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6-3 Stacking

The de-facto "Standard" in stacking.

Typically the second stacking style learned after 9-0, for good reasons:

  • Sprinting: Less KPP is needed to stack up quickly and knock em down quickly.

  • VS: Modular T-spin pattern stacking on the 3-side helps give you time to resolve height differences quickly with minimal brainpower.

  • For sprinting, just watch orz's video on 6-3 stacking, it should be enough to get you started!

  • For VS, the main thing that helped me click was ensuring that whenever you are building a TSD overhang on the 3 side, make ALWAYS sure you are ready to convert it into a neat heart shape. Leaving only a single S or L leaves the dependency on for longer and not reading the queue from that usually spells death for your back to back.

    • Hearts are 3x3 boxes with a hole on one one of the corner tiles. They're called hearts because if you rotate it around they look like hearts.
    • They're also called chip tooths. Because they're like teeth... that are chipped... also don't search it up, why did i search it up oh my god it's painful to look at.
    • Stacking hearts is also a fundamental technique of ST stacking. So after comfortably learning to comfortably stack 6-3 with minimal waste, go ahead and look into ST stacking!
      • Also, please take note using Ts to fix parity is not really "waste". The alternative is crapping on your stack for a single TSD that your opponent will probably use against you anyway. Don't crap on your stack unless you are sure you can win the game with it.