Legend of the Night (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Legend of the Night (Battles 2).

Legend of the Night

We turn to him, when all hope is lost...

Tower	Super Monkey — Path 3 — Tier 5
XP cost	100,000
Cash cost	$140,805 — Easy $165,650 — Medium $178,900 — Hard $198,780 — Impoppable

← Dark Champion

Legend of the Night is the Super Monkey's path 3 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It grants a Black Hole passive ability, which is activated when a Bloon leaks. This ability prevents all life loss from leaked Bloons (excluding Boss Bloons) for 8 seconds. The ability has a 180 second cooldown, no initial cooldown, its cooldown freezes when sold and doesn't reset if bought again, and can only ever activate up to 2 times per round.

Additionally, Legend of the Night gains improvements to its main attack: its damage is increased from 2 to 10, Ceramic damage increased from +2 to +4, MOAB-Class damage increased from +3 to +25, Camo damage increased from +2 to +4, pierce increased by +8, and jump count increased by +15.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 57 units Footprint radius 11 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 0.0225s Offset (X, Y, Z) -4.5, 5.4, 10 (side 1) 6.5, 5, 10 (side 2) Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 57 units
Projectile Pierce 16 Damage 10 Damage to Ceramic +4 Damage to MOAB-Class +25 Damage to Camo +4 Damage type Normal Speed 200 units/s Bounce distance 57 units Bounce targeting Close Lifespan 0.6s Radius 5 units Knockback Multiplier ×-0.25 Multiplier for Lead ×0 Multiplier for Ceramic ×0 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×0.7 Duration 0.5s

Ability
Cooldown 20s

1-0-5

Attack
Projectile Pierce 16 → 17 Radius 5 units → 8 units

2-0-5

Attack
Cooldown 0.0225s → 0.015s
Projectile Radius 8 units → 9 units

0-1-5

Tower
Display range 57 units → 67 units

Attack
Targeting range 57 units → 67 units
Projectile Pierce 16 → 17 Bounce distance 57 units → 67 units

0-2-5

Tower
Display range 67 units → 79 units

Attack
Targeting range 67 units → 79 units
Projectile Pierce 17 → 19 Speed 200 units/s → 350 units/s Bounce distance 67 units → 79 units

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
0-0-5	$198,480	$233,505	$252,185	$280,205	$138,936	$163,454	$176,530	$196,144
1-0-5	$200,180	$235,505	$254,345	$282,605	$140,126	$164,854	$178,042	$197,824
2-0-5	$202,305	$238,005	$257,045	$285,605	$141,614	$166,604	$179,932	$199,924
0-1-5	$199,755	$235,005	$253,805	$282,005	$139,829	$164,504	$177,664	$197,404
0-2-5	$201,370	$236,905	$255,855	$284,285	$140,959	$165,834	$179,099	$199,000

Strategy

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This section was last updated for: version 52.2

The Legend of the Night is both one of the costliest and strongest single tower upgrades, thus making it stand out on Least Tiers in Boss Events.

Although not seeing much use against other Bosses, its passive black hole ability is valuable against Phayze in Boss Rush due to its tendency to pull Bloons directly to the exit, and against Bloonarius, whose sludge DDTs can escape quickly on shorter maps. It can also be used in Freeplay, but mind its long cooldown (which can be reduced by Energizer). Furthermore, VTSG deals more damage compared to using both it and The Anti-Bloon, though with careful timing the player can sell VTSG as a last resort, then use LOTN to prolong their high score. This strategy is excellent when paired with stall setups and Time Stops, where the player can consistently get one use per round and destroy several BADs.

2-0-5 is preferred for increased DPS, but is not necessary in the aforementioned Least Tiers or Freeplay stall strategies.

Update history

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

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Version 9.0

•  Pierce increased ― 9 → 21
•  Damage increased ― 4 → 5

Version 10.0

•  Pierce increased ― 21 → 22

Version 17.0

•  Improved Darkshift ability added

Version 17.1

• Darkshift: Now has a sound effect
• Darkshift: Can no longer teleport onto regular water if placed on frozen water (bug fix)
• Passive ability: Now removes the visual effect if the tower is sold while the ability is active (bug fix)

Version 28.0

•  Camo Prioritization filter added

Version 30.0

“

Dark Champion has had a ceramic bonus added to deal with super ceramics as it is priced only for use in that lategame range, and Legend has had a price reduction to compensate for a rework to the passive ability preventing chained use in deep freeplay.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $240,000 → $200,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $39,900 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Now deals +2 damage to Ceramics
•  Passive ability: Cooldown now continues from where it left off after selling and rebuying the tower, instead of resetting

Version 31.0

•  Pierce increased ― 22 → 23
  • With X-2-X Epic Range crosspath ― 23 → 25
•  Passive ability: Now activates after losing a life instead of before (bug)

Version 31.1

•  Resolved an issue with Legend of the Night not actually preventing life loss (bug fix)

Version 32.0

“

Legend of the Night outside of very specific niche challenges isn’t worth the cost as any more than VTSG fodder
— Update notes

”

•  Damage increased ― 5 → 10
•  Damage to Ceramics increased ― +2 → +4
•  Damage to MOAB-class increased ― +3 → +8

Version 33.0

“

Ultravision is a lackluster crosspath with so many other ways to get camo detection cheaper &/or for more towers. [...] We feel Legend of the Night’s base tower is more usable now after recent buffs, so without a total need to lean entirely on the passive ability for use we are increasing this cooldown to prevent some issues.
— Update notes

