Brickell is the first purely water-based hero in the game (Pat Fusty can be placed on both water and land). She drops sea mines into the water, which will home in on Bloons near them. She also has a high-damage revolver that pops up to three Bloons at a time, hitting targets that meet the centerpoint of the shot.
Naval Tactics (level 3) — Monkey Subs, Monkey Buccaneers and herself, temporarily gain double attack speed. Additionally, it grants extra pierce and Normal-type damage starting from level 5, and Camo detection starting from level 8. The effect becomes global starting at level 19.
Blast Chain (level 7) — Sea mines trigger and move much faster after deployment.
Mega Mine (level 10) — Creates a massive mine in the water, dealing immense damage to the first MOAB-Class Bloon that it detects. The mine lasts multiple rounds and ignores line of sight.
Admiral Brickell's pistol attack fires a shot at a target Bloon within her range every 0.8 seconds. Each shot collides with the target instantly, bypassing travel time, and produces a 0-radius area-of-effect (hitting targets that meet its centerpoint) that hits up to 3 Bloons at a time and dealing 3 Sharp-typedamage.
Levels
Level
Effect
2
Attack cooldown reduces to 0.65 seconds, effectively increasing attack speed by ~23.1%.
6
Damage increases to 6.
7
Range increases from 50 units to 58 units. Brickell gains Camo detection.
12
Damage increases to 12. Attack cooldown reduces to 0.35 seconds, effectively increasing attack speed by ~85.7%.
15
Damage increases to 18.
16
Range increases to 62 units.
17
Damage increases to 40.
Sea mines
Admiral Brickell's sea mine attack passively deploys mines on the water within her range every 3 seconds. The placement of the mines is random, but they are always deployed within 39 units of the track if possible. They cannot be deployed on top of other towers unless there is not enough space, and they cannot be deployed on top of Admiral Brickell herself. Once deployed, a mine lasts for up to 120 seconds and can carry over one round, and it disappears if Brickell is sold.
A mine activates and homes in on a Bloon if it comes within 40 units of it. On contact, it deals 1 normal-type damage to the target Bloon and generates an explosion that deals 1 explosion-type damage to up to 20 Bloons in a 20-unit radius. Its pierce is affected by More 'Splody. It also explodes in place if it starts seeking a Bloon but fails to hit the target after 0.3 seconds, but it will not explode if it expires on its own or Brickell is sold. If a mine activates, other mines cannot activate for 0.4 seconds afterwards; this is not affected by attack speed buffs.
Levels
Level
Effect
2
Attack cooldown reduces to 2.8 seconds, effectively increasing attack speed by 7.14%.
4
Explosion pierce increases to 28.
6
Contact damage increases to 2. Explosion damage increases to 2.
7
Range increases from 50 units to 58 units. Mines gain Camo detection. Existing mines do not gain Camo detection upon reaching this upgrade.
9
Contact damage increases to 7. Explosion damage increases to 7.
11
Attack cooldown reduces to 2.5 seconds, effectively increasing attack speed by 12%.
12
Contact damage increases to 12. Explosion damage increases to 12.
15
Explosion radius increases to 30 units (50% larger). Explosion damage type changes to normal, allowing it to damage all Bloon types. Both the initial hit and explosion remove Camo from Bloons on contact.
16
Range increases to 62 units.
17
Contact damage increases to 22. Explosion damage increases to 22.
Pierce buff
Starting at level 8, Admiral Brickell grants +1 pierce to all towers placed in water within her range, except herself. It stacks with Naval Tactics.
Abilities
Naval Tactics
Naval Tactics is unlocked at level 3. It grants Monkey Subs and Monkey Buccaneers within Brickell's range (including herself) double attack speed for 8 seconds. It has a 50-second cooldown.
Now affects all eligible towers placed on water on-screen, not just within Brickell's range.
Blast Chain
Blast Chain is unlocked at level 7. When activated, Brickell's sea mines have a 0.2-second delay between activations instead of a 0.4-second delay, and their movement speed while seeking Bloons is doubled, for 10 seconds. It does not affect Mega Mines. It has a 45-second cooldown.
