Adora

"Adora's devotion compels her to strike Bloons down with furious vengeance."

- In-game description

 is a Hero in Bloons TD 6 who was added to the game in update 14.0. She shoots homing sunbeams that can pop up to 5 Bloons per shot, including Lead Bloons. She cannot detect Camo Bloons without support, and cannot pop Purple Bloons without her first ability.

She costs $850 on Easy, $1,000 on Medium, $1,080 on Hard and $1,200 on Impoppable. If Hero Favors is enabled, she will cost $765 on Easy, $900 on Medium, $970 on Hard, and $1,080 on Impoppable. Adora can be unlocked for 5,000.

In update 16.0, Adora received a new skin called 'Joan of Arc Adora'. It costs 2,500 to unlock.

Upgrades
Adora requires almost twice as much experience (specifically 1.71x) to level up compared to Quincy, Gwendolin, Striker Jones, and Obyn Greenfoot. However, she is unique in that at Level 7, she can sacrifice other towers to gain experience from them depending on their cost. See below for further details.


 * Level 1 - Divine Bolt seeks out and destroys.
 * Each Divine Bolt can pierce through 5 Bloons.
 * Level 2 - Increased attack range.
 * 45 range to 49 range.
 * Level 3 - The Long Arm of Light: Greatly increases attack range and power for a short time & damages all Bloon Types.
 * Gets double attack range, double pierce, and normal type (NOTE: all of these improvements apply before any buffs). Has a 45s cooldown and lasts for 10s.
 * Level 4 - Shoots double Divine Bolts.
 * Level 5 - Divine bolts pierce through more Bloons
 * 5 pierce to 8 pierce.
 * Level 6 - Shoots 3 Divine Bolts at a time.
 * Level 7 - Blood Sacrifice: Sacrifice a targeted Tower to grant Adora large amounts of XP and boost her attack range and rate of fire for a short time.
 * Gains 4x XP per $1 worth of sacrifices and gains a minimum of both +10% range and 0.90x attack cooldown for up to 10 seconds.
 * By default, the temporary buff gives +10% range and 0.90x attack cooldown. For every $100 worth of sacrifices, Adora gains +1% range and attack cooldown additively decreased by 0.01, capped at 0.75x attack cooldown.
 * Cooldown of 10 seconds.
 * It is not mentioned that this buff also applies to nearby Sun Avatars and above.
 * Level 8 - Shoots 4 Divine Bolts at a time.
 * Level 9 - Increased attack range.
 * 49 range to 54 range.
 * Level 10 - Ball of Light: Brings forth a powerful ball of energy to strike down the Bloons.
 * The Ball of Light has 3 damage, 8 pierce, damages every 0.05 seconds, and targets a Bloon based on Adora's targeting when the ability was used. It has a 60s cooldown and lasts for 12s.
 * The entire Ball of Light beam does damage, meaning that it can run out of pierce before reaching the target Bloon. The beam does not visually change if this happens, but it prevents the Ball of Light from damaging the target.
 * Level 11 - Adora increases attack speed.
 * +25% attack speed (0.8x attack coooldown) (attacks every 0.8s)
 * Level 12 - Shoots 5 Divine Bolts at a time.
 * Level 13 - Divine Bolts pierce through even more Bloons.
 * 8 pierce to 13 pierce
 * NOTE: This also increases Ball of Light's pierce from 8 to 13.
 * Level 14 - Shoots 6 Divine Bolts at a time.
 * Level 15 - Divine Bolts burn through an extra Bloon layer, plus Ball of Light deals more damage.
 * 1 damage to 2 damage
 * Ball of Light 3 damage to 5 damage.
 * Level 16 - Long Arm of Light becomes even more deadly.
 * Long Arm of Light now also doubles the damage of the Divine Bolts (applies before all buffs) and also lasts for 15s instead of 10s.
 * Level 17 - Adora increases attack speed even more.
 * +33% attack speed (0.75x attack cooldown) (attacks every 0.6s)
 * Level 18 - Shoots 8 Divine Bolts at a time.
 * Level 19 - Increased attack range.
 * 54 range to 59 range.
 * Level 20 - Ball of Light is greatly improved, plus increased rate of fire, range, and duration buffs from Sacrifices.
 * Ball of Light 5 damage to 20 damage
 * Sacrifice buffs now cost half as much ($50 per 1%) and the cap is doubled (+50% range and 0.5x attack cooldown). It also lasts for 60s instead of 10s regardless of how much is sacrificed.



