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How to make the most of the new jelly fish (2025)

Love them or hate them, those new jelly fish are here to stay. I have tried to study their behaviour to see which levels they are a help and which ones they are no help at all.

Firstly some general points:

These fishes behave differently from what the old fishes used to do. We have to relearn the mechanics and change our strategy accordingly. The use of the new fishes is now part of each level design.

Because of the above the videos posted on YouTube are not much help any more.

The best help at the moment we can get on how to use the new fishes is to turn on hints in the game and follow the suggested moves for levels we are stuck on. Right now, (March 2025 ) the game designers want players to get used to the new fishes and will help by suggesting the best possible moves in most levels to incorporate the fish. Many move suggestions now are to create a fish. This may change in the future, but I have found that at the moment the game hints will help.

Making a combo with the fish:

Fish+ colour bomb is a great combo, especially on jelly levels.

Fish+wrap or fish+stripe no longer works, so don't make such combos.

Fish+Fish is good for some levels as it will create 3 fish, so it is good near the end of a jelly level

I have repeatedly tried this and have found that in all instances the new fish do reliably clear the last jelly on the board. Other blockers may however not get cleared as a last move, and fish+wrap or stripe also may not work.

One warning: The new fish will NOT attack any other fish. So there will be no fish eats fish cascades, and even if the last jelly or last candy underneath a dragon is a fish no fish will go for it, so you will need to use other means to clear those spaces

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Just a reminder of the fish behaviour:

with the new Midsummer Meltdown levels it has become clear that if there is no target for the fish that they would go for these fish WILL eat your special candies, often destroying any chance to make a combo with them. They hate toffee so they never attack toffee that isn't blocking a dragon/sprinks or whatever they are now called.

I have also found that the fishes do not eat what looks like ice: the crystal candy. Here my example:

I have bought 5 extra moves with gold and hope to pass this level now. If I was ignoring the fish and use the old method I probably would. But instead I use it to test out the theory of what the fishes will go for: It's the striped blue candy. These fishes are confused. This level is confused: it's a fusion of old human written level vs the AI fish algorithms. The AI is giving us fishes to help clear the level but the fishes refuse to attack the crystal candy and here I am out of lives again:

I give the fish + wrap combo a go in this position, to test out what happens, but it flies off into nowhereland and does nothing.

Whatever these fish do, they do NOT help me pass this level!

Only a UFO will do here. ( and yes, I paid the 16 gold extra to test this out)

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/490397/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-new-jelly-fish-2025

I believe these new fish are blind :)

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3320069#Comment_3320069

Thank you for pointing out this change! It's great to hear someone has taken on board the feedback and that an improvement has taken place. It just didn't make sense to have a special candy combo be so useless. The effect could be missed by the eye as it's not very obvious by the graphics, but the fish + stripe combo sure does clear a whole row of blockers and since you pointed this out I have used jelly fish + stripe or wrap combos myself with some good results.

The fish + stripe and fish + wrap combos have been modified to target the same things that fish normally target. They go for blockers instead of regular candies, and are basically normal fish with an added striped or wrapped effect. Now they are actually of some use.

Here is a reminder as the thread has become so long. For my original advice go to page 1.

Please can everyone note:

Fish + stripe combos are now useless. Edit May 2025: This combo will now target blockers and clear one entire row same a striped candy

Fish + wrap combos sometimes go in the right place and clear one blocker and surroundings same as a wrapped candy.

Fish + Fish is useful as it creates three fishes.

Fish + colour bomb is very useful on all levels.

The new fish will help clear blockers underneath dragons.

The new fish will clear jelly.

The new fish will clear frosting and many other blockers.

The new fish will NOT clear toffee.

The new fish will not go for any space covered by another fish (no fish eats fish cascades), even if it is the last jelly on the board.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/494432/fish-joining-with-stripe

You are correct. We would not recommend creating a fish-stripe or fish-wrap combo now that the fish behaviour has changed. This is not helpful AT ALL. However, the new fish are here to stay, so I have created some tips on how to make the most of them.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/490397/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-new-jelly-fish-2025

I cannot state often enough: Do not make a fish+stripe combo. It wastes both a move and a fish. The game is what it is, so we must play the way the algorithms are written. They don't take account of such a combo any more, so don't use it.

i play several of the games and the use of fish being able to join a stripe candy or bagged was a good thing, it knew right where to go. On Candy Crush it goes to worthless spots and works against you. Is there a way to find out if this problem has been addressed?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3289898#Comment_3289898

My striped fish just go to the top and clean of the most stupid horizontal line it can find 😅😅 my fish have never ever been 3 if matched with a striped candy.

