Popseidon

Popseidon

Popseidon's Ice Jet ability draws such power that a rogue wave floods the map with supercooled water, freezing all Bloons and reclaiming the weak for the sea.

Tower	Mermonkey — Path 2 — Tier 5
XP cost	70,000
Cash cost	$40,800 — Easy $48,000 — Medium $51,840 — Hard $57,600 — Impoppable

← Arctic Knight

Popseidon is the Mermonkey's path 2 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. Alongside a new separate Ice Jet ability that additionally summons a freezing wave, Popseidon gains two lateral tridents shot independently to the main trident, in an arc of 45° (60° with 0-5-1).

Both tridents do more damage. Base range also increases from 32 to 50 (43.2 to 67.5 on water). Popseidon's Ice Jet ability summons a wave that deals 70 to all Bloons (+70 bonus to Frozen Bloons) except those with Purple and White immunities, in addition to Ice Jet projectiles that do 30 damage instead of 20 and also bounce off the edges of the map.

Mechanics

Trident

The trident attack gains the following benefits compared to Arctic Knight:

• Increased base damage from 8 to 15, and does +7.5 damage to frozen Bloons and +15 damage to MOAB-class Bloons.
• Wavelet damage increased from 8 to 15, and does +7.5 damage to frozen Bloons and +15 damage to MOAB-class Bloons.

Like previous upgrades, tridents grow in projectile radius and damage at a steady rate, and create two wavelets at 180° apart that deal non-scaling damage and lose projectile size as they travel. All tridents and wavelets also have 25 pierce.

Ice Jet

Popseidon's Ice Jet is separated from Arctic Knights. When activated, the Mermonkey stops the trident attack, triggers a wave that deals 70 frigid damage (+70 bonus to Frozen Bloons) to all bloons on screen and freezes all damaged bloons for 8 seconds, then rapidly shooting out ice balls for 3 seconds, at a rate of 0.1s per ice ball. While shooting, ice balls have a 30° angle deviation. Ice balls can affect all except White and Purple, and ignores White properties, and deals 30 damage that doesn't penetrate multiple layers and 240 pierce. Ice balls can bounce off obstacles and the edges of the map, and can rehit bloons after bouncing off obstacles. They last for up to 15 seconds on screen, and have a cap of 20 seconds if lifespan is increased through external buffs.

Like Arctic Knight, Popseidon gains a target marker that focuses the direction of the Ice Jet ability's shots, instead of aiming based on standard targeting priorities. This target marker can be deactivated once a mark is set, which goes through a 5 second cooldown before reactivating a target.

This ability has 45 seconds cooldown.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 40 units Footprint radius 8 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 0.75s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 40 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Pierce 25 Damage 15 Damage to MOAB-Class +15 Damage to frozen +7.5 Damage type Frigid Speed 130 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s Radius 1 unit Filters Ignores White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Layers 5 Split projectile Count 2 Angle 180° Pierce 25 Damage 15 Damage to MOAB-Class +15 Damage to frozen +7.5 Damage type Frigid Speed 100 units/s Lifespan 2s Radius 1 unit Filters Ignores White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Layers ∞

Side tridents
Cooldown 0.75s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 40 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Count 2 Angle 45° Pierce 25 Damage 15 Damage to MOAB-Class +15 Damage to frozen +7.5 Damage type Frigid Speed 130 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s Radius 1 unit Filters Ignores White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Layers 5 Split projectile Count 2 Angle 180° Pierce 25 Damage 15 Damage to MOAB-Class +15 Damage to frozen +7.5 Damage type Frigid Speed 130 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s Radius 1 unit Filters Ignores White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Layers ∞

Ability
Cooldown 45s Lifespan 3s Disables other attacks 3s
Attack Cooldown 0.1s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting range ∞ units Filters Cannot target Camo Ignores blockers Projectile Angle 30° Pierce 240 Damage 30 Damage type Frigid Speed 260 units/s Lifespan 15s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 2 units Filters Ignores White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 3s Layers 3 Flood Cooldown 7s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting range ∞ units Filters Cannot target Camo Ignores blockers Projectile Pierce 9,999,999 Damage 70 Damage type Frigid Lifespan 0.05s Radius ∞ units Ignores blockers Does not disappear if it hits an immune target Permafrost Multiplier ×0.5 Duration 8s Layers 10

Buff when in water
Range modifier ×1.35

1-5-0

Attack
Cooldown 0.75s → 0.6s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7

Side tridents
Cooldown 0.75s → 0.6s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7

2-5-0

Attack
Cooldown 0.6s → 0.4125s
Projectile Speed 130 units/s → 195 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s → 1.0256s

Side tridents
Cooldown 0.6s → 0.4125s
Projectile Speed 130 units/s → 195 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s → 1.0256s Split projectile Speed 130 units/s → 195 units/s Lifespan 1.5385s → 1.0256s

