Symphonic Resonance

Symphonic Resonance

Hypnotic tune can affect low tier MOAB-Class Bloons. Can be set to echo from a nearby point.

Tower	Mermonkey — Path 3 — Tier 4
XP cost	14,500
Cash cost	$6,460 — Easy $7,600 — Medium $8,210 — Hard $9,120 — Impoppable

← Alluring Melody

The Final Harmonic →

Symphonic Resonance is the Mermonkey's path 3 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. Its trances now can pull MOABs and DDTs (pierce penalty +2 for MOABs and +3 for DDTs), has 10 pierce (12 with 0-1-4) instead of 4, no longer has +1 pierce penalty versus Ceramics, and increases the maximum damage of the instant DoT trigger from 50 to 125. It also can summon a totem within its range to alter the default location of the trance. Its default range also increases from 28 to 32.

Mechanics

Trance

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The mechanics are almost identical to Alluring Melody, besides the following:

• Capacity to target MOABs and DDTs, at +2 and +3 pierce penalty, respectively
  • It can not detonate Sticky Bomb effect from Sticky Bomb and Master Bomber upgrades, which is also a damage-over time effect. However, the effect from Ascended Shadow can be detonated.
• Increased pierce, from 5 to 10
• The lack of Ceramic pierce penalty
• Increased base range, from 28 to 32. On water, its range increases from 37.8 to 43.2 range
• Increased maximum instant DoT trigger, from 50 to 125
• No longer pauses the trident attack

Like Alluring Melody, Symphonic Resonance can grab MOABs and DDTs even if its pierce would overflow.

Totem

The totem can be placed on any valid location not obscured by obstacles, and can even be placed on void regions. Its range is shared by the parent Symphonic Resonance. Upon disabling, the Totem button undergoes a 6-second cooldown, and this cooldown doesn't pause between rounds. The totem is not enabled by default. The totem is allowed to be picked up by Special Poperations's Door Gunner.

Stats

For a complete list of Mermonkey stats, see Stats:Mermonkey (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 32 units Footprint radius 8 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 1.2s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 10.4 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 32 units
Projectile Pierce 2 Speed 200 units/s Seeking distance 80 units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 260 °/s Lifespan 1s Radius 1 unit Splash Pierce 9 Max pierce 9 Damage 2 Damage type Shatter Lifespan 0.05s Radius 4 units Ignores blockers

Buff when in water
Range modifier ×1.35

Echosense Network
Range modifier +7.5% Max. stacks 10
Has global range

Trance totem

Tower
Display range 32 units Footprint radius 8 units

Trance attack
Cooldown 12s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting First Targeting range 32 units Filters Cannot target BFBs Cannot target ZOMGs Cannot target BADs
Ignores blockers
Projectile Pierce 12 BFB pierce penalty +3 DDT pierce penalty +3 MOAB-Class pierce penalty +2 Lifespan 6s Radius 32 units Rehit interval 0.3s Refresh pierce interval 0.3s Filters Cannot hit BFBs Cannot hit ZOMGs Cannot hit BADs Ignores blockers Removes Camo Trance Damage type Plasma Multiplier ×3 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×1 Duration 6s Cooldown 4s

1-0-4

Attack
Cooldown 1.2s → 0.96s

Trance totem

Trance attack
Projectile Rehit interval 0.3s → 0.27s Refresh pierce interval 0.3s → 0.27s

2-0-4

Attack
Cooldown 0.96s → 0.66s
Projectile Speed 200 units/s → 300 units/s Seeking rotation speed 260 °/s → 390 °/s Lifespan 1s → 0.6667s

Trance totem

Trance attack
Projectile Rehit interval 0.27s → 0.234s Refresh pierce interval 0.27s → 0.234s Trance Multiplier ×3 → ×4.5 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×1 → ×1.5

0-1-4

Attack
Projectile Pierce 2 → 3 Splash Pierce 9 → 12 Max pierce 9 → 12

Trance totem

Trance attack
Projectile Pierce 12 → 14

0-2-4

Attack
Splash Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 0.5s Layers 4

Costs and sell values

Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.

Tiers	Total cost				Sell value
	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
0-0-4	$8,825	$10,380	$11,210	$12,455	$6,178	$7,266	$7,847	$8,719
1-0-4	$8,950	$10,530	$11,370	$12,635	$6,265	$7,371	$7,959	$8,845
2-0-4	$9,160	$10,780	$11,640	$12,935	$6,412	$7,546	$8,148	$9,055
0-1-4	$8,995	$10,580	$11,425	$12,695	$6,297	$7,406	$7,998	$8,887
0-2-4	$9,185	$10,805	$11,670	$12,965	$6,430	$7,564	$8,169	$9,076

Strategy

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This section was last updated for: version 52.0

Symphonic Resonance allows stalling of smaller blimps into a focused area, which also aids low-range, radial towers to focus on the tranced blimps. However, ever since removing the BFB pull, the Symphonic Resonance's only distinct values compared to Giant Condor, a similar blimp-repositioning tower, is its effectiveness at stalling multiple DDTs at once, and reliably move them to the range of other DDT supports such as Embrittlement. The improved max instant DoT trigger damage and lack of Ceramic penalty are less significant, though the latter helps cement its late-game by not having too much pierce clogged by Super Ceramics.

