Silas (BTD6)

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Silas
Ice Shaper

Description to be determined

Cost	$725 — Easy $850 — Medium $920 — Hard $1,020 — Impoppable With Hero Favors: $650 — Easy $765 — Medium $825 — Hard $920 — Impoppable
XP curve	TBD
Introduced	Version 50.0

Silas is a Hero to be introduced in version 50.0.

He is an Ice Monkey capable of using magic to attack Bloons and has great synergy with them. He freezes water around him and creates a cold aura that reduces the speed of Bloon in his radius, both traits being similar to Arctic Wind. His main attack consists of launching Ice Fragments to the Bloons, reducing their speed by half and freezing them, while also creating an explosion if it targets an already frozen Bloon.

As he levels up, he provides a passive buff to other Ice Monkeys which allows them to create Ice Fragments while attacking which behave in a similar way to his main attack. He also can create Ice Walls over the track that freezes Bloons that make contact with them, reduces the resistance of White and Zebra Bloons to ice attacks and increases its own XP by having Ice Monkeys nearby, and allows the player to have an additional Tier 5 Ice Monkey, in a similar way on how Master Double Cross works, but with any of the three paths.

Mechanics

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Abilities

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Frostbite

Frostbite is unlocked at Level 3. When the ability is active, Silas will detonate Frozen Bloons it targets dealing damage which increases with the amount of time remaining of the Frozen status.

Frozen Cascade

Frozen Cascade is unlocked at Level 7. This ability creates a series of explosions around Silas and the 10 nearest Ice Monkeys which freezes Bloons caught in the explosion radius and deals extra damage to already frozen targets.

Frozen Burial

Frozen Burial is unlocked at Level 10. It Freezes all Bloons on the map and deals extra damage to already frozen target and leaves Ice Walls all over the map.

Levels

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Strategy

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Update history

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Version 50.1

Levels	Changes
8+	Now gains extra XP from having tier 3 Ice Monkeys as intended (bug fix)
13+	No longer prevents other players in Co-op from creating tier 5 Ice Monkeys (bug fix)
15	Description no longer misspells "abilities" as "abilties"
16	Description no longer misspells "explosions" as "explositons"
19	Description's comma replaced with a period

Version 50.2

Levels	Changes
6+	Vision of Ice: Now ignores line of sight blockers (bug fix)
8+	Frozen Cascade: Explosion radius is no longer reduced ― 25 → 40 (bug fix)
12, 18-19	Arctic Wind: No longer applies a permanent slowdown to Bloons inside its radius when levels up from 11 to 12, 17 to 18 or 18 to 19 (bug fix)
14-15	Frozen Cascade: Cooldown decrease is now implemented on the correct level ― 14 → 15 (bug fix)
16-18	Ice Fragments: Pierce reduced ― 24 → 18 (bug fix) Note: Level 19+ unchanged (24)

Version 51.0

“

Silas’ launch felt solid overall but clearly a bit on the too-strong end, we’re reducing his attack wait time to improve its consistency while slightly reducing his power across many levels, keeping him strong without being quite so overwhelming.
— Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
1+	Main attack: Wait time before the Ice Orb launches decreased ― 1s → 0.5s Note: This means the Orb will stay for less time over Silas or an Ice Monkey before being launched. Does not affect the attack cooldown (1.4s)
18+	Rime Explosion: Damage decreased ― 20 → 15
19+	Ice Fragment: Bonus damage to Frozen Bloons decreased ― +10 → +8
20	Ice Wall: Attack cooldown increased ― 5s → 7s (attack speed reduced by 28.57%) Note: Attack speed bonus decreased from +100% to roughly +42.86%  Freeze buff: Freeze duration bonus to other Towers decreased ― +200% → +150%

Frozen Burial

Levels	Changes
10–14	Bonus damage to Frozen Bloons decreased ― +80 → +60
15+	Bonus damage to Frozen Bloons decreased ― +300 → +200

