The NEW BEAST Handler Tower Is Here! (Bloons TD 6) 

What a beastly tower. So overwhelmed with this that I should clarify that you only need 3 other beasts (not 5 as I said) for max t4 power, and same to unlock the tier 5 of course. What are your thoughts on this new tower? Patch notes here: redd.it/12b3jtl

"We won't add bloonchipper because it's hard to balance" *adds orca*

The challenges with this tower are going to have some insane micro

The Eagle reticle seems to be the point where it drags bloons. Once they get past that point, it will bring them back to the reticle.

The Beast Handler feels more like three separate one path towers than one full tower. The paths (to my knowledge) don't interact with each other. Also, not being able to unmerge a tower is unfortunate.

I'm pretty sure that when you merge, the tower that was boosted would get the range of the merged tower. It's kinda of like advanced intel, but only for beast handlers.

The fascinating part is that while the beast handler is completely unique, mechanically it feels like the bloon chipper. The shark instantly consumes a moab, the dinos annihilate cerams and leads (and has a stun), and the birds have a slight knockback effect. Considering everything, I'm glad we got this tower!

imagine if the beast handler paragon would summon a chimera

The megladon max power one shots bads infinitely it looks like, seems a little broken, not sure how it works late game but it could be very useful

From just a bit of testing in sandbox, this tower feels insane. Top path oneshotting blimps, middle doing crazy damage, and bottom just airlifting bloons potentially super far back on the track. Like everyone else is saying, it almost feels like a spiritual successor to the Bloonchipper. Edit: just got Megalodon and the fact you need four t4s just to get it (or 8 to max its beast power out) somewhat balances out the fact it can INSTAKILL FBADS. From more messing around in a real game the beasts are very strong, but seem limited by the fact they can only effectively deal with bloons up to a certain layer. For example, condor can permastall several bfbs, but one zomg or anything spaced out enough and it's useless without help

Pretty sure the birds' knockback will take the bloon it has to where you target it, which is why it seems so weird. If the bloon hasn't reached that point, it won't do knockback.

It's actually better to use the tier 2 towers to merge with the beast handler. It doesn't do 2. It does +2 in addition to the one. So a tier 2 would give a total of +3

The air one seems to attack anywhere in range but it drops Bloons off where you put the target, which would explain why you can only target on the track

This is truly a certified "It's Beast Handlin Time" moment in the history of BTD6.

18:57 ISAB may not play Minecraft, but he's got the spirit.

So some information from games I've played, the condors knock back is based on where you target it, so you are not targeting the condors itself, but the point at which it will bring Bloons/moabs back to. This can lead to some interesting use cases, for example, some may think that it's best to have it knock back to the earliest point of the map, but not always, you could even see it in this game, because it was knocked back to the earlier parts of the track, the heavy dps towers couldn't hit it. You can think of it like a targeted Maim Moab, so instead of the sniper keeping the Moab at the start of the track, slowly chipping away at it, you can keep moabs within a certain part of the track so all your towers can pop it. Also some may say that it's a "Maim Moab at home" because it doesn't have full map range, or the extra damage of Cripple Moab, but it makes up for these by being both much cheaper and much better at keeping moabs at bay. Next I want to talk about Beast Tiers, while I can't talk about the increase in power, I can do the quick calculations to tell you how to reach max level the cheapest, it would take up too much space here, but I'll post a comment below this detailing the price to Beast Tiers breakdown. For Sea and Land, it's cheaper to get your Tier 2 main tamer to 6 Beast Tiers with 3 supporting tier 1 tamers. Then it's cheaper to get your Tier 3 main tamer to 24 Beast Tiers with 16 tier 1 supporting tamers, but that's way too space inefficient, so it's slightly more costly, but way more space efficient to get 5 tier 2 and 1 tier 1 supporting tamers. Then to get your Tier 4 main tamer to 64 Beast Tiers, again, it's cheaper to get 48 tier 1 supporting tamers, but again, it's too space inefficient, so I would recommend having just 6 tier 3 supporting tamers, because all you would have to do from the previous tier, is upgrade the 5 tier 2 tamers to tier 3, and the 1 tier 1 tamers to tier 3. Finally to get a tier 5 main tamer to 132 Beast Tiers, you already have 3 tier 4 supporting tamers, so you can either get a total of 6 tier 3 supporting tamers, or have 3 tier 4 and 6 tier 3 supporting tamers. This isn't nearly as space efficient, but can be useful on certain maps, personally, I would use 6 tier 4 supporting tamers for land, and the 3 tier 4 and 6 tier 3 supporting tamers for sea, given how expensive the Price to Beast Tiers ratio is for the tier 4 sea path, vs the still more expensive, but more reasonable ratio for the tier 4 land path. Again. I'll have a full breakdown in another comment below. The air path actually only differs for getting a tier 2 main tamer, as it is actually more cost effective to get just 1 tier 2 supporting tamers to reach 6 Beast Tiers. After this though, the price per Beast Tiers follows a similar progression to the land path, so I would recommend following the strategy for them for tier 3 and onwards. Thanks for reading, if you did, make sure to like the video and this comment if it was helpful, post any questions you have below, and I'll try and answer them to the best of my ability!

