Strategy:Rogue Legends: Difference between revisions

{{Outdated|Some strategies are affected by balance changes in {{BTD6 version|49.0}}.}}

For example if the player selects [[Quincy (BTD6)|Quincy]] as its Hero (0-0-3 [[Dart Monkey (BTD6)|Dart]], 0-0-2 [[Boomerang Monkey (BTD6)|Boomerang]]) the player can perform the following analysis:

* Dart Monkey and Quincy himself can deal with Camo Zebras and Puples, and even Camo Leads with the Splody Darts Artifact in addition to Quincy's Exploding Arrows.

* Top path Boomerang can deal with dense Ceramic rushes, but has no Camo detection.

* Middle (or bottom) path Boomerang is decent against MOAB-Class Bloons, and with Artifacts or Camo support and support in the future it can also deal with DDTs.

* Only one Boomerang is provided so we can't deal with both Ceramic rushes and MOABs at the same time.

* As the campaign progresses more help against Camo Leads and DDTs will be needed because Quincy will fall in power and Splody Darts might not be reliable enough with the random chance of happening.

We now know our main weaknesses, so a tower that can deal with MOABs and another with high pierce and Camo detection will be good additions to the party, an example of a tower that can handle both could be a [[Mermonkey (BTD6)|Mermonkey]] that can be upgraded into a 4-0-2 [[Abyssal Warrior]] or 0-4-2 [[Arctic Knight]], with the later probably being preferred as it can also solve our future Camo Lead problem and will also do heavy damage to any Boss with its ability, with the exception of [[Blastapopoulos (BTD6)|Blastapopoulos]].

 

Other options that can help are [[Wizard Monkey (BTD6)|Wizard Monkeys]] that can be upgraded to a 0-3-2 and handle both MOAB-Class damage will help against rushes or oven a [[Spike Factory (BTD6)|Spike Factory]] to upgrade on a 1-3-0 for MOAB-Class damage or 3-2-0 to handle Ceramics.

|3-X-X [[Ice Shards (BTD6)|Ice Shards]], 3-X-X [[Submerge and Support (BTD6)|Submerge and Support]], X-X-3 [[Signal Flare (BTD6)|Signal Flare]], X-X-3 [[Shimmer (BTD6)|Shimmer]], X-2-X [[Counter-Espionage (BTD6)|Counter-Espionage]], X-2-X [[Radar Scanner (BTD6)|Radar Scanner]], X-3-X [[Cleansing Foam (BTD6)|Cleansing Foam]], [[General's Disposition]], [[Perceptive Crow]].

|4-2-0 [[Juggernaut (BTD6)|Juggernaut]], 4-X-X [[M.O.A.R Glaives (BTD6)|M.O.A.R Glaives]], X-4-X [[Blade Maelstrom (BTD6)|Blade Maelstrom]], 3-2-0 [[Bloon Dissolver (BTD6)|Bloon Dissolver]], 3-X-X [[Druid of the Storm (BTD6)|Druid of the Storm]], 3-X-X [[Abyss Dweller]].

|X-3-X [[Bionic Boomerang (BTD6)|Bionic Boomerang]], X-3-X [[MOAB Mauler (BTD6)|MOAB Mauler]], X-X-4 [[Overdrive (BTD6)|Overdrive]], 2-0-3 [[Semi-Automatic (BTD6)|Semi-Automatic]], 2-0-3 [[Triple Guns (BTD6)|Triple Guns]], 3-X-X [[Destroyer (BTD6)|Destroyer]], 3-X-X [[Fighter Plane (BTD6)|Fighter Plane]], 0-2-3 [[MOAB Shove (BTD6)|MOAB Shove]], X-3-X [[Dragon's Breath (BTD6)|Dragon's Breath]], 4-X-X [[Abyssal Warrior]], 1-0-3 [[MOAB SHREDR (BTD6)|MOAB SHREDR]], [[Malicious Mauling]], [[Pure Damage]].

