Don't let the map & difficulty fool you for future weeks of this boss... Check out the early access co-op run I did here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/peByeraTtrmYZXk.html And the stream here for possible update stuff: twitch.tv/btdisab

that forward dash is insane, rlly obligates you to think about where to place your towers cuz depending on where you place them by the 3rd skull the boss will be outside their range

Tip for elite phayze: dark champion is fantastic for tier 2. It has camo detection, great moab/boss damage, costs less than a MAD, can teleport anywhere to follow phayze around, and it fully deals with the blooms coming through the portals because of its ricochet effect.

I did some tests to see whether the miniopolis was still the best farming option: If you don't utilise the monkey town bonus, it's only better by a marginal amount. If you do make use of monkey town, it's way better than any alternatives. The best way to save up is how ISAB did it, or if you have monkey knowledge, a bank will get you enough by round 32-33. With Ben it can be even earlier. And always remember to get your bloon trap down in range as soon as possible afterwards. A bloon trap combined with monkey town from round 30-60 will make you more money than a BRF in that time, for 1/5 of the cost.

*Speed: 3.6% of a red bloon* "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power"

finally i can understand the right farming strat lol

I haven't done a boss in like 7 months and I managed to first try elite with a ace, buccaneer and ninja paragon. This boss is a lot of fun with how it changes up usual strategies by flying through the map and having camo.

9:40 Hearing ISAB saying flavored trades gives me years of life

fun fact: place a 0-0-0 dart monkey above where he put the tack and it solos longer than the tack

so tier 5 Phayze -is camo -can disable camo given by other towers -has 40m ehp with its 5 shields (of which 60% of its hp is shield) -can move up to 70% faster with its shield up -has 60% more ehp with the attack cooldown increase -can skip 40% of the track I love the challenge but that sure is a lot of things to take into account

Fun fact you can with a degree 30 wizard paragon destroy one skull at a time if you use dead blood ressuraction at max grave yard you can one shot a skul and even more (In normal)

An tip if some get confused, when phayse does the camo vision removal, it only affects those who have camo by another tower like monkey village or etienne if the tower has an upgrade or it has natural like spike factory or ninja then they dont get nullified.

11:27 Boss HP👀

7:27 completely agree. it’s more akin to a hp buff at that point and it doesn’t encourage different strategies as they all will be affected the exact same way. personally i’d like it if phayze had an aura around it that REMOVED the attack speed debuff (and then monkeys can go back to being slow after leaving phayzes aura) so that there can be more variety in tower choice and placement

10:17 ISAB places a farmer right next to the Wall Street which already collects bananas. 10/10

Beat the non elite before I went to work, hope I can do the elite one when I get home tonight. That dash forward SUCKS, makes waiting for later rounds to save money a bigger risk

I think they should rework the slowdown so that towers dropped partway through the boss only receive the last couple slows, and EITHER -The slowdown is permanent, so you have to rebuy your defence between tiers OR -The slowdown is increased a lot but it wears off round by round, so if you kill all the tiers within just a few rounds then all the slows stack at once and cripple your towers, which would make ranked much more interesting

The new boss bloon being on an easy map and no restrictions is not an accident. It’s just good game design. No one knows the strengths or weaknesses of the new boss so they want it to be easy to beat until you learn it. So it’s always going to be an easy map and all towers at first so that everyone can beat it.

11:15 I also angled it so the balls would hit the wall thus the secondary balls 😂

Thanks for the tutorial lmao, I was barely able to follow along because you'd just pop in with towers and cross-paths I had to guess, and I have no idea why you got overclockers early on so I assumed it was for the farms so I used them for that. it was still More than enough to beat normal Phayze even if I was behind pretty much the whole video. I know it wasn't an actual tutorial, you joked about it so I decided to treat it as such so I can't expect too much.

Now i can safely say this one is my favorite boss,since it's the first one that i actually managed to beat the tier 5 elite

Decamoing Phayze can actually reduce the damage output of the ninja paragon, so using a super brittle with it as your main damage dealer can reduce your damage output overall

The dash + relocation of the bloon spawn is a real killer. I found that glaive lord is best for the small Bloons, but the Moabs are always behind the boss.