Ability
Attack Projectile Speed 260 units/s → 390 units/s

0-5-1

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7 Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Seeking distance 80 units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 169 °/s Filters Can now hit Camo Split projectile Filters Can now hit Camo

Side tridents
Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7 Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Angle 45° → 60° Seeking distance 80 units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 169 °/s Filters Can now hit Camo Split projectile Filters Can now hit Camo

Ability
Attack Filters Can now target Camo Projectile Filters Can now hit Camo Flood Filters Can now target Camo

0-5-2

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
0-5-0	$53,315	$62,725	$67,745	$75,270	$37,321	$43,908	$47,422	$52,689
1-5-0	$53,440	$62,875	$67,905	$75,450	$37,408	$44,013	$47,534	$52,815
2-5-0	$53,650	$63,125	$68,175	$75,750	$37,555	$44,188	$47,723	$53,025
0-5-1	$53,485	$62,925	$67,960	$75,510	$37,440	$44,048	$47,572	$52,857
0-5-2	$53,725	$63,205	$68,260	$75,845	$37,608	$44,244	$47,782	$53,092

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 52.1

For its rather steep price, Popseidon is a powerful T5 that only has damage type issues and a lack of single-target damage. Due to its complete lack of White and Purple popping, it is more suitable for late-game when combined with additional defenses that can deal with Round 95's Camo Regrow Purple spam, because all its attacks are usually sufficient enough to clear out Super Ceramics and weaker MOABs and DDTs. Use its ability against a fast rush of bloons, freezing clumps while clearing out any excess bloons.

Both crosspaths are have solid use cases. The Trident Efficiency and Trident Swiftness upgrades provide maximum DPS but forgo the homing tridents, innate camo detection, and potentially massive range. The top crosspaths are preferred for reliable cleanup against dense clumps, but otherwise bottom crosspaths are more effective for general cases. Note that it needs camo detection to freeze invisible DDTs with the ability.

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

”

•  Ice Jet: Projectile lifespan is now capped at 20 seconds
•  Ice Jet: Projectile damage type changed ― Shatter → Plasma

Version 45.0

“

While the Arctic Knight has been popular, Riptide Champion has major pierce issues and is seeing a price reduction as well as a pierce increase to make up for this. Arctic Knight itself is receiving the brand new damage type added this update; as it is gaining a weakness to White Bloons from this and wasn’t too wild before we are increasing the power as well & allowing the ability to carry over 1 round to prevent projectiles timing out immediately when cast at the end of a round. Popseidon had unintentionally more pierce on the central trident’s split projectiles, so this pierce is being spread out for a total increase. Finally popseidon released with a very wide projectile arc to prevent the seeking projectiles from clumping immediately, we like how this has worked out but feel that only the 052 crosspath needs to have this increased arc.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $625 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Central trident: pierce increased ― 16 → 18
•  Side trident: pierce increased ― 16 → 18
•  Central split trident: pierce decreased ― 24 → 18
•  Side split trident: pierce increased ― 16 → 18
•  Projectile arc reduced ― 60° → 45°
  • Note: 0-5-2 crosspath projectile arc remains the same
•  Trident: damage type changed ― Plasma → Frigid
  • Note: Projectile will be destroyed when hitting White properties
•  Ability: damage type changed ― Plasma → Frigid
  • Note: Projectile will be destroyed when hitting White properties
•  Ability: projectiles now carry over 1 round

Version 46.0

“

While we were happy with Arctic Knight’s Ice Jet being a high pierce MOAB layer removal that could with other tower combinations be upgraded to a more effective full-clear, there is not currently enough varied ways of quickly dealing with White Bloon layers, so for a long cooldown based ability this heavy a weakness is too much for now.
— Update notes

”

•  Ice Jet: Projectiles pass through White or Zebra Bloons if they can't damage them, instead of destroying the projectile
•  Ice Jet: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 20s → 15s (undocumented)

2-5-0

•  Now reduces the lifespan of Ice Jet projectiles by 33% (undocumented)
  • Note: This means the maximum travel distance of Ice Jet projectiles is now the same as without the crosspath, since this crosspath increases their projectile speed by 50%

Version 48.0

“

Middle path is seeing a consistency improvement for Freeze Duration & White Bloons, and Popseidon’s ability is being improved to damage & slow DDTs (if it can see them) and destroy all non-fortified Ceramics.
— Update notes

”

•  Trident: Freeze duration increased ― 0.3s → 0.8s
•  Split trident: Freeze duration increased ― 0.3s → 0.8s
•  Trident: Now passes through White Bloon properties unless it can damage them
•  Ability wave: Damage type changed ― Shatter → Frigid
  • Note: Can damage Lead but not Purple or White
•  Ability wave: Damage increased ― 9 → 70

