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Heart of Vengeance Druid is one of the worst scaling Monkeys. It has a very risky scaling method via leaking Bloons, has one of the lowest damage for 3 Gold, fails to scale or react fast enough to handle aggro, and is already weak to OTK and removals while being outclassed by other scaling Monkeys.
In Control mirror matchups, Spike-o-Pult and Wizard Monkeys have far less restrictive requirements for scaling, start with more base damage per turn, and in the case of Spike-o-Pult, synergizes well with Try this!. It has more ammo, so it doesn't need Try this! to be optimal. Heart of Vengeance is the worst scaling Monkey to draw in the late game due to its difficult scaling method.
Jungle's Bounty Druid's rapid life gains allow the HoV Druid to leak more safely over many rounds, but the combined duo both having very low DPT makes surviving to get the reward difficult.
One key advantage is the greater burst, so is more receptive to damage buffs.
During the Version 5.2 playtest, Ninja Kiwi proposed a rework to Heart of Vengeance Druid by reducing its ammo from 3 to 2 and Gold cost from 5 to 3, which was left unchanged for the update.
The ammo reduction was reverted for Version 6.4 due to feeling still too weak for how difficult that the Heart of Vengeance Druid can scale.[1] The already low cost in Gold also makes it the cheapest 3 Ammo Monkey in the game, despite not being stated by OdysseyTOS's tester commentary.