Super offensive's the way to go. Sometimes you get lucky, and they'll do the same, and leave one big column of blocks and kill themselves, but it doesn't happen very often. Only way to truly know you've killed them is to give them so much garbage, that once they finish one of their huge chains, they don't have enough blocks to make a single match. Always feels good when you win that way.
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