Snow Peaks

Pale birches, snow-capped pagodas and slow, glassy bells. You arrive after the Catapult, at around 1,000 metres, with the ninja still picking up speed.

On a run: 1,000 to 1,500 m
New here: Icicles, three at a time
Best ink: Any roof except fire
Boss: The Rival Ninja at 1,500 m
In Fight: Waves 11 to 15
Look and sound: Birches, snowy pagodas, falling snow and glassy bells

The ninja keeps speeding up through every world and reaches top speed at around 3,000 metres, at the end of Ember Volcano. Here he is fast but not flat out, and the dangers get harder too.

The dangers of Snow Peaks

Icicles

Three icicles hang from the top of the screen ahead, one after another, about a metre and a half apart. They shake harder and harder, then let go in order, each timed to land where the ninja will be. A dotted red line under each shows where it will fall.

Beat it: One long roof over his path, slightly above head height, catches all three. They shatter on any line except fire.

Archers, firing three times

Past 700 metres an archer looses three arrows, and from 1,200 metres some fire two shots at his back after you pass.

Beat it: One returned arrow stops the whole string. For shots from behind, a wall just behind the ninja.

Which ink works here

Ink	What it does here
Pen	A roof stops icicles. Longer lines make a single roof over all three much easier.
Rubber	Works as a roof, though its lines are shorter.
Steel	A tough roof that lasts. Short, so angle it to cover the spots under all three.
Fire	Icicles fall straight through it. Never use fire as a roof here.
Ice	Fits the world: an ice ramp throws him over long stretches and whole groups of dangers.

Tips for Snow Peaks

Draw the roof as soon as you see the icicles shaking, not when they fall.
Short on ink? The three fall in order, so a roof over the first two plus a quick second stroke for the third works too.
The Longer ink upgrade in the Shop makes one-stroke roofs easy.
Look for the red arrow on the left edge: it means an archer behind you is about to shoot.

Common mistakes

A roof too short to reach the third icicle.
Waiting until the icicles let go. By then there is no time to draw.
Switching to fire before a stretch of icicles.

Snow Peaks in Fight and Duel

Fight moves to a new world every five waves, in the same order as the run. Waves 11 to 15 take place in Snow Peaks, and the last of them ends with the Shadow Lord. After the Mist Caves the order starts again from Bamboo Valley at wave 41. In a Duel, every match is set in a world picked at random, so you may meet your opponent here too. See Fight: surviving the first twenty waves for each warlord.

The boss

At 1,500 metres, the Rival Ninja. Beat him and night falls: Moonlit Ink.