Arctic Knight: Difference between revisions

'''Arctic Knight''' is the [[Mermonkey (BTD6)|Mermonkey]]'s path 2 tier 4 [[upgrade]] in ''[[Bloons TD 6]]''. In addition to the Ice Jet ability, tridents deal base 8 damage instead of 4, deal double base damage to MOAB-class, and grow in power faster (75% instead of 50%). Wavelets also do 8 damage instead of 4.

The Ice Jet ability stops the trident attack, instead rapidly throwing ice balls for 3 seconds, with 45 seconds ability cooldown. By default, they attack targets anywhere on screen based on targeting priority. A targeting reticle can be placed anywhere on screen to only aim towards a specific point.  

This upgrade gives the trident attack the following benefits over [[Riptide Champion]]:

*Grows faster, by +75% instead of +50%. With 2-4-0 crosspath, the growth rate increases to +112.5% instead of +75%.

 

===Ice Jet===

'''Ice Jet''' is Arctic Knight's [[Activated Ability]]. When activated, the Mermonkey stops throwing tridents and instead rapidly shoots ice balls for 3 seconds, at a rate of 0.1s per ice ball (affected by attack speed buffs), randomly spread over a 30° angle. Each ice ball deals 20 damage that doesn't soak through layers (meaning the extra damage only matters for Bloons with more than 1 health), has 240 pierce, and freezes non-MOAB-Class Bloons for 3 seconds. They can bounce off obstacles, but not the edges of the map, and can rehit Bloons after bouncing. They last for up to 10 seconds on screen normally and can carry over one round, and has a lifespan cap of 15 seconds (which can be reached via external buffs). The ability has a 45-second cooldown.

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Arctic Knight excels on maps with obstacles, especially standing out on [[Dark Dungeons]], because the Ice Jet ability can maximize its pierce and hit many more times on bloons. Its main attack does decent damage and freezing, though most of its power still comes from its ability. However, both its tridents and Ice Jet leave behind many White and Zebra Bloons so it should be combined with quick-attacking frozen-popping towers, such as [[Juggernaut (BTD6)|Juggernaut]].<!--yes, chomchom used jugg and it worked well to clear zebra excesses-->

In most situations 2-4-0 is preferred to maximize coverage of the projectiles on optimal maps<!--we are assuming the map edge bounce is nonexistent--> while 0-4-1 is preferred if innate camo detection is required or going for [[Popseidon]], and the improved projectile accuracy via 0-4-1 is minor. For the main attack, 2-4-0 is preferred if pierce is used often or if there's not enough space to seek Bloons for increasing trident damage.

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