Princess Bubblegum

Princess Bubblegum
General Information
Short name	PB
Game	Bloons Adventure Time TD
Unlocked at	Candy Cornered
Weapon Type	Gun
Star Level Currency	Candy
Voice Actor	Hynden Walch
Statistics (at level 1)
Cost	$650
Damage Type	Normal
Attack Speed	0.70
Range	50
Damage	1
Pierce	1
Other Statistics
Placeable on	???
Camo?	Limited (splash damage) Yes (Super Intelligence)
Abilities	Royal Decree Jellybeans Have Power

“	Sweet and formidable, Bubblegum uses her high-tech guns and Princess powers to win the day.	”
	~ BATTD description

“	Uses her custom bubblegum blaster to damage and slow bloons.	”
	~ Short description

Princess Bubblegum (frequently shortened to PB) is a hero in Bloons Adventure Time TD. She is the third Adventure Time-related hero in the game, along with being the fourth hero to be unlocked in the game. She is unlocked in the Candy Throne Room, by completing every level in the Candy Cornered adventure. Her main attack is to shoot wads of bubblegum at Bloons, which is similar to a Glue Gunner with Glue Splatter but with a small blast radius, and it also pops one Bloon layer upon impact. As with all BATTD heroes, only one of Princess Bubblegum may be placed at one time. She costs $650 to place and uses Gun weapons.

PB has a character variant called Warrior Bubblegum who fits in with a later phase of the character's history. This variant wields a sword and spawns characters that act as sentries, much like the Monkey Engineer.

Description

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Pros

• Slows bloons with bubblegum

Cons

• Low Damage

Upgrades

	Super Intelligence COST: $700
	Description: PB's attacks remove camo and regrow Effect: Self-explanatory, also grants camo detection

	Bloon Science COST: $400
	Upgrade(s) Required: Super Intelligence
	Description: Guns do increased damage to ceramics and MOABs Effect: +5 damage to Ceramic and MOAB class bloons, also gives +3 pierce

	Jellybeans Have Power COST: $4,000
	Upgrade(s) Required: Bloon Science Regal Presence Locked by Royal Decree
	Description: Ability: Sprays a jet of bloon popping jellybeans Effect: During ability, switches main attack to an infinite ranged attack that shoots jellybean projectiles every 0.1s with 50 pierce and 10 sharp damage (attack speed and pierce can be boosted, damage cannot unless it's a bonus to other bloon types) over 4.5 seconds. 30 second cooldown.

	Soda and Mints COST: $8,000 Requires Star Level 7+
	Upgrade(s) Required: Jellybeans Have Power
	Description: Jellybean attack does increased explosive damage Effect: Ability pierce increased to 100, damage increased to 15 and changed to normal type, and duration increased to 10 seconds.

	Regal Presence COST: $600
	Description: Characters in range get increased range and pierce Effect: +3 range and +1 pierce to all towers in range

	Royal Decree COST: $2,500 Requires Star Level 5+
	Upgrade(s) Required: Regal Presence Locked by Jellybeans Have Power
	Description: Ability: Grants extra cash once per round Effect: When activated, gives $750 after a short delay, can only be activated once per round

	Royal Promise COST: $1,500 Needs Finn nearby with Bound by Word!
	Upgrade(s) Required: Regal Presence Unwavering Loyalty
	Description: Finn's Bound By Word becomes permanently active Effect: Self-explanatory; Bound by Word speed boost will take effect once purchased Penalty: If Finn or PB is sold (only their regular variants) or if the player loses at least 1 life while upgrade is active, 50 lives are instantly lost, and Royal Promise deactivates immediately

	Unwavering Loyalty COST: $400
	Description: Princess Bubblegum's allies attack faster Effect: +20% attack speed to all allies equipped to Princess Bubblegum

	To Me COST: $500 Requires Star Level 3+
	Upgrade(s) Required: Unwavering Loyalty
	Description: Can place 2 more of PB's allies Effect: 2 more copies of each ally equipped to PB become available to place

	Gun Familiarity COST: $250
	Description: Increases blast radius of gun attacks Effect: +25% blast radius and +5 pierce

	Quick Draw COST: $300
	Upgrade(s) Required: Gun Familiarity
	Description: Increases attack speed Effect: -0.2s attack cooldown

	Gun Expertise COST: $400
	Upgrade(s) Required: Quick Draw
	Description: Increases blast radius of gun attacks even more Effect: +30% blast radius and +8 pierce

“	Warning! If you break the Royal Promise, by losing lives or by selling Finn or PB, you will instantly lose 50 lives. Are you sure you wish to make the Royal Promise? Yes / No	”
	~ Warning dialogue that shows every time the player attempts to purchase Royal Promise

Star Boost

PB will receive the following permanent boosts as she levels up:

• 2 stars - Base attack cooldown decreased by 0.1*
• 4 stars - Base range increased by 2
• 6 stars - Base attack blast radius increased by 2
• 8 stars - Base attack cooldown decreased by 0.1*
• 9 stars - Base range increased by 3
• 10 stars - Base attack changed to corrosive gum which does 1 damage per second to bloons

*Shows "attack speed increased by X" in the official patch notes and in the game - this is misleading. The attack speed stat is the inverse of attack cooldown.