Frozen Cascade

Levels	Changes
7+	No longer freezes BADs (bug fix)
7–14	Bonus damage to Frozen Bloons decreased ― +20 → +15
15+	Bonus damage to Frozen Bloons decreased ― +50 → +30

Version 52.0

“

This update resolved an issue where Silas’ Rime slow was only applying a reduced slow value to standard MOABs, meaning that all other MOAB-Class Bloons (outside of Bosses and BADs) were being completely slowed by the same amount as standard Bloons. Silas has been incredibly powerful so this fix felt entirely fair as a nerf, however we wanted to clarify this here as we mentioned there was little free time this update to review the impact of said fix in great depth so we may consider reducing the total MOAB penalty at a later date after this has time to settle
— Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
1+	Rime: Speed reduction for BFBs, ZOMGs and DDTs is less effective ― -50% → -5% (bug fix)
6+	Vision of Ice: Can no longer attack in the range of towers other than Ice Monkeys (bug fix)

Version 53.0

•  Resolved an issue where Tier 5 Towers were contributing their cost value in addition to their T5 value to the resulting tower (bug fix)
  • Note: Maximum degree possible in single player unchanged (92)

“

To reduce frustration Silas’ main attack minimum ricochet distance has been reduced, however his discount to T5 Ice Monkeys is also being reduced as getting this bonus twice for the same T5 Ice Monkey potentially even for the other 2 was proving to be far too much power.
— Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
1+	Main attack: Minimum ricochet range decreased ― 10 → 1
13+	Tier 5 Ice Monkey buff: Discount reduced ― 25% → 15%  Tier 5 Ice Monkey buff: Fixed an issue where the additional Tier 5 would allow the player to place it even if it was restricted by Challenge Rules

Version 54.0

“

Silas' offensive power brought too much heat for the supportively built hero, his Frozen damage bonuses have been cut to reduce damage, but his true support focus is also being improved with Ice Walls now able to hit DDTs and improved MOAB slow for Rime debuff at Lv11.
— Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
4–12	Ice Wall: Can now affect Lead Bloons and DDTs (DDTs consume 30 pierce) Note: Due a bug, Leads and DDTs become immune to them at Level 13+
7+	Frozen Cascade: Damage decreased ― 20 → 12  Frozen Cascade: Bonus damage to Frozen Bloons decreased Levels 7–14 ― +15 → +8 Levels 15+ ― +30 → +23
9+	Ice Fragments: Bonus damage to Frozen Bloons decreased: Levels 9–15 ― +3 → +2 Levels 16–18 ― +6 → +4 Levels 19+ ― +8 → +6
10+	Frozen Burial: Bonus damage to Frozen Bloons decreased: Levels 10–14 ― +60 → +40 Levels 15+ ― +200 → +120
11+	Rime: Slowdown versus MOAB-class increased for all except ZOMGs (5%)  MOAB ― 5% → 30%  BFB ― 5% → 20%  DDT ― 5% → 20%
19	Description now has an ending period
11	Description changed Before Slowing aura around Silas slows Bloons more, and can slow MOABs. After Slowing aura around Silas slows Bloons more, and can slow MOABs. Rime slows MOABs by more.

Version 54.1

Levels	Changes
13+	Ice Walls: Can now affect Lead Bloons and DDTs (bug fix)

Version 55.1

Levels	Changes
5+	Freeze duration bonus should now affect Druids correctly (bug fix)

Version 55.2

Levels	Changes
1	Description changed: Before Silas attacks with magical ice. Hit Bloons are rimed. Already rimed Bloons are frozen. Already rimed and frozen Bloons burst in an icy explosion. Bloons are slowed near Silas. After Silas attacks with magical ice. Hit Bloons are rimed. Already rimed Bloons are frozen. Already rimed and frozen Bloons burst in an icy explosion. Bloons are slowed near Silas. Can see Camo.

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