Sauda (BTD6): Difference between revisions

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| id = Sauda

| numeric id= 12

| name = Sauda

| title = Swordmaster

| image = BTD6 SaudaPortrait.png

|icon=BTD6 round HeroIconSauda.png

| description = With calm fury, Sauda can carve Bloons up with her twin razor-sharp swords.

| cost = 600

| xp scale = 1.425

| cost C =  

| xp scale C =  

| introduced = 24.0

| introduced C =  

| rl tower 1 = MonkeyAce

| rl tower 1 upgrades = 002

| rl tower 2 = GlueGunner

| rl tower 2 upgrades = 002

| rl artifact = Sticky Situation

| fl level = 3

Sauda swipes her twin swords at Bloons, creating a slash wave that damages Bloons. She has a small range but attacks quickly. Sword slashes deal double base damage to [[Ceramic Bloon (BTD6)|Ceramic]] and [[MOAB-Class Bloon|MOAB-Class Bloons]]. Without support, her slashes can't pop [[Freeze|frozen]] and [[Lead Bloon (BTD6)|Lead Bloons]], until she reaches level 7 and 13 respectively.

As she levels up, she gains [[Activated Ability|activated abilities]] that trigger special sword attacks that can pop all Bloon types and temporarily pauses her attacking, all of her attacks deal more damage to Bloons with certain status effects or properties, and she applies a Bloon Bleed damage-over-time effect to Bloons.

*Starting at level 7, all of Sauda's attacks do extra damage to stunned Bloons. The amount of extra damage is improved at levels 13 and 17.

*Starting at level 9, Bloons damaged by her sword slashes will receive the Bloon Bleed damage-over-time effect.

*Starting at level 11, all of Sauda's attacks deal extra damage to slowed Bloons and Bloons with damage-over-time effects other than Bloon Bleed. The amount of extra damage is improved at level 17.

**'''Leaping Sword''' (level 3) — Sauda stops attacking to jump into the air and strike a Bloon based on her [[Targeting option|targeting]], damaging all Bloons she lands on, and leaving behind swords on the track that damage Bloons that pass through them.

**'''Sword Charge''' (level 10) — Sauda stops attacking and runs down every lane simultaneously, starting at the exit, damaging Bloons she passes through.

Initially, she slashes every 0.45 seconds and pops 3 Bloons per shot, dealing 1 damage. Versus fortified Bloon, Ceramic Bloon and MOAB-Class Bloon, mutually exclusively, each sword slash always does 2× her base damage.

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Starting from level 7, Sauda gains Bloon Weakness, allowing her to deal more damage to stunned Bloons. This affects her sword slashes and her activated abilities. Level 13 improves the bonus stunned damage on her sword swipes, and even more at level 17.

Starting from level 11, Sauda deals more damage to Bloons affected by any form of [[Slow|slowdown]] (including [[knockback]]) or a damage-over-time, with pure exception of stunned and Bloon Bleed. This affects her sword swipes and her activated abilities. These bonuses improve on her sword swipes at level 17.

'''Leaping Sword''' is unlocked at level 3. Upon activation, Sauda stops attacking for about 0.5s to jump and crash at Bloons with her swords. While jumping, she always tracks her target. Upon hitting a location, the "strike" area-of-effect, followed by an "after-sword" that continuously damages Bloons that pass through its radius. This ability has a cooldown of 30 seconds. She cannot activate any ability while any of her abilities are active. Selling her will remove any placed Leaping Swords that came from her.<!--assumes multiple saudas; selling the sauda that did the sword will have those removed-->

The "strike" deals 20 damage or 80 [[MOAB-Class damage]] around 15 radius, up to 30 Bloons. The "after-sword" does 2 damage with 5 pierce, with a rehit cooldown of 0.2s and pierce refresh of 0.1s, and 15 radius, lasting for 6.5 seconds plus 0.5s per additional level. Both attributes of the Leaping Sword have the Normal damage type.

|Damage of "strike" increased to 350, 490 versus MOAB-class. Damage of "after-sword" increased to 6.

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|Damage increased to 200, pierce increased from 400 to 1400, and sweeps through the track(s) three times.

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| +200

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|Slashes with both swords at nearby Bloons. Can pop Camo.

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!2

|Pops more Bloons per attack.

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!3

|Leaping Sword Attack: Sauda's dramatic Lead popping leap attack slams down on her targeted Bloons.

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|Sauda's swords slice through 2 layers of Bloons.

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!5

|Sauda attacks faster.

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!6

|Increased attack range and popping power.

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!7

|Sauda preys on the Bloons' weakness, doing extra damage if they are stunned, and she can now pop frozen Bloons.

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!8

|Sauda attacks even faster.

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!9

|Bloon Bleed: Sauda pops through 3 layers of Bloon with each strike, and causes a slow damage over time effect.

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!10

|Sword Charge: Sauda slides along the whole track, devastating Bloons as she goes.

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|Sauda inflicts extra damage to any Bloon slowed, immobilized, or taking damage over time from other monkeys.

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!12

|Leaping Sword Attack increases greatly in power.

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!13

|Enchanted blades do more damage and allow Sauda to damage all Bloons.

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!14

|Sauda attacks even faster, and Sword Charge sweeps all track paths two times!

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!15

|Increased attack range and popping power, and Leaping Sword Attack deals more damage.

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!16

|Sword Charge greatly increased damage.

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!17

|Sauda's sword attacks slice through many Bloon layers at once.

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!18

|Sauda's swords attack with a blur of speed.

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!19

|Enchanted Blades do extra damage to Regrow, Fortified, and Camo Bloons.

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!20

|More powerful Sword Charge sweeps all track paths three times! Leaping Sword power greatly increased.

| colspan="2" |''This list was last updated for: {{BTD6 version|54.0}}''

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On the surface level, Sauda is easy to use because of her strong early game, especially on Beginner maps and Intermediate maps. However, she is by no means a solo tower and will struggle in the mid to late game without using other towers that can trigger her extra damage. Thus, towers such as [[Relentless Glue (BTD6)|Relentless Glue]] (for triggering both bonus stun and slow damage) and [[Dragon's Breath (BTD6)|Dragon's Breath]] (for triggering bonus DoT damage) pair well with her. Additionally, she can't solo all map formats on early rounds without leaking and MK.

 

The majority of Sauda's power comes from her abilities. Leaping Sword is great for general damage if Sauda is targeting Bloons that can trigger her bonus and Sword Charge provides much needed cleanup in the late game while trivializing certain mid-game rounds such as 63, 76, and 78. She is especially powerful on maps with overlapping lanes, such as [[Quad]].

 

Overall, she excels in casual gameplay, being friendly to newer players without much user input required to optimize her. On [[Boss Rush]], her Leaping Sword can be a simple spammable way to deal early Boss damage, especially versus [[Phayze (BTD6)|Phayze]] and [[Blastapopoulos (BTD6)|Blastapopoulos]]. She's decent in early-game [[Race (BTD6)|Race]] conditions with Leaping Sword; however, [[Rosalia (BTD6)|Rosalia]]'s Scatter Missile remains more reliable at maximizing pierce.

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