LORD Of The Abyss Is NUTS! (5th Tier Mermonkey In Bloons TD 6)

Lord Of The Abyss Is WILD! 5th Tier Mermonkey In BTD6 / Bloons TD 6 - update 44.0 is officially out and this is a look at the top path of the newest mermonkey tower! Lord of the Abyss comes with ink slows, pierce bonuses and much more...
Patch notes: redd.it/1eh2iuo
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[@BTDIsab]

Feels like it does little bit of everything eh? Check out the initial showcase of the mermonkey here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iofIeIuEgrOZjpo

[@NenixNN]

2hrs ago?

[@senario12]

Yea

[@SoldierMan755]

They said no Bloonchipper, sooooooo here's Bloonchipper at home, but COOLER!

[@legitelf0058]

I haven’t watched all the video yet but did you know you can place water towers on the teir 5 top parh

[@StarburstStreamz]

I use code isab

[@meepswag35]

the fastest way to get the 3 mil pops if you dont have a lategame save file, is to play the moab madness mission 3 times in a row, just look up the soultion to it online and it takes like 5 minutes

[@senario12]

@@meepswag35 punji tutorial

[@btd6k1ng94]

Yup that's what I did, Ryan Mehalic gave me the idea.

[@dzigayu4944]

Start with a 520 Glue Gunner and a 003 Village, get a 150 Druid on Round 2, then upgrade village to 023 on Round 3 and start building a 250 Spiketory, after that you can pretty much get whatever you want with the rest of the money.

[@TheWhimothy]

I wish I knew that. I spent 2 hours on a run to get 3 million pops (300 rounds)

[@wilsonsanabia4259]

​@@dzigayu4944I did 1-5-0 druid into PoD into M. A. D and went pretty good

[@Ghostly_Music]

Honestly the fact that you can place water towers near it will be greatly helpful, as it will allow for maps with no water to have stuff like energiser, preemptive strike, flavoured trades and so many more useful upgrades. Tell me if I’m wrong but don’t the mermonkey bottom path tier two provide more range stacks? Then that would be an insane synergy as well. And if tier fours do that, all you gotta do is spam a few of them, and you can have an easy sub bottom path army carrying you.

[@lucasw_basketball]

tier fours dont work for that, and the range boosts sadly don’t affect the range in which you place water towers around the tower, neither do any other range buffs

[@_ikako_]

Easy sub bottom 🤤

[@misspotato813]

If it behaves like the ice monkey's middle path, like it probably should, range buffs do not increase the radius for land to water conversion. IIRC the additional range the tower grants itself from crosspathing does allow the icemonkey to freeze further. However, I believe the x02 cross path grants the range utilizing a buff so it probably does not increase the water range.

[@RubTheCat]

@@misspotato813 It doesn't benefit apparently. Maybe in water

[@matimele1]

​@@misspotato813 does allow*

[@tonyonafriday]

gotta love the mr beast shade at the beginning

[@YTInnerAgntAuto]

i deadass spit my drink out

[@aloya9570]

I feel stupid but did something happen or is this just because of the controversy of Mrbeast in BTD6 anyway?

[@falo4043]

​@@aloya9570 im also lost, i know about the kris PDF file stuff but people are hating on Mrbeast itself recently

[@aydenator27]

@@aloya9570both

[@oreos2653]

@@aloya9570i dont really understand why they hate mrbeast cuz of kris theres nothing he can do to control another persons actions

[@crt137]

It's not exactly "5% of the time", but you're close. It tallies the overflow pierce, and when the overflow reaches more than 1, the next attack gains an additional pierce. So for a tower with 1.1 pierce, it means every 10th shot will have 2 pierce instead

[@meep-hw1xp]

That's what he said

[@rustable4165]

​@@meep-hw1xp 5% of the time would assume that its random while it is not

[@20oxide36]

​​​@@rustable4165eh, he's actually right. "5% of the time" implies that, well, 5% of the time it gets extra pierce (same thing as saying one out of every twenty shots). However, if he said it has a 5% chance to gain increased pierce that would indeed imply randomness. It is completely true that 5% of the time the tower gains extra pierce. Edit - Also replying to the original comment: Yes *it is exactly* 5% of the time, as you yourself explained.

