Popseidon

Popseidon

Popseidon's Ice Jet ability draws such power that a rogue wave floods the map with supercooled water, freezing all Bloons and reclaiming the weak for the sea.

Tower	Mermonkey — Path 2 — Tier 5
XP cost	70,000
Cash cost	$44,200 — Easy $52,000 — Medium $56,160 — Hard $62,400 — Impoppable

← Arctic Knight

Popseidon is the Mermonkey's path 2 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It enhances its Activated Ability, increasing the damage its ice balls deal from 20 to 30 and allowing them to bounce off the edges of the map. It also causes the ability to summon a flood that deals 70 Frigid-type damage to all Bloons on-screen (including Camo Bloons, even if it lacks Camo detection) and slows all Bloons (even Bloons it cannot deal damage to) to 50% speed for 8 seconds.

Additionally, this upgrade increases the Mermonkey's range from 32 units to 40 units, doubles the attack speed of the trident attack, increases the base damage of the tridents and wavelets from 8 to 15, increases the damage they deal to frozen Bloons to +7.5 and to MOAB-Class Bloons to +15, and increases the rate they gain damage to 112.5% per second. With this upgrade, it also fires two more tridents each time it attacks, angled 45° to each side of the middle trident.

Crosspathing with Echosense Precision no longer reduces the spread of the ice balls, but it now increases the spread of the side tridents to 60°. Crosspathing with Trident Swiftness no longer increases the rate the middle tridents gain damage at over time, but it does affect the side tridents.

Mechanics

Side tridents

Popseidon fires two additional tridents each time it attacks, angled 45° to the left and right of the main trident. These tridents have the same stats as the main trident, except that their damage scales by 75% per second instead of 112.5%, their wavelets travel 30% faster, and the Trident Swiftness crosspath affects them differently. The side tridents are treated as a separate attack, despite firing at the same time as the middle trident, so Popseidon's attack effectively consumes twice as many Acidic Mixture Dip and Berserker Brew charges per shot.

Crosspathing with Trident Swiftness increases the side tridents' damage scaling to 112.5%, matching the main trident, and affects the wavelets in the same way it affects the tridents (increases their projectile speed and reduces their lifespan by 50%). Crosspathing with Echosense Precision increases the spread of the side tridents to 60°, but otherwise affects the side tridents in the same way as the main trident.

Ability

Popseidon's Ice Jet takes a separate slot from Arctic Knight's version. After activation, the Mermonkey stops the trident attack, triggers a wave that deals 70 frigid damage (+70 bonus to Frozen Bloons) to all Bloons on screen and applies a 50% slowdown effect on all damaged Bloons for 8 seconds, with a visual frozen effect that doesn't actually apply frozen immunity for the duration, then rapidly shooting out ice balls for 3 seconds, at a rate of 0.1s per ice ball. While shooting, ice balls have a 30° angle deviation. Ice balls can affect all except White and Purple, and ignores White properties, and deals 30 damage that doesn't penetrate multiple layers and 240 pierce. Ice balls can bounce off obstacles and the edges of the map, and can rehit bloons after bouncing off obstacles. They last for up to 15 seconds on screen, and have a cap of 20 seconds if lifespan is increased through external buffs.

Like Arctic Knight, Popseidon gains a target marker that focuses the direction of the Ice Jet ability's shots, instead of aiming based on standard targeting priorities. This target marker can be deactivated once a mark is set, which goes through a 5 second cooldown before reactivating a target.

This ability's cooldown is 45 seconds.

Stats

For a complete list of Mermonkey stats, see Stats:Mermonkey (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 40 units Footprint radius 8 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 0.75s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 40 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Pierce 25 Damage 15 Damage to MOAB-Class +15 Damage to frozen +7.5 Damage type Frigid Speed 130 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s Radius 1 unit Filters Ignores White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Layers 5 Split projectile Count 2 Angle 180° Pierce 25 Damage 15 Damage to MOAB-Class +15 Damage to frozen +7.5 Damage type Frigid Speed 100 units/s Lifespan 2s Radius 1 unit Filters Ignores White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Layers ∞