Quotes

When placed:

• "Get ready for some SCIENCE!"
• "I need to conduct more tests!"
• "Don't worry, everyone. I have a plan!"
• "Whoa, that's a blast from the past." (when Princess Bubblegum/Warrior Bubblegum is placed after the other).

When selected:

• "May I help you?"
• "Yes?"
• "I'm very busy."
• "Ready!"
• "Hmmm..."
• "I see."
• "Knock it off!" (when annoyed)

When upgraded:

• "Good choice!"
• "Ooh, that's sweet!"
• "Pure science!"
• "I Royal Promise!" - Finn, when PB is upgraded to Royal Promise

When a MOAB-Class Bloon appears:

• "Whoa... the Bloonometer is reading crazy threat levels!"

When a MOAB-Class Bloon pops:

• "Don't mess with my citizens!"

When activating ability:

• "How about some Jelly Beans in your face!" (when activating Jellybeans Have Power)
• "Finishing move!" (when activating Jellybeans Have Power while upgraded to Soda and Mints)
• "For the Kingdom!" (when activating Royal Decree)
• "Whoa, those were some mad skills!" (after activating Sai's Sabotage Supply Lines ability for a while)

When a Bloon leaks:

• "They're breaking through! We need another plan!" (will say this when selling Finn while PB's Royal Promise upgrade is active)
• "Nooooo! I'm sorry, princess." - Finn, when the Royal Promise is broken by losing a life or by selling PB

Strategies

Princess Bubblegum is a relatively even split support-damage dealing hybrid.

As a base tower, PB is to be used like the Glue Gunner. Due to her blasts dealing area damage, she can solo the first few rounds on easier maps. However, the low damage dealt also makes her gum (which is basically glue) less effective against stronger bloons. The damage is applied before the gum effect, and it is possible for only one child bloon out of a parent bloon to get gummed. Additional upgrades can make her better suited for crowd control though. Super Intelligence is particularly useful as it allows her to both remove regrow and remove camo statuses from Bloons.

