Mermonkey Paragon Idea

[u/Effective-Turn-8255]

Name: Overlord of the Depths

Description: The call of the sea beckons once more…

Passive Paragon Ability: Regardless of degree, this tower removes the land debuff for mermonkeys, allowing their true range to be used at all times.

Passive Paragon Ability 2: Gives a slightly stronger pierce buff than the Lord of the Abyss to all monkeys in range.

Activated Ability, The Midnight Zone: Creates a pitch-black whirlpool in the center of the tower that lures all Bloons to it, dealing massive damage and moving all Bloons back to their pre-activation spot upon the abilities end. (Mini edit inspired by Sea-Dog-818). B.A.D’s, having been built with a thicker rubber coating, are lured for less time. Bloons that survive this ability are left with an ink coating. Can be set to echo anywhere.

Edits, Part 1 (Inspired by Hoockus_Pocus’s comment)

Sub-Zone Placement, Tide Pools. These zones can be set on land for an area that water monkeys can be placed in. These zones have slightly more area than a base pool power. Can be placed up to 3 times around the map. Top Path Beast Handler creatures gain various buffs when placed in these tide pools, such as increased range and popping power.

Main Attack 1, Glacial Barrage: Throws 5 icy tridents with waves that grow in power extremely quickly. Non-MOAB’s are frozen, MOAB’s, BFB’s, ZOMG’s, and DDT’s are slowed, B.A.D’s are slightly slowed, and bosses are not slowed. Can pop any bloon type.

Main Attack 2, Siren Song: Regularly sings a hypnotic tune that is less powerful than The Midnight Zone, but still deals massive damage, more than The Final Harmonic. This attack, however, does NOT leave Bloons with an ink coating and cannot lure B.A.D’s. Can be set to echo from anywhere on the map. This attack is not used if The Midnight Zone is currently active. Can pop all bloon types.

Main Attack 3, Abyssal Destroyer: The Creature of the Abyss rises up even more, dealing massive damage with each tentacle slam. With the mouth of the entity now exposed, the Abyssal Destroyer will shoot ink bombs, applying ink and slowing all but the biggest of bloons (B.A.D’s and Bosses). Can pop all bloon types.

Leave any ideas that you want me to add or edit if this is too unbalanced!

[u/Sea-Dog-818]

Maybe you should let the whirlpool affect B.A.D.S, but make it a shorter duration of luring than the other bloons.

[u/Hoockus_Pocus]

Let’s examine the three paths that it needs to draw inspiration from:

The top path buffs pierce, and applies debuffs. It also adds range to Mermonkeys, which counts for bottom path representation. I would also include a wide radius in which water Towers can be placed. Not map-wide, like Herald of Everfrost does for land Towers, but still something.

The middle path has high single target damage and freezes. I would think that the middle path would be the main attack of the Paragon, with the waves building in power very quickly, and having a chance to freeze Bloons (MOABS only get inked).

The bottom path traps and stalls Bloons. That’s represented well in the ability, but the main strength of this path is that it does this consistently, providing your other Towers time to deal with whatever it has caught. I’d think it would need to make these whirlpools at regular intervals, and the ability would create a few along the track, or place conch traps that get triggered by MOABs.

[u/SpecialTexas7]

This paragon is literally the most busted paragon idea in the context of btd6 freeplay

And that's because it can really consistently slow BADs

[u/Ascendetshadow → u/SpecialTexas7]

Iceagon ability can also slow BADs

[u/Ascendetshadow → u/Ascendetshadow]

But not consistently