Side tridents
Cooldown 0.75s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 40 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Count 2 Angle 45° Pierce 25 Damage 15 Damage to MOAB-Class +15 Damage to frozen +7.5 Damage type Frigid Speed 130 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s Radius 1 unit Filters Ignores White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Layers 5 Split projectile Count 2 Angle 180° Pierce 25 Damage 15 Damage to MOAB-Class +15 Damage to frozen +7.5 Damage type Frigid Speed 130 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s Radius 1 unit Filters Ignores White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Layers ∞

Ability
Cooldown 45s Lifespan 3s Disables other attacks 3s
Attack Cooldown 0.1s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting range ∞ units Filters Cannot target Camo Ignores blockers Projectile Angle 30° Pierce 240 Damage 30 Damage type Frigid Speed 260 units/s Lifespan 15s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 2 units Filters Ignores White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 3s Layers 3 Flood Cooldown 7s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting range ∞ units Filters Cannot target Camo Ignores blockers Projectile Pierce 9,999,999 Damage 70 Damage type Frigid Lifespan 0.05s Radius ∞ units Ignores blockers Does not disappear if it hits an immune target Permafrost Multiplier ×0.5 Duration 8s Layers 10

Buff when in water
Range modifier ×1.35

1-5-0

Attack
Cooldown 0.75s → 0.6s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7

Side tridents
Cooldown 0.75s → 0.6s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7

2-5-0

Attack
Cooldown 0.6s → 0.4125s
Projectile Speed 130 units/s → 195 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s → 1.0256s

Side tridents
Cooldown 0.6s → 0.4125s
Projectile Speed 130 units/s → 195 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s → 1.0256s Split projectile Speed 130 units/s → 195 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s → 1.0256s

Ability
Attack Projectile Speed 260 units/s → 390 units/s

0-5-1

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7 Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Seeking distance 80 units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 169 °/s Filters Can now hit Camo Split projectile Filters Can now hit Camo

Side tridents
Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7 Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Angle 45° → 60° Seeking distance 80 units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 169 °/s Filters Can now hit Camo Split projectile Filters Can now hit Camo

Ability
Attack Filters Can now target Camo Projectile Filters Can now hit Camo Flood Filters Can now target Camo

0-5-2

Echosense Network
Range modifier +7.5% Max. stacks 10
Has global range

Costs and sell values

Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.

Tiers	Total cost				Sell value
	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
0-5-0	$53,315	$62,725	$67,745	$75,270	$37,321	$43,908	$47,422	$52,689
1-5-0	$53,440	$62,875	$67,905	$75,450	$37,408	$44,013	$47,534	$52,815
2-5-0	$53,650	$63,125	$68,175	$75,750	$37,555	$44,188	$47,723	$53,025
0-5-1	$53,485	$62,925	$67,960	$75,510	$37,440	$44,048	$47,572	$52,857
0-5-2	$53,725	$63,205	$68,260	$75,845	$37,608	$44,244	$47,782	$53,092

Strategy

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This section was last updated for: version 52.1

For a fairly high price, Popseidon is a powerful T5 that easily clears out smaller blimps and Super Ceramics alike, but has damage type issues and a lack of single-target damage. Due to its lack of White and Purple popping, it is more suitable for late-game when combined with additional defenses that can deal with Round 95's excess of Purples. Use its ability against a fast rush of Bloons.

0-5-2 is preferred for its homing tridents (much more consistency and less pierce wastage), Camo detection, and potentially massive range when paired with other X-X-2 Mermonkeys. 2-5-0 forgoes all of this for improved single-target DPS.

Update history

For a complete list of Mermonkey changes, see Update history:Mermonkey (BTD6).

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Version 44.1

“

While we’re not jumping into any full on balance changes, there’s a few corrections that we wanted to make for type-fixes and other intended play.
— Update notes

”

•  Ice Jet: Projectile lifespan is now capped at 20 seconds
•  Ice Jet: Projectile damage type changed ― Shatter → Plasma

