Pirate Lord (BTD6): Difference between revisions

|id=Buccaneer-Pirate Lord

 

|name         =Pirate Lord

|icon         =BTD6 MonkeyBuccaneer PirateLordUpgradeIcon.png

|image       =BTD6 050-MonkeyBuccaneer.png

|description =Greatly improved power and can shoot many grappling hooks at once, plundering extra cash from each MOAB-class Bloon taken down.

|description C=

 

|tower=Monkey Buccaneer

|path =2

|tier =5

 

|cost =27000

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|xp   =35000

'''Pirate Lord''' is the [[Monkey Buccaneer (BTD6)|Monkey Buccaneer]]'s path 2 tier 5 [[upgrade]] in ''[[Bloons TD 6]]''. It decreases the [[attack cooldown]] of all attacks by 50%, doubling the Monkey Buccaneer's attack speed. It also improves several of the Monkey Buccaneer's attacks:

 

* Grapes [[damage]] increased from 5 to 8, and [[Ceramic damage]] increased from +2 to +8

** Grapes damage-over-time effect increased from 2 per tick to 9

* Cannonball [[MOAB-Class damage]] increased from +5 to +10

** Cannonball frags damage increased from 1 to 6, frags MOAB-Class damage increased from +0 to +4

This upgrade grants the [[Monkey Pirates (BTD6)|MOAB Takedown]] ability 6 hooks in total, and the capability of hooking [[ZOMG (BTD6)|ZOMGs]] at the cost of 3 hooks each. The ability's cooldown is decreased from 45 seconds to 30 seconds (25 seconds with {{BTD6 mk|Faster Takedowns}}), and hooked Bloons grant +100% increased pop income.

For its price, the Pirate Lord is one of the most versatile and powerful towers. An 0-5-2 Pirate Lord (Crow's Nest) is able to hit every Bloon type unaided, and on the right maps in the right spots, is one of the towers capable of completing the challenge All For One and One For One, which requires a single tower to defeat the first 100 rounds alone.

This potency comes from three sources -- the Grapes, the Bombs, and the Grapnels. Between the Grapes and Bombs, the Pirate Lord's close-in damage is extremely potent, capable of reducing even high-end blimps to ribbons in moments. Effectively any spot next to water will work well for this; ideally, however, it prefers to have open space and tracks on either side of it, to make use of its ability to attack from both sides at once and the Grapes' tendency to fly much farther than the Lord's targeting range. When large numbers of Blimps threaten to overwhelm it, the Pirate Lord can fall back on its MOAB Takedown ability; not only is it able to pull in six MOABs at a time, or take down ZOMGs at the cost of three hooks each (meaning it can take as much as 16,000 health off the board with one ability), but importantly, provided the Pirate Lord can see camo either through Crow's Nest or through aid from other towers, it can target and take down DDTs. Removing up to six fast, extremely tough DDTs from a field can easily be the difference between a win or loss. Add in that it is overall cheaper than its counterpart Carrier Flagship, and the Pirate Lord has a lot of things to offer it.

 

The downside, of course, is that Pirate Lord is MUCH more dependent on positioning to be effective compared to Carrier Flagship. While both need to be placed on water, Aircraft Carrier and Carrier Flagship can still be highly effective even if that water is far from the track. Monkey Pirates and Pirate Lord can still make use of MOAB Takedown from anywhere on the map, but if they can't belly up to the firing line so that they can have good windows to get their guns on massed groups of Bloons, their damage potential drops off rapidly in comparison. Pirate Lord is also a selfish tower by comparison, offering none of the buffs to other towers that Carrier Flagship does. Both are excellent towers, but for different situations.