Top crosspath is often preferred for the faster pickup rate, which improves consistency against DDTs. The extra +2 pierce from 0-1-4 does allow more pickup at once, but it's not much of a bonus otherwise. 0-2-4 is no different from 0-1-4 other than larger freezing tridents.

Update history

For a complete list of Mermonkey changes, see Update history:Mermonkey (BTD6).

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Version 44.1

“

While we’re not jumping into any full on balance changes, there’s a few corrections that we wanted to make for type-fixes and other intended play.
— Update notes

”

• Trance Totem: Can no longer be sacrificed to Sun Temple or True Sun God

Version 45.0

“

Echosense Network hasn’t felt like it is doing all that it could, so we have increased the maximum number of stacks to raise the ceiling of use here as it is meant to be slow ramping with a high space & cost investment to build heavily into. Mermonkey’s trance was extremely powerful against MOABs but limited against regular Bloons, so we’ve shifted prices apart & improved T3 while raising the cost of T4 to a more appropriate level.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $4,600 → $7,600
  •  Overall cost increased by $2,075 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Echosense: maximum stack count increased ― 5 → 10
  • Note: This means the maximum range buff has increased from +30% to +60%
•  Totem: can now be redeployed by Support Chinook
• Totem: should save location correctly on moving platforms (bug fix)
•  Trident: projectile lifespan increased ― 0.5s → 1s

0-1-4, 0-2-4

•  Sharper Prongs now increases pierce of allure by +1

Version 46.0

“

Bottom path Mermonkey is proving to be very high uptime for the strong support it provides, while still exceptional this is only seeing a light nerf for now.
— Update notes

”

•  Trance: Cooldown increased ― 3s → 4s
  • Note: Does not apply to The Final Harmonic
•  Trance: Effect no longer triggers on MOAB-Class Bloons if there are no small Bloons in range (bug)

Version 46.2

•  Trance: Can again target MOAB-Class Bloons with no small Bloons present (bug fix)

Version 47.0

•  Totems should no longer be considered overclock targets (bug fix)

Version 48.0

“

Symphonic Resonance is too expensive to be considered as a de-camo choice so this effect is moving into Alluring Melody, Symphonic Resonance itself is far too powerful right now so the ability to grab BFBs is being removed.
— Update notes

”

•  Trance: No longer targets BFBs
  • Note: Does not affect xx5

0-1-4, 0-2-4

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 5 → 6

Version 49.0

“

[...] Alluring Melody’s DoT Detonation mechanic can now apply to any targets that are already tranced although the damage cap per detonation has been reduced to compensate for this
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Echosense Network now works with Mermonkeys converted by Total Transformation
•  Trance: Damage over time detonation can now trigger again on already tranced Bloons
  • Note: X-X-5 unchanged.
•  Trance: Damage over time detonation damage limit reduced ― 500 → 125
  • Note: X-X-5 unchanged.

Version 50.0

“

Recent changes to Symphonic Resonance caused its pierce usage to increase for far too much of a nerf, so we have increased the pierce to offset this.
— Update notes

”

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 4 → 8

0-1-4, 0-2-4

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 6 → 10

Version 51.0

“

Mermonkey weren’t^[sic] feeling they favoured their natural habitat enough, so their Water Placement bonus is getting a boost.
— Update notes

”

•  Range bonus when placed in water increased ― +25% → +35%

Version 52.0

“

Last update many players felt blindsided when Brickell stopped applying her buff to Mermonkeys since there was no mention in the balance changes section. We would like to apologize for that - it was tasked internally as a bug as it was indeed unintended to work that way. We then left the issue alone for a long time, mostly due to other more pressing matters, and this issue fell through the cracks. In retrospect, it would have been better to treat this as balance rather than a simple bug fix due to how much time had passed. Reading through your feedback, we did consider just reverting the change, however the bigger issue that the feedback reinforced to us was that players considered Mermonkey to be so bad that it was only a "good" tower when used in combination with a single, water-only hero. This sort of forced synergy goes against our design intentions - namely that Mermonkey being our signature amphibious tower should be able to stand on its own without being balance-locked to an interaction with a single hero. With all that in mind, we feel Mermonkey's highest priority right now is large sweeping buffs to each of the paths, so most of the following changes are our first step towards this starting from the low tier crosspaths.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 8 → 10

