Every Monkey's Best Crosspath in BTD6 

Make sure to check out hbomb.shop for merch! Also, there are tons of niche scenarios where different crosspaths are better, but I couldn't cover them all so comment down below any cool exceptions to what's in the video! Additionally, if future updates change which crosspath to go make sure to comment that too!

Tier 5 top path Glue is actually better as a 502, because you already have enough pierce for anything, and the glue lasts longer, so for longer maps it does more damage to larger balloons. Besides if you want more pierce you can just get a 420 village.

0:03 dart 0:46 boomerang 1:44 bomb 2:42 tack 3:34 ice 4:36 glue 5:43 sniper 6:59 submarine 8:15 buccaneer 8:57 ace 9:35 heli 10:10 mortar 11:20 dartling 12:09 wizard 13:25 super 14:37 ninja 15:25 alchemist 17:02 druid 17:48 farm 18:45 spactory 20:17 village 21:10 engineer 22:13 beast handler

About the turbo charge: Red hot rangs gives substantially increased damaged to the perma charge (like +11 at some points). I forgot the exact stats but it’s worth looking it up. You can also always just get a 3xx village for pierce

Top path bomb has x-0-2 as the DPS crosspath. I would still agree that the top path is meant for stuns and x-2-0s are the better crosspath, but it isn't the DPS option.

some things worth to note : - 520 Inferno Ring, the main zone attack appreciates the extra range as it helps clearing ceramics and moabs - 024 Moab Press, useful for multilane maps where the glaives almost never hits its pierce caps on maps like quad, also has more strength in the midgame due to the low amount of blimps - 320 Ice Shards, the layer soaking matters for races as it allows more shards - 4+01 Embrittlement/Super Brittle, just like cripple moab for freeplay speedbuffs allows it to have over 100% uptime and the range allows it to debuff more bloons - 042 Snowstorm with 200 alch, basically a bigger arctic wind while still allowing the ability to affect ddt - 04+0 Supply Drop, for farming only crosspathless can be better since it makes the sniper do less damage/cheaper - 104+ Necromancer/Pod, situational but also viable due to the extended zombie lifespan, notably used for quad

they should really add cross path benefits to beast handler

Worth mentioning that only one instance of burny stuff can be active on a bloon at a time, so if you’re planning on using a bottom path mortar and a top path mortar, cross-pathing the top path mortar with x-0-2 becomes redundant, and should be cross pathed with the middle option

Quick note: If you are setting up high degree paragons for bosses or super-late game, you'll want to run the most expensive path (only the T4 sacrifices) as well as the cross path, Example: 2-4-0 Darts, Boomerang and Engineers. Boat farming works with 0-2-4, else 4-2-0. Ace 2-0-4, and Ninja can be as both Shinobi buffing and Paragon building, 2-4-0 for both, 1-3-0 for Shinobi only, and 0-2-4 for mainly paragon building

Absolutely amazing vid, taking into account both monkey knowledge and alternative possible situations, and also accounting for the third and fourth tier and not just 5th tier Personal note: in my opinion for the beast handler, the “best cross path” is just whatever other beast you’re going for at the time to mitigate space taken up by all the beast handlers

I found two dart monkeys and I dub myself the third. I win.

This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for especially when an daily challage restricts me to towers I'm not used to using! Thank you! Hoping to see some timestamps on this soon!

I recommend crosspathing any beast master with the bottom path, the birds are actually quite nice to have especially on maps that don’t have a lot of space

It can be argued that 310 and 410 Monkey Ace has a general more use in non Sky Shredder strategies due to its buff with pierce on its Moab missle

Thank you so much, the compilation we all wanted

Bottom path Wizard isn’t just Wall of fire and Wall of fire only, the 2-0-x crosspath is only better in situations where POD can’t see other specific obstacles such as Spillway, Another Brick (if you want POD at the back of the map), and Flooded Valley. And POD only targets the Wall of fire to the closest point to the tower on the bloon path, which means it wouldn’t be able to deploy it’s Wall of fire on other lanes simultaneously such as, X-factor, Muddie puddles and Bloody puddles as well.

