My biggest issue with beast handler was that if you chose to use it, you pretty much had to commit to using beast handler as a majority of your defense (at least casually). The Mermokey seems like it will be able to be used easily alongside other towers and not be as committal which I am very glad for.
In terms of flexibility, I like the amphibious factor as well. As in, it should be placed in water, but it doesn't absolutely HAVE to be. It might have some decent niche positions in certain maps with no water at all.
@@YourLocalMedic don’t be so dramatic. Tewtiy isn’t “horrible” like everyone in the bloons community seems to think. Sure, his content is more aimed for kids and he doesn’t have as much game knowledge as TH-camrs like ISAB but people treat him like he makes cocomelon level content when that couldn’t be further from the truth.
I don’t know this myself, but i feel like the “reclaim the weak” part of the 050 upgrade means that if a bloon is low enough health it gets straight up deleted, because it was capable of deleting MOABs and BFBs to nothing but in an earlier round failed to kill all the ceramics
Once you get all the the t5s, the rock wall opens up and it opens up extra water space, I am unsure if there is an extra function other than extra placement space
20:00 the reason why your camo purple popping tower was so terrible is because the middle path mermonkey's attacks count as energy damage so they were getting deleted by the purples, im pretty sure
middle path might be getting eaten by the purple but im very sure that 5-0-0 was getting eaten by the leads since the MIB was helping so much with the DDTS
@@Spectral-Spiff sounds like it was a combination of one tier 5 getting blocked by purples and one tier 5 getting blocked by leads resulting in nothing getting done
4:28 Based on the description, its kinda cool how unlike poplust the range benefits dont require the other mermonkeys to be in range of the one you're upgrading to get the extra range.
Can we just take a moment to recognize and thank Ninja Kiwi for the incredible developers they are? It's been a month or two since we got Rosalia and alraedy weve gotten what seems to be a great update with a new tower. With this consistency and pace, i can see Bloons TD 6 lasting for a LONG time. It's certainly already been cemented into the Tower Defense Hall Of Fame, and easily Ninja Kiwi's best product so far. This is some of the best community outreach and understanding I've seen in a company.
Btd 6 won't last for nearly as long as you think they need something to shake up the game adding a boring tower every half a year isn't gonna cut and Rosalia wasn't a good hero
@@djoctavio1234 i mean the MB size of the game has probably atleast trippled since it released, we got the map maker, race mechanic, coop, many new maps, constant big balance changes, many heroes, skins, towers etc. the game is simply too good and ever-evolving to die in the near future. i really dont understand your point.
There is prob another map secret bc as soon as you got a t5 there where glowing orbs maybe try clickinc on them so you can do smth or maybe its just visual
The fact that Ninja Kiwi actually listens to their supporters is what makes this video game franchise so great, I've been playing since BTD 4, 15 years ago.
7:52 Same here ISAB, I do precision stuff, so writing and eating, with my left, while more strength based ones I'm right handed. Also, you're still considered ambidextrous, just semi ambidextrous, since you split dominant hand abilities. The Boomerang is full ambidextrous, as he isn't impacted by which hand he uses, though he prefers to use his right hand normally.
"ambidextrous" people are left-handed people who want to feel special and have been forced to use right-handed objects growing up (source: I'm left-handed)
There's some kind of easter egg with the mural in the back - the three different figures light up when you get each respective T5. I wonder if that's all or if there's more to it! NK does love their amazingly obscure secrets.
Top path alone already makes the tower very useful, its very good to pair with things like spike factories, sun avatars and tack shooters due to the pierce increase bottom tier is prob the most insane with tack shooters, it basically maximizes the damage it can do you could even pair it with striker to stack insane pierce
Quests are usually not a good place to showcase all a tower has to offer, let's be honest here, the corvus quest isn't a good place to show off the hero either, the quests don't show off everything a tower has to offer, while a regular game could
21:59 the harmonica activated with the bad even if it did nothing so when the bloons came out it was out of cooldown i hope this gets patch but outside of that this tower looks so good
I'd imagine the Riptide Champion would probably excel on a straight line and with last targeting to maximize pierce and attack distance. It also seems that for BADs you might have to target the harmonic away until the BAD pops or else it'll be off cooldown because it looked like the BAD was triggering it
I feel like adding outside sources of attack speed boosts would make the harmonics cooldown to trigger faster. Meaning once you've got a t5 bottom path mermonkey and some extra attack speed, you could probably find a good map and spawn trap the balloons at the entrance using the global harmonics totem placement, along with some other high damage, medium to large radius attacks such as Blooncineration, Cripple Moab or even 030/040 bomb shooter spam.
you can probably have 3 or 4 of those bottom paths alternating for 100% uptime on them. Maybe slightly overlap their circles from the back to start of map to send a unit all the way back?