Activated Abilities
Additionally, upon activation Adora and all Sun Avatars in range receive a minimum 11% extra attack speed and 10% extra range for 10 seconds, essentially the cooldown time for the ability. At level 20, the attack speed boost is capped at double attack speed and +50% range (see also the calculations section). Blood Sacrifice buff also affects Sun Temple and True Sun God. The buffs cannot be stacked, however if a stronger buff is applied before a weaker one, then the weaker one will still take effect once the stronger one wears off. Stronger buffs always override weaker ones.
 * The Long Arm of Light: While active, Adora's attack range and power are boosted tremendously. This ability also allows her to pop Purple Bloons. This ability becomes even more potent at Level 16. The ability cooldown is 45 seconds at all levels.
 * Level 3: Double pierce, double range, and allows Adora to pop Purple Bloons for 10 seconds.
 * Level 16: Now doubles damage and ability lasts 15 seconds.
 * Blood Sacrifice: Adora can sacrifice another tower on the field to give herself a large XP boost for no cost. The amount varies depending on the cost of the tower and its upgrades, with more expensive towers granting more XP. The amount is 4 times the value of the sacrificed tower; e.g. if she sacrifices a tower worth $6,500, it's as though she applied $26,000 toward XP. This number is also affected by the Energizer and its 50% hero XP increase.
 * Ball of Light: A ball of light surrounds Adora for a short while, doing massive damage against a single target at (apparently) unlimited range. This attack, while independent, relies on the same targeting priority as Adora herself. This ability becomes more powerful when Adora is fully leveled up. At level 20, it can remain active more than half the time, allowing her to take down a B.A.D. single-handedly on some maps. Although Adora cannot detect camo Bloons without support (e.g. radar scanner) the ball of light itself CAN detect camo, if it passes through the radius of a 0-2-0 village, as it is orbiting the tower, even when Adora herself is not within the radius.

True Sun Goddess
If a level 20 Adora is in range of a Sun Temple when upgrading to the True Sun God, she will float into the air and change to a more powerful form, granting her +8 damage and +30 pierce for all of her attacks. If the Sun Temple upgrades to the Vengeful True Sun God, Adora will transform into a "vengeful" version of herself. This form is not more powerful than the True Sun God version, however, and is purely cosmetic. She remains in the empowered form even if the True Sun God or Vengeful True Sun God is sold or sacrificed.

When a player successfully transforms Adora into her Vengeful Goddess form, the player obtains the achievement "Strangely Adorable".

On Adora's Temple, if she transforms into the vengeful version, the map's appearance changes as well; the temple becomes dark, and the water pools turn blood-red.

Original Adora
When selected on the Heroes menu:
 * "Embrace the sun!"

When placed:
 * "It is time."
 * "We begin at once!"

When selected:
 * "Yes?"
 * "Alright then."
 * "What next?"
 * "This had better be worth it."
 * "I await the transformation." (Only in normal or True Sun God form)
 * "Yes?" (In a more deep and ominous tone, only in Vengeful Sun God form)
 * "I grow restless."
 * "Shall I teach you about... regret?" (When annoyed)
 * "You will reconsider your actions." (When annoyed further)
 * "I can have that broken." (When annoyed in Vengeful Sun God form)
 * "I shall have that broken." (When annoyed further in Vengeful Sun God form)

When upgraded:
 * "Oh ho ho ho!"
 * "Oh ho ho ho ho!"
 * "Oh ho ho ho ho ho!"
 * "Feel the light."
 * "Feel the sun's power!"
 * "Radiant!"
 * "The temple provides!"
 * "Embrace the power!"
 * "Elevate me to the kingdom of the sun!" (Level 20)

When transformed into her sun goddess form:
 * "Embrace the power!"

When MOAB-class Bloon appears:
 * "Ready yourselves!" (MOAB appeared)
 * "Be prepared!" (BFB or DDT appeared)
 * "Ready the force of the sun!" (ZOMG appeared)
 * "The sun defends us!" (BAD appeared)

When MOAB-class Bloon is destroyed:
 * "We are favored!"
 * "Well done!"