In later stages, even with a high amount of Artifact and powerful towers, sending many rounds at once is not advised as it easy to get pierce capped, and also DDT's, Fortified ZOMGs and BADs are dangerous threats, specially if they pop near the end of the track.

The following table contains the recommended final round to be sent to reach each goal, this assumes no previous Bloon Encounters in the stage but this is compensated by the natural MOAB health scaling of Rogue Legends, however on the early stages it might be necessary to send a couple more rounds in difficult maps as the MOAB-Class Bloons will have less health than normal.

The final round should be sent about 1 minute before the timer expires so it can be popped on time. Players can also send several rounds during the final seconds to boost the score by popping the weaker Bloons as the larger ones will not be able to reach the exit, but is recommended to exercise caution to avoid being pierce capped by the faster Bloons, specially Purples or DDT's.

In most cases, players can play this as a regular Bloon Encounter, remembering that it will go for longer than regular encounters, so players need to have MOAB-Class damage ready earlier. This Mini-Game actually gets a fairly bit easier if the player has played several Bloon Encounters prior to the tile, as the amount of cash that the players can spend increases significantly with the amount of Encounters played. On later stages, specially if the player has Essence of Bloonarius, defenses can get pretty cheap by just using tier 3 or lower towers.

Obtaining all possible upgrades from the Rogue XP shop requires a little over 170,000 XP, so an efficient way to obtaining enough XP is to play CHIMPS mode with a high amount of curses and reaching the highest stage possible as the largest source of XP are Final Bosses. In general, 3 to 4 campaigns reaching stages 15-20 are usually enough to obtain the necessary XP. In the following table is a list of all curses and a recommendation if the player should or should not enable them XP farming runs.

|Adding two more rounds to the tower cooldowns is mostly irrelevant if the Monkeys in the party are strong enough as the player might not even need to place additional towers at all mid-game with enough Artifacts.

|Chests are a usually a better way to get artifacts in general and Mini Games / Bosses become easier on later stages so the need to obtain Artifacts from the Merchant is lessened, but players can play without this curse if needed, before they obtain enough starting tokens from the XP Shop.  

|Mostly yes

|Unless the player has weak starting party and really need Common artifacts from Mini Games or Mini Bosses on stage 1, this curse should be enabled.

|Standard CHIMPS rule, in most situations if the player is in a position where selling a tower is really needed, it means the party is really flawed in the first place and is likely that the campaign is not going to go too much further.

|The early stages the most difficult part of the run, so there is no need to make them even harder. Also is sometimes refreshing to see easier maps often to reduce the stress caused by the harder maps and the risk of losing the last few hearts before reaching a Camp Fire.

|This doesn't affect base costs of towers and upgrades are already expensive, so making them slightly more expensive doesn't affect gameplay heavily, and there is counterplay by buying the discount upgrades from the XP Shop.

|Not having starting artifact just makes the early stages extremely difficult, so is not worth it to have this curse enabled.

|This will limit the Artifact reward options and adding some RNG to the run, but not to the point where the player will lose because of this. Even with no rerolls, it will be nearly impossible to see a situation where all Artifact reward options are detrimental. Also, with Boosts being disabled, so there's even less of a necessity to reroll. If enabled it should not be enabled with Choice Starved.

|If the starting party is very strong, the Hero can be ignored, but in a a lot of cases, Heroes are a very important part of the defense in the early stages.

|Skipping difficult encounters and having a safety net in case the player losses a game to keep a run alive is more important than the boost from this curse.  

|A party of 3 monkeys is just asking to lose in the mid-game or to a map like Dark Castle or Ravine, so this curse should be disabled until the player upgrades Max Party Size at least a couple times.

|No

|Chests are usually the main source of Artifacts so reducing the amount of choices available makes the run much more RNG dependent, as only one option will be available.

|Players that are just starting the DLC won't have many XP Shop upgrades on the first place, so there is virtually no downside to this curse, later, the player should evaluate if having easier and quicker campaigns is better than the 35% increase from this curse. Once the player is familiar enough with the game, is probable that they don't need the XP Shop upgrades on the first place.