Funnily enough if you think about it the attack speed cooldown phayze gives only makes the ace paragon stronger, as i cant imagine the bombing run ability is effected by the attack speed cooldown. It also probably doesnt effect the ninja paragon much either as the sticky bomb probably still gets reapplied quick enough where you dont notice the attack speed cooldown.

1:12 I KNEW YOU WOULD MENTION BLONS WHEN TALKING ABOUT THIS BOSS AT SOME POINT

13:50 I wonder if rocket storm and fan club/total transformation do get affected since they benefit from more attack speed

The fact that they allowed Geraldo, Benjamin, and Wizard paragon made it easier for me to win as compared to things like Dreadballoon( which i suffered a lot due to the rock balloons that seems even more unkillable than the boss ). But once Benjamin and Geraldo are banned it would be more difficult tbh

I haven't beaten a single elite boss yet just too hard for my monkey brain

Hello isab. I dont think you'll ever see this, but please never stop releasing videos. I can't express how much you help me when im down. Much appreciation!!❤

boat paragon *shreds*. For tier 5 I just did the time trued strategy of vtsg 3 paragons and pray, and it somehow worked

5:28 this moment goes out to all the people who act like edef's niches never matter.

Just beat normal phayse earlier today as my first boss, here's hoping I can beat elite phayse with ur tips

Man, this one was tough, I got dart + ninja + boomer + wizard paragons at 29-33 and later sold my Apex to get a higher degree, still almost lost. I think with how much the boss moves, a good strategy would be to keep farming after you take down the shield, then sell your paragon mid boss and move it and try to get a higher degree. Once you get a paragon the natural spawns arent so bad but before then I kept leaking to fortified Moab classes spawning on the last lap. a 520 village next to a 520 tack in the first loop really helped clean that up, but the whole time I was super scared about the boss. If you find yourself falling behind and have something like the MAD, the boss does move slower without it's shield, and you wont have to deal with the further spawning bloons. All I can say after this is good luck, I filled nearly the entire map with BRFS by tier 4 and had to sell them to afford paragon sacrifices, even with an ultraboosted 45k monkeyopolis Also I dont have the ace paragon unlocked, should I get that?

Yo ISAB, i found this really interesting challenge on the new ice map, you should try to beat Vortex on that map, since the boss comes from the 1st path and the bloons come from the current normal path at very fast speeds. Idk, just thought it would be fun to some extent

8:02 I mean technically abilities counter the attack speed lost so first strike, elim, and ace paragon would probably do well (although nonparagon abilities kinda suck)

The Dart Monkey Paragon is actually really good if u place it central. I played Elite with a friend and there it did about 20mil pops which is just a little short compared to the Ace Paragon

Thank you, Isab, for phayzing up the boss

I like the design of phyaze, its like that ddt skin but more glitchy and i wish the music got more bugged because after time its just onslaught

Thanks for uploading this 2am spain time nice video

They DID give us the "Um, good luck guys" disclaimer during the update video, I certainly appreciate how difficult this boss is, makes them all the cooler! SO hype. I wonder if they'll add a workaround for the decreased attack speed thing or if abilities ARE that work-around? Moab Elim, First Strike Spam, maybe CoS? Not to mention the Goliath Doomship's ability, obvious from the occurence in this video.

My friends and i finished it today. Pretty respectable times 7 minutes and 16 minutes. Definitely a fun boss. Ben is probably optimal but i personally found that sauda is a lot easier because you just place her down and forget about defense bc you have the trap up before sauda struggles. And late game they both might as well not exist.

In my own testing the wizard paragon is pretty solid option. Wouldn't say it's good to get over a boat or ace paragon. Plus arcane spike can do some good work on tier 1. Idk if it's optimal to do.

