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Hole.io: All Modes Guide – How to win in Classic, Battle, and Solo Modes

Hole.io is Voodoo’s new multifaceted .io game with multiple modes, each of them being completely different from the other. You have a total of three different modes that you can play.

Classic challenges you to score the most points possible within two minutes of time. Plus in this one, you compete against several other holes for stage supremacy.

Battle challenges you to be the last hole alive on the level. You compete against other players in this one, but unlike classic, there is no time limit, and there is no despairing.

Solo run has you as the only hole on the level, and your goal is to eat the entire city within the two minute time period. There are no other players, and you have a time limit in this one, it’s just you against the clock.

Read on for strategies on how to finish in first place most often on Hole.io’s three modes!

Classic mode is the easiest mode to win, because there are seven holes in one level, and even if you get eaten, you come back automatically by respawning.

Use this mode to memorize the map, because two of the most important areas to go at the beginning of the game are the central street (with the trees and the bollards) and the park, because you can eat all of the fences, trees, and people. Blow through the parks at the beginning to load up on the points.

Once you blow through parks and get big, hit the parking lot nearby, then hit the small buildings nearby. When you’re done with this, you’ll be huge.

Go hunt down more sets of small buildings, then move onto the bigger buildings. And make sure to eat other holes whenever you see them, as holes give you the most points per eating session.

The classic mode works just as well for all of the other new maps in the game, too. Even though all of the levels are different, they operate by the same principles, where you start off eating people, smaller buildings, and other things, while you eat bigger and bigger objects (trees, rocks, etc) as you get larger.

Battle mode is a bit different, as there are 20 holes on screen, and your goal is to be the last hole standing. There is no time limit; once a hole is killed, it never comes back, and the way to win the game is to be the last hole standing.

Find the central street and the parks again (and the other high-point areas in the other maps), but avoid other holes, as well. Stay away from the other holes and let them eat each other for a bit. Go to the areas that are full of small objects or people, eat them up, and get bigger.

Get big using the parks, parking lots, and small building and structure clusters, then start hunting down the other holes that are left over on the map, and eat them. And whenever you see a smaller hole, much away; don’t let them pass by or they have a chance of growing larger than you eventually.

If you and one or two other holes are left over, and they are bigger than you, then work on eating the bigger buildings until you’re big enough to eat the last hole or two. Then go and get that win.

The solo run mode is the hardest one to win. It’s all about map memorization. If you start near the central street or the park, or start near another high-point cluster of small objects, you’re off to a great start, but you won’t start at either one of those most of the time, so memorize the map in order to get to those two locations as quickly as possible.

Then eat the parking lot next to the park, eat small buildings, then go on and destroy the rest of the level before the two minutes run out.