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'''''Rogue Legends''''' (or '''Rogue Legend''')<ref>{{cite|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1hau4dn/bloons_td_6_v460_update_notes/|title=Bloons TD 6 v46.0 - Update Notes!|publisher=Reddit|retrieved=14 jan 2025}}</ref> is a paid DLC expansion for ''[[Bloons TD 6]]'', introduced in {{BTD6 version|47.0}} and the first of a series of DLC campaigns called [[Legend]]s.<ref name="46.0">{{cite|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1hau4dn/bloons_td_6_v460_update_notes/|title=Bloons TD 6 v46.0 - Update Notes!|publisher=Reddit|retrieved=14 jan 2025}}</ref> It is a "[[Bloons TD (series)|BTD]] rogue-lite adventure"<ref name="44.0">{{cite|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1eh2iuo/update_bloons_td_6_v440_update_notes/|title=Update: Bloons TD 6 v44.0 - Update Notes!|publisher=Reddit|retrieved=14 jan 2025}}</ref> and a "game within the game"<ref name="46.0"/> where the player navigates a [[monkey]] on a grid with different types of tiles,<ref>{{cite|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1i305vq/btd6_rogue_legends_dlc_maps_and_movement_first/|title=BTD6 Rogue Legends DLC maps and movement first look!|publisher=Reddit|retrieved=16 jan 2025}}</ref> encountering [[Bloon]]s and collecting [[tower]]s and enhancements to add to their Party.<ref name="first look">{{cite|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1i7r9hv/btd6_rogue_legends_dlc_gameplay_first_look/|title=BTD6 Rogue Legends DLC gameplay first look!|publisher=Reddit|retrieved=23 jan 2025}}</ref> When the player encounters a Bloon, the game transitions to a short ''Bloons TD'' game, much like the tiles in ''[[Bloons Monkey City]]'', during which the player uses their party's towers, [[Hero]], and items called [[Artifact]]s to clear all the [[round]]s. The campaign is split into four stages, each ending with a special Final Boss tile.

The player begins a ''Rogue Legends'' campaign by creating their Starter Party, which is done by selecting a [[Hero]] or [[Hero Skin]] and up to three [[Artifact]]s which are objects that provide a passive buff to certain towers. Campaigns are divided into four stages. On each stage, the player progresses through the map by navigating tiles on a hexagonal grid. Players can move by clicking on the tiles indicated by a blue Wisp, but they cannot move back afterwards (indicated by the path becoming darkened). On some stage layouts, there are there multiple starting tiles or branching paths that the player can choose from, but all possible roads will eventually converge on the Final Boss tile.

Some tiles will have some [[Bloon|Bloons]] floating over it that lead the player to a '''Bloon Encounter''', which is a game of BTD6 with a custom set of rules, rounds and mechanics, and with [[Monkey Knowledge (BTD6)|Monkey Knowledge]], [[Double Cash Mode (BTD6)|Double Cash Mode]], and [[Fast Track Mode]] disabled. Completing encounters earns items called [[Token (BTD6)|Token]]s (represented by an icon of [[Geraldo (BTD6)|Geraldo]]'s head) that can be used to trade for more Artifacts at Merchant tiles and Rogue XP (represented by marshmallows), that can be spent in the Rogue XP Shop to unlock permanent upgrades for future campaigns. The player has five {{icon|BTD6 RogueHeartIcon.png}} hearts that are separate from in-game [[life|lives]] and a heart is lost each time they lose an encounter. If the player runs out of hearts, the campaign ends with no option of continuing.  

In ''Rogue Legends'', the player cannot place towers or [[Power]]s freely and can only use [[Insta Monkey]]s, which cost [[cash]] to place. They are cheaper to place than their combined base and upgrade costs, but more expensive to upgrade than normal.<ref name="coming-soon" /> Insta Monkeys in the player's Party are reusable, but have a 4-round cooldown between uses. The player can add more Insta Monkeys to their Party by opening Loot Chests, visiting Camp Fires, and having certain Artifacts.

During Bloon Encounters, the player can earn temporary items called Boosts, which can buffs to stats like [[Damage]], [[Range]], [[Pierce]] or others, Powers (which are purchased with [[cash]] instead of [[Monkey Money]]), or a one-time use Insta Monkey. These buffs will be active for the rest of the encounter and Powers or towers obtained from Boosts will be lost upon finishing the encounter, regardless of if they were used or not.