Was very surpised about the necromancer and POD, always thought top path was better! Gonna start using 024 and 025 now, thanks!

The embrittlement debuff lasts longer when you upgrade it to a deep freeze

Beast handler "crosspaths" can be useful. If you are gonna focus on 2 beasts, you can still have the main beast/ the higher tier buffing beast and the other weaker t2 beast to merge to the other type of beast. You will save money and space.

14:20 I recently beat a challenge like this, you were up against a round with 5 B.F.B.s and you needed a snowstorm and a bottom path tech terror to slow down the B.F.B.s enough to catch them all in the ability

I'd be interested in an updated version of this that accounts for all the new buffs and other developments up to update 40. Especially with the dramatic changes that some crosspaths got. For example, the 0-2-4 and 0-2-5 Tack Shooters now have enough pierce to be far more viable against larger groups of bloons than the 2-0-x tack shooters.

Brings back memories when I would watch HBomb's daily Crosspath comparison upload

Found you through your crosspath series. A good back to the roots video

Middle path darts can change up to 042, so you could have 100% uptime with super/plasma and get triple shots if u dont wanna ability

“If you’re going for a MOAB Domination, make it a 0-2-5” Hbomb in the 5000% BAD health video: *does the exact opposite*

0:04 I found all the dart Monkeys

this is genuinely so helpful thank you!

I thought they made deep freeze necessary a few updates back, by taking some of the attack speed from enchanced freeze and putting it there. You can test this with 022 ice monkeys since 012 cant permastall anymore

OMFG ty SO MUCH. I have been searching so hard to find a knowledgeable person to teach this EXACT topic. I just wanted a second opinion from someone who knew more than me so i could double check my personal findings. Again, ty so much. Liked and Subscribed!

2-3-0 dart monkeys used to be one of my all time favorites in btd 5, when en mass, they could do a shite ton of damage and still can, the razor sharp shots plus trible dart upgrade is a monster when killing hoards of bloons.

About the beast handlers: The mid path it's just better to get 0-3-0 than the 0-4-0 only because the attack speed difference

For the bottom plane, expoloding pineapple increases the bomb damage, so I usually go 025

Great information in this video! Good watch!

This video has cemented his one minute videos about cross paths into their gravestones

you're the best thank you so much I've been wating for this for so long

22 Minutes. Thank you for all the 🐐 content josh!

Thx u so much for making dis vid made my life easier

I have a strategy with middle path dartling of putting it at the start of the path pointing away from the entrance along the path, then using the top crosspath to increase pierce, which in turn doesn't miss because it's near the start of the path.

I know this is 5 months old, but for anyone curious about the best Bottom Path Druid cross path, I did extensive testing in a sandbox game by sending 20 Fortified BADs with a spacing of 1. Provided Camo detection with Etienne and only buff was Permabrew. I had 1 avatar of wrath and 5 Poplusts. I'd test them with no crosspath, then I'd track the pops per tower, reset the pops, crosspath them and get a new pop count. I'd reset the whole screen and do this again with the other crosspath to account for discrepancy in placements. The first test was middle cross path and I went from 1,042,007 total pops with no cross path to 1,646,856 total pops with the middle cross path. This was a total pop increase of 604,849. The top cross path started with a baseline of 1,039,225 total pops which increased to 1,892,552 total pops, an increase of 853,327 pops. Therefore, the best cross path for damage is easily the top cross path, making sure to grab the chain lightning.

12:08 it also gives them more projectile lifespan aka more range

I wish the beast handler could crosspath, it would make it fit in more with the other towers

Knockback is much better for tech terror and anti bloon. Because the top path loses most utility entirely at the top levels as the darts will turn into plasma automatically

Another reason for 301 or 401 alch is if you still need the sapper achievement.

THX you helped me a lot. :)

22:12 there are some things that should be noted. I’ve often gotten a t Rex and pouākai in the same game before and the army created to merge to max power can be 011 so you save money on the base cost of the handler

Solid video but I would love more an analysis video of situations you should do the other crosspath. Ex: X-Ray Ultra means that 302 but 042 Supers work great on levels like Flooded Valley, Moon Landing and other stages with Lots of vision blockers. Thus maybe a follow up going over when the "weaker" crosspath is better. (not able to access a village/alch, etc)

just wanted to say that middle path crosspath on apache might sometimes be better if the map has multiple tracks so it can alternate easier

I like to prioritize detection over damage, like a 502 juggernaut or 052 pirate lord.

