Tower Path Tier List
Table of Contents
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SS Tier
Bottom Heli +
- Shove is an amazing yet super cheap mid to late support which can clump or create gaps
between moabs with good micro.
- Can also stall out rounds and delay DDTs enough for them to be popped, making it very
valuable.
- Comanche Defense is a solid tower that holds its own midgame and saves up to many
expensive T5s.
- Comanche Commander is a global damage tier 5 that pairs well with damage and pierce
buffs.
- Needs MIB or some form of lead removal to damage DDTs. Glue Storm or Gwen are good
options.
- Best paths: 01+3
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S Tier
Bottom Glue
- MOAB Glue is a cheap lategame support tower that works well against both dense rounds
and DDTs.
- Relentless creates a chain reaction of stuns that is very good at holding back MOABs and
DDTs. Good at activating Sauda’s prey effects to stunned and slowed bloons.
- Super Glue is a more powerful Relentless, able to stun hordes of moab-class bloons for a
long time.
- Low attack speed and non piercing projectiles causes some issues with it if positioned badly.
- Best paths: 01+3
Mid Ninja +
- Shinobis are good when paired up with any ninja T5, it greatly increases their attack speed
and pierce and also distracts ceramics constantly. Combos very well with Gerry’s Fire.
- Bloon Sabotage is one of the best abilities in the game, especially against DDT rounds. Has a
long cooldown so make sure it is available when DDTs come. Notably weaker against
hyperdense rounds due to not slowing insides, but can still prove useful.
- Grand Saboteur’s ability to buff shinobis also improves Gerry’s Fire on shinobis, letting them
take out entire rounds. Alone, it is not very good.
- Best paths: 040
Top Alch
- Brew and Stim can provide massive DPS buffs to certain towers and are used with many
strats. Certain towers benefit more than others due to shot limits and flat number buffs.
- Brew is also cheap enough to be an affordable earlygame buff and helps with leads.
- Stim provides a slightly stronger buff over brew, and is often bought for any main DPS tower.
- Permanent Brew mainly helps groups of towers with low damage and pierce, but high attack
speeds.
- Best paths: 3xx, 4xx
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S- Tier
Brickell
- Has a good earlygame and buffs the best earlygame tower, sub.
- Use water towers that combo with Naval Tactics or high pierce towers that combo with Mega
Mine.
- Mega Mines have very high potential and can do massive damage when stacked. The
massive damage creates massive rushes of moabs and ceramics, so be careful.
- Stacked up mini mines have a surprising DPS potential against bloon waves.
- Lvl 17 allows her pistol to deal relatively high single target damage for a hero.
Corvus
- Is extremely powerful at all stages of the game due to him using mana and not your money
- Make sure he is always near bloons so that he can gain mana constantly. Recent mana gain
nerfs do hurt this though.
- With his medium leveling speed and the nourishment spell you can reach the level 20 power
spike very early and decimate many rounds with ease, or be able to reach level 20 on round 95
without stalling.
- Soul Barrier giving you extra lives can activate Life-Loss abilities, primarily Bomb Blitz’s
Bomb Storm.
- High level Corvus is challenging to play, as you have to constantly cast spells.
- Corvus can still be played casually, keeping passive spells active, but this is much weaker
since Ancestral Might and Overload are not used to their full potential.
SILAS =
- Solid but at times infuriating earlygame due to his main attack’s randomness. Buying a few
base ice monkeys in range for the shards is quite strong as well. His L7 ability destroys the R40
MOAB with only an ice monkey or two.
- Rushing your T3 ice monkeys the second he hits L8 is key to get his L20 as early as possible.
- You only need 4 T3 ice monkeys to get L20 by R98 on expert maps.
- Decent enough midgame, but doesn’t really do that much without his abilities in this part of
the game.
- Lategame he becomes an absolute menace, with the rotating shards he gives to ice monkeys
being a legitimate source of DPS along with his L7 ability nuking moab rushes.
- He is an absolute stalling juggernaut and pairs incredibly well with Absolute Zero because
his L20 makes a single one be able to permanently freeze anything that isn’t a BAD.
- Synergizes very well with Icicles, Absolute Zero, and even base ice monkey spam.
Mid Ice
- Arctic Wind is a cheap ceramic stall in a small range, and also enables ice stall.
- Arctic Wind can freeze water on maps such as Flooded if you need the space.
- Snowstorm’s ability has a strong freeze slow on moabs and DDTs which gives it some unique
uses that Sabo can't provide, most notably with Brickell.
- Absolute Zero is a strong T5 that slows down the game dramatically by applying permafrost.
- Absolute Zero also pairs well with Silas to halt the progress of many rounds entirely and stall
virtually effortlessly even on short maps.
- Being buffed by Energizer alone allows the ability to have nearly permanent uptime which is
incredibly strong with any strategy, but especially with Brickell based ones.
- Best paths: x4x, 1+50
Top Sub +
- Submerge and Support can work as a decamo but due to the slow decamo rate and large
submerge delay, may not be the most reliable.
- Reactor is a decent early-mid with consistent decamo and can deal with most sub-ceramic
bloons.
- Pairs exceptionally well with Absolute Zero to increase the freeze uptime, but is also quite
strong with other water towers, Brickell, and Silas for the cooldown reduction,
- Energizer is used to cut the cooldown of water towers, mainly Snowstorm and Brickell, by
half.
- Also can bring heroes up to level 20, but isn’t amazing outside of Brickell, who gets extra
benefit.
- Best paths: 4+01+
Bottom Spac
- Long Life Spikes is a great midgame cleanup tower and remains useful lategame, being able
to kill some DDTs and serve as efficient r100 damage with alch. Best used with a stall.
- Deadly Spikes should only be used to save into Perma Spike.
- Perma Spike can build a solid spike pile without large amounts of stalling, but benefits
hugely from extending the end of each round, allowing it to swallow huge groups of moabs on
its own.
- Use with Concoction, a form of stall, and a hero good at clearing RBE like Brickell or Corvus.
- Best paths: 105
Mid Engi
- Foam with Pin gets good value early due to the slow and lead popping.
- Lategame it can decamo all DDTs by targeting it slightly off the track. Remains decent
ceramic slow.
- Overclock is an excellent support for expensive tier 4s like max Orca or Dark Champ, and is
very strong on many tier 5s.
- Expensive compared to other support such as slowdowns, but helps with damage on 100.
- Ultraboost takes far too long to stack up considering its high price.
- Best paths: 032, 040+
Top Beast
- Great White can be used as an r40 solution, but downtime may make it worse than
Barracuda. Max power becomes a decent midgame that has good raw damage.
- Max Orca is an incredibly powerful lategame attacker. Downtime is still its biggest weakness,
as ceramics and DDTs can escape it. Losing Symphonic Resonance means this is far more
likely.
- As a beast handler, it can naturally save up into itself, with Orca preferring to keep multiple
lower tier beasts on the field and merging on 80.
- Best paired with Overclock to give it the power to destroy everything but the BAD.
- Megalodon requires 4 Orcas and is too expensive. Only used to flex.
- Best paths: 4xx (64)
Bottom Beast -
- Golden Eagle can prove quite useful at low degrees moving clumps of ceramics and bloons
around.
- High power eagle, while not as strong anymore due to significant nerfs, is a relatively cheap
bloon/moab control tower that has global range.