Version 45.0

“

While the Arctic Knight has been popular, Riptide Champion has major pierce issues and is seeing a price reduction as well as a pierce increase to make up for this. Arctic Knight itself is receiving the brand new damage type added this update; as it is gaining a weakness to White Bloons from this and wasn’t too wild before we are increasing the power as well & allowing the ability to carry over 1 round to prevent projectiles timing out immediately when cast at the end of a round. Popseidon had unintentionally more pierce on the central trident’s split projectiles, so this pierce is being spread out for a total increase. Finally popseidon released with a very wide projectile arc to prevent the seeking projectiles from clumping immediately, we like how this has worked out but feel that only the 052 crosspath needs to have this increased arc.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $625 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Central trident: pierce increased ― 16 → 18
•  Side trident: pierce increased ― 16 → 18
•  Central split trident: pierce decreased ― 24 → 18
•  Side split trident: pierce increased ― 16 → 18
•  Projectile arc reduced ― 60° → 45°
  • Note: 0-5-2 crosspath projectile arc remains the same
•  Trident: damage type changed ― Plasma → Frigid
  • Note: Projectile will be destroyed when hitting White properties
•  Ability: damage type changed ― Plasma → Frigid
  • Note: Projectile will be destroyed when hitting White properties
•  Ability: projectiles now carry over 1 round

Version 46.0

“

While we were happy with Arctic Knight’s Ice Jet being a high pierce MOAB layer removal that could with other tower combinations be upgraded to a more effective full-clear, there is not currently enough varied ways of quickly dealing with White Bloon layers, so for a long cooldown based ability this heavy a weakness is too much for now.
— Update notes

”

•  Ice Jet: Projectiles pass through White or Zebra Bloons if they can't damage them, instead of destroying the projectile
•  Ice Jet: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 20s → 15s (undocumented)

2-5-0

•  Now reduces the lifespan of Ice Jet projectiles by 33% (undocumented)
  • Note: This means the maximum travel distance of Ice Jet projectiles is now the same as without the crosspath, since this crosspath increases their projectile speed by 50%

Version 48.0

“

Middle path is seeing a consistency improvement for Freeze Duration & White Bloons, and Popseidon’s ability is being improved to damage & slow DDTs (if it can see them) and destroy all non-fortified Ceramics.
— Update notes

”

•  Trident: Freeze duration increased ― 0.3s → 0.8s
•  Split trident: Freeze duration increased ― 0.3s → 0.8s
•  Trident: Now passes through White Bloon properties unless it can damage them
•  Ability wave: Damage type changed ― Shatter → Frigid
  • Note: Can damage Lead but not Purple or White
•  Ability wave: Damage increased ― 9 → 70

0-5-1

•  Lateral Trident: Arc increased ― 45° → 60°
  • Note: 0-5-2 unchanged at 60°

Version 49.0

“

[While talking about Riptide champion ...], and the rest of the path is also seeing a damage increase.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Main and split projectiles: Damage increased ― 12 → 15
•  Main and split projectiles: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +12 → +15
•  Main and split projectiles: Bonus damage to frozen Bloons increased ― +6 → +7.5 (undocumented)

Version 51.0

“

Mermonkey weren’t^[sic] feeling they favoured their natural habitat enough, so their Water Placement bonus is getting a boost. Middle Path Mermonkey just isn’t putting in the work we hoped, so we’re giving a couple price adjustments, a pierce increase across all tiers, and some light ability improvements to make it feel more rewarding.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $52,000 → $48,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $4,400 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Side trident: Pierce increased ― 18 → 25
•  Ability: Projectiles can now re-hit targets after bouncing from a map border (bug fix)
  • Note: Previously they could only re-hit if bounced from an obstacle
•  Ability: Permafrost duration increased ― 6s → 8s
•  Ability: Permafrost now affects up to 10 layers under the initial layer
•  Ability: Flood Now deals +70 bonus damage to Frozen Bloons
•  Ability: Flood now applies Freeze and Permafrost to BADs and Boss Bloons (bug)
  • Note: These Bloons won't be stopped for the Freeze but will take the extra damage, their speed is still reduced by Permafrost.
•  Trident: Pierce increased ― 18 → 25
•  Range bonus when placed in water increased ― +25% → +35%

2-5-0

•  Ability: Projectile lifespan increased ― 10s → 15s

Version 51.1

•  Ice Jet — Flood: No longer applies Freeze or Permafrost to BADs and Boss Bloons (bug fix)

Version 52.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $975 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Ice Jet: Projectile speed increased ― 200 units/s → 220 units/s (undocumented)
•  Trident: Projectile speed increased ― 100 units/s → 110 units/s
•  Trident: Projectile lifespan decreased ― 2.0s → 1.8181s
  • Note: Maximum distance traveled by the projectile unchanged. Popseidon side tridents are also affected.

