the first 40 rounds are pretty much the same for bosses, literally just farm as much cash as you can little to no reason to think much about anything else besides having a good farming setup and a good enough defense for the first 40 rounds
20:11 ISAB casually editing Popseidon out of the popcount check because it was weirdly low and he didn't realize that Popseidon's purple weakness applies versus Blastapopoulos Case in point: 18:38
Agreed. Honestly it's the best mechanic on the boss, the one that probably has the most potential for actually encouraging people to use different strategies and shake up the by now quite stale meta. I think if they just got rid of the sight blocking rocks entirely and made the heat mechanic more threatening but also have more ways to engage with it, they might just have the best boss they've made yet.
Yeah I agree, I thought this was why they made middle path mermonkey have ice powers once ISAB showcased this boss, I thought it was weird that it had ice attack and when I saw the heat feature thought it would give variety and use to ice based attacks but doesn’t seem the case currently
It's completely worthless, too. Echosense only buffs other echosense mermonkeys, so the buffs didn't even apply to it as it wasn't crosspathed properly.
I agree with the overheat mechanic. I just tested this boss and I quickly realized that the stun isn’t that threatening so I just started spamming my usual boss killing towers (not the projectile ones tho) and it was so easy to beat. I think they should change the mechanic to it burning up a random tower or 2 (excluding paragons) every time it overheats so it gives us more of a reason to use ice attacks. Either that or just make the stun last longer.
Superjombombo has a whole series of kingdom rush videos on his gaming(?) channel. That’s actually how I found SJB like several years ago and then eventually ISAB
NK being really generous by apparently not making the range reduction fuck with ice platforms. I was thinking for sure "oh no ISAB forgot" and that the glaive dominus would be sold during tier 3 when the snowstorm's range dropped - but apparently not _shrugs_
imbrittlement is an insanely good tower for this boss. 4000$ for extra damage to boss, easily stopping early AI balloons, AND makes the heat bar a non-problem for the entire boss. (seriously i had 2 embrittlements and an icicle impale for late game and the boss exploded a total of like twice or maybe 3 times across all 5 tiers)
Blastapop fireballs the **most expensive** tower on screen and the **closest** and **furthest** towers away from it, at each skull. Close and Far can be directed to cheap decoy towers (e.g. 000 Darts), leaving only one important tower getting crippled per skull.
I found that for tier one even with my terrible farm overdrive and embrittlement is still viable at least for normal but with good farm probably elite aswell cause the embrittlement counteracts the high projectile count of the overdrive
ISAB you're a 🐐 because I got notification for this video and was confused when you said the update should be out. The update hadn't come out for me yet but I just checked and sure enough it let me update ❤❤❤❤
I really feel like this boss could have been WAY cooler if their was an ice paragon and they made it so that in the later tiers it's stun from full heat gage was MUCH longer
18:00 wasn't echosense network buffed to cap at 10x mermonkeye this update? And doesnt Popseidon need echosense network to benefit from it as well? /genq
The popseidon doesn't work on blastapopoulos because it also has a purple bloon weakness. Only ice towers can actually reduce the heat of blastapopoulos.
I'm not really that good at bloons but I played the elite boss on the new map and it was tough I couldn't get past stage 4. Good job on this completion though.
Everyone losing their minds at 19:20 clearly don't watch ISAB Extras
That one race:
Sigma
Hearing ISAB say "what the sigma" was not something I was prepared for.
He's said it not that long ago like a week or 2 ago. Sad world we have lived in for the past few year
what does it mean ?
@@duesenantrieb8272its just a brain rot term
@@duesenantrieb8272I’m being so real do you live under a rock, nicest way of asking but do you
Timestamp?
2:17 "I did a little bit of farming offscreen" im crying
the first 40 rounds are pretty much the same for bosses, literally just farm as much cash as you can little to no reason to think much about anything else besides having a good farming setup and a good enough defense for the first 40 rounds
@@justenoughrandomness8989 I know, I'm referencing the 'little bit of mining off camera' meme
@@lilogregames3783 i thought you didn't get it from the "im crying" but alr
@@justenoughrandomness8989 I’m crying cause it’s funny, I understand why he does it though, (most) bosses aren’t that hard on easier maps
Thank you ISAB for letting Blastapopoulos get really deep into his defense 6:49
20:11 ISAB casually editing Popseidon out of the popcount check because it was weirdly low and he didn't realize that Popseidon's purple weakness applies versus Blastapopoulos
Case in point: 18:38
LOLL
projectiles get blocked by rock?
