Update history:Beast Handler (BTD6)

This is a list of changes to the Beast Handler in Bloons TD 6 post-release.

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Version 36.1

•  Resolved an issue where thrash rate was occurring too frequently if the beast was unable to consume the target ― 0s → 0.3s (bug fix)

Version 37.0

“

As our newest tower to be added to BTD6, we went over feedback for every path and made a large number of adjustments addressing a variety of points.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Great White	Thrash attack: Damage increased ― 4 → 8  Thrash attack: Max damage from Beast Power increased ― +8 → +16 Note: Effectively increases damage based on Beast Power from 4–12 to 8–24  Thrash attack: Max knockback duration from Beast Power increased ― +0.1s → +0.2s  Max attack cooldown modifier from Beast Power increased ― 79.366% → 62% Note: Thrash rate is actually a lot more than intended due to a bug  Beast projectiles can no longer hit Bloons far out of range (bug fix)  Slowing effect applied to grabbed targets now expires correctly (bug fix)
3-X-X Great White (and further upgrades)	Thrash attack: Rate now benefits from attack speed buffs
4-X-X Orca	Thrash attack: Damage increased ― 20 → 30  Thrash attack: Max damage from Beast Power increased ― +40 → +60 Note: Effectively increases damage based on Beast Power from 20–60 to 30–90  Thrash attack: Radius increased ― 20 → 24  Max attack cooldown modifier from Beast Power increased ― 62.171% → 62%
5-X-X Megalodon	Upgrade cost reduced ― $55,000 → $45,000  Thrash attack: Radius increased ― 30 → 36
X-1-X Microraptor	Microraptor no longer fails to attack in some cases when being moved to different heights (bug fix)
X-4-X Tyrannosaurus Rex X-5-X Giganotosaurus	Damage now soaks through MOAB-Class Bloon layers when at max Beast Power  Ability: Cooldown now scales with challenge rules (bug fix)
X-X-1 Gyrfalcon (and further upgrades)	Scratch attack: Now deals +1 damage to Regrows
X-X-3 Golden Eagle	Carry attack: Pierce increased ― 12 → 15  Carry attack: Max pierce from Beast Power increased ― +24 → +30 Note: Effectively increases pierce based on Beast Power from 12–24 to 15–30  Carry attack: Pierce penalty from Ceramics reduced ― +3 → +1  Can now grab MOABs when at max Beast Power (+14 pierce penalty)

Version 37.2

•  Great White thrash rate reduced ― 0.6s → 1.1s (bug fix)

Version 38.0

“

Compared to other T4 Beast Handlers and given the high cost of merging multiple beasts we agreed that the Orca & Megalodon’s total prices were too much more expensive for their somewhat random nature. The lower tiers on middle path Microraptor and Velociraptor are seeing all-round reductions as both have too high a base power and benefit too much from merges, gaining an overall greater attack speed benefit percentage-wise from merges than Trex does. Pouakai’s base pierce value was far too high so this along with the merge amount is being taken down.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Orca	Upgrade cost reduced ― $16,000 → $12,500
X-2-X Adasaurus	Adasaurus: Attack cooldown scale ― 0.3439 → 0.3105 Note: Max-power attack cooldown increased from 0.5561s to 0.5895s  Adasaurus: Base pierce reduced ― 10 → 8  Adasaurus: Pierce gained from merges reduced ― 15 → 12 Note: Max-power pierce decreased from 25 to 20
X-3-X Velociraptor	Velociraptor: Attack cooldown scale ― 0.3951 → 0.3105 Note: Max-power attack cooldown increased from 0.5049s to 0.5895s  Velociraptor: Base damage ― 12 → 9  Velociraptor: Damage gained from merges ― 24 → 18 Note: Max-power damage decreased from 36 to 27
X-X-5 Pouākai	Pouakai: Base pierce reduced ― 300 → 200  Pouakai: Pierce gained from merges reduced ― 400 → 250 Note: Max-power pierce decreased from 700 to 450, middle-power pierce decreased from 500 to 325

Version 39.0

“

Our most recently added tower, the Beast Handler, is still going through growing pains with a bulk of minor tweaks and small adjustments - mainly centered around merge mechanic value, so we’ll break this down path by path.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Now usable in Contested Territory

