Alluring Melody

Alluring Melody

Entrances non MOAB-Class Bloons with a hypnotic tune, magically detonating all damage over time effects, disrupting Bloon movement, and strips Camo.

Tower	Mermonkey — Path 3 — Tier 3
XP cost	3,000
Cash cost	$1,700 — Easy $2,000 — Medium $2,160 — Hard $2,400 — Impoppable

← Echosense Network

Symphonic Resonance →

Alluring Melody is the Mermonkey's path 3 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. This upgrade unlocks a new attack for the Mermonkey that pulls non-MOAB-Class Bloons into a trance. The attack creates an area of effect that causes Bloons that enter it to lose Camo properties, instantly take the total remaining damage of damage over time if they have any (capped at 50 damage each), and continuously circle around the tower anticlockwise. It lasts for 6 seconds, returning tranced Bloons to where they were before when it ends, and has a 12-second cooldown (effectively 50% uptime without buffs). It has 6 pierce (with Ceramic Bloons consuming 2 pierce), which determines how many Bloons it can entrance at a time. This upgrade also increases the pierce of the Mermonkey's trident splashes from 3 to 9.

Crosspathing with Trident Efficiency increases the rate the trance attack pulls in Bloons at while active, but does not affect its attack cooldown. Trident Swiftness further increases its pull rate and increases the speed of circling Bloons by 50%. Crosspathing with Sharper Prongs increases the pierce of the trance from 6 to 8.

Trance mechanics

The trance attack repeatedly pulls in bloons every 0.3s (0.27s with 1-0-3, 0.234s with 2-0-3), sucking in up to 6 non-blimp bloons (8 with 0-1-3) at a time. Ceramic Bloons consume 2 pierce and cannot overflow its pierce limit. Upon pulling in a bloon, the latest damage-over-time effect on a bloon deals all its damage instantaneously, capped at 50 damage. Bloons affected the trance will orbit around the Mermonkey for 6 seconds, with radius of 30 units, and once no longer tranced it cannot be pulled in again for 4 seconds after the orbit ends. Bloons are allowed to have their DoTs triggered again while tranced. This attack also pauses the trident attack for 1.2 seconds (1.02s with 1-0-3, 0.804s with 2-0-3).

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 28 units Footprint radius 8 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 1.2s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 8.2 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 28 units
Projectile Pierce 2 Speed 200 units/s Seeking distance 80 units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 260 °/s Lifespan 1s Radius 1 unit Splash Pierce 9 Max pierce 9 Damage 2 Damage type Shatter Lifespan 0.05s Radius 4 units Ignores blockers

Trance attack
Cooldown 12s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 8.2 Targeting First Targeting range 28 units Filters Cannot target MOAB-Class Cannot target Bloons with Trance
Ignores blockers
Projectile Pierce 6 Ceramic pierce penalty +1 Lifespan 6s Radius 28 units Rehit interval 0.3s Refresh pierce interval 0.3s Filters Cannot hit MOAB-Class Ignores blockers Removes Camo Trance Damage type Plasma Multiplier ×3 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×1 Duration 6s Cooldown 4s

Buff when in water
Range modifier ×1.35

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

1-0-3

Attack
Cooldown 1.2s → 0.96s

Trance attack
Projectile Rehit interval 0.3s → 0.27s Refresh pierce interval 0.3s → 0.27s

2-0-3

Attack
Cooldown 0.96s → 0.66s
Projectile Speed 200 units/s → 300 units/s Seeking rotation speed 260 °/s → 390 °/s Lifespan 1s → 0.6667s

Trance attack
Projectile Rehit interval 0.27s → 0.234s Refresh pierce interval 0.27s → 0.234s Trance Multiplier ×3 → ×4.5 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×1 → ×1.5

0-1-3

Attack
Projectile Pierce 2 → 3 Splash Pierce 9 → 12 Max pierce 9 → 12

Trance attack
Projectile Pierce 6 → 8

0-2-3

Attack
Splash Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 0.5s Layers 4

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
0-0-3	$2,365	$2,780	$3,000	$3,335	$1,656	$1,946	$2,100	$2,335
1-0-3	$2,490	$2,930	$3,160	$3,515	$1,743	$2,051	$2,212	$2,461
2-0-3	$2,700	$3,180	$3,430	$3,815	$1,890	$2,226	$2,401	$2,671
0-1-3	$2,535	$2,980	$3,215	$3,575	$1,775	$2,086	$2,251	$2,503
0-2-3	$2,725	$3,205	$3,460	$3,845	$1,908	$2,244	$2,422	$2,692

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 55.2

Alluring Melody is decent for catching Bloons and instantly triggering DoT, but has pierce-capping issues and significant downtime between attacks. As for its decamo, it's too slow and pierce-deficient to be reliable against dense and/or fast bloons.

