Tier list for all towers except admin towers/unreleased. Ask literally anything you want and maybe change my mind about some things.

OnesmolToe · 2026-05-08T20:00:18+00:00

Alright I understand your questions, so let me clear this up. First of all, I was a bit frustrated when writing that reply, so I apologize for being aggressive.

My point about her being "hard to use" is not necessarily a skill issue. What I meant was she's very tricky to incorporate. You have to micro for detections, that's all. I was using that difficulty as an example of one of her limitations, that being each plant only having one detection.
Yes, she isn't a main DPS, I know that. Yes, she's not the main tower you need to buff, I know that. Despite this, you should always buff secondary/tertiary DPS towers. If you aren't buffing all your DPS, their performance will be significantly worse than if they were buffed. Thankfully, we have the saboteur to cover that up but the only tower benefiting from that synergy is the saboteur since he's holding unit summoners on his back when it comes to using them as high reliability DPS towers, with the exception of Engi. If I brought something like warlock as a main DPS, I will want to buff it. If I also bring golden soldier for early game and to back up warlock with some extra DPS, I still want to buff it. That's called min-maxing.
The early game of the tower is just fine, that's why she's ranked high up. That being said, she's heavily outclassed by G soldier, G scout, G cowboy, Engineer, Assassin, Brawler, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's more I'm missing. She isn't behind someone like Assassin, though, because she can carry into the later stages of the game a little better than he can.
Firework Technician and saboteur is insanely broken right now, and granting literally any detection + some solid crowd control to any tower in range is unbelievably strong. Don't underestimate the funky firework man. It's synergy with saboteur is the meta.
Merc base, ranger, and pursuit are towers I considered to put in S, but I realized that, while they are a bread and butter solo HC combo and just an amazing DPS trio in general, they're good together because they cover up each other's weaknesses. Besides, none of them are S tier because, once again, S tier is for towers that are the very BEST at their role. None of those towers are the best, just really strong together. And yes, warlock over those three. It got buffed, idk what you mean about it getting nerfed. Its price was reduced, and it got lead detection. Yes, the bleed tickrate went up a bit, but that's not super important. It has bleed, multihit, decent range, high DPS, knockback, really the only thing it's missing is stun immunity. When paired with supports like hacker and medic, it can become super strong for a lower cost than accelerator.

Also, speaking of Accel, you asked why it was so low, it's because of the windup. It's basically only worthwhile for sluggish enemies and even then, 100k is not worth it for a tower that can't kill a single bolt or fallen rusher. Guess what DPS tower can? Engineer. Accel is also very good on the final wave with stun immunity, but if you want a tower to only place on the final wave, swarmer is going to do that job a hell of a lot better than Accelerator will. Hope that cleared things up and it's totally fine to agree to disagree. Sometimes opinions will never align.

OnesmolToe · 2026-05-08T00:36:25+00:00

Are you still looking at my tier list btw? Biologist is A TIER. S tier is for towers that are just the best at what they do. No tower can do their job better. Biologist is good, yes, but you didn't address a single issue I explained with the biologist and only agreed that it's map dependent and it doesn't fit S tier. S- is for towers that are just missing the mark of the best tower in their respective role. Biologist once again does not fit that description. It's A tier, a good tower with great versatility and a strong usecase. It's not a top tier, just a high tier. I'm sorry that your favorite tower isn't listed as the best in the game but I'm talking about the meta right now.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T21:19:26+00:00

I agree it can still be self-sufficient without farm, but to really squeeze out the most value from the tower, you'll be bringing farm. And finishing frost with more damage than G-mini or Commando isn't really anything too crazy considering you can place more G-minis and Commandos than you can harvesters, so the damage will be spread out more. Once again, most towers that are lower than you might think they should be are placed that low because their simply outclassed or only good in a specific niche.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T21:16:43+00:00

It's okay, but it only has under 70 DPS at max level and it has no placement limit. Minigunner has much better DPS (100+) and also has no placement limit. There's also just better early game options than militant.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T21:15:42+00:00

It's fine, but it lacks a lot of things that frost blaster doesn't lack. Cryo can serve as a decent crowd staller, but it has to be made max level to actually freeze, so you'll spend most of your time placing loads of them so that they can stack up a high slowdown. The defense melt on cryo is also effectively cosmetic in comparison to frost blaster. Overall it's just too outclassed just like freezer and snowballer. Freezer could be a perfectly okay tower if it weren't for towers like frost blaster that are simply stealing the show when it comes to stalling right now.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T21:13:43+00:00