- Giant Condor is a very strong BFB controller, being able to move them to other lanes as well.
Maximize effectiveness by minimizing the flight distance and changing targeting.
- Pouākai is a powerful high cost T5 that can trivialize many rounds with its high pierce.
- Producing only 1 child bloon greatly helps Pouakai manage the lategame.
- Best paths: xx4 (17)
A- Tier
Sauda
- Attack speed nerf means she is slightly more likely to leak on stronger bloons like purples
and zebras.
- Lvl 3 ability does decent damage on the track and can instantly defeat a group of ceramics.
- Lvl 10 clears ceramic rushes easily, but is weak against super ceramics until lvl 16.
- Reliant on prey effects for their massive damage boost. Relentless Glue can effectively
activate both.
- Is especially good on converging lanes where Sword Charge hits multiple times, such as
Quad.
- Massively improved ability power at level 20, making Energizer a very strong option.
Rosalia {#rosalia-a}
- Great earlygame with the high damage laser and later on bouncing grenades. Her only
earlygame weakness is a lack of camo detection but that is not a very big problem.
- Decently strong midgame with her abilities and moab knockback but she doesn’t provide
anything special at this part of the game.
- Very strong lategame mostly due to her laser attack’s moab knockback which is very strong
for stalling, and her damage is decent enough to do something but it isn’t her best quality.
- Kinetic Charge can deal high damage, mainly useful as a r100 and r98 tool.
- Her laser flight boost is quite strong lategame due to firing both charged lasers and charged
grenades.
- Her discounts are decent for Apache Prime and Flying Fortress, but aren’t big for cheaper
towers.
Top Dart
- Spike-o-pult has decent pierce and alright damage, but only recommended when it has
walls.
- The 402 Juggernaut has significantly more knockback than its faster firing counterpart,
making it a good early purchase that stays relevant by knocking back ceramics. Strong on
Ravine and Dungeons.
- Ultra-Juggernaut is very potent on a select few maps with obstacles, including Mesa,
Dungeons, etc.
- Near useless on every other map as lack of single target leaves it hanging after round 80.
- Best paths: 402
Mid Dart +
- Triple Darts is a cheap earlygame that works fine on Ravine or Dungeons.
- Super Monkey Fan Club is expensive, lacks mobility and doesn’t have enough damage.
- Plasma Monkey Fan Club is a great tower for lategame burst DPS, given you have something
to stall or cover downtime. The tower has good power, but doesn’t last long enough and is
hard to use.
- Pairs well with Primary Mentoring due to cooldown reduction and free tier 1 upgrades.
- Best paths: x5x
Top Boomer
- Glaive Ricochet is cheap enough to be an earlygame, but struggles to bounce when bloons
are split up.
- MOAR Glaives is a good bloon DPS midgame, but can do some solid lategame damage when
spammed, and paired with Gwen and/or debuffs.
- Glaive Lord’s bouncing glaives deal incredible damage all across the screen and wipes
ceramics, MOABs, and DDTs easily. Even more powerful in places where orbitals cover.
- Lowered pierce on the main attack hurts this tower greatly as the glaives re-hit targets less
times.
- Increased attack speed is preferred when DDT damage can be obtained in other ways.
- Best paths: 520
Bottom Bomb
- Cluster Bombs is not good, and doesn’t do anything without Striker.
- Recursive has high pierce and is best used against midgame bloons, but can deal moab
damage.
- Bomb Blitz is much cheaper and is able to hold its own as long as black bloons are taken
care of.
- By using Corvus’s Soul Barrier, you can activate its passive, which is comparable to Tsar
Bomba in damage output while being far cheaper. Be careful as the Bomb Storm ability has a
60s cooldown.
- Best paths: 025
Mid Desp +++
- Deadeye can one shot ceramics from a distance with a decent fire rate.
- Ability provides unique benefits that have some niche use cases. Lack of ability uptime
makes it not a top choice.
- Bounty Hunter’s increased damage and marking bloons increases damage by a lot and helps
out other desperado damage, making it allow for some very cheap BAD layer kills.
- Ability acts similar to a MIB and has better buffs, but the tower costs a lot and still has low
uptime.
- Golden Justice has extremely powerful attacks, but it leaks ceramics and requires good
straight lines to make the most of its slow attack speed.
- Prevent bloons from entering the pistol range to keep the railgun attack active at all times.
- Most of its weaknesses can be avoided with Silas and Absolute Zero being able to clump
everything together outside of Golden Justice’s range
- Best paths: 23+
Top Sniper
- Deadly Precision is a niche but effective way to beat the 40s.
- Maim MOAB is a very strong global stunner against MOABs midgame and lategame
- 420 synergizes well with Berserker Brew due to increased pierce.
- Cripple unfortunately got crippled, and deals a fairly insignificant amount of damage now.
Cannot be used as a solo wincon and always needs some other strong DPS tower to cover for
it.
- The large debuff means high projectile low damage towers can act as supplementary
damage.
- Best paths: 420
Top Boat
- Destroyers have good moab DPS and can be a decent midgame when it uses the
double-sided attack. Can become a powerful lategame strategy when many destroyers are
given a permanent brew.
- Aircraft Carriers have very high power in the midgame but fall off incredibly hard later.
- Carrier Flagship aims in all directions and acts as a powerful global DPS. Use with debuffs
and Brickell.
- Low consistency hurts the tower, but it gets around it with overwhelming power for its cost.
- All of them pair well with Brickell and with any damage increasers.
- Best paths: 31+0
Mid Boat
- Cannon Ship is a decent earlygame.
- Losing single target damage from the frag nerf greatly weakened Monkey Pirates’ moab
damage.
- Pirate Lord has a huge amount of damage, provided it can fire from both sides. Most of its
damage is in the bomb frags, which cannot damage DDTs, so use a form of lead such as
Brickell’s level 3.
- Place between 2 parts of the track to utilize the double-sided attack such as #Ouch and
Quad.
- Extra Hooks can delete good amounts of RBE and minimize the weakness to single targets.
- Best paths: 250
Top Ace
- Fighter Plane is worse than a Mauler.
- Operation: Dart Storm does decent global damage when alched, cutting down MOABs and
ceramics.
- Sky Shredder is a good but difficult to use T5 tower, with amazing damage but less than ideal
pierce. It requires micro to maximize its damage.
- Centered Path makes the ace much more controllable and gives it much needed mobility.
- Best paths: 502
Mid Heli
- Downdraft is the global option for ceramic stalling, but at a higher cost than other ceramic
support.
- Chinook enables a much larger variety of towers to be used on maps such as Geared and the
Puddles.
- Bugged to use extra pierce on regular bloons as well as ceramics if the crosspath is bought.
- Be careful, as chinook’s cooldown is fairly long and the tower is inactive while moving.
- Special Poperations enhances the downdraft even further, lowers the chinook cooldown,
moves around faster, and adds the cleanup based marine ability.
- Best paths: 052
Mid Mortar
- Heavy Shells can do some earlygame work, but is not the star of the path.
- Artillery Battery shreds through ceramics with ease and deals good damage to moabs. High
damage during the ability also allows it to stay useful lategame.
- Pop and Awe permanently keeps the bombardment attack speed and instead triggers an 8
second global stun, which is strong but expensive for what it does.
- Has an incredible synergy with Striker due to his ability to stun MOABs on his own, reset the
cooldown of the ability, and double its damage for a 10 second period.