“

Beast Handler’s general repositioning feels far too free right now, the reposition cooldown is being increased to a more reasonably noticeable number so this feels like a meaningful cost.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Piranha (and further upgrades) X-1-X Microraptor (and further upgrades) X-X-1 Gyrfalcon (and further upgrades)	Beast: Reposition cooldown increased ― 0.5s → 5s

“

Great White lacks a lot of pierce for an upgrade with a slower widespread AoE design for the price range. Orca we feel has both min & max power use cases, though doesn’t grow enough ‘along the way’ from un-maxed merging.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Great White	Great White: Pierce increased ― 6 → 10  Great White max bonus pierce from merge increased ― 18 → 20 Note: Max-power pierce increased from 24 to 30
4-X-X Orca	Orca: max bonus pierce from merge increased ― 24 → 40 Note: Max-power pierce increased from 44 to 60

“

Velociraptor performs as one of the most exceptional early tier upgrades in the game. We’ve been going tame on this path so far as we’re happy for it to stay one of the top options, however it is too far ahead still so we are smoothing out the attack rates to match T-rex.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Adasaurus X-3-X Velociraptor	Attack cooldown increased ― 0.9s → 1s (attack speed reduced by 10%)  Attack delay reduction from merge increased ― 0.3105s → 0.3439s Note: Max-power attack cooldown increased from 0.5895s to 0.6561s
X-4-X Tyrannosaurus Rex	Tyrannosaurus Rex should no longer double cooldown buffs from Energizer sub (bug fix) Now correctly records damage when max merged (bug fix)
X-5-X Giganotosaurus	Giganotosaurus: Now ignores line of sight  Ability: cooldown reduced ― 35s → 25s Note: Max-power and mid-power ability cooldowns also decreased

“

Horned Owl’s pierce is too high in the base upgrade with very low value from merging, so more of this is shifting into the merge benefit. Condor’s pierce penalties to early MOAB Class are going up, however the max merged version will now be allowed to attack and damage targets that it cannot grab. Pouakai deals way too much moab damage right from base upgrade given how powerful it also is at controlling MOABs, base damage & pierce stats here are also seeing a shift over into higher merge benefits
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-2 Horned Owl	Horned Owl: pierce reduced ― 8 → 6  Horned Owl max bonus pierce from merge increased ― 8 → 12 Note: Max-power pierce increased from 16 to 18
X-X-4 Giant Condor	Condor: At Max beast power, it can now attack ungrabbable MOAB-class Bloons (i.e. BADs and Bosses)  Condor: MOAB pierce penalty increased ― +9 → +14  Condor: BFB pierce penalty increased ― +29 → +44
X-X-5 Pouākai	Pouakai: Base pierce reduced ― 200 → 150  Pouakai: Max bonus pierce from merge increased ― 250 → 300 Note: Max-power pierce remains 450, mid-power xx5 pierce decreased from 325 to 300  Pouakai: Base damage reduced ― 20 → 10  Pouakai: Max bonus damage from merge increased ― 40 → 80 Note: Max-power damage increased from 60 to 90, mid-power xx5 from 40 to 50  Pouakai: Bonus MOAB-class damage reduced ― +110 → +80

Version 40.0

“

We feel Beast Handler balance is setting down nicely overall but it feels like the reposition cooldown increasing was far more impactful and unfun than intended, we still feel the initial delay was silly but are cutting it down again a little. Orca's knockback has the same duration as the T3 so although it does gain a little increased knockback amount already it's very random in what it hits much more expensive than the T3 so this knockback duration is being increased a little for base & merge. Max merged Golden Eagle gaining the ability to grab MOABs made sense at the time although the the pierce and penalties as they were at the time that meant it jumped up from grabbing no MOABs to suddenly 3 MOABs at a time which seemed too far, so the pierce penalty on MOABs is being increased at the T3 so that this reduces from 3 to 2 MOABs at a time.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
All tiers	Reposition cooldown reduced ― 5s → 3s
4-X-X Orca (further upgrades unaffected)	Knockback duration increased ― 0.2s → 0.3s  Knockback merge bonus increased ― 0.2s → 0.3s
X-X-3 Golden Eagle (further upgrades unaffected)	MOAB pierce penalty increased ― +14 → +29