Players can encounter special tiles with different mechanics, such as Mini Games or Mini Bosses that can award additional Artifacts if the player can beat certain scores in modes like Races or Boss Rush, Merchants that can exchange their Artifacts for Tokens or other Artifacts, Loot Chests with additional Artifacts or Insta Monkeys, or Camp Fires{{sic}} that allow players to add more Insta Monkeys, permanently upgrade existing Insta Monkeys or Artifacts, or regain hearts. At the end of each stage, there is a unique Final Boss tile, which is a Bloon Encounter featuring a [[Boss Bloon]]. Defeating the Final Boss is required to progress to the next stage. After completing 4 stages, the player will complete the campaign and earn the obtained Rogue XP (they are also awarded if the player loses all their hearts).  

Players earn [[experience]] using the same system as in the main game, except multiplied by <math>3+(0.3\times\text{Stage number})</math>, capped at 4.5× XP starting on stage 5. [[Hero]]es earn 3 times that amount and start with a large amount of XP depending on the starting round number.

Artifacts are items that can be equipped during a campaign. All of them have beneficial effects, though some have negative effects as trade-offs, and some of them can add more Insta Monkeys to the player's party. The player starts their campaign with one artifact called a "Hero Artifact" that depends on the Hero or Hero Skin. There are over 90 unique artifacts without counting their upgraded versions<ref name="first look"/> , and most of them appear to come in at least three rarities: Common, Rare, and Legendary with each tier having more powerful effects, but are harder to find. Players can discard Artifacts from their inventory at any time while they are in the map (for no effect) and have up to 50 Artifacts at the same time during a campaign, if they have more, the game will prompt the dialog to discard Artifacts until they are at the limit.

Players can also add additional artifacts to their starting party, called "Permanent Artifacts". Each one has a value called "Artifact Power" that determines its cost to equip in the starter party and its trade value at a Merchant tile. Common Artifacts have 3, Rare Artifacts have 6, and Legendary Artifacts have 9 Artifact Power, except the [[Boss Bloon]] artifacts, which have 18 Power. Players start the DLC with a handful of Permanent Artifacts and to obtain more, they can "extract" one of the Artifacts they currently posses in a campaign after completing a stage<ref name="47.0-preview" />. The extracted Artifact will be lost from the player's inventory until the player finds it again. When starting a Campaign, players can choose up to 3 Permanent Artifacts whose combined Artifact Power is 9 or less (this limit can be increased by purchasing upgrades from the XP Shop).

Boosts are temporary items that are obtained every 3 rounds on Bloon Encounters, or 5 rounds on Mini Games, at the start of a Mini-Boss and every 5 'pops' afterwards, and after triggering a Skull during a Final Boss fight. Boosts can be Boost Artifacts, [[Insta Monkey]]s, or [[Power]]s (including the [[Cave Monkey]], [[Tech Bot (BTD6)|Tech Bot]], [[Pontoon (BTD6)|Pontoon]], [[Portable Lake (BTD6)|Portable Lake]], [[Thrive]], [[Super Monkey Storm (BTD6)|Super Monkey Storm]], [[Monkey Boost (BTD6)|Monkey Boost]], [[Time Stop]], [[Glue Trap]], [[Camo Trap]], [[Battle Cat!|Battle Cat]] and [[Super Monkey Beacon]]).

 

When selecting a boost, the player can choose one of three items (except during Races or Endurance Races where they are awarded automatically), or spend cash to reroll them. The first reroll is free, and every successive roll costs an additional $300 ($300, $600, $900 and so on). Insta Monkeys and Powers obtained from Boosts can only be used once.<ref name="first look" />

Players can also enable the "Queue Boosts" option in the artifact menu while in-game, when active, the game will not prompt the player to select a Boost and instead will display an icon below the Artifact menu and after clicking it the game will award the Boost as normal. Clicking the button will only award one Boost at the time and will remain on the screen if there are multiple pending Boosts.