- Needs significant help dealing with the BAD as it cannot be stunned. Elim is the natural
combo.
- Best paths: 24+0
Bottom Mortar
- Signal Flare is a decent decamo option that can be moved across the map. Lowered
pierce means it’s susceptible to leaking camos on r78.
- Shattering Shells is an expensive support for 98. High burn damage helps it save up to
Blooncineration.
- Blooncineration is expensive, but has high moab burn damage, and stacking walls of fires
can deal decent damage and clean up the super ceramics it leaves if buffed by an alch.
- 205 Blooncin has far more power, although is a bit harder to use due to the lower attack
speed.
- Best paths: 205
Bottom Ninja +
- Flash Bomb is a fine supporting tower in ninja strategies but attacks too slow on its own.
- Sticky Bomb can be used as a midgame moab damager and is decent at BAD damage.
- Master Bomber is a stronger target for shinobis, but doesn’t synergize with damage buffs.
- Microing between strong and first targeting allows the global sticky bombs to break down
high health targets faster while stunning frontmost MOABs and ceramics.
- Has a strong synergy with Psi where it breaks beefy threats and DDTs down while Psi deletes
the RBE to prevent pierce capping. Also has a fairly strong synergy with Etienne where he lets
you save lots of money by double discounting every shinobi and he can provide much needed
cleanup.
- Best paths: 1+05
Mid Alch
- Unstable Concoction has a ton of damage potential, but risks overwhelming your defenses
with large rushes of ceramics and MOABs. Make sure you have other high pierce towers.
- Transforming Tonic is a mid power midgame with long range and sees through walls.
- In lategame, Tonic turns into a concoction with a powerful DPS ability.
- Total Transformation is a strong tier 5 for lategame DPS. Best run with Obyn and Druids of
Wrath.
- A lower cooldown of 40s with the 20s ability duration means it can handle entire rounds like
95 while being ready for the next round.
- Best paths: x5x
Top Beast
- Great White can be used as an r40 solution, but downtime may make it worse than
Barracuda. Max power becomes a decent midgame that has good raw damage.
- Max Orca is an incredibly powerful lategame attacker. Downtime is still its biggest weakness,
as ceramics and DDTs can escape it. Losing Symphonic Resonance means this is far more
likely.
- As a beast handler, it can naturally save up into itself, with Orca preferring to keep multiple
lower tier beasts on the field and merging on 80.
- Best paired with Overclock to give it the power to destroy everything but the BAD.
- Megalodon requires 4 Orcas and is too expensive. Only used to flex.
- Best paths: 4xx (64)
Bottom Beast -
- Golden Eagle can prove quite useful at low degrees moving clumps of ceramics and bloons
around.
- High power eagle, while not as strong anymore due to significant nerfs, is a relatively cheap
bloon/moab control tower that has global range.
- Giant Condor is a very strong BFB controller, being able to move them to other lanes as well.
Maximize effectiveness by minimizing the flight distance and changing targeting.
- Pouākai is a powerful high cost T5 that can trivialize many rounds with its high pierce.
- Producing only 1 child bloon greatly helps Pouakai manage the lategame.
- Best paths: xx4 (17)
Top Dart
- Spike-o-pult has decent pierce and alright damage, but only recommended when it has
walls.
- The 402 Juggernaut has significantly more knockback than its faster firing counterpart,
making it a good early purchase that stays relevant by knocking back ceramics. Strong on
Ravine and Dungeons.
- Ultra-Juggernaut is very potent on a select few maps with obstacles, including Mesa,
Dungeons, etc.
- Near useless on every other map as lack of single target leaves it hanging after round 80.
- Best paths: 402
Mid Dart +
- Triple Darts is a cheap earlygame that works fine on Ravine or Dungeons.
- Super Monkey Fan Club is expensive, lacks mobility and doesn’t have enough damage.
- Plasma Monkey Fan Club is a great tower for lategame burst DPS, given you have something
to stall or cover downtime. The tower has good power, but doesn’t last long enough and is
hard to use.
- Pairs well with Primary Mentoring due to cooldown reduction and free tier 1 upgrades.
- Best paths: x5x
Top Boomer
- Glaive Ricochet is cheap enough to be an earlygame, but struggles to bounce when bloons
are split up.
- MOAR Glaives is a good bloon DPS midgame, but can do some solid lategame damage when
spammed, and paired with Gwen and/or debuffs.
- Glaive Lord’s bouncing glaives deal incredible damage all across the screen and wipes
ceramics, MOABs, and DDTs easily. Even more powerful in places where orbitals cover.
- Lowered pierce on the main attack hurts this tower greatly as the glaives re-hit targets less
times.
- Increased attack speed is preferred when DDT damage can be obtained in other ways.
- Best paths: 520
Bottom Bomb
- Cluster Bombs is not good, and doesn’t do anything without Striker.
- Recursive has high pierce and is best used against midgame bloons, but can deal moab
damage.
- Bomb Blitz is much cheaper and is able to hold its own as long as black bloons are taken
care of.
- By using Corvus’s Soul Barrier, you can activate its passive, which is comparable to Tsar
Bomba in damage output while being far cheaper. Be careful as the Bomb Storm ability has a
60s cooldown.
- Best paths: 025
Mid Desp ++++
- Deadeye can one shot ceramics from a distance with a decent fire rate.
- Ability provides unique benefits that have some niche use cases. Lack of ability uptime
makes it not a top choice.
- Bounty Hunter’s increased damage and marking bloons increases damage by a lot and helps
out other desperado damage, making it allow for some very cheap BAD layer kills.
- Ability acts similar to a MIB and has better buffs, but the tower costs a lot and still has low
uptime.
- Golden Justice has extremely powerful attacks, but it leaks ceramics and requires good
straight lines to make the most of its slow attack speed.
- Prevent bloons from entering the pistol range to keep the railgun attack active at all times.
- Most of its weaknesses can be avoided with Silas and Absolute Zero being able to clump
everything together outside of Golden Justice’s range
- Best paths: 23+
Top Sniper
- Deadly Precision is a niche but effective way to beat the 40s.
- Maim MOAB is a very strong global stunner against MOABs midgame and lategame
- 420 synergizes well with Berserker Brew due to increased pierce.
- Cripple unfortunately got crippled, and deals a fairly insignificant amount of damage now.
Cannot be used as a solo wincon and always needs some other strong DPS tower to cover for
it.
- The large debuff means high projectile low damage towers can act as supplementary
damage.
- Best paths: 420
Top Boat
- Destroyers have good moab DPS and can be a decent midgame when it uses the
double-sided attack. Can become a powerful lategame strategy when many destroyers are
given a permanent brew.
- Aircraft Carriers have very high power in the midgame but fall off incredibly hard later.
- Carrier Flagship aims in all directions and acts as a powerful global DPS. Use with debuffs
and Brickell.
- Low consistency hurts the tower, but it gets around it with overwhelming power for its cost.
- All of them pair well with Brickell and with any damage increasers.
- Best paths: 31+0
Mid Boat
- Cannon Ship is a decent earlygame.
- Losing single target damage from the frag nerf greatly weakened Monkey Pirates’ moab
damage.
- Pirate Lord has a huge amount of damage, provided it can fire from both sides. Most of its
damage is in the bomb frags, which cannot damage DDTs, so use a form of lead such as
Brickell’s level 3.
