How does most people beat first tier from elite bloonarius so easily?

[Rogueliker]

I generally never survive the cerams he spawns.

[IDKAON]

Druids n' farms. That's all

[H0LABANANA]

Just actually be decent at the game exdee.

[Sbeve]

pretty much just farming until like 5 rounds before he comes, i dont know if moar glaives works for this one but it did for me on normal, if moar glaives isn't good enough then a well timed maelstrom should do the trick

[★ FmNey ★]

use your round 63 strats against tier 1

[battlezoby]

How do MOST people do it? Youtube I'm guessing. When the 1st Elite came out, it seemed like about 36 hours before anyone posted a full solution and few people reported wining, but after it was posted... the floodgates opened and lots more videos went up and a lot of people reported winning easily.

But even without having double-cash, dumping one or more cash crates at the start to kick-start your economy works great. Keep in mind that your "farming" will grow your cash exponentially (like compound-interest) so dumping crate(s) ON ROUND 1 is pretty huge! Elite boss, awards a lot of cash, and you can break before long. (Or just grind some Hard map on Easy mode 3 times to get the $180 if you don't want to lower your MM reserve.) EDIT: I JUST DID the Tier 1 Elite Boss with the [/spoiler] usual 205 Tack Shooter and a 302 Alchemist and 320 Druid in the middle too.[/spoiler]

Originally posted by A user who loves BTD6:

Druids n' farms. That's all

Yes, 320 Druids clean up the mess it drops after the Skulls, although I used other stuff for most of the actual damage to the Boss. I did one at the top on the purple patch, and two in the lower left with a 023 Wizards to be safe. Worked great.

At first I did it with double-money and $0 MM spent. Then, for comparison sake, I did the same (stupid build with no farmer) and no double-money but two cash crates instead. Played out pretty much identically, but probably would have made more sense to use the farmer rather the Buckaneers after spending MM anyways. On the other hand, there's a spot for a Buckaneer to do damage at the center, so starting with a 024 and then maybe selling later for a different boat might be a good move. Putting a 5xx there lets you stick monkeys on top of it (such as snipers) which actually have enough height to see over the wall and have LOS to the entire board. Seems like this games rarely even understands actual height like that, but it does here. :-)

Trivia: I accidently thought the OP was asking about beating the normal Boss for the first time, so I wrote a bunch of stuff about that instead, so I deleted it here and posted it elsewhere just in case someone wants to read that.

[battlezoby]

BTW... I think it's unfortinate that NK just keeps making the Boss events harder and harder. I mean. it's fine for me and other "veteran" players, but I feel bad for new players that are still unlocking stuff and only get to try the latest and hardest maps, and not the easy ones that NK started with!

If it were up to me, I'd let anyone who hasn't beaten a Boss yet have a "Reset" button that makes the event change to the first Boss map, and then just start rotating through the historic pattern they used for each event after that!

[zghaun]

400 Alchemist and 204 Tack Shooter seems like a cheap way to deal with 100 Ceramic Rushes, tried it but failed once the Alc Buff Runs out so you might use 420 Alc plus that increase duration from the skill tree to use this tactic to prevent rushes OR Use Maelstrom + 402 or 042 (Ability) Boomerang OR 204 Bomb Shooter and Glaive

[battlezoby]

Originally posted by zghaun:

400 Alchemist and 204 Tack Shooter seems like a cheap way to deal with 100 Ceramic Rushes, tried it but failed once the Alc Buff Runs out so you might use 420 Alc plus that increase duration from the skill tree to use this tactic to prevent rushes OR Use Maelstrom + 402 or 042 (Ability) Boomerang OR 204 Bomb Shooter and Glaive

As I eventually posted above (after a bunch of edits after you posted), One 320 Druid in the center, and two 320 Druids at the lower-right (with a 023 Wizard just in case some camo are involved) cleaned up the mess the skulls from the Tier 1 Elite Boss dropped just fine. I buffer the center with a 302 Alchemist, but didn't even both doing that on the bottom.