I don't mind adapting, going righty with some stuff, it's all brain training anyway, I'm up for it. My biggest issue, believe it or not, is the ink and pencil smudges. You guys know.
The way I use my hands is very similar to you. I started out left-handed, but I broke my left arm 5 times during my formative years, and that kinda messed things up. I do more precise tasks like writing, using scissors, eating, and other similar things with my left hand, but my right hand is the one I use for throwing and any other strength-related thing. I'm also fluent in American Sign Language, and, even though the language requires more precision out of my hands, I actually sign with my right hand as the dominant one, which I find interesting.
the middle path freezing everything on screen seems to matter more for it's self-synergizing damage amp, rather than slowdown. This combined with the fact that the ability now bounces off the edges of the screen (the tier 4 would not) means that the whole barrage hits with max power on all bloons for the short time.
the tower itself also seems to be really great at cleaning up & helping other towers with more pierce! it's very interesting and will definitely lead to a lot of interesting builds, and will be super interesting for races I think
To this day I still haven't used the Beast Handler other than for the Quest. They're so bad. Anyways, Mermonkeys seem pretty great. DoT Detonation is especially interesting, I assume bloons can't get the same DoT placed on them until the current one expires, so having a tower that forces the expiration while not losing out on any damage is going to be very useful.
Beast Handler is fine but only realy if you invest in them, before it was nerfed it was a bit to good now you need to know how to play with them which is pretty annoying since its most of the time just barely better than other towers, but if done right they can be the best choice
@@krallakrulla971 only really in chimps, and even then it’s still just pretty good not amazing or a must have And notice how you have nothing to say about the other two paths
I quite like this design. Maybe it might be a little bit undertuned, but it feels unique, and importantly has actual synergy with other towers, which is always more interesting than just doing a lot of damage but with slightly different visuals. I think most interesting to me though is NK finally seeming to be willing to play around with % buffs instead of flat buffs. Over the entire span of BTD6 it feels like the meta has been to have fast-firing, low damage towers that receive flat damage buffs. Maybe this is a sign that we'll get a % damage buff and finally get some viability for slow heavy hitters. If I had one criticism, it is that the middle path T4 and 5 feel a tad odd in that the projectlie spam stays for T5 and a new effect is added. Personally I'm generally not that fond of spam effects, but even setting aside that bias, I think it would feel better if the T5 effect was an entirely unique one, say, the giant wave that washed across had secondary waves that generated on hitting walls and bounced in the opposite direction, or occasionally split into ripples that deal extra damage. Something like that, as opposed to just piling on an already existing effect; off the top of my head, I don't think there are any other towers in the game whose middle path has two different effects that are acquired one after the other, it's always a case of the T5 either buffing or replacing the previous effect. I could be mistaken on that, though.
I pair the bottom path with inferno towers for some insane synergies. The amount of value you get out of the bottom path is pretty insane with it being able to handle nearly every bloon in the game besides massive bads. With just one you have enough crowd control to last an incredibly long time, especially with clever placement you can have the same MOABs get caught in it over and over until they're popped. This is by far my favourite support tower outside of the village granting camo detection to everyone.
The MerMonkey is a better support then beast handler 💀 I wish beast handler was a primary monkey and got buffed via primary expertise and primary monkey knowledge. Sidenote: it be a missed opportunity if obyn didn't buff mermonkey aswell.
@@jereztf9337 Hmm range might be useful considering it's an additive bonus and middle paths have low range Ability cooldowns too actually but I can't imagine it being as pivotal as something like a moab glue, I definitely overlooked it though And top path village doesn't give attack speed outside of jungle drums
cant wait for the release im seeing some lights pop out after each T5, can't wait to see what happens when activated, or even better when there's eventually a paragon
Looks pretty cool! I hope for the paragon they either have the monkey ride the kraken or do a greek mythology reference between Scylla (building off the bottom path's siren inspiration) and Charybdis (sea monster that would swallow ships by creating whirlpools, could be a nice next stage of the top path monster if they don't want to show its face)
I love the combination of damage and support. Top path especially looks fun to me. Seeing how the pierce buffs will impact round 98 in Chimps will be interesting.