- Place between 2 parts of the track to utilize the double-sided attack such as #Ouch and
Quad.
- Extra Hooks can delete good amounts of RBE and minimize the weakness to single targets.
- Best paths: 250
Top Ace
- Fighter Plane is worse than a Mauler.
- Operation: Dart Storm does decent global damage when alched, cutting down MOABs and
ceramics.
- Sky Shredder is a good but difficult to use T5 tower, with amazing damage but less than ideal
pierce. It requires micro to maximize its damage.
- Centered Path makes the ace much more controllable and gives it much needed mobility.
- Best paths: 502
Mid Heli
- Downdraft is the global option for ceramic stalling, but at a higher cost than other ceramic
support.
- Chinook enables a much larger variety of towers to be used on maps such as Geared and the
Puddles.
- Bugged to use extra pierce on regular bloons as well as ceramics if the crosspath is bought.
- Be careful, as chinook’s cooldown is fairly long and the tower is inactive while moving.
- Special Poperations enhances the downdraft even further, lowers the chinook cooldown,
moves around faster, and adds the cleanup based marine ability.
- Best paths: 052
Mid Mortar
- Heavy Shells can do some earlygame work, but is not the star of the path.
- Artillery Battery shreds through ceramics with ease and deals good damage to moabs. High
damage during the ability also allows it to stay useful lategame.
- Pop and Awe permanently keeps the bombardment attack speed and instead triggers an 8
second global stun, which is strong but expensive for what it does.
- Has an incredible synergy with Striker due to his ability to stun MOABs on his own, reset the
cooldown of the ability, and double its damage for a 10 second period.
- Needs significant help dealing with the BAD as it cannot be stunned. Elim is the natural
combo.
- Best paths: 24+0
Bottom Mortar
- Signal Flare is a decent decamo option that can be moved across the map. Lowered
pierce means it’s susceptible to leaking camos on r78.
- Shattering Shells is an expensive support for 98. High burn damage helps it save up to
Blooncineration.
- Blooncineration is expensive, but has high moab burn damage, and stacking walls of fires
can deal decent damage and clean up the super ceramics it leaves if buffed by an alch.
- 205 Blooncin has far more power, although is a bit harder to use due to the lower attack
speed.
- Best paths: 205
Bottom Ninja +
- Flash Bomb is a fine supporting tower in ninja strategies but attacks too slow on its own.
- Sticky Bomb can be used as a midgame moab damager and is decent at BAD damage.
- Master Bomber is a stronger target for shinobis, but doesn’t synergize with damage buffs.
- Microing between strong and first targeting allows the global sticky bombs to break down
high health targets faster while stunning frontmost MOABs and ceramics.
- Has a strong synergy with Psi where it breaks beefy threats and DDTs down while Psi deletes
the RBE to prevent pierce capping. Also has a fairly strong synergy with Etienne where he lets you save lots of money by double discounting every shinobi and he can provide much needed cleanup.
- Best paths: 1+05
Mid Alch2
- Unstable Concoction has a ton of damage potential, but risks overwhelming your defenses
with large rushes of ceramics and MOABs. Make sure you have other high pierce towers.
- Transforming Tonic is a mid power midgame with long range and sees through walls.
- In lategame, Tonic turns into a concoction with a powerful DPS ability.
- Total Transformation is a strong tier 5 for lategame DPS. Best run with Obyn and Druids of
Wrath.
- A lower cooldown of 40s with the 20s ability duration means it can handle entire rounds like
95 while being ready for the next round.
- Best paths: x5x
Top Beast2
- Great White can be used as an r40 solution, but downtime may make it worse than Barracuda.
Max power becomes a decent midgame that has good raw damage.
- Max Orca is an incredibly powerful lategame attacker. Downtime is still its biggest weakness,
as ceramics and DDTs can escape it. Losing Symphonic Resonance means this is far more
likely.
- As a beast handler, it can naturally save up into itself, with Orca preferring to keep multiple
lower tier beasts on the field and merging on 80.
- Best paired with Overclock to give it the power to destroy everything but the BAD.
- Megalodon requires 4 Orcas and is too expensive. Only used to flex.
- Best paths: 4xx (64)
Mid Ice
- Cryo Cannon can simultaneously stop groups of superceramics and stall out rounds for
abilities.
- Icicles makes the tower more consistent as well as having the ability to destroy midgame
ceramics.
- Icicle Impale is a heavy stall T5 which requires another tower to deal damage. Pairs well with
MOAB Press, and anything with high pierce due to its clumping capabilities.
- 025 increases attack speed, pierce, and freeze duration. Lead can be fixed with Acidic Mixture
Dip.
- Brickell now being able to buff this path due to the tower as a whole becoming amphibious
makes it significantly stronger.
- Best paths: 014
Mid Glue
- Glue Hose is an alright bloon control but is usually only bought if Glue Strike is also used.
- Glue Strike applies a powerful delead and debuff glue to everything on screen, making it a
good pairing with high projectile towers.
- Corrosive Glue gives an even stronger debuff while soaking through all bloon layers, and is
preferred.
- Glue Storm extends the length of this to 20 seconds if Stickier Glue is bought, letting it glue
ceramic and moab insides as well as delead all of round 95, making for a full MIB skip.
- Best paths: 240
Mid Sub
- Ballistic missile is a stronger spam tower with Sub Commander compared to bottom path
sub, but needs lots of water space near the track to be good. Largely only viable on Quad.
- First Strike is a strong BAD damage tower, usually used to kill off the BAD’s insides on maps
with water, and blast away ZOMGs with groups of MOABs elsewhere.
- Pre-emptive strike can instantly kill all DDTs alone in addition to taking out any natural
moabs, but is very expensive for this job alone.
- Best paths: 040
Bottom Dartling
- Buckshot shouldn’t be used alone due to its slow attack rate. 203 is even slower.
- BADS is a strong mid game tower, it even performs well in some of the hardest maps.
- Laser Shock greatly amplifies the tower’s damage, but sacrifices camo and knockback rate.
- Laser Shock BEZ is a powerful T5 tower that needs little help to take out lategame. Use MIB
or multiple AMD Alchemists to grant lead popping.
- Best paths: 205
Top Village ++
- Primary Training is useful for many primary towers, especially ones with low pierce.
- Primary Mentoring is mainly bought for primary ability towers. Can also be bought to
discount upgrades or provide extra range. Pairs best with Absolute Zero due to increasing the
range of the slowing aura and buffing the cooldown of the ability.
- Primary Expertise is below average for cleanup and damage, but free upgrades and further
reduced cooldowns is very nice for spamming out Snowstorms to achieve a permanent and
recurring freeze.
- Best paths: 3+xx
Mid Beast3
- Velociraptor is a very strong midgame, being global range and one-shotting ceramics with
high pierce and decent attack speed. It also boasts some useful MOAB damage, unlike other
bloon midgames.
- Due to the small range it requires micro to maximize effectiveness.
- T-Rex takes out regular ceramics with ease and still has decently high moab damage, as well
as a very frequent stun ability for the utility. Pair with Overclock.
- Max merge T-Rex layerskips through moabs with its attacks, making it much better as a DPS.
- Giganotosaurus is useless when not at max degree, which you’ll never afford in a CHIMPS
game.