Keep in mind, for the middle path ninja (14:50) the better crosspath is now 0-3-1 because Ninja Kiwi changed discipline to only give attack speed, and now seeking shuriken gives extra range as well

Things that I say are missing (correct me if I'm wrong): -0x2 fanclubs are better on boss events to grind for the paragon, and also spam 042 -x20 boomer is better with an alchbuff -*mistake* 052 permacharge is the better crosspath -3x2 bomb does more damge after the buff, but still useless -032 is better when using one mauler for the extra damge, and not as your core strat -4/5-01 brittle is better when you have enough buffs to get 100% uptime for the range -Technically said but 205 impale if you don't have MIB -*mistake* 5x2 solver is better for the extra slow and duration almost always, middle path only on races, build up or elite bloonarius -042 glue if you need the ability for cerams, but hardly ever worth -301 sub can be good for a bit of extra utility just in case for not that much (on chimps be careful) -420 sub on races -250 heli if you got it to doorgunner an embrittlement or a dps tower that outdps the marine. -301 super skip ultravission if you have camo, mainly on chimps -401 alch is also better on 2MP, because middle does way too much damage -DO NOT buy AMD, leave it as 10x as it makes other monkeys steal the leads -501 spirit can be useful in some challenges where you need the extra vines already in the track (buy range first) -302/402 spike can be better on apoppalypse since the spikes don't despawn -x05 spike if you have no alch

9:00 Spy plane allows darts to do 1+ damage to camoes. Night vision goggles is +2

I love the cult of the lamb music in the background

Middle path tack shooter now changes spin direction if done with the bottom crosspath

Yo that banner is fire 🔥

that music in the backround, correct me if im wrong, but is that from little big planet 3? either way, good choice lad! brings back good memory's of playing LBP2

Permacharge has specific bonus synergy with bottom path though...

I just got an idea while getting black medals on all the beg maps The idea is to make a vid about monkes to use to with pat also i wont be including the tack shoot has most knows its good with pat Here are some: -402 sub:Shreds weaker bloons in the early to mid game while providing camo detection -top path boat (hotshots if u want):Plus 1 damage is insane for the mini planes and the grapes -205 sniper:The Blimp damage is so good that it can be a subtitue to moab elim -052 sniper:It shreds apart the bloons that get caught lacking (leaking) Honorable mentions: -250 boat -250 ace -502/205 heli -015 druid (buffed with 014 druids of course) -520 engineer And now the moment you've been waiting for "drum rolls" 501 ace:Absolutely INSANE against Blimps and Scerams (If you want you can buff it with top path boat) Thats the end now i'll continue playing

I have been using 2-0-4 Ninjas just because of good of an early game 2-0-2 is and it's easier to build up to then placing a new Ninja just to get 1-0-4

Personally, I tend to give my top path helicopters a middle crosspath. The better speed tends to let them line up their shots more easily, better taking advantage of pierce. That being said, I typically only place one helicopter, and, funny enough, I have never looked up strategies for the tower.

The merch looks sick

one more thing about crossbiw crosspath: quick shots is better bc you will have more opportunities for crits because you hit faster

Ngl I'd never thought I'd hear cult kf the lamb music over a bloons video

Is the reasoning to not make druids 2-x-0 because it’s too expensive? I usually buy that upgrade because it helps w/ clumps due to its v high pierce

dart is more situational tbh since bottom bath makes the spike balls last so much longer allowing them to hit much further along the track

Moh-ahb. It's a play on MOAB which stands for massive ordainace air burst. Also called, "Mother Of All Bombs"-> "Mother Of All Bloons".