When activating ability:
 * "Feel the Light!" - Activated The Long Arm of Light
 * "Let there be light!" - Activated Blood Sacrifice
 * "Embrace the sun!" - Activated Ball of Light

When Bloons escape:
 * "Halt!"
 * "Get it together!"

Joan of Arc Adora
When selected on the Heroes menu:
 * "I was born to do this!"

When placed:
 * "I am not afraid."
 * "Strategy before strength!"

When selected:
 * "Yes?"
 * "Direct me."
 * "By your leave."
 * "Let us commence!"
 * "This will end badly!" (when annoyed)
 * "This will end badly." (when annoyed further)

When upgraded:
 * "Rejoice!"
 * "Rejoice."
 * "Yet stronger!"
 * "Onwards to victory!"
 * "I was born to do this!" (Level 20, different tone)

When transformed into her sun goddess form:
 * "Burn, Burn!"

When MOAB-class Bloon appears:
 * "Have courage!" (MOAB appeared)
 * "Prepare yourselves!" (BFB, ZOMG or DDT appeared)
 * "Invoke the higher powers!" (BAD appeared)

When MOAB-class Bloon is destroyed:
 * "All is as it should be."

When activating ability:
 * "Be the light!" - Activated The Long Arm of Light
 * "Let there be light!" - Activated Blood Sacrifice
 * "We are the righteous!" - Activated Ball of Light

When Bloons escape:
 * "Rally now!"
 * "Rally now!" (In slightly different tone)

Sounds
Other sound effects related to Adora that are not specifically her voicelines are shown here.

When placing Adora with Sunbeam item active:
 * [solar teleportation]

When Adora shoots sunbeams:
 * [swift movement]
 * [swift movement]
 * [swift movement]
 * [swift movement]
 * [swift movement]

When activating Long Arm of Light with Hero Voicelines off:
 * [light blessing]

When activating Blood Sacifice with Hero Voicelines off:
 * [sacrificial ritual]

When activating Ball of Light with Hero Voicelines off:
 * [solar summonment]

Summary
Adora is primarily an offense-based hero who relies heavily on support for optimizing her strengths. She shoots homing sunbeam projectiles with moderate pierce and good range, and can shoot more projectiles per shot at higher levels. Although arguably decent early-game, she is weak in mid-game without utilizing her Blood Sacrifice ability to gain higher levels. Backup support is important to act as a safety net while her abilities are on cooldown, and external buffs such as Berserker Brew and Radar Scanner are important to ensure she can utlize her maximum power. The one major advantage is that she is able to sacrifice towers on any game mode, allowing potential to add alternate defenses.

On CHIMPS Mode, her true strength is weakened due to the lack of income generation to afford large investments in sacrifices. However, Level 20 Adora + Call To Arms can obliterate almost all rounds if she can be achieved by this stage, but this requires extreme skill to get there and generally isn't worth pursuing.

Conversely, the Version 27.0 buffs for Adora has made her the best option for extreme late-game runs, due to her extremely high uptime for her Blood Sacrifice ability that also buffs Sun Avatars and above, including Vengeful True Sun God and multiple supporting Sun Temples, across a very large range. This makes her a go-to hero option for extreme late-game runs if not going for Ezili.

