Heroes are powerful, unique units in Bloons TD 6 (BTD6) that can only be placed once per game. Each hero has their own distinct abilities and leveling progression, making them crucial for tackling various challenges. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of all the heroes available in BTD6 as of late April 2025.
Key Aspects of Heroes:
- Unique Abilities: Each hero possesses a set of unique activated abilities that can drastically impact the battlefield.
- Leveling: Heroes automatically level up over time during a game, improving their stats and unlocking new abilities at specific levels.
- Monkey Money Cost: Heroes are unlocked by spending Monkey Money, the game’s premium currency.
- Placement Limit: Only one hero can be placed per game.
- Targeting Options: You can set a hero’s targeting priority (e.g., First, Last, Strong, Close).
Hero Profiles (as of Late April 2025):
Here’s a breakdown of each hero, including their key strengths, weaknesses, and general playstyle:
1. Quincy, Son of Quincy:
- Unlock Cost: Free (Starting Hero)
- Primary Attack: Shoots arrows that can ricochet between multiple bloons.
- Abilities:
- Rapid Shot (Level 3): Temporarily increases attack speed.
- Arrow Storm (Level 10): Fires a barrage of powerful arrows across the screen.
- Strengths: Good early-game crowd control, can detect camo bloons at level 5.
- Weaknesses: Damage falls off in later rounds, less effective against single, high-health targets.
- Playstyle: A solid starting hero for learning the basics.
2. Gwendolin:
- Unlock Cost: 750 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Shoots fire blasts that can pierce multiple bloons and apply a burn effect.
- Abilities:
- Cocktail of Fire (Level 3): Throws a burning projectile that creates a damaging fire patch on the track.
- Firestorm (Level 10): Sets the entire screen ablaze, damaging all bloons and buffing nearby monkeys’ attack speed with fire.
- Strengths: Good for dealing with grouped bloons, provides a damage buff to nearby towers.
- Weaknesses: Cannot pop purple bloons until level 16, shorter range.
- Playstyle: Effective for aggressive strategies and maps with clustered bloons.
3. Striker Jones:
- Unlock Cost: 1500 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Launches explosive shells.
- Abilities:
- Concussive Shell (Level 3): Fires a powerful shell that stuns MOAB-class bloons.
- Artillery Command (Level 10): Significantly increases the attack speed and damage of all Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys on the screen.
- Strengths: Massively buffs explosive towers, provides valuable MOAB-class stunning.
- Weaknesses: Primarily useful when building strategies around explosive towers.
- Playstyle: Synergizes well with Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys, excellent for dealing with dense MOAB rushes.
4. Obyn Greenfoot:
- Unlock Cost: 2500 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Summons a spirit wolf that attacks bloons.
- Abilities:
- Brambles (Level 3): Creates thorny patches on the track that damage and slow bloons.
- Wall of Trees (Level 10): Summons a line of powerful trees that block and damage bloons. Also buffs nearby Druids.
- Strengths: Buffs Druid monkeys, provides excellent early-game lane control and slowing.
- Weaknesses: Less effective against MOAB-class bloons, buffs only magic monkeys (specifically Druids).
- Playstyle: Core hero for magic monkey strategies, especially those involving Druids.
5. Captain Churchill:
- Unlock Cost: 2500 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Fires powerful tank shells with high single-target damage.
- Abilities:
- Armor Piercing Shells (Level 3): Temporarily increases attack speed and allows his shells to pierce more layers.
- MOAB Barrage (Level 10): Launches a series of devastating missiles at the strongest MOAB-class bloon on screen.
- Strengths: Very high damage output against single targets and MOAB-class bloons.
- Weaknesses: Expensive to place early, levels up slower than other heroes.
- Playstyle: A powerful damage dealer, best used when you can afford his initial cost and allow him to level up.
6. Benjamin:
- Unlock Cost: 2500 Monkey Money
- Primary “Attack”: Hacks into the bloon economy, generating extra cash each round.
- Abilities:
- Biohack (Level 3): Temporarily buffs the attack speed and pierce of nearby monkeys and heals lives.
- Syphon Funding (Level 10): Downgrades newly spawned bloons, earning extra cash when they are popped.
- Strengths: Provides significant income generation, weakens MOAB-class bloons, prevents regrow bloons.
- Weaknesses: Low direct damage output, abilities are less impactful in CHIMPS mode (no income).
- Playstyle: Essential for maximizing economy in non-CHIMPS modes, provides valuable support.
7. Ezili:
- Unlock Cost: 5000 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Curses bloons, dealing damage over time.
- Abilities:
- Sacrificial Totem (Level 3): Places a totem that increases the attack speed of nearby monkeys but sacrifices a small amount of their health each round.
- Hex (Level 7): A powerful curse that significantly weakens a MOAB-class bloon, making it take greatly increased damage.
- MOAB Domination (Level 10): Instantly destroys the strongest MOAB-class bloon on screen (excluding BADs).
- Strengths: Excellent against MOAB-class bloons, her curses can deal significant damage over time.
- Weaknesses: Can struggle against very early rushes, sacrificial totem requires careful management.
- Playstyle: A late-game powerhouse, particularly effective against tougher bloon types.
8. Pat Fusty:
- Unlock Cost: 5000 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Slaps bloons with his massive hands, dealing melee damage and stunning them.
- Abilities:
- Rallying Roar (Level 3): Temporarily increases the attack speed and damage of all monkeys on screen.
