5 Great Gorilla Tag Tips and Tricks

Trying to improve your Gorilla Tag game? Want to be the best Gorilla Tag monke you can be? Well here are some great Gorilla Tag tips and tricks that will make you a faster and more clever monke. You’ll get tagged less, and get more tags yourself if you keep reading. Check out these 5 Great Gorilla Tag Tips and Tricks.

Get Off Of The Ground

When you’re new to Gorilla Tag the easiest way to move around is on the ground level of any map. All you have to do is slam your monke palm into the ground and forward you go. It’s easy to do nothing but stay on the ground level because it’s so easy to do, and at first climbing up and wall climbing are going to be really hard.

Some monkeys having a good time getting up a tree

Well, the most important tip for a new player is to get out of your comfort zone and not just try to avoid lava monkeys by running along the ground. Any Gorilla Tag player who is any good at the game will be able to catch up with you. Even if you’re really good at ground running, they can always get above you and jump down on you for an easy tag.

This monke didn’t get high up before getting tagged

It might be hard for you at first, but if you haven’t already, learn how to jump up and get higher. Jumping into spots that are harder to get to gives you way more options for running away, and if you’re a lava monkey you’ll be able to chase anyone who gets up there. So start practicing now. The only way to get good at climbing is to figure it out and do it.

Hide

If you’re trying to avoid getting tagged… well you don’t have to do that by running away. You can just hide! While it can be kind of boring, just hiding is totally viable in Gorilla Tag. If you know how to get to a spot that most players don’t know how to get to, then you can just go there and hang out while they look for you or try to figure out how you got there.

These monkeys had a seriously good hiding place

This is great if you really want to win. The downside is that it can be kind of boring. Just sitting around high up and listening to the lava monkeys have fun bouncing around isn’t really what makes Gorilla Tag a good time. That is, if your spot is really good. Most hiding spots aren’t that hard to get to, so you can always give yourself a break by hiding out for a bit until you get spotted.

Watching a monke get tagged from a hiding place

Still, if you really want to win, or just love seeing other players get frustrated trying to get to you, then you can always figure out some extremely good spots to hide and wait the round out until you get bored, or the lava monkeys find you. Either way, hiding is a huge part of Gorilla Tag, and so you might as well get good at it.

Avoid Getting Tagged By Juking

“Juking” is a really common gaming term that you might not have heard before if you are new to Gorilla Tag. Basically, juking means suddenly going in a direction the other player doesn’t expect you to go in. So if it looks like you’re about to go straight up a tree, instead push yourself off of it so that you’re flying away from the tree in a completely different direction.

Could not catch this monkey because they kept juking

Juking is a great Gorilla Tag trick to avoid getting tagged when a lava monke has you in their sights and is chasing you down. That second or so of confusion when you go somewhere they didn’t expect you to go can give you the time you need to get away or find a new spot to hide for a little bit.

Another monke joins the hiding spot

To juke it can also help to turn your whole body around physically as you do it to quickly reorient yourself. It can be hard to get the hang of juking, but if you get good at it you can get away, at least for a little while, really easily from one or two monkeys chasing you.

Move Your Hands Parallel To The Ground

Alright, so you might be wondering what this Gorilla Tag tip means exactly. Basically, Gorilla Tag physics works kind of like real life physics, except you, as a gorilla, are really light and your hands are really bouncy and strong. So, the way your hand hits a surface like the ground or a wall changes the way you move a lot.

Practicing moving fast is crucial to catching and avoiding being caught

Pretty simple stuff, right? Also kind of obvious if you’ve played Gorilla Tag for more than five minutes. What’s not quite so obvious is the best way to move fast, keeping how your hands work in Gorilla Tag in mind. So, let’s say you want to run along a flat surface really fast and straight. The best way to move fast is to have your palm hit the ground so that it’s parallel to the ground, like if you laid the palm of your hand on a table.

Ran fast, got a great tag

So that’s how you want your palm to hit the ground, but the motion of your arm while your hand is hitting the ground also matters. You want to hit the ground so that you go forward, not up. So don’t push against the ground too much if you just want to go fast and straight. Instead swing your arm so that it’s swinging backwards, and so when it hits the ground you will be pushed forward. Don’t push down and away from the surface you’re moving on or you’ll launch yourself up and away instead of going forward.

This goes for any surface. If you want to move along it instead of bouncing off of it make sure your motion and the palm of your monkey’s hand is matching the surface you’re hitting. So you don’t want to punch a wall if you’re trying to wall climb, you want to push yourself up it, not away from it.

Put Your Wrist Straps On

Our final Gorilla Tag tip for you is really simple, but it can save you a broken controller, or a broken wall, or a broken TV, or a broken nose. If there’s one thing you should always do when playing Gorilla Tag, it’s putting your controller’s wrist straps on. Most people play Gorilla Tag on the Oculus Quest 2, and the Quest 2 controllers come with great wrist straps. Use them.

Waving to a pinch climbing monkey

If they feel weird on your wrists don’t worry, you’ll get used to them really quickly. It’s way easier than accidentally throwing your controller across the room and breaking it. New controllers are expensive, and you might break something else or hurt someone if you launch your VR controller across the room.

Also, having a firm grip on your controllers will keep you from dropping them and potentially getting tagged because you were busy picking them up. So wearing your wrist straps will make you a better player too.

Those are all the Gorilla Tag Tips and Tricks here. Still, we’ve got some other great Gorilla Tag articles like how to install mods, or how to wall climb, or how to make your arms longer on the Quest 2, or how to make a sweet gorilla tag profile picture easily, or how to look really stylish with some great color codes.