{{Outdated|Not updated for {{BTD6 version|54.0}} changes}}Each stage is composed of a grid of hexagonal tiles. There are 14 different stage layouts; each layout has a name internally, but they are not displayed in the game itself.

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BTD6 RL Quarry.png|Quarry

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BTD6 RL Bloonhenge.png|Bloonhenge

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BTD6 RL Dam.png|Dam

BTD6 RL High Point.png|High Point

BTD6 RL Big Forest.png|Big Forest

BTD6 RL Mountain Top.png|Mountain Top

BTD6 RL Volcanic Island.png|Volcanic Island

BTD6 RL River Crossing.png|River Crossing

BTD6 RL Cliffs of Dover.png|Cliffs of Dover

BTD6 RL Jungle.png|Jungle

BTD6 RL Mountain Pass Upper.png|Mountain Pass Upper

BTD6 RL Waterfall.png|Waterfall

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|6 (4 shuffled)

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|4 (3 shuffled)

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'''Bloon Encounters''' take the player to a game of ''BTD6''. They appear on the path and the player is required to engage with them to progress. Each Bloon Encounter tile has a 20% chance to be in [[Reverse (BTD6)|Reverse]] mode, indicated by the Bloon above the tile spinning counter-clockwise instead of clockwise. (This only reverses the direction of the track, not the order that Bloon waves appear in during each round, unlike in the main game.) The player can choose a Boost once every 3 [[round]]s.

 

Completing an encounter rewards the player with 1–3 Tokens and a low amount of Rogue XP. Alternatively, an encounter can be skipped by paying one {{icon|BTD6 RogueHeartIcon.png}} heart. The player is not allowed to skip if they have only one heart left.

 

 

Encounters start at round 1 out of 5 and after each encounter cleared, all future encounters in the same stage will start 1 round later and will last for 2 more rounds at the end (ex. 2/7, 3/9, 4/11, and so on), on stage 2 and higher, the first encounter will start 5 rounds later than in the previous stage, (6/10, 11/15 and 16/20 for the first encounter of stages 2, 3, and 4 respectively), further encounters on those stages also increase in the same way as stage 1. In particular, the start and end round for a particular combination of stage and encounter is the following:

 

 

For example, the 9th encounter in stage 3 will start at round 5 × (3 - 1) + 9 = 19 and end at round 5 × 3 + 2  × (9 -1) = 31.

{{Research|Find the formula for how CHIMPS scales the Bloon health modifier after stage 5}}

The game will have different values depending both on the map difficulty and the current encounter. Bloon speed increases by increments of 3% while MOAB and Ceramic health will be increased by +6% each encounter, and one additional stack of these increments will also be applied on each encounter. In general the challenge modifiers in Bloon Encounters are determined by the following formula which uses the current encounter number and a difficulty value which depends on the [[Map difficulty (BTD6)|map difficulty]]:

 

<math display="block">\text {Bloon Speed} = 100 + 3 \times ( \text {Encounter} - \text {Difficulty} - 1 )</math><math display="block">\text {Ceramic / MOAB Health} = 100 + 6 \times ( \text {Encounter} - \text {Difficulty} - 1 )</math>

 

For example if the second Bloon Encounter of that stage is played in [[Mesa]] (Advanced difficulty) then using the previous formula will yield a result of 79% Bloon speed modifier and 58% Ceramic and MOAB health. In addition to this, standard [[Freeplay#Bloons TD 6|Freeplay]] health scaling is also applied. In CHIMPS mode, after stage 5, the health of the Bloons will start scaling faster and in increasing increments, much like freeplay scaling. However, the Bloons speed modifier will keep scaling as normal.

 

 

 

 

 

There are different types of Bloon Encounters, indicated by the types of Bloons that float over the tile. Some types have unique round sets, and some don't appear until later in the campaign.

|All Bloons gain the [[Regrow Bloon (BTD6)|Regrow]] property (if able), and the Regrow rate is increased to 150%.

|All Bloons gain the [[Fortified Bloon (BTD6)|Fortified]] property (if able). All Bloons move 30% slower.

|Bloons move 50% faster if they are within the first half of the track, then their speed is reduced to 80% of normal. Increased the amount of faster Bloons and decreases the amount of slower Bloons.