1-5-0

•  Trident and Side Tridents: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.51s → 0.48s (attack speed increased by 6.25%)
  • Note: The patch notes do not specify that the attack speed buff is only for the main trident attack, all other attacks unchanged.

2-5-0

•  Trident: Projectile speed increased ― 150 units/s → 165 units/s
•  Trident: Projectile lifespan decreased ― 1.3333s → 1.1212s
  • Note: Maximum distance traveled by the projectile unchanged. Popseidon side tridents are also affected.
•  Ice Jet: Projectile speed increased ― 300 units/s → 330 units/s (undocumented)
•  Trident and Side Tridents: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.402s → 0.33s (attack speed increased by 21.82%)
  • Note: The patch notes do not specify that the attack speed buff is only for the main trident attack, all other attacks unchanged.

0-5-1, 0-5-2

•  Trident (seeking): Turn rate increased ― 130°/s → 143°/s (undocumented)

Version 53.0

“

Riptide Champion as an underappreciated star performed exceptionally well with recent changes which are now being scaled back and Popseidon which was also performing extremely well will likewise be scaled back
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $48,000 → $52,000
  •  Overall cost increased by $4,300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Range reduced ― 50 → 40

Version 54.0

“

Mermonkey ended up somewhat underrated and overbuffed, mid tiers for top and middle paths have really stood out here lately and need to be reigned back in line.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost increased by $625 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Main attack: Freeze duration for Rainbow Bloons and below increased ― 0.8s → 1s
•  Main attack: Freeze duration for Ceramic Bloons decreased ― 0.8s → 0.5s
•  Trident: Projectile speed increased ― 110 units/s → 130 units/s
  • Stacks with 2-X-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 165 units/s → 195 units/s
•  Trident: Projectile lifespan decreased ― 1.8182s → 1.5385s
  • Stacks with 2-X-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 1.2121s → 1.0256s
  •  Overall projectile distance remains unchanged (200 units) for all crosspaths
•  Trident: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.6s → 0.75s (attack speed reduced by 20%)
  • Stacks with 1-5-0 Trident Efficiency crosspath ― 0.48s → 0.6s
  • Stacks with 2-5-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 0.33s → 0.4125s
•  Ability: Projectile speed increased ― 220 units/s → 260 units/s
  • Note: Projectile distance increased ― 3,300 units → 3,900 units
  • Stacks with 2-5-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 330 units/s → 390 units/s
    • In this case the projectile distance is increased ― 4,950 units → 5,850 units

0-5-1, 0-5-2

•  Trident: Turn rate increased ― 143°/s → 169°/s

Gallery

For more Mermonkey images, see Gallery:Mermonkey.

Screenshots

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  Popseidon for all crosspaths
• 
  The main attack for Popseidon, including the main trident, side trident, and wavelets
• 
  Ice Jet ability against blimps and bloons

Assets

• 
  Portrait
• 
  Icon
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  Ability icon
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  Insta Monkey icon

Trivia

• Internally, the ability is named RogueWave, according to its ability icon artwork's filename.

In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 55.2

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	بوبسايدون	—
Danish	Popseidon	—
German	Popseidon	—
Spanish	Exploseidón	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Popseidón	—
Finnish	Pokseidon	—
French	Popséidon	—
Italian	Popseidone	—
Japanese	ポップセイドン	—
Korean	터트리세이돈	—
Dutch	Popseidon	—
Norwegian	Popseidon	—
Polish	Popsejdon	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Estoureidon	—
Russian	Пробсейдон	—
Swedish	Poppseidon	—
Thai	ป็อปไซดอน	—
Turkish	Patlateidon	—
Chinese (simplified)	波塞冬	—
Chinese (traditional)	波賽頓	—

