Tips and Tricks!

**Section A: Sneak Attacks**

1. When you're in the snail zone (the brown-ish area at the center of the map), take note of which way the little snails are heading. Those snails are really useful in planning sneak attacks because they always try to head towards the nearest opponent in the circle.

2. As an extension to number one, the only place black particles spawn is in the snail zone. If you see them respawning and you haven't touched them, you can guarantee that somebody is either in the snail zone or is shooting into it.

3. Sun patches are programmed to have a limited number of "sun particles" at one time. If you can see them spawning and you haven't touched them, there's somebody nearby. Stay on your guard.

4. This one's pretty obvious; if you spot drones, you can tell the class and general location of the other player. Additionally, if you see boost spots, you know that there's a rammer nearby. If you see nettles, check if they're in groups of 2 or 3. Many groups of 2 usually signifies a Rafflesia, while groups of 3 usually signifies a Nettle.

5. As an extension to number 4, if you see drones moving in separate directions and *away* from each other, the owner of those drones is probably repelling them. Head *toward* the direction that they come from and you'll probably be able to catch that player off-guard when they don't have their drones close to them.

6. Kind of obvious, but when King Snail is not in the center of the snail zone, it's either chasing after somebody and/or stuck between two rocks. Circle around the *other* way to surprise whoever its chasing.

7. Use bushes to your advantage, if you can. I find the bushes **a pretty genius addition**, because their size only allows some classes to hide in them. Classes that can easily hide in bushes include the Pansy, the Rose, the Mushroom (i.e. any first-tier class), the Carrot, the Watermelon, the Nettle in the largest bushes (sometimes), the Dandelion (although its drones don't go behind bushes), the Banana Plant in the largest bushes, and the Grapevine plant in the largest bushes. Notice how all sniper classes are included in the list (good job Pike!); they are the only classes which can effectively use bushes to their advantage because of their small sprite size (can hide on the run) and extra-long range.
Note that the Watermelon and the Carrot can even literally hide in the *smallest possible* bushes completely if the player chooses a short name (3 letters or less is ideal).

**Section B: Leaderboard Clues**

1. Ants are great for farming; they have very little health, respawn fairly quickly, and give 50 XP. If you see somebody's leaderboard score steadily increasing by a multiple of 50 every time the leaderboard updates, they're almost certainly farming ants. By searching around the map, you can try to find them before they move to another location and then surprise them.

2. If somebody's score is increasing *really* quickly (like by 100 or more every time), they're probably either (a) in a really good ant farming spot (I once had three ant paths by one another that usually could give me 300 XP per leaderboard update), so you can try to surprise them, or (b) they're a farming class. Farming classes include the Orange Tree, the Oak Tree, and the Bamboo class, as well as maybe the Grapevine class. Knowing a player's class can be a great advantage when trying to defeat them.

- Written by test