Angry Birds 2: Choose Your Next Bird by Material and Access

A pig can be visible without being the best thing to aim at. A support beneath it, an opening above it or a structure beside it may offer a better use of your next bird. The useful question is not simply which bird seems strongest: it is which available card can do the job this room needs now.

Angry Birds 2 lets you choose which bird to fling, and its levels can contain multiple stages. Plan with the cards currently available to you, rather than assuming every bird you own can be selected for the next shot. The examples below are hypothetical room layouts, not guaranteed solutions to numbered levels.

Give the shot a specific job

Before choosing a bird, identify what prevents you from reaching the remaining pigs. Separate the obstacle you need to change from the pig you ultimately want to pop.

A good first shot does not have to finish the room. It can be a setup, but the setup should have a purpose you can explain: “open this side for the next bird” is more useful than “hit the biggest structure and hope.” Equally, do not spend a setup shot when an available direct approach already solves the problem.

Match ordinary abilities to reachable targets

These are ordinary abilities, not a ranking of the birds. You activate a bird’s special ability by tapping during its flight.

Material is only one part of the choice. A suitable ability is of little help if the bird cannot reach the place where it needs to act. Conversely, an exposed support may be a more promising target than a heavily protected section made from the same material.

Rulebreaking cards can have altered abilities. Rovio provides an information button on those cards and marks them with a visual effect. Treat those descriptions as a separate case rather than applying an ordinary-bird plan unchanged.

Scene 1: An accessible support beneath a protected pig

Imagine a tower with a pig behind a solid front section and a wooden support exposed near its base. Chuck and Bomb are available. You can line up a shot at the support, but a direct shot toward the pig would meet the front section first.

The first decision is about access. Consider Chuck for the exposed wood instead of using Bomb against the first surface simply because an explosion sounds more powerful. The proposed job is to weaken the support and change the tower, not to promise that one hit will bring everything down.

Before firing, identify a possible follow-up: if the structure shifts and exposes the pig, what can your remaining card reach? If no useful follow-up exists unless the entire tower collapses perfectly, your plan is more fragile than it first appears.

This preserves flexibility. Bomb remains a possible answer to the board that actually results, not a payment you have already committed to making. If Bomb has the clearly better accessible target at the start, reverse the plan; the lesson is to assign a job, not always to fire Chuck first.

Scene 2: A frontal wall with an opening above

Now imagine an isolated pig behind a front wall. Matilda is available, and there appears to be a clear flight path above the pig. The wall makes a direct collision awkward, but the overhead space suggests a different approach.

Plan the egg’s landing area before launching. The useful question is whether you can bring Matilda above the intended point and release there—not merely whether you can send her high. A roof or an intervening ledge may block the drop even when the flight itself is unobstructed.

If both parts of the approach look workable, this is a candidate for bypassing the frontal obstruction rather than demolishing it first. If the overhead route is blocked, the task changes: you may need to open that space with another available tool or choose a different approach entirely.

After the shot, reassess the survivor’s position. A damaged wall may leave a newly exposed target; a shifted roof may create a different obstruction. The planned second shot should follow that new geometry. Do not continue aiming at where the pig was before the scene changed.

Notice how this differs from the first example. There, the setup aimed to alter a supporting structure. Here, the preferred plan tries to use existing access and avoid an unnecessary setup. “Destroy more first” is not a universal solution.

Scene 3: Use Blizzard only with a follow-up in mind

Blizzard changes buildings into ice. In an ordinary, spell-eligible Saga room, that can create a useful setup for Blues. But changing the material does not choose the next trajectory for you or guarantee that the room will clear.

Suppose a hard-material structure has an exposed section you could reach, and both Blizzard and Blues are available. Compare the sequence before spending the spell: what would the conversion make easier, and where would the follow-up act?

The important distinction is between improving a shot and merely changing the room. A setup earns its place when it gives the next action a meaningful advantage. If another available bird already has a suitable approach, keeping the spell may leave you more options later.

Chili requires a different kind of planning because it makes a random pig explode. Do not build a precise sequence that requires it to select one particular pig. Spells are unavailable in boss levels and in PvP features such as Arena and Mighty Eagle’s Bootcamp, so those modes cannot rely on a spell as their fallback.

Treat an extra card as earned, not promised

Destruction fills the Destructometer, and filling it grants an extra card. That makes damage to useful structures valuable beyond the immediate opening it creates. It does not justify assuming that your proposed shot will refill the meter or return the exact bird you want.

Compare two plans using the cards you can actually use. One plan needs a support shot followed by an available finisher. The other spends its only useful option and depends on a particular bonus card appearing. Even if the second plan sometimes works, it contains an extra dependency the first does not.

This is especially important when choosing between meaningful damage and cleanup. Breaking something that still protects a pig advances the room’s objective. Spending a card on unrelated debris solely in hope of receiving another card may leave the original problem unsolved. Keep the remaining pigs and access routes at the centre of the decision.

Adapt to the result instead of following a script

For a difficult boss position, Rovio recommends considering special abilities, angles and environmental chain reactions. A boss behind debris may need access cleared before a useful attack is possible. That is a different problem from a clear target that your last shot simply missed.

When trying again, change the part of the plan that failed. A blocked approach calls for a new angle or opening; a poor ability release calls for a timing adjustment; an unsupported follow-up calls for a different card sequence. Changing everything at once makes it harder to understand what helped.

Use a short loop for each shot: name the job, choose an available tool, identify the intended point of action, then inspect the actual result before choosing again. Saving a powerful option is useful only if another card can handle the present job; spending it is sensible when it has the access and effect the room currently needs. Neither “always save the strongest bird” nor “always fire it first” replaces reading the structure in front of you.