Alluring Melody

Alluring Melody

Entrances non MOAB-Class Bloons with a hypnotic tune, magically detonating all damage over time effects and disrupting Bloon movement.

Tower	Mermonkey — Path 3 — Tier 3
XP cost	3,000
Cash cost	$1,700 — Easy $2,000 — Medium $2,160 — Hard $2,400 — Impoppable

← Echosense Network

Symphonic Resonance →

Alluring Melody is the Mermonkey's path 3 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It now can create a musical circle around itself which sucks in small bloons detonating all damage-over-time (DoT) effects and spinning them around anticlockwise until the circle disappears. Splashes from the tridents also have 9 pierce instead of 3.

Mechanics

The trance attack repeatingly sucks in bloons every 0.3s (0.27s with 1-0-3, 0.234s with 2-0-3), sucking in up to 4 bloons (5 with 0-1-3) at a time, and consumes 2 pierce versus Ceramics. Upon sucking in a bloon, the latest damage-over-time effect on a bloon deals all its damage instantaneously, capped at 200 damage. Bloons being sucked in orbit around the Mermonkey with the radius of 30 units for 6 seconds and cannot be sucked in again for 4 seconds after the orbit ends. This attack also pauses the trident attack for 1.2 seconds (1.02s with 1-0-3, 0.804s with 2-0-3).

Stats

For a complete list of Mermonkey stats, see Stats:Mermonkey (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 28 units Footprint radius 8 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 1.2s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 8.2 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 28 units
Projectile Pierce 2 Speed 200 units/s Seeking distance 80 units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 260 °/s Lifespan 1s Radius 1 unit Splash Pierce 9 Max pierce 9 Damage 2 Damage type Shatter Lifespan 0.05s Radius 4 units Ignores blockers

Trance attack
Cooldown 12s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.5, 3.4, 8.2 Targeting First Targeting range 28 units Filters Cannot target MOAB-Class Cannot target Bloons with Trance
Ignores blockers
Projectile Pierce 6 Ceramic pierce penalty +1 Lifespan 6s Radius 28 units Rehit interval 0.3s Refresh pierce interval 0.3s Filters Cannot hit MOAB-Class Ignores blockers Removes Camo Trance Damage type Plasma Multiplier ×3 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×1 Duration 6s Cooldown 4s

Buff when in water
Range modifier ×1.35

Echosense Network
Range modifier +7.5% Max. stacks 10
Has global range

1-0-3

Attack
Cooldown 1.2s → 0.96s

Trance attack
Projectile Rehit interval 0.3s → 0.27s Refresh pierce interval 0.3s → 0.27s

2-0-3

Attack
Cooldown 0.96s → 0.66s
Projectile Speed 200 units/s → 300 units/s Seeking rotation speed 260 °/s → 390 °/s Lifespan 1s → 0.6667s

Trance attack
Projectile Rehit interval 0.27s → 0.234s Refresh pierce interval 0.27s → 0.234s Trance Multiplier ×3 → ×4.5 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×1 → ×1.5

0-1-3

Attack
Projectile Pierce 2 → 3 Splash Pierce 9 → 12 Max pierce 9 → 12

Trance attack
Projectile Pierce 6 → 8

0-2-3

Attack
Splash Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 0.5s Layers 4

Costs and sell values

Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.

Tiers	Total cost				Sell value
	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
0-0-3	$2,365	$2,780	$3,000	$3,335	$1,656	$1,946	$2,100	$2,335
1-0-3	$2,490	$2,930	$3,160	$3,515	$1,743	$2,051	$2,212	$2,461
2-0-3	$2,700	$3,180	$3,430	$3,815	$1,890	$2,226	$2,401	$2,671
0-1-3	$2,535	$2,980	$3,215	$3,575	$1,775	$2,086	$2,251	$2,503
0-2-3	$2,725	$3,205	$3,460	$3,845	$1,908	$2,244	$2,422	$2,692

Update history

For a complete list of Mermonkey changes, see Update history:Mermonkey (BTD6).