[@Mop_Head314]

​@@20oxide36No like he said if a tower has 1 pierce it would have 1.1 and every 10th should it would have 2 pierce. which means 10% of the time it has 1 pierce. Not 5%.

[@ChaseJonas75]

@@Mop_Head314that’s mostly because the 1.1 would have a 10% buff. I’m not sure why the original commenter decided to not match their example with the actual percentage used.

[@icaroaraujo4341]

I really like the tentacles animation. They first attack by a doing a quick slam, then retract to inside the abyss for less than 1 and a half second, to after that, go back up and be ready to attack again. Very smooth ngl

[@xian2themax]

You can do a regrow farm to easily unlock the mermonkey in 5-10 minutes of idling. Even though regrow pops don’t count towards pop counts, they still count towards unlocking towers.

[@genio2509]

Also a couple of Moab Madness as some people mentioned. Or what I did, Boss Rush. In just my daily runs I got the 3M

[@foxs49er]

Since 5th tier Lord of the Abyss spawns an abyss of water underneath it that lets you put water monkeys around it, it should give it the base line range increase once it hits lv 5. Its now technically in water even if it started on land.

[@THE_Dr_Nguyen]

Isab: “The time has come.” Sauda: “And so have I.”

[@Randomgalthe1st]

I’ll laugh last ‘cause you came to die. The damage done the pain subsides, and I can see the fear clear when I look in your eye… … I’m sorry

[@feierlord]

ayo?

[@kingrichard6150]

@@feierlordayo in 2024 is wild

[@Waltuh_e]

Ayo​@@kingrichard6150

[@jonahbrown5669]

​@@kingrichard6150" ____ in 2024 is wild" in 2024 is wild

[@meepswag35]

2:21 wow bro actually made an anti-hero reference

[@MaybeBlaze]

So glad it wasnt just me that caught that

[@aydenator27]

Isab is a swiftie confirmed

[@xx_thisnameiscringe_xx]

frfr

[@syclopss]

​@@aydenator27 oh no

[@davidli719]

Regarding your 'correct me if otherwise', 5:58 : No, what you said is true. You are absolutely correct. Testing with MK on, Striker lvl 8, and a Dart monkey, the base pierce of 3 makes the total pierce 4 every three in four shots. edit: timestamp

[@KieranDurand]

MOAB Madness can also help with unlocking the Mermonkey. Also, Dabloon found out that Bucs can be placed on a top path T5 Mermonkey

[@meepswag35]

and subs, all water towers can

[@ahmedmouttaqqi1112]

Brickell gonna ride this guy

[@leonardotrujillo8661]

Pause?🤨​@@ahmedmouttaqqi1112

[@CheeseyHR]

@@ahmedmouttaqqi1112 Its only 5xx that can do this. So unless you don't want a hero until you get it to 5xx... lol

[@ahmedmouttaqqi1112]

@@CheeseyHR doesn't matter when the hero's best ability is at level 3

[@misspotato813]

I really like the trend of towers having sub abilities like xx5 farm collecting bananas in its range, x3x ice monkey being able to freeze water, and now mermonkey creating water. Its always bugged me that the only way to get those kinds of things was through powers.

[@emilplane]

Much easier way to get 3m pops for mermonkey: play moab madness 3 times! Takes like 5 minutes Edit: 5:49 the way decimal pierce works is that the fractional amount of pierce carries over to the next projectile, ex. 3.5 pierce means that you get a 3 pierce projectile followed by a 4 pierce projectile, etc. Source: Topper's advanced popology (and i made sure this was accurate as of the latest update)

[@luviana_]

so 5% on 1 pierce means you get 2 pierce every 20 hits

[@emilplane]

@@luviana_ yep!