The tier 3+ art for the Beast Handler upgrades were awesome, and from what we've seen, it seems the mermonkey is following suit with the Symphonic Resonance and Arctic Knight art. Eagerly looking forward to the others.
that map 1000% has a secret. every time you got a t5, a new light appeared on the monolith in the back over a corresponding carving. At the time of the 3rd t5 bought, the monolith was covered with seaweed, which you briefly mentioned you removed on your first try to see that nothing happened. Am i excited for the new tower? of course. But, it is also yet another buff to the sauda resort sweep: put the siren's call over the sauda loop while letting it freeze bloons in sauda's range to trigger her "increased damage to anything debuffed". Just dont buy the purge of DoT effects. XD
I might actually update my game this time lol. I haven't been this eager to play an update since the release of paragons. Looks like such a good support tower with really unique attacks
Ninja Kiwi is by far my favorite large game studio because they're just built different. As I list some things, consider how that compares to many other game companies. First off, they love to get involved with the community. The amount of times they have incorporated community ideas is insane. Second off, they have added so much content. Think of how many companies would have dropped BTD6 by now for BTD7 and get a ton of extra income. Bosses, paragons, gamemodes, towers, heroes, map editor, quests. So many companies would have seen that as justification for another game. Third, BTD6 isn't even their only game they are actively updating. Fourth, the content they put out is often good. It's not uncommon to see other games get new content that's kind of mid. Sure, not everyone has enjoyed Contested Territories or Boss Rush, but I don't think we can call it bad, it's just sweatier than some people want to play with. Maybe I'm missing something, but why can't every company be more awesomer?
The map also seems to react when you get each of the mermonkey T5s, with the yellow, blue and pink orbs on the carvings covered by kelp in the background- either just an Easter egg or a potentially reveal something behind it in the future(?)
Very interesting tower design from NK here. I like that it kind of does everything but worse from the towers that do only one of its abilities, in exchange of being relatively cheap, spammable and water-placed. It's niche, but the niche it occupies is neat and fun to play with, especially if we get more maps that are mostly water or have good placements covered by water to make you consider using a mermonkey or a ground tower in a worse spot. Also that bottom path??? Can't wait for tack or spactory paragon.
I don't think I fully understand that bottom path upgrade about how it does all dot damage at once, cuz if it works the way I think it does, then that's some huge synergy with Bloon Solver and Glaive Lord, cuz it just does all the damage at once, and then quickly gets reapplied for instant damage again, that's gonna make these towers way over powered
Guys if the bottom path instantly deals all the DoT dmg instantly, then can it be redone. like 5-2-x glue with 0-0-3 mermonkey means that the bloons can immediately get glued again
if mermonkey triggers all DOT with the song does is that continually or only on the initial snare, cause if you can just keep re-applying DOT and it just becomes raw damage it would be crazy
Already my new favorite tower. Love the amphibious aspect so it's useable with or without water, the fact it can buff and support in a few ways is nice, and the theming behind it is amazing. Gonna be so fun to play with.
Isab I am the same! I write left handed but do majority of other things right handed. I did break my right wrist so I can do a lot of things with both especially now after breaking my right wrist and adapting to not being able to use it
3rd path seems like it could be pretty strong with bloon solver, since it does all the DOT damage upfront, maybe burny stuff path of mortar as well? forgetting the DOT paths at the moment
The mural in the back has a sort of easter egg; when you obtain each of the three characters, they light up. I wonder if there's more to it or if that's all! NK really does adore their incredibly well-kept secrets.
Mermonkey is a great option for support and it can take out deadly bloon rushes. Bottom path can give you more time for abilities to come off cooldown. It has non existent single target damage and needs support for villages to beat round 100. Good tower as long as you know how to use it!
BRO ISAB I’m that kind of lefty too WTH it’s so rare someone is also like that where they write with left but do other task with right!!! I eat with both my hands, can only write with left, and do most things with right
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15:47 I've never been more hyped for tack paragon.
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@@fall2zero the melody?
@@A9SM-u6z he's talking about the possible synergy between a tack paragon and the 005 mermonkey's musical chairs ability
@@sirloinsteak7233i'm definitely stealing "musical chairs" for whenever referencing this in the future 😂
@@sirloinsteak7233 musical chairs 💀💀💀
My biggest issue with beast handler was that if you chose to use it, you pretty much had to commit to using beast handler as a majority of your defense (at least casually). The Mermokey seems like it will be able to be used easily alongside other towers and not be as committal which I am very glad for.