Version 41.0

“

Megalodon’s maximum time to drag MOABs to the depths was higher than at T4 given that it now has to account for grabbing BADs, we’ve now separated this out for a separate max time for BADs and reduced drag time for other MOABs to match the T4 again - along with much stronger & faster thrash knockbacks. T-Rex has been generally too strong while still sitting in a spot we like in terms of gameplay so we have slightly reduced damage and pierce. Bottom path birds up to T3 are also just a little too good for the cost and are all going up about 5% with Condor’s price being reduced to compensate.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Megalodon	Thrash: Knockback lifespan reduced ― 0.4s → 0.3s Note: Effectively reduces lifespan based on Beast Power from 0.4s–0.7s to 0.3s–0.6s  Thrash: Knockback multiplier for MOAB-class improved ― 0.5× → -0.5×  Drag-down: Time taken now caps at 6s for non-BADs (remains 30s for BADs)
X-4-X Tyrannosaurus Rex	Bite attack: Base damage reduced ― 32 → 30  Bite attack: Max damage from Beast Power reduced ― +64 → +60 Note: Effectively reduces damage based on Beast Power from 32–96 to 30–90  Bite attack: Pierce reduced ― 24 → 22  Bite attack: Max pierce from Beast Power reduced ― +36 → +33 Note: Effectively reduces pierce based on Beast Power from 24–60 to 22–55
X-5-X Giganotosaurus	Upgrade cost reduced ― $70,000 → $60,000
X-X-1 Gyrfalcon	Upgrade cost increased ― $180 → $190
X-X-2 Horned Owl	Upgrade cost increased ― $915 → $960  Overall cost increased by $55 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-3 Golden Eagle	Upgrade cost increased ― $3,000 → $3,150  Overall cost increased by $205 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-4 Giant Condor	Upgrade cost reduced ― $8,000 → $7,800  Overall cost increased by $5 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 42.0

“

When first creating Beast Handler we balanced the T1-3 upgrade costs with a goal of creating a decision point between spending free playable space to save on cash or spending more cash to save on playable space. However in practice though some people have come on board with spending their playable space as a resource for more power; actual interest is much more divided between maximizing cost efficiency of these merges or simply using different towers. Given that spam of lower tier handlers already comes with the advantage of allowing them to be repositioned over a larger area, we’re changing our approach with a full cost rebalance across most T1-3 upgrades for exactly equal cost per point of merged beast power, instead leaving the nuance around understanding higher value merges & footprint advantage to depend more on discounts.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Piranha	Upgrade cost increased ― $160 → $170
2-X-X Barracuda	Upgrade cost reduced ― $875 → $850  Overall cost reduced by $15 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
3-X-X Great White	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,950 → $2,075  Overall cost reduced by $890 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-2-X Adasaurus	Upgrade cost reduced ― $945 → $890
X-3-X Velociraptor	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,600 → $2,170  Overall cost reduced by $485 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-1 Gyrfalcon	Upgrade cost increased ― $190 → $210
X-X-2 Horned Owl	Upgrade cost reduced ― $960 → $940  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-3 Golden Eagle (further upgrades unaffected)	Golden Eagle: MOAB pierce penalty increased ― +29 → +44  Golden Eagle: Damage reduced ― 2 → 1  Golden Eagle: Damage gained from merges reduced ― 0–4 → 0–2 Max damage reduced ― 6 → 3

Version 43.0

“

Golden Eagle has stood out more than Condor against MOABs which has felt very wrong, last update it was nerfed against MOABs and now we are playing with the pierce & penalties to improve Golden Eagle further against non-MOAB-Class targets and for Condor more help with lower MOABs.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-2 Horned Owl X-X-4 Giant Condor X-X-5 Pouākai	Attack cooldown reduction from Beast Power reduced ― 0.28679625s → 0.28s (undocumented)
X-X-3 Golden Eagle	Golden Eagle: Pierce increased ― 15 → 30  Golden Eagle: Pierce scale increased ― 30 → 60 Note: Max xx3 pierce increased from 45 to 90  Golden Eagle: MOAB pierce penalty increased ― +44 → +1089 Note: Does not affect Giant Condor (+14)  Golden Eagle: Attack cooldown reduction from Beast Power reduced ― 0.28679625s → 0.28s Note: Max-power cooldown increased from 0.31320375s to 0.32s
X-X-4 Giant Condor	Giant Condor: No longer has +1 Ceramic pierce penalty  Giant Condor: BFB pierce penalty reduced ― +44 → +29

