Orbs of Light ( 5 Active) Deal 30 damage to a random Bloon <orb count> times
Sun Shield ( 8 Passive) When an enemy Bloon attacks, lose 3 Bloontonium and trigger Orbs of Light on that Bloon
Ultimate Sacrifice ( 15 Active) Sacrifice a friendly Monkey, heal 150 and trigger Orbs of Light. Add an extra Orb of Light (Max 8)
Adora, High Priestess is a Hero in Bloons Card Storm, introduced in version 2.0. She can be unlocked from the Store by purchasing her for 2,000 or by purchasing the Adora Hero Bundle for real money.
Adora's playstyle is about strengthening her own offensive and defensive capabilites by gaining Bloontonium and sacrificing Monkeys. She has a unique resource called Orbs of Light that determines the damage her abilities deal. She starts with two Orbs of Light and can sacrifice Monkeys to gain more (up to a max of 8) and heal herself.
Orbs of Light — Deals 30 damage to a Bloon for each Orb of Light she currently has. Each orb targets a random Bloon, though multiple orbs can target the same Bloon. This ability is also used by other abilities.
Sun Shield — Passively activates Orbs of Light if a Bloon is about to attack her, after Defenders have acted. The Orbs of Light only target the attacking Bloon. This consumes 3 Bloontonium instead of 5. Visually, if this ability can be activated, she holds one of her palms towards the Bloons.
Ultimate Sacrifice — Sacrifices a target Monkey on the player's side, triggers Orbs of Light for free, restores up to 150 health, and lastly grants her an additional Orb of Light (if she has less than 8).
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Adora is incredibly flexible across all stages of the game. She is able to defend very well, provided enough Bloontonium is generated for her abilities. Her standout ability is Sun Shield, as no other Hero can directly handle leaking bloons, besides Obyn Greenfoot's massive shield growth. Most of Adora's hero-exclusive cards aren't vital to maximize her power, though Divination is decent.
Adora fits the best for midrange, is pretty strong for control, and okay with aggro. Aggressive early-game Adora strategies should focus on outlasting aggro decks, which involves an Adora midrange deck. For control, maximize Bloontonium gains, and build orbs fast enough while having enough resources to defend against the opponent's rushes. For all decks, having enough Bloontonium for Sun Shield is very important.
Adora is very dependent on managing her abilities. Thus, she is still vulnerable to an opponent's finishers when combined with any card that stops her Sun Shield, such as Ability Ban, or anything that removes Bloontonium (e.g. Bloontonium Leak). Also, she lacks much individual damage, so she's vulnerable to Armor-centred decks. Overall, Adora is one of the weakest Heroes in competitive gameplay due to the variety of cards that counter her abilities.
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Playing as Adora
Adora heavily depends on Bloontonium to maximize her power. Most Adora decks should include plenty of cards that maximize Bloontonium, with many bloon cards, and preferably in groups of 3 or 5 such as Bloontonium Gas Bloons. Bloon cards in groups of 8 (e.g. Rainbow Bloon) are also beneficial to unlock Sun Shield. Similarly, bringing Bloontonium Miners and/or Mine Supervisors to build up constant Bloontonium may be beneficial.
Avoid using Ultimate Sacrifice if many of the opponent's bloons are at 0 delay, unless enough Bloontonium is obtained afterwards to activate the Sun Shield passive.
The minimum required amount of Bloontonium for Sun Shield to trigger on each leaking bloon: 8, 11, 14.
Adora's Ultimate Sacrifice also adds an empty space for Expert Negotiator to force an enemy Monkey to join Adora's side.
If Adora already has max orbs, the only sensible reason to use the Ultimate Sacrifice instead of 3 Orbs of Light abilities is to open space for Expert Negotiator, and sometimes for healing lives.
Against Adora
Adora can be really hard to deal with. The efficiency of her abilities gets stronger the more Adora's Ultimate Sacrifice is used.
Adora relies on gaining a ton of bloontonium to maximize her power like mentioned above. Cards like Bloontonium Leak and Bloontonium Saboteur can completely ruin her bloontonium supply or lower her bloontonium by a little bit respectively. Be careful if you use Bloontonium leak, especially as Obyn.
Against the miner type cards, you can use bed time on bloontonium miner, and shrink on supervisor. Shrink is better used for different reasons though, like getting rid of a powerful unique card. And be careful if you use Shrink because that's only going to give Adora a free sacrifical target.
Adora's Orbs of light deal 30 damage per orb. It attacks random targets, so just hope that a strong bloon that you DON'T want to get hurt doesn't get hit. Spamming weak bloons like Red Bloons or using Red Bloon Storm can reduce the chances of Adora's orbs hitting what you DON'T want hit.
Against Sun Shield, a bloon with Armored 30+ can take no damage from the orbs, wasting the bloontonium from Adora. A use of Ability ban can also prevent Adora from using her orbs, but be careful when you use it, because if your bloon attack fails you will face a hard time from the Ability ban you played. If you really hate facing Adora so much, bring in 2 or 3 copies of Ability ban.
Ultimate Sacrifice is Adora's strongest ability. She can sacrifice a tower with bad DPT and heal herself for 150 HP and add another orb of light. You can try to aggro on her before she can even do anything. Otherwise you will have to go through a long game.
An OTK method that works today is The Eternal buffed many times + 2 Quick Ready + Ability ban. This is affordable as it costs 18 gold.
Adora existed in the data of Bloons Card Storm since the Firstlook test, though she went unused until version 2.0. Her original name was just "Adora" and her description was "Hero of Light". Version 2.0 replaced her placeholder assets with her final design, changed her full name and description, and replaced her abilities. Her original abilities were different and did not involve Orbs of Light.
2,000 or by purchasing the Adora Hero Bundle for real money.
No longer uses Orbs of Light quote while triggering orbs if attacking during Ultimate Sacrifice (undocumented)
Bloontonium cost
Adora's default pose in-game
Adora receiving enough Bloontonium for an ability
Adora activating Orbs of Light
Adora using Sun Shield against attacking bloons
Adora firing Orbs of Light as part of Ultimate Sacrifice
Adora sacrificing a monkey with Ultimate Sacrifice, after firing Orbs of Light
Adora gaining a third orb after sacrificing a monkey
Adora with 8 orbs
Defeat pose
Victory pose
Adora dropping before defeat pose
Hero menu screen
Hero Card
Master Hero Card
Portrait
Icon
Banner
Adora-exclusive card icon
Unused placeholder Hero Card in the beta tests
Unused icon in the beta tests