[@allev1n]

oh man i just found your channel. I used to grind btd battles a lot over 10 years ago. I didn’t even know btd 2 und bloons td6 exist. A few weeks ago i randomly downloaded it again and played with some of my old strats i still remember lol. Back in the days i once made it to like round 100 or something with a friend of mine. Because of that i googled for the world record and then i found to a 10 year old video of you. Then i went to your account and saw that you still make bloons content. That made me kinda happy idk. Just watched some of your videos although i dont have a damn clue about the newer games. Everything looks so different lol. Keep it up man🎉

[@dominosdomino9617]

It’s based on how many balloons you pop not pop count so a zomg only gives one 1:00

[@RonZhang]

6:05 I think how percentage pierce works for low pierce tower is that every Xth shot gains +1 pierce, so for +5% pierce it’s every 20 shots for a 1 pierce tower

[@RonZhang]

Reply to me because I’m the REAL guy and not a bot

[@zunkus-ec9gb]

Round 79 regrow farm worked really well for me to get mermonkey. The MOAB Madness quest is also wonderful for it I hear

[@Deemo_The_Drake]

Heya ISAB, I've been around for a while and I never said thank you for the amazing content that you make. Unfortunately Personally stopped pkaying most BTD games, but I always enjoy seeing an upload from you. So Thank you ISAB, your content, your humor, your personality, thank you for all of it!! Hope you keep making content, and letting me have an upload to look forward to.

[@RobbinSterenborg]

Thank you isab, for buying a weird kind of water monkey and forcing it to pop balloons

[@AzzieMagic__]

The mermonkey is more of an interesting support tower than the actual last support tower we got LFMAO

[@worminaround]

Mermonkey Alchemist "more support than the Beasthandler

[@worminaround]

the funny thing is that theyre both magic monkeys lmao

[@LimeLoaf]

I honestly think support is just the misc category, they didn't know where to put beast handler or engi

[@Jdnfjdksndj]

Breast handler is a primaly monkey​@@LimeLoaf

[@shockwave9855]

Beast handler would have fit better in magic anyways in imo

[@Lane-q6u]

The top path mermonkey t-5 makes it so you can place bucs and subs near it on land

[@a_random_monke]

Thank you isab for using tentacles on the bloons

[@prabhnoorsingh6571]

finally ive been wishing fotr a tower that lets you place water towers on maps without water in chimps... this is crazy

[@Flash5D]

It's me, hi, im the problem, it's me

[@DotTrev]

I wasn't expecting much from the mermonkey but wow the strats are abundant

[@icyflame716]

Lmao, i though the same with the ‘i’m the problem’ emote. Confirmed Isab is a swiftie.

[@defaultgamer592]

playing the moab madness quest gives a lot of pops btw

[@LeonardoMartins-md9xn]

If you want to unlock the merenonkey without paying i suggest the good and old regrow farm on rond 76

[@MrJelly91]

2:08 damn bro 😟

[@toblerone1582]

i have started to read the update notes in your voice and its surreal keep up the good content

[@gregorycarmichael6907]

I did a little testing, and the %buffs from Striker and Mermonkey are multiplicative, which gives about %7.5 more pierce compared to if it was additive. Of course, that isn’t noticeable on most towers, but it's a nice bonus

[@btyangarcia5487]

A good way to get the mermonkey is to make a regrow farm in round 76 just go to map hedge get some blowbacks and put a ray of doom at the end and it takes a couple of minutes, use 3-0-0 druid to speed it up

[@crocky_wy]

for the present bossrush and moab madness allows you to get between 2m and 3m in 3 runs

[@kingstogodshm3251]

Moab madness in the quest thingy just takes two games of that and boom easy, it's also pretty quick

[@MBpower72]

Also a really quick way to get it is to start a regrow farm at round 76 very easy with ray of doom and some heli pilots. You do need to farm a bit at the start tho

[@Pinehapple691]

Sould definitely use mini towers for this map, makes it easy to see what your clicking to level them up

[@CrimsoniteSP]

Yeah the "pops" used isn't the damage stat, it's basically the entities spawned. A red bloon is the same as a green bloon, in this case. Apparently there's an easy solution but I just did a Freeplay run to round 300. It didn't take that long.

[@Kaystop]

if you give symphonic resonance jungles drums its almost going all the time, not to mention if you buff it more, and thats only the tier 4 you might be able to keep bloons circling forever

[@aveage-brush-player]

im mostly interested in botom path as the song triggered all dot INSTANTLY so eee yea this+glave dominus holy hell that will be so fun on bosses

[@Fabiolevdias]

Also the top path as an extra thing wich is you can place water towers near the tier 5 in LAND you can test even in a map whitput water

[@meepswag35]

you can also place water towers on land in a short radius around it

[@Barneito_123]

Blud didnt watch the video 😂

[@FürstUranovderEchte]

Isab beats chimps on an advanced map, with the most random strategy ever😂

[@Kaghtaviy]

So basically glaive lord (because of how good it is for group damage), but support

[@Awesometon55]

Dude unlocking Mermonkey was painful. One CHIMPS run only gave me about 350k pops. Even my late game 280+ round LOGS file was extremely slow

[@etan69]

In the mermonkey's picture at 1:53 when it is unlocked it's right handed but in game it's left handed.