Oh, and @michimune , thank you so much for pointing this out. I would still be trying to puzzle out how this works if it weren't for your message.

Short description of the announcement in the Support column, for those others like me who might not have seen it: If you enter the game and immediately go to the Star Tournament at the end of the map without playing any old levels first, the fish will be old-style fish and follow the old algorithm. But if you go back and play an old level first, and then enter the Star Tournament, the fish will then be new-style fish.

Oh wow. Sorry, I never check the Support threads. Obviously I should. Or they should post an announcement like this in the general Discussion threads as well.

That's a pretty surprising bug.

Also, I'd like to point out that I mentioned this behavior earlier in this thread on March 19, the day before they posted that in Support. So I guess I found it before they did. 😀 (Maybe they found it because they saw my post?)

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3294738#Comment_3294738

I think you don't read the announcement in Support column, fish can change by yourself in Star.

So I took it upon myself to try to document which levels in the Star Tournament have new fish, which have old fish, and which have no fish at all (which is really just the old fish, meaning a 2x2 doesn't create a fish, but no fish can occur because there are no fish spawners in the level). I carefully documented all the levels; I found that there were slightly more new fish levels than old fish + no fish levels. But then I looped around and kept going, and discovered to my surprise that a number of the levels are changing the second time around! So it seems almost like it's random whether you get the old or new fish, even on the same level!?!?!

Really wild. Is anyone seeing that behavior in regular levels? Does anyone still see old-style fish in the regular levels? Because they're quite common in the Star Tournament, at least for me, and it seems like it changes from instance to instance. Very weird and surprising.

It's interesting - this would be another way King could control outcomes - switch the behavior of the fish whenever it's convenient for the outcome they desire.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3289915#Comment_3289915

@christinewupp Tyvm for this info Christine, always helpful and much appreciated

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290641#Comment_3290641

Yes and I've started a thread about it:

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/491041/my-all-stars-journey-begins-here

Sorry, I meant the black cat account, I know that the dog can't participate. Good luck with the cat!

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290639#Comment_3290639

No, my main (dog) game doesn't have it, the second (cat) game does, but it doesn't have many resources. Maybe I can try to make it to the last round on a low budget again. I'm still undecided. In any case, I don't stand a chance in the final round.

Will Cornflower be participating?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290636#Comment_3290636

On another note, will you be participating in All Stars with you dog game?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290621#Comment_3290621

Levels have been misbehaving lately. You can get one version, then restart the game and get another.

It appears that they are in the process of tweaking certain levels. And fish don't attack Sour Skull on this level for me either, even though they usually do.

They seem to program fish to do certain tasks on certain levels. For example, they don't normally target keys, but on level 8329 they do.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290127#Comment_3290127

I am beginning to wonder if King are starting to change the fish behaviour, essentially making this thread obsolete. In this particular level the fish did not go for the sour skull as a priority. They attacked frosting instead. Can it be that we don't all get the same levels now? Do King manipulate outcome with the way the fish are programmed?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290104#Comment_3290104

I managed to get the iPad going and managed to pass the level with ease. As you were suggesting above I might not understand how to play Candy Crush I would like to show you how this level should be played, and illustrate that it is working perfectly fine:

Carry out the suggested moves or the best possible moves to get the sour skull and free both the frog and the magic mixers as early as possible.

Now I place the frog in the middle of the toffee swirls.

Now use the colour bomb bonbon blitz to recharge the frog. At the same time we need to ensure that we don't get swamped by the bonbon blitz to avoid the "no more possible move" scenario.

I carry on to destroy the toffee swirls and eventually the striped candies will drop. I can see now where you made your fatal mistake: You must NOT place the frog on the bottom row. Place it in the middle. That way the magic mixers can be destroyed using stipe/stripe combos as seen here:

and here:

This level is easy to pass if you understand how to use the frog and understand the game in general. I passed with the next move with the stripe/stripe combo.

