So I Tried My 2018 Chimps Strategy In 2024... (Bloons TD 6)

[@EthanReid]

What a wild strategy that somehow worked without any issues back in the day. The 3x Alchemists were too much man...

[@allwynsjourney2225]

Yeah somehow

[@D1EHARDTOO]

4-0-0's to boot!

[@MAXI2006O]

400 was because back in the day the acid puddles was before fast throwing potions and middle path didn't nothing to the buff so no one upgrade it

[@help9_-0]

Hey you don’t have to have the challenges guide at 3am it’s ok at like 6am please for you own sleep

[@ectoOLDACC]

@@help9_-0 bruh timezones other than the us exist

[@slippythepenguin1561]

I think the fact that the archmage has probably been the most balanced tower on the release of btd6 will definitely help this run.

[@dashingclasher]

Archmage is like the Beast Handlers. You never need them but they're always there for you to play with. edit: what i meant by this was that they aren't towers that you would ever think to use to solve a problem but if you ever want a cool tower to use then you have them available

[@slippythepenguin1561]

Except I actually enjoy using archmage@@dashingclasher

[@terafairy]

@@dashingclasherI love archmage

[@dashingclasher]

@@slippythepenguin1561 me who likes using the pouakai:

[@GreenKookie56]

​@@dashingclasherpouakai is a really nice tower

[@spacexdemo8254]

2018 Ethan setting everything on Strong to spawn a bajillion super cerams is certainly interesting...

[@-Snstrm]

Hard to believe we've been playing this game for 6 years. I've played plenty of games over my life and there's only a few I think are truly special. BTD 6 is absolutely one of them.

[@Jaxv3r]

Same with me for terraria

[@raviolieothedisgustingsupe4504]

Going by the video's release date, the black border run was done shortly after version 3.0 released. Here's how the towers used have aged: OVERALL BUFFED: Robo Monkey: Large price cut, more attack speed, pierce buffed, can set priority on both arms, and can crit. Maim MOAB: Large price reduction, both a flat damage buff and a ceramic damage buff, and an attack speed buff. While the 4-2-0 crosspath wasn't used in this run, it did receive huge buffs as well. Archmage: The vast majority of its buffs were to the Dragon's Breath attack, which now corresponds to range buffs, applies a damage over time effect, lasts longer, goes through walls, and does more damage, but has reduced range. Outside of that, the bolt attack does more damage, Shimmer has more radius, and the whole tower got more MOAB bonus damage. It also got buffs to the middle crosspath, which wasn't used this run. Dark Knight: Large pierce buff, gained Darkshift ability, can prioritize camos, and does +1 damage to camos. However, its price was slightly nerfed, and knockback abilities slightly nerfed. Middle crosspath notably buffed, top crosspath a bit nerfed. Sun Avatar: Price buff and small pierce nerf. Indirectly speaking, the bottom crosspath got nerfed, while the middle one got buffed (ironic). Triple Darts: No direct changes. The bottom crosspath now increases projectile speed and lifespan. Tier 2 Village: No changes. OVERALL NERFED: Fighter Plane: Large damage reduction to the missiles. In exchange, they have higher pierce, get higher damage with the Exploding Pineapples upgrade, the darts are larger, and flight direction can be toggled. Early-game, this is a nerf, but late-game, this is a buff. This tower was obtained for early-game purposes, though, so I consider it a nerf. Gwendolin: Heat It Up no longer refreshes on towers that already have the buff, and both its time and shot requirements have been reworked, but overall, Heat It Up was majorly nerfed. In addition, her damage over time no longer stacks, and her Cocktail had a pierce reduction, refresh rate reduction, and immediately extinguishes when purples hit it. She did get some nice buffs, however, including a price reduction, the ability to target Cocktail, Cocktail now popping purples at level 16, a constant (separate) buff to fire-based towers, and huge buffs to Firestorm. Stronger Stimulant: Brew now runs out after 50 attacks, whereas before it would always last the full 12 seconds. This was a huge nerf, since it meant towers like Supers had way less brew uptime. Additionally, Stronger Stimulant no longer applies range buffs twice, there is now a delay between brews given to the same tower, brew no longer affects sub-towers like mini-Comanches, and its price was increased. The only buffs were to crosspathing, which wasn't used.

[@Leva307]

W comment

[@PROBTD]

Damn that’s dedication this deserves top comment

[@snopdogg2x]

Nerd! Also super cerams didn't exist before if i recall correctly or they weren't as strong

[@raviolieothedisgustingsupe4504]

@@snopdogg2x i cant find anything on that. maybe you're thinking of them being weaker in BTD5?

[@snopdogg2x]

@@raviolieothedisgustingsupe4504 i swear i remember an old isab video where cerams just got shredded

[@stretch7293]

Triple Darts as a starting tower is something that I don't tend to see that often and I don't know why. Seems like a relatively decent tower that you'll propably be able to build into since you'll usually start with dart monkey anyways.

