Talk:Level 2418/@comment-63.152.90.108-20170330042400/@comment-25523546-20170330083744

The fish are a double-edged sword. They target candies below the ingredients when there are no jellies on the board but only if the candies are directly below the ingredients. Otherwise they target blockers, which is usually helpful.

But in this level the licorice keeps spawning and because there are portals leading from the top half of the board to the bottom half in the column with the ingredients, the candies below the pink portal don't count as being directly below the ingredients. Therefore the fish target the endlessly spawning licorice instead.

The strategy I used was to  hit the bobbers with special candy combos so the fish would destroy the licorice next to the UFO, use the UFO to open up the board, clear the remaining jelly, then either blast the bobbers with special candy combos to generate enough fish so that at least one would still target the candies on the bottom half of the right side of the board or use colour bomb combos.