Block Drop VS guide

Goal

Outlast your opponent while sending them the lines you clear.

How to play

• Both players get falling pieces and stack them to complete rows, as in the solo game.
• Clearing rows sends garbage lines to your opponent, pushing their stack upwards.
• Clearing several rows at once sends considerably more than clearing them one at a time.
• Hold sets the current piece aside for later and swaps in whatever you held before.
• The first player whose stack reaches the top loses.

Technique

This is an attacking game, not a survival one. Build for multi-row clears even though they are riskier, because single clears barely trouble an opponent. Keep your stack low enough to absorb incoming garbage without being topped out by one attack.

Match format

• Real-time head-to-head, in a private lobby or through Find a game.
• Pressure comes from your opponent, so the pace rises through the match.