"Pierce is situational, and damage is always useful" Anyway, crosspath your permacharge boomerang with the pierce upgrade instead of the damage upgrade.

if i can i like to hande the early to mid game by upgrading a buccaneer to 0-2-2, which can then be converted to 0-2-4 money makers that can handle camo leads when they show up. amazing in alternate bloon rounds where camos show up round 5 and camo lead shows up round 24 unless theres no water i guess

I think the new perma spike nerf made the 105 equal in power if not better in some scenarios

notes 420 boomer is better if an alch buff is always applied 052 boomer can work great if you have a pierce cutting tower such as tsar bomba or psi or if you have massive pierce buffs applied to the boomer. it really depends on how you like to play. 024 boomer is better in modular setups, setups that requires presses in the 80's targeting singular zomgs, and ddt support 03/4/52 bomb is better for single target like round 100 (this is very rare) 520 iring all the way unless you really have a skill issue r100 setup. the extra pierce is way better and the extra range on the iring main attack is very underrated. 250 ice is always the best but 042 can be used if if you need more range and the reefreeze ability on the awind. this should onlt really be done if you have mib, mib skip, or want to play the amd rng game I tend to get 510 on the glue because it pretty much insta kills ceramics and the pierce on spallter isn't really needed 023 glue is really needed if you want to glue moabs too, if not then stay 013 Elite defender is a crazy cool tower that has been seeing a lot of use in the pro scene as a 205. this is great when set in the sniper setups as usual (for ceramic cleanup and r100) but its been used as an amazing saveup tower along with basic ceramic suport in the lategame in a lot of crazy funky setups. the only reason why i'd get 025 is because of geraldo sharpstone a lot of people say the 520 mortar is still better because of consistancy but from my testing they seemed to be about the same but I like burny stuff so I go with that :) never tested it but I think that the wall of fire on armchiar is funny so I get that ha ha 320 sun avatar is pretty much always better as its pierce improves it through the midgame while having way more damage in the lategame from the pierce and the range 032 super is useless (unless you are doing that very specific geraldo super strat) 300, 301, and 320 alch crosspath is very common, for stim always crosspath it with something (the alch crosspathing is very complicated so I won't talk about it) 042 and 032 banks are used in IMF farming village crosspaths don't matter because you can pick and choose the crosspaths freely (besides opoplis of course) with drums 015 engi will get the extra redoply rate so if you are going to micro do that path.

For the top path plane the pineapple upgrade boosts the explosive attacks so the missiles do more damage to blimps. That's the main reason I get them so that's what I go with.

Bottom path and along with other towers with the malestorm allows for infnite ability duration

CULT OF THE LAMB theme!!!! It's been so long since I heard that!

Partially disagree on the maulers, extra range from bottom path T1 and T2 means more time attacking. You usually don't cap the 40 pierce, the main upside of top path is larger splash radius.

17:37 DoW, Poplust and AoW without Alch buffs are very even but HoT is very expensive, so always go for Thon Swarm cos it's normally much cheaper.

"you'll be filling up the traps like crazy" - hbomb

I had no idea glaives helped with MOAB press! Thanks! And Necro/POD affect wall of fire?!

Man thinks that Bloon solver needs more pierce when he's like a glue hose with one pierce and leaves blobs on the ground...

On the 2-0-0 farms, it's always better to sell them with the 2-0-2 crosspath and rebuy them under a discount village as long as they make 380$. Help you make more money in boss events.

I d like an excel list of that

I’ve always wondered why he made 1 minute videos about one crosspath rather than a video like this

I Present To You! Every Dart Monkey In The Video!!!!! 1:52 first hidden dart monkey 2:25 Second hidden dart monkey 3:26 Does the crossbow count? Idk 4:07 Another crossbow 5:19 Dart monkey on HBomb Merch 8:06 Third And Last Hidden Dart Monkey 10:05 WTF!?!? ANOTHER HIDDEN DART!?!? Next to boomer btw 10:48 BRUH, ANOTHER DART MONKEY?!? 11:20 Hidden glue gunner behind the upgrade panel 11:33 Another Crossbow Monkey 12:46 Bruh 6th dart monkey 13:58 Another Crossbow 15:26 Another Crossbow 18:14 AnOTheR CrOss 18:26 ANoTHer CRoSs 18:38 anOthER crOsS 19:17 I give up 19:54 OH BABY A TRI- I-- I mean DOUBLE OH YEAAA! 20:17 Hidden in the jungle 20:46 ANOTher CroSS EXTRAS- 0:05 First dart monkeys 0:13 Second first dart mankeys 0:25 Cult dart monkeys 0:36 Quincy's (Better than Quincy) Students I cant believe i dedicated my life to this

