Essence Of Vortex

Type	Artifact
Legendary	Tier 4 Monkeys and level 15 Heroes knock back MOAB-Class Bloons on hit, and 10% chance to blow back regular Bloons
Hero parties	—
Introduced	Version 47.0

Essence Of Vortex is a type of Artifact in the Rogue Legends DLC for Bloons TD 6. When active, all projectiles from Tier 4 or higher Monkeys and Level 15+ Heroes will knockback MOAB-Class Bloons by making them move backwards at half speed for a short amount of time, and every hit has 10% chance to blowback any Bloon by 5 to 25 units.

Like all Boss Artifacts, this has a cost of 18 Artifact Power, so players cannot equip it as an Starting Artifact unless they have bought all the levels of the Starting Artifact Power upgrade from the Rogue XP Shop.

Stats

Knockback

Multiplier	×1
Multiplier for Lead	×1
Multiplier for Ceramic	×1
Multiplier for MOAB-Class	×-0.5
Duration	0.2s

Blowback

Chance	10%
Min distance	5 units
Max distance	25 units

Strategy

Essence Of Vortex is one of the least powerful Boss Artifacts, but still a strong choice towards late-game to control any non-BAD, although it faces competition from other stalling towers like Maim MOAB, Relentless Glue, MOAB Press, or Avenger, specially if the player has enough Artifacts to boost their attack speed. Also it can create high amounts of lag, so it is also dropped in favor of the mentioned towers.

Update history

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Version 47.2

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We aren’t including changes requiring a translation for a patch update, but have included a number of stat changes to many Artifacts as touch up buffs to a number of Artifacts that have been less popular so far.
— Update notes

”

Projectile asset changed to reduce lag (bug fix)

Version 48.0

Artifact power increased ― 9 → 18

Version 48.2

Boss Artifacts now stack with the effects of One Monkey Army (bug fix)

Version 49.0

Tier requirement reduced ― 5 → 4
Hero level requirement reduced ― 20 → 15
- Note: Description changed accordingly

Version 54.0

Heroes no longer count as all categories when reaching Level 4 when combining One Monkey Army with a Boss Artifact (undocumented) (bug fix)
- Note: The change was actually done on the Boss Artifacts themselves by making the filter explicitly remove Heroes, instead of allowing the other four categories

In other languages

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	جوهر الدوامة	—
Danish	Essensen af vortexet	—
German	Essenz des Vortex	—
Spanish	Esencia de Vortex	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Esencia de vórtice	—
Finnish	Vortexin olemus	—
French	Essence de Vortex	—
Italian	Essenza di Vortex	—
Japanese	ボルテックスのエキス	—
Korean	보텍스의 정수	—
Dutch	Vortexextract	—
Norwegian	Essens av Virvel	—
Polish	Esencja wiru	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Essência de Vórtice	—
Russian	Сущность Вортекса	—
Swedish	Vortex natur	—
Thai	สาระสำคัญของกระแสน้ำวน	—
Turkish	Girdap Özü	—
Chinese (simplified)	旋涡精华	—
Chinese (traditional)	漩渦精華	—

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