In terms of flexibility, I like the amphibious factor as well. As in, it should be placed in water, but it doesn't absolutely HAVE to be. It might have some decent niche positions in certain maps with no water at all.
@@KnownAsKenji I can see the bottom path being good on *any* map, yeah.
This is tower is a copy of ice monkey(that shoud be a magical tower but watever)
@@theoneandonly1562 I don’t see this at all, but I’m willing to hear your explanation
"Wow, a detailed description?" - ISAB
The description:
kills bloons and buffs pierce of nearby towers
TBF old descriptions were like “this is a big plane” and “makes the bloons wish they were never born”, so it’s a pretty big improvement from that.
Better than "This is a BIG plane"
I don't like the big plane slander going on in these replies. It *is* a BIG plane.
Big Plane slander wont be tolerated, it *IS* a big plane
i dont like, outside of the middle t5 that need clarification on the ability i prefer the ominous ones.
At 19:51 when he gets all tier 5s all 3 orbs light up. I wonder what would happen if he interacted with them
The map opens up. Watch tewtiys video it shows it
@@Musa-ol8ftwould rather die than watch his video I'm not 5
@YourLocalMedic I agree
@YourLocalMedic Ethan Reid shows it off too
@@YourLocalMedic don’t be so dramatic. Tewtiy isn’t “horrible” like everyone in the bloons community seems to think. Sure, his content is more aimed for kids and he doesn’t have as much game knowledge as TH-camrs like ISAB but people treat him like he makes cocomelon level content when that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Finally, it has been so long with no water towers
Fr the only ones we had were sub and boat and the top tier beast handler WHICH THE BEAST HANDLER SUCKS sub and boat is good tho
There was 2
@@Frost_doge I forgot about the beast handle
Pat fusty ang brickle
@@anismeziadi4564 if where counting hero's there is now 7
I don’t know this myself, but i feel like the “reclaim the weak” part of the 050 upgrade means that if a bloon is low enough health it gets straight up deleted, because it was capable of deleting MOABs and BFBs to nothing but in an earlier round failed to kill all the ceramics
Ah so like execute mechanic in LoL.
It could just be extra Moab damage
That's a really interesting concept. I don't even know how to describe it. It's skipping layers with a low damage attack?
@@CoalCollectorYes because only LoL has execute mechanics, the brainrot is real.
Should give $25 whenever the ability kills a weak MOAB.
Ah so like electro ball in Pokemon Unite.
The sea monkey mod became real!?
I wonder if they were inspired by it at all?
im surprised that nobody realised this until now
THE SEA MONKE IS REEEAAAAAAL
yesir
@@justaplayer8629CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER
mermonkeys teacher must have been quincy the way it whiffs yellows
quincy student of quincy
nothing gets past his bow tho???
@@trubornstrawthe many bloons who just got past Quincy's bow after realizing they just got called nothing: *emotional damage*
19:51 watch how theres 3 orbs about the towers in the carvings for each t5
Yeah I wonder if he could have interacted with something once he got 3 tier fives
Interesting details
Once you get all the the t5s, the rock wall opens up and it opens up extra water space, I am unsure if there is an extra function other than extra placement space
I know i was wondering if nothing happened because there was still kelp at the top from backing out or if its just the orbs
@@MarkTripple the kelp only came after a certain amount of waves
20:00 the reason why your camo purple popping tower was so terrible is because the middle path mermonkey's attacks count as energy damage so they were getting deleted by the purples, im pretty sure
I thought it was because attacks were eaten by the leads
middle path might be getting eaten by the purple but im very sure that 5-0-0 was getting eaten by the leads since the MIB was helping so much with the DDTS
@@Spectral-Spiff sounds like it was a combination of one tier 5 getting blocked by purples and one tier 5 getting blocked by leads resulting in nothing getting done
But he had a mib?
@@banned2911 He doesn't have it at 20:00
4:28 Based on the description, its kinda cool how unlike poplust the range benefits dont require the other mermonkeys to be in range of the one you're upgrading to get the extra range.