0-1-4, 0-2-4

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 10 → 12

Version 53.0

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 10 → 12
  • Stacks with X-1-X Sharper Prongs crosspath ― 12 → 14
•  Range bonus per stack reduced ― +10% → +7.5%
  • Note: Maximum range bonus decreased from +100% to +75%

Version 54.0

•  Overall cost increased by $25 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

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In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 48.0

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	الرنين السيمفوني	—
Danish	Symfonisk resonans	—
German	Symphonische Resonanz	—
Spanish	Resonancia sinfónica	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Resonancia sinfónica	—
Finnish	Sinfoninen resonanssi	—
French	Résonance symphonique	—
Italian	Risonanza sinfonica	—
Japanese	共鳴シンフォニー	—
Korean	조화의 공명	—
Dutch	Symfonische resonantie	—
Norwegian	Symfonisk gjenklang	—
Polish	Symfonia dźwięków	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Ressonância Sinfônica	—
Russian	Симфонический резонанс	—
Swedish	Symfonisk resonans	—
Thai	รีโซแนนซ์ซิมโฟนี	—
Turkish	Senfonik Rezonans	—
Chinese (simplified)	交响共鸣	—
Chinese (traditional)	和聲共鳴	—

Description

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	يمكن أن تؤثر النغمة التنويمية على البالونات والتمويه الشريطي ذات الطبقة المنخفضة من فئة MOAB. يمكن ضبطها على صدى من نقطة قريبة.	—
Danish	Hypnotisk melodi kan påvirke bloons af MOAB-klasse på lavt niveau. Kan indstilles til at give et ekko fra et nærliggende punkt.	—
German	Hypnotischer Song kann die Bloons der MOAB-Klasse mit niedriger Stufe beeinträchtigen. Kann von einem nahegelegenen Punkt auf Echo eingestellt werden.	—
Spanish	Una melodía hipnótica que puede afectar a los bloons clase MOAB de nivel bajo. Se puede configurar para que haga eco en un punto cercano.	—
Spanish (Latin America)	La melodía hipnótica afecta a los bloons clase MOAB de bajo nivel. Se puede colocar el eco en un punto cercano.	—
Finnish	Hypnoottinen sävel voi vaikuttaa matalan MOAB-luokan blooneihin. Voidaan asettaa kaikumaan läheisestä pisteestä.	—
French	La mélodie hypnotique peut toucher les Bloons de classe MOAB de niveaux inférieurs. Peut être installée pour résonner à partir d’un endroit à proximité.	—
Italian	Il suono ipnotico può avere effetti sui bloon di classe MOAB di livello basso. Può essere impostata per fare eco da un punto vicino.	—
Japanese	催眠術のような音色で低級のMOAB級ブルーンに影響を与える。付近の地点からエコーを出すように設定できる。	—
Korean	노래의 최면 효과가 낮은 등급의 MOAB급 풍선에게도 적용됩니다. 가까운 거리에서라면 메아리칠 수도 있습니다.	—
Dutch	De hypnotische melodie raakt lage MOAB-klasse Bloons. Kan als echo in de buurt worden herhaald.	—
Norwegian	Hypnotisk melodi kan påvirke bloons av MOAB-klasse på lavt nivå. Kan angis som ekko fra et punkt i nærheten.	—
Polish	Hipnotyczna melodia wpływa również na niższej klasy MOAB-y. Można ustawić, by wypływała z wybranego miejsca w pobliżu.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Melodia hipnótica que pode afetar Bloons Classe MOAB de nível baixo. Pode fazer eco de um ponto próximo.	—
Russian	Гипнотическая мелодия действует на низкоуровневые MOAB. Может отразиться эхом от ближайшей точки.	—
Swedish	Hypnotisk melodi kan påverka Bloons på de lägre MOAB-klassnivåerna. Kan ställas in till att ge eko från en punkt i närheten.	—
Thai	ทำนองสะกดจิตที่ส่งผลต่อบลูนคลาส MOAB ระดับล่าง สามารถตั้งให้สะท้อนจากจุดใกล้เคียงได้	—
Turkish	Hipnotize eden melodi, düşük kademeli MOAB Sınıfı Bloon'ları etkileyebilir. Yakındaki bir noktadan yankılanacak şekilde ayarlanabilir.	—
Chinese (simplified)	催眠曲调可影响低级MOAB级气球。可设置为从附近点发出回声。	—
Chinese (traditional)	催眠曲調可影響低階MOAB級氣球。可設定從某個位置產生回聲。	—