[@JonathanNormandy]

I mean it might just be holding the spear in its right hand. It's doesn't really look like it's currently using it for anything.

[@Sprigzz]

My favorite thing in this update isn’t even the mermonkey, it’s the geraldo bug I found. So for context, they goofed up the rejuvenation potion to where it refreshes all of geraldo’s shop (including the rejuv potion itself). This means if you have an ability(s) that give you more than $1700 (I like techbotting the middle path druid since it activates all abilities whenever you use each potion) you can make infinite money. I have a good feeling gerry is getting patched very soon.

[@Sprigzz]

Note: I haven’t tested this with base rejuv potion, only with Lv20 gerry

[@AyaanRaj-td7gx]

I think playing moab madness is the most efficient way to get pops for mermonkey, I got it in just 4 games.

[@genio2509]

What I did is I played boss rush. I got 2 runs on Bloonarius, getting the kill, and 4 on Dreadbloon (I got 100 and 120 respectively btw). The Bloons that the boss spawn are so many it completed the quest before I realized.

[@PräteritumFee]

Being able to place water monkeys around it is very cool

[@yveltzal.]

I dont know if its just me, but 3xx gives me major Yuta Okkotsu vibes, hair and eyes, the creepy monster in the dark, just seems very similar, coincidence or not

[@Idoobeeatingjam]

I think the capability to place water towers on maps without water is also a very good benefit of the 500, I'm surprised you didn't mention it

[@blackturtlerabbitpink4366]

Yooooooow ISAB is a swiftie, no wonder you were always my fav youtuber

[@icenovice]

5xx art goes SO HARD man tbf dartling gunner and beast handler have the hero unlock screen also there’s no way that donating to yourself works (that’s just a huge discount) clown wigs and self-deprecating emotes, nice the top path design is just so cool also, lord of the abyss ALLOWS YOU TO PLACE WATER TOWERS ON IT???

[@tommylloyd2203]

0:00 kid named The Time 🥴

[@user-x7v6u]

8:25 thank you isab

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

NK probably didn't do a slow on DDTs and ZOMGs cause it'd stack with glue and ice.... Not even sure how much slowdown that is total, but it's an insane amount.

[@tryker01]

You should make a video on a super buffed middle route mermonkey, it looks absolutely insane

[@suname8836]

Ngl isab seems so happy in this episode for some reason

[@tomatosoup3866]

ISAB try a 502 boomerang with a 204 mermonkey’s echo set right on top of the boomerang. It shreds

[@mohamedahmed-uh3fd]

isab there's a bug where when you get the boat paragon all your water towers get an elite sniper buff

[@RancorSnp]

Including the boat paragon?

[@jamielaw8517]

popsidon is crazy on this map as the ability bouces like crazy

[@ffhorus6571]

7:15 “now me wonders…” ISAB truly is returning to monke

[@NathanIgou]

Me wonders ! 😮 :3

[@R3verse301]

doing the moab madness quest twice finishes the 3000000 pops really easily

[@JoelTheParrot]

0:52 MOAB Madness is the best, do it 2 or 3 times and you're fine, takes 10 minutes tops Mermonkey CHIMPS start requires micro. On Tinkerton. should've chosen octojones skin

[@calebross6052]

To get the mermaid monkey, you can play 3 matches of the experiment that spawns a billion moabs that only lasts 5 rounds. You can get it done in like 10 mins lol

[@KrazyKyle-ij9vb]

If only the people on reddit saw this comment

[@RonZhang]

1:10 why buy the bundle to speed up pops when you could’ve just did the MOAB madness mission multiple times

[@swimmingturtle247]

Did I see the tier 4 upgrade do a slam attack when you clicked it? Seems useful for challenges

[@indominusrex2859]

They might as well be avengers lol

[@XCURS1V3X]

Hahah "Match yourself" you're amazing

[@Neon_DJ.]

An easier way of getting 3 mil pops. Go play an easy map, get to wave 76 79 or any regrow round, i think the rest is pretty obvious, regrow farm. Although the damage is not counted for towers pop count anymore, since we instead got the paragon money slider, it still counts for unlocking the mermonkey. So it may take a little longer than what one guy said (moab madness) once you got the regrow farm, you can just wall away and get a quick drink or smth.

[@foxfoxovec7223]

u should try the mermonkey with glavelord its crazy good and u can do 2 tower chimps with it

[@berryven]

Omg i love the Taylor reference

[@Matt-eq4xu]

2:20 isab is a swiftie

[@Chocolate_Bounce]

I love how the middle path acts like ultra-jugg. This tower is definitely WAY better on launch than beast handler. Edit: Also the sludge stacking on glue is top tier

[@tylazermk8271]

I think the best strategy for unlocking Mermonkey is playing the Moab Madness quest thing. I used that and I think it took 2 runs of it.

[@TheMonkeydela]

*DISCOVERY* I just did some experiments and you can chinook the Mermonkey away from the beast handlers fish while keeping the beast. This would normally sell a boat or sub but since the beasts arent a sellable tower they stay and cant be repositioned regardless of where the mermonkey is moved to, its just stuck there forever.

[@Aaxolotl.]

can we talk about how similar the bottom path is to bloonchipper

[@ammonbergevin5302]

ISAB I REQUEST YOU TRY 502 GLUE WITH 205 MERMONKEY, specifically on a BAD.

[@IMTHEKING123]

I got a good amount of the pops from doing the current bloonarius boss rush, it got me around 500k per run

[@Master_Of_The_Void]

Apparently it allows water towers to be placed on land like ice monkey with land towers

[@JCQ205]

didnt know ISAB was a swiftie 😭🙏

[@r4gequ1t_cya]

Finally, after boat top path, boat paragon and ice middle path creating land on water, we finally have a tower creating water on land

[@beket__]

2:11 ISAB you don't have you call me gay indirectly, I already know what I am

[@RonZhang]

The Lord of the Abyss is so powerful it summoned the most powerful of users

[@jamesruiz3910]

Bro, the bloon solver mermonkey synergy is gonna be wild 💀

[@afromaniac-4146]

I think your confusing pierce with damage

[@jamesruiz3910]

@@afromaniac-4146 i mean with bottom path

[@dudog2791]

8:29 the damage has been done isab...

[@robertfineberg2384]

I loved the extra range the brew got. That sucks heavily.

[@louisvainet-1788]

That was to promote chinook synergie while cut the price to get viable.

[@koltonfaulkner3175]

yo boat and sub paragons on no water maps is crazy

[@bolistabluemine3275]

If you don't want to play the freaking game to get the mermonkey, just get to round 79 with a downdraft and regrow farm, it will count towards the pops and you will get mermonkey in a few hours (if you have a phone I don't know if this is a good idea)

[@eyramirrin]

that taylor swift reference 😩😩😩 thank you isab

[@aster_suboihonkai3004]

The Taylor reference is so funny

[@wypmangames]

for the unlock i just played 3 chimps games and unlocked it free in under an hour of playtime ish (easy maps, sauda + other towers as 2tc and just let things run afk inclusive some freeplay(

[@adriancole745]

Tip for everyone trying to unlock the mermonkey: Complete the moab madness challenge 2-3 times and you'll unlock it in no time.

[@dartr045]

the pop conversion imo when I want to unlock Mermonkey is like 25% for pop progress so it's consume me like 6 hours to get it off Edit : also, challenge yourself with Top Mermonkey and all water towers to get known about it. Vilage and amphibious towers is ok.

[@wastingtime1441]

I’m wondering how good the churchill rework is now. He’s the first tower to do 3 damage per attack now and feels pretty fun.

[@charjetpersonal4140]

Note: "Medium, Hard, and Freeplay" is a suggestion rather than a requirement, all pops count I believe. It's just that easy has much less bloons

[@tpfoxCastro]

Just do the moab madness mission using Spirit of the Forest and camo Anti-Bloon three times and you unlock the Mermonkey

[@kaboomer]

ABSOLUTELY BONKERS

[@jhosioja]

Wonder if you could 2TC with Lord of the Abyss and Permaspike, with the percentage pierce bump.