I know you said you would not return to this thread and I doubt you will answer here. The fishes have no noticeable effect on this level either to help or hinder. It's a shame I had to spoil my thread with an off topic post, but it was fun to prove my point.

It might as well be best if you do quit. Farewell.

@SH24 appears to have a valid point. In older videos, the mixers spawn blitzes in sync, but the maximum amount of blitzes they can spawn at once seems to be capped. When fish damage some of the mixers, they go out of sync, spawning occurs more frequently, and the board fills up much more quickly. I also noted that the level that was marked as 'Normal' not long ago has now become Legendary. However, with the right frog sequence, I passed.

Comments

Just a reminder of the fish behaviour:

with the new Midsummer Meltdown levels it has become clear that if there is no target for the fish that they would go for these fish WILL eat your special candies, often destroying any chance to make a combo with them. They hate toffee so they never attack toffee that isn't blocking a dragon/sprinks or whatever they are now called.

I have also found that the fishes do not eat what looks like ice: the crystal candy. Here my example:

I have bought 5 extra moves with gold and hope to pass this level now. If I was ignoring the fish and use the old method I probably would. But instead I use it to test out the theory of what the fishes will go for: It's the striped blue candy. These fishes are confused. This level is confused: it's a fusion of old human written level vs the AI fish algorithms. The AI is giving us fishes to help clear the level but the fishes refuse to attack the crystal candy and here I am out of lives again:

I give the fish + wrap combo a go in this position, to test out what happens, but it flies off into nowhereland and does nothing.

Whatever these fish do, they do NOT help me pass this level!

Only a UFO will do here. ( and yes, I paid the 16 gold extra to test this out)

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/490397/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-new-jelly-fish-2025

I believe these new fish are blind :)

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3320069#Comment_3320069

Thank you for pointing out this change! It's great to hear someone has taken on board the feedback and that an improvement has taken place. It just didn't make sense to have a special candy combo be so useless. The effect could be missed by the eye as it's not very obvious by the graphics, but the fish + stripe combo sure does clear a whole row of blockers and since you pointed this out I have used jelly fish + stripe or wrap combos myself with some good results.

The fish + stripe and fish + wrap combos have been modified to target the same things that fish normally target. They go for blockers instead of regular candies, and are basically normal fish with an added striped or wrapped effect. Now they are actually of some use.

Here is a reminder as the thread has become so long. For my original advice go to page 1.

Please can everyone note:

Fish + stripe combos are now useless. Edit May 2025: This combo will now target blockers and clear one entire row same a striped candy

Fish + wrap combos sometimes go in the right place and clear one blocker and surroundings same as a wrapped candy.

Fish + Fish is useful as it creates three fishes.

Fish + colour bomb is very useful on all levels.

The new fish will help clear blockers underneath dragons.

The new fish will clear jelly.

The new fish will clear frosting and many other blockers.

The new fish will NOT clear toffee.

The new fish will not go for any space covered by another fish (no fish eats fish cascades), even if it is the last jelly on the board.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/494432/fish-joining-with-stripe

You are correct. We would not recommend creating a fish-stripe or fish-wrap combo now that the fish behaviour has changed. This is not helpful AT ALL. However, the new fish are here to stay, so I have created some tips on how to make the most of them.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/490397/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-new-jelly-fish-2025

I cannot state often enough: Do not make a fish+stripe combo. It wastes both a move and a fish. The game is what it is, so we must play the way the algorithms are written. They don't take account of such a combo any more, so don't use it.

i play several of the games and the use of fish being able to join a stripe candy or bagged was a good thing, it knew right where to go. On Candy Crush it goes to worthless spots and works against you. Is there a way to find out if this problem has been addressed?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3289898#Comment_3289898

My striped fish just go to the top and clean of the most stupid horizontal line it can find 😅😅 my fish have never ever been 3 if matched with a striped candy.

Oh, and @michimune , thank you so much for pointing this out. I would still be trying to puzzle out how this works if it weren't for your message.

Short description of the announcement in the Support column, for those others like me who might not have seen it: If you enter the game and immediately go to the Star Tournament at the end of the map without playing any old levels first, the fish will be old-style fish and follow the old algorithm. But if you go back and play an old level first, and then enter the Star Tournament, the fish will then be new-style fish.

