Strategy:Rogue Legends: Difference between revisions

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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, but not Camo Leads reliably even with 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.

We now know our main weaknesses, so we need towers that can deal with Camo Leads, MOABs and another with high pierce and Camo detection, an example of a tower that can handle all of these at the same time to some extent could be a [[Mermonkey (BTD6)|Mermonkey]] that can be upgraded into 0-4-2 [[Arctic Knight]], and it 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 or X-X-4 and handle both Camo Leads and have decent MOAB-Class damage and cand 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.

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. It is recommended to start slowly and then do the full send when the main defensive towers are placed, however this can lead to high amounts of lag.

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.

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.

|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.

|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)|MOABS]] or [[DDT (BTD6)|BFBs]]. 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 or 4 towers helped by [[Essence Of Bloonarius]] or [[Essence Of Dreadbloon]] 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 fast, have practically global range, and doing heavy amounts of damage.

* The main threats will still be [[BAD (BTD6)|BADs]], but DDTs, 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. However, caution is still advised against the Ceramic rushes that come from the insides of the MOAB-Class Bloons on shorter maps.

Thanks to the power of Artifacts, nearly any tower can be used as DPS with very few exceptions. Tier 3 towers can be used as the main attackers obtaining Essence Of Bloonarius, the artifact that allows them to be considered as any category ([[Unification]], [[Conscription]], [[Monkey Academy (BTD6)|Monkey Academy]] or [[Master of all Trades]]) and a form of Camo detection if they don't have it natively ([[General's Disposition]], [[Radar Scanner (BTD6)|Radar Scanner]]) and should only get upgraded when both the Tier 4 and 5 upgrades can be purchased at the same time. Alternatively, Tier 4 Towers can be used to the same result with Essence Of Dreadbloon and [[Essence Of Phayze]] instead. Some examples include:

|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]], [[Monkey Sub (BTD6)|Subs]], and (when placed on water) [[Ice Monkey (BTD6)|Ice Monkeys]] and [[Mermonkey (BTD6)|Mermonkeys]] with her Naval Tactics ability. So they are the Heroes of choice if the player uses such towers. Striker Jones and Ezili can also be used for their boosts to other towers in a similar way.

|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.

|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 for this tower.  

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.

Some late endgame defenses (Stage 40+) that rely on spawning many projectiles at once (e.g. middle path Mermonkeys) can become prone to crashing if too many projectiles and bloon interactions are happening, adding an additional limiting factor to defenses beyond raw damage output. Ironically, however, lag can become something of an ally otherwise, allowing more reaction time to use abilities and place towers than the high speed of the bloons would otherwise allow.

After Round 145, round spawns revert to BTD6's usual random freeplay round generation. This also includes the ceramic/lead rush on Round 163, the two FBADs on Round 200, and the DDT/FDDT rush on Round 263. If a map starts on Round 146 or later, one can leave to home and restart to "reroll" the starting round's spawns--or, if you like said spawns, you can restart the round normally.

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. In extreme endgame, should one wish to respec a Legendary Artifact, it is possible to complete a single round with auto-start off and then wait out the timer to reach the pop count goal.

The defense should be based around Tier 3 or 4 towers boosted by Boss Artifacts, 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.

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]], [[Heroic Specialty]], [[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.

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