- Best paths: x3x (18), x4x (64)
Bottom Beast4 -
- Golden Eagle can prove quite useful at low degrees moving clumps of ceramics and bloons
around.
- High power eagle, while not as strong anymore due to significant nerfs, is a relatively cheap
bloon/moab control tower that has global range.
- Giant Condor is a very strong BFB controller, being able to move them to other lanes as well.
Maximize effectiveness by minimizing the flight distance and changing targeting.
- Pouākai is a powerful high cost T5 that can trivialize many rounds with its high pierce.
- Producing only 1 child bloon greatly helps Pouakai manage the lategame.
- Best paths: xx4 (17)
Bottom Desp
- Big Iron can function in the early game but struggles massively to high density.
- 2-3 Twin Sixes can be a very cheap and cost efficient round 100 counter when combined with
Bounty Hunter’s marked to pop ability. Unfortunately they do basically nothing outside of
specifically round 100 so there are usually better options.
- The Blazing Sun is a terrible midgame tower. However, it can do some pretty solid single
target when combined with Bounty Hunter, being able to pop the BAD fully on pretty much
any map after using the Bounty Hunter marked to pop ability.
- Unfortunately The Blazing Sun’s role is often done for cheaper by multiple Twin Sixes.
- Best paths: 4+20
Mid Ace2
- Bomber Ace is difficult to maximize and inconsistent to boot.
- Ground Zero is rather hard to save for with earlygame towers alone, but it is powerful with its
stronger bombing runs and faster abilities.
- Good lategame blowing up full screens of MOABs and DDTs, but can’t handle higher health
moabs.
- Tsar deals a single instance of extreme damage, pairs well with slows, and somewhat stalls
for itself with the stun on ZOMGs. Very weak to rounds like 92 and 95.
- Best paths: 04+0
Top Mortar
- Shell Shock is a decent early that can burn through rainbows or blast down clumps of
smaller bloons.
- The Big One is good for ceramic damage, but lacks moab damage. Requires Striker for black
popping.
- The Biggest One is a high pierce moab DPS that struggles to deal point damage.
- TB1 can now be run without Overclock, but still requires another tower to handle ZOMGs
and the BAD for it. Elim is the best choice as both towers benefit from Striker.
- Burny Stuff has more damage, but reduced stuns and slower attack speed make it prone to
leaks.
- Best paths: 520
Top Wiz -
- Arcane Mastery is a great earlygame that is usable on many maps with or without walls.
- Arcane Spike works fine in the midgame, but isn’t the main reason to use the tower.
- Archmage’s Wall of Fire can be microed on top of moabs, enough to put a dent in every
round.
- Best paths: 302, 520
Bottom Wiz
- Shimmer is a suboptimal decamo option due to limited range and lack of consistency.
- Necromancer is a decent ceramic damager midgame. It saves to Prince of Darkness, but falls
off quickly. Graveyard runs out quickly and zombie bloons don’t last long.
- Prince of Darkness cleans up DDTs and MOABs pretty well as long as ceramics are being
popped.
- Pairs well with Corvus as he antistalls for graveyard and leaves lots of ceramics for POD to
clean up.
- Best paths: xx5
Mid Super -
- Robo is a relatively affordable and powerful midgame that scales well with damage
increasing options. Knockback means it stays useful lategame.
- Tech Terror is an expensive damage tower that has a powerful nuke ability for hyperdense
rounds. Think of it as a lower range, higher power Tsar with a more useful main attack. Fairly
weak now due to direct nerfs and Geraldo being a lot weaker nowadays.
- Tech Terror naturally gains the ability to damage leads, letting 041 slow DDTs down.
- Anti-Bloon is not a CHIMPS tower. Rosalia does not reach level 20 before round 100 naturally
so don’t even think about it.
- Best paths: 041+
Top Druid
- Druid of the Storm is an efficient bloon counter with a relatively slow fire speed.
Unfortunately outclassed by Bloon Impact and Cryo Cannon/Icicles.
- Its cheap price and Heart of Thunder’s excellent earlygame allows it to be bought reasonably
for round 40, and it has use in midgame blowing back clumps of bloons.
- Ball Lightning not only massively increases pierce, but also deals sufficiently more damage.
- MONARCH OF STORMS is difficult to save up to and struggles with DDTs and the BAD.
- Best paths: 300+
Bottom Druid
- Druid of Wrath synergizes well with Total Transformation, as you get the extra attack speed
for great lategame DPS. Poplusts can boost speed even more.
- Speed buffs pair well with Gerry’s Fire, and sharpening stone as well as pickle is great for
DPS.
- Unlike Grandmaster Ninja, Avatar of Wrath does not require supporting Poplusts though they
do help.
- Often significantly weaker on DDT rounds due to not much RBE being on screen.
- Best paths: 013+
Mid Spac
- MOAB SHREDR can be used as a strong moab damager or BAD damager if insides can be
dealt with.
- Spike Storm shreds through separated MOABs or DDTs, but struggles to take down denser
groups.
- After many many nerfs to price, damage, and cooldown, is not very viable as a mid-late burst
damage.
- Carpet of Spikes is weak against ceramics, but it deals incredible amounts of moab damage
across the whole map, easily taking out the BAD and all DDTs.
- Best paths: 1+4+0
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B Tier
Gwen
- Cocktail is pretty good for earlygame and is usable for midgame ceramic cleanup when
alched.
- Heat it up has pierce buff and damage buff later on in addition to providing lead popping.
- Gwen’s main attack ramps up burn damage after lvl 9 which adds up against moabs.
- Firestorm is effectively just Heat It Up on demand, the damage is underwhelming. Can be
used on r63/76/78 to help pop the ceramics, but often doesn’t pop them in time until level 16.
- Heat it up as a consistent lead solution is the main reason to use her. Make sure she can
constantly attack so that the buff is active as much as possible.
Ezili -
- Weak earlygame, but camo lead popping at base and purple property removal can provide
some value.
- Very good MOAB DPS with her main attack starting level 6, capable of spreading her DoT to
numerous Moabs, fulfilling her role as an RBE minimizer.
- Hex has great synergy with towers with controlled DPS, capable of eliminating the insides of
up to 24 MOABs when timed correctly.
- Is generally decent on every single map in the game as Hex is global ranged, but often
struggles to stand out from other options with more specifically applicable toolkits.
- On expert maps, her L20 only costs 13k-16k, completely eliminating the worry for R100 while
being cheaper than other Anti-BAD options like First Strike.
Adora {#adora-b}
- Good earlygame due to high pierce homing projectiles and long range from LAOL.
- Alch buff is important for the main attack to not fall off at the end of earlygame and become
totally useless midgame.
- Has a very weak midgame by design as a key aspect of her gameplay is relying on midgame
towers that she can later use Blood Sacrifice on for EXP.
- It is important to get her to level 20 using blood sacrifice, as the powerful buff as well as
improved ball of light lets her do some decent damage for lategame rounds. Recommended
by 98.
- Recent nerfs to her level 20 have significantly hurt her ability to actually kill things.
- Timing her abilities correctly for hard rounds is a very important task.
Etienne + {#etienne-b}
- While drones start off as a flying dart monkey, they gain significant boosts at lvl 7 and 9 that
allow them to dent earlygame rounds.
- Lvl 8 is nice for avoiding camo upgrades, however this is not the main reason to use Etienne.
- UCAV has decent grouped DPS, and when timed correctly, can last for multiple rounds.