During this part of the campaign, it is recommended to not try to force an strategy and just keep along with what the game provides. On stage 1, the player should visit a couple of special tiles to start the Artifact collection, however, players should usually not greed this stage unless they are confident they can deal with strong Bloons like Fortified [[ZOMG (BTD6)|ZOMGs]] or [[DDT (BTD6)|DDTs]]. After obtaining a few Artifacts, specially [[Essence Of Bloonarius]] or [[Essence Of Dreadbloon]], the players can now take greedy routes in stages 2-4 to get as many Artifacts as possible.

* Bloon / MOAB health is much higher, and scale faster past Stage 5, the player will be facing [[Double HP MOABs]] in most Bloon Encounters around Stage 10, and will reach 5× health on Stage 20, 10× by Stage 30 and 20× by Stage 40. Speed scale slower but Bloons will still move twice as fast than normal around Stage 35. All this speed and health scaling will be on top of regular Freeplay scaling.

* Tier 5 towers and Paragons are practically unavailable in Rogue Legends, so defenses are typically composed of Tier 3 towers helped by [[Essence Of Bloonarius]] until the player can afford the upgrades.

* Almost all the popping power will come by the combined effects of all Artifacts in the player's inventory. Allowing towers to attack extremely trash, have practically global range, and doing heavy amounts of damage.

* The main threats will still be [[BAD (BTD6)|BADs]], but DDTs and Fortified DDTs are also dangerous in shorter maps, however thanks to the power of Artifacts, anything that isn't a BAD can be permanently stalled by the appropriate towers.

Thanks to the power of Artifacts, nearly any tower can be used as DPS with very few exceptions, but is preferred to choose towers that have great Tier 3 upgrades that benefit from attack speed and damage upgrades. The main DPS towers should be kept at Tier 3 after obtaining [[Essence Of Bloonarius]] and only get upgraded when both the Tier 4 and 5 upgrades can be purchased at the same time. Some examples include:

|Benjamin is the most efficient farm on the game in late stages, producing $5,000 Cash per round for free, players can easily use that cash to deploy their Tier 5 towers very reliably, while Biohack is an useful ability in the early game and Syphon Funding can remove a lot of RBE from the spawns. However, as it does not provide any offensive capability, players might struggle at the start of an encounter before its Cash generation can payoff.

|Obyn's passive abilities provide a general boost to [[Magic]] towers, specially [[Druid (BTD6)|Druids]] and Brickell does the same for [[Monkey Buccaneer (BTD6)|Buccaneers]] and [[Monkey Sub (BTD6)|Subs]] with her Naval Tactics ability. So they are the Heroes of choice if the player uses such towers.

|Sacrificial Totem is always a welcome boost, specially in the early and mid stages, but her biggest asset is the MOAB Hex ability that can get rid of BADs easing the job of the rest of the party. Having her on Stages 20-30 makes [[Cats Meow]] almost a necessity because even with reduced ability cooldowns, she still could miss BADs as the ability can't keep up with the amount of them.

|Using Blood Sacrifice to boost the power of herself and [[Sun Avatar (BTD6)|Sun Avatars]] is certainly worth it, specially with [[Divine Intervention]] as more attacks mean more opportunities of landing the Crit. However, the player should be careful with their Cash management in order to keep the buff always on. Adora can also be used as a [[One Monkey Army]] Hero, however she has a much more difficult early game than the Heroes listed below while using this Artifact.