@@GoofyGangster-official yeah, bouncy projectiles shouldn't get blocked by line of sight
Boost
middle mermonkey purple weakness is so lame
Hey ISAB, I’ve been enjoying your videos for a while and I just wanted to say thanks for all the years of the great content
I wish that the heat thing was actually bad enough to make people use ice towers, it seems interesting but it just gets ignored.
obv its not a boss thing, but with 3xx being a viable decamo now, i think it can get the use it deserves
Agreed. Honestly it's the best mechanic on the boss, the one that probably has the most potential for actually encouraging people to use different strategies and shake up the by now quite stale meta. I think if they just got rid of the sight blocking rocks entirely and made the heat mechanic more threatening but also have more ways to engage with it, they might just have the best boss they've made yet.
Yeah I agree, I thought this was why they made middle path mermonkey have ice powers once ISAB showcased this boss, I thought it was weird that it had ice attack and when I saw the heat feature thought it would give variety and use to ice based attacks but doesn’t seem the case currently
That and ice towers feel like they do nothing so why try to fight the inevitable.
@@erierierierierie 3xx is not decamo
edit: nvm wtf
Congrats ISAB, for making Flavored Trades a canon thing in BTD6
Honorable
"yeah what the sigma 🗣🗣🔥🔥" 19:20
Bro has 201 likes but no comment 🥶
she blast on my pop till i'm lost
[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]
@@reynoodle❌
@@reynoodleShe pop on my lost till I blast
@@reynoodle extremely quiet correct ding
Your father in lae is on top of my happy stick rn
The fact that he sold the mermonkey saying "were not going to go with echosense" the immediately builds up an echosence army
He also only got 4 Stacks. It goes to 10
The druid instinct
It's completely worthless, too. Echosense only buffs other echosense mermonkeys, so the buffs didn't even apply to it as it wasn't crosspathed properly.
also the fact that mermonkey also doesnt hit purple bloons now too and he didnt realise that at all....
@@Cristian145 I think 4 is the minimum efficiency for mermonkey/money
It took until 2:19 for Double Discount Villages to show up
Discount me twice
popseidon did not work without mib bc that hot blimp is purple bruh
20:20 just throw it into the ocean
19:18 Pretty funny interaction
Negative effects?
I agree with the overheat mechanic. I just tested this boss and I quickly realized that the stun isn’t that threatening so I just started spamming my usual boss killing towers (not the projectile ones tho) and it was so easy to beat. I think they should change the mechanic to it burning up a random tower or 2 (excluding paragons) every time it overheats so it gives us more of a reason to use ice attacks. Either that or just make the stun last longer.
Do that for elite tiers
The only real problem with the stun ard the DDTs
thank you ISAB for blasting inside and within my populous
Blast my popolis
ISAB DID NOT JUST SAY WHAT THE SIGMA
clearly you dont watch isab extras
I love seeing ISAB beating the boss that quickly
Thankyou ISAB for blasting all over the new boss
's populous
2:00
All we need is a "jungle of the Druid" reference in game now 😂
3:14 the ninja sticky bomb does 450 damage, not 500. It is better than my "sticky bomb" 🤖
thank you isab for blasting popoulous
Next time I want ISAB to show me how to beat Pandaemonium in Kingdom Rush
Barricks only
@@oscarfernandez5599 just spam paladins with barbarian range support
Superjombombo has a whole series of kingdom rush videos on his gaming(?) channel. That’s actually how I found SJB like several years ago and then eventually ISAB
Trueeee
mmmmmmm
MINIGAMES
NOO IM SO SORRY
17:13 pargon level 69 ISAB nice 😂😂
Bots going crazy today
7:15 this is the reason your content is always so digestible
NK being really generous by apparently not making the range reduction fuck with ice platforms. I was thinking for sure "oh no ISAB forgot" and that the glaive dominus would be sold during tier 3 when the snowstorm's range dropped - but apparently not _shrugs_
I think that ice towers specifically are immune to some of Blast's debuffs.
FLAVOURED TRADES REAL
This is so awesome thanks isab fir the amazing new video
On the sulfur springs elite blastpopulas, i used a degree 25 dart paragon, with a degree 41 navarch, and a degree 17 glaive dominus.
Goated video isab keep up the good work ❤
It's occurring to me that this is the only boss boss far that doesn't affect the bloons directly in some way afaik
Isab invented flavoured trades and jungle of the druid
19:17 what the sigma
i had a visceral reaction to "what the sigma" from ISAB
imbrittlement is an insanely good tower for this boss. 4000$ for extra damage to boss, easily stopping early AI balloons, AND makes the heat bar a non-problem for the entire boss. (seriously i had 2 embrittlements and an icicle impale for late game and the boss exploded a total of like twice or maybe 3 times across all 5 tiers)
I’m happy to see this boss again
ISAB saying "yeah what the sigma this should not be taking so long" is 🗣🔥💯
W video as always btw
19:20 HE SAID IT AGAIN! HE SAID THE THING!