- Is often used to help save up to DPS towers by destroying the midgame, but somewhat falls
off late.
- Range buff becomes a very significant factor at level 16, allowing towers to reach across the
map.
- Perma-UCAV kills most end of round stall rather quickly which hurts many ability towers.
- Level 20 UCAV is a very strong cleanup option that counters rounds 92 and 96 harder than
almost any other hero. It also retains a lot of cleanup value against dense rounds due to high
pierce.
Geraldo {#geraldo-b}
- Good earlygame due to the strength of glue, pickles, and turrets.
- Pickles can provide great buffs for low damage towers.
- Many items can help rounds in the midgame, but using his items is quite expensive and hurts
saveups.
- The majority of his kit is used to bandaid deaths at specific rounds where the solution
otherwise spends a lot more cash on an expensive tower.
- Pet Bunny is a worthwhile mid-late attacker which can jump across the map. It returns to
Geraldo if no bloons are in its jump range so Geraldo’s placement matters.
- Requires almost no micro, but be careful to not overspend on his items.
Top Bomb + {#top-bomb-b}
- Lack of black popping prevents RBB from being a good earlygame. Functions as high pierce
knockback.
- Impact is a high power stun and knockback tower in a small range, but is fairly expensive.
- Better radius, rate, pierce, and stun duration makes it more powerful than most ceramic
control towers, but it is still not a perfect ceramic control.
- Crush is a free pass to round 100 on single lanes, but is very expensive and range limited.
- Best paths: 420
Mid Bomb {#mid-bomb-b}
- Maulers are fairly weak in the lategame now, and only sees niche use popping the MOAB.
- Assassin doubles the moab damage of mauler and has a valuable ability. The ability can be
targeted which is great for midgame but annoying if spammed.
- Eliminator is a decent T5 that eliminates entire ZOMGs and can also skip the BAD like First
Strike given Striker’s lvl 20, and has a fairly powerful main attack. Pair with towers that have
good cleanup.
- All middle bombs pair well with Primary Mentoring.
- Best paths: x4+x
Bottom Tack {#bottom-tack-b}
- Tack Sprayer is more cost efficient than an overdrive, but a shorter tower height and lack of
space make it difficult to use. Popular as very cheap r100 damage with Glue Strike.
- Overdrive does great MOAB DPS. Pair with Embrittlement and Brew.
- Typically used with Pat or Geraldo, Tack Zone can lock down one half of the map.
- Overdrive and Tack Zone’s increased height mean when placed directly below the track,
bloons travel right over it. This means tacks fired from all sides hit the same bloon at that
point called the dead zone.
- Best paths: 204
Top Ice {#top-ice-b}
- Ice Shards is relegated to races. It is an extremely weak decamo option.
- Embrittlement can provide a MIB skip and is a good debuffer in a small area. With Sabotage,
it can more consistently hit DDTs within its range.
- Pairs well with pretty much every low damage tower that doesn’t deal extra damage to
camos.
- Super Brittle superpowers both the ice shard DPS and the debuff strength. Can wipe out
clumps of bloons and apply a strong debuff to single targets, but is mostly hurt by its low
range.
- Best paths: 410
Top Glue {#top-glue-b}
- Dissolver can glue a lot more things now, but its DPS doesn’t cut it for expert maps.
- Liquefier’s short range as well as inability to glue everything quickly hold it back on most
experts.
- Solver’s strong puddles enable it to start a chain reaction that can pop up to BFBs and
FMOABs in addition to taking out every ceramic. Unfortunately, The Final Harmonic is
currently bugged to delete these puddles, which makes the tower significantly weaker.
- Weak to high health targets such as FBFBs and ZOMGs, especially after multiple damage
nerfs.
- Best paths: 51+0
Top Desp ++ {#top-desp-b}
- Big Iron can function in the early game but struggles massively to high density.
- 2-3 Twin Sixes can be a very cheap and cost efficient round 100 counter when combined with
Bounty Hunter’s marked to pop ability. Unfortunately they do basically nothing outside of
specifically round 100 so there are usually better options.
- The Blazing Sun is a terrible midgame tower. However, it can do some pretty solid single target when combined with Bounty Hunter, being able to pop the BAD fully on pretty much any map after using the Bounty Hunter marked to pop ability.
- Unfortunately The Blazing Sun’s role is often done for cheaper by multiple Twin Sixes.
- Best paths: 4+20
Mid Ace {#mid-ace-b}
- Bomber Ace is difficult to maximize and inconsistent to boot.
- Ground Zero is rather hard to save for with earlygame towers alone, but it is powerful with its
stronger bombing runs and faster abilities.
- Good lategame blowing up full screens of MOABs and DDTs, but can’t handle higher health
moabs.
- Tsar deals a single instance of extreme damage, pairs well with slows, and somewhat stalls
for itself with the stun on ZOMGs. Very weak to rounds like 92 and 95.
- Best paths: 04+0
Top Mortar2
- Shell Shock is a decent early that can burn through rainbows or blast down clumps of
smaller bloons.
- The Big One is good for ceramic damage, but lacks moab damage. Requires Striker for black
popping.
- The Biggest One is a high pierce moab DPS that struggles to deal point damage.
- TB1 can now be run without Overclock, but still requires another tower to handle ZOMGs
and the BAD for it. Elim is the best choice as both towers benefit from Striker.
- Burny Stuff has more damage, but reduced stuns and slower attack speed make it prone to
leaks.
- Best paths: 520
Top Wiz -
- Arcane Mastery is a great earlygame that is usable on many maps with or without walls.
- Arcane Spike works fine in the midgame, but isn’t the main reason to use the tower.
- Archmage’s Wall of Fire can be microed on top of moabs, enough to put a dent in every
round.
- Best paths: 302, 520
Bottom Wiz
- Shimmer is a suboptimal decamo option due to limited range and lack of consistency.
- Necromancer is a decent ceramic damager midgame. It saves to Prince of Darkness, but falls
off quickly. Graveyard runs out quickly and zombie bloons don’t last long.
- Prince of Darkness cleans up DDTs and MOABs pretty well as long as ceramics are being popped.
- Pairs well with Corvus as he antistalls for graveyard and leaves lots of ceramics for POD to
clean up.
- Best paths: xx5
Mid Super2
- Robo is a relatively affordable and powerful midgame that scales well with damage
increasing options. Knockback means it stays useful lategame.
- Tech Terror is an expensive damage tower that has a powerful nuke ability for hyperdense
rounds. Think of it as a lower range, higher power Tsar with a more useful main attack. Fairly
weak now due to direct nerfs and Geraldo being a lot weaker nowadays.
- Tech Terror naturally gains the ability to damage leads, letting 041 slow DDTs down.
- Anti-Bloon is not a CHIMPS tower. Rosalia does not reach level 20 before round 100 naturally
so don’t even think about it.
- Best paths: 041+
Top Druid
- Druid of the Storm is an efficient bloon counter with a relatively slow fire speed.
Unfortunately outclassed by Bloon Impact and Cryo Cannon/Icicles.
- Its cheap price and Heart of Thunder’s excellent earlygame allows it to be bought reasonably
for round 40, and it has use in midgame blowing back clumps of bloons.
- Ball Lightning not only massively increases pierce, but also deals sufficiently more damage.
- MONARCH OF STORMS is difficult to save up to and struggles with DDTs and the BAD.