Regardless of the main DPS tower selected these towers excel to provide utility to any party.

|With enough artifacts, a 5-2-0 Cripple MOAB can stall permanently nearly any amount of Bloons that are not BADs, essentially acting as a filter, and has enough fire power to pop them on time, on high enough stages, it can handle the early round defense by its own, letting BADs leak with [[Cats Meow]] while the players saves enough money for the main defense, after that it can help wit the DDTs that spawn from popped BADs. [[One Shot]] helps to pop Bloons faster and its attack speed drawback is not enough to keep this tower from doing its job. A 0-2-5 [[Elite Defender (BTD6)|Elite Defender]] with [[Rubber Bullets]] or Maim MOAB can be used as a cheaper alternative, but they won't be able to pop the Bloons they stall.

|[[MOAB Glue (BTD6)|MOAB Glue]] / [[Relentless Glue (BTD6)|Relentless Glue]] / [[Super Glue (BTD6)|Super Glue]] + [[Sticky Situation (Artifact)|Sticky Situation]]

|Surprisingly, these towers are here not really for the stalling support they provide, as that is covered by the Snipers, they are instead used to just put glue on the Bloons to enable the Sticky Situation Artifact, essentially triples the total DPS of the entire defense after obtaining [[Essence Of Dreadbloon]]. With [[High Impact Glue]], Super Glue can also become a powerful DPS tower on its own.

|This is the next best farming setup after Benjamin as is not as expensive as the Tier 4 [[Banana Farm|Banana Farms]]. The ability of moving towers around and even have a {{BTD6 mk|Door Gunner}} later in the game is just a plus  

|Always useful as a last line of defense, but it excels against Final Bosses by handling the Bloons that Bloonarius spawns or be the entire defense while your towers get stunned by Vortex or Blastapopoulos. They benefit greatly from the high amount of pierce boosts that are in the game.

|These help projectiles stay for longer on the map, allowing towers to use all their pierce.

|Probably the most important artifact for Stages 30+ where even with the best artifacts and towers of the game, BADs can start to outpace the defense, so the only option to keep the campaign alive is to leak those BADs and only lose one live for each.

|[[Essence Of Dreadbloon]] + Many Artifacts

|With this Boss Artifact, all towers can benefit from Artifacts that weren't intended for them. These include all Quickening, Inspiration and Precision Artifacts, [[Critical Success]], [[Discord]], [[Just Like Magic]], [[Mystic Twister]], [[Overwhelming Synergy]], [[Primal Instinct]], [[Primary Specialist]], [[Pure Damage]], [[Squadron Together Strong]], [[Support Specialist]], [[Too Many Cooks]] and [[Zig Then Zag]].

|These include [[BB Gatling Gun]], [[Hawk's Eye]], [[Slow And Steady]], [[Slower Is Harder]] and [[Tit For Tat]], alongise artifacts like [[Ability Stacking]], [[Absolute Ability]] and [[Innate Ability]] if the player's defense is dependant on [[Activated Ability|Activated Abilities]].

|This makes Tier 3 towers become extremely powerful, even surpassing their Tier 4 counterparts on most cases, making early rounds much easier to defend due the limited amount of starting cash being spent on more effient towers.

|This Artifact will grant Camo detection to all towers for the rest of the campaign, and not even Phayze's Radar Jam is capable of removing its benefit.

From this point, the Rogue Legends health scaling starts to grow more quickly, so Bloon Encounters start to become more and more difficult, so this is the point where player can showcase the defense they have been preparing up to this point. It is recommended to have a more conservative approach towards skipping Bloon Encounters because there will be the need to skip difficult maps and Zebra tiles (Bloons cannot be stunned or slowed down).  

After reaching Stages 30-35, it might be impossible to defend BADs during the early rounds, so the only way around it is letting them leak with the Cats Meow Artifact and pop everything else. Campaigns are usually lost after a streak of difficult maps with little to no Camp Fires between them, so is important to pick the Encounters carefully.

Rounds should be sent in small waves of 2-4 rounds every 10-30 seconds to reduce the risk of being pierce capped. It is important to note that the available time reduces 10 seconds per stage until reaching a minimum of 3 minutes. The last round should be sent with around 1 minute left on the timer so it can be popped on time.