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Version 45.0

“

Echosense Network hasn’t felt like it is doing all that it could, so we have increased the maximum number of stacks to raise the ceiling of use here as it is meant to be slow ramping with a high space & cost investment to build heavily into. Mermonkey’s trance was extremely powerful against MOABs but limited against regular Bloons, so we’ve shifted prices apart & improved T3 while raising the cost of T4 to a more appropriate level.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,800 → $2,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $925 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Trance attack: Pierce increased ― 2 → 3
  • Note: Pierce of Symphonic Resonance and above remains the same
•  Trident: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.5s → 1s
•  Maximum Echosense Network stacks increased ― 5 → 10
  • Maximum range buff increased ― +30% → +60%

0-1-3, 0-2-3

•  Sharper Prongs now grants the trance attack +1 pierce

Version 46.0

“

Bottom path Mermonkey is proving to be very high uptime for the strong support it provides, while still exceptional this is only seeing a light nerf for now.
— Update notes

”

•  Trance: Cooldown increased ― 3s → 4s
  • Note: Does not apply to The Final Harmonic

Version 47.0

“

Symphonic Resonance is powerful, but Alluring Melody is inconsistent for a Bloon-only stall, so pierce here is also being matched up to the same as T4.
— Update notes

”

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 3 → 4
  • Note: Stacks with Sharper Prongs (0-1-3) crosspath ― 4 → 5. Symphonic Resonance unaffected

Version 48.0

“

Symphonic Resonance is too expensive to be considered as a de-camo choice so this effect is moving into Alluring Melody
— Update notes

”

•  Trance: Now decamos affected bloons
  • Note: Does not affect Symphonic Resonance, which already does this

0-1-3, 0-2-3

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 5 → 6

Version 49.0

“

[...] Alluring Melody’s DoT Detonation mechanic can now apply to any targets that are already tranced although the damage cap per detonation has been reduced to compensate for this
— Update notes

”

“

For fun Echosense Network will now be able to apply to Alchemist Transformed Mermonkeys.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Echosense Network now works with Mermonkeys converted by Total Transformation
•  Resolved a build order issue that could override higher tier Mermonkey buffs (bug fix)
•  Trance: Damage over time detonation can now trigger again on already tranced Bloons
  • Note: X-X-5 unchanged.
•  Trance: Damage over time detonation damage limit reduced ― 200 → 50

Version 50.0

0-1-3, 0-2-3

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 6 → 10

Version 51.0

“

Mermonkey weren’t^[sic] feeling they favoured their natural habitat enough, so their Water Placement bonus is getting a boost.
— Update notes

”

•  Range bonus when placed in water increased ― +25% → +35%

Version 52.0

“

Last update many players felt blindsided when Brickell stopped applying her buff to Mermonkeys since there was no mention in the balance changes section. We would like to apologize for that - it was tasked internally as a bug as it was indeed unintended to work that way. We then left the issue alone for a long time, mostly due to other more pressing matters, and this issue fell through the cracks. In retrospect, it would have been better to treat this as balance rather than a simple bug fix due to how much time had passed. Reading through your feedback, we did consider just reverting the change, however the bigger issue that the feedback reinforced to us was that players considered Mermonkey to be so bad that it was only a "good" tower when used in combination with a single, water-only hero. This sort of forced synergy goes against our design intentions - namely that Mermonkey being our signature amphibious tower should be able to stand on its own without being balance-locked to an interaction with a single hero. With all that in mind, we feel Mermonkey's highest priority right now is large sweeping buffs to each of the paths, so most of the following changes are our first step towards this starting from the low tier crosspaths.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 4 → 5

0-1-3, 0-2-3

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 6 → 7

Version 53.0

•  Trance: Pierce increased ― 5 → 6
  • Stacks with X-1-X Sharper Prongs crosspath ― 7 → 8
•  Range bonus per stack reduced ― +10% → +7.5%
  • Note: Maximum range bonus decreased from +100% to +75%

Version 54.0

•  Overall cost increased by $25 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Crosspathing interactions

• 1-0-3: Gains 17.6% attack speed on all attacks.
• 2-0-3: Gains 25% attack speed on all attacks, increases tridents projectile speed by 50% and decreases lifespan by 33.3%.
• 0-1-3: Pierce of splash increased from 3 to 7.
• 0-2-3: Projectile size of trident increased from 6 to 9, freezes up to 4 layers of bloons for 0.5s.

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