Monkey Teams (BTD6)/Strategies

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Monkey Teams

Monkey Teams encourages players to utilize the three allocated tower types and let them cooperate to form an outstanding defense. Accomplishing it rewards a chunk of extra Monkey Money, making it an effective way to gather a minor Monkey Money bonus while exploring many new combinations of towers and their synergies.

This page shows strategies for specific team combos, as well as general tips, all for the completion of Monkey Teams efficiently.

General Strategy

Analyze the list of towers, and wisely choose the appropriate map difficulty for the given three-tower team and the allocated maps. Choose a hero that covers the weaknesses of the team, like unaffordable early camo detection or lack of lead popping power.

Towers

The core of Monkey Teams is the three-tower teams. There are advantages and disadvantages of each tower, and this section will help how to utilize them optimally on the right game modes with such a limited choice of towers.

Very few tower types produce income, limited to the following:

• Sniper Monkey (Supply Drop, Elite Sniper)
• Monkey Buccaneer (Merchantman, Favored Trades, Trade Empire)
• Heli Pilot (Support Chinook, Special Poperations)
• Alchemist (Lead to Gold, Rubber to Gold)
• Druid (Jungle's Bounty, Spirit of the Forest)
• Banana Farm
• Monkey Village (Monkey Town, Monkey City + income producer, Monkeyopolis + Farms)
• Engineer Monkey (Bloon Trap, XXXL Trap)

Of all tower types, the following have reliable camo detection and/or camo countermeasures:

• Dart Monkey (Enhanced Eyesight)
• Ice Monkey (camo detection: Cold Snap; decamo: Embrittlement)
• Sniper Monkey (Night Vision Goggles)
• Monkey Sub (camo detection: Advanced Intel + camo detecting towers; decamo: Submerge and Support)
• Monkey Buccaneer (Crow's Nest)
• Monkey Ace (Spy Plane)
• Heli Pilot (IFR)
• Mortar Monkey (camo detection and decamo: Signal Flare)
• Dartling Gunner (Advanced Targeting)
• Wizard Monkey (camo detection: Monkey Sense, decamo: Shimmer)
• Super Monkey (Ultravision; however, too expensive for earlier rounds)
• Ninja Monkey (camo detection: default; decamo: Counter-Espionage)
• Spike Factory
• Engineer Monkey (decamo: Cleansing Foam)

Tower	Strategy
Dart Monkey	The Dart Monkey is a very simple but versatile unit that possesses a variety of upgrades for countering many different bloon types.
Boomerang Monkey	TBA
Bomb Shooter	TBA
Tack Shooter	TBA
Ice Monkey	TBA
Glue Gunner	TBA
Sniper Monkey	TBA
Monkey Sub	TBA
Monkey Buccaneer	TBA
Monkey Ace	TBA
Heli Pilot	TBA
Mortar Monkey	TBA
Dartling Gunner	TBA
Wizard Monkey	TBA
Super Monkey	TBA
Ninja Monkey	TBA
Alchemist	TBA
Druid	TBA
Banana Farm	Banana Farms only generate income. Obviously, they should not be used on Deflation or CHIMPS, since Banana Farms are disabled on that mode. Use Banana Farms to accumulate a headstart of income so that powerful upgrades can be afforded sooner.
Spike Factory	TBA
Monkey Village	TBA
Engineer Monkey	TBA
Beast Handler	TBA

Heroes

Heroes offer super valuable roles at supporting a defense with their own special utility through their self-leveling upgrades. Choose the right hero to minimize the disadvantages of the three-tower loadout. Selecting the best hero is most important on harder maps and difficulties.

Hero	Strategy
Quincy	Quincy is the most basic of the heroes, having a ricocheting arrow attack that is quite accurate at bouncing towards nearby bloons. He is the cheapest to purchase, has a fast leveling rate, and good range, making him excel in the early-game on a variety of maps. His late-game tends to fall off, however, and has no natural counter to DDTs. Quincy can level fast enough on all maps to access his camo detection upgrade by Round 24 if he is placed down as soon as possible.
Gwendolin	TBA
Striker Jones	TBA
Obyn Greenfoot	TBA
Captain Churchill	A powerful pure DPS choice, which helps on three-tower combos with very low pure offensive but high support (e.g. Alch-Farm-Village).
Benjamin	He generates money each round, in addition to making Round 40 easier to deal with by his Trojan.
Ezili	TBA
Pat Fusty	TBA
Adora	TBA
Admiral Brickell	For water-dominant maps and for teams that feature any water tower, Brickell is a great option for buffing water towers, alongside some decent damage from her own attacks.
Etienne	Etienne has a rather weak early-game, but possesses some powerful supports that help across a wide range, ignore Line of Sight, and grant global camo detection. His Level 8 upgrade is a vital asset for tower combos that have very weak or no camo detection. On most maps where he can actually cover range of all lanes, he can hold off Camo Bloons prior to naturally getting that important Level 8 upgrade, assuming he is placed as soon as possible.
Sauda	Sauda's cheap cost and hands-off damage makes her optimal for most Beginner and Intermediate Maps, and excels on those maps in these cases.
Psi	Psi helps minimize RBE with their vibrational instakills, making them useful on harder maps and difficulties where they can maximize its leveling rate so they will scale fast enough to excel in the late-game.
Geraldo	Geraldo has a variety of items that help simplify multiple stages of the game, whether for early-game, mid-game, or late-game. Most of his items except Paragon Power Totems help throughout almost any stage of the game necessary for Monkey Teams. He has both income generation in the form of his Rare Quincy Action Figure and Fertilizer (requires Farm), and camo detection in the form of his See Invisibility Potion. Unless Super and Dart are both in the team, Worn Hero's Cape is useless in Monkey Teams.