“

In going over our large list of price changes for Beast Handler’s lower tiers in 42 this change was received very positively, however we did not realize that in making this change we killed off all chance of dual-beast handlers being used as a round 1 starting option for under $650 in hard modes – So we gotta do that math all over again and convert it for difficulty, painful 😀 All T1 beast prices changed to allow 110 & 101 beast handler combos to be placed for under $650 in hard mode, all T2 & T3 prices shifted around to keep these same cost ratios.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Piranha	Upgrade cost reduced ― $170 → $160
2-X-X Barracuda	Upgrade cost reduced ― $850 → $810  Overall cost reduced by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
3-X-X Great White	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,075 → $2,010  Overall cost reduced by $115 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-1-X Microraptor	Upgrade cost reduced ― $195 → $175
X-2-X Adasaurus	Upgrade cost reduced ― $890 → $830  Overall cost reduced by $80 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-3-X Velociraptor	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,170 → $2,065  Overall cost reduced by $185 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-1 Gyrfalcon	Upgrade cost reduced ― $210 → $190
X-X-2 Horned Owl	Upgrade cost reduced ― $940 → $860  Overall cost reduced by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-3 Golden Eagle	Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,150 → $2,120  Overall cost reduced by $1,130 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

“

Orca is very strong currently but Great White doesn’t do so much outside of max merge MOAB Takedowns, so damage is increasing to improve these non-maxed situations.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Great White	Great White: Damage increased ― 8 → 12

“

Similar to Sentries, Beast spawn placement will now scale closer to the track based on how much range the beast has.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Piranha (and further upgrades)	Water beasts: Now spawns within 20% of their range to the track
X-1-X Microraptor (and further upgrades)	Dinosaurs: Now spawns within 30% of their range to the track

“

We’re slightly reducing beast reposition cooldown as the tiny range leaves movement very tight, which is especially painful for Microraptor path given the low range.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Piranha (and further upgrades) X-1-X Microraptor (and further upgrades)	Beast: Reposition cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s

Version 44.0

“

Now that the many T1-3 upgrade price changes are settling we’re looking at the next tier up. It does feel deserving of a fairly high level of power compared to other dps towers however the T-rex currently offers too much for the cost so its damage is decreasing. Condor’s value spiked quite high after being hit by buffs at the same time as big buffs to Golden Eagle so its price is being appropriately adjusted upwards, however the total pierce cost for grabbing DDTs is also being halved as previously the pierce penalty it had against DDTs was being shared with the ZOMG cost and was unintentionally nerfed along with that change.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Tyrannosaurus Rex	Attack base damage reduced ― 30 → 26 (Does not carry over to Giganotosaurus)  Attack damage Beast Power range reduced ― 60 → 52 Note: Max power T-Rex damage reduced from 90 to 78, also reduces the Beast Power modifier to its max bonus stunned damage from +28 to +25. Does not affect Giganotosaurus.
X-X-4 Giant Condor	Upgrade cost increased ― $7,800 → $9,000  +1 Ceramic pierce penalty added Note: Does not carry over to Pouākai
X-X-4 Giant Condor X-X-5 Pouākai	DDT pierce penalty reduced ― +59 → +29

Version 45.0

“

Base handler's beast range felt too high starting off when considering the tower is built around sharing range between multiple Handlers so this range is being reduced.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
All tiers	Merging/Beast positioning range reduced ― 60 → 50

“

Top Handler is designed around huge inconsistent power, however Megalodon feels that it should be more reliable for the investment required so we are improving both thrash radius and reducing the cooldown. Fish RBE limit before being able to devour the target instantly is being increased to last further into freeplay.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Great White (and further upgrades)	Drag-down RBE cap increased ― 250,000 → 500,000
5-X-X Megalodon	Thrash projectile size increased ― 36 → 48

“

Bottoms will now move slower but speed up as more beasts are merged into them, likewise they will attack slower at first but faster through their merges. This should add more merge value to lower tier birds while overall nerfing to the base level for currently overpowered higher tiers.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-1 Gyrfalcon (and further upgrades)	Flight speed reduced ― 110 → 80
X-X-2 Horned Owl	Base attack cooldown increased ― 0.7s → 1s (attack speed reduced by 30%)  Attack cooldown reduction at max Beast Power increased ― -0.28s → -0.4s Note: Max-power attack cooldown increased from 0.42s to 0.6s  Ceramic pierce penalty reduced ― +5 → +4
X-X-2 Horned Owl (and further upgrades)	Flight speed now scales with Beast Power, up to +40 at max Note: Max-power flight speed increased from 110 to 120
X-X-3 Golden Eagle X-X-4 Giant Condor	Base attack cooldown increased ― 0.6s → 1s (attack speed reduced by 40%)  Attack cooldown reduction at max Beast Power increased ― -0.28s → -0.52s Note: Max-power attack cooldown increased from 0.32s to 0.48s
X-X-5 Pouākai	Base attack cooldown increased ― 0.6s → 0.8s (attack speed reduced by 25%)  Attack cooldown reduction at max Beast Power increased ― -0.28s → -0.52s Note: Max-power attack cooldown decreased from 0.32s to 0.28s, mid-power attack cooldown increased from 0.46s to 0.54s

