Ezili is a Hero specializing in damage over time, with prominent support utility via stripping Bloons of any modifiers, preventing MOAB-Class Bloons from spawning any children, and spawning a totem that grants towers Camo detection and improved attack and projectile speeds (at the cost of lives), in addition to having a passive, map-wide Necromancer-specific pierce buff. She is also the only tower in the franchise that pops both Lead and Camo Bloons without upgrades.
In Battles 2, she more generally buffs Wizard Monkeys in her range, while her Hero Alt, Smudge Catt Ezili, focuses more on immediate damage and effects at the cost of less effective overall support.
Ezili has purple fur, somewhat pale skin (with the brightness being inconsistent in artwork and models), purple eyes, and purple hair styled in a short, rough ponytail on top of her head. She wears a dark violet robe with a matching hair tie, and has two scars[2] on her forehead, one X-shaped on her left side and the other a simple slash on her top-right side. She is almost never seen without her primary weapon, a simple brown stick she uses for magic. In Bloons TD 6 and Battles 2, her appearance changes as she levels up:
At level 3, her stick has a heart charm attached.
At level 7, her stick gains a head with the design of a cubed monkey skull.
At level 10, her hair grows darker, her ponytail slightly longer, and her stick's head gains a light green glow in its eyes.
At level 16, her scars grow light green, her pupils gain a green glow, her hands are covered with white wraps, her ponytail gains violet highlights, and the skull on her stick turns white.
At level 20, she gains a wooden mask that obscures most of her eyes, a pair of white leggings, a longer ponytail with a fuchsia tip, and her stick gains an additional skull design. In addition, her stick becomes slightly darker.
Personality and traits
Ezili is very ominous and is rarely shown to smile, instead usually sporting a dismissive expression; it has been stated that these elements of her personality do not come from a phase.[3] She has a prominent interest in Pokémon[4] to the point of avid shiny hunting,[5] and she is also interested secretly in scrapbooking.[6] Additionally, she loves cats strongly, having three herself[7][8] and bonding with Etienne over them.
In her normal form, her voice has a reverb applied to it. It is unclear if this is how she sounds in canon.
Other forms
Smudge Catt (AKA Smudge Catt Ezili)
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The cat, Smudge, is female.
Galaxili
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Lore
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Her favorite low-budget movie is The Bloon Witch Project.[10]
Ezili trusts Etienne the most in regards to cat-sitting.[11]
She talks about her cats to the other Heroes frequently, with Etienne always being receptive to seeing pictures of them.[12]
Despite her best efforts at keeping it secret, most monkeys know about her scrapbooking hobby and have a hard time being scared of her as a result.[13]
While Ezili and Gwendolin acknowledge they don't have many overlapping hobbies, they both enjoy horror movies and they get together to carve pumpkins every Halloween.[14]
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Splash AoE should no longer center around her if she completely destroyed the target in one hit (bug fix)
10+
MOAB Hex ability can jump to the next-strongest target if its main target is destroyed before the duration expires, with no limit to the number of jumps but the duration will not be refreshed.
It felt fitting for so many reasons right now, but in addition to Unpopped Army buffs Ezili will now offer them a large pierce boost who then in turn offer up an improved cleanup tower to assist Ezili in dealing with with her main weakness — Update notes
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Changes
11+
Now increases the pierce of all Zombie Bloons summoned by +50%
Ezili’s main attack was causing large problems behind the scenes due to it applying a stacking dot, but as stacks do not play nicely with other root level mechanics we’ve streamlined her attack into a much simpler DoT with some additional stat changes. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
All
Ezili DoT no longer stacks
Resolved an issue that could cause Ezili’s attack animations to permanently break (bug fix)
8–11
Level 8 now gains on-hit MOAB bonus of +19
DoT damage per tic to MOAB-class increased ― +18 → +28
10+
Resolved an issue where Ground Zero could cause Ezili’s MOAB Hex to not remove children (bug fix)
Ezili’s niche use is in an extremely strong spot right now so we shouldn’t really buff her, but anyway Heartstopper & Sacrificial Totem both feel too limited in total possible synergies, these are having quality of life improved and Heartstopper will additionally allow all towers to damage Purple Bloons to open up more combination options and give more reason to use it. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
3+
Heartstopper: can now activate if there are Purple Bloons spawned regardless of if they are regrow or not
Heartstopper: now also removes Purple Bloon immunity for duration
Heartstopper: duration increased ― 6s → 10s
3–11
Heartstopper: cooldown reduced ― 60s → 45s
7+
Sacrificial Totem: now gains a targeting option for spawn
Sacrificial Totem: grants an additional +1 pierce to Wizards
Sacrificial Totem: grants Wizards a 20% attack cooldown reduction instead of 15%
We like Ezili as she is and don’t want to mess with her too much, but currently her level 19 does effectively nothing so we thought it would be nice at this level to shift a little of that MOAB bonus damage on the main attack into raw damage instead. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
19–20
Main attack: DoT increased ― 3 → 6
main attack: DoT MOAB-class bonus reduced ― +28 → +25
Ezili has a good anti-camo build, however as her totem cant be used in CHIMPS and her main attack never upgrades to de-camo DDTs this means she is never able to de-camo DDTs when playing in CHIMPS even though her totem easily counters them in the base game. While we don’t have any concerns with some heroes being relegated more as ‘non-chimps’ heroes, we felt no reason not to solve this simple issue by allowing her main attack to upgrade to counter DDTs as well. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
16+
Lv16 Main attack can now de-camo DDTs
Lv16 Main attack and splash can now defortify DDTs and MOABs (undocumented)
Though we feel she is quite powerful already later in the game, Ezili has quite a hard time in the early game, we’ve given more initial damage over time to allow her to clean up early Green Bloons with one attack — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
1–7
Damage per tick over time increased ― 1 → 2
Note: Damage per tick at higher levels remains the same
Ezili’s first bonus against MOABs is swapping forward to an earlier level so she can do something in time for the first MOAB on round 40. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
3+
Heartstopper ability: Can be used when Blastapopoulos is the only ‘Purple’ Bloon on screen (bug fix)
Note: Only works if at least one non-MOAB-Class Bloon is on-screen
6+
Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons now unlocks at level 8 instead of level 6
10+
MOAB Hex: can only be used if at least one non-MOAB-Class Bloon is on-screen (bug)
Ezili is seeing a slight price reduction, and following a series of strongly worded letters mentioning curses (and a suspicious number of voodoo dolls appearing around the office) we’ve decided to stop 'slandering' Ezili’s figure and have updated her footprint to accurately reflect her true, more 'slender' figure, hopefully bringing out other enticing considerations in early hero selection and preventing our coffee machine from filling up with graveyard dirt. We’ve also simplified some of Ezili’s later levels, combining 2 small range increases and 2 other DoT focus levels to add in a dedicated Heartstopper improvement level to deal with late game purples. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
All
Placement cost reduced ― $600 → $550
Footprint radius reduced ― 7 units → 6 units
Note: It now matches small towers like Dart Monkey
11–14
Range increased ― 45 → 47
Note: Does not affect Level 15+ (47)
14+
Heartstopper: Duration increased ― 15s → 30s
14–15
Faster damage-over-time now moved to Level 15
14
Description changed
Before
Faster damage over time.
After
Faster damage over time and Hearstopper[sic] lasts much longer.
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Lv16 Ezili main attack no longer defortifies DDTs and MOABs (bug fix)
Artwork of level 20 Ezili
Artwork of level 20 Smudge Catt
Artwork of level 20 Galaxili