Mega Mine
Mega Mine is unlocked at level 10. It allows the player to deploy a massive mine anywhere on water on the map, including Lord of the Abyss' ink platform. The mine lasts for up to 150 seconds or 4 rounds, whichever comes first, and it disappears if Brickell is sold. It activates and homes in on the first MOAB-Class Bloon that comes within 40 units of it, ignoring regular Bloons. It can target and hit Camo Bloons. On contact, it generates an explosion that deals 4,000 normal-type damage to up to 100 Bloons (affected by More 'Splody), with MOAB-class consuming +1 pierce, in a 120-unit radius, which does not soak through layers, and it stuns any Bloons that did not have any layers popped by the explosion for 5 seconds. The explosion can hit Bloons behind line of sight blockers. It also explodes in place if it starts seeking a Bloon but fails to hit the target after 0.2 seconds, but it will not explode if it expires on its own or Brickell is sold. The ability has a 60-second cooldown.
Despite being placed like a tower and displaying a range circle while being placed, the mine is not treated as a sub-tower. It has no footprint and it is unaffected by buffs from being in range of other towers (such as Monkey Villages). If a Tech Bot is linked to Admiral Brickell, she automatically deploys Mega Mines wherever the player last deployed one manually; she will not deploy them if the player has not deployed at least one manually.
Levels
Level
Effect
13
Cooldown reduces to 50 seconds.
18
Cooldown reduces to 40 seconds.
20
Damage increases to 11,000. Pierce increases to 150. Stun duration increases to 10 seconds.
Levels
Level
Description
1
Drops powerful sea mines that seek out and destroy Bloons.
2
Increased attack speed.
3
Naval Tactics: greatly increases attack speed of Brickell and nearby Monkey Subs and Monkey Buccaneers for a short time.
4
More popping power for Sea Mines.
5
Naval Tactics increases popping power and allows affected Monkeys to hit all Bloon types except Camo.
6
Increases the damage of Sea Mines and Pistol attacks.
7
Blast Chain: Sea mines fire off quicker for a short time. Brickell gains increased attack range and Camo Bloon detection.
8
Naval Tactics allows affected Monkeys to hit Camo Bloons. Water towers in radius gain extra pierce.
9
Sea Mines do extra damage.
10
Mega Mine: deploys to any water area a devastating Mine that triggers on MOABs and stuns nearby Bloons. Mega Mines last 3 rounds.
11
Faster deploy speed and deploy rate for Sea Mines.
12
Pistol attack increased speed and damage, Sea Mines increased damage.
13
Mega Mine cooldown reduced.
14
Naval Tactics duration increased.
15
Enhanced Sea Mines have larger explosion, can damage Black Bloons and remove Camo property. Pistol does more damage.
16
Attack and Sea Mine deploy range increased slightly.
17
Sea Mines do greatly increased damage. Pistol does more damage.
18
Mega Mine cooldown reduced even further.
19
Naval Tactics affects all water based towers everywhere.
20
Mega Mine does massively increased damage and longer stun.
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Brickell's optimal strategy revolves around her abilities: Naval Tactics to boost other water towers and Mega Mines to take out many MOAB-class bloons. She works well with a water-focused defense. Her buffs from Naval Tactics and her level 8+ pierce passive are effective for Monkey Buccaneer and Monkey Sub strategies, which generally have low pierce but rapid-fire projectiles. Middle-path Ice Monkeys are also recommended, as her best strategies often involve stalling.
Naval Tactics works well as burst damage to get through difficult rounds. It benefits fast attacking towers such as Destroyer, Monkey Pirates, and Airburst Darts, along with all of their upgrades. The level 5+ benefits also help them counter DDTs and dense rounds if timed well.
As Mega Mines will explode on the first blimp that gets near, strategic placement and stalling can be used to maximize the impact of each explosion. It's better to have the mine explode when many MOABs are nearby instead of quickly at the start of the round, and mines can be spaced out to avoid wasting multiple mines on one use. In particular, round 99 can be stalled to build up 4-5 mines to take out the round 100 BAD.
Blast Chain is not very useful, although it improves consistency of attack bursts and works early-game for Leads.
Energizer pairs especially well with Brickell as it helps her level faster and reduces cooldowns of her abilities. The level 20 mega mines are noticeably stronger than those of previous levels.