17:10 would it be worth it to crosspath a druid of the storm with heart of oak if you're worried about regrow farms? I haven't had the issue before but I've heard it's a problem

The top path glue gunner is better being bottom crosspathed if you buff it with a top path village as it gets enough pierce to basically hit all the bloons, while the bottom path glue gunners ability to slow down bloons more and last longer and have puddles that last longer cannot be earned by buffing the glue gunner. Plus you get extra pierce when you buy the fifth tier. So the bottom path is better if you're getting the fifth tier glue gunner and are buffing it with the top path village. But if you're getting a fourth tier, yes the middle path is much better even when being buffed with a village.

For a 0-0-4 ace i would get a 0-2-4 because pineapples increase bomb pierce and half of a 0-0-4s attacks are bombs (the other half are darts).

Why is it better to get a 130 bomb instead of range the 130 gives pierce but for moab damage you wont need much pierce the 031 gives a chance to get one extra hit on things before they leave range which could be like an extra 20 damage since each hit is so much

Finally, the video everyone was scared to make

"As for the Archmage" *clip of Archmage spinning in circles*

Thanks for hbomb for giving us more bloons knowledge 😊❤

the maelstrom at 3:20 just stole my pixels

Pro tip: Make one bottom path Bombshooter 0-2-4 to make it a tier 5

19:02 "as its balls last longer.."😳

my changes 502 glue for the extra slow uptime and pierce for the globs if you need get top path village 052 boomerang is a little better than top path with 4->8 normal damage and 12->18 ability damage pierce is big though with 250 has 13 pierce and 052 has 4 205 wizard buffs the graveyard last time i checked besides that it was an amazing video ps people are saying 510 buffs skyshredder anti missile moab damage but it only buffs the pierce by 2 no damage buff

What's about top path boomer with an alc buff? Isn't attack speed is better in that scenario?

A bit of controversy. The 0-X-2 Druid is actually more dps due to them synergizing much better with buffs including Poplust druid buffs, so if you're gonna buff them go 0-X-2 but if not leave them 1-X-0 for the lead popping power. The 2-0-4 Bloon Trap engi is actually better in cases with cross pathing because of the amount of traps it can drop out and money made, but this is usually only the case when placing it far in front of your other defense's so a 0-1-4 is most likely what you're gonna do and this is opposite for the X-X-5 as the 0-1-5 is always better as the trap release time is very minor in difference and much better at preventing your other towers from popping the moabs before it can eat them.

I disagree about perma spike, it's better to use 205 factory + 240 ice in front of it. Spikes will pop moabs and ice will keep ceramics from eating up the pierce. It also stalls the round so you can build up more spikes.

I go with 041 banana farm, it glows to remind me to deposit, i can always afford to deposit thanks to being able to take a loan from it. Once im done depositing, i upgrade it to 042 or 052 and forget about it.

12:46 That beard is AMAZING!!!!!! Please regrow it back.

What song is that in the background? I remember it from somewhere

0:54 imo lead PP is essential for glave lord

You missed on: (Primary) Bomb top path, for more dps you go 502, for more stuns you go 520. -Boomer perma charge, it is always better to go 052 after damage buff to buttom path which gives +4 damage and +8 when active ability. Less pierce can be managed by an alch or a primary village. -Top path glue gunner If u plan on teir 4 only, it is better to go for 420 for more glue, but if u plan to go for 5th teir, it is always better in all situations to go for 502, because 5th teir already has so much projectiles so much pierce and a very fast attack speed, so nothing leaks, which makes longer glue uptime way better than more pierce. (Military): Top path boat 4th and 5th teir don't get advantage from alch by their main dps which is the planes, only the boat itself gets buffed, so if u have a close range to track 520 is better, but if not then 502 is better for more pierce on planes darts.