#Fruit Mountain

[royalarchivist]

Phil: Oh, I've got a cat next to me, hello!

Etoiles: [Laughs] Bro has a cat? That's a shame.

Phil: It's not even my cat! It's not even mine, it's my neighbor's cat he just shows up.

Etoiles: Bro has a neighbor what a shame!

Phil: [Laughs]

Etoiles: He's not living alone in the dark, haha!

Phil: Yeah, I've heard about your dungeon Etoiles, from multiple people.

Etoiles: Bro, I'm in a dun– [Laughs]

Phil: The Gamer's Dungeon.

Etoiles: Oh, the people in my chat are saying "IT'S GUS!"

Phil: [Cracking up] It is, actually! Yeah, that's the neighbor's cat. Just showed up and meowed at me for attention.

A certain someone dropped by to say "hello" during Etoiles and Phil's Fruit Mountain match!

[pixiecaps]

HES FUCKING NASTY WITH IT

[melbell3]

it makes me so damn happy to have all these people witness the result of foolish's fruit mountain grind

like seeing his strategy be questioned by everyone in the beginning to etoiles testing it out and it working, to everyone in the same call first hand witnessing it really work is just really satisfying

[totem-but-shark]

let's break down what made foolishs fruit mountain technique so effective because there's actually quite a lot to unpack here. -From a doozer who's been following his fruit mountain escapades from first playing the game to developing his strategy to winning this tournament.

The diagrams two best strengths are it's simplicity and speed. It's a very repetitive technique, there's a pattern to it that when followed everything else falls into place. It being so simple cuts down significantly on time needed to assess the plate, deciding where to place and throwing your fruit as though obviously theres manual input and adjustments needed for poor placements or unlucky fruit spawns, most time and energy can be dedicated to following the systems rhythm. Foolish has become confidently fluent with this pattern and seemingly gets faster every time he plays it through, he doesn't need to spend ages judging exactly what placement would be most efficient when he knows if he continues to follow his system the fruit will continue to build and combine. This of course only feeds into his speed, which beyond being able to rack up high scores in such a short period of time and quickly catching up to opponents even after resets also has a hidden bonus, combo multipliers.

The way his system functions incorporates a lot of chain combinations, the fruit are laid out in such a way where Foolish places each fruit beside its next combined stage so that when one combines they all chain together to create one huge fruit which by itself already creates a high combo multiplier. However following the pattern of his strategy foolish doesn't need to wait to reassess the plate even after such significant reshuffling, he can immediately continue to keep placing left to right and combining, further boosting the combo multiplier with quick combines. Using this technique i've seen him reach almost a 2x point multiplier on several occasions, this would mean that even if he and an opponent were placing the exact same fruit in the exact same spots making identical combinations he would still have a higher score using his speed.

It may seem random or like pure luck that he always seems to be getting the exact fruit he needs but that's simply another trick of the diagram. Whilst there is certainly luck involved, placing left to right it allows him to quickly sort through the fruit spawns to get the specific one needed whilst also allowing room for multiple options and improvisation if it's just not working out by accommodating for this random chance element. This gives his technique a strong consistency to it that isn't present in many other play styles for fruit mountain that are often more dependant on lucky fruit drops. He makes decisions that may appear illogical, ignoring opportunities to combine or shoving a lone fruit to some back isolated corner of the plate but this is because he's following his system and prioritising creating a fruit chain that'll lead to a cleaner board and higher points from larger combines. You can put an isolated apple in a corner when you know you can simply continue to sort through the fruit for another three for an easy combine whilst the smaller fruit build up their own larger foundations on the left without needing to worry about being wedged between any bigger fruit needing to combine.

^ my recreation of the diagram

It's all in the layout, how you're able to structure the plate and getting into the flow of placing small fruit on the left and large on the right without getting too caught up in it and slipping up by missing opportunities or misplacement. Progression is clear and linear keeping the plate as clean as possible combining from one fruit to the next with a clear goal and structure for each step towards a watermelon. As consistent as this system is it isn't flawless and significant player input is required, you have to think quick and adapt on the fly. Beyond this technique Foolish is a skilled player on his own and I have to give him credit where credit is due, especially for coming up with this system entirely independently. The tournament was a blast to watch and he's more than deserving of the win.

o7 KOF (king of fruit)

[guckies]

His final score and ranking…

[9thfloor]

🍉MELON!!!🍉

[scheepstep]

BOLAS V BOLAS

[theperksofbeingstupid]

cellbit about matt losing to tina: bro lost to his girlfriend's girlfriend

[abbiemessymind]

anyone else completely addicted to fruit mountain?? i just cant stop myself!! 🍓🍑

[cat-hybridcellbit]

HE IS OUT ROUND ONE OF HIS OWN TOURNAMENT LMAOOOOOOOO

[royalarchivist]

Etoiles is suffering.

[pixiecaps]

im so in love with every match molly is in because of the language exchanges. her and tina keep switching languages and molly is asking her chat how to say what she wants to say in english and tina is putting into practice everything she learned and remembers like when they started molly said good luck in english and tina replied umm.. BUENA SUERTE!! in spanish and aaarhrhrhhhh they keep doing that. molly was really shy and embarrassed to speak english but you can see shes getting more comfortable and trying to speak more

[areyouafraid]

this game is addictive and cute but like what is this girl painting. the plate is changing like every five seconds

[lunariaayaren]

Estoy en stream! https://ift.tt/rQnXYJp https://ift.tt/LKozEIU

[guckies]

Foolish got over 20k.. how does he understand gravitational pull in video games so well??