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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The Ethan Reid lore 🔥

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.

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

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.

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

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

This looks like a btd5 strategy

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

This looks like those wonky half cash strats

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

Probably the Gwen nerfs were the difference in 98

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

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

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

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

nostalgia

Ah yes the nostalgia

11:05 ah yes, buffing 2 robo monkeys, a sun avatar, AND an archmage with a single 4-0-0 alchemist💀

This feels like the open ai strat thing

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)

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

Ethan with chimps back then"Hold my super monkey"

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

Double discount village? *Isab liked that.*

old ethan was playing 4d chess with tower placements fr

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

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

This shows that btd6 was eazier than it's now

You should do more of these.

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

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

Used it on alternate rounds and it worked

I used curchill for my first time playing chimps.

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

That video length 🫡

Challenge idea: chimps on deflation.

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

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

That leet video time tho 😂

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

we've come full circle

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

THE DUMB KNIGHT RETURNS

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

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

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

BTD Battles Longgame stategy be like:

How do experts usually come up with strategies

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

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

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

Yea because in the old one the Moabs is 2d

What heros are like top 3 for later game maps

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

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

Is this your full time job now?

cubism moment

I mean if it works it works

Not enough super monkeys

2011...

W

powercreep real

Noice

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

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

people use chimps stratagys

cool

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

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

12 min ago and early