Bloons TD 6 - Adora's Cylindrical Thinking with Bomber Path

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Published on March 16, 2021 6:56:27 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaX-VDqCOgY

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Bloons TD 6 (2018)

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This was actually satisfying to pull off, but first, I will want to highlight a few issues with Bomber path.

First off, you may notice that I placed the Ace airstrip off-corner. This is because Bomber's bomb dropping likes to be stiff about triggering. If you place it precisely on the corner, it won't drop one of its payloads on the lower right corner of the Figure 8 path. I do not like this in the least, because you have to find the arbitrary pixels where it will avoid losing 20% of its firepower. I make it a priority to check the Ace's placement, not that you should ever lose an attempt to failing to handle this, but every little bit is guaranteed to add up.

Second, and more annoying, is how Bomber path also inconveniently conveniently has problems with Round 79, the heck? It does at least help to know which activations work best and when, but when I go Bomber path, I am not looking for BFB damage, because I would go Operation Dartstorm or even Spectre for that. I am looking to thin the herd of lesser targets even without the Ground Zero activation. Why is Round 79 such a pain where Regen farm is inexplicably a very real threat? ...oh wait, I think I know why: because the bombs won't damages Blacks/Zebras and the ones created by the 1 Damage attacks will end up becoming full Rainbows again. I can barely set Adora to First to get this nonsensical issue under any semblance of control, but I can't set the Super Monkey Fan Club to First because there's also those pesky BFBs that nobody else will be addressing well, and this is the killer, because the SMFC will also pop some of the Rainbows and make them Zebras. At least I display the activation management needed to get past Round 79, but it's more necessary than it should be when Spectre, which costs less than Tsar Bomba, doesn't care about Round 79 regardless even with Spy path, but Tsar Bomba still gets suffocated.

Honestly, I can just point out that Bomber path just doesn't have good crosspath incentive with the second upgrade of EITHER secondary path, because Lots More Darts doesn't add to the bomb count and Centered Path is map dependent with this map not being nice to it. That needs to be addressed. Somehow it's deemed an S Tier Tower, but when that is from dependence on Ground Zero activations, something is going on. And I'm aware that Bomber path innately hits Camos, but this only further highlights the crosspath issue because the crosspath involvement with Bomber path is innately atypical.

That said, it was great to defeat the post-80 Rounds with this setup. Bomber path innately sucks against singleton targets and I don't think Tsar Bomba would have been good against the ZOMGs in case you're wondering why I didn't ban it from the Challenge, so even if it would have been good at mincing the BFB Rounds, Round 85's ZOMG duo would still have been an exercise in stalling to detriment by making Adora's hyper homing actually likely backfire. So yep, naturally I go Plasma Monkey Fan Club, which becomes affordable on Round 82, thankfully, because activating Ground Zero with too many healthy BFBs around is a death sentence by sudden MOAB flooding, which already gave Admiral Brickell's Mega Mines plenty of grief. In fact, I suspect Adora stalls better than Adora just because of Long Arm of Light usage softening the Super Ceramics.

Oh yeah, that's another nice thing to learn: Adora benefits the most when Bloons have formation flaws, because she can attack any isolated target and poke other threats with the hyper homing that way. This is Adora's real strength and weakness: that she focuses on hitting openings but has to work around formation threats. It's really interesting to find this out, and I think I would have the right idea to suggest for Adora to reduce ally activation cooldown in general to give her a reliable yet risk-reward way to have a boost against Camos when it would give her something to work with for this too.

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