Oh wow. Sorry, I never check the Support threads. Obviously I should. Or they should post an announcement like this in the general Discussion threads as well.

That's a pretty surprising bug.

Also, I'd like to point out that I mentioned this behavior earlier in this thread on March 19, the day before they posted that in Support. So I guess I found it before they did. 😀 (Maybe they found it because they saw my post?)

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3294738#Comment_3294738

I think you don't read the announcement in Support column, fish can change by yourself in Star.

So I took it upon myself to try to document which levels in the Star Tournament have new fish, which have old fish, and which have no fish at all (which is really just the old fish, meaning a 2x2 doesn't create a fish, but no fish can occur because there are no fish spawners in the level). I carefully documented all the levels; I found that there were slightly more new fish levels than old fish + no fish levels. But then I looped around and kept going, and discovered to my surprise that a number of the levels are changing the second time around! So it seems almost like it's random whether you get the old or new fish, even on the same level!?!?!

Really wild. Is anyone seeing that behavior in regular levels? Does anyone still see old-style fish in the regular levels? Because they're quite common in the Star Tournament, at least for me, and it seems like it changes from instance to instance. Very weird and surprising.

It's interesting - this would be another way King could control outcomes - switch the behavior of the fish whenever it's convenient for the outcome they desire.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3289915#Comment_3289915

@christinewupp Tyvm for this info Christine, always helpful and much appreciated

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290641#Comment_3290641

Yes and I've started a thread about it:

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/491041/my-all-stars-journey-begins-here

Sorry, I meant the black cat account, I know that the dog can't participate. Good luck with the cat!

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290639#Comment_3290639

No, my main (dog) game doesn't have it, the second (cat) game does, but it doesn't have many resources. Maybe I can try to make it to the last round on a low budget again. I'm still undecided. In any case, I don't stand a chance in the final round.

Will Cornflower be participating?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290636#Comment_3290636

On another note, will you be participating in All Stars with you dog game?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290621#Comment_3290621

Levels have been misbehaving lately. You can get one version, then restart the game and get another.

It appears that they are in the process of tweaking certain levels. And fish don't attack Sour Skull on this level for me either, even though they usually do.

They seem to program fish to do certain tasks on certain levels. For example, they don't normally target keys, but on level 8329 they do.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290127#Comment_3290127

I am beginning to wonder if King are starting to change the fish behaviour, essentially making this thread obsolete. In this particular level the fish did not go for the sour skull as a priority. They attacked frosting instead. Can it be that we don't all get the same levels now? Do King manipulate outcome with the way the fish are programmed?

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3290104#Comment_3290104

I managed to get the iPad going and managed to pass the level with ease. As you were suggesting above I might not understand how to play Candy Crush I would like to show you how this level should be played, and illustrate that it is working perfectly fine:

Carry out the suggested moves or the best possible moves to get the sour skull and free both the frog and the magic mixers as early as possible.

Now I place the frog in the middle of the toffee swirls.

Now use the colour bomb bonbon blitz to recharge the frog. At the same time we need to ensure that we don't get swamped by the bonbon blitz to avoid the "no more possible move" scenario.

I carry on to destroy the toffee swirls and eventually the striped candies will drop. I can see now where you made your fatal mistake: You must NOT place the frog on the bottom row. Place it in the middle. That way the magic mixers can be destroyed using stipe/stripe combos as seen here:

and here:

This level is easy to pass if you understand how to use the frog and understand the game in general. I passed with the next move with the stripe/stripe combo.

I know you said you would not return to this thread and I doubt you will answer here. The fishes have no noticeable effect on this level either to help or hinder. It's a shame I had to spoil my thread with an off topic post, but it was fun to prove my point.

It might as well be best if you do quit. Farewell.

@SH24 appears to have a valid point. In older videos, the mixers spawn blitzes in sync, but the maximum amount of blitzes they can spawn at once seems to be capped. When fish damage some of the mixers, they go out of sync, spawning occurs more frequently, and the board fills up much more quickly. I also noted that the level that was marked as 'Normal' not long ago has now become Legendary. However, with the right frog sequence, I passed.

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