[@alejandrocoy5405]

Because they dont lead anywhere, if you want a spirit of the forest strat you use druid of the jungle as a starting tower, if you want a permacharge strat you use bionic boomerang as a starting tower and so on Not that many people use the plasma fan club

[@stretch7293]

@@alejandrocoy5405 yeah that's a pretty good point. There is some point to towers that don't lead anywhere but you will end up saving a decent amount if what you build early on will work towards what your later defense will be

[@fishcake4473]

lack of popular plasma fan club strats friend

[@beaneater6923]

mid path dart is mid

[@olgacuervo4305]

Me who starts with wizzard monkey or Quincy 😙

[@whiteerdydude]

98 was probably an artifact of the alchemist changes. I think another commenter mentioned it but they used to be duration based, without an attack limit making buffing supper monkeys really good for dense rounds like that

[@bilalahmed-bu7bi]

The reason he lost on 98 was because stromger stimulant worked basically like a permabrew but for 3 towers.

[@Somerandomguy-t2m]

It's honestly incredible it's been 6 years...I mean I've been a viewer for a few months but we don't talk about that

[@bradw8102]

The most notable impact from updates I've seen is a challenge which required a pitch perfect farming strategy for the first 11 rounds of ABR on Lotus island in order to get the Superstorm Druid upgrade, the only camo detection allowed, so difficult not even 1% of attempts succeeded. While the first few camo containing rounds could pass, the round 11 camos would defeat you if not popped. However the life gain aspect of a Jungle's bounty upgrade means enough lives are added to complete the challenge no problem.

[@eetuthereindeer6671]

Round 11 camos? What? I thought the first came in 24

[@TruthRat]

They said ABR: Alternate Bloon Rounds@@eetuthereindeer6671

[@RavenDarknyte]

​@@eetuthereindeer6671 ABR = alternate bloons rounds. In which (iirc) camo pops up as early as round 5

[@itzsolr]

The Ethan Reid lore 🔥

[@tolafia6708]

I never understood how people had headaches just watching a video until now. Thank you for this enlightenment, love your videos!

[@rmammuckery2794]

I like how the length of this video is 13:37 and it’s about the start of your channel

[@magemerger2243]

I don't get it

[@Zackhit]

​@@magemerger2243 me neither

[@un_canal_cualquiera]

funi leet

[@Lordinventar]

the 4 0 2 wizzard has monkey knowlege that gives extra damage to moabs i think it is for the archmage too (should not work for chimps though ^^) i sometimes use it on strong (works well vs ddt and is decend as moab class dps to pop the strongest layers) but just when i have good cleanup like spirit of the forest (or bloonsolver, glaivelord...) otherwise you get overrun p.s. if you buff a super monkey and he keeps attacking he will run out of alchemist buffs so there is a point in using a alchemist for each super monkey

[@masterandexpert288]

I think the reason he lost is because of Gwen being nerfed. Heat it up used to trigger more often which would have really helped all the super monkeys for a high pierce round. In addition, gwen works very well with other fire towers, which the strategy had none of.

[@casualmarkit9969]

Stronger Stimulant had yet to be nerfed to wear off after a number of attacks, and so the full duration applied every time it hit. Add on he noted an extra super also had the buff than his recreation... Yeah. Alch Buff OP. Gwen is reason 2, they did Heat it Up Dirty in terms of it being relied on for Cerams/Pierce like you noted.

[@nekomaige6272]

This looks like a btd5 strategy

[@David_TheSuperior]

Guess it's one of those "Get your 'I'm old as hell' card" moments, amirite?

[@twitchSYNXOW]

guess im old i played bloons td 4, 5 and battles 1 in school and also bloons 1 on cool math games lmao

[@flippedoutcookie]

​@@twitchSYNXOW Lmao Cool math games. Based.

[@Techmoblad]

It's actually crazy that i first started playing btd battles back when i was in elementary school and now i'm in college. This is one of those games that don't really lose their fun aspect

[@DropIet]

quincy druid and wizard can solo (at least up to round 80 on the easier maps) where you can get 402 wizard by round 40, 502 wizard by round 60, and 250 druid by the end of round 80

[@chuchun-boy]

This feels like the open ai strat thing

[@ZFshmN]

On round 98, when you restarted it the first time and bought the 023 super, you didn't rebuy the 402 sniper. That may have been why it didn't work

[@MattressGuy]

the ceramics were the problem, sniper wouldn't have helped much

[@ZFshmN]

@@MattressGuy You're probably right

[@Leonardo-mg9le]

This looks like those wonky half cash strats

[@sebastienrichard5772]

the thing with cubism is that we can do almost any random bullshit strategy and it still works because the map is so long

[@Zeldrake]

I want to see you remaster this strategy, by cutting out as much random junk and saving as much cash, while still re-using exactly the same towers (so you couldn't go for a 203 super)

[@itmegibby2459]

its because you forgot the second 4 0 2 sniper when you reset, clearly that would have saved the run!