Tips

 * Try Alch-buffing Adora, as her many projectiles benefit much from Alchemist buffs compared to other heroes.
 * Use her abilities conservatively, as the bulk of her power comes from her abilities and they make good lifelines as they can quickly wipe out many bloons at great range. Keeping her abilities off cooldown can easily be what saves a round.
 * If unneeded towers are still on screen, the Blood Sacrifice ability can be used to wipe them out. If this is desired, especially on CHIMPS where early-game towers can block placement of more powerful towers, then this is a suitable choice of hero to pick.
 * A Monkey City can provide free Dart Monkeys to buff Adora through Blood Sacrifice. Although this will not improve her leveling like normal towers would, the free sacrifices will help give her practically a full-uptime free buff for Adora.
 * Most of her power lies with leveling up her quickly through Blood Sacrifice. While her early-game is acceptable, she heavily falls behind in the mid-game without her abilities active. Even while investing huge sums of money into her, she can still struggle in the late-game, even at Level 20.
 * Adora's early-game is decent but not superior like Obyn Greenfoot. She can struggle with the Round 40 MOAB, however, and must use proper timing of her Long Arm of Light ability and in order to survive difficult rounds such as the aforementioned round.
 * The mid-game is Adora's greatest weakness, especially on CHIMPS Mode. By using powerful mid-game towers to survive the mid-game, she can counter her weak power during her intermediate levels. After all, she can later sacrifice no longer needed mid-game towers in exchange for even more internal power for the late-game.
 * In the late-game, Adora relies on other towers to make up for her huge power while her abilities are under cooldown. The best support for her during the late-game is a combination of different stalling towers, so that she can recharge her abilities on time in preparation for harder stages of the game. Other ability-based towers will also synergize well if themselves do not rely on Adora's high damage abilities, a good example being Bloon Sabotage, which itself can also be used as a stall in some uses.
 * As for individual towers, Perma-Spike can help tank weaker groups of bloons that Adora even with her abilities cannot fully eliminate alone. Both she and Perma-Spike greatly benefit from stalling, which is worth taking note of.
 * It is not recommended to use Adora on CHIMPS or on Co-Op Mode:
 * On CHIMPS, the player is unable to farm for additional towers and Adora is relatively weak on lower levels against Ceramic Bloons and MOAB-class bloons. Her capability to sacrifice towers can end up losing more money than the player can gain back, as she is unable to naturally reach level 20 without Energizer or sacrificing precious defense. If selected on CHIMPS, it might be best to sacrifice early game towers and rely on a tier 5 to support the rest of the defense such as a Perma-Spike.
 * On Co-Op Mode, Adora not only drastically decreases the shared hero XP due to her slow leveling, but she will not get level 7 until around the rounds 41-50 if not later, leaving her dealing very minimal damage to any bloon type beforehand (especially against the MOAB on round 40, where she will almost never pop the MOAB layer on her own on most maps even with Long Arm of Light). In addition, Blood Sacrifice only works on the towers that the person who placed Adora has, meaning farming more towers to sacrifice would take too long and often hamper the player's defense. Using a Hero Booster is recommended if the player uses Adora on co-op.
 * Level 20 Adora + Call To Arms pretty much obliterates almost all maps including True Expert Maps. Reaching this stage is essentially a full win on CHIMPS Mode.
 * Ball of Light is currently hardcoded to always target Strong no matter what target priority Adora is currently set, unlike Ezili's MOAB Hex which can adjust targeting based on Ezili's targeting.
 * For purely the Blood Sacrifice's stat bonuses, go for the bare minimum sacrifice amount of the maximum effect.
 * At Levels 7-19, a quick way to get approximately the bare minimal $1,500 per sacrifice can be done with the following:
 * Easy: 1-0-0 Spike Factory ($1,530)
 * Medium: 0-0-1 Banana Farm ($1,500)
 * Hard: 1-0-0 Monkey Ace (~$1,565)
 * Impoppable: 0-0-0 Banana Farm ($1,500)
 * At Level 20, a quick way to get approximately the bare minimal $2,000 per sacrifice can be done with the following:
 * Easy: 1-2-0 Glue Gunner ($2,020)
 * Medium: 1-0-1 Banana Farm ($2,000)
 * Hard: 0-1-0 Heli Pilot (~$2,050)
 * Impoppable: 1-0-0 Banana Farm ($2,100)
 * As of 27.0, she is the meta hero for attempting to get into higher freeplay rounds, as her Blood Sacrifice can buff Sun Avatars and above, which means it can give a VTSG double attack speed and a 50% range bonus.

Blood Sacrifice calculations
The higher monetary cost of Adora sacrifices, the greater the value of the stat boosts. Starting with +10% range and +11% attack speed (0.90x attack cooldown), Adora gains a higher boost with higher sacrifices. Sacrifices costing far more than $2000 (for level 20 Adora) or $1500 (for level 7-19 Adora) will give the exact same boost as those costing only slightly above those values.

In the formulas below, x is the cost of the sacrificed tower (including upgrades) and b% is the boost that the sacrifice will give as a percentage.