Gameplay is similar to races, however, as stages go on, the Bloon health scaling will outgrow the scoring requirements, so it will reach a point where players will no longer need to send additional rounds.

The defense should be based around Tier 3 towers with the Essence of Bloonarius Artifact, these are cheap and can be easily spammed to remain under budget. Boosts are awarded every round to increase their damage.

Any tower will start doing very larges amounts of damage to the boss instantly, so the pops will start going fast and the money can be spent on upgrades. Sometimes the actual difficulty will come from the length of the track more than from the boss itself.

* '''Bloonarius''': Powerful towers can defeat Bloonarius instantly so all its insides will come out at once, for this a tower with very high pierce is needed to defend the huge rush of Rainbow Bloons during Bloonarius' death animation. The BADs can be ignored as they won't be able to reach the exit before the game ends.

* '''Vortex''' : The stuns that happen at each skull are the most dangerous part, so make sure that the towers that defend the regular rounds are outside of Vortex's stun radius.

* '''Blastapopoulos''': This boss also doesn't present too much of a challenge. Make sure to have a Towers that can defend against fast Bloons like DDT's during an overheat, like Spike Factories.

* '''Phayze''': Towers that can follow it as it moves through the track are extremely important to defeat it as fast as possible, because if skulls are delayed, the player might lose to the regular spawns as there will be not enough track left to defend.

It is recommended to extract Artifacts in the following order so the harder to find Artifacts are obtained first.

# Legendary Artifacts which don't have a Rare version, except Boss Artifacts: [[Biggest Beacon]], [[Homing Projectiles]] and [[One Monkey Army]].

# Rare Artifacts which don't have a Common version: [[Abundant Choices]], [[Battlefield Commission]], [[Cats Meow]], [[Conscription]], [[Critical Success]], [[Discord]], [[Duckageddon]], [[Master of all Trades]], [[Monkey Academy (BTD6)|Monkey Academy]], [[No More Please]], [[Primary Specialist]], [[Rubber Bullets]], [[Summer Fun]], [[Summon Battle Cat]] and [[Support Specialist]].

For Final Bosses, Bloonarius is defended in the same way as stage one with some damage in the front and the spawn defense in the back of the track. On higher stages the ability to beat Vortex is highly map dependent, if needed, take longer routes for more Artifacts and Towers before facing it. For Dreadblon it is important to pick a second powerful non-Magic Tower along the way to cover that immunity, obtaining Monkey Academy Artifact is also useful. Phayze  Any Boss fight will also benefit from towers that can attack the Boss from afar to complement the defense, specially against Vortex and Phayze, examples include Aircraft Carrier, Arctic Knight, Spike Storm and Elite Defender, however there's always the possibility of having an impossible Boss fight it can happen on the more difficult maps.

* The only heart that matters is the last one because because there are no extra rewards at any point for having spare hearts, so using them to retry Mini Games for Legendary goals and skip difficult Bloon Encounters is very useful, however, it is always recommended to Heal at Camp Fires if the player has less than 3 hearts remaining.

** [[Admiral Brickell (BTD6)|Admiral Brickell]], [[Portability]] allows to easily use water-based towers, her 0-3-0 Bucaneer has good popping tower in the early game and can get quickly upgraded to X-4-X to deal with MOAB-Class Bloons, camo detection can be easily obtained by crosspathing the Buccaneer to 0-3-2 or by upgrading the starting sub to 3-0-1. [[Full Broadside]] and [[Corrosive Torp-E-Darts]] have amazing synergy with this party.

* The best way to obtain extra income is by using [[Rubber to Gold (BTD6)|Rubber to Gold]] or [[Alchemic Engineering]] to convert Bloons to Gold, as the short games might not give [[Banana Farm|Banana Farms]] time to even pay for themselves and the number of ability activation will also be limited.

* In general, it is not recommended to force an strategy or commit to one on the early game, as there is no guarantee that the player will obtain the Monkeys or Artifacts that have synergy with it.

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