Strategy:Monkey Buccaneer (Battles 2)

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The Monkey Buccaneer is a great starting tower with good damage and decent income generation, with it's main weakness being lack of proper space to place it on most maps.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

• Money making potential is excellent
• Good starting tower
• Massive camo damage

Weaknesses

• Limited to water space
• Requires support for round 11
• Cannot survive into the very late game

Upgrades

Path 1

• 3-2-0 Destroyer is good for dealing with early MOAB rushes.
• 4-2-0 Aircraft Carrier becomes a great tower when spammed and when inflicting a damage debuff onto bloons.
• 5-x-x Carrier Flagship is underwhelming for it's price and rarely used.

Path 2

• 0-1-1 Grape Shot starts strong with high pierce grapes.
• 0-3-1 Cannon Ship defends early bloon sends well, even grouped yellows, but falls off in the midgame without support.
• 0-4-2 Monkey Pirates is a last resort for round 13 rushes, as well as efficient BFB pulling.
• 1-5-0 Pirate Lord hooks in entire ZOMGs, though this can be an expensive option.

Path 3

• 0-0-2 Crow's Nest has massive camo damage which can deter camo and DDT rushes.
• 0-0-3 Merchantmen makes good money for cheap in the early game.
• 0-0-4 Favored Trades provides a sellback boost for reusing abilities constantly, as well as making even more money.
• 0-0-5 Trade Empire buffs all Merchantmen damage output and money generation.

Starting with the Buccaneer

Positioning is vital to keep your life count healthy in the early game, and to avoid regrow farming in the midgame. Try to place the starting Buccaneer where it can fire at both sides of a curve or bend, and if you aren't using farms position away from the start of the track.

1. Start with your base Buccaneer and your Hero on round 1
2. Upgrade to Grape Shot, then to Long Range if you aren't pairing with one of the early game support heroes
3. Upgrade to Hot Shots on round 3, then Cannon Ship on round 4. Send spaced eco to afford this.
4. Recoup the loss of eco by getting a 0-0-3 Merchantmen on round 5-7.
5. Place additional supporting towers for round 11.
6. Upgrade the Cannon Ship to Crows Nest if they send a Camo Bloon rush.
7. From here, get more merchantmen and other defenses like a 3-2-0 Destroyer for MOABs, and players can now safely afford Monkey Pirates for spaced BFB rushes.