Description

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	قدرة بوسايدون على النفث الجليدي تعمل على سحب هذه القوة لدرجة أن غمر الخريطة بموجة عاتية من المياه شديدة التبريد، مما يؤدي إلى تجميد جميع البالونات وإجبار الضعفاء على العودة إلى البحر.	—
Danish	Popseidons Isjet-evne udnytter en sådan kraft, at en abnorm bølge oversvømmer banen med super nedkølet vand, og fryser alle bloons og suger de svage ud på havet.	—
German	Die Eisjet-Fähigkeit von Popseidon zieht so viel Energie an, dass eine Welle die Karte mit unterkühltem Wasser überflutet und alle Bloons einfriert und zerstört.	—
Spanish	La habilidad de chorro de hielo de Exploseidón logra tal poder que una ola descontrolada inunda el mapa con un agua superfría, congelando a todos los bloons y llevándose a los débiles al mar.	—
Spanish (Latin America)	La habilidad Disparo helado concentra tanta energía que una ola gigante inunda el mapa con agua gélida, congela a los bloons y arrastra a los débiles al mar.	—
Finnish	Pokseidonin Jääsuihku-kyky imee niin paljon voimaa, että yllättävä aalto täyttää kartan alijäähdytetyllä vedellä, joka jäädyttää kaikki bloonit ja vetää heikot mereen.	—
French	L’aptitude Jet de glace de Popséidon est si puissante qu’une vague d’eau surfondue déferle sur la carte, gelant tous les Bloons et renvoyant les faibles aux profondeurs de la mer.	—
Italian	L'abilità Getto di ghiaccio di Popseidone attira una tale potenza che un'onda anomala ricopre la mappa di acqua ultra-gelida, congelando tutti i bloon e trascinando i più deboli in mare.	—
Japanese	ポップセイドンのアイスジェットのアビリティが悪辣な波の洪水を発動させる力を引き寄せ、超冷たい水で全てのブルーンを凍結させて弱者のために海を取り戻してくれる。	—
Korean	터트리세이돈의 빙탄 포화 능력이 어마어마한 힘을 발휘해 한 차례의 파도가 맵 전체를 차디찬 물결로 휩쓸어 모든 풍선을 얼려서 약한 풍선은 바로 터트립니다.	—
Dutch	De vaardigheid IJsstraal van Popseidon wordt zo sterk dat een monstergolf de kaart overspoelt met supergekoeld water dat alle Bloons bevriest en de zwakken terug naar de zee sleurt.	—
Norwegian	Popseidons Isjet-evne tiltrekker seg så stor kraft at en ond bølge flyter over kartet med superkaldt vann, fryser alle bloons og tar de svake med seg til havet.	—
Polish	Lodowa salwa Popsejdona pobiera tyle mocy, że niespodziewana fala zalewa całą mapę lodowatą wodą, zamrażając wszystkie blony i zabierając słabsze z nich ze sobą do morza.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	A habilidade Jato de Gelo de Estoureidon atrai tanto poder que uma onda inesperada inunda o mapa com água superfria, congelando todos os Bloons e reivindicando os fracos para o mar.	—
Russian	Способность Пробсейдона «Ледяной залп» становится настолько сильной, что карту накрывает сверхохлажденная волна, замораживая все шары и забирая тех, кто слаб перед морем.	—
Swedish	Poppseidons Isstråleförmåga slår till med sådan kraft att en flodvåg svämmar över banan med iskallt vatten som fryser alla Bloons och drar ner de svaga i havet.	—
Thai	สกิลไอซ์เจ็ตของป็อปไซดอนจะยืมพลังที่ทำให้คลื่นกระจายท่วมท้นแผนที่ด้วยน้ำเย็นยะเยือก แช่แข็งบลูนทั้งหมดและคร่าชีวิตผู้ที่อ่อนแอเกินไปสำหรับทะเล	—
Turkish	Patlateidon’un Buz Jeti yeteneği öylesine bir güç çeker ki, hain bir dalga haritayı aşırı soğuk suyla doldurarak tüm Bloon’ları dondurur ve zayıfları denize geri alır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	波塞冬的“冰雪喷射”技能威力无穷，一波波刺骨的冰水淹没了整个地图，冻住了所有气球，弱者将魂归大海。	—
Chinese (traditional)	波賽頓的冰球噴射技能汲取的力量強大到能發動洶湧寒流淹沒整張地圖，凍結所有氣球並使弱者被海洋吞沒。	—