Choosing the right hero is crucial for pushing into the challenging Freeplay rounds (Round 80+) of Bloons TD 6, where bloon health, speed, and density scale exponentially. These five heroes offer the best combination of scaling damage, powerful utility, and global support required to survive the very late game.
1. Geraldo (The Ultimate Utility)
Geraldo’s power lies in his shop, which offers crucial items that are indispensable in the late game, far outweighing his primary attack damage.
- Key Late-Game Items:
- Paragon Power Totem: Allows you to create Paragons faster, which are the absolute core of late-game damage. This item is game-changing.
- Rejuv Potion: Resets the cooldowns of all activated abilities, allowing you to spam high-impact abilities like Legend of the Night’s black hole or Tsar Bomba’s explosions.
- Permanent Brew (Sold by Genie Bottle): Provides permanent Alchemist buffs to crucial support or damage towers, eliminating the need for a 5-0-1 Alchemist.
- Geraldo’s Fire: His level 20 fire provides powerful, infinite-pierce burning damage, effective against dense Super Ceramics.
- Why He’s Essential: No other hero provides the tools necessary to accelerate Paragon creation and drastically increase ability uptime, making him the top utility choice.
2. Adora (Pure Damage Scaling)
Adora becomes one of the game’s highest single-target damage sources, especially when placed near multiple Sun Temples or a True Sun God (TSG).
- Key Late-Game Feature:
- Sun Temple Synergy: Her innate power and Level 11 buff synergize directly with Super Monkey paths, allowing her to deal massive damage and receive significant boosts when sacrifices are made to create a TSG or VTSG.
- The Ball of Light (Level 10/20): This controllable ability, especially when maxed, deals insane damage, acting as an extra, powerful projectile stream.
- Blood Sacrifice (Level 7): While not used for leveling late-game, the ability to sacrifice a cheap support tower to activate temporary max power can be useful in clutch situations.
- Why She’s Essential: She offers a massive, dedicated single-target DPS role that only grows stronger alongside the legendary-tier Super Monkeys.
3. Ezili (MOAB Health Shredder)
Ezili is the master of percentage-based damage, which is vital because Freeplay bloons gain increasingly massive health pools.
- Key Late-Game Feature:
- Moab Hex (Level 7/20): Her ability curses the strongest MOAB-class bloon, dealing percentage-based damage over time. When used on a BAD (at Level 20), this ability is one of the very few ways to efficiently chip away at its enormous health.
- Bloon Effigy (Level 18): Places an effigy that prevents all Regrow bloons from entering the map for 20 seconds, eliminating the critical threat of Regrow Farms in the late game.
- Damage over Time (DoT): Her primary curse attack deals stacking damage over time, which becomes surprisingly effective against the endless stream of super-bloons.
- Why She’s Essential: Her percentage damage is one of the few mechanics that scales effectively against the millions of health possessed by late-game BADs and ZOMGs.
4. Captain Churchill (Highest DPS)
Churchill is a pure damage hero who excels at delivering high, consistent damage that scales well into the late game due to his powerful Level 20 machine gun and tank shells.
- Key Late-Game Feature:
- Tank and Sentry Synergy: His attacks at Level 20 (especially his main cannon) fire very quickly and hit incredibly hard, offering constant, reliable damage against grouped MOABs.
- MOAB Barrage (Level 10): A devastating burst ability that targets the strongest bloons on screen, useful for quickly popping multiple ZOMGs or DDTs.
- Armor Piercing Shells (Level 3/20): Provides a massive pierce and speed boost to clear out crowded lanes of fortified ceramics and MOABs.
- Why He’s Essential: He is arguably the hero with the highest raw damage per second (DPS) that is not reliant on unique utility or micromanagement.
5. Pat Fusty (The Global Buffer)
Pat is chosen for his game-changing global buff and his exceptional crowd control, essential for stopping the constant stream of high-health, high-speed bloons.
- Key Late-Game Feature:
- Rallying Roar (Level 3/20): This ability provides a temporary global buff to damage and attack speed for ALL nearby towers. Crucially, the damage portion applies to Paragons, significantly boosting their output during a critical defensive push.
- Stun and Knockback: His primary attacks and Big Squeeze (Level 10) ability apply strong knockback and stuns, providing crucial defensive stalling against overwhelming numbers.
- Why He’s Essential: The ability to boost Paragons and provide reliable crowd control makes him a valuable support piece for any late-game strategy.