new player wants some advice

[Comrade]

so what is a good monkey for camo and when to get it to see camo? Don't really have a problem with it now since quincy is pretty good and the sniper.
what are the monkey's I should mainly be using? For now I think the best one is the superman monkey
I have seen videos where they have like "boom" "pop" "crit" appears when popping bloons, how do I get those?
what hero i should use? I know they are situational on different maps but so far everyone likes Gerold? The monkey that has a shop

[Cowmunist Leader Moo Zedong]

Originally posted by Comrade:

so what is a good monkey for camo and when to get it to see camo?

Ninja is pretty much the go-to for seeing camo. You can also upgrade a dart monkey to xx2 for some cheap camo as well. The earliest you'll need this in normal play is round 24.

Originally posted by Comrade:

what are the monkey's I should mainly be using? For now I think the best one is the superman monkey

The Primary monkeys are meant to be your staple monkeys that will cover everything you need to win the game. Start by using those and expand as you learn more.

Originally posted by Comrade:

I have seen videos where they have like "boom" "pop" "crit" appears when popping bloons, how do I get those?

In the trophy store under like pop fx or something.

Originally posted by Comrade:

what hero i should use? I know they are situational on different maps but so far everyone likes Gerold? The monkey that has a shop

Yeah...really depends on what you want out of a hero. Go with whichever one looks nice to you.

[󠁳⁧⁧GUNK󠀡󠀡󠁳]

Submerge and support on the submarine or wizard monkey with shimmer are good because they reveal camo for every monkey on the map and you can level them up later game to be good towers (or crazy good if you go for a necromancer)

[ヅ xFreezYx ヅ]

If your monkeys are mostly all in one Spot u usually want a village^^
If the defense is more spread out its more efficient to remove camo property (decamo) with Shimmer, Bloontonium reactor or Signal flare :)
For early camo a crossbow dart, ninja or wall of fire with camo detection are pretty good
And the pop pow effect is just a visual effect u can get it in the trophy store

[Ninja Zyborg]

Originally posted by Comrade:

I have seen videos where they have like "boom" "pop" "crit" appears when popping bloons, how do I get those?

"boom" and "pop" are trophy store effects. "crit" occurs on specific towers like xx4 dart monkey and x3x super monkey.

[Professional Gamer]

Ninja Monkey + Alchemist (2-0-0) does the trick most of the time and covers all types
of bloons.

Then there are Submarines (2-0-0) which you can use other cheap monkets with camo detection like dart monkeys but you will lack the power to pop leads.

Monkey Village is best obviously, but quite expensive at first. Thats why you go ninja + alchemist early and then transition into village for camo and other popping power for other monkeys that you want.

And then there is Etienne with lvl 8(? might be mistaken) ability that gives every single monkey on map you place camo detection and then you dont have to worry about camo at all afterwards.

[Vivianite]

from the top down;

1. Ninja can inherently see camo. heroes like sauda psi and ezili can inherently see camo too. round 24 is when the first camo bloon shows up, monkies like dart, helicopter, ace, buccaneer, and beast handler can gain upgrades to let them see camo. you should consider having camo vision before round 24 starts.
   
   
2. Easy-to-use monkies like sniper, tack shooter, helicopter, ace, and alchemist's top upgrade path have plain but easy-to-understand path upgrades and cross-pathing (the act of upgrading into another path on the same monkey)
   
   the very first four heroes (quincy, gwendolin, obyn greenfoot, striker jones) are east to use and understand heroes that you can use for a grand majority of strategies. sauda, etienne, and pat fusty are also pretty straightfward kind of heroes you can consider using as well.
   
   
3. "boom" and "pop" are cosmetic "pop fx" that can be earned with trophies, partake in events to earn some and visit the trophy shop to buy them.
   
   "crit" is a mechanic that some monkies have access to that enhances their popping power, dart monkey's bottom tier 4 upgrade and super monkey's middle path tier 3 upgrade enables their shots to crit every so often.
   
   
4. as mentioned in my no.2 response: the first four are easy to pick up and use as the other ones mentioned, geraldo is considered the toughest to use because his major mechanic is buying items from his shop that have a variety of effects and uses. it is however extremely economically viable as it enables some early game "save-up" strategies that allow for someone to make a bigger purchase/upgrade.

