When a piece is dropped and clears a line it’ll leave three blocks (residual) in the well. What makes a 4-Wide work is having three blocks in the well. There are two parts to the 4-Wide, the upstack where you build the wall of the well, and the downstack where you send garbage out like a mad-man. This means you’re in control of your destiny against all but the very best players. With a long combo going, even if you’re being targeted by multiple people none of that garbage will hit you.

Tetris 99 is different to other forms of modern Tetris in that garbage only hits your playing field when you drop a piece that doesn’t clear a line.

When you hit a combo of 10 you’ve sent out 29 lines of garbage.Įach additional line during that combo then sends out 5 lines of garbage.Ĭouple that with badge and attacker bonuses and you can shoot out damage like a machine gun. As the combo grows longer the amount of damage each line sends out increases.

There are two reasons why using 4-Wide is good in Tetris 99. In other modern Tetris games 4-Wides are powerful, but in Tetris 99 they’re even better. There’s not a huge reason to go Centre 4-Wide in Tetris 99 due to the garbage delay, so the rest of this post will cover Side 4-Wide. The side/centre just explains if the well is on the left/ride side of the playing field, or in the middle. Unless you’re lucky with garbage there’s not a way to do longer combos. In a nutshell it’s an efficient way of keeping a combo (successive line clears) going, for a long time. Those that are new to modern Tetris probably won’t have heard of 4-Wide until they watch some videos or read a guide on modern Tetris. I don’t know if anyone will find this useful, or if it’s even needed as there are good guides out there already but I love this game, and this community and maybe this might be helpful to someone out there.

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Keep in mind that the damage output in PPT is not the same as in T99, but skills learned there will transition easily.Ĭurious about damage output? Read more about it on The Hard Drop Wiki. CPU mode or Puyo Puyo Tetris (free demo is available) to practice with, if you are willing to change your Nintendo Account region or set up a second account with Japan region, you can get the better Puyo Puyo Tetris JP demo. Join the Tetris99/Pac-Man99 Discord! Want to be a Sharpshooter? Become a <=10 Bro by joining the Discordįeel like you need more practice? Consider the Big Block DLC for the vs. Tetris 99, the first Battle Royale style Tetris game.