13:00 I havent watched the full video, but maybe the beast handler bottom path is coded not to drag bloons fowrard in the path? It would make sense, to prevent trollers in co-op sending bloons way forward

I realized something while watching. When the Orca drags MOABs to the depths, you get no money from killing them. That’s probably why even after all that farming, you were tight on money.

Just the playstlye and requirements to fully utilize the beasts just make to future of a paragon feel very natural. And also quite powerful I'd imagine.

This tower feels so weird... Purely because it's new and unique. I guarantee I'm gonna love it, especially when we get some juicy meta for it... Right now? I'm just confused and overwhelmed, it's 12:40 am I can't do this rn lmao

The power of a full energy beast feels like it is notably higher than the uncombined beasts to make it

Personally, the Beast handler is an amazing concept for the btd series and I am absolutely loving using it rn, although it is weird that it is a support tower and doesn’t interact with any other tower but it is an amazing monkey nontheless

More than anything, I am truly amazed by how complicated the tower is. Props to Ninja Kiwi to coding all of this

"I can't believe they named a big budget movie after a BTD quest" lmao

ISAB: "Oh these quests are for absolute beginners" 13:43 Also ISAB: *slowly figuring out how the bird targeting works after ignoring the tutorial*

Thank you ISAB for handling the beasts

This tower feels super OP. Dino powered up beats R63 with ease, Bird can pull bloons to other tracks and has insane stall, and orca just eats MOAB class bloons. Also, the T5 orca just eats fortified bads like it is nothing. Its so crazy broken.

Thank you ISAB for handling the beasts.

I remember coming up with a "Monkey Tamer" tower back when BTD5 was still the main game back in 2017. So cool to see something like that now in BTD6. :D

Some things I picked up from the tower: 1. The reticle is where the bird drags the balloons but if you place the reticle late on the track, you can make the bird just stick to attacking because it only drags back balloons past that point. 2. There's a lot of merit to having a few smaller beasts to start without merging, and then adding additional beast handlers later to merge into them (this is especially true for the barracuda), stronger beasts can pop stronger balloons in one pop it looks like, but at a bit of a cost of attack speed compared to just having multiple 3. Staggering multiple barracuda a little bit seems essential to make it work since they don't seem to knock back balloons that were just knocked back. 4. Sharks seem less likely, if at all, to knockback balloons, so sometimes keeping barracudas around might be a bit better.

The birbs attack any bloon in Mr. Beast's range; the targeting option is where they will drag the bloons to

There is a lot to take in with this. Main thing I will say is that the range is very wierd with this guy, which is probably why you can't move them. You can put the t-rex in the range of other merged beast handlers, sometimes. I think thr handlers' ranges need to overlap, and you can give the t-rex almost full map range.

Thanks isab for reviewing the mr beast tower ❤

10:45 I believe thats why its a support monkey, since it wouldnt fit to military or magic but would be to op with primary mentoring, besides that, top path acts like a moab instant kill so basically the 4 - 0 shredder from btd 5, mid path provides a stun and crazy dmg and bottom path drags the bloon back to stall it

For the falcon it can go in range of any assisting beast handler as well, and the crosspathing is when you’d want to level up the other assisting beast handler(you have your main path for it being tier 4 or 5 then your tier 2 goes into another tier 4 or 5)

I think the pet for this tower should be a sky blue panther with white eyes. Said panther was adopted by the Beast Handler when it was just a cub during a harsh snowstorm. Using the limited vocabulary he had, it was named "Mr. Beast"

I did not expect the Meg to one shot bads

Fun fact about the beast handler (if you didn't know): the T5 bottom path is based on a real bird named the haast's eagle (which is extinct) pouakai is how you would say it in Moari.

I like this Mr. Beast Handler 😂

Fun fact the methadone upgrade can take in round 100 bads but not higher round bads. It does around 150k damage to bads which it can't take in.

This is an incredibly tower, it'sr eally fun to play around with!

The eagle has a drop point for the birds; at least that's what it seems

Damn didn’t know it would get released this night😮. This about to be hype🔥

Just a tip for targeting, if you merge a beast handler with another one, then provided the beast handler that got removed from screen is within the range of the first handler, then the beasts range is extended to the second handler. it does not work any other way that i found yet, but pretty good to know.

The small amount I’ve played with this tower it’s so broken 😂

The condor mark is where it will drag the Bloons back. If you put it back further it won't drag Bloons because it won't drag them further along the path, only backwards

I love the concept of this tower, though it definitely needs lots of more polishing up and that’s very apparent. I also think it’s pretty weak for how much money you have to put into it.