[Panpan2019]

Obyn is a very good free hero, one of the best in my opinion. Geraldo is very good but also a bit unfair at times. I would suggest Adora, Sauda, Etienne, and Geralo though. And Ninja is VERY good for camo. Finally, crossbow dart monkeys get crit, while bomb shooters have booms

[Kiara]

Ninja, round 24

every single monkey has it's use and many combinations work some notable cost efficient towers 2-5-0 druid (I use this very often in least cash/least tiers modes as it can kill everything up until the 90s on it's own with little struggle) 2-5-0 boat (similar to druid but less set it and go afk as some rounds you need to pay attention to still) 5-x-x dart (specifically on maps with many walls like cornfield, but it does lack moab damage) 4-x-x hele (struggles to round 76 but a solid addition(also one i often use in lowest tiers)) i'm sure im misssing quite a few here as well, a lot of the fun in this game imo comes from trying different things, and let me tell you for cost effectiveness super monkey isnt that great the one exception is 3-x-x super, but this is mostly only for bloons, it can kill moabs but it's not great vs them, and also VTSG as it's the single most powerful tower in the game outside of bosses

Quincy: quite solid all a rounder for early game
Sauda: i havent played since the nerf awhile back and ever before i rarely used
Pat: a decent support hero good with fast attacking low damage towers (tack bottom path sub etc, also knocks bloons and moabs back sometimes
Gwen: a more passive version of pat, great for use with fire towers such as inferno ring and phoenix lord
ben: Money?
Etien: I only use this one when i need camo detection and village is locked out
Admiral brickell: never use them myself mostly due to water being required
Adora: mostly a damage hero, cant see camo by default, provides some buff to super monkeys, never really use them myself
Ezili: quite good, but that one has a bit of a learning curve, what to do and when and knowing rounds, but if you're trying to do ABR (Alternate bloons rounds) she covers everything besides purples from level 1, so it gives you a bit of time to get more expensive covers of bloon types and overall makes the early abr rounds easier than most other heroes, granted the map in question is a single track map as her range is quite short.Also the only hero that can solo round 200 without any help from other towers. (other towers will be required to get to round 200 though) not one i would advise to start with

[bombastinator]

I’m assuming you have nothing but the free heroes, in which case one uses generally the Druid one or the flame one. The Druid one with and a monkey intelligence agancy will allow any tower in its radius to see everything at the same time. You can’t fit it on every level though. The monkey village has a big footprint, and obyn with 8 druids in his radius isn’t small either. I don’t know much about using the flame one.

As far as camo goes as well as all the other statuses (sometimes they combine) there is a chart here. https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/8wmfe7/chart_of_what_monkey_upgrades_pop_lead_purple_and/

[bombastinator]

I did manage to do midnight mansion up till the DDTs come out by using a bajillion xxo sniper monkeys. They hit real slow though so you need a mess of em. Still can’t figure out how to hit the DDTs without a monkey intelligence agency though (230 monkey village). The beauty of Monkey intelligence agency is it gives ALL the towers in its radius the ability to hit EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME, which you need for DDTs afaik.

[bombastinator]

Oh, another useful link is https://bloons.fandom.com. A lot of reading but they usually cover most things if you dig far enough.

[Ninja Zyborg]

Originally posted by bombastinator:

I did manage to do midnight mansion up till the DDTs come out by using a bajillion xxo sniper monkeys. They hit real slow though so you need a mess of em. Still can’t figure out how to hit the DDTs without a monkey intelligence agency though (230 monkey village). The beauty of Monkey intelligence agency is it gives ALL the towers in its radius the ability to hit EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME, which you need for DDTs afaik.

there are many things which solo DDTs. decamo + lead popping, 205 ice monkey, 302/203 super monkey, 402/032/xx5 wizard, 420 sniper monkey, 104 ninja with shinobis, x5x dartling, 024 heli, 042 monkey buccaneer... too lazy to complete this list.

[bombastinator]

Originally posted by Ninja Zyborg:

Originally posted by bombastinator:

I did manage to do midnight mansion up till the DDTs come out by using a bajillion xxo sniper monkeys. They hit real slow though so you need a mess of em. Still can’t figure out how to hit the DDTs without a monkey intelligence agency though (230 monkey village). The beauty of Monkey intelligence agency is it gives ALL the towers in its radius the ability to hit EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME, which you need for DDTs afaik.

there are many things which solo DDTs. decamo + lead popping, 205 ice monkey, 302/203 super monkey, 402/032/xx5 wizard, 420 sniper monkey, 104 ninja with shinobis, x5x dartling, 024 heli, 042 monkey buccaneer... too lazy to complete this list.

Aren’t they also purple though? I’ve had anti-lead and anti-camo up and they just sail right by unmolested.

[Ninja Zyborg]

Originally posted by bombastinator:

Originally posted by Ninja Zyborg:

there are many things which solo DDTs. decamo + lead popping, 205 ice monkey, 302/203 super monkey, 402/032/xx5 wizard, 420 sniper monkey, 104 ninja with shinobis, x5x dartling, 024 heli, 042 monkey buccaneer... too lazy to complete this list.

Aren’t they also purple though? I’ve had anti-lead and anti-camo up and they just sail right by unmolested.

...no? Not even BADs have the purple bloon property. Reminder that DDTs have the camo, lead, and black bloon properties. You need to deal with all 3.

[Ackranome]

Monkey Village mid path is the best for camo or eti hero.