling a little). if two attacks send 1 line each in Tetris Friends, then the holes will always be in different columns). if an attack sends 2 lines in Puyo Puyo Tetris, then there is a 30 % chance that the 2 holes will be in different columns), and 'after attack' means the chance of a hole change from the last row of an attack with the first row of the very next attack (e.g. In the following table 'during attack' refers to the chance of a hole change from one row to the next for each garbage row sent in a given attack (e.g. All games will use exactly one hole per garbage line but the position of this hole (column) may be influenced by certain factors.

The consistency of garbage also influences of how important Openers are. Note that in most games, the game will scrap the lines sent by combos and line clears when a Perfect Clear occurs. Here is what a combo sends (additional to the line clear):Īnd finally what a Perfect Clear sends. A Tetris or T-Spin line clear collects the back-to-back bonus, if the last line clear was also either a Tetris or T-Spin (and not a regular Single, Double or Triple). Here is what a line clear sends depending on the client:ī2b stands for Back-to-Back. Combos and Perfect Clears do not score many points in singleplayer and for scoring purposes it is usually best to use a looping T-Spin technique like Infinite TST or ZT Stacking.

This article majorly focuses on multiplayer and versus matches. It is implied that the reader is aware of what placements can be done in the Super Rotation System (e.g.

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