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Since the water levels and Gravity Grove are much later in the game, there tends to be less fierce competition because not all players are familiar with the room layouts and the common places you’ll want to fire your birds to knock down multiple structures. I agree with @captsternn that practice makes perfect. I’m pretty sure Rovio intended this as a carrot for people to actually go through and suffer the pain of playing those levels if they hadn’t already.
For the water levels, I too am afraid of firing my birds into the water because I will pretty much always guess the trajectory wrong and bump the underside of an island on my way back up (or miss a scuba pig I’m trying to hit). Often I’ve noticed that when there are multiple scuba pigs, they’re lined up in such a way that you can get them with a single bird that will then pop up from the surface and hit a far structure on the right. Either that or there will be flowers strategically positioned to fire debris at the scuba pigs if you can knock some in there. No guarantees due to the semi-random level generation, but that appears to be the intent – making it look like you have to waste an extra bird on a stray pig when in reality you may not have to.
For the gravity levels, it’s usually a question of push vs. pull (do I want to knock this structure forward or undermine it so that it falls backward?), and understanding how the portals contribute to potential chain reaction. Gravity Grove confused me like nothing else for the first several levels, but eventually I got a feel for roughly how things would change trajectory as it left its local “gravity zone”. These levels remind me of AB Space at times, so if you suffered through that game or the space levels in Star Wars, it’ll probably be easier to adapt.
For level 254, you can easily defeat the boss with a single bird if you have Bomb. The boss is in his “cell” right below your slingshot. Just fire him down at the top right corner of the cell and detonate – this should pop the balloon holding him in and he’ll fall off the bottom of the screen after one or two bounces. I feel like I must have discovered the Bomb shortcut by complete accident, and I’ve honestly never been able to pull off the “proper” solution with other birds when I’m unfortunate enough to get to this one without Bomb, so when I know this Boss is coming, I save him up. Not that it’s going to help anyone today because it was part of yesterday’s challenge, but I’d seen level 254 in a challenge not too long before that, so sometimes they repeat bosses, you never know.