Pirate Lord (BTDB2)

BTDB2

“	Greatly increased attack speed for all attacks and can shoot 3 grappling hooks at once.	”
	^{~ BTDB2 description}

Pirate Lord is the 5th upgrade of the Monkey Buccaneer in Bloons TD Battles 2. It is similar to its BTD6 counterpart, except it does not produce bonus income from hooked blimps and base statistics generally matches the pre-33.0 variant. Like in BTD6, Pirate Lord's ability lacks any initial cooldown.

The ability, as usual, hooks up to 3 blimps at once and can hook a ZOMG with two hooks, cooldown of 30 seconds. Its darts and grapes (but not bombs) are twice as fast (darts: 0.5s, grapes: 0.65s), the triple bomb attack deals 2 damage per explosion and 1 damage per frag, and grapes deal 5 damage plus another +5 to Ceramics with only 1 DoT burning damage per tick. 1-5-0 crosspath does improve bomb speed and 2-5-0 does provide 10 grapes per spray of the grape attack. 0-5-1 crosspath increases pierce of grapes and bombs in the same way that Cannon Ship does.

In this game, DDTs and Fortified DDTs are prioritized over all types of ZOMGs, followed by Fortified variants as a secondary prioritization.

It costs $21,000, and is unlocked with the other tier 5 Monkey Buccaneer upgrades for 1500.

Costs[]

Updated as of Version 1.7.1

Upgrade or Crosspath	Cost	Sellback (70%)	Sellback (80%)
Upgrade Cost (x-5-x)	$21,000	$TBA	$TBA
Total Cost (0-5-0)	$28,700	$20,090	$22,960
Total Cost (1-5-0)	$TBA	$TBA	$TBA
Total Cost (2-5-0)	$TBA	$TBA	$TBA
Total Cost (0-5-1)	$TBA	$TBA	$TBA
Total Cost (0-5-2)	$TBA	$TBA	$TBA

Strategy[]

Summary[]

An effective method for dispatching ZOMGs and small numbers of DDTs reliably for a relatively low cost. It can be sold-and-rebought for multiple uses, and pairs extremely well with the bonus sellback from Favored Trades, which can be utilized since they are both Buccaneers. High micromanagement is helpful when attempting to solo ZOMG and DDT rushes with it, but shouldn't be a permanent solution against these types of rushes due to natural server latency slowing down the rate of even the best users of Pirate Lord hooking micromanagement.

Tips[]

Pirate Lord prioritizes Fortified variants over non-Fortified variants.
Crosspathing makes little difference to the Pirate Lord as its main use is to hook in blimps. However, 2-5-0 has a DPS advantage, and 0-5-2 increases pierce and range of the improved grapes while also allowing popping of Camos.
It can be viable to use Pirate Lord as a surprise for the opponent when they send large amounts of Fortified ZOMGs; use a suitable two-tower loadout beforehand and reveal the Buccaneer only when rushed.
Buy-and-reselling a 0-5-0 Pirate Lord net losses in $8610, $5740 with nearby Favored Trades. Single unfortified ZOMGs cost less than the loss from Pirate Lord's hookings.

Bugs[]

Current

None (so far)

Patched

[1.0.5, possibly sooner] Pirate Lord sometimes fails to hook in ZOMGs and instead uses all hooks on a single blimp. It is not known how this condition occurs, as it seems to spontaneously happen. It is likely an intended behavior from capping ZOMG hook-ins to 1 per round. Patched in Version 1.0.6; this bug fix now allows multiple ZOMGs to be hooked per round.
[1.0.6] Pirate Lord will sometimes enter an initial cooldown upon being bought. Patched in a later update.
[1.5.1, possibly earlier] Pirate Lord is unable to hook down MOAB-class bloons affected by frozen status. An example of the glitch can be found in a video by ISAB "This Bug Defies All Logic..." at the at 8:08 mark. Patched in 1.7.0

Version History[]

Initial release (compared to BTD6 during Version 28.0)

Pirate Lord ability now has an initial cooldown of 3 seconds.
Pirate Lord now has a cap of one ZOMG hook-in per round, even with sell-and-rebuying

1.0.6

[bug fix, this version?] Removed ZOMG cap
Pirate Lord now has no initial cooldown

1.1.0

35k XP → 17.5k XP

1.5.0

No longer requires 17,500 XP to unlock. Players who have unlocked this upgrade before the update will not receive a full refund, as well as unlock all Tier 5 Monkey Buccaneer upgrades.