Tips

• Her ability is pretty interesting and seemingly has bug that makes certain weapons give it better damage than others. With Candy Cane Shotgun, its total damage from start to finish is reduced about 3 times compared to that of Liquifier and fires only one stream of jellybeans, seems like having triple stream of projectiles on basic makes ability 3 times weaker. With this gun it seemingly hits for 200 hits with Soda and Mints ability upgrade. This weapon only seemingly is good if you want to use PB without abilities, probably because of you not having her at 7 stars, just mind you, she needs to be point blank to the track to even hit yellow bloon with Liquifier and Cosmic gauntlets, -10% speed of this weapon doesn't make it any easier .
• With Liquifier her ability enhanced with Soda and Mints upgrade hits for 599 hits and accepts Engineers Blueprints, Rock Shirt, Gemma the Gemstone and Weapon given damage boosts flawlessly, this weapon seems to be the best weapon for her ability, with it doing the most of hits, while Candy Cane Shotgun being seemingly the worst performing about 3 times worse in amount of hits and 2 other epic weapons doing 2 times worse in amounts of hits they do compared to Liquifier. Seems like speed boosts given by her Weapon does change amount of hits she can perform on ability, while Lemonhope definitely doesn't boost it. Only trinkets that add 20% attack speed or Baker's Shard give boost for her ability other than Weapons with speed increase.
• If to add someone with huge range and Googoomamameter (Especially Supermonkey, because other than 15% speed boosts, Glasses of Nerdicon (let's not forget Crystal Gem Apple, Missile, Soul Stone) he doesn't really benefits from stat boosts, so he needs to be focused on support and damage up items) and when it enters into Googoomamameter holder's range followed by her immediate use of enhanced by Soda and Mints ability of hers with Liquifier, it will do 600 hits of normal damage + 59(amount of hits per full ability use)*7(unknown multiplication source)*3(Googoomamameter boost) damage, adding 1239 damage on top. Seems numbers aren't supposed to be 59 and 599, but 60 and 600, but then it applies only on last layer it counts damage it (1st level in this case - pure damage per full ability without Googoomamameter, 2nd and last- Googoomamameter added damage).
• Make sure Marceline's character is floating near her (at least within her range) during PB's ability use and they both have mutual benefit items: Gemma the Gemstone and Rock Shirt on PB and Carl the Gem on Marceline, it's important part for this to work or your PB's ability won't be hitting as hard and will hit more than twice times less, your goal is to try hitting 11k-13777 (Max damage, utilizes Marceline bug) damage, or higher if possible. Don't overdo boosting her damage as it can backfire, Liquifier, Engineers Blueprints, Gemma the Gemstone, Rock Shirt, Baker's Shard, Cosmic Gauntlets, Baby Tooth, Candy Diving Suit , and Super Monkey with Googoomamameter are essential, but if you add too much damage stat on top of it, even just 1 random +1 damage item it could reduce ability's damage because of ruining a bug that making it hit so high. 9 stars PB with Liquifier with this set up can hit 13777 per ability at 9 stars but if you even add Monkey Academy Degree on top of it all, the damage will just collapse really hard. So if you risk and try upgrading PB to 10 stars will be your bad if you loose all that damage. Honestly, better discover what Secrets Warrior PB has, then risk damage on ability to 10 starring og PB.
• Seems like speed trinkets though can change PB's ability damage, not directly, but affecting Googoomamameter damage bonus. By having PB's speed change from (0,67*1,5 is about 1 ; 0,7*1,5 is slightly above 1; 2,1* 1,5 is slightly above 3) about 2,1 to about 3,0 with Baker's shard, bonus from Googoomamameter changes from 59*7*3 to 59*10*3, so for each use, she can do bonus 59 hits with 3 damage each per 0,3 of her speed, which is the last way to help her ability other than reducing ability cooldowns, making it interesting choice, so you might want to use Baker's Shard as her last item.
• Using Cosmic Gauntlets with Baby Tooth, 1 COBRA for cooldown reduction barely manages to give PB basically permanent ability. so using those you get rid of her base attack, so attack doesn't matter as basic attack boosting stat in this case (if you spam her ability button fast enough), and if speed has 0 effect on ability of hers, only her damage matters.
• There are two types of speed increases. Speed delay decrease type and raw speed multiplication Speed increase. Weapons with speed boosts, 20% attack speed increase character specific trinkets or ones that are accessible to everyone, but getting boost from certain character in range and other conditions met and Baker's Shard all multiply damage after all the other sources of speed boosts reduced speed delay. Speed multiplying items translate their speed well in PB's ability, while no other way of speed boost affects her ability. Speed Delay decrease is calculated by having increase from regular trinket instrument character's boost or boosting ally, increase being "x" use to change character's base speed being "y" by doing the following y÷(1-x). And it repeats every time you get a new speed boost, increasing your Speed more and more . PB's ability though doesn't benefit from reducing speed delay.

• Her dependency of ability to speed and damage makes her not such great of holder as previously thought of Magic Coin Purse (that's one is important) and Crystal Ball, if you have a trouble putting those on her, especially the former, put it on FP, as she only needs Engineers blueprints, Fire Crown, Baker's Shard, 1 negative effect protection/water placement trinket, Banana Replicator and 1 COBRA with Cool. Reduction on field to be good.
• She is one of most interesting characters to get to 9 (not 10, because it ruins a certain bug that helps her do a lot more damage, and can also harm money making due to her DoT effect) stars once you got everyone from your main squad to 7 stars, at least for everyone, even more if you are f2p, because there's alternative character you can get to upgrade after that with those same items and you don't stuck with with items dropping for a character you already 10 starred, same goes for Commander Cassie. People who bought premium characters might have their Finn, Marceline and Jake to be interesting in that sense to, OG Finn and OG Marceline got every slot with something very useful you can insert in each, at 8 stars you only start to approach to their maximum potential.

Version History

1.2

• Damage type changed to sharp/energy (can pop purple, frozen and ghost)

???

