Or, like the green blob who ate me, you can eject smaller blobs that you no longer control, either to lay traps or to manipulate non-player 'viruses' into splitting up larger cells. At a certain point, you might start trying to consume your fellow players, either by cornering them or splitting yourself in half for a predatory inertia boost. You start as a tiny cell, which you control with your mouse, but the more mass you consume, the larger you grow. The mechanics of Agar.io (the title is apparently derived from 'agar,' a substance used to grow cultures in Petri dishes) are infuriatingly simple. If you did, chances are it was when Google released the most-searched terms of 2015: 'Agar.io' was in seventh place-behind 'Ronda Rousey' and 'Paris,' but ahead of 'Fallout 4.' Earlier this year, two separate political parties in Turkey riffed on the game in political ads. When you're one whole cell, you only need to be 10% larger than another player to consume them, however when you are split, your cell needs to be 33% larger than your target.This is Agar.io, an explosively popular browser-based game that you've probably never heard of. Keep note that you split in the direction of your mouse. Split attacking is when you are at least 266% larger than another player and you split over them to consume them. Then you're ready to shift to other strategies that rely on your size.

Keep munching pellets down so that you grow large enough to eat your competition. Try to find a place where there are only a few competing players. Use your early speed to your advantage to quickly eat the Agar (gelatinous pellets made from red seaweed.) around fellow players. Always give yourself room to move when you're not the biggest blob on the scene. Even if you do avoid one larger player, you could find yourself rushing directly into the maw of another one as you make your escape. When you find yourself stuck in a corner, there's not much you can do to escape a predator. When you're in the presence of a larger player who might be thinking you'd make a tasty snack, get near, or on the oppisite side of the virus to make yourself a less appealing target, since viruses will cause cells to burst (or pop) if cells larger than them try to consume them. Chasing after a bunch of smaller ones is tempting, but the rewards are smaller and you run the risk that you'll head into a hazard and lose mass unintentionally, by running into a virus or another larger player. You have the most to gain by eating a player who is closest to your own size. When you are about to eat the smaller cell they will then quickly split, into as many cells as possible, into the smaller cell allowing it to consume you. Some players like to intentionally leave little cells around them, to lure you to them. You can also eat the red, fountain viruses but you need one of your cells to be 250 mass (10% larger then it). If you try to eat a virus and you are not split into 16 cells, the virus will pop you and you will only gain 10 mass. You gain 100 mass from each virus you eat. One of them has to be at least 130 in mass (or 10% larger than the virus) to consume the viruses. You can consume viruses if you are split into 16 cells. This is tricky to pull of but I have found it very useful. You should start to see your cells trying to rejoin, at this point go as close as possible to the selected player and as the about to eat your pieces, move your mouse to the center of you cells and rejoin them together and gain enough mass that you will automaticly consume the player that was chasing you. Try to stay away from players for about 20 seconds then try and lure players, big enough to barely eat one of your smaller parts, near you.

Try splitting yourself into 2 or 4 parts.

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