- Best paths: 300+
Bottom Druid
- Druid of Wrath synergizes well with Total Transformation, as you get the extra attack speed
for great lategame DPS. Poplusts can boost speed even more.
- Speed buffs pair well with Gerry’s Fire, and sharpening stone as well as pickle is great for
DPS.
- Unlike Grandmaster Ninja, Avatar of Wrath does not require supporting Poplusts though they
do help.
- Often significantly weaker on DDT rounds due to not much RBE being on screen.
- Best paths: 013+
Mid Spac
- MOAB SHREDR can be used as a strong moab damager or BAD damager if insides can be dealt with.
- Spike Storm shreds through separated MOABs or DDTs, but struggles to take down denser groups.
- After many many nerfs to price, damage, and cooldown, is not very viable as a mid-late burst damage.
- Carpet of Spikes is weak against ceramics, but it deals incredible amounts of moab damage across the whole map, easily taking out the BAD and all DDTs.
- Best paths: 1+4+0
B Tier -
Quincy
- Has a decent early game and can start some maps. Struggles heavily against dense regular
bloons.
- Acts as a supporting damager throughout all stages of the game.
- Level 3 gives him good burst damage while level 10 serves as effective cleanup.
- Most effective in the 90s with his high attack speed. Pair with debuffs or Permanent Brew.
- Can’t damage DDTs at all, and does not do much without any abilities.
Church
- His price makes him afforded earliest anywhere from 24-30, but he has a strong earlygame.
- Low attack speed, high damage cannons make them best paired with towers that have some
form of slow to clump bloons, like Barracuda or Pin.
- Level 3 provides a good power buff and lets both attacks damage any bloon type.
- Very good midgame due to high damage machine gun and shells.
- Overall mid lategame due to lack of buffability and poor DDT performance even with armor
piercing shells activated. Fast speed of ceramics requires a ceramic slow tower to effectively
deal with them.
Pat
- Earlygame is nothing notable, but his knockback is quite powerful against round 40.
- Lvl 3 ability's damage buff synergizes extremely well with low damage/high attack speed
towers such as Grandmaster Ninja, Sun Avatars, Tack Zone, etc. Gets far stronger at Lvl 14.
- Lvl 10 ability has a short cooldown, but hugging stops his main attack for a long time.
- His slaps have great stunning power and pair nicely with Press and other slowdowns.
- Roar is strong, but the uptime is quite low so he works best with towers that can clear rounds
fast.
- Short range hurts him greatly on maps with multiple separate lanes.
Top Heli
- Razor Rotors seems decent, but doesn’t beat the moab and is not good enough to save into
Apache.
- Apache Dartship can save up to Prime, but is pathetically weak as a standalone tower.
- Apache Prime does good DPS on single lane maps, but is very expensive and weak to DDTs.
- Ridiculously bad on any map with more than 2 lanes due to its slow speed and mediocre
damage.
- Microing the heli behind the bloons maximizes damage and focuses one side of the map.
- Best paths: 502
Bottom Sniper
- Semi-Auto takes out zebras and leads early but struggles against ceramics.
- Full Auto can deal some moab damage and break open ceramics in the midgame.
- 205 Elite Defender is a decent midgame that can break open ZOMG and DDTs and help
against the BAD.
- 025 struggles to keep up lategame without Permanent Brew giving a consistent alch buff.
- Geraldo’s items can also act like a mini Permanent Brew on 025, making it a decent grouped
DPS.
- Best paths: xx5
Mid Wiz
- Dragon’s Breath is a simple early-mid attacker, but falls off later on.
- Phoenix is a fairly good midgame that can cover the whole screen for 20s, but lacks burst
damage.
- Neither holds up very well against lategame superceramics or fortified MOABs.
- Wizard Lord Phoenix is an expensive lategame T5 that can deal lots of damage over a long
duration.
- Guided Magic makes for some funny scenes if you can obtain camo detection in other ways.
- Best paths: x4x
Bottom Super
- Dark Knight is a MOAB attacker midgame that has good utility lategame with its slow.
- The Dumb Knight (023) is unable to impair the movement of DDTs or damage them, but
better controls groups of ceramics and moabs and can darkshift further.
- Dark Champion is an expensive lategame DPS option, but is very versatile as it can darkshift
anywhere.
- LEGEN OF THE NUT
- Best paths: 204
Top Ninja
- Double Shot as an early is subpar but good for camos.
- Bloonjitsu is a competent midgame with shinobis, not when used alone. Builds into any T5
ninja with ease but several of them can also function as your main dps source with damage
buffs.
- Grandmaster Ninja is a strong black border strategy when buffed with shinobis, notably on
#Ouch.
- Greatly benefits from Geraldo, Pat, or Glue Storm. Without shinobis, it is really bad.
- Best paths: 4+02
Top Merm
- Abyssal Dweller does nothing helpful due to low attack speed, range, and a miniscule pierce
buff.
- Abyssal Warrior has a decent slow against MOABs and BFBs, and the tentacles are able to
wipe out entire ceramics in a single hit with high pierce. Low range is an issue.
- Lord of the Abyss contains a lot of power but the inability to use it well since the tentacles all
attack in their own direction. Not having Symphonic Resonance synergy means the tower
struggles quite a bit.
- The large pierce buff and ink slow lets it be a helpful addition to any defense.
- Also lets you place water towers on land. This doesn’t make or break its viability, but is quite
cool.
- Best paths: 4+xx
Mid Merm
- Riptide Champion doesn’t have enough attack speed, pierce, or damage to do anything it wants to.
- Arctic Knight improves the main attack, though still doesn’t have enough pierce to be used
as a bloon defender, and still doesn’t have enough damage to be used as a moab damager
without using Ice Jet.
- Becomes much stronger on maps with closed spaces to allow for bounces. Notably, one of
these maps are Dark Dungeons.
- Popseidon massively improves the main attack and ability, bouncing off map borders. Still
prefers obstacles, as ice balls cannot rehit a target without bouncing off of an obstacle.
- Combo with Brickell or Corvus who help out its low BAD damage.
- Best paths: 04+1
Bottom Merm +
- Alluring Melody’s long downtime severely cripples its use cases against fast ceramics.
- Symphonic Resonance is “bugged” to be significantly weaker than before. Ninja Kiwi
currently has no plans to fix this, as people have wanted Symph nerfs for a while now.
- The removal of the BFBs grab limits what it can do on dense lategame rounds.
- Can grab 2 MOABs at once with the middle crosspath. (Tidal Chill not needed)
- The Final Harmonic can do some funny things to the BAD with Glaive Lord or The Bloon Solver.
- Currently bugged to delete glue puddles from The Bloon Solver, which significantly hurt its
strongest strategy.
- The hero buffs are notable but not centric.
- Best paths: 205
Top Spac
- Spiked Balls are a failsafe against groups of ceramics and small amounts of MOABs and DDTs.
- Much weaker due to repeated nerfs to its pierce, may no longer take out whole MOABs anymore.
- Spiked Mines is an even stronger midgame and backline, being roughly as powerful as two
Spalls lategame for slightly more cost, but explosions give it far more power midgame.
- Don’t even try getting Super Mines on experts.
- Best paths: 4xx
Mid Village
- MIB is only used as DDT support. Often skippable, but sometimes necessary.
- Call to Arms is fairly expensive and is similar to an Overclock, but for multiple towers.