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|All Bloons are immune to Freeze, Stun and Slow effects, like [[BAD (BTD6)|BADs]]. Removes Freeplay speed scaling.

|White, Black and Purple Bloon

|Increases the initial and final rounds of the tile by 5. Starting Cash is calculated accordingly to this new start round.

|Increases the initial and final rounds of the tile by 10. Starting Cash is calculated accordingly to this new start round.

===Mini Games===

'''Mini Games''' are optional challenges that can reward the player with the choice of an Artifact when completed. Each Mini Game has three tiers of score goals, and the goal the player reaches determines if the Artifact options are Common, Rare, or Legendary. If the player does not reach any of the goals, no Artifact is earned. Players do not lose a heart if they lose or fail to achieve a goal score, but they can pay 1 heart to retry if they haven't earned an Artifact yet. Boosts are awarded every 5 rounds instead of 3 and it will be automatically selected in Races or Endurance Races. Games can also be played in the Reverse version of the track at random.

 

 

 

'''Mini Boss''' tiles are similar to Mini Games, but use [[Boss Rush]] mode. These use the [[Phayze One]] round set rather than the Rogue Bloons round set, and [[Power]]s can be used normally. The player earns a Boost at the start of the game and every 5 times they pop the Boss Bloon. The Boss Bloon of the tile floats around it in a circle. [[Lych]] and [[Vortex (BTD6)|Vortex]] currently cannot appear on these tiles, as neither have a Boss Rush variant yet and cannot happen on certain maps (see the Final Boss section for the list of maps).

 

 

 

'''Log Bridges''' allow the player to cross water tiles. They are functionally identical to path tiles other than requiring the player to select them to proceed.

'''Final Boss''' tiles are a battle against a [[Boss Bloon]] in a manner similar to [[Boss Challenge]]s. The Boss spawns immediately upon starting the game and must be defeated within 40 rounds, starting at round 10. The tile will use the Rogue round set, grant a higher amount of starting cash, and the challenge rules will be the same as if this was the next Bloon Encounter of the stage. The Boss Bloon will be in its Normal version for stage 1 and in its Elite version for stages 2 and higher. The Boss tier will be the same as the stage number and remain at tier 5 on stages 6 and beyond. The number of skulls remains the same as in Boss Challenge. The Health of each Boss is as follows:

|[[File:BTD6 BloonariusEventIcon.png|50x50px|Bloonarius]] [[Bloonarius (BTD6)|Bloonarius]]

|[[File:BTD6 LychEventIcon.png|50x50px|Lych]] [[Lych|Lych]]

Unlike in Bloon Encounters, the player will be awarded a Boost only when they reach a skull on the boss's health bar; no Boosts are earned by clearing rounds. When the Boss is defeated, the game will end immediately even if the spawns of the current round are still active. For rewards, the player will have a choice between a Legendary Artifact unique to the Boss (replaced by another random Legendary Artifact if the player already has it) or Tier 5 Insta Monkeys, and the ability to extract one Artifact to use as a starting Artifact in future campaigns. Defeating the Final Boss progresses the player to the next Stage.

 

The Final Bosses of stages 2 and higher will be on their Elite version and the battle will start and end 5 Rounds later each tier (15/55, 20/60 and 25/65, respectively), and the Boss health will be increased each time. Passive and Skull effects will be the same as in Boss Challenge with the Stage number determining the boss tier, but [[Bloonarius (BTD6)|Bloonarius]] will use its Normal difficulty bleed and skull spawns while displaying its Elite model.

 

 

 

In CHIMPS mode, the player starts with 85% less cash, and on stages 5 or higher, the Bosses will be at their Tier 5 Elite versions and the health and rounds will keep scaling in the same way as in previous stages. In stage 6 and beyond, the Boss Bloons will keep appearing in the same order as they did on stages 1–5.

 

'''Practice''' allows the player to simulate a Bloon Encounter on any [[map]] of the player's choosing, including [[Protect The Yacht]] and [[Blons]]. The player chooses their Starter Party and plays rounds 1–65. There are no health or speed modifiers and the player earns [[Boost]]s every two rounds instead of three. After completing round 65, the player can continue in [[Freeplay]].

*Esoteric Elementalist Rare has a 50 % chance of triggering the damage over time effect instead of 30% as the description states.