5:44 Ah yes the MERMONKEY 300, my favorite tower art ❤
12:50 nah, im more of a MERMONKEY 003 guy
Wait till you see MERMONKEY 400
@@xxtrordinaryribbit5257 😨
@@xxtrordinaryribbit5257 THE MERMONKEY INATOR 500
4:00
the cold sentry from 4xx engineer
Just what I was looking for
4xx Druid with mk
@@Thatbo2599 aka as Ball Lightning lol
Everyone forgets about the ice ball attack from the tsg 😔
And also corvus spell
Can we just take a moment to recognize and thank Ninja Kiwi for the incredible developers they are? It's been a month or two since we got Rosalia and alraedy weve gotten what seems to be a great update with a new tower. With this consistency and pace, i can see Bloons TD 6 lasting for a LONG time. It's certainly already been cemented into the Tower Defense Hall Of Fame, and easily Ninja Kiwi's best product so far. This is some of the best community outreach and understanding I've seen in a company.
so how long have you been working for NK? 😂
@@jules8273 im 15
Btd 6 won't last for nearly as long as you think they need something to shake up the game adding a boring tower every half a year isn't gonna cut and Rosalia wasn't a good hero
@@djoctavio1234 i mean the MB size of the game has probably atleast trippled since it released, we got the map maker, race mechanic, coop, many new maps, constant big balance changes, many heroes, skins, towers etc. the game is simply too good and ever-evolving to die in the near future. i really dont understand your point.
@@alexanderkleist1127 map maker isn't good most maps are way to boring and mb size has nothing to do with the games lifespan
0:18 hyptonizing
Bro what?
It hyptonizes the bloons
its not not ton
@@zaplane25that was the joke
🤓🤓
Don't be weird bruh
3:50 _Sexpert crying in the corner_ "What am I, chopped liver?"
Sexpert💀
Maybe change the nickname but yeah that's my boi and he's being forgotten again
There is prob another map secret bc as soon as you got a t5 there where glowing orbs maybe try clickinc on them so you can do smth or maybe its just visual
The fact that Ninja Kiwi actually listens to their supporters is what makes this video game franchise so great, I've been playing since BTD 4, 15 years ago.
7:52 Same here ISAB, I do precision stuff, so writing and eating, with my left, while more strength based ones I'm right handed. Also, you're still considered ambidextrous, just semi ambidextrous, since you split dominant hand abilities. The Boomerang is full ambidextrous, as he isn't impacted by which hand he uses, though he prefers to use his right hand normally.
"ambidextrous" people are left-handed people who want to feel special and have been forced to use right-handed objects growing up (source: I'm left-handed)
Im the same way. Also, Dan Povenmire (the Phinneas and Ferb guy) is too.
There's some kind of easter egg with the mural in the back - the three different figures light up when you get each respective T5. I wonder if that's all or if there's more to it! NK does love their amazingly obscure secrets.
I noticed that too!
The last part is facts
it opens up to more water when you click it with all mermonkey t5s
When I first saw this tower I thought it was fan-made
Same
same
I swear it was, they just plucked it and added it to the game
There was a mermonkey mod so thats probably why
@@xrefedNo it just looks pretty bad like look at the gui when you upgrade to abyssal dweller it looks fan made
"Hello how are you, I am under the water pls help I'm drowning whooo lol.
love this meme
when t5 are bought the mural in the back changes 16:20
Oooh I bet there’s a secret if you click after getting all 3
I wonder if clicking it after all 3 are bought does something then
I wonder if there's a secret related to those lights at the top of the map when you get the axis of mermonkey........
There MUST be
Unless they're pulling an encrypted on us
There is one
Mermonkey paragon?
there is, but it only gives a little bit of room with water.
Encrypted got figured out bro spawns a infinite navarch ghost thing haha @@DragonTheOneDZA
3:56 the ice sentries from the 4-0-0 engineer. But aside from that, I think there's nothing else lol.
corvus frost spell
@@kjoipn quite interesting.
ball of lightning with monkey knowledge
@@mrrandomstuff8214 That was mentioned in the video
@@mrrandomstuff8214 That was mentioned in the video
Top path alone already makes the tower very useful, its very good to pair with things like spike factories, sun avatars and tack shooters due to the pierce increase
bottom tier is prob the most insane with tack shooters, it basically maximizes the damage it can do
you could even pair it with striker to stack insane pierce
I think bonus pierce would be great with dartling gunner
the top path is really cool, the bottom path is really cool, the middle path is also cool, but the T5 middle path needs some work done
Or need to be much cheaper like around 20k maybe
from what I've seen it's insanely good with buffs, since each attack are these big AoE tridents with tons of pierce
5-0-0 glue or 0-0-5 mortar seems like it would be crazy with the bottom path mermonkey, with the fact DOT activates instantly.
