Warrior Bubblegum

Warrior Bubblegum
General Information
Short name	Warrior PB
Game	Bloons Adventure Time TD
Unlocked at	Necro Candy (Hard only)
Weapon Type	Sword
Star Level Currency	Candy
Voice Actor	Hynden Walch
Statistics (at level 1)
Cost	$350
Damage Type	Sharp
Attack Speed	0.91
Range	27
Damage	1
Pierce	5
Other Statistics
Placeable on	Land
Camo?	No
Abilities	Gumball Guardian

“	Never one to stay on her throne in times of trouble, the leader of the Candy Military can call forth a variety of units to help defend against the bloon invasion.	”
	~ BATTD description

“	Calls upon the candy army to aid in battle.	”
	~ Short description

Warrior Bubblegum, or Warrior PB for short, is the name given to a character in Bloons Adventure Time TD. She is Princess Bubblegum but within the context of a war that she faced in the Candy Kingdom.

In the game Warrior Bubblegum can be unlocked by clearing the Candy Kingdom campaign "Necro Candy" in Hard difficulty only. She costs $350 to be placed.

Wielding a sword, she is less cost efficient than fellow sword-wielder Finn but can be upgraded to become a powerful support tower, like the Monkey Engineer. Her upgrades are based around three paths; an ally-upgrades path, character-summons path and offensive path.

Her sword attack cycles between clockwise and counterclockwise movement, very chaotic and unreliable when dealing with multiple bloons at once because of constant change of swing directions (therefore low affinity for pierce). Her own base tower power is very weak, so her weapon better either add support, either add sabotage against bloons.

Description

TBA

Pros

• Summons candy soldiers to fight the bloons

Cons

• Low direct attack power

Upgrades

	Royal Treasury COST: $810
	Description: Warrior PB's allies are cheaper Effect: 25% discount on ally placement cost

	Reinforcements COST: $650
	Upgrade(s) Required: Royal Treasury
	Description: Increases the quantity of PB's allies Effect: +1 max ally for each shot

	Born to Rule COST: $6,000
	Upgrade(s) Required: Reinforcements Locked by Gumball Guardian
	Description: Above upgrades apply to everyone's allies Effect: All allies from every character in party gain discounts and quantity increase as if they are equipped to Warrior PB

	Candy Archers COST: $500
	Description: Summon Candy Archers to join the cause Effect: Spawns Candy Archer sub-towers on a random location of placeable land within tower's range + 50 units every 6 seconds; archers lasts 35 seconds each (pauses between rounds) and shoot arrows every 1s that have 4 pierce, 1 Sharp damage, 50 range.

	Gumball Guards COST: $950 Requires Star Level 3+
	Upgrade(s) Required: Candy Archers
	Description: Summon Gumball Guards to attack bloons with their sword Effect: Summons a Gumball Guard in place of a Candy Archer every 4 archer summons; guards' melee attacks have a 0.2s cooldown, 3 pierce, 2 Sharp damage and 35 range

	Candy Copters COST: $2,500 Requires Star Level 5+
	Upgrade(s) Required: Gumball Guards
	Description: Call in air support from the Candy Copters Effect: Summons a Candy Copter in place of a Candy Archer every 7 archer summons. Copter shoots pair of darts every 0.3s that have 4 pierce and deal 1 sharp damage each within 60 range.

	Gumball Guardian COST: $5,250 Requires Star Level 7+
	Upgrade(s) Required: Candy Copters Locked by Born to Rule
	Description: Ability: Activate a devastating laser strike from the Gumball Guardians Effect: Replaces Warrior Bubblegum's attack with an orbital strike attack that deals 40 normal damage every 0.1s for 4.3 seconds. 180 second cooldown. Does 6640 single target damage minium (not buffed) .

	Gumball Science COST: $490
	Upgrade(s) Required: Gumball Guards
	Description: Increases the range and attack speed of the Gumball Guards Effect: Gumball Guards have +5 range and their attack cooldown lowered to 0.125s

	Upgraded Copters COST: $1,400
	Upgrade(s) Required: Gumball Science Candy Copters
	Description: Candy Copters move faster and have more weapons Effect: Now shoots a pair of darts on each side of the copter (for 4 total) and moves 50% faster. Also has short range gatling guns that deal 2 damage with 2 pierce each.