The 0-1-3 crosspath is often better, because the downtime is not modified with top path, and the lack of pierce means that the increased grabbing rate that top path provides is rather minimal. However, 2-0-3 offers a better rate of instantly triggering the DoT.

Update history

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

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Version 45.0

“

Echosense Network hasn’t felt like it is doing all that it could, so we have increased the maximum number of stacks to raise the ceiling of use here as it is meant to be slow ramping with a high space & cost investment to build heavily into. Mermonkey’s trance was extremely powerful against MOABs but limited against regular Bloons, so we’ve shifted prices apart & improved T3 while raising the cost of T4 to a more appropriate level.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,800 → $2,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $925 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Trance attack: Pierce increased ― 2 → 3
  • Note: Pierce of Symphonic Resonance and above remains the same
•  Trident: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.5s → 1s
•  Maximum Echosense Network stacks increased ― 5 → 10
  • Maximum range buff increased ― +30% → +60%

0-1-3, 0-2-3

•  Sharper Prongs now grants the trance attack +1 pierce

Version 46.0

“

Bottom path Mermonkey is proving to be very high uptime for the strong support it provides, while still exceptional this is only seeing a light nerf for now.
— Update notes

”

•  Trance: Cooldown increased ― 3s → 4s
  • Note: Does not apply to The Final Harmonic

Version 47.0

“

Symphonic Resonance is powerful, but Alluring Melody is inconsistent for a Bloon-only stall, so pierce here is also being matched up to the same as T4.
— Update notes

”

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 3 → 4
  • Note: Stacks with Sharper Prongs (0-1-3) crosspath ― 4 → 5. Symphonic Resonance unaffected

Version 48.0

“

Symphonic Resonance is too expensive to be considered as a de-camo choice so this effect is moving into Alluring Melody
— Update notes

”

•  Trance: Now decamos affected bloons
  • Note: Does not affect Symphonic Resonance, which already does this

0-1-3, 0-2-3

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 5 → 6

Version 49.0

“

[...] Alluring Melody’s DoT Detonation mechanic can now apply to any targets that are already tranced although the damage cap per detonation has been reduced to compensate for this
— Update notes

”

“

For fun Echosense Network will now be able to apply to Alchemist Transformed Mermonkeys.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Echosense Network now works with Mermonkeys converted by Total Transformation
•  Resolved a build order issue that could override higher tier Mermonkey buffs (bug fix)
•  Trance: Damage over time detonation can now trigger again on already tranced Bloons
  • Note: X-X-5 unchanged.
•  Trance: Damage over time detonation damage limit reduced ― 200 → 50

Version 50.0

0-1-3, 0-2-3

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 6 → 10

Version 51.0

“

Mermonkey weren’t^[sic] feeling they favoured their natural habitat enough, so their Water Placement bonus is getting a boost.
— Update notes

”

•  Range bonus when placed in water increased ― +25% → +35%

Version 52.0

“

Last update many players felt blindsided when Brickell stopped applying her buff to Mermonkeys since there was no mention in the balance changes section. We would like to apologize for that - it was tasked internally as a bug as it was indeed unintended to work that way. We then left the issue alone for a long time, mostly due to other more pressing matters, and this issue fell through the cracks. In retrospect, it would have been better to treat this as balance rather than a simple bug fix due to how much time had passed. Reading through your feedback, we did consider just reverting the change, however the bigger issue that the feedback reinforced to us was that players considered Mermonkey to be so bad that it was only a "good" tower when used in combination with a single, water-only hero. This sort of forced synergy goes against our design intentions - namely that Mermonkey being our signature amphibious tower should be able to stand on its own without being balance-locked to an interaction with a single hero. With all that in mind, we feel Mermonkey's highest priority right now is large sweeping buffs to each of the paths, so most of the following changes are our first step towards this starting from the low tier crosspaths.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 4 → 5

0-1-3, 0-2-3

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 6 → 7

Version 53.0

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 5 → 6
  • Stacks with X-1-X Sharper Prongs crosspath ― 7 → 8
•  Range bonus per stack reduced ― +10% → +7.5%
  • Note: Maximum range bonus decreased from +100% to +75%

Version 54.0

•  Overall cost increased by $25 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Gallery

For more Mermonkey images, see Gallery:Mermonkey.