Here's my theory on how the Condor targetting works: The target you can select for your Condor is where it's gonna drop off the captured bloons / MOABs. However, it seems like the Condor ignores this target if it's further down the track than the current bloon / MOAB it's attacking. In other words, the Condor will only carry bloons to the target point if they actually get sent back, not forward. It's just my theory tho, I'm not sure if that's how it works. I hope I didn't explain it too confusingly. All in all I think the Beast Handler got some really cool and strong abilities, the problem is just that all 3 paths attack very slowly and you can't give it much attack speed other than Jungle Drums. Pretty sure Overclock doesn't work. Maybe the Village abilities work, but I doubt it.

Never thought they would actively add new towers that’s rlly cool

It seems that the marker for the bottom path is where you want the eagle to place the moab. However it doesn’t place it until the moab has reached that part in the track. The eagle can hit anywhere within the radius. Just the cursor is where you want it to place it. Which is weird that the targeting is still enabled before the moab skill is purchased.

The knockback is based on where you put that cursor. It will drag bloons to that spot if they get past it.

NGL feels like an incomplete(in the sense that you need multiple of them to get the full potential of one) tower that act as both a moneysink and a waste of space that needs too much micro for not enough gains compared to the resources it requires. But alas, we only saw the 5* dino and that to me seemed like the most underwhelming one, maybe the fish and the bird end up being more worthwhile.

I loved the part where the Beast Handler said "It's Beast Handlin time." and Beast Handled all all over the place.

18:57 It feels modded until it's been out for a while. This is like minecraft. The new textures, cooler caves, and better nether doesn't feel molded anymore because it's been out for awhile

Ninja Kiwi really added Mr Beast in the Game 💀💀💀💀

the targeting on the bird is where the bird drags the balloons back too

So we're all just going to ignore how he pronounced Giganotosaurus?

i think sauda should've been a tower and beast handler should've been a hero honestly but i guess it needs multiples for it work but they could've changed it

Just since there seems to be confusion. The Bottom Path for the Bird can attack anywhere in range and drops off the bloons it picks up at the spot you target. This even works to allow you to drop them into an entirely different lane on multi-lane maps such as bloonarius prime. The reason it seemed to not be working is that it knows you wouldn't want to move the bloons forward on the track so it had to wait until they had passed that point to start dragging them back again. The stalling it can do seems unbelievably strong with how cheap you can perma-stall moabs.

Idk if you noticed, but if you merge you can move the merged beast into the range of the other beast handlers that are merged with the main one

New tower is a beast (Joke intended), No crazy crosspaths but Maxed out Megalodon is rather strong, maxed out Giga is pretty good too, The bird is alright, i didn't notice it doing anything crazy outside of anti-camo, the combine mechanic is easy to understand mostly, should just tell you what max beast power does like in the shark description ("Ex: If maxed beast power, can take down MOABS") also let us un-merge, sometimes mistakes are made

The giganotosaurus has a weird name, it’s said jig-a-no-toe-sore-us rather than what it looks like. Really cool to see dinos in bloons, never expected to see them unmodded as a tower.

I think that the big brain play is to merge secondary pathways into primary 3+ pathways of the other handlers instead of keeping them separate

After downloading the game through google apks (I know it's bad but am poor am so sorry ;-;) this is what I have to say: The beast handlers are really odd. But they kinda actually fit in the support category because well, they support themselves. 5-0-0 Is mostly the dps track much like engi 5-0-0 and 0-5-0 is good for damage and stunning bloons. I also learned that 0-0-5 and bellow's targeting is where the bird drops the bloons when they pick them up, that's probably the reason why they were overwhelmed on your part. Overall they're kinda neat. And I like em

the targeting for the bottom path is for grabbing the bloons where you place the point is where the bloons are sent to when grabbed

This is probably the best tower that has ever dropped, each tier 5 can solo B.A.Ds and it really isn't that expensive, the air path pushes bloons back and you can move the tower almost anywhere you want instantly anytime you want.

11:33 and it is hungry xD Beast Handler from my experience is kind of nuts in a sense

the bird (at higher tiers) actually drags bloons and moabs backwards, which is why the targetting automatically goes to the furthest back point of the track also it doesnt work when the BFB is behind where the target is, since the bird refuses to push bloons further

I absolutely love this tower man. Honestly might just be my favorite one, the whole prospect of it alone is just fascinating

18:45 the bird legit was trying to kill you lol

Played with this tower for a few hours today. I love it. It's got a really cool gimmick and the way merging works is very satisfying. Plus the beasts are really unique and, especially the avians and sea beasts, each of the beasts are unlike any other tower in the game.

apparently the max power Megaladon just casually swallows BAD's and that's pretty funny

