Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks

This is a list of some helpful tips and tricks. Feel free to add your own to this list!

Being big is no guarantee of success! Even the smallest snake can "pop" the largest if it positions itself correctly. As you grow larger, it can pay off to move further from the center and adopt a conservative strategy.

This being said, take bigger risks when you're smaller. You have less to lose, compared to when you're on the leaderboard.

Unlike in the similar Agar.io, you do not lose any length over time. Therefore there's no rush to keep eating pellets and you can take as much time as you'd like to enjoy being large.

"Coiling" is a popular strategy that involves using your length to create a complete circle around an opponent and slowing crushing them until they're forced to run into you and "pop". However, while coiling around an opponent you present a much smaller target and are vulnerable to being coiled yourself!

Coiling can also be used to encircle a large group of pellets, preventing them from being eaten by other players.

Coiling can take time and there are situations where it may be more useful to abort coiling if lots of pellets are nearby.

Don't be afraid to cross your own tail. Unlike in the classic arcade game, you're free to cross your own tail in Slither.io. This can be used to your advantage if you need to get away from a player who's trying to get in your way or to block someone from picking up a large amount of pellets you're aiming for.

Sometimes you can use the tails of other snakes to your advantage as there are situations where the combination of your and other player's tail can cut off a third player.

Be cautious around snakes that are the same color and size as yourself. You may think you're crossing your own tail only to find it was an opponent, but by then it will be too late!

Defensive uses of speed boosting include escaping from dangerous locations (for an example, from being coiled). It can also be used to intimidate other players away getting pellets or discourage them from trying to cut you off.

Speed boosting does not alter your turning speed. In fact, turning circle when speed boosting is much larger. When having to do a speed boost from the opposite direction is needed, it's better to start speed boosting after the snake has almost turned around.

When having 10k+ mass, then one of the defensive strategies is to go around in a big circle and continue circling. This means that whenever there is a threat, it will be safe to escape inside the circle. Though, this can lead to other players coiling you. When there is no threat, it is wise to eat nearby pellets.

Try to avoid playing too aggressively on a snake. Chances are, they may see the right moment and may turn your plan against you! This strategy should also be taken into consideration when feeding on a recently slain snake.

When feeding off a recently slain snake, steer away if you see another snake coming from the opposite direction.

If you can, try using some of the remains of the snake as a bait while you're coiling. Leave the circle slightly open, so that you can close up should a snake take the bait.

Speed boosting when small is more dangerous when feeding off the recently killed snake due to short snakes having much smaller vision.

Vertical vision in the game is smaller than horizontal one and therefore speed boosting while moving up or down is more dangerous.

If playing the web browser version, adjust the browser size so that it is square. This will zoom you out a little and give equal viewing distance from your snake to both the vertical and horizontal edges.

Keep an eye on your minimap in the lower-right so you aren't surprised by the edge of the map which will kill you on contact with it.

Try not to cross the center of the screen with your cursor when turning around. This could lead you accidentally turning into a wrong direction which can be fatal for larger snakes.

If you are affected by lag it can be reduced by changing to low graphics in the top-right of the main screen or by closing other tabs or apps that might be slowing it down.

For slower computers, a snake dying can cause a game to freeze for up to a few seconds, and can cause deaths in crowded areas.
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Strategies

This is a list of some basic strategies in Slither.io. There are no perfect strategies or techniques, but learning these basic moves can help you get started on your quest to becoming the biggest snake!

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1 Aggressive

1.1 Coiling

1.2 Cutting People Off

1.3 Baiting

2 Defensive

2.1 De-coiling

2.2 Shielding

2.3 Defensive circling

3 Opportunistic

3.1 Scavenging/Vulture

3.2 Tailing

3.3 Crunching

Aggressive

Aggressive strategies seek to actively destroy other players.

Coiling

Coiling refers to a strategy of completely encircling an opponent. As you continue moving, your coils constrict, making it difficult or impossible for an opponent to avoid hitting you. Moreover, any pellets inside can be eaten without another player interrupting. However, while executing this technique, you are vulnerable to a larger snake coming along and coiling around you! You may also find it profitable to coil around a snake attempting to coil a player, if you are large enough to. In addition, if you can't quite create a complete loop or before you do, its possible for your intended victim to shoot out of the gap, blocking your path and killing you instead!

A variation of coiling involves encircling pellets of already killed snake in order to prevent them from being eaten by others.

Cutting People Off

One of the most basic techniques in Slither.io is using a burst of speed to suddenly turn in front of another player, causing them to run into you and pop into a giant sea of pellets that you can grab. Even if you're much smaller than another player, it's still very possible to throw yourself in their path and kill them! If you notice someone near you suddenly put on a burst of speed, watch out! They may be preparing to try and cross your path just ahead of you.

Baiting

This works best once you are longer. After getting a kill, instead of scooping up the remains yourself, you leave them and pretend that you aren't coming back. Make a wide loop back onto yourself and eventually someone will take the bait and you can begin coiling them.

Defensive

Defensive strategies focus on staying alive.

