Lord of the Abyss

Lord of the Abyss

The fully unleashed wrath of the Abyssal Creature brings the power of the depths to the surface, annihilating most Bloons, and greatly enhancing the pierce of nearby Monkeys.

Tower	Mermonkey — Path 1 — Tier 5
XP cost	68,000
Cash cost	$19,550 — Easy $23,000 — Medium $24,840 — Hard $27,600 — Impoppable

← Abyssal Warrior

Lord of the Abyss is the Mermonkey's path 1 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It gains many improvements to its tentacles and tridents, and gains ink platforms that convert nearby land into water for water placement. Also increases base range from 28 to 32.

• Tentacles have 66.67% more attack speed (attack cooldown reduced from 2.5s to 1.5s), deal +32 damage (from 18 to 50), have +25 pierce (from 25 to 50), and double radius (from 12 to 24).
• Tridents attack twice as fast (every 0.33s), deal +2 damage (from 8 to 10), and pierce increased by +7 (from 2 to 9), while not changing the splash pierce.
• The Abyssal's percentage pierce buff gives +40% pierce to nearby towers instead of 20%.
• The ink platforms, which convert land into water, have a fixed range of 32 that cannot be affected by range modifiers. Ink platforms only count for tower placement.

Mechanics

Ink platforms

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Lord of the Abyss creates an ink platform that allows placement of water towers. It has a fixed range of 32, which cannot be affected by range modifiers.

All towers can be placed and repositioned into ink platforms, however the ink is not considered water for the sake of water-specific buffs and Admiral Brickell's Mega Mine.

Prior to version 49.0, Beast Handler's water beasts could only be repositioned into the ink if there would be no available real water, and could only be randomly placed to a new location around the Lord of the Abyss's ink platform range.

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 0.33s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 32 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Pierce 9 Speed 300 units/s Lifespan 0.6667s Radius 2 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Splash Pierce 3 Max pierce 3 Damage 10 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 1.5s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 32 units Filters Targeting angle: 45 deg Cannot target Camo
Explosion Pierce 50 Damage 50 Damage to Ceramic +6 Damage type Shatter Lifespan 0.1s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 24 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Buff when in water
Range modifier ×1.35

Pierce buff
Pierce modifier ×1.4

5-1-0

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7
Projectile Pierce 9 → 10 Splash Pierce 3 → 6 Max pierce 3 → 6

Tentacle
Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7
Explosion Pierce 50 → 67.5

5-2-0

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

5-0-1

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 390 °/s Filters Can now hit Camo Splash Filters Can now hit Camo

Tentacle
Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 12 ↓ -0.5, 3.4, 7 Filters Can now target Camo
Explosion Filters Can now hit Camo

5-0-2

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
5-0-0	$25,240	$29,700	$32,075	$35,640	$17,668	$20,790	$22,453	$24,948
5-1-0	$25,410	$29,900	$32,290	$35,880	$17,787	$20,930	$22,603	$25,116
5-2-0	$25,600	$30,125	$32,535	$36,150	$17,920	$21,088	$22,775	$25,305
5-0-1	$25,410	$29,900	$32,290	$35,880	$17,787	$20,930	$22,603	$25,116
5-0-2	$25,650	$30,180	$32,590	$36,215	$17,955	$21,126	$22,813	$25,351

Strategy

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This article or section is outdated and needs to be updated to reflect recent updates or newly available information. You can help out by editing this article. The editor who added this notice elaborates: must be reevaluated after echosense buff

Overall, the Lord of the Abyss has niche practicality, with its favored game mode being Boss Events. Compared to Abyssal Warrior, which costs more than triple the cost, Lord of the Abyss is a poor cleanup tower on its own because even though its faster tridents allow it to slow blimps more consistently, its tentacles are still not fast enough against non-blimps, cannot one-shot Super Ceramics, and it's unable to use all its tentacle attacks on most maps, despite its incredible pierce. The extra 20% pierce buff on top of Abyssal Warrior can help to improve DPS of Spike Factories, including Carpet of Spikes and Perma-Spike, and very effective for Spike Storm spam in Boss Events. The ability to place water towers on land does not do anything for its viability in CHIMPS, but is nice to have in general gameplay, and in Boss Events it expands space for building and powering up water-based Paragons (especially Nautic Siege Core).

The 5-0-2 is generally preferred, even without considering innate camo detection from Echosense Precision, due to the huge range bonuses that Echosense Networking provide, allowing it to reach almost all of the map. In particular, placing on the middle of the water allows to cover all lanes of Quad. 5-2-0 is only needed for more pierce on the trident attack or the tentacles, but tentacles have huge pierce already.

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

”

•  Ink: Can now slow MOAB-Class Bloons (bug fix)
•  Ink platforms no longer prevent certain water-based buffs from applying (bug fix)
•  Tentacle attack: Cooldown reduced ― 2s → 1.5s
•  Tentacle attack: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Shatter
  • Note: This means the Abyssal Creature no longer benefits from Sharpening Stone or Flint Tips

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, and finally Lord of The Abyss’s price is being greatly reduced as a heavily pierce built design it requires some single-target assistance to perform well.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $29,000 → $23,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $6,125 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Pierce buff increased ― +30% → +40%
•  Now has the same slowing effect as Abyssal Warrior instead of being weaker (bug fix)
•  Trident: damage increased ― 4 → 8
•  Trident: projectile lifespan increased ― 0.3333s → 0.6667s

5-1-0, 5-2-0

•  Sharper Prongs now increases pierce of tentacles by 35%

Version 47.0

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

Version 48.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Trident attack no longer ignores Lead Bloons if they have been buffed to damage them (bug fix)

Version 49.0

•  Overall cost increased by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Water platform: No longer extends beyond the Mermonkey's radius ― 33 → 28 (bug fix)

5-0-2

•  Echosense Network: Range bonus should no longer be lower than intended when placing the Mermonkey on water (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
•  Water around the tower should be correctly removed when the tower is moved using Support Chinook's Redeployment ability (bug fix)

5-1-0

•  Trident: Pierce increased ― 9 → 10
  • Note: Does not affect splash (6)

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)
•  Tentacle attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.402s → 0.33s (attack speed increased by 21.82%)

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

”

•  Range increased ― 28 units → 32 units
  • Note: Also affects ink platforms
•  Tentacle attack: Pierce reduced ― 80 → 50

5-1-0, 5-2-0

•  Tentacle attack: Pierce reduced ― 108 → 67.5

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
  • Note: Does not carry over to Riptide Champion and Alluring Melody

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