- Big Squeeze (Level 10): Grabs the strongest non-BAD bloon and crushes it, dealing massive damage.
- Strengths: Provides a powerful global buff, excellent crowd control with his stuns and Big Squeeze.
- Weaknesses: Melee range requires careful placement, can struggle against very fast bloons.
- Playstyle: A strong support hero who can also deal significant damage in close range.
9. Adora:
- Unlock Cost: 5000 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Shoots powerful “holy” beams with long range.
- Abilities:
- The Long Arm of Light (Level 3): Increases her attack range and pierce.
- The Ball of Light (Level 10): Summons a powerful, controllable ball of energy that deals massive damage. Can sacrifice other towers to permanently increase its power.
- Strengths: Very long range, high late-game damage potential, buffs Sun Avatars.
- Weaknesses: Can be weak in the early game until she levels up, sacrificing towers is a significant trade-off.
- Playstyle: A scaling damage hero who becomes incredibly powerful in the late game, especially when buffing Sun Avatars.
10. Admiral Brickell:
- Unlock Cost: 5000 Monkey Money
- Placement Restriction: Must be placed on water.
- Primary Attack: Launches naval mines.
- Abilities:
- Naval Tactics (Level 3): Massively increases the attack speed of all nearby water-based towers.
- Mega Mine (Level 10): Deploys a devastating sea mine that explodes upon contact with a strong bloon or when manually detonated.
- Strengths: Massively buffs water towers, her Mega Mine can clear out large groups of strong bloons.
- Weaknesses: Can only be placed on water, less effective on maps with limited water.
- Playstyle: Essential for water-based strategies, provides powerful burst damage with her ability.
11. Etienne:
- Unlock Cost: 5000 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Deploys drones that attack nearby bloons.
- Abilities:
- Drone Swarm (Level 3): Deploys a large number of fast-attacking drones across the screen.
- UCAV (Level 10): Calls in a powerful, controllable aircraft that deals massive damage to a wide area. Grants global camo detection to all monkeys at level 8.
- Strengths: Provides global camo detection, his abilities offer good area denial and damage.
- Weaknesses: Lower direct damage output compared to some other heroes, UCAV has a long cooldown.
- Playstyle: Valuable for maps where camo bloons are a significant threat and for his ability to clear out waves.
12. Psi:
- Unlock Cost: 5000 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Attacks bloons psychically, destroying them from the inside out. Can target any bloon on the screen.
- Abilities:
- Psychic Blast (Level 3): Unleashes a powerful psychic blast that damages and stuns all bloons in a large area.
- Psionic Scream (Level 10): Silences and heavily damages all MOAB-class bloons on screen (excluding BADs).
- Strengths: Global range, can one-shot lower-tier bloons at higher levels, excellent against early to mid-game threats.
- Weaknesses: Can struggle against very dense rushes of weaker bloons, less effective against BADs.
- Playstyle: A versatile hero with global presence, excellent for controlling early and mid-game.
13. Sauda:
- Unlock Cost: 5000 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Performs rapid melee attacks with her swords.
- Abilities:
- Leaping Sword (Level 3): Leaps to a distant bloon, dealing significant damage in an area and blocking the track temporarily. Can pop lead bloons.
- Sword Charge (Level 10): Dashes through a line of bloons, dealing massive damage to all in her path.
- Strengths: Extremely high single-target damage in her range, excellent early to mid-game carry on many maps.
- Weaknesses: Very short range, struggles on maps with multiple lanes or spread-out bloons in the late game.
- Playstyle: A powerful early to mid-game hero on simpler map layouts.
14. Geraldo:
- Unlock Cost: 7500 Monkey Money
- Primary “Attack”: Sells a variety of powerful and unique items in his shop that can be used to support your defense.
- Abilities: Geraldo’s power comes from his purchasable items, which vary as he levels up. These include: Shooty Turret, Creepy Idol, Maelstrom, Rejuv Potion, Genie Bottle, Paragon Power Totem, Fertilizer, and more.
- Strengths: Incredibly versatile, his items can solve a wide range of problems and significantly boost other towers. Excellent in all game modes.
- Weaknesses: Requires active management of his shop and item usage to maximize his potential. Can feel slow to start.
- Playstyle: A high-skill, high-reward hero that offers unparalleled flexibility.
15. Corvus:
- Unlock Cost: 7500 Monkey Money
- Primary Attack: Absorbs energy from nearby bloons to charge his mana, which he uses to cast spells.
- Abilities (Mana-Based):
- Contain (Level 1): Weakens and slows a single bloon.
- Pierce (Level 4): Unleashes a piercing energy blast.
- Consume (Level 7): Deals massive damage to a single target and grants mana.
- Redirect (Level 10): Absorbs energy from a group of bloons and redirects it into a powerful blast.
- Strengths: Highly versatile with spells for single-target damage, crowd control, and weakening. Doesn’t require additional spending after placement.
- Weaknesses: Requires active mana management and skillful spellcasting, can struggle against purple bloons.
- Playstyle: A unique and powerful hero for skilled players who can effectively manage his mana and utilize his diverse spellbook.
Choosing the Right Hero:
The “best” hero truly depends on the situation. Consider the map layout, the game mode, and your overall strategy when making your choice. Experiment with different heroes to find who best complements your playstyle and helps you achieve victory against the bloon hordes!