Range boost formulas
Adora's sacrifices boost range according to the following formulas.
 * For level 20 Adora:


 * $$b\% = \left(0.1 + \left\lfloor \frac{x}{5000} \right\rfloor \right) \times 100\%, \qquad \lbrace 0 \le x \le 2000\rbrace$$


 * For level 7-19 Adora:


 * $$b\% = \left(0.1 + \left\lfloor \frac{x}{10000} \right\rfloor \right) \times 100\%, \qquad \lbrace 0 \le x \le 1500\rbrace$$

Speed boost formulas
The following graphs are Desmos graphs of the functions determining the attack speed bonuses given by Adora's sacrifices. The blue curve is for level 7+ Adora, and red curve is for level 20 Adora. The x-axis is the cost of the sacrificed towers and the y-axis is the speed boost percentage.



Adora's sacrifices boost attack speed according to the following formulas.
 * For level 20 Adora:


 * $$b\% = \left (\frac{1}{0.9-\left\lfloor \frac{x}{5000} \right\rfloor}-1 \right) \times 100\%, \qquad \lbrace 0 \le x \le 2000\rbrace$$


 * For level 7-19 Adora:


 * $$b\% = \left (\frac{1}{0.9-\left\lfloor \frac{x}{10000} \right\rfloor}-1 \right) \times 100\%, \qquad \lbrace 0 \le x \le 1500\rbrace$$

Trivia



 * Adora is the third female hero monkey after Gwendolin and Ezili and is followed by Brickell and Sauda.
 * She is also the third tower to have three abilities, the other two being Ezili and the Heli Pilot's Special Poperations upgrade.
 * Prior to v22.0, Adora was the third fully offensive hero in the game after Quincy and Captain Churchill.
 * In v22.0, Adora was given a buff to Blood Sacrifice that allowed her to increase the attack speed and range of Sun Avatars and above, thus removing her status as a fully offensive hero.
 * Adora is one of the most expensive heroes added in an update, costing 5000 to unlock. The only other four with the same price are Admiral Brickell, Etienne, Sauda, and Psi.
 * The function of the Blood Sacrifice ability is similar to the Soulbind ability which was previously an upgrade for the Wizard Monkey. However, instead of granting extra lives, the sacrificed tower grants extra XP for Adora.
 * The sacrifice is also immediate once a tower is selected, and cannot be activated at will.
 * The highlight for Blood Sacrifice is the same as the previous Soulbind ability, but with a different color.
 * She currently holds the record for the longest attainable range (read display range), after buffs from Monkey Village, Permanent Brew, True Sun God, and activating her abilities Long Arm of Light and Blood Sacrifice.
 * It is possible to activate her level 10 ability multiple times using the reset ability cooldown feature in Sandbox.
 * Adora's voice gets an otherworldly echo when in Vengeful form.
 * This also occurs when transforming to True Sun God form.
 * It has been speculated that Adora's Blood Sacrifice ability uses more than just a quick absorption of the tower into Adora. Some fans have speculated that the red coloring on her hands is actually blood, while in close appearance it looks more like red gloves. Regardless, there are no blood stains on her hands to avoid depictions of realistic violence.

Pre-release

 * Adora is the first Hero monkey not to have been leaked from the files prior to the 2.0 update.
 * In Version 13.0, the name of Carved map in Simplified Chinese was incorrectly written as the Adora's Level 20's description (Ball of Light is greatly improved), unintentionally leaking some information of Adora. As this wasn't in English, it didn't get much attention or suspected as leaks for a possible hero level up description.

Balance changes

 * Since Version 17.0, the Joan of Arc skin received a set of changes. Her projectile trail changed to a fiery trail instead of using default Adora's light trail, and she always holds her dagger at Level 7+.
 * Adora had not been buffed for 6 whole updates since her initial release on Version 14.0. On Version 21.0, 7 updates later, she received one simple XP rate buff.

Blog posts

 * According to Ninja Kiwi's 30th July 2021 blog, Adora is a "girly girl" (i.e. a female with a feminine personality).

Cultural references

 * Her name and apperance appear to be a reference to Adora/She-Ra from the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
 * Joan of Arc was a French heroine who fought for France in the Hundred Years' War.