Embrittlement (BTD6): Difference between revisions

'''Embrittlement''' is the [[Ice Monkey (BTD6)|Ice Monkey]]'s path 1 tier 4 [[upgrade]] in ''[[Bloons TD 6]]''. <section begin="lede" />Ice Monkey's attack now applies a brittle debuff to Bloons hit, which has the following effects:

* Makes affected Bloons take +1 damage from all sources for 2 seconds. This does not stack with [[Super Brittle (BTD6)|Super Brittle]] or [[Herald of Everfrost]].

This effect soaks through layers along with ice shards, and they both soak through 3 layers (4 with [[Deep Freeze (BTD6)|Deep Freeze]]). Shards can also strip [[Camo Bloon (BTD6)|Camo]] and [[Regrow Bloon (BTD6)|Regrow]] properties, unlike [[Ice Shards (BTD6)|Ice Shards]] which can only do so with its blasts. This upgrade also enables the main attack to target Bloons that have been Frozen, making [[Re-Freeze (BTD6)|Re-Freeze]] obsolete.<section end="lede" />

Embrittlement is somewhat map-dependent tower but a versatile support. In its optimal locations that allow wide coverage, such as a 90° bend, Embrittlement reliably provides de-camo, de-regrow (mainly against [[Lych]]), de-lead, and damage amplifiers, all within a cheap price.

Embrittlement's best synergies are towers that shoot high amounts of projectiles and attack quickly (e.g. [[Overdrive (BTD6)|Overdrive]]), because the flat damage amplification provides a large DPS increase. Most of its best synergies benefit much from Embrittlement, since most of them are weak to {{BTD6|DDT}}s. In particular, Embrittlement + Overdrives is a powerful strategy against [[Boss Bloon]]s (except {{BTD6|Vortex}}, unless supported by an active [[Dan D'Monke (BTD6)|Dan D'Monke]]'s Rabble Rouser ability). {{BTD6|Bloon Sabotage}} is recommended support to compensate Embrittlement's otherwise poor consistency against DDTs.

[[Enhanced Freeze (BTD6)|Enhanced Freeze]] is the preferred crosspath, increasing rate of debuffs enough to have permanent uptime on continuous hits. [[Deep Freeze (BTD6)|Deep Freeze]] is mildly useful, allowing self-sharding in the absence of external speed buffs. [[Larger Radius (BTD6)|Larger Radius]] is better if it already has many attack speed buffs. [[Re-Freeze (BTD6)|Re-Freeze]] has no effect on Embrittlement and isn't worth purchasing after it.