Puyo are at a huge disadvantage against Tetris players. Tetris players both better offensive options with 4 wide combos and better recovery options from harassment due to how the tetris trash blocks work. Puyo players have slower set up speed and have to deal with harsher harrassment due to puyo trash actively interferring with certain chain set ups.
The match up is actually so bad that most professional Japanese puyo players ditched PPT to play the Puyo Chronicles before Puyo esports came out.
I'm sure you're pretty good at Tetris but this post is grossly misinformed.
I'll certainly defer to you, I know nothing of the competitive scene.
I thought it was always interesting how the matches played out but I never quite figured out the top tier players. I just looked up my old GAF posts and when I stopped playing my overall record (including mixed) was 106-26 and I hit 4700 for points but I remember climbing near 5000. I think that was close to top 2000 (maybe just US?) on Switch at the time (I backed out of playing against low ranks, not to rank whore, it just wasn't fun for anyone). I was definitely matching against the top 500 world wide often.
I was getting fairly proficient at chaining T-Spins, but I couldn't handle players that played purely T-Spins.
Either way, Puyo on players gave me fits at first. I would dump garbage on them fast, often 3 rapid Tetris and/or T-spins and next thing I know I'm completely trashed. Especially against top 500 Puyo players. Then it just became a giant game of cat and mouse of who was going to dump garbage first and I actually ended up stalling with the other players. We'd just watch each other waiting for someone to make a move. Really bizarre strategies born out of it, it was no longer just chaining Tetris as fast as I could. Never fully figured out the best strategy against them, but hell if they weren't awesome matches and a ton of fun.
Thanks for the correction though! Glad Tetris is still king (: