Engineer Monkey (BTDB2)/Strategies/Countermeasures

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Bloon Trap

The Engineer Monkey is a versatile tower with various contraptions that can be added to increase its arsenal. Engineer starts off with a nailgun that pops a small amount of bloons per shot. As the Engineer's Support Monkey class suggests, it is very support-oriented, mainly assisting early-game and creating contraptions that aid the later stages of the game. Engineer can also produce foam and traps to assist a defense. Engineer is rather weak against Camo Bloons, with only Cleansing Foam as a bare minimal option.

General

Attributes	Engineer Monkey countermeasures
Role	Engineer's role is to support a defense. Its lower-tier upgrades are designed to be used as an early-game tower, but higher-tier upgrades give it more than just DPS.
Attack Speed	Engineer Monkey has a moderately fast attack speed at base. With Double Gun, the nailgun attack becomes twice as fast. Sentries attack at a moderate speed, and shoot faster with Sprockets. Specialized sentries from Sentry Expert and Sentry Chamipion attack at different speeds, from quite slow to hypersonicly fast.
Damage	Engineer's damage is quite low in general for how much Engineer offers. However, Bloon Trap and XXXL Trap instakill bloons.
Pierce	Engineer Monkey's pierce is between low and moderate.
Range	Engineer has a moderate range, and comes with a cheap high-range upgrade. Sentries add more range coverage for the Engineer. This is because these sentries are summoned as "minions" of the Engineer.
Support	Engineer Monkey has two specific buffing options: Overclock and Ultraboost. Both increase attack speed of the targeted tower, plus range for Villages and income for Farms. Engineer Monkeys are very support-oriented in style, aiming to assist early-game defense and fill niche supporting roles. This includes supporting DPS, property-removal, and income.
Power	Overall, a Engineer Monkey has a mediocre early-game, comes with a decent mid-game, and a somewhat weak late-game, though its support role changes its ranking in power.

Upgrade-specific

Path 1

Upgrade	Engineer Monkey countermeasures
Sentry Gun	Sentry Gun lets Engineers produce sentries for more damage. An Engineer with this upgrade while being rushed will likely be overwhelmed, but an Engineer with this upgrade beforehand will find less difficulty.
Faster Engineering	A boost in production rate of sentries, foam, and traps that slightly improves Engineer efficiency.
Sprockets	Sprockets increases attack speed of the Engineer's nailgun and sentries, giving a noticeable DPS change. An important crosspath to watch out for is 3-0-2, which allows sentries to pin.
Sentry Expert	Sentry Expert produces a variety of sentries suited for different needs but often is inconsistent in selection. An improper selection of these sentries still makes it weak to very large rushes.
Sentry Champion	Sentry Champion's Champion Sentries are what give Sentry Champion its true power. They shoot plasma very quickly but cannot pop Purples at all. If the opponent opts for this, large quantities of Purples can still overwhelm them unless they already have adequate Purple defense.

Path 2

Upgrade	Engineer Monkey countermeasures
Larger Service Area	An extra range boost that excels at catching bloons from afar. This doesn't help the opponent against grouped bloons.
Deconstruction	Most players opting for this upgrade pair it with sentries for the higher MOAB-class damage, and deals better Fortified damage too.
Cleansing Foam	Cleansing Foam has very low pierce but strips off Regrow, Camo, and Lead properties from passing bloons. This also includes DDTs. Sending in large rushes will quickly overwhelm a Cleansing Foam user. An opponent who relies exclusively on them as camo detection often dies to Camo Purple rushes.
Overclock	Overclock speeds up attack speed of whoever they target. It often is targeted to very expensive towers.
Ultraboost	Ultraboost works very slowly to boost up applicable towers. An opponent who buys Ultraboost is often vulnerable to rushes.

Path 3

Upgrade	Engineer Monkey countermeasures
Oversize Nails	Oversize Nails adds enough pierce to reliably pop Grouped Red rushes if all pierce is used per nail. Pressure them to buy it in Round 1 by sending Grouped Reds. Spaced Blues can also overwhelm an Engi without this upgrade.
Pin	Pin is more effective against bloons starting from the Blue range, as the pinning status effect with the upgrade acts as a stun.
Double Gun	Double Gun is enough to reliably defend Grouped Blues and somewhat hold off Grouped Greens, but it is weak against Spaced Whites without something extra.
Bloon Trap	Most players going for Bloon Trap want to syphon off the opponent's eco sends as a secondary source of money. If the syphoning of money is a concern, send the weak eco sends and go for farm-oriented sources such as Supply Drop. Banana Farms are the greatest counter to early Bloon Traps, as they do not rely much on eco while still bringing extra income on top. Grouped Reds is still a viable eco send that will ward off successful traps, or at least bring the rate of trapping to a minimum. A less common use of Bloon Trap is to anti-stall rounds so that important sends become unlocked sooner in favor of the opponent.
XXXL Trap	XXXL Trap is expensive but proves to be effective against ZOMGs and even visible DDTs. Each trap earns a huge sum of constant income per use, so don't sustain the fight for too long. Fortified blimps make no difference to regular blimps to an XXXL Trap, in terms of what can be instakilled to it. Because of this, avoid sending fortified blimps because then it will be a big loss of eco and money. BADs are an XXXL Trap's weakness if there isn't any effective defense against BADs.

Crosspath-specific

Crosspath	Engineer Monkey countermeasures
3-0-2	Pin Sprockets is a popular Sprockets crosspath that maximizes Pin across a wide range and reasonable pierce. It still fails against massive Grouped Purple rushes, however, so it pays to punish the opponent if they insist this to win them.

Synergy-specific

First	Second	Engineer Monkey countermeasures
Overclock	Expensive towers	Typically these towers attack fast, have high damage, or have high range or any combination of the three and would really benefit from that big attack speed buff.

Sub-Towers

Sub-Tower	Engineer Monkey countermeasures
Sentry	A base sentry without upgrades is statistically equivalent to a 0-0-0 Dart Monkey that lasts a limited time. Its power is increased with the parent Engineer's crosspaths prior creation.

Other Advice

• If you see the opponent's Engineer Monkeys having their respective unique cosmetics, the opponent has unlocked all upgrades for Engineer Monkey. In that case, prepare for all possible upgrades.

See also

• Engineer Monkey Strategies
  • General Strategy
  • Optimization Strategy
  • Countermeasures Strategy

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