Abyssal Warrior

Abyssal Warrior

Coats tridents in a thick ink that slows bloons. Abyssal creature grows in power, destroying most Bloons with ease and enhancing nearby Monkeys with more pierce.

Tower	Mermonkey — Path 1 — Tier 4
XP cost	11,000
Cash cost	$3,570 — Easy $4,200 — Medium $4,535 — Hard $5,040 — Impoppable

← Abyss Dweller

Lord of the Abyss →

Abyssal Warrior is the Mermonkey's path 1 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. Tridents now slow down all damaged bloons up to BFBs, slowing non-blimp bloons by 40%, and MOABs and BFBs by 28%. Tentacles now deal 18 damage, enough to one-shot a standard Ceramic Bloon, and attack cooldown reduced from 3 to 2.5 seconds. All nearby towers now get +20% pierce. This upgrade also increases trident damage from 4 to 8.

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, 10.4 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 8 Damage type Shatter Lifespan 0.05s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Ink Multiplier ×0.6 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×1.2 Duration 10s Duration for MOAB-Class 0s Duration for ZOMGs 0s Duration for DDTs 0s Layers ∞

Tentacle
Copies of this attack 8 Cooldown 2.5s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 10.4 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 28 units Filters Targeting angle: 45 deg Cannot target Camo
Explosion Pierce 25 Damage 12 Damage to Ceramic +6 Damage type Shatter Lifespan 0.1s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 12 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Buff when in water
Range modifier ×1.35

Pierce buff
Pierce modifier ×1.2

4-1-0

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

Tentacle
Explosion Pierce 25 → 33.75

4-2-0

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

4-0-1

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

4-0-2

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 10.4 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7

Tentacle
Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 10.4 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7

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
4-0-0	$5,690	$6,700	$7,235	$8,040	$3,983	$4,690	$5,065	$5,628
4-1-0	$5,860	$6,900	$7,450	$8,280	$4,102	$4,830	$5,215	$5,796
4-2-0	$6,050	$7,125	$7,695	$8,550	$4,235	$4,988	$5,387	$5,985
4-0-1	$5,860	$6,900	$7,450	$8,280	$4,102	$4,830	$5,215	$5,796
4-0-2	$6,100	$7,180	$7,750	$8,615	$4,270	$5,026	$5,425	$6,031

Strategy

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This section was last updated for: version 51.0

Abyssal Warrior is quite flexible for supplemental damage and support. Its support output is great for slowing down early MOABs and BFBs, plus a much more effective percentage pierce bonus, while its damage output is quite reliable. Its tentacles can one-shot Ceramics that come out of MOABs, while its tridents do decent all-around bloon damage and bloon slowdown. Its percentage pierce bonus pairs very well with Spike Factory, especially Perma-Spike which already has high pierce.

Like Abyss Dweller, crosspathing is situational, with 4-1-0 preferred if camo detection isn't a concern, though 4-0-1 is better against spaced Bloons or if needing camo detection.

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 [...] Since the slowing effect was balanced around a bug which is also being fixed in this patch, we’re giving back a little extra power compensation.
— Update notes

”

•  Ink: Speed reduction for MOAB-class reduced ― -46% → -28%
•  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 ― 4 → 8
•  Trident: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.3333s → 0.6667s
•  Pierce buff increased ― +15% → +20%

4-1-0, 4-2-0

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

Version 47.0

•  Ink: Should no longer slow Lead Bloons without the correct damage type (bug fix)

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 increased ― $3,600 → $4,200
  •  Overall cost reduced by $200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Main attack: No longer ignores Lead Bloons if buffed to damage them (bug fix)

Version 49.0

•  Overall cost increased by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

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

4-1-0

•  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 ― 32 → 30
  • Note: 5-X-X Lord of the Abyss unchanged (80)

4-1-0, 4-2-0

•  Tentacle attack: Pierce reduced ― 43.2 → 40.5
  • Note: 5-1-0+ Lord of the Abyss unchanged (108)

Version 53.0

“

Top path Mermonkey’s pierce scaled up more than intended from applying its own pierce buff to its own already high pierce so this is being reduced but the T5 Lord of the Abyss will now gain a slight base range increase.
— Update notes

”

•  Tentacle attack: Pierce reduced ― 30 → 25
  • Stacks with X-1-X Sharper Prongs crosspath ― 40.5 → 33.75

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

”

•  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 ― 18 → 12

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