Remove/nerf agent monkeys

[The Sack Sniffer]

I nearly lost a game where not a single baloon made it past because the other player (who was just trash and mad because of it) put a little bit of that $$ in the devs pockets and got 10 agent monkeys to waste my health bar.

[fluff]

The COBRAs are not lethal. You would be left with 1hp. If they arent doing 2-0 cobras, they suck with the cobras and if you lost to that you’re an even bigger loser

[The Sack Sniffer]

149 damage is still way more than they should be unable to do. Also doesn't leave any room for error while they steal your life and heal. Spamming becomes pretty useless and the only way you can defeat them is hoping a moab gets through while i gotta worry about that but also now a single red baloon. Surly you get my point though. It's just a bs tower, especially when you're a 4k merit player fighting a 6 mil merit player

[fluff]

Originally posted by Angry Capsicum:

149 damage is still way more than they should be unable to do. Also doesn't leave any room for error while they steal your life and heal. Spamming becomes pretty useless and the only way you can defeat them is hoping a moab gets through while i gotta worry about that but also now a single red baloon. Surly you get my point though. It's just a bs tower, especially when you're a 4k merit player fighting a 6 mil merit player

Please do not send moabs to cobras. A redirection can send the moab from their screen over to you.

People always fear when they have 1 live left, but in all honesty, when you’ve reached that stage, if a bloon manages to get past your defence, its probably a rainbow bloon or something that you would have died to anyways.

To counter COBRAs, your only goal is to not let him COBRA spam. If he gets 10 cobras early in the game you’ve essentially lost (that is if he is smart and only upgrade them to 2-0). With 2-0 COBRAs, you will be getting a spam of natural regen camo rainbows, ceramics and zebras at round 20, which is hard to keep up as the blooms get exponentially stronger from there on.

Put pressure on COBRA users early in the game. Do note that cobras remove two layers of bloons per shot, so sending spaced bloons isnt a good idea. You will want to constantly be rushing him with mini grouped rushes, and maybe even go for a bloon energy yellow rush to end the game if his defence is weak. Or a regen rainbow rush? Camo leads maybe?

If you’ve reached round 18 and he has less than 10 COBRAs (2-0), you’ve essentially won as he only has two useful towers left, and his income probably sucks.

Feel free to add me if you want, I have the cobra if you wanna practice against it (provided we’re in thr same region)

[fluff]

COBRA setups are usually very vulnerable to camo leads. If he is vulnerable to camo leads, just rush him with that. If not, Here is a list of towers with camo lead popping power and how to rush them:

Dart Monkey (4-0)
Send leads the moment you can on round 10. The juggernaut is an expensive upgrade and he might not get it up in time, or he might have to sell a couple of cobras.

Monkey Apprentice (0-2)
Camo Ceramics or regen rainbow rushes usually kills a monkey apprentice unless its a 0-3 or higher, but against a cobra user he probably wouldnt upgrade it to a 0-3 as that would mean his income would be terrible

Ninja (0-3)
Monkey Buccaneer (0-3)
If his only lead popping power is a ninja/Buccaneer you can pressure him by sending grouped camos

Monkey Village (0-2)
If he uses this with a lead popping tower his income probably already sucks

Spike Factory (2-0)
Take out the spikes using grouped rushes or something followed by your rush.

Sniper (2-2)
A 2-2 sniper is useless against grouped leads. If he gets a 2-3, send regen rainbows or something like a moab since he wont have money to get a redirection cobra.

Mortar (0-3)
The mortar is great with the cobra, but a round 13 rainbow regen rush should do the trick

Boomerang (2-4)
Send one spaced leads, wait till his turbo charged boost is over, send more leads. Profit

Submarine (4-0)
Aint no cobra user has money for this crap

Dartling Gun (0-2)
Heli Pilot (3-2)
Both the dartling gun and heli pilot sucks at popping grouped bloons. Try your luck with an all out boosted yellow rush or grouped lead rush.

Monkey Engineer (3-0)
Grouped lead rush. Period

[fluff]

Also if he doesnt have camo detection by round 12 do a grouped camo pink rush. Also, cobra users usually cannot survive late game. If you can defend against his bloon attribution, he’ll lose to natural bloons later.

[The Sack Sniffer]

thanks for the tips

[Smart Persan]

cobras are actually garbage right now, would like to see a buff to right path. its not worth knocking down your opponent to one life; it costs you thousands if you want it done before r20, it's the cobra's strength in constant pressure, but it never works unless the other guy is running something retarded like ninja wiz, because it only forces them to get an extra 1k or so in defenses

Originally posted by Angry Capsicum:

put a little bit of that $$ in the devs pockets and got 10 agent monkeys to waste my health bar.

its just 5000 medallions, most people have that by ~500-700 battle score or "merit"

[The Sack Sniffer]

i cant even get thay much because of ♥♥♥♥ matchmaking is. I might wait half an hour for a 40 merit game with 400 players, so a 1000 merit game with 100 players would take ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ forever to find

[fluff]

Originally posted by Angry Capsicum:

i cant even get thay much because of ♥♥♥♥ matchmaking is. I might wait half an hour for a 40 merit game with 400 players, so a 1000 merit game with 100 players would take ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ forever to find

Dafuq is a merit game

[The Sack Sniffer]

under quickplay you've got battle arena and assault mode. It takes me forever to get a match in battle arena compared to assault mode.
Battle arena is like ranked, where you can earn merits, you cant in assault mode.

[fluff]

Originally posted by Angry Capsicum:

under quickplay you've got battle arena and assault mode. It takes me forever to get a match in battle arena compared to assault mode.
Battle arena is like ranked, where you can earn merits, you cant in assault mode.

I think you mean medallions, you do get medallions for winning an assault mode, but you only get 5 medallions for assault mode. For the battle arena, they should display the number of players playing that certain arena at the bottom. Bananza tends to be more popular since its easier in nature

[bonio22]

Originally posted by Angry Capsicum:

149 damage is still way more than they should be unable to do. Also doesn't leave any room for error while they steal your life and heal. Spamming becomes pretty useless and the only way you can defeat them is hoping a moab gets through while i gotta worry about that but also now a single red baloon. Surly you get my point though. It's just a bs tower, especially when you're a 4k merit player fighting a 6 mil merit player

buddy, for a cobra player to take your lives away rather fast requires about 5k of dollars, which is pretty high considering you can build 4/5 moab maulers or send 3 moabs and a few zebra sets with it, if you lose, most of the time you lose 150+ lives and not just leak 1 life from a camo regrow red bloons that your opponent sends
edit: tl;dr: attrition is expensive and most of the time useless because it sets opponent back in money