Ninja Kiwi, can we have Super Wide Funnel back? NK: No, we have SWF at home Super Wide Funnel at home: ORCA

For me when i started playing with the beast handler I sorta came to the conclusion that the bird is only really good for maps with multiple lanes as you can clump moabs together to a single lane and have more controlled damage (still good but theres other options that probably do what it can do but better) The trex is really strong but doesnt attack very fast so you need other towers to support it And the shark is actually nuts it does so much damage and its the strongest of all 3 by far I added up the prices of maxing out all of the t5 beasts and it came up to these aswell 210460 Shark 175700 T-Rex 115295 Bird

Hey! Awesome video, can’t wait to try out this cool tower!! This is a tiny nitpick, but the way you’re supposed to pronounce the t5 dinosaur is “giga-noto-sauros”. Not important and everyone usually says gigantosauros, but thought I’d be that internet guy today ;)

Thank you ISAB for showing off the breast fondler

the bird targeting icon is a halo CE AR reticle with a bird in the middle, that's cool.

The thing I liked about the beast handler is that when you do the quest you also get xp so when I got beast handler I already had the condor the T. rex and the orca

looking a beast handler to max the "beast power" for a certain tier requires that amount of beast handlers at that tier, so max beast power tier 2 simply is just 2 tier 2 beasts merged and it's probably more expensive to buy all the smaller tiers to max so I would just stick with merging the max tier you can get

Giga if you boost it : Homeland defense : with some extra ultraboost and whatever is below it [somehow i forget] and max it with other rexes can beat round 150 [on the FIRST map on normal]

t5 Eagle can perma-stall a seemingly infinite number of non-BAD blimps, up to like round 140ish then DDTs are too fast, t5 shark one-shots BADs up to ~145, past that it has the highest single target dmg of the three, and t5 dino has so much pierce I am not sure how large a ceramic wave needs to be for it to fail. These towers are very cool

fun fact the song for the water stage is a wellerman remix.

Gosh i can't believe btd 6 is already on update 36. I remember when churchill was added. Time flies

Bottom path is completely broken, Tier 5 132/132 did 50k DPS in round 80 something. Edit: Actually, top path is broken too. It can ONESHOT F-BADs? Sure, it takes some time, and is not instant like Navarch ability, but it's an 80k tower, and not a 650k paragon. (including previous upgrades)

I live when the Beast Handler said “it’s beast handlin’ time” coolest shit ever

it feels like a baby paragon, nerfs will definitely be had with the megalodon with it being able to drag bads in the water at any level, but overall it has some interesting progression with dino great for early game, bird for mid to late, and fish hitting there as well, but it does take a minute to learn it as it just makes the game a different one entirely

This video is essentially a notification that Btd 6 has finally updated.

I found out a overpowered feature of the "sacrifices". When another Beast Handler is fused to a different Beast Handler, you can use THE RANGE OF THE FUSED BEAST HANDLER AS SPACE/RANGE for the monster(water, earth and air).

The megalodon one shots bads! That is insane. And it has no limit like boat paragon, so it can literally take out like 10 f bads by itself regardless of round...

i feel like the beats handler is better if you dont merge.

I'm only at 14:00 so idk if he figures it out, but with the bottom path it isn't knockback, the birds physically pick up balloons and move them to the mark, assuming they are further along the track

All 3 tiers do something to moabs but not any cleanup The merge feature is cool but overall tower feels corny in the sense of the pathing not synergizing whatsoever Also takes up alot of space and money to merge Cool idea tho

The bird is like a mid path helicopter up to bfbs at tier 4 and will only move the balloons back once past the mark otherwise it is a drone like entien. The dinosaur is the main dps for popping. And the fish is at first dps and at second a moab/zomg breaker. This is what I can tell.

This tower seems like it’s the definition of overwhelming. It feels like you tried to turn 3 different *heroes* into a single 3-path tower. Between the insane micro and the multiple different effects on even singular upgrades, not to mention the whole merging gimmick, this feels more like a preview to a new Ninja Kiwi IP than a Bloons tower.

NK: "bloon Chipper is hard to balance" Ultra Wide Funnel: " haha, Gawr Gura go brrr."

I like how Isab minmaxes the merging in the challange just a few minutes after saying "so they really meant beginner"

“y’know he’s kinda into that..” uhm. cappy? have something to tell us?

I think you put your main on close to the tracks to fight and put a bunch of 220 022 202 to power em up In adition to your main damage ones powering each other as well

Truly a powerful Tower, T5 Top Path can just kill BADs quickly, T5 Middle Path can just stun everything except BADs, T5 Bottom can just stall rounds except from BADs.

This is so creative! There are a lot of games where sometimes modders make more creative stuff than the devs themselves. This is not one of them, the concept feels so unique yet it fits well without being disruptive. Amazing work from Ninjakiwi!