Abyss Dweller

Abyss Dweller

The Abyssal Creature awakens, angrily lashing out at Bloons with powerful tentacles and granting nearby Monkeys a small pierce increase.

Tower	Mermonkey — Path 1 — Tier 3
XP cost	2,800
Cash cost	$1,530 — Easy $1,800 — Medium $1,945 — Hard $2,160 — Impoppable

← Trident Swiftness

Abyssal Warrior →

Abyss Dweller is the Mermonkey's path 1 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. The Mermonkey gains an Abyssal Creature, with 8 independent tentacles that slap nearby bloons, alongside the "Abyss Dweller" percentage pierce buff, and increased trident damage.

• Trident: Damage increased from 2 to 4.
• Tentacles: 8 independent tentacles, lashing at bloons within the Mermonkey's range. Each tentacle is 45° apart from each other. Tentacles are arranged horizontally, vertically, and diagonally, with a field of vision of 22.5° per side. Tentacles deal 8 damage, deal +6 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons, have 15 base pierce, attack every 3.0s, a blast radius of 8, and the Shatter damage type. It has an initial cooldown of 0.5s.
  • With the Sharper Prongs crosspath tentacles gain +35% pierce (20.25 instead of 15).
• Pierce buff: All non-Paragon towers within range, including itself, gain +10% pierce.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 28 units Footprint radius 8 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 0.66s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 8.2 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 28 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Pierce 2 Speed 300 units/s Lifespan 0.6667s Radius 2 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Splash Pierce 3 Max pierce 3 Damage 4 Damage type Shatter Lifespan 0.05s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Tentacle
Copies of this attack 8 Cooldown 3s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 8.2 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 28 units Filters Targeting angle: 45 deg Cannot target Camo
Explosion Pierce 15 Damage 8 Damage type Shatter Lifespan 0.1s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 8 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Buff when in water
Range modifier ×1.35

Pierce buff
Pierce modifier ×1.1

3-1-0

Attack
Projectile Pierce 2 → 3 Splash Pierce 3 → 6 Max pierce 3 → 6

Tentacle
Copies of this attack 8 → 7
Explosion Pierce 15 → 20.25

Tentacle 7
Cooldown 3s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 8.2 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 28 units Filters Targeting angle: 45 deg Cannot target Camo
Explosion Pierce 20.25 Damage 8 Damage type Shatter Lifespan 0.1s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 8 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

3-2-0

Attack
Splash Radius 3 units → 4.5 units Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 0.5s Layers 4

3-0-1

Attack
Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Seeking distance 80 units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 390 °/s Filters Can now hit Camo Splash Filters Can now hit Camo

Tentacle
Filters Can now target Camo
Explosion Filters Can now hit Camo

3-0-2

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

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
3-0-0	$2,125	$2,500	$2,700	$3,000	$1,488	$1,750	$1,890	$2,100
3-1-0	$2,295	$2,700	$2,915	$3,240	$1,607	$1,890	$2,041	$2,268
3-2-0	$2,485	$2,925	$3,160	$3,510	$1,740	$2,048	$2,212	$2,457
3-0-1	$2,295	$2,700	$2,915	$3,240	$1,607	$1,890	$2,041	$2,268
3-0-2	$2,535	$2,980	$3,215	$3,575	$1,775	$2,086	$2,251	$2,503

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 52.1

For its cost, the Abyss Dweller is a decent early-game option for taking down stronger bloons, particularly along a curve or bend, in addition to a minor pierce bonus to nearby towers. It's not particularly impactful of a support tower, but has some synergy with Spike Factory by taking out stronger groups of bloons while the Spike Factory cleans up a little more efficiently. It stands out on Race conditions as a relatively inexpensive early-game carry, particularly on CT Time Attack with certain Relics such as Alchemist Touch. Despite the initial cooldown, the tentacles still provide a significant burst of damage in maps with large loops for Race conditions.

Crosspaths with 3-1-0 are better if camo detection isn't a problem, maximizing pierce, while 3-0-1 is preferred if needing camo detection or if spaced Bloons are a concern. 3-2-0, while it doesn't affect tentacles, clumps up Bloons better. 3-0-2 is very potent for mid-game as it improves coverage of its tentacles and buffs, particularly on maps that would have enough coverage for long tentacles if it would gain full Echosense range buffs.

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. [...] Damage type fixes - 320 required external Lead-popping which isn’t fun [...]
— Update notes

”

•  Tentacle attack: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Shatter

Version 45.0

“

As the middle crosspath is currently less useful for higher tiers, we’ve upgraded Sharper Prongs to improve Tentacle pierce as well. As the main Trident’s damage falls behind and has caused annoying layer skipping for some more observant players the damage of this attack is increasing at T3 & T4. The % pierce buff is being improved at all levels since this has settled without causing too much of a stir [...]
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $125 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Trident: Damage increased ― 2 → 4
•  Pierce buff increased ― +5% → +10%
•  Pierce buff correctly stacks with other pierce buffs (bug fix)
•  Trident: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.3333s → 0.6667s

3-1-0, 3-2-0

•  Sharper Prongs now grants the tentacle attacks +35% pierce

Version 48.0

“

Abyss Dweller is far too inconsistent before it gains the T4 ink attack, so a lot of price is being shifted up out of this update.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,100 → $1,300

Version 49.0

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $1,300 → $1,600
  •  Overall cost increased by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Resolved a build order issue that could override higher tier Mermonkey buffs (bug fix)

Version 50.0

“

Abyssal Warrior will now have a slight startup cooldown to limit certain exploity tactics. Middle crosspath trident gains extra projectile pierce to improve early game value.
— Update notes

”

•  Tentacle: Now begins with 0.5s initial cooldown

3-1-0

•  Trident: Pierce increased ― 2 → 3
  • Note: Does not affect splash (6)
    
  • X-3-X Riptide Champion unchanged (18)

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 $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Trident: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.804s → 0.66s (attack speed increased by 21.82%)
  • Note: Attack cooldown reduction from 1-x-x increased from 18% to 25%. The patch notes do not specify that the attack speed buff is only for the main trident attack, all other attacks unchanged.
•  Tentacle attack: Pierce reduced ― 24 → 20

3-1-0, 3-2-0

•  Tentacle attack: Pierce reduced ― 32.4 → 27

Version 54.0

“

Mermonkey ended up somewhat underrated and overbuffed, mid tiers for top and middle paths have really stood out here lately and need to be reigned back in line.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $1,600 → $1,800
  •  Overall cost increased by $225 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Tentacle: Now deals +6 damage to Ceramic Bloons
•  Splash: Radius reduced ― 6 units → 3 units
•  Tentacle: Damage decreased ― 9 → 8
•  Tentacle: Pierce decreased ― 20 → 15
  • Stacks with X-1-X Sharper Prongs crosspath ― 27 → 20.25

Version 54.2

•  Tentacle: No longer deals +6 damage to Ceramic Bloons (bug fix)
  • Note: Intended to only apply to 4-X-X Abyssal Warrior and above

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