Tutorial:How to survive in FFA

Free For All is one of the most hostile gamemodes in the game due to a complete lack of allies, so surviving can be a challenge. With no team to act as backup and no bases to retreat to, if you can't survive on your own you won't survive at all.

The first thing to know is how to pick your battles. Learning how to identify enemies by their bullet patterns is key to picking fights. This allows you to evaluate whether they're worth fighting or not before they can see you. Obviously it is easy to identify enemies based on their ammo type, such as minions meaning a Spawner branch is nearby, but ideally you will want to get more detail out of it than that. Spammers are easy to identify, but attention must be paid to the size of their bullets to judge their lethality. Additionally, size is not always a good indicator since tanks like Giga-2 can oneshot despite having barrels only the size of Basic bullets.

You should also be focused a bit more on survival than offense than in other modes, since as mentioned before you have nothing to fall back on. Obviously the specifics of when to retreat are different from situation to situation, but you generally want to retreat earlier than you would on a team mode.