Version 46.0

“

Max power Great White drags in MOAB's too quickly which actually causes it to thrash less from this and overall perform worse, so a minimum drag time has been set. Megalodon's 'not 1 shotting' damage feels too low compared to when it is able to 1shot, so we’re increasing this damage.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Great White	Drag: MOAB minimum grab time increased ― 0s → 6s Note: Although this is a nerf to one-shotting MOABs, the longer duration increases the amount of time to splash, improving the consistency of splashes
5-X-X Megalodon	Thrash: Damage increased ― 350 → 700  Damage gained from beast power increased ― 400 → 1400 Note: Max-power 5xx damage increased from 750 to 2100, mid-power 5xx damage increased from 550 to 1400

Version 47.0

“

As a quality of life improvement, Beast Handler movement cooldowns have now been separated
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Piranha (and further upgrades) X-1-X Microraptor (and further upgrades)	Fish & Dino beast reposition cooldowns are now independent

Version 47.2

Tiers	Changes
X-X-1 Gyrfalcon (and further upgrades)	Beast: No longer gains more pierce than intended (bug fix)

Version 47.3

Tiers	Changes
X-X-1 Gyrfalcon (and further upgrades)	Path 3 beasts on Beast Handler no longer benefit from pierce buffs, except for the buffs gained from merging beasts

Version 48.0

“

As Great White still has problematic consistency the thrash radius is increasing. T-Rex is generally powerful in a lot of ways, and as the ability cooldown is quite short, we are increasing the cooldown.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Great White	Splash: Radius increased ― 10 → 15 Note: Does not affect 4xx
3-X-X Great White (and further upgrades)	Grab: Max RBE cap increased ― 500,000 → 1,000,000
X-4-X Tyrannosaurus Rex	Stomp ability: Ability cooldown increased ― 35s → 40s Note: Does not affect Giganotosaurus
X-5-X Giganotosaurus	Stomp ability: Initial ability cooldown no longer has initial cooldown ― 1.6667s → 0s (undocumented)

Version 49.0

“

The previous range reduction for Beast Handler broke fun starting strategies that weren’t ever able to fully recover, so this range is being given back again. Shark latch-on lifespan for targets that are not 1shot is being reduced so it has to let go and re-target more frequently as an overall range reduction, and as Megalodon is currently overperforming particularly against Bosses its attack rate is being lowered to match Orca. Velociraptor path is too much of an all-round powerhouse so with the larger range returning it is also reducing in damage
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
All tiers	Merging/Beast positioning range increased ― 50 → 60
1-X-X Piranha (and further upgrades)	Solved a bug where Beast Handlers which were crosspathed on a specific order could fail to respawn their fish when reloading a game from a save and and use a Support Chinook to redeploy the Beast Handler. (bug fix)
1-X-X Piranha (and further upgrades) X-1-X Microraptor (and further upgrades)	Can now move beasts onto ice and ink platforms. Beasts with only ice/ink platforms as valid placement will no longer randomly choose a location when attempting to place into ice/ink platforms. (undocumented)
3-X-X Great White (and further upgrades)	Latch: Time that the beast keeps latched to targets that it can't drag down reduced ― 5s → 3s Note: This decreases overall single-target damage and reduces concentration of damage around the target
5-X-X Megalodon	Thrash attack: Maximum cooldown reduction by Beast Power increased ― 0.3439s → 0.38s  Thrash attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.8s → 1.1s Note: With both attack speed changes combined, the changes are an overall nerf to attack cooldown of the thrash attack of the Megalodon ― 0.8s to 0.4561s (84/132: 0.62805s) → 1.1s to 0.72s (84/132: 0.91s) (depending on Beast Power)
X-3-X Velociraptor	Bite attack: Damage reduced ― 9 → 8  Bite attack: Maximum damage increase by Beast Power reduced ― 18 → 16 Note: Max Power x3x damage reduced from 27 to 24  Bite attack: Maximum bonus damage increase against stunned Bloons by Beast Power reduced ― +6 → +5.3333 Note: X-4-X Tyrannosaurus Rex unchanged.