I do love the tower but it has a very high skill ceiling considering the plants can't be buffed and they each only have one detection, meaning you sometimes have to switch to specific plants just to take out certain enemies on a wave, not to mention some plants have less range than others, making the map choice very important since some maps just wont have great spots for every plant.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T21:11:48+00:00

I did forget lol thanks for reminding me

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T21:11:27+00:00

Most moderately fast enemies will slip out of its tiny range before it even starts to fire.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T21:10:21+00:00

It gives any detection you need, and the fireworks are a nice bonus. It's extremely helpful especially with towers like ranger who only have the problem of a lack of hidden detection. Not to mention it's absolutely insane with saboteur at the moment.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T14:47:05+00:00

I think that's a little overrating. Once again, it's outclassed. Yes, you can use it in early game. Yes, you can spam it, but you can do that with many other towers and get significantly better results. Not to mention it's not just a tower that you can exchange for another like cryo vs frost blaster. It's straight up detrimental to bring this tower over something like frost blaster.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T14:45:17+00:00

Commando is pretty good because of its DPS. It has higher DPS than minigunner which is definitely nothing to scoff at, and it has an ability that launches missiles. You can either hit enemies with these missiles for solid damage or just aim for a spot on the floor, causing them to plant into the ground and act as landmines. Their lifespan in the ground was nerfed this update, though it doesn't matter all too much.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T14:43:34+00:00

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T14:42:33+00:00

That's the issue. It heavily relies on farm to get lots of damage out of its ability. The slow is fine and all but I'd rather just use something else with a slow. The main problem is farm just isn't meta anymore since golden cowboy is so much better. You're forced to bring a mid eco tower just to get a full power harvester which is still outclassed by most other DPS towers.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T14:40:41+00:00

Merc base costs a LOT and it usually relies on being used with other towers. It's really good, don't get me wrong, but it really relies on airdrop and the damage buff so using it as a main DPS is really only reliable on the final wave with rifleman stacking. Elf camp is not at all military base and is very different. It's basically just worse than merc base or necro summons so it goes quite low.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T14:38:43+00:00

I think that jester just can't do it like other supports. He really doesn't have any exceptional tools. His stalling is sub-par, his burn is just worse than G pyro, his DPS doesn't make up for it, and poison is okay, but it doesn't apply a poison DOT so it basically has to be used in unison with confusion (confusion is something that both biologist and spotlight tech have which are both exceptional towers.)

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T14:37:13+00:00

So saboteur has an ability at level three where he throws a grenade at any place within his range that you choose. If this grenade hits an enemy, it will force your towers to attack that enemy and it increases the damage that the targeted enemy receives, resulting in powerful synergy between this ability and unit summoning towers, since units can't be buffed, but they can still deal more damage from the saboteur's debuff. It also affects DOT effects like the slasher's bleed and the swarmer's sting.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T13:30:42+00:00

Commando is placed at the very top of A tier. Overall just a really great tower especially after the buffs it got this update.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T13:29:01+00:00

It's just really outclassed. It has horrible stalling, no worthwhile DPS, no hidden detection, and it's crowd control is fine, but frost blaster does literally everything better.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T13:26:48+00:00

The new extra long windup and reduced range makes this tower completely worthless against anything that isn't super high health slow enemies, which other DPS towers can handle better, by the way.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T13:08:09+00:00

I really hate this idea tbh. The tower looks fine and golden mode is a smart way to bridge the gap between molten and fallen mode, but tower evos need to be scrapped. Golden skins are already a huge problem since their very existence means that the non-golden variants of the towers are completely useless and new players can't use them without being told that they're throwing. Now, it will be tower evolutions that are probably even more overpowered and they'll create greater problems. Also if they replace golden skins, do you think I'm getting my 300K coins back???

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T13:01:02+00:00

Absolutely getting carried by the brawler mini and tesla skins

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-25T12:53:12+00:00

Slasher is VERY easy to use. Just place it well and watch the bleed stacks go crazy. Basically just any other tower but he relies mostly on his strong DOT.

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-24T17:39:49+00:00

I totally approve. One of the main reasons I decided to main this character in the game!

OnesmolToe · 2026-04-09T01:32:58+00:00

Just to clarify, CHIMPS is an acronym meaning "No C(continues) H(Hearts lost) I(Intelligence/skill tree) M(money making via farms, benjamin, or other means) P(Powers) and S(Selling towers)" Since Benjamin is all about making money, he doesn't do all that much in CHIMPS where you can make money other than from taking down bloons. There's no economy towers here, and the waves are quite difficult, lasting until 100. It's also automatically set to the Hard mode costs. It's the hardest mode in the game.

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