De-coiling

When other snakes attempt to trap you, you can circle a bit ahead of your opponent in order to cut off their means of enclosing. If they back off but come back with a burst of speed you can simply continue doing it. Grazing your opponent's body will not kill you; use this to your advantage, and continue pushing them off until they give up.

Shielding

Shielding is a technique that revolves around going back and using your own tail as a shield from others. Shielding might be useful as an escape route, but you are vulnerable to larger snakes coiling you.

Defensive circling

Moving around in a tight circle is often useful in crowded areas where there are lots of snakes and moving anywhere is risky. This strategy also works when being in between two snakes and there is a risk of one of the larger snakes or fourth snake taking advantage of the situation. Defensive circling should be done in crowded areas as such places make it hard for others to coil around the circling player.

Opportunistic

Opportunistic strategies involve taking advantage of interactions of multiple players.

Scavenging/Vulture

Eating pellets from recently slain snakes without actively trying to kill them.

Tailing

Tailing is when you follow a bigger snake in hopes of claiming pellets once they collide. Tailing is also used to chase down and grab the kill on larger snakes. Tailing as a smaller snake is very dangerous as most of the time, the snake that is getting tailed can retaliate by cutting paths or even coiling them.

Crunching

Crunching refers to tactics consisting of wedging a player between two others. Often players will move parallel to a much larger player, trying to catch up to them and cut them off. If you are careful and are long enough, you can take this opportunity to move towards the larger snake, causing the player in the middle to run into you and die.

Controls

The Controls in Slither.io are relatively simple. On browsers, your snake is controlled by your mouse and moves in the direction of your cursor. Your snake can also be controlled using the left and right arrow keys on the keyboard. On mobile you simply press and hold in the direction you want to go.

Speed Boosting

You can either click and hold the right or left mouse button, hold the up arrow key, or hold the space button to generate a burst of speed. This makes your snake move significantly faster than usual at the cost of shedding some of its length. However, the amount of length shed remains constant, meaning that the larger your snake is, the less significant this loss of length is. However, when using the speed boost, it can be harder to control your snake precisely and you'll have less time to react to the movements of other nearby snakes.

A snake using its speed boost can be easily identified by the shining/shimmering effect that is applied while speeding.

Length

Length is one of the most important aspects of Slither.io. The length of your snake, which also determines its size, is displayed as a number in the lower left-hand corner of the screen. To increase your snake's length you must eat pellets, either those randomly generated by the game (which give a small amount of length), pellets left from speed boosting (small amount of pellets) or by eating the remains of other unlucky snakes who have died (typically giving much more length than individual pellets).

The Length of a snake also determines its turning speed and radius. The bigger the snake, the slower the turning speed is and thus turning radius is larger. The snake continues to grow larger in length and thickness until it reaches the maximum length about 40,000 mass. After this point the score will increase but the size of the snake will stay the same.

The player's vision is also affected by their snake's length, with the camera gradually zooming out the bigger they become up to a certain distance. Note that camera zooms out slowly so new players still have small vision for some time even after they've eaten a lot.

Ranking and Leaderboard

Along with your current length, you are also shown where you rank among other players on the server. Typically this is shown as "X of Y Players" where X is your current rank and Y is the total number of players in your game.

The Leaderboard shows the current lengths and names of the top 10 longest snakes in the game.

Pellets

Pellets are the food that snakes must eat to grow bigger and increase their length. The bigger the pellet, the more it will contribute to a snake's growth.

Pellets spawn at random on the ground, but they are also generated by players who use their movement burst. Pellets will also be generated when a snake dies. The pellets will spawn in clusters of around the same size the snake's body segments had when it died.

There are also special pellets that appear larger than most other pellets and move around the screen, generally trying to avoid the player. When eaten, these special pellets give a much larger amount of length to the player and so it can be worth it to use your speed ability to grab them, especially early on in a game. slither.io

Pellets Contribution to Length

Type of Pellet Length Range Length Average Created/Spawned

Natural 0.5 - 4 1.8 Randomly spawn around the map, near players

Boost Trail 1.2 - 1.4 1.3 Appear behind players as they use their movement burst

Special Randomly spawn close to players

Player Death Generated when a snake dies

Snake

Snakes are the playable characters in Slither.io.

Players start as very small snakes that must eat the pellets on the ground to grow bigger increase their length.

Players can press either the left mouse button or the space button for a quick burst of speed, but this will slightly decrease their snake's size and length, and it will also leave a trail of pellets behind them.

If a snake hits the tail of another snake they will die and it will be game over for that player. A dead snake will leave pellets where they died, that other players can eat. A snake can also die when hitting the boundaries of the map, but they will not drop any pellets.

Snake skins

There are several skins that players can use for their snake. By default, Players will use one of the first 9 skins at random. One can unlock access to the other skins along with the ability to select a skin in particular by sharing the game on a social platform from the front page.

What is Slither.io?

What is Slither.io?

Slither.io is a smash-hit online browser game developed by LowTech Enterprises where you control a snake and play with millions of players around the world to become the longest snake of the day.

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