The bloons have swept across the Land of Ooo and there is no one that can stop them… or is there? It is YOU on whose shoulders rests the fate of this imaginary land! But you will not be in this endeavour alone! There is Finn and Jake and Max and Princess Bubblegum and many, many more heroes from the Adventure Time series who will help you save the world from the unlimited hordes of the bloons. However, the willing hearts and high spirits may not be enough to deal with the enemy of this calibre. You will need weapons, tactics, allies and powers which will help you win this epic struggle. Before we move on to the substance of this Bloons Adventure Time TD strategy guide, if you are new to the franchise, you probably wonder what is it all about. Bloons Adventure Time TD, developed by Ninja Kiwi Studio, is a tower defense game that draws upon the cartoon series under the same title. As in most tower defense games, in Bloons Adventure Time TD your task is to protect a certain point on the map from being swarmed by enemies which make their way to it via particular routes. You must stop them before they reach the finish line and do the damage. Once the hitpoint value goes down to 0, you know that you have lost. In Bloons Adventure Time TD, towers are replaced by heroes and their allies who can be spawned around or directly on the track. The more you play, the higher levels your characters can get, along with new and more powerful skills which can make your bloon-popping more effective. The main difference compared with classic TD games is that you cannot duplicate your heroes just like you can duplicate towers, so you need to learn how to manage their considerably limited numbers in order to gain the advantage. Choose Your Heroes Wisely Every character you control has a specific set of skills and, consequently, a specific role in the game. As you can see, there are different setups of characters you can come up with in the game. Well, undoubtedly, the pierce damage you would do to bloons would be incredibly high, but in the later stages of the game you would probably experience certain difficulties in managing the flow of the incoming bloons because of the lack of specialised crowd-control characters. At the beginning of the game you are given with a fairly good setup of base characters — Finn and Max as pure dps dealers, Jake as dps and cc, and Princess Bubblegum who works well as a buffer, debuffer and crowd-control. Given new characters, you can test their capabilities and effectiveness, so that you can choose the most optimal setup to play with. In fact, it merely opens the doors of numerous possibilities of deploying your heroes around the track. You must remember that characters have their favourite spots to be at, and at which they can be the most effective. For example, Princess Bubblegum is a decent early-game buffer, has an ability to slow down the bloons and remove camo and regrow, but her attack speed is rather low and weak. The best way is to put her in the middle of choke points and place other characters in the reasonable distance. Certain heroes have skills that can be activated only when they stand close to other particular characters. Learn To Counter Different Kinds Of Enemies In Bloons Adventure Time TD, aside of teeming masses of the regular bloons, your heroes will face special, much stronger enemies, which will require from you taking a specific approach. Some of the special bloons will regrow in time, while others will literally raise from the dead! There are bloons that will become vulnerable to hits only after your heroes possess particular skills. Usually during the final waves you can expect the coming of several big guys called MOABs. They are very tough to destroy, immune to most crowd-control skills, but also very slow. Use the latter as your advantage. The best way to deal with them is to buy for your characters several end-game skills that can counter MOABs in a number of ways. You can, of course, counter them with powers, but they usually cost a huge amount of coins and have a limited number of uses, on the contrary to anti-MOAB skills which can be used every time they are off cooldown. They are a type of towers, similar to your heroes, but with much fewer skills to upgrade. At first, they may not look too useful, but they are cheap and in the long run work well as a support for your main characters. Some of them can be placed right on the track of the bloons, others drop tasty pies which heal you on spot. You can get them as rewards by finishing adventures or through quests. Probably one of the best types of supporting allies you can get is BMO, who can generate extra cash over time. Get The Right Weapons And Trinkets A huge part of your successes or fails comes from whether your characters have equipped right weapons and trinkets or not. They improve your heroes in a variety of ways — from providing them with additional pierce, through attack speed, stuns and snares, to healing abilities. Throughout the game you will also find items of different level — from common, to uncommon, rare and epic. The more rare item, the more difficult is to get it. You can obtain them by completing quests, finishing adventures or opening Wish Orbs. Also, in the early game you want to get as many weapons and allies as possible, since they drop less frequently than trinkets. The latter are also very helpful, but are much more common to get during the game. The latter work as chests inside of which you can find three cards. You can also craft Wish Orbs of different rarity by spending on them a certain amount of shards. Know How To Time And Manage Your Powers Another important feature that helps you fight the bloons are powers. They are good all-round massive skills that support you in a number of ways. They can, for instance, boost the gain of cash per round, regain lost hp, stun all the bloons that are currently on the track or send a destructive wolf pack down the path that erases your enemies on sight! They are cool to have and often they are real game changers, but you must remember, however, that you will have as many uses of them, as many of them you have purchased before departing on an adventure. Because they are rather expensive, especially at the early stage of the game, you must learn how to manage their uses to optimize their effectiveness. Optimize Your Game From The Start The first and the foremost thing you want to do in order to optimize your start in the game is unlocking other characters by finishing adventures. You may also wonder, what difficulty level would be the best fit for you at this point. Also, make sure they are in range of your buffers, and those characters which have cooperative skills, place close to each other. When purchasing new skills for your characters, make sure to go for the camo, regrow and lead harming abilities. Also, remember to invest in every hero on the field. New levels provide bonuses to the existing skills and unlock new ones. If you know any useful tips or tricks for Bloons Adventure Time TD and want to share them, please let us know!