When a magic monkey provides more support than a a support tower. Classic NK moment
Alchemist and mermonkey moment
bottom path is the one im most excited about, looking forward to all the new synergies well have w this towerr
"jk its not a good place to showcase it" ninja kiwi, might want to rework that quest
Quests are usually not a good place to showcase all a tower has to offer, let's be honest here, the corvus quest isn't a good place to show off the hero either, the quests don't show off everything a tower has to offer, while a regular game could
All the quests suck though, IMO
might want to rework every quest
17:16 sub at 0-0-0 has 3 pierce 1 damage. So if it had 4 pierce which I believe it did that’s what it looked like to me.. that would mean 33% pierce.
There is probably minimum +1
21:59 the harmonica activated with the bad even if it did nothing so when the bloons came out it was out of cooldown i hope this gets patch but outside of that this tower looks so good
7:54 i do the exact same, it's always been so strange to me
6:53 i sure do love when tentacles grow and start splashing out their liquids
I love it when Isab says to me “it’s coming”
20:37 if you look at the wall with the mermonkey carved on it you can see that it glows once isab got all tier 5 mermonkeys
to me the new map has had an interaction since i saw the looks on the art for the upgrades of the mermonkey
I'd imagine the Riptide Champion would probably excel on a straight line and with last targeting to maximize pierce and attack distance. It also seems that for BADs you might have to target the harmonic away until the BAD pops or else it'll be off cooldown because it looked like the BAD was triggering it
052 boomerang will go absolutely crazy with this tower.
I feel like adding outside sources of attack speed boosts would make the harmonics cooldown to trigger faster. Meaning once you've got a t5 bottom path mermonkey and some extra attack speed, you could probably find a good map and spawn trap the balloons at the entrance using the global harmonics totem placement, along with some other high damage, medium to large radius attacks such as Blooncineration, Cripple Moab or even 030/040 bomb shooter spam.
The new map absolutely has a secret with the mermonkeys
Can’t wait to see what it is
Probably summons the kraken
you can probably have 3 or 4 of those bottom paths alternating for 100% uptime on them. Maybe slightly overlap their circles from the back to start of map to send a unit all the way back?
The Mermonkey also joins Pat Fusty at being a land and water tower
I imagine the bottom path would be insane with bloon solver, especially since it seemed to be possible to reapply the DoT whilst it was looping
this is cool, now ISAB wants marrying sauda mod in the real game
Bottom path tier four and above has my new favorite visuals for a tower man it looks so cool
I'm the same way; I write left handed but most other things I default to my right hand. Being a lefty in a right handed world is torture
im fully left handed and i agree, ppl dont even realize the struggle
Fr
I don't mind adapting, going righty with some stuff, it's all brain training anyway, I'm up for it.
My biggest issue, believe it or not, is the ink and pencil smudges. You guys know.
The way I use my hands is very similar to you. I started out left-handed, but I broke my left arm 5 times during my formative years, and that kinda messed things up. I do more precise tasks like writing, using scissors, eating, and other similar things with my left hand, but my right hand is the one I use for throwing and any other strength-related thing. I'm also fluent in American Sign Language, and, even though the language requires more precision out of my hands, I actually sign with my right hand as the dominant one, which I find interesting.
The map changed after you bought all tier 5 monkeys
Ayo same here. Write with left, the rest use right.
Also top path almost reminds me of Portable Lake Pro.
Welp, off to update the Gold Village to include the Abyssal and Network buffs
loool
The gold village is stacked 😂
honestly, this is SO cool, i can't wait to play with the new tower myself when it comes out. always love new things in this game
the middle path freezing everything on screen seems to matter more for it's self-synergizing damage amp, rather than slowdown. This combined with the fact that the ability now bounces off the edges of the screen (the tier 4 would not) means that the whole barrage hits with max power on all bloons for the short time.
the tower itself also seems to be really great at cleaning up & helping other towers with more pierce! it's very interesting and will definitely lead to a lot of interesting builds, and will be super interesting for races I think
ISAB, The map changes the monkey figure(lighting up the leds) in the stone when you bought each last path of the new tower
8:00 isab lore
This one might be insane for custom challenges, 2k% ceram challenges + bottom path mermonkey come to mind immediately
To this day I still haven't used the Beast Handler other than for the Quest. They're so bad.
Anyways, Mermonkeys seem pretty great. DoT Detonation is especially interesting, I assume bloons can't get the same DoT placed on them until the current one expires, so having a tower that forces the expiration while not losing out on any damage is going to be very useful.
Beast handler is such an expensive tower and is way too weak. If it got some significant buffs (especially top path) it could be a pretty useful tower
Beast Handler is fine but only realy if you invest in them, before it was nerfed it was a bit to good now you need to know how to play with them which is pretty annoying since its most of the time just barely better than other towers, but if done right they can be the best choice
Condor is amazing wym?