	Inspiring Presence COST: $420
	Upgrade(s) Required: Candy Archers
	Description: PB can summon her forces quicker Effect: All sub-towers take 33% less summoning time

	Combat Training COST: $150
	Description: Increases the pierce of PB's sword attacks Effect: +2 pierce

	Combat Experience COST: $210
	Upgrade(s) Required: Combat Training
	Description: Increases the speed of PB's sword attacks Effect: Sword attack cooldown is now 0.9s

	Combat Expertise COST: $350
	Upgrade(s) Required: Combat Experience
	Description: Increases the damage of PB's sword attacks Effect: +1 sword attack damage

Star Boost

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

• 2 stars - Base attack pierce increased by 2
• 4 stars - Base range increased by 2
• 6 stars - Base attack cooldown decreased by 0.2*
• 8 stars - Base range increased by 3
• 9 stars - Base attack pierce increased by 2
• 10 stars - Starts with Candy Archers pre-purchased for free

*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.

Strategy

Her Born to Rule ability allows for all Allies to be placed one extra time per character equipping them, effectively doubling the amount of allies in the player's arsenal. This is very helpful to capitalize on both powerful damaging allies like Tech Terrors and Vampire King income allies such as BMO and COBRAs, and supportive allies like Lemonhope, Gumbald, and Hunson Abadeer. Additionally, the high costs of each Tech Terror are cut by $3000 each with Born to Rule, so with multiple Terrors, Born to Rule actually makes a profit.

Warrior Bubblegum's summoned allies are very useful on Wizard Royale (and by extension, Martian Games with Wizard Attack enabled), since they can provide cheap distractions for the wizards' single-target negative status effect spells. Martian Games that enable Magic Man (the kidnapping of towers) are also situations where her summoned allies come in handy, since Magic Man has a decent chance of targeting the more numerous summoned allies (which she soon resummons automatically) instead of a more valuable tower that must be rebought and re-upgraded from scratch when kidnapped.

Warrior bubblegum has a niche use as an eco-support hybrid build, however to do this successfully, the WPB has to be fairly high level, while eco Finn or support WPB don't need to be as high level. This build is not very common but if the player wants to use Missile Finn, it can be useful.

Warrior Bubblegum is also useful to wear passive-effect equipment like the Future Crystal, Magic Coin Purse, and Time Travel Machine that would occupy valuable slots on other characters, as her own offensive capabilities are not a main focus for her use.

If your not concerned about loot drops from TCW then use her with 4D Sword to potentially catch missed MOABs. Otherwise Excandibur, Unimaginably Amazing Sword or Nothung can be used on her.

You can give her Night Sword. It will allow her, when she sucks souls of every bloon type, make all types of bloons weaker and her slowly getting rid of her weaknesses to other bloon types. When other characters make a reliable defense, she could be dropped to suck souls of bloons and at least get rid of her weaknesses. MOAB class bloons below BAD can be soul sucked by her in several hits, resulting in their slowdown and double damage against them.

Tips

• Her weak attacks can make her great to equip trinkets that earn cash while she tries to hit bloons, when coupled with range boosting trinkets she has a lot of chances to make money. Her Army though, gains no benefit, so if you want to earn cash with her, don't buy her Army.

• Other slots can be considered for spare Glasses of Nerdicon or cooldown reduction (like Cosmic Gauntlets, Baby Tooth and Warpaint Mud ).
• Banana Replicator and Powerometer don't influence summoned by her candy army, making not generate double cash, not giving rangers more range and not giving melees more damage. No money generation weapons or trinkets of her boosts her own army. Not even ally boosting trinkets of her boosts her army. The only boosts they can receive come from instrument characters and boosting everyone trinket called Treetrunk's Apple Knife.
• Her ability is capable of some insane and quite quick single target orbital damage (not affected by line of sight, as long as target is in hittable state, it can be hit by orbital attack), especially if you stack some extra damage (damage increase type: +damage to all attacks) weapons and trinkets on her, doesn't seem to get benefit from instrument boosts in any way though . Best trinkets to break it: Baker's Shard, Engineers Blueprints, Gemma the Gemstone, Rock Shirt. Best Weapon for it is Nothung. Try not to add other damage increasing trinkets as it theoretically would reduce broken damage if added, it definitely does do it to regular PB, that's for sure, so don't risk it. I thought Sam's damage could be broken, but this character's broken damage with shaky screen is on whole another level! And you don't even need to target it, it does all the work by itself and quite fast compared to time it takes to cooldown, unlike to Sam. Takes some time to change target if laser pops something and if target is really beefy, it can have the potential do some crazy damage to it, no matter how fast it is. Sam's meteor ability suffers from fast BADs in Martian Games. This character's ability does not. Absolutely insane ability, good to addition to any battle. The only downside to ability of here is that it spawns her army that pops bloons and reduces potential for cash generation, but if cash stops being a problem, there is no downsides. Maybe a shaky screen breaking Warrior PB's ability is a cause for concern, but at least it's rapid firing speed allows for lesser time of shacking screen and less bugged ability than Sam's Meteor Storm and her own shake inducing ability when she has her own, weaker broken build. With ability in mind, she actually instantly becomes top 10 F2P characters for sure, always a welcome addition to your late game party.
• Rock Shirt and Gemma the Gemstone definitely does a great impact on her and does not have an effect on her army. I actually got to have 1 more of cookie army member by not equipping Gemma the Gemstone at all, proving that Gemma the Gemstone bugs her army, not improves it, because it rises them right when one is disappearing, not disappear one when she spawns, aa it's supposed to do (Marceline with Devil Monster Bass, Excandibur, her being lvl3 and Rock Shirt were the only things that made it happen, don't know what caused it exactly, 5 raw cookies max(Candy Archers Upgrade) /8 baked cookies max (Inspiring Presence upgrade) maximum appearance with Gemma the Gemstone, 6 raw cookies max /9 baked cookies max without). So it really depends on how your army reacts to your own set up and how high star level she is. She really isn't worth working forward before 9-starring your PB (which is when PB peaks, 10 stars is PB going downhill because of corrosive gum DOT depleting potential cash and damage potential of ability decreasing at exactly 10 stars, but not before ), with so many disappointing and weird things her army does, so little interactions with her trinkets, it's just sad, while her own Gemma the Gemstone trinket being such a confusing mess when used on her army. Overall, she makes my brains explode.

Quotes

When placed:

• "For the KINGDOM!"
• "Protect the kingdom!"
• "Candy army, to ME!"
• ¨Whoa, that's a blast from the past!¨ - Princess Bubblegum, when Princess Bubblegum/Warrior Bubblegum is placed after the other

When selected:

• "To victory!"
• "Guards!"
• "READY!"
• "To arms!"
• "Onwards!"
• "Rally to ME!"
• "Gaaah! What?" (when annoyed)

When upgraded:

• "Thanks."
• "Together we're stronger!"
• "Reinforcements!"

When MOAB Class Bloons appear:

• "Stand ready everyone. Here it comes!"

When MOAB Class Bloons are popped:

• "Good job, everyone!"

When Bloons leak:

• "They're too strong! Defensive formation B!"

When activating ability:

• "Gumball Guardians, ATTACK!" (Gumball Guardian)
• "Whoa.. those were some mad skills!" (after activating Sai's Sabotage Supply Lines ability for a while)

Gallery

Warrior Bubblegum Level 2

Warrior Bubblegum Level 4

Candy Archer sentry

The Candy Copter attacking (GIF)

Ditto

Warrior Bubblegum using “Gumball Guardian” ability

Units

Candy Archers

Trivia

• The Candy Archers seem like they are slightly better and more offensive version of King of Ooo.
• The Gumball Guards are seemingly better version of Rattleballs ally that you can't choose where they spawn at and spawn anywhere, while trying to reach track to hit bloons.
• In Martian Games events with the Send in the Clones rule, since Warrior Bubblegum can be placed an unlimited amount of times, the Born to Rule upgrade can be bought multiple times, allowing the placement of a nearly unending supply of allies, though it does not affect the ally placement discounts further. Video (Now unavailable)
• It is possible to beat all of Necro Candy on Extreme Difficulty, but Warrior Bubblegum will still be not unlocked. This is also reflected by the fact that the icon for her unlock only appears on the Hard Difficulty Adventure Chest in Necro Candy.