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|description =• Gravelord Lych drains buffs from your Monkeys and has regenerative properties.<br/>• Lych regularly summons Bloon Tombs which summon MOAB-class Bloons. Destroy them asap!<br/>• When each skull on its health bar is reached, Lych goes ethereal and Lych souls are summoned.<br/>• While ethereal, Lych cannot be damaged until all Lych souls have been popped.<br/>• Zombie MOAB-class Bloons do not spawn children.<br/>• While Lych is on the map, sellback value of all monkeys is reduced significantly.

While on the field, all towers have their base sellback rate reduced by 35% (ie. half of the default 70% sellback).

Every 12 seconds, Lych emits an aura that absorbs certain kinds of buffs from towers within 100 [[Distance unit|distance units]], then restores its Regrow trait if it was previously removed, with a 3 second delay before it begins healing Lych again. It cannot trigger this ability while in its ethereal state, but the timer continues while it is ethereal, so it will activate immediately upon returning to normal if it's ready. Every tower that has a buff absorbed is stunned for 5 seconds in addition to losing the buff.

*[[Hero]]es ([[Gwendolin (BTD6)|Gwendolin]]'s Heat It Up, [[Admiral Brickell (BTD6)|Admiral Brickell]]'s Naval Tactics, any of [[Geraldo (BTD6)|Geraldo]]'s items, etc)

*[[Power]]s ([[Monkey Boost (BTD6)|Monkey Boost]], [[Energizing Totem]], [[Thrive]], etc)

*[[Map]] mechanics ([[One Two Tree]], [[Polyphemus]], etc)

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|[[Mega Massive Munitions Factory]] Controlled Burst

10 seconds after appearing and every 18 seconds afterwards, Lych spawns a Tombstone 50 units behind its position. 3 seconds after being created and every 9 seconds afterwards, the Tombstone will spawn 1 undead MOAB-class Bloon based on the current tier. Every time the Tombstone summons Bloons, it will increase the strength of the spawned Bloon; if not destroyed by the time it spawns for the fourth time, it will self destruct and spawn 5 of the highest tier Bloon it has available. In addition, Tombstones reduce the [[pierce]] of attacks that hit them to 0, and have the highest priority bracket for [[Targeting option|strong]] targeting, meaning all towers that target strong will target them before anything else. On Elite, Tombstones will also increase the speed of the Bloons they spawn based on Lych's tier.

=== Undead MOAB-class bloons ===

Undead MOAB-Class Bloons spawned by Lych are visually dull green in appearance (resembling those resurrected by the [[Prince of Darkness (BTD6)|Prince of Darkness]]), and have green chains wrapped around themselves. They have modified HP, usually making them much stronger than their normal versions, but do not spawn children when popped. Lych is able to spawn all MOAB-class Bloons except for [[DDT (BTD6)|DDTs]] and [[BAD (BTD6)|BADs]].

Every time a skull on its health bar is reached, Lych summons a number of Lych-souls evenly spaced on the track, then enters an ethereal state. The Lych-soul is a smaller and faster version of Lych that spawns an Undead MOAB on its position every 9 seconds, and renders Lych ethereal as long as any one is still alive. It has most properties of a [[Boss Bloon]]: it instantly defeats the player if it leaks, it is immune to insta-kill abilities and attacks, and is affected by extra [[Boss damage]] from towers that have it. It is immune to most slowing or stunning effects, but is affected by [[Glaive Dominus]]. The total HP of all active Lych-souls will be displayed by an overlay on Lych's health bar.

While ethereal, Lych cannot be targeted nor take damage, but has its movement speed reduced by 50% and cannot regenerate health.

Normal Lych spawns 3 Lych-souls at 12.5%, 47.5%, and 72.5% along the length of the track, with a random variance of 2.5%. Elite Lych spawns 2 more at 32.5% and 62.5%, for a total of 5.

!First Spawn

!Second Spawn

!Third Spawn

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! colspan="3" |Health

!MOAB

!BFB

!ZOMG

!First Spawn

!Second Spawn

!Third Spawn

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|1.2x

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! colspan="3" |Health

!MOAB

!BFB

!ZOMG

When facing Lych, several rounds are changed from the [[List of rounds in BTD6|standard roundset]].

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{{main strategy}}Lych is a boss that punishes the player from using too many buffs on their towers, but is important to remember that Lych does not steal all the buffs that towers can receive and has limited range of [[Range|100 units]] before tier 5, so by knowing which buffs can or can't be stolen and placing your buffed towers far away from Lych are useful ways to play around its mechanics.

 

 

Other common options for low tier Lych are towers that can deal with the Boss, its soul and the resurrected MOABs at the same time like [[Sticky Bomb (BTD6)|Sticky Bomb]] / [[Master Bomber (BTD6)|Master Bomber]], [[M.A.D (BTD6)|M.A.D]] and [[Carpet of Spikes (BTD6)|Carpet of Spikes]]. Defenses that are more centralized in a single place of the map like [[Overdrive (BTD6)|Overdrive]] or [[Avatar of Wrath (BTD6)|Avatar of Wrath]] are less effective against Lych due its speed and the ethereal phase specially in multi-lane maps.

If additional defense against the resurrected MOABs are needed, the best option is to add towers that can stall them from any position in the map like [[MOAB Shove (BTD6)|MOAB Shove]], and [[Maim MOAB (BTD6)|Maim MOAB]] and let them or other towers deal with them before they leak. Insta-kills like [[Pirate Lord (BTD6)|Pirate Lord]] are also useful in this situation, but be careful of slower ones like [[Ezili (BTD6)|Ezili's]] MOAB Hex, as the bloons might leak before they are defeated.

Tiers 3 to 5 can be handled by [[Paragon|Paragons]] and other expensive towers, those are also likely able to deal with the soul and the resurrected MOABs, provided they are still on range. Players must exercise extreme caution against Tier 4 and 5 Lych because at this point it is able to revive [[DDT (BTD6)|DDTs]] that with their increased health can run past your defenses very easily, because of this, is important to have enough DPS along the track to destroy them, not mattering where they spawn, towers that can quickly stall them and/or have backup towers such as [[Perma-Spike (BTD6)|Perma-Spike]] under a [[Monkey Intelligence Bureau (BTD6)|MIB]] Village.

[[Permanent Brew (BTD6)|Permanent Brew]], [[Call to Arms (BTD6)|Call to Arms]] and [[Homeland Defense (BTD6)|Homeland Defense]] are common towers that are used against Bosses, but they should not be used against Lych as they only provide buffs that Lych will use to restore a lot of health, also be wary of farms that are under [[Overclock (BTD6)|Overclock]] or [[Ultraboost (BTD6)|Ultraboost]] effects.

Currently Lych does not appear in [[Boss Rush]] nor [[Rogue Legends]] mode.

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