• Damage type changed to normal

1.7

• Regal Presence range changed from +15% to +3

Gallery

Character Profile and Leveling Up

PB's profile

PB's upgrade tree

Princess Bubblegum’s idle animation (GIF)

Princess Bubblegum Level 2

Princess Bubblegum Level 4

Princess Bubblegum Old Level 8 Part 1

Princess Bubblegum Old Level 8 Part 2

Princess Bubblegum Old Level 9 Part 1

Princess Bubblegum Old Level 9 Part 2

Princess Bubblegum Old Level 9 Part 3

Weapons

PB without a weapon equipped

PB holding Nail Gun

PB holding Pressure Hose

PB holding Sniper Rifle

PB holding Gunter's Taser

PB holding Liquid Pyrotechnics Launcher

PB holding Martian Blaster

PB holding Sassage Flare

PB holding Candy Cane Shotgun (GIF)

PB attacking with Candy Cane Shotgun

PB holding [[Candy Cane Shotgun

PB holding Candy Horse Tranquilizer

PB holding Electrode Gun

PB attacking with Electrode Gun

PB holding Fumigator

PB holding Gwen's Flamethrower

PB holding Ball Blam Burglerber

PB holding Liquifier

PB holding Web Gun

PB attacking with Web Gun

Gameplay

PB stuck in Candy Throne Room

PB with Regal Presence

Jellybeans Have Power

Soda and Mints

PB using Royal Decree, generating a burst of money

Warning before purchasing Royal Promise

Finn with Royal Promise effect from PB, showing hearts all over

A broken Royale Promise

Royal Promise breaks due to red bloon leaking (2x speed)

Princess Bubblegum on the Martian throne

UI

PB in the Wish Orb Creator menu

PB releasing a Rare Wish Orb

PB releasing an Epic Wish Orb

PB while idle in the wish orb opening screen

Videos

Bloons Adventure Time TD - 1-1

Unlocking PB

Trivia

• One of the upgrades, Super Intelligence, can be compared to a Glue Gunner with both Heart of Oak and Counter-Espionage in each shot. The fact that the upgrade automatically gives Princess Bubblegum camo detection is also comparable to Signal Flare.
• The Super Intelligence upgrade icon is a possible reference to the Bloons TD 4 Camo Bloon popping into Pink Bloons.
• Princess Bubblegum is also an scientist. She appears on the Wish Orb opening animation and the Wish Orb Creator menu.
• Even without the Super Intelligence upgrade, PB can indirectly deal damage to Camo Bloons and cover them in gum by splashing. But she first should have a non-camo bloon be close to the camo bloon, so it's not a reliable strategy for Impoppable, especially with fast bloons starting with Round 10.
• Despite the upgrade's description saying that it does "explosive damage", Soda and Mints' damage type remains Normal, not Explosion, so the ability still damages DDTs.
• PB is also part of a hidden achievement. If she is with Finn and Flame Princess on a map at the same time, the player will earn the achievement named "Awkward...".
• The Jellybeans Have Power upgrade does not need to have Regal Presence upgraded, despite the upgrade tree showing otherwise.
• The Royal Promise upgrade can be bought if Finn has Warrior Bubblegum but not Princess Bubblegum in his range, while still being in range of the latter.
• If the Royal Promise is broken due to a bloon leaking, the RBE of the bloon in addition to the 50 lives lost as part of the penalty are added together (e.g. leaking a red will cost 51 lives, slightly more than half of the number of starting lives on Extreme Difficulty).
  • In other words, if a Ceramic leaks on Hard Difficulty (before adding extra lives or life protection) while Royal Promise is active, it will result in a loss of the game.
  • Fortunately, Finn still gets to keep his Bound by Word upgrade even after the Royal Promise breaks. (as evident when a bloon leaks after Royal Promise is broken for a while)
  • If tanking one or two weak bloons that reached the exit, using the Tiki Shield can prevent losing lives (up to 5 per equipped character placed) and consequently avoid triggering the devastating Royal Promise penalty. Try not to tank bloons with the Stone Skin Potion alone as the (up to 30 at Level 10) extra lives are still technically counted as lives, hence losing them will still trigger the penalty, netting a loss of down to 20 (at Level 10) lives.
  • If the player must sell Finn or PB at any point on Impoppable Difficulty (except Round 75) while Royal Promise is active, using Time Travel Machine or Ancient Sleeping Magi of Lifegiving allows the player to revive from the life loss penalty. Note that this only works once per game, so it's better to use BMO's Skateboard or Martian Transport to move them at almost all instances.
  • The player can exploit the Royal Promise's life loss mechanic on Impoppable Difficulty by using a Dimension Disruptor or having an Abraham Lincoln's Penny equipped to a character whom the player doesn't plan to sell, and finally selling Finn or PB to cause a whole screen wipe. They shouldn't rely on this trick to complete normal rounds, however, as these revives can only be used a limited amount of times per game.
• In Martian Games events with the Magic Man rule, Magic Man can trigger the Royal Promise penalty by kidnapping Finn or PB while the Royal Promise is active.
• In Impoppable, due to the player having only 1 life after a continue, if a bloon leaking causes fatal damage whilst Royal Promise is active, one continue will only give the player a +$5000 bonus, as the penalty will kill the player a second time.