Version 50.0

“

As it is still overperforming in event cases, Megalodon damage is being reduced. On the other hand Giganotosaurus’ ability damage is increasing to feel more worthy of a T5 ability.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Great White 4-X-X Orca 5-X-X Megalodon	Thrash calculation is now calculated correctly (bug fix)  Thrash calculation: divisor for "base attack cooldown" changed from the attack cooldown of the Piranha to Great White ― 0.6 → 1.1  Thrash calculation: dividend for "base thrash cooldown" increased while latching ― 0.3 → 0.6 (undocumented) Note: Does not affect dragging Thrash cooldowns across all beast power increased while latching Min power: 0.55s → 0.6s Middle power: 0.455s → 0.49636363636s Max power: 0.36s → 0.39272727272s Thrash cooldowns across all beast power changed while dragging Min power: 0.55s → 0.3s Middle power: 0.455s → 0.248181818s Max power: 0.36s → 0.196363636s
5-X-X Megalodon	Splash: Base damage decreased ― 700 → 600  Splash: Damage scale decreased ― 1,400 → 1,200 Note: With both changes damage for 132 (maximum) Beast Power decreased from 2,100 to 1,800, and damage for 84 (default) Beast Power decreased from 1,400 to 1,200
X-5-X Giganotosaurus	Stomp ability: Base damage increased ― 150 → 300 Note: Damage for 132 (maximum) Beast Power increased from 950 to 1100, and damage for 84 (default) Beast Power increased from 550 to 700

Version 51.0

“

Top Path Beast Handler relied heavily on grouping Bloons, which made it weak against Frozen Bloons which is a problem since Ice Towers are a nice way to set up those groups. To improve synergy, we’ve changed the Piranha’s damage type to properly motivate them at biting through ice like all Piranha do.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Piranha	Piranha: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Shatter
2-X-X Barracuda	Barracuda: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Shatter Note: 3-X-X Great White unchanged (Normal)

Version 52.0

“

The Middle Path beast handler is too effective at grouped popping for how much damage it can dish out and is having its pierce reduced.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Great White (and further upgrades)	Thrash attack: Thrash interval increased while dragging into water ― 0.3s → 0.6s (bug fix)
X-3-X Velociraptor	Pierce reduced ― 14 → 12  Pierce scaling with Beast Power reduced ― +21 → +18 Note: With both changes combined the pierce at maximum Beast Power is reduced from 35 to 30. 0-4-0 Tyrannosaurus Rex unchanged (22 and +33, respectively)

Version 53.0

“

Giganotosaurus is getting something of a fix to its stun which was previously stunning BFBs for longer than MOABs, additionally it is seeing the long requested change to finally after all this time become best friends with permaspike, that’s right, Giganotosaurus was spotted at Permaspike's birthday and we have eye witness reports that they have signed a buddy agreement. Now it can break through Moab layers at the cost of pierce.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Giganotosaurus	Ability: Stun duration for blue MOABs increased ― 3s → 8s  Main attack: Damage now soaks through MOAB-Class layers at any Beast Power, instead of only at max Beast Power  Main attack: Pierce reduced ― 60 → 44  Main attack: Pierce scaling with Beast Power reduced ― +90 → +66 Note: With both changes combined the pierce at maximum Beast Power is reduced from 150 to 110