”

•  Now deals +1 damage to Camo
•  Passive ability: Cooldown increased ― 120s → 180s

Version 35.0

“

We want the base Super Monkey to feel like more of a ‘weak for the cost’ stepping stone into T3s that feel more like T4s; but the base upgrade really does feel very outdated on this idea, and big crosspath problems exist due to this so we are moving some attack speed out from 2xx into the base upgrade.
— Update notes

”

•  Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.03s → 0.0225s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)
  • Note: Plasma Blasts crosspath remains at 0.015s

Version 36.0

“

Higher tiers on the bottom path have struggled to compare to clusters of T3s for a while now. To help with this we thematically really liked the idea of bottom path gaining a ricochet effect, possibly gaining teleport mechanic value repositioning for better ricochet angles, and a big improvement to the tower's camo path identity as higher tiers becomes far more effective at handling DDTs
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $4,445 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Damage to Camo increased ― +1 → +4
•  Damage to MOAB-class increased ― +8 → +13
•  Projectiles now ricochet with a 0.1s delay

Version 43.0

“

Super Monkey projectiles already travel most the map length so that total distance is being reduced and adding back via the range-focused middle crosspath. [...] Legend of the Night’s special passive ability is being failsafe limited to 2 activations per round, per tower.
— Update notes

”

•  Passive ability: Now has a global max uses per round: 2
•  Projectile speed reduced ― 280 → 200
  • Note: Epic Range unchanged at 350

Version 45.0

“

It only scored 5/5 stars instead of a 6/5 in the Hall of Fame due to the high cost, so we’ve lowered that cost to see if this can be re-evaluated.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $200,000 → $165,650

Version 49.0

•  Darkshift: Now allows teleporting onto ice platforms (undocumented)

Version 50.0

• Black Hole: Passive no longer activates by tapping the Activate Selected Tower Ability 2 hotkey (bug fix)
  • Note: Could technically activate it but had no meaningful effect other than wasting the ability

Version 51.0

“

We wanted to try shifting more of Legend of the Night’s raw power from pierce into damage, giving it stronger single-target potential.
— Update notes

”

•  Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +13 → +25
•  Pierce reduced ― 23 → 16

0-1-5, 1-0-5, 2-0-5

•  Pierce reduced ― 24 → 17

0-2-5

•  Pierce reduced ― 26 → 19

1-0-5

•  Projectile radius increased ― 5 units → 8 units (undocumented)

2-0-5

•  Projectile radius increased ― 6 units → 9 units (undocumented)

Version 52.2

•  Passive ability: Now triggers when Frontier Legends-exclusive Bloons leak (bug fix)

Version 56.0

“

Super Monkey's base projectile speed is increasing slightly to help early tiers keep up, while keeping x2x Epic Range unchanged.
— Update notes

”

•  Projectile speed increased ― 200 units/s → 250 units/s
  • Note: Projectile lifespan unchanged. Projectile speed increases from X-2-X Epic Range crosspath unchanged

Gallery

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Screenshots

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  Legend of the Night for all crosspaths except top crosspath.
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  Legend of the Night crosspathed with Laser Blasts.
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  Legend of the Night crosspathed with Plasma Blasts.

Assets

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  Portrait
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  Upgrade icon
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  Insta Monkey icon

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	أسطورة الليل لا نلجأ إليه إلا عند انقطاع الأمل ...	—
Danish	Nattens legende Vi sætter vor lid til ham, når alt håb er ude...	—
German	Legende der Nacht Wir wenden uns an ihn, wenn alle Hoffnung verloren ist ...	—
Spanish	Leyenda de la noche Recurrimos a él cuando se pierde toda esperanza...	—
Spanish (LA)	Leyenda de la noche Recurrimos a él cuando se pierde toda esperanza...	—
Finnish	Yön legenda Käännymme hänen puoleensa, kun kaikki toivo on menetetty...	—
French	Légende de la nuit Nous nous tournons vers lui lorsque tout espoir est perdu…	—
Italian	Leggenda della notte Quando ogni speranza è perduta, è a lui che ci rivolgiamo..	—
Japanese	夜の伝説 全ての望みを失ったときに頼れる人…	—
Korean	밤의 전설 마지막 희망까지 사그라졌을 때, 의지할 수 있는 오직 단 하나의 존재...	—
Dutch	Legende van de Nacht We wenden ons tot hem als alle hoop verloren is...	—
Norwegian	Nattens legende Vi går til ham når alt håp er ute …	—
Polish	Legenda nocy Zwracamy się do niego, gdy nie ma już nadziei…	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Lenda da Noite Quando toda a esperança se perde, nos voltamos a ele...	—
Russian	Легенда о ночи Мы зовём его, когда надежды больше нет...	—
Swedish	Nattens legend Vi vänder oss till honom när allt hopp är ute...	—
Thai	ตำนานแห่งรัตติกาล เมื่อความหวังทั้งมวลสูญสิ้น เวลาของเขาก็มาถึง...	—
Turkish	Gecenin Efsanesi Tüm ümitler tükenince ona döndük...	—
Chinese (simplified)	黑夜传说 当所有的希望都破灭时，我们只能依赖他…	—
Chinese (traditional)	夜的傳說 在我們徹底失去希望的時候，我們就會來到他身邊...	—
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