- Somewhat usable with towers that use subtowers like Carrier Flagship and Sentry
Champion.
- Homeland Defense is very expensive and typically not worth it.
- Best paths: x3x
Top Engi +
- Sprockets lacks camo and lead, but is a high power earlygame.
- Sentry Expert is a well statted attacker in the midgame that can support lategame. Its AI can
actively screw it over since the reactive system means the sentries are replaced only once
every 6 seconds.
- Sentry Champion is somewhat weak alone, but since aura buffs affect both the placement
and attack rate of sentries, it can receive double the benefit from Jungle Drums and Call to
Arms.
- Recent buffs to Faster Engineering carry over very well to this entire path.
- Best paths: 402
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C Tier
Ben +
- Ben’s lower levels are completely worthless due to income and life generation being
disabled.
- Lvl 3 is a Pat roar that disables the tower for a few seconds when it runs out.
- Lvl 7 harms you by removing cash, but can be a great benefit due to its RBE deletion on
certain rounds.
- Lvl 10 ability can remove great amounts of RBE, allowing you to essentially delete the
hardest rounds in the game, but loses money from the downgraded bloons.
- Great for towers that struggle to dense rounds like Perma-Spike.
- Lvl 18 can now siphon away the DDTs on round 99 as well, provided that you place Ben down
early.
- Isn’t actually better than last update it just looks neater in C rather than C- (doreo fix this
please)
Mid Boomer
- Bionic Boomerang is consistent, but there are much better options.
- Turbo Charge is an alright midgame and can save to its T5 upgrade.
- Perma Charge is an okay and affordable T5 that can survive the lategame.
- Both Turbo and Perma Charge pair well with Gerry’s Fire, multiplying its DPS. Turbo charge
gets significantly more benefit as Perma Charge doesn’t have the 7x attack speed bonus.
- Best paths: 042
Top Tack
- Hot Shots are bad.
- Ring of Fire is good bloon DPS that can take down weakened superceramics. Low range
hurts.
- Inferno Ring is an average lategame win condition, doing enough DPS while relying on meta
support. The meteor gives it some single target, but it can miss fast DDTs.
- The meteor itself only has 1 pierce (2 with 520), so Brew and Primary Training are very
effective.
- Not having Symphonic Resonance spin faster bloons inside its radius means the tower leaks
more.
- Best paths: 5xx
Mid Sniper
- Bouncing Bullets have been greatly weakened, but can be bought in early now.
- Don’t stop at Supply Drop, the extra bounces are not worth it.
- Elite Sniper is a very easy to use midgame that excels when bloons are clumped. Use with
other snipers, an elite defender and maim moab are also helpful.
- Despite sharpening stone no longer increasing damage and price shuffling, faster attacks are
still favorable with alch buffed shrapnel.
- Best paths: 032
Bottom Sub
- Triple Guns builds excellently off an airburst, but needs alch buff so it is a sizable investment.
- Decent bloon damage with brew along with having good moab damage, but low pierce.
- AP Darts greatly increases the moab damage, allowing it to somewhat help with MOABs in
the late 70s and beyond. Most of the damage increase being in a moab bonus leaves its bloon
performance lacking.
- Sub Commander is weak to pretty much everything in lategame, especially on split lanes.
- Its buffs to subs can be taken advantage of, but aren’t great. Pre-emptive is extremely
suboptimal.
- Pair with Brickell for her water tower buffs and Ballistic Missiles as they provide more power
late.
- Best paths: 203+
Bottom Ace
- Neva-Miss Targeting is very consistent now, but the damage is not good for the price.
- Completely dependent on alch buff to do pretty much anything.
- Spectre is an expensive midgame that retains some power in the lategame.
- Fortress is not easily affordable. Nearly requires Rosalia, and is still difficult to get to.
- Best paths: 204
Top Dartling
- Laser cannon is an expensive early-mid tower with a bad damage type, but has pretty good
damage.
- Plasma accelerator can serve as a decent midgame with high MOAB DPS. Completely falls off
past round 80 due to very low ceramic damage, requiring other ceramic cleanup.
- Synergizes with Ezili’s hex due to being a controllable DPS that helps hex remove moab
children.
- Ray of Doom is very difficult to save to and can still die to lategame if you aren’t careful.
- Best paths: 420
Mid Dartling
- Hydra Rocket Pods is a usable spam strat with Permanent Brew after the double damage
buff.
- Rocket Storm is a workable tower midgame, being able to save up large amounts through
the 80s.
- MAD is a powerful MOAB DPS tower with little ceramic damage and a very difficult saveup.
Pair with heavy ceramic control.
- All of the upgrades in the path pair well with alch due to it multiplying the explosions.
- Best paths: 13+0
Top Super
- Sun Avatar is a decent saveup tower for its cost and can be used as a lategame attacker.
- Range helps it deal more damage, but knockback is better at controlling ceramics.
- Becomes far stronger when combined with damage buffs such as Geraldo’s Pickles.
- The rest of this path is a meme in CHIMPS mode.
- Best paths: 301+
Bottom Engi +
- Double Gun with double sentries makes for an awful but barely usable, highly buffable DPS
option.
- Bloon Trap is a hundred times worse than Spiked Balls.
- XXXL is difficult to save up to with the midgames available, but fairly powerful once
obtained.
- Deconstruction allows the trap to eat up many more fortified MOABs and BFBs.
- Trap does have gaps between each deployment so MOABs and DDTs may slip by without
slowdowns.
- Best paths: 025
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D Tier
Bottom Desp
- Enforcer’s cheap cost makes for a decent, though inconsistent earlygame. Lacks lead.
- Avenger costs too much for a short range tower and is too weak to be a main DPS. Still lacks
lead.
- The Desert Phantom has very high power in a small range, but being so limited makes it
extremely weak on expert maps. Still lacks lead.
- The chain reaction explosions only happen when smaller bloons are popped, so damage is
very low when only moabs are on screen.
- Best paths: 023+
Mid Druid
- Druid of the Jungle’s vine piles are weaker walls of fire. Massively struggles on multilanes.
- Jungle’s Bounty is only used to save up to its T5. Stronger vines are not worth the high cost
earlygame.
- Spirit of the Forest now produces only half as many vines, making it basically unusable when
there’s multiple lanes. Still useful on a single lane.
- Despite being rate buffable, vines can't grab another bloon until it is finished breaking down
the first bloon. The stronger the grabbed bloon is, the longer it will take for the vine to pop it.
- You can buff the attack speed infinitely but grabbing ceramics will always take at least 3 seconds.
- Best paths: 130
Bottom Alch
- Lead to Gold is an awful DDT damager.
- Due to a recent buff to its attack speed, Rubber to Gold’s de-leading powers have been
proven to not be absolutely horrible and actually have some use in very rare occasions.
- https://streamable.com/zh8gyg
- Best paths: 104
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F Tier
Bottom Boat
- You receive: A Tier 2 Buccaneer. I receive: $34,400.
- Buffs to other merchantmen is a rather powerful stat buff, but merchantmen suck too.
Bottom Village
- Monkey City lets you get 1 free dart per round, taking 65 rounds to pay off. That’s what I call a
long term investment.
- If you ever accidentally put your village out of range, you can spend 14k to have the village
reach.
- If you ever forget what time it is, buy a Monkey City, as its clock tells you.