This was my first elite boss with no tutorial! I was waiting for it to be a new boss cuz I knew they wouldn’t put extra restrictions

Global monkeys like Sniper, Heli, Ace, Dartlings, Mortars, and to a lesser extent, Subs and Buccaneers are gonna be the most helpful against Phayze, since they don't care about his dashes forward. Not to mention, the only real way against the global attack speed slow is just more buffs to attack speed like Jungle Drums, Overclock, Ultraboost, Permabrew, Homeland Defense, and even support Temples, since enough of those buffs can more than make up the loss of attack speed Phayze imposes. If I did my math correctly, that T5 final skull attack speed reduction is about 55%.

I figured now was the best time to try elite Phayze due to it being on one of the easiest maps in the game and there being no restrictions on towers, heroes, or upgrades. Seeing how both my run and ISAB's run went, I think I made the right decision.

I was thinking about how good the VTSG would be against vortex then I realized that you don't pretty much have global range with Phayze as you practically need the camo upgrade and the lack of extra range could be a factor on some maps

I beat the elite a few hours before this. Was quite the pain. Got it on my second try tho.

That's exactly how my elite run went on round 119 and I had a ton of cash and stuff.. just not my big paragons up yet. I couldn't believe it. I mean almost EXACTLY like yours. It's a little tough in my opinion.

For t5 i did degree 62 ace, degree 69 ninja, degree 45 boat, degree 39 wizard and a VTSG + support

I was able to beat Elite Phayze by using a degree 20 boomerang and dart paragon, a maxed-out VTSG buffed with Homeland Defense, Ultraboost, and Permabrew, and then basically just spammed as many T5s as I could possibly get. I didn't have the Ace paragon yet but I didn't want to farm XP for it so I decided that I would just hope for the best, and it worked, luckily.

I think it'd be less insane to do phayze on harder maps if paragons didnt accept debuffs like they dont accept most buffs, but that'd really push the reliance on paragons so idk, hard bosses aren't a bad thing, but idk if they intended for it to be so much more than the others

Tiers 1 and 2 were the hardest for me, because of lack of money on tier 2, i wasnt able to buy a mad as it came in and tier 1 took a long time becuse of the dash forward

I think they should either tone down the attack speed debuff or add some counterplay. Maybe only have the debuff up when the shields active? Idk but its current state isnt that fun

Maybe it would be fun, if putting tower targeting on a specific targeting reducing the attack speed. Like if close targeted towers would attack normally. That would make some intense micro if you wanted to mqximise towers

Did this today with a guy called seven. Random coop map and he carried me. I just gifted all my money to him and we got 3 paragons. Thanks dude if you are out there!

11:18 i wonder if it was intentional for the healthbar to stop at 666,666 hp

I would actually try for Navarch just for the buff on G. Doomship, plus global range via mini-planes than Master Builder imo.

imo it would be cool if de-camo attacks like x2x ninja, xx5 mortar or 5xx sub actually did extra damage to the shield... like maybe even 10x and if the boss has 66m effective health and skips 40% of the track... if it had bloonarius speed, you would have to deal with a 100m elite bloonarius, the only saving grace is the fact that it's like the slowest boss when the shield is down

i think they should do something like the slow firing effect only works in the shiel phaze, in the normal health till the skulls, fire rate should be normal ngl

I really like the design of this boss but it's so brutal. The jump is killer.

i haven't fought any boss before and i shred elite phayze boss with degree 62 dart paragon and my friend's ace paragon

i love the music they made for it too

I wanna see phayze dash on that modded "infinite" length track lil

Thanks Isab for popping the phases of phayze

Did you stream this boss mr. isab? Would love to watch a longer version.

Sauda carried me til 40 basically just solo in that square spot, and for paragons i put them in as to the middle as possible, so it can see basically the whole map

thank you isab for popping the bloons

btw, on the first Phayze video you said the camo icon represented the reality shield, but I'm pretty sure that's not right, the camo icon does actually signify camo. injury Phayze seems to have immunity to camo-stripping while In the reality shield. ie as soon as the shield dropped, the shattering shells decamoed, and you correlated the camo icon with the shield as you can see the camo icon doesn't drop in your first tier since you have no decamo, even though Phayze's shield is down

THE BOSS SPAWN ISAB: this is enough defense starts farming and ignore the boss ME: what do i do? i don't have enough, that's the wrong tower **panics** **Looses**

Me and some friends did a scuffed coop where we barely got like a 30 degree ascended shadow and apex plasma master mid t5 as a last ditch attempt when it was like a third across the track and we somehow killed it… ascended shadow buffs r kinda busted 😂

my friend and I did ranked and got 39th in world rn, phayze is fun boss def, we got round 80 dart paragon

I’m honestly so surprised the engi paragon hasn’t gotten any buffs yet. It has basically nothing for it that other paragons don’t do better.

