Strategy:Bloons TD Battles 2/Loadouts

This is a list of popular metagame loadouts in Bloons TD Battles 2.

Bomb-Spac-Farm

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This loadout excels at getting value from the Etiennes by providing camo detection to the Bomb Shooter, an already strong tower that can carry most of your defense in the early and midgame with it's many upgrades, while the Spike Factory can provide a layer of protection against early Camo Bloons commonly sent to force these two heroes to buy Hero levels to stop them as well as providing utility against late game MOABs with the Spike Storm to pop stronger blimps while providing a big DDT buffer with Perma-Spike.

Towers
Bomb Shooter	Spike Factory	Banana Farm
Hero options
Etienne	Beetienne

Dart-Glue-Village

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This is a late game oriented strategy that doesn't involve the Super Monkey, opting for the Dart and Glue's strength at early game, while providing adequate BAD bloon DPS for late game by buffing the Plasma Monkey Fan Club with additional bonus damage from the Glue Storm.

Towers
Dart Monkey	Glue Gunner	Monkey Village
Hero options
Scientist Gwendolin	Ezili	Smudge Catt Ezili
Pat Fusty

Bomb-Sub-Farm

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A popular loadout for aggression as the Bomb Shooter can provide solid early and midgame carries, alongside the Monkey Sub's Submerge and Support to decamo any Camo Bloons, allowing one to greed on their farms enough to take down their opponent before round 30.

Towers
Bomb Shooter	Monkey Sub	Banana Farm
Hero options
Fateweaver Adora	Agent Jericho	Highwayman Jericho
Sentai Churchill

Dart-Mortar-Farm

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Another popular loadout for aggression, the Dart Monkey is often the cheapest way to defend many rushes, with the Mortar Monkey providing utility in lead removal and Burny Stuff assisting against big rushes.

Towers
Dart Monkey	Mortar Monkey	Banana Farm
Hero options
Fateweaver Adora	Agent Jericho	Star Captain Jericho

Ace-Engie-Farm

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A tricky loadout to use but very rewarding, as it excels at both offense and defense. A starting Bomber Ace must be micro'd on most maps to survive the early game, but once a solid defense is built the Engineer can use his Overclock ability to boost the production of the Farms, allowing for intense rushes and late game defense to be afforded with minimal effort.

Towers
Monkey Ace	Engineer Monkey	Banana Farm
Hero options
Agent Jericho	Highwayman Jericho	Star Captain Jericho

Ice-Dartling-Farm

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A loadout that utilizes Snow Pat and Gwendolin's passive effects to deal damage to Frozen Bloons from any tower, resulting in a much cheaper defense against big midgame rushes with Ice Shards and providing support with Embrittlement and Icicle Impale while the Dartling's incredible popping power from the tier 5 upgrades work their magic.

Towers
Ice Monkey	Dartling Gunner	Banana Farm
Hero options
Fusty the Snowman	Gwendolin

Sub-Druid-Farm

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A strategy that utilizes the full potential of the Druid, the Monkey Sub is a natural pairing due to both towers dealing with each other's weaknesses. Obyn can provide big support for the early game with his pierce buff to Druids and Brambles to assist with catching leaks or dealing damage to early MOAB-class bloons, while Beetiene provides a more late game focused approach by getting cheaper Auxillery Hives "purchased" through upgrading them near an Energizer while providing a max life buff Heart of Vengeance whenever placing down a hive.

Towers
Monkey Sub	Druid	Banana Farm
Hero options
Obyn Greenfoot	Beetienne

Bucc-Alch-Spac

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Towers
Monkey Buccaneer	Alchemist	Spike Factory
Hero options
Quincy	Cyber Quincy	Captain Churchill
Sentai Churchill	Benjamin	Bonnie

Boat-Alch-Spactory is a versatile eco loadout that takes advantage of Alchemist synergy while maintaining the flexibility of Buccaneer. Unlike most eco loadouts, two of three tower types offer income generation (bottom Bucc, bottom Alch), yet enough synergy to excel on every stage of the game, except ultra late-game. For hero choice, most heroes will work fine, but best with a hero that is purely defensive or has reliable income generation.