What the sigma
Blastapop fireballs the **most expensive** tower on screen and the **closest** and **furthest** towers away from it, at each skull. Close and Far can be directed to cheap decoy towers (e.g. 000 Darts), leaving only one important tower getting crippled per skull.
I found that for tier one even with my terrible farm overdrive and embrittlement is still viable at least for normal but with good farm probably elite aswell cause the embrittlement counteracts the high projectile count of the overdrive
"You'll be hard pressed to find a rock formation that blocks both arms"
*T2 last skull casually makes a formation that blocks both arms*
Thanks for explaining this stuff, I'm new and have been watching for only a little bit
ISAB you're a 🐐 because I got notification for this video and was confused when you said the update should be out. The update hadn't come out for me yet but I just checked and sure enough it let me update ❤❤❤❤
I just beat elite blastopopoulos, spent a lot of monkey money, using DART and NINJA paragons, then watched this video. How great :)
IT IS HERE!!!!!
I really feel like this boss could have been WAY cooler if their was an ice paragon and they made it so that in the later tiers it's stun from full heat gage was MUCH longer
its always nice when you find out that youtubers you like are canadians and not americans
I can't believe they actually added flavored trades 🤣
at 19:20 I was like: Erm, what the sigma?
Thanks you for popping ELITE Blastapopoulos
I was honestly half expecting an ice paragon to be released along this boss update
As soon as ISAB said "yeah what the sigma 🔥🔥" my fluids started flooding my bedroom
Thanks Isab for poping hot bloons for is!
I honestly never noticed it wasn't called flavored trades
Looking forward to ISAB doing the “5 minutes of frozen over” quest for max score
Flavour me
there is something infinitely funny about ISAB putting in his own creator code when making a purchase
18:00 wasn't echosense network buffed to cap at 10x mermonkeye this update? And doesnt Popseidon need echosense network to benefit from it as well? /genq
yeah you cant buff popseidon without bottom path
0:40 ISAB rewarding ISAB for buying ISAB the speed up that ISAB needs
Bro, I was NOT expecting that “what the sigma”
I actually used code ISAB to buy fast track today! NK deserves more than BTD6’s sticker price, so I’m happy to support them (and ISAB).
7:29 Honestly I'd rather you don't pull out or stop
I love you isab you inspired me to create a bloons channel of my own
You absolutely made Flavored Trades happen
ISAB using brainrot slangs will never not be weird
10:15 let's see the boss block both arms.
5 secs later: Rocks block both arms
13:17 ISAB got ISAB
The new map is so easy you can save 107k in chimps
I didn't expect ISAB to say something like "What the Sigma"
Not the first time he's said it.
So the volcano boss is difficult bc of the drastic global debuffs.
*Thats very spicy of you NK.*
The popseidon doesn't work on blastapopoulos because it also has a purple bloon weakness. Only ice towers can actually reduce the heat of blastapopoulos.
I kinda wish the heat bar was more of a factor on elite
nk went hard while designing the boss
finally someone acknowledges that assassins are actually top tier
is it live? what timezone are you on because i haven't gotten it yet
ISAB is so smart. he released a video right as the school bell rang.
thank you isab for beating your busting populous
i hate that i cant say that "flavored trades" is wrong now
its going to start feeling right, it most certainly isnt
ISAB is actually ISAB extras in disguise
Do they drop new para every 2 updates? What's the calculation for releasing paragons?
Flavored trades is without any doubt the best thing in this update
"Thank you ISAB for beating Blastapopoulos" 🤖
My favorite tower for this Boss is a 5-2-0 sniper with a 2-5-0 sniper
Flavored projectiles is amazing. I love ninja kiwi
19:20 reminds me of the bridge incident
Day 2 of asking isab to do the 6 bosses at once
Isn't laser shock a damage over time attack??
Wow the update is conveniently on my birthday
I'm not really that good at bloons but I played the elite boss on the new map and it was tough I couldn't get past stage 4. Good job on this completion though.
Btw fighter plane works it has anti moab missles 🚀
Flavored trades is canon
Get it? Cuz buccaneer? Ok
a few operation dart storms is not bad for t1
All the real ones be over at isab extras
She blastapopulous on my ancient portal till i fast rack
What about heroes on fast track?
One assassin, and…. One more assassin
just pour water on it and it's done for
Blastapopulous:
*gulp* you've found my weakness!
Brain rotted ISAB is real this is so sigma
not that im very smart but the elite defender worked great for me for tier 1 of the boss