Archmage (BTD6): Difference between revisions

'''Archmage''' is the [[Wizard Monkey (BTD6)|Wizard Monkey]]'s path 1 tier 5 [[upgrade]] in ''[[Bloons TD 6]]''. It improves all of its own attacks, especially its main bolt, and grants the signature attacks of [[Dragon's Breath (BTD6)|Dragon's Breath]] and [[Shimmer (BTD6)|Shimmer]]:

*'''Main bolt:''' [[Damage]] increased from 6 to 8 with bonus [[MOAB-Class damage]] from +10 to +19 (or +20 with {{BTD6 mk|Arcane Impale}}), increases their [[pierce]] from 7 to 11 (16 with 5-0-1), and has an [[Attack Cooldown|attack cooldown]] of 0.1375 seconds. With {{BTD6 mk|Arcane Impale}}, this upgrade grants main bolts +1 [[Ceramic damage]].

 

Archmage deals great damage against blimps over long range with seeking projectiles and the ability to attack through walls, allowing it to perform well even on many [[Expert]] maps such as [[Ravine]] [[CHIMPS]]. It excels against {{BTD6|DDT}} rounds, but lacks enough pierce to easily handle denser rounds, and due to its reliance on bonus damage it is very weak against [[Super Ceramic Bloon (BTD6)|Super Ceramics]]. It pairs well with strong cleanup like {{BTD6|The Bloon Solver}} and stalling that can spread out blimps and reduce pierce issues like [[Giant Condor]].

5-2-0 does more damage to single targets and to clumped blimps due to the extra fire attacks. It will want external camo detection even with the Shimmer attack, as it's still too slow to decamo every DDT on split lane and short maps. Its Wall of Fire attack should be manually targeted onto blimps, as it depends more on its damage bonus against blimps than any other attack. Microing target priority between Last and Close can also help avoid using pierce on Ceramics, maximizing damage, while targeting the MOAB rushes that Last tends to leave behind.

 

5-0-2 primarily has the benefit of innate camo detection and range bonus, making it suitable versus [[Phayze]], but is otherwise worse than 5-2-0 both for single target damage and against dense rounds such as 98.