Arctic Knight
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Arctic Knight
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 Tridents can pop Lead Bloons and grow in power faster. Ice Jet ability: Launches a barrage of bouncing ice balls following target priority, or targeted point.
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| Tower | Mermonkey — Path 2 — Tier 4 | |
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| XP cost | 16,000 | |
| Cash cost | $6,800 — Easy $8,000 — Medium $8,640 — Hard $9,600 — Impoppable | |
Arctic Knight is the Mermonkey's path 2 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. Tridents deal more damage, grow in power faster, deal bonus damage to MOABs and can now pop leads. Gains Ice Jet ability - shoots a lot of ice balls quickly at the targetted bloon or at the target which can be placed anywhere on the map. Ice balls have a lot of pierce, freeze bloons and can hit the same bloon multiple times. The amount of ice balls can be increased by giving Arctic Knight attack speed buffs.
Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
| Tiers | Total cost | Sell value | ||||||
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| Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | |
| 0-4-0 | $9,115 | $10,725 | $11,585 | $12,870 | $6,381 | $7,508 | $8,110 | $9,009 |
| 1-4-0 | $9,240 | $10,875 | $11,745 | $13,050 | $6,468 | $7,613 | $8,222 | $9,135 |
| 2-4-0 | $9,450 | $11,125 | $12,015 | $13,350 | $6,615 | $7,788 | $8,411 | $9,345 |
| 0-4-1 | $9,285 | $10,925 | $11,800 | $13,110 | $6,500 | $7,648 | $8,260 | $9,177 |
| 0-4-2 | $9,525 | $11,205 | $12,100 | $13,445 | $6,668 | $7,844 | $8,470 | $9,412 |
Update history
For a complete list of Mermonkey changes, see Update history:Mermonkey (BTD6).
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While we’re not jumping into any full on balance changes, there’s a few corrections that we wanted to make for type-fixes and other intended play.
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Ice Jet: Projectile lifespan is now capped at 15 seconds
Ice Jet: Projectile damage type changed ― Shatter → Plasma
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While the Arctic Knight has been popular, Riptide Champion has major pierce issues and is seeing a price reduction as well as a pierce increase to make up for this. Arctic Knight itself is receiving the brand new damage type added this update; as it is gaining a weakness to White Bloons from this and wasn’t too wild before we are increasing the power as well & allowing the ability to carry over 1 round to prevent projectiles timing out immediately when cast at the end of a round.
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Overall cost reduced by $625 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)- Pierce increased ― 14 → 15
- Ability: Damage increased ― 15 → 20
- Trident: Damage type changed ― Plasma → Frigid
- Ability: Damage type changed ― Plasma → Frigid
- Ability: Projectiles now carry over 1 round
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While we were happy with Arctic Knight’s Ice Jet being a high pierce MOAB layer removal that could with other tower combinations be upgraded to a more effective full-clear, there is not currently enough varied ways of quickly dealing with White Bloon layers, so for a long cooldown based ability this heavy a weakness is too much for now.
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- Ice Jet: Projectiles pass through White or Zebra Bloons if they can't damage them, instead of destroying the projectile
- Ice Jet: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 15s → 10s (undocumented)
- 2-4-0
- Now reduces the lifespan of Ice Jet projectiles by 33% (undocumented)
- Note: This means the maximum travel distance of Ice Jet projectiles is now the same as without the crosspath, since this crosspath increases their projectile speed by 50%
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Middle path pierce was lacking all through to T5, so pierce is now being matched to T5 across the path.
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- Trident: Pierce increased ― 12 → 18
- Note: Popseidon unaffected
- Split projectile: Pierce increased ― 12 → 18
- Note: Popseidon unaffected
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Middle path is seeing a consistency improvement for Freeze Duration & White Bloons
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- Trident: Freeze duration increased ― 0.3s → 0.8s
- Split trident: Freeze duration increased ― 0.3s → 0.8s
- Trident: Now passes through White Bloon properties unless it can damage them
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[While talking about Riptide champion ...], and the rest of the path is also seeing a damage increase.
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- Overall cost reduced by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Main and split projectiles: Damage increased ― 6 → 8
- Main and split projectiles: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +6 → +8
- Main and split projectiles: Bonus damage to frozen Bloons increased ― +3 → +4 (undocumented)
- Description changed ― Tridents can pop Lead Bloons and grow in power faster. Ice Jet ability: Launches a barrage of bouncing ice balls following target priority, or targeted point. → Tridents grow in power faster. Ice Jet ability: Launches a barrage of bouncing ice balls following target priority, or targeted point.