You need 25 tier 2 tower sacrifices (crosspathed)to ensure a degree 20 paragon. assuming you have no pops farmed. This is the most cost efficient sacrifice.

I beat elite phayse before this video came out and thought it was one of the easier bosses, it’s kinda funny how bad I am at assessing what’s hard or not hard lol

I almost bought btd6 on the steam sale but couldn't(thank steam). Its free on The Epic Games launcher from 3rd AUGUST and I'll finally be able to play it:) Gonna need to unlock everything tho

i think making an underused tower either cleanse enemy debuffs, or making certain underused towers immune to enemy debuffs could be cool

it's pretty funny, on elite i beat the first 4 tiers for my 1st try, and for the second time my tier 38 ninja and tier 32 dart paragons were not enough to beat it. it was close but i need to do even more i guess

Me and my friend beat the tier 5 elite boss when it was like 10 pixels away from exiting

for ellite phaze i found plazma exelorator doing good but i had under defended for the extras

wish phayze was a lil longer and a more slick desgin compared to the other bosses to make they design a bit more intresting and diferent then just looking like 2 DDT's stuck togheter, tho i do like the look of later tiers on elite phayze

I found the middle path sub t5 is insane backseat it's does a lot of damage for a very long time

Was looking for a monkey knowledge race guide But isab wants to challenge himself

I do get your concerns w the Global atk speed decrease but the isnt the counterplay smth like Use alch jungle drums perhaps even a tier 4 middle path village for the 1st to maybe 3rd tier and then a combo paragon like Boomer and Dart Or Navarch and Goliath doomship to remedy the Atk speed loss a bit? Thats what i thought atleast

Did this boss without too much trouble except my early tiers got really far, it lived until round 56. Also can we talk about how great its music is?

I must be playing this game wrong, because 1rst time dreadbloon was WAY harder to beat than phayze, especially because of the rock bloons. Its kind of a shock for me to see isab saying that phayze is actually hard, when ive beaten it first time

I was able to beat him because of you thanks

phayze soundtrack slaps🔥

So wait, do you just lose instantly if you don't pop the boss before 20 rounds pass?

I personally found this my second easiest boss, i did both normal and elite on the first try althought the elite required a lot of farming and got really close

cool isab really like this video 👍

I have a way to get a miniopolis round 28-30, start by two 200 farms, make the first one u get 202 and the second 220, it will depend on the difficulty, but on medium when u have $1500, sell the 202 for 230 bank, then get two farms both 200, when the bqnk is full, sell it and make the 200 farms into 202 before selling, it would give u 21k which would give u enough cash for miniopolis, if not then wait a bit cuz u got a base farm

You said theres no counterplay to the attack speed debuff, but there is. You'd just focus more on paragons with offensive abilities like ace. Of course it'll get easier as we get more paragons with abilities, I imagine sub might have one, but we'll have to see.

Do towers like the x1x sniper or xx4 super monkey get the camo bonus damage on phaze?

So I just started playing like 3 days ago and saw this pop up. I have no clue what a Paragon tower is and I don't even have everything unlocked yet.

so i was playing the elite phayze again for fun and almost lost with a vengful and 3 paragons but i clutched

1:45 when he misses the bananas😢

Damn this boss is gonna be insane on harder maps

I feel like if they were ever to buff the engineer paragon, giving it an XXXL trap that can suck in a BAD once or twice every round would be a really cool addition

After seeing this I think it would make sense to have ability cooldowns get the slowing debuff too

even ninja kiwi knows this boss is tough. the update 38 video script had sam just say "uhh... good luck?"