Version 54.0

“

Beast Handler’s top path is smoothing out to +5 range per level improving early tiers. Middle Path handler has been a powerful carry that scales too well, we’ve decided to shift a portion of its damage into ceramic bonus to hit down its lategame MOAB dps while leaving its power against super ceramics.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Piranha	Piranha: Range increased ― 20 → 25  When the Piranha is placed automatically, it will now prefer positions where its range can cover at least 24% of the track length (was 20% before) (undocumented)
2-X-X Barracuda	Barracuda: Range increased ― 30 → 35 Note: Great White and above are unchanged  When the Barracuda is placed automatically, it will now prefer positions where its range can cover at least 28% of the track length (was 24% before) (undocumented)
2-1-0 Barracuda + Microraptor 2-2-0 Barracuda + Adasaurus 2-3-0 Velociraptor + Barracuda (and further upgrades) 2-0-3 Golden Eagle + Barracuda (and further upgrades)	Crosspathing Barracuda with Microraptor, Golden Eagle, or their higher tiers now reduces the range of the Barracuda ― 35 → 30 (bug)  Overall range with these crosspaths is effectively the same as it was prior to this update
X-2-X Adasaurus	Adasaurus: Base damage decreased ― 3 → 2  Adasaurus: Bonus damage from Beast Power decreased ― +3 → +2 Note: Max Adasaurus damage decreased from 6 to 4  Adasaurus: Now does +1 Ceramic damage regardless of Beast Power
X-3-X Velociraptor	Velociraptor: Base damage decreased ― 8 → 4  Velociraptor: Bonus damage from Beast Power decreased ― +16 → +8 Note: Max Velociraptor damage decreased from 24 to 12. Bonus stunned damage from max power reduced from +8 to +5.  Velociraptor: Bonus pierce from Beast Power decreased ― +18 → +14 Note: Max Velociraptor pierce decreased from 30 to 26  Velociraptor: Now does +4 Ceramic damage regardless of Beast Power
X-4-X Tyrannosaurus Rex	T-Rex: Base damage decreased ― 26 → 20  T-Rex: Bonus damage from Beast Power decreased ― +52 → +40 Note: Max T-Rex damage decreased from 78 to 60  T-Rex: Base pierce decreased ― 22 → 18  T-Rex: Bonus pierce from Beast Power decreased ― +33 → +27 Note: Max T-Rex pierce decreased from 55 to 45  T-Rex: Now does +5 Ceramic damage regardless of Beast Power

Version 54.1

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x3x Velociraptor damage scale was lowered more than intended 8 > 12
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Velociraptor	Velociraptor: Bonus damage from Beast Power increased ― +8 → +12 Note: Max Velociraptor damage increased from 12 to 16. Bonus stunned damage from max power increased from +5 to +7.

Version 54.2

Tiers	Changes
2-1-0 Barracuda + Microraptor 2-2-0 Barracuda + Adasaurus 2-3-0 Velociraptor + Barracuda 2-4-0 Tyrannosaurus Rex + Barracuda 2-5-0 Giganotosaurus + Barracuda 2-0-3 Golden Eagle + Barracuda 2-0-4 Giant Condor + Barracuda 2-0-5 Pouākai + Barracuda	Barracuda: Range increased to match other crosspaths ― 30 → 35 (bug fix)

Version 56.0

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The middle-path dinos now use a percentage multiplier for their stun bonus that scales into T4 and T5. For Giganotosaurus pierce is being exchanged for significantly higher damage scaling, note that due to Beast Power scaling mechanics, this results in a substantial overall damage buff right from the moment you purchase the upgrade.
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Velociraptor	Velociraptor: Damage bonus to stunned simplified to deal 1.5× base damage Formerly, the stun bonus is , where the base bonus is 3, and stun bonus divisor is 3. Was previously +3–+7, now it's +2–+8
X-4-X Tyrannosaurus Rex	T-Rex (bite): Damage bonus to stunned simplified to deal 1.5× base damage Formerly, the stun bonus is , where the base bonus is 8, and stun bonus divisor is 3. Was previously +8–+21, now it's +10–+30
X-5-X Giganotosaurus	Gigantosaurus (bite): Base damage decreased ― 750 → 500  Gigantosaurus (bite): Damage gained from merges increased ― +800 → +1500 With these changes, damage from merges are changed from 750–1550 to 500–2000. Mid-power bite damage increased from 1150 to 1250.  Giganotosaurus (bite): Damage bonus to stunned simplified to deal 1.5× base damage Formerly, the stun bonus is , where the base bonus is 250, and stun bonus divisor is 3. Was previously +250–+516, now it's +250–+1000  Gigantosaurus (bite): Base pierce decreased ― 44 → 33  Gigantosaurus (bite): Pierce gained from beast power decreased ― +66 → +50 With these changes, pierce from merges are reduced from 44–110 to 33–83. Mid-power bite pierce decreased from 66 to 58  Ability: Upon upgrading from x-4-x to x-5-x, ability cooldown is no longer reduced by up to 15s This also prevents direct purchases of x-4-x into x-5-x to bypass initial cooldown.

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