@@krallakrulla971 only really in chimps, and even then it’s still just pretty good not amazing or a must have
And notice how you have nothing to say about the other two paths
@@Zopeee every tower in the game will work if you try hard enough, beast handler is worse than pre buff glaive lord imo
I quite like this design. Maybe it might be a little bit undertuned, but it feels unique, and importantly has actual synergy with other towers, which is always more interesting than just doing a lot of damage but with slightly different visuals. I think most interesting to me though is NK finally seeming to be willing to play around with % buffs instead of flat buffs. Over the entire span of BTD6 it feels like the meta has been to have fast-firing, low damage towers that receive flat damage buffs. Maybe this is a sign that we'll get a % damage buff and finally get some viability for slow heavy hitters.
If I had one criticism, it is that the middle path T4 and 5 feel a tad odd in that the projectlie spam stays for T5 and a new effect is added. Personally I'm generally not that fond of spam effects, but even setting aside that bias, I think it would feel better if the T5 effect was an entirely unique one, say, the giant wave that washed across had secondary waves that generated on hitting walls and bounced in the opposite direction, or occasionally split into ripples that deal extra damage. Something like that, as opposed to just piling on an already existing effect; off the top of my head, I don't think there are any other towers in the game whose middle path has two different effects that are acquired one after the other, it's always a case of the T5 either buffing or replacing the previous effect. I could be mistaken on that, though.
Gotta love it when ISAB posts 2 o'clock in the morning
Not 2 am where he lives
Glaive lord plus the upgrades that makes balloons stay near the mermonkey will make such a good duo
So far, I love it. 10 times better than the Beast Handler but it seemingly lacks single target.
it is 10 times worse than the beast handler in terms of dps
I pair the bottom path with inferno towers for some insane synergies. The amount of value you get out of the bottom path is pretty insane with it being able to handle nearly every bloon in the game besides massive bads. With just one you have enough crowd control to last an incredibly long time, especially with clever placement you can have the same MOABs get caught in it over and over until they're popped. This is by far my favourite support tower outside of the village granting camo detection to everyone.
Thank you isab for updating the bloons
I’m very excited for this tower. Seems like there are a lot of interesting synergies here. Lots of possibilities.
The MerMonkey is a better support then beast handler 💀
I wish beast handler was a primary monkey and got buffed via primary expertise and primary monkey knowledge.
Sidenote: it be a missed opportunity if obyn didn't buff mermonkey aswell.
Top path village would be basically useless for beast handler since all the paths have a ton of pierce
@@pickandshotdon't forget the increased range, attack speed and ability cooldowns
@@jereztf9337 Hmm range might be useful considering it's an additive bonus and middle paths have low range
Ability cooldowns too actually but I can't imagine it being as pivotal as something like a moab glue, I definitely overlooked it though
And top path village doesn't give attack speed outside of jungle drums
Top path village giving free t1 upgrades makes getting beast power for merges too easy
stop talking
cant wait for the release
im seeing some lights pop out after each T5, can't wait to see what happens when activated, or even better when there's eventually a paragon
You know who else is coming?
Me
@@Kingminos09 If you’re coming right now, lemme see it! lemme see it! show me! He… He who is coming!
@@Benoki9 Hello everybody my name is welcome
@@blargghkip WAS THAT THE BITE OF EIGHTY SEVEN?
MY MOM
*opens the vid
Isab: "its coming guys"
Looks pretty cool! I hope for the paragon they either have the monkey ride the kraken or do a greek mythology reference between Scylla (building off the bottom path's siren inspiration) and Charybdis (sea monster that would swallow ships by creating whirlpools, could be a nice next stage of the top path monster if they don't want to show its face)
That would be awesome
I have never been more hyped for a new tower's release. This little guy looks like a lot of fun!
I love the combination of damage and support. Top path especially looks fun to me. Seeing how the pierce buffs will impact round 98 in Chimps will be interesting.
Mermonkey is real!!!
Bottom path looks like it'd work very well with tack shooter, def a nasty combo
Looks like a good early to midgame tower with nice utility. I like it.
The tier 3+ art for the Beast Handler upgrades were awesome, and from what we've seen, it seems the mermonkey is following suit with the Symphonic Resonance and Arctic Knight art. Eagerly looking forward to the others.
that map 1000% has a secret. every time you got a t5, a new light appeared on the monolith in the back over a corresponding carving. At the time of the 3rd t5 bought, the monolith was covered with seaweed, which you briefly mentioned you removed on your first try to see that nothing happened.