Update history
General
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While Brickell setups have a very specific select group of interactions, it is clear her abilities in this interaction are over performing so we want to try take a slow approach toning these back while we continue to review all Heroes each update. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
3–13
Naval Tactics: duration reduced ― 10s → 9s
10–19
Mega Mine: damage reduced ― 5,000 → 4,000
Note: damage at level 20 remains at 15,000
14+
Naval Tactics: duration reduced ― 15s → 12s
20
Resolved an issue where reloading a save with level 20 Brickell reduced Mega Mine to level 10 (bug fix)
Due to much user concern with Brickell’s Sea Mines seriously overkilling weak targets and wasting themselves in this way, they now have a short delay between activations. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
All
Sea mine: Can now only set off one mine every 0.4 seconds
To help Brickell excel a little better at her thematic niche of water support, we have added a small permanent buff to all water in her radius to allow her to give them a bit of extra juice even during ability downtime. Additional minor buffs to her main slow-hard hitting revolver attack as she levels up. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
8+
Now grants a permanent +1 pierce to all water towers in range
The Sea Mines delay that was added back in 29 has done well for reducing some of Brickells weaknesses, but as we expected somewhat does add in new weaknesses to rush rounds of Bloons that can now sneak past before all of her mines have been able to acquire a target. To help lessen this new issue she has gained a brand new ability that will allow more Sea Mines to rapidly deploy and find a target over a short duration. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
7+
Lv7 Blast Chain utility ability added for Admiral Brickell. For 10 seconds all sea mines have their delay halved & their projectile speed doubled
10+
Resolved an issue with Admiral Brickell's Mega Mine sometimes not showing stun effects (bug fix)
We had people request a specific funny use case of Brickell on Ravine, which we respect and approve, and overall we wanted to scale her main revolver attack better into late game, so she is seeing slight and slightly experimental improvements. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
10+
Mega Mine: Explosion is no longer has its vision blocked by map line of sight
Brickell has shown exceptional high level performance, while not fitting in as any intended strong early solo carry. Her base cost has been increased so she won’t come into early play, and Lv20 Mega Mine is having its damage taken down to not quite decimate late game somuch. In return she will have much more pierce, and as it is mainly a niche utility we also want Blast Chain to be available more often. — Update notes
We still want a little more out of Brickell’s single target Revolver attack as it’s the least exciting per of her arsenal so are decreasing the attack cooldown, however her mega mine ability also performs exceptionally well throughout all moab rounds so we want to slightly increase its final cooldown instead — Update notes
Brickell’s Mega Mine has had a MOAB Pierce penalty added to reduce dominant MOAB destruction without also filling up on Ceramics. Additionally she's received small Bloon cleanup buffs with her high powered revolver attack now piercing Bloons in the area, and Blast Chain reducing Sea Mine targeting delay even further. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
1+
Revolver: Pierce increased ― 1 → 3
Note: Internally it is implemented as an explosion with a radius of 0 units
Hero Favors:
1-0-1 Monkey Sub
0-2-1 Monkey Buccaneer
Portability Common
5,000 starting at level 35.
More 'Splody. It also explodes in place if it starts seeking a Bloon but fails to hit the target after 0.3 seconds, but it will not explode if it expires on its own or Brickell is sold. If a mine activates, other mines cannot activate for 0.4 seconds afterwards; this is not affected by attack speed buffs.
Starting Artifact changed ― Portability Rare → Portability Common
Starting party member changed ― 0-3-0 Monkey Buccaneer → 0-2-1 Monkey Buccaneer![[[Dread Pirate Brickell|Dread Pirate Brickell]]](/images/thumb/9/9a/BTD6_DreadPirateBrickellPortrait.png/86px-BTD6_DreadPirateBrickellPortrait.png)
![[[Lifeguard Brickell|Lifeguard Brickell]]](/images/thumb/3/32/BTD6_LifeguardBrickellPortrait.png/88px-BTD6_LifeguardBrickellPortrait.png)
Brickell Parrot Pet
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Admiral Brickell Aerial Deployment Place & Upgrade
Levels 1–2
Levels 3–6
Levels 7–9
Levels 10–19
Level 20
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