How to handle armored behemoth super boss?

[xenapan]

I'm level 17 and I can't even scratch this guy. I start with 3300 money even with 3 crates there is no way I can even deal any significant amount of damage, a few of my towers have 3/0 or 0/3 upgrades (boomerang, dart, ninja) but no combination I've tried has dealt more than 1% damage. Am I just wasting my time and resources attempting this?

[76561198998186791]

use explosives or anything that can hit lead

[Raiku]

when covered in dirt, you can deal dmg with any tower
but when armor down, you must use towers with lead poping power:

bomb shooters (more efficient with moab mauler), boomerang (0/2 minimum, it's cheap lead popping, use bionic boomer/turbo charge tho because weak dps otherwise), apprentice, mortar, dartling gun 0/2 (a bit expensive), spike factory 2/0 (same, a bit expensive but has an anti moab upgrade)

[Brevan]

A pretty good strategy for young cities is to use a bunch of 1/1 Snipers. I think that would let you get Dreadbloon down to about level 6 without much trouble.

[Coach's Coach]

It's super easy. MOAB shredder spikes at the end of the track. Use anything else you have to keep bloons from messing with your stockpile. Once he runs into it he'll be toast. I'm up to level 11 now and haven't had much issue, although I'm a higher level than you.

MOAB shredder spikes, then cluster bombs and ice monkeys (2/3) can thin things out really quickly.

You shouldn't need more than one or two attempts to beat him at lower levels. Don't waste your money for now, build your city and take advantage of the free knowledge packs like today - ninja and ice and you get a pack every time you capture land. Wait for THOSE events only and play all day then.

[capnblaze1]

Originally posted by xenapan:

I'm level 17 and I can't even scratch this guy. I start with 3300 money even with 3 crates there is no way I can even deal any significant amount of damage, a few of my towers have 3/0 or 0/3 upgrades (boomerang, dart, ninja) but no combination I've tried has dealt more than 1% damage. Am I just wasting my time and resources attempting this?

For those aren't satisfied with the above this is my experience at monkey knowledge 5-6 and level 34 (starting cash around $3900).

First thing you need to remember as noted by some is that the behemoth has the properties of a lead balloon once you remove the gold covering so that limits what towers you should use. The gold covering is vulnerable to all tower types for what it's worth.

I've tried a variety of combinations and the one that seems to do damage the fastest are 2/2 dartling guns. I tried spamming 0/2 guns because you get more off them but that seemed to be less effective than 2/2. I put them all on the bottom left so they can also get the other bloons as they come out. They pass through them to hit the behemoth so it's not a problem. Then I keep adding more as I have cash.