Am i excited for the new tower? of course. But, it is also yet another buff to the sauda resort sweep: put the siren's call over the sauda loop while letting it freeze bloons in sauda's range to trigger her "increased damage to anything debuffed". Just dont buy the purge of DoT effects. XD
Amazing splash art. Gotta love those placeholders.
woa i saw the "secret" only in the last few seconds,cool the lights with the t5 realy cool
Good simple tower with some interesting properties. Love to see it!
I might actually update my game this time lol. I haven't been this eager to play an update since the release of paragons. Looks like such a good support tower with really unique attacks
Ninja Kiwi is by far my favorite large game studio because they're just built different. As I list some things, consider how that compares to many other game companies.
First off, they love to get involved with the community. The amount of times they have incorporated community ideas is insane.
Second off, they have added so much content. Think of how many companies would have dropped BTD6 by now for BTD7 and get a ton of extra income. Bosses, paragons, gamemodes, towers, heroes, map editor, quests. So many companies would have seen that as justification for another game.
Third, BTD6 isn't even their only game they are actively updating.
Fourth, the content they put out is often good. It's not uncommon to see other games get new content that's kind of mid. Sure, not everyone has enjoyed Contested Territories or Boss Rush, but I don't think we can call it bad, it's just sweatier than some people want to play with.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why can't every company be more awesomer?
I agree, NK are setting the bar very high, and few other companies have reached it😎
The map also seems to react when you get each of the mermonkey T5s, with the yellow, blue and pink orbs on the carvings covered by kelp in the background- either just an Easter egg or a potentially reveal something behind it in the future(?)
19:07 Doesn't it do extra damage to frozen bloons? That's probably the intent, more so than for actually slowing.
This has to be one of the coolest towers in all of bloons, even more than the bloon chipper
Very interesting tower design from NK here. I like that it kind of does everything but worse from the towers that do only one of its abilities, in exchange of being relatively cheap, spammable and water-placed. It's niche, but the niche it occupies is neat and fun to play with, especially if we get more maps that are mostly water or have good placements covered by water to make you consider using a mermonkey or a ground tower in a worse spot.
Also that bottom path??? Can't wait for tack or spactory paragon.
14:13 yes we have for the red bloon. bloon impact on bomb shooter(4-0-0) and shell shock(3-0-0) from mortar
I don't think I fully understand that bottom path upgrade about how it does all dot damage at once, cuz if it works the way I think it does, then that's some huge synergy with Bloon Solver and Glaive Lord, cuz it just does all the damage at once, and then quickly gets reapplied for instant damage again, that's gonna make these towers way over powered
Guys if the bottom path instantly deals all the DoT dmg instantly, then can it be redone. like 5-2-x glue with 0-0-3 mermonkey means that the bloons can immediately get glued again
this might be a stupid question but this update out for the public? i cant seem to update my game?
look at the back of the map, with each T5 mermonkey placed a new light lit up on the podium. test to see if there are any secrets there !!!
After you get all t5s the mermoney in the back lights up for each t5
if mermonkey triggers all DOT with the song does is that continually or only on the initial snare, cause if you can just keep re-applying DOT and it just becomes raw damage it would be crazy
Already my new favorite tower. Love the amphibious aspect so it's useable with or without water, the fact it can buff and support in a few ways is nice, and the theming behind it is amazing. Gonna be so fun to play with.
Isab I am the same! I write left handed but do majority of other things right handed. I did break my right wrist so I can do a lot of things with both especially now after breaking my right wrist and adapting to not being able to use it
3rd path seems like it could be pretty strong with bloon solver, since it does all the DOT damage upfront, maybe burny stuff path of mortar as well? forgetting the DOT paths at the moment
The mural in the back has a sort of easter egg; when you obtain each of the three characters, they light up. I wonder if there's more to it or if that's all! NK really does adore their incredibly well-kept secrets.
Mermonkey is a great option for support and it can take out deadly bloon rushes. Bottom path can give you more time for abilities to come off cooldown. It has non existent single target damage and needs support for villages to beat round 100. Good tower as long as you know how to use it!
I watched the video a second time before I realized the mural started lighting up with each tier 5
BRO ISAB I’m that kind of lefty too WTH it’s so rare someone is also like that where they write with left but do other task with right!!!
I eat with both my hands, can only write with left, and do most things with right