This loadout does not heavily depend on a hero. However, picking a different hero may alter how to optimise this strategy. For instance, picking Churchill or Sentai opens up early Merchantman greed, because of the relatively inexpensive earlygame defense.

Tips for Bucc-Alch-Spactory:

• For early-game, Cannon Ship is usually the go-to. However, starting with Churchill or Sentai is a viable alternative.
• If running Churchill early-game, buying an early Merchantman is a worthwhile investment. Buccaneer decently handles Black Bloon layers, while Churchill cleans up the rest.
• In advance, place a Spike Factory near the end of the track on about Round 8. Once affordable, upgrade to 1-0-3 Long Life Spikes, or 3-0-2 Spiked Balls on shorter maps (spikes may consume more often).
• Have an Alchemist near the Cannon Ship to buff it with Berserker Brew. For the Churchills, this is usually not needed.
• If the opponent isn't planning to rush on Round 13, and the sent bloons move on the same lane as the natural bloons, Lead to Gold can be bought towards Round 14's Leads, to transition into Rubber to Gold to feed on an opponent's sent bloons.
  • Recommended to crosspath the to-be Rubber to Gold as a 0-1-1 Alch, in case the opponent does rush.
• If going Bonnie, plan to buy bottom T3+ Spactories at about R15-16, to fully pop Bonnie's B.E.A.S.T. on Round 21. Alch-buffed Deadly Spikes is a reliable way to build enough damage.
• Against all-out rushes in the early 20's, Carrier Flagship is a reliable cost-efficient solution.
• Towards the late-game, Super Mines should be placed in advance for Round 30.

Bomb-Wiz-Farm

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Unlike many other farm loadouts, this loadout has enough late game potential to survive well into the 40s using the wizard's high MOAB-Class damage and Ezili's hex to delete BADs. This makes the loadout unique as it can be played somewhat passively with farms, although it requires extremely optimal farming to afford the necessary defense to accomplish such a feat.

Towers
Bomb Shooter	Wizard Monkey	Banana Farm
Hero options
Ezili

Ninja-Alch-Farm

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Another farm loadout that can manage it's own in the late game, although with more stress on the early game defense and a slightly lower round ceiling, with the advantage of not needing as much farms to afford proper defense for the late game. The Total Transformation can transform Ninjas which get buffed by Shinobi Tactics Ninjas and the Permanent Brew to melt BADs.

Towers
Ninja Monkey	Alchemist	Banana Farm
Hero options
Ocean Obyn

Ice-Ninja-Farm

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An alternate loadout to Alchemist, combining the late game potential of Ninja-Alch with the easier defense and increased damage of Ice Shards and Super Brittle respectively. This strategy is often used on maps where water space is valuable as a chokepoint such as Bloonstone Quarry.

Towers
Ice Monkey	Ninja Monkey	Banana Farm
Hero options
Fusty the Snowman	Gwendolin

Map-specific

Star Heli-Ice-Super

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Star provides a lot of water space, allowing Arctic Wind to freeze the water and fit lots of Heli Pilots, whether for Support Chinook farming or for spamming Apache Dartships around, meanwhile Bonnie provides necessary money potential to spam Sun Avatar alongside the Super Brittle to deal massive damage per second.

Towers
Heli Pilot	Ice Monkey	Super Monkey
Hero options
Bonnie

Ports Ace-Sub-Alch

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A common eco loadout for the map as land space is limited and the crates block line of sight for most towers, but the Monkey Ace works around both restrictions. The beginning of the game is the most rough part, as you will either attempt to saveup for a Neva Miss Targetting or micro the ace targetting, keeping a Bomber Ace above the crates to drop as many bombs as possible. Later on, Submerge and Support and Armor Piercing Darts can provide a solid midgame, with an Alchemist Berserker Brew to buff everything.

Towers
Monkey Ace	Monkey Sub	Alchemist
Hero options
Cyber Quincy	Adora	Bonnie

Inflection/Glade Dart-Farm-Spac

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A loadout specifically designed to deal with tougher maps, by utilizing the cost-effective early game of the Dart Monkey and defensive measures of the Spike Factory to ensure rushes deal minimal damage.

Towers
Dart Monkey	Banana Farm	Spike Factory
Hero options
Adora