[@adikawidodo952]

Video idea chimps but with income monkey like jungle bounty, supply drop, shinook,merchant,rubber to gold, bloons trap,and benjamin(optional) sure t5 is allowed

[@henrystickmin8812]

I dare you to do a boss setup for medium and see how overkill it is until round 120

[@LyleLylefr]

I didn’t even know this game was that old. I didn’t start playing till 2023. I was playing btd5

[@neuplop]

Probably the Gwen nerfs were the difference in 98

[@seekthuth2817]

Double discount village? *Isab liked that.*

[@legendarytronic7774]

You should do more of these.

[@teamsamwitch]

old ethan was playing 4d chess with tower placements fr

[@arandomcoward]

Ah yes the nostalgia

[@briang7030]

I believe the 401 alc was needed to keep the buff up for 3 towers with jungle drums on release. So you would not have needed the 001 for 2 towers

[@defaultusername1145]

It was a 402 alc

[@kashooah]

wow how you are uploading vids so fast?? i mean sometimes you have 2 vids in one day

[@jamesb6857]

I was able to beat this entire run with a 2-0-0 glue gunner with the targeting set to “consistent”.

[@Gugachad_64]

nostalgia

[@Ganjagouda]

Now we need a run with the towers you used, just better :D Btw baanger strat

[@Balthazar228]

That video length 🫡

[@brainless_furry]

I used curchill for my first time playing chimps.

[@brandonf863]

That leet video time tho 😂

[@Dereck471]

9:43 i literally guessed a super with sun avatar like fr

[@bluenightrblx]

we've come full circle

[@quazzydiscman]

This is all very interesting. Time for a face reveal?

[@KyleAnderson-h1i]

What heros are like top 3 for later game maps

[@jessicajones641]

Used it on alternate rounds and it worked

[@skar6432]

If only ninja kiwi made thee archmage's cost was 34,567 :v

[@YourLocalMedic]

7:25 stronger acid actually doesn't affect alch buffs. It's only faster throwing and perishing potions

[@NTJOSH-eq3gw]

How do experts usually come up with strategies

[@franz009franz]

you just know what each tower does exactly, you know what bloons come on each round exactly and plan around all of it. you undersatnd synergies between towers etc.

[@falloutb4088]

POPULAR OPION when game like this get pc option it’s always down hill

[@TaxEvasion1452]

hot take actually

[@philipphilip929]

Is this your full time job now?

[@zombeeCAL]

just saying ive never seen isab and ethan in the same place before....

[@DwagonMaster]

I made a Challenge with this, god is it hard to create a challenge

[@leufisher]

my frst time when i played it was on steam btw i dont know if im good or not

[@Qudi19]

Ethan with chimps back then"Hold my super monkey"

[@Woah9394]

This shows that btd6 was eazier than it's now

[@urirubinstein4397]

It's cubism. You can place random towers and win on this map

[@shaydenprime275]

Apparently not, cause he lost on round 98 lol

[@shaydenprime275]

Apparently not, cause he lost on round 98 lol

[@star14604]

They it the other way. Does a 2024 strat work In 2018

[@jbdbibbaerman8071]

THE DUMB KNIGHT RETURNS

[@Archaic.]

"why was i not buying crosspaths on the alchemist" why are you now..? freak

[@frede0000]

To me the old strat just feels very BTD5 to me. With the very liberal use of lower tier towers

[@BigdomRL]

Challenge idea: chimps on deflation.

[@ingame203]

BTD Battles Longgame stategy be like:

[@Doorsproluck]

Yea because in the old one the Moabs is 2d

[@FamilyofChang]

Noice

[@nicecube2798]

Not enough super monkeys

[@MrFallDamage787]

Istg, everytime I see 2018 I'm like "Damn! That was 3 years ago, a long time has passed since"

[@rafalfin956]

W

[@Ratduckk]

Its my birthday!!!!!

[@Petr-ix4mi]

cool

[@Normal_people69]

2011...

[@RealityMasterRogue]

cubism moment

[@Laezar1]

I mean if it works it works

[@Ferdhifernansyah]

2018-..........

[@austinhornsby612]

you died because the alch is not nearly as good with the supers like in the past

[@harrysmith1633]

I mean it is cubism, my dead nan could beat that on chimps

[@OGKel21]

people use chimps stratagys

[@OGKel21]

Chimps is easy tbh

[@raiden8929]

​@@OGKel21ok pal

[@allwynsjourney2225]

12 min ago and early

[@Bentheman24]

Nobody cares

[@Thanos-bi8rt]

@@Bentheman24 can you shut up and leave

[@Bentheman24]

@@Thanos-bi8rt no u

[@ryantheallknowing3863]

Stopped watching when you flubbed the alchemist and didn't make it true to your old strat.... Do not recommend channel now.