Screenshots

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  Alluring Melody with no crosspaths
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  Alluring Melody with 013 crosspath
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  Alluring Melody with 023 crosspath
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  Alluring Melody with 103 crosspath
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  Alluring Melody with 203 crosspath
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  Alluring Melody trance attack

Assets

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In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 48.0

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	لحن جذاب	—
Danish	Tillokkende melodi	—
German	Betörende Melodie	—
Spanish	Melodía seductora	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Melodía cautivadora	—
Finnish	Houkutteleva melodia	—
French	Mélodie lancinante	—
Italian	Melodia seducente	—
Japanese	魅惑のメロディー	—
Korean	현혹의 음률	—
Dutch	Verleidelijke melodie	—
Norwegian	Forførerisk melodi	—
Polish	Uwodzicielska melodia	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Melodia Sedutora	—
Russian	Манящая мелодия	—
Swedish	Lockande melodi	—
Thai	เมโลดี้เย้ายวน	—
Turkish	Çekici Melodi	—
Chinese (simplified)	魅惑旋律	—
Chinese (traditional)	誘人旋律	—

Description

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	مداخل البالون من فئة غير MOAB مع نغمة تنويمية، وتفجير جميع الأضرار بمرور الوقت بشكل سحري وتعطيل حركة البالون وتمويه شريطي.	—
Danish	Betager bloons der ikke er af MOAB-klasse med en hypnotisk melodi, der på magisk vis detonerer alle effekter der skader over tid, forstyrrer bloon-bevægelsen og fjerner camo.	—
German	Betört Bloons der MOAB-Klasse mit einem hypnotischen Song, sprengt auf magische Weise alle Schaden-über-Zeit-Effekte und behindert die Bloon-Bewegung, und entfernt Tarnung.	—
Spanish	Mejora los bloons que no son de clase MOAB con una melodía hipnótica, que detona todos los efectos de daño continuado, y altera el movimiento de los bloons y elimina el camuflaje.	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Hipnotiza a los bloons que no son de clase MOAB con una melodía, detona por arte de magia todos los efectos de daño por tiempo, interrumpe el movimiento de los bloons y quita el camuflaje.	—
Finnish	Hypnotisoi muut kuin MOAB-luokan bloonit sävelellä, räjäyttää maagisesti kaikki ajan mittaan vahinkoa tekevät vaikutukset, häiritsee bloonien liikkumista ja poistaa niiltä maastokuvioinnin.	—
French	Envoûte les Bloons autres que ceux de classe MOAB avec une mélodie hypnotique, faisant exploser comme par magie tous les effets de dégâts infligés sur la durée, perturbant les mouvements des Bloons et supprimant le camouflage.	—
Italian	Ammalia i bloon che non sono di classe MOAB con un suono ipnotico, facendo esplodere magicamente in un colpo solo tutti i danni nel tempo, interrompendo i movimenti dei bloon e privandoli della mimetizzazione.	—
Japanese	催眠術のような音色でMOAB級以外のブルーンに入り込み、魔法の力で全ての時間経過ダメージを爆破させてブルーンの動きを妨害し、カモフラージュブルーンの効果を解除する。	—
Korean	최면성 노래로 비MOAB급 풍선을 홀려 마법의 힘으로 모든 지속 피해 효과를 폭발시키며 풍선의 이동을 방해하고 캐모 속성을 해제합니다.	—
Dutch	Betovert niet-MOAB-klasse Bloons met een hypnotische melodie, die alle schade over tijd-effecten op magische manier laat ontploffen, de bewegingen van Bloons verstoort en Camouflage verwijdert.	—
Norwegian	Trollbinder bloons som ikke er av MOAB-klasse med en hypnotisk melodi som på magisk vis detonerer alle «skade over tid»-effekter, forstyrrer bloons i bevegelse og fjerner kamuflasje.	—
Polish	Oczarowuje blony klasy poniżej MOAB-ów hipnotyczną melodią, magicznie detonując wszystkie obrażenia rozłożone w czasie, zakłócając ruch blonów oraz zdejmując kamuflaż.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Encanta Bloons que não são Classe MOAB com uma melodia hipnótica, detonando magicamente todos os efeitos de dano gradual, atrapalhando a movimentação dos Bloons e removendo camuflagem.	—
Russian	Гипнотический звук вводит шары, кроме MOAB, в транс, волшебным образом взрывает все длительные эффекты, нарушает движение шаров и лишает камуфляжа.	—
Swedish	Förtrollar Bloons som inte tillhör MOAB-klassen med en hypnotisk melodi, som på ett magiskt sätt sprider all skada över tid och stör Bloonsens rörelser och tar bort Kamo.	—
Thai	ล่อลวงบลูนที่ไม่ใช่คลาส MOAB ด้วยท่วงทำนองสะกดจิต สร้างดาเมจเวทมนต์ตามระยะเวลา ขัดขวางการเคลื่อนไหวของบลูน และลบการพรางตัวออก	—
Turkish	Hipnotize eden bir melodiyle MOAB Sınıfı Olmayan Bloon'ları büyüleyerek zaman geçtikçe hasar etkilerini sihirli bir şekilde tetikler, Bloon hareketinin aksamasını sağlar ve Kamuflajlı özelliğini kaldırır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	以催眠的曲调迷惑非MOAB级气球，神奇地引爆所有持续伤害效果，扰乱气球的移动并消除其迷彩。	—
Chinese (traditional)	用催眠曲調吸引非MOAB級氣球，用魔法引爆所有持續傷害效果，干擾氣球的移動，以及去除偽裝效果。	—