0-5-1

•  Lateral Trident: Arc increased ― 45° → 60°
  • Note: 0-5-2 unchanged at 60°

Version 49.0

“

[While talking about Riptide champion ...], and the rest of the path is also seeing a damage increase.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Main and split projectiles: Damage increased ― 12 → 15
•  Main and split projectiles: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +12 → +15
•  Main and split projectiles: Bonus damage to frozen Bloons increased ― +6 → +7.5 (undocumented)

Version 51.0

“

Mermonkey weren’t^[sic] feeling they favoured their natural habitat enough, so their Water Placement bonus is getting a boost. Middle Path Mermonkey just isn’t putting in the work we hoped, so we’re giving a couple price adjustments, a pierce increase across all tiers, and some light ability improvements to make it feel more rewarding.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $52,000 → $48,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $4,400 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Side trident: Pierce increased ― 18 → 25
•  Ability: Projectiles can now re-hit targets after bouncing from a map border (bug fix)
  • Note: Previously they could only re-hit if bounced from an obstacle
•  Ability: Permafrost duration increased ― 6s → 8s
•  Ability: Permafrost now affects up to 10 layers under the initial layer
•  Ability: Flood Now deals +70 bonus damage to Frozen Bloons
•  Ability: Flood now applies Freeze and Permafrost to BADs and Boss Bloons (bug)
  • Note: These Bloons won't be stopped for the Freeze but will take the extra damage, their speed is still reduced by Permafrost.
•  Trident: Pierce increased ― 18 → 25
•  Range bonus when placed in water increased ― +25% → +35%

2-5-0

•  Ability: Projectile lifespan increased ― 10s → 15s

Version 51.1

•  Ice Jet — Flood: No longer applies Freeze or Permafrost to BADs and Boss Bloons (bug fix)

Version 52.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $975 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Ice Jet: Projectile speed increased ― 200 units/s → 220 units/s (undocumented)
•  Trident: Projectile speed increased ― 100 units/s → 110 units/s
•  Trident: Projectile lifespan decreased ― 2.0s → 1.8181s
  • Note: Maximum distance traveled by the projectile unchanged. Popseidon side tridents are also affected.

1-5-0

•  Trident and Side Tridents: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.51s → 0.48s (attack speed increased by 6.25%)
  • Note: The patch notes do not specify that the attack speed buff is only for the main trident attack, all other attacks unchanged.

2-5-0

•  Trident: Projectile speed increased ― 150 units/s → 165 units/s
•  Trident: Projectile lifespan decreased ― 1.3333s → 1.1212s
  • Note: Maximum distance traveled by the projectile unchanged. Popseidon side tridents are also affected.
•  Ice Jet: Projectile speed increased ― 300 units/s → 330 units/s (undocumented)
•  Trident and Side Tridents: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.402s → 0.33s (attack speed increased by 21.82%)
  • Note: The patch notes do not specify that the attack speed buff is only for the main trident attack, all other attacks unchanged.

0-5-1, 0-5-2

•  Trident (seeking): Turn rate increased ― 130°/s → 143°/s (undocumented)

Version 53.0

“

Riptide Champion as an underappreciated star performed exceptionally well with recent changes which are now being scaled back and Popseidon which was also performing extremely well will likewise be scaled back
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $48,000 → $52,000
  •  Overall cost increased by $4,300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Range reduced ― 50 → 40

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 $625 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Main attack: Freeze duration for Rainbow Bloons and below increased ― 0.8s → 1s
•  Main attack: Freeze duration for Ceramic Bloons decreased ― 0.8s → 0.5s
•  Trident: Projectile speed increased ― 110 units/s → 130 units/s
  • Stacks with 2-X-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 165 units/s → 195 units/s
•  Trident: Projectile lifespan decreased ― 1.8182s → 1.5385s
  • Stacks with 2-X-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 1.2121s → 1.0256s
  •  Overall projectile distance remains unchanged (200 units) for all crosspaths
•  Trident: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.6s → 0.75s (attack speed reduced by 20%)
  • Stacks with 1-5-0 Trident Efficiency crosspath ― 0.48s → 0.6s
  • Stacks with 2-5-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 0.33s → 0.4125s
•  Ability: Projectile speed increased ― 220 units/s → 260 units/s
  • Note: Projectile distance increased ― 3,300 units → 3,900 units
  • Stacks with 2-5-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 330 units/s → 390 units/s
    • In this case the projectile distance is increased ― 4,950 units → 5,850 units

0-5-1, 0-5-2

•  Trident: Turn rate increased ― 143°/s → 169°/s

Gallery

For more Mermonkey images, see Gallery:Mermonkey.

Screenshots

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  Popseidon for all crosspaths
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  The main attack for Popseidon, including the main trident, side trident, and wavelets
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  Ice Jet ability against blimps and bloons

Assets

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  Portrait
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  Icon
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  Ability icon
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  Insta Monkey icon

Trivia

• Internally, the ability is named RogueWave, according to its ability icon artwork's filename.

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