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Mermonkey weren’t[sic] feeling they favoured their natural habitat enough, so their Water Placement bonus is getting a boost. Middle Path Mermonkey just isn’t putting in the work we hoped, so we’re giving a couple price adjustments, a pierce increase across all tiers, and some light ability improvements to make it feel more rewarding.
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- Overall cost reduced by $400 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Ability: Projectiles can now bounce from map borders (undocumented)
- Note: X-5-X could already bounce from borders
- Trident: Pierce increased ― 18 → 25
- Range bonus when placed in water increased ― +25% → +35%
- 2-4-0
- Ability: Projectile lifespan increased ― 6.6667s → 10s
- Overall cost reduced by $975 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Ice Jet: Projectile speed increased ― 200 units/s → 220 units/s (undocumented)
- Trident: Projectile speed increased ― 100 units/s → 110 units/s
- Trident: Projectile lifespan decreased ― 2.0s → 1.8181s
- Note: Maximum distance traveled by the projectile unchanged. Popseidon side tridents are also affected.
- Ice Jet: Projectiles no longer bounce off map edges (bug fix)
- Note: Popseidon unaffected
- 1-4-0
- Trident: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.02s → 0.96s (attack speed increased by 6.25%)
- Note: Attack cooldown reduction from 0-0-0 increased from 15% to 20%. The patch notes do not specify that the attack speed buff is only for the main trident attack, all other attacks unchanged.
- 2-4-0
- Trident: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.804s → 0.66s (attack speed increased by 21.82%)
- Note: Attack cooldown reduction from 1-x-x increased from 18% to 25%. The patch notes do not specify that the attack speed buff is only for the main trident attack, all other attacks unchanged.
- Trident: Projectile speed increased ― 150 units/s → 165 units/s
- Trident: Projectile lifespan decreased ― 1.3333s → 1.1212s
- Note: Maximum distance traveled by the projectile unchanged. Popseidon side tridents are also affected.
- Ice Jet: Projectile speed increased ― 300 units/s → 330 units/s (undocumented)
- 0-4-1, 0-4-2
- Trident (seeking): Turn rate increased ― 130°/s → 143°/s (undocumented)
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Riptide Champion as an underappreciated star performed exceptionally well with recent changes which are now being scaled back and Popseidon which was also performing extremely well will likewise be scaled back
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- Overall cost increased by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Range reduced ― 35 units → 32 units
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Mermonkey ended up somewhat underrated and overbuffed, mid tiers for top and middle paths have really stood out here lately and need to be reigned back in line.
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- Overall cost increased by $625 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Ability: Projectile speed increased ― 220 units/s → 260 units/s
- Stacks with the 2-4-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 330 units/s → 390 units/s
- Ability: Projectile lifespan decreased ― 10s → 7.5s
- Projectile distance reduced ― 2,600 units → 1,950 units
- With 2-4-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 3,300 units → 2,925 units
- Projectile distance reduced ― 2,600 units → 1,950 units
- Main attack: Freeze duration for Rainbow Bloons and below increased ― 0.8s → 1s
- Main attack: Freeze duration for Ceramic Bloons decreased ― 0.8s → 0.5s
- Trident: Projectile speed increased ― 110 units/s → 130 units/s
- Stacks with 2-X-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 165 units/s → 195 units/s
- Trident: Projectile lifespan decreased ― 1.8182s → 1.5385s
- Stacks with 2-X-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 1.2121s → 1.0256s
- Overall projectile distance remains unchanged (200 units) for all crosspaths
- Trident: Attack cooldown increased ― 1.2s → 1.5s (attack speed reduced by 20%)
- Stacks with 1-X-0 Trident Efficiency crosspath ― 0.96s → 1.2s
- Stacks with 2-X-0 Trident Swiftness crosspath ― 0.66s → 0.825s
- 0-4-1, 0-4-2
- Trident: Turn rate increased ― 143°/s → 169°/s
Crosspath interactions
1-4-0: Increases attack speed by 17.6% 2-4-0: Increases attack speed by 25%, increases tridents and ice balls projectile speed by 50% and decreases lifespan by 33.3%. 0-4-1: Gains camo detection, and tridents have light seeking with 390 turning rate. 0-4-2: Gains the Network buff, affecting itself and all other x-x-2 Mermonkeys, granting +6% range.
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