the first 40 rounds are pretty much the same for bosses, literally just farm as much cash as you can little to no reason to think much about anything else besides having a good farming setup and a good enough defense for the first 40 rounds
Agreed. Honestly it's the best mechanic on the boss, the one that probably has the most potential for actually encouraging people to use different strategies and shake up the by now quite stale meta. I think if they just got rid of the sight blocking rocks entirely and made the heat mechanic more threatening but also have more ways to engage with it, they might just have the best boss they've made yet.
Yeah I agree, I thought this was why they made middle path mermonkey have ice powers once ISAB showcased this boss, I thought it was weird that it had ice attack and when I saw the heat feature thought it would give variety and use to ice based attacks but doesn’t seem the case currently
20:11 ISAB casually editing Popseidon out of the popcount check because it was weirdly low and he didn't realize that Popseidon's purple weakness applies versus Blastapopoulos Case in point: 18:38
It's completely worthless, too. Echosense only buffs other echosense mermonkeys, so the buffs didn't even apply to it as it wasn't crosspathed properly.
I agree with the overheat mechanic. I just tested this boss and I quickly realized that the stun isn’t that threatening so I just started spamming my usual boss killing towers (not the projectile ones tho) and it was so easy to beat. I think they should change the mechanic to it burning up a random tower or 2 (excluding paragons) every time it overheats so it gives us more of a reason to use ice attacks. Either that or just make the stun last longer.
Superjombombo has a whole series of kingdom rush videos on his gaming(?) channel. That’s actually how I found SJB like several years ago and then eventually ISAB
NK being really generous by apparently not making the range reduction fuck with ice platforms. I was thinking for sure "oh no ISAB forgot" and that the glaive dominus would be sold during tier 3 when the snowstorm's range dropped - but apparently not _shrugs_
ISAB you're a 🐐 because I got notification for this video and was confused when you said the update should be out. The update hadn't come out for me yet but I just checked and sure enough it let me update ❤❤❤❤
imbrittlement is an insanely good tower for this boss. 4000$ for extra damage to boss, easily stopping early AI balloons, AND makes the heat bar a non-problem for the entire boss. (seriously i had 2 embrittlements and an icicle impale for late game and the boss exploded a total of like twice or maybe 3 times across all 5 tiers)
I found that for tier one even with my terrible farm overdrive and embrittlement is still viable at least for normal but with good farm probably elite aswell cause the embrittlement counteracts the high projectile count of the overdrive
Blastapop fireballs the **most expensive** tower on screen and the **closest** and **furthest** towers away from it, at each skull. Close and Far can be directed to cheap decoy towers (e.g. 000 Darts), leaving only one important tower getting crippled per skull.
I really feel like this boss could have been WAY cooler if their was an ice paragon and they made it so that in the later tiers it's stun from full heat gage was MUCH longer
The popseidon doesn't work on blastapopoulos because it also has a purple bloon weakness. Only ice towers can actually reduce the heat of blastapopoulos.
I'm not really that good at bloons but I played the elite boss on the new map and it was tough I couldn't get past stage 4. Good job on this completion though.
Wtf HE DID IT WITH ONLY 2 PARAGONS BRO I DID IT WITH FOUR DART AND NINJA AND BOOMER AND BOAT AND VTSG WITH GLUE STROM AND ALL THE OTHER BUFFS AND ON ROUND 120 I HAD 134K TO SPARE AND ALMOST LOST???
Its such a shame that popseidon is nullified by the purple property of blastapopoulus. It would be a great tower for reducing heat, but because the projectiles are blocked it does nothing. Only ice towers are effective, but they dont do enough to the heat meter be worth investing in for that strategy
18:00 wasn't echosense network buffed to cap at 10x mermonkeye this update? And doesnt Popseidon need echosense network to benefit from it as well? /genq
Everyone losing their minds at 19:20 clearly don't watch ISAB Extras
That one race:
Sigma
Hearing ISAB say "what the sigma" was not something I was prepared for.
He's said it not that long ago like a week or 2 ago. Sad world we have lived in for the past few year
what does it mean ?
@@duesenantrieb8272its just a brain rot term
@@duesenantrieb8272I’m being so real do you live under a rock, nicest way of asking but do you
Timestamp?
2:17 "I did a little bit of farming offscreen" im crying
the first 40 rounds are pretty much the same for bosses, literally just farm as much cash as you can little to no reason to think much about anything else besides having a good farming setup and a good enough defense for the first 40 rounds
@@justenoughrandomness8989 I know, I'm referencing the 'little bit of mining off camera' meme
@@lilogregames3783 i thought you didn't get it from the "im crying" but alr
@@justenoughrandomness8989 I’m crying cause it’s funny, I understand why he does it though, (most) bosses aren’t that hard on easier maps
Thank you ISAB for letting Blastapopoulos get really deep into his defense 6:49
I wish that the heat thing was actually bad enough to make people use ice towers, it seems interesting but it just gets ignored.
obv its not a boss thing, but with 3xx being a viable decamo now, i think it can get the use it deserves
Agreed. Honestly it's the best mechanic on the boss, the one that probably has the most potential for actually encouraging people to use different strategies and shake up the by now quite stale meta. I think if they just got rid of the sight blocking rocks entirely and made the heat mechanic more threatening but also have more ways to engage with it, they might just have the best boss they've made yet.
Yeah I agree, I thought this was why they made middle path mermonkey have ice powers once ISAB showcased this boss, I thought it was weird that it had ice attack and when I saw the heat feature thought it would give variety and use to ice based attacks but doesn’t seem the case currently
That and ice towers feel like they do nothing so why try to fight the inevitable.
@@erierierierierie 3xx is not decamo
edit: nvm wtf
20:11 ISAB casually editing Popseidon out of the popcount check because it was weirdly low and he didn't realize that Popseidon's purple weakness applies versus Blastapopoulos
Case in point: 18:38
LOLL
projectiles get blocked by rock?
@@GoofyGangster-official yeah, bouncy projectiles shouldn't get blocked by line of sight
Boost
middle mermonkey purple weakness is so lame
Congrats ISAB, for making Flavored Trades a canon thing in BTD6
Honorable
The fact that he sold the mermonkey saying "were not going to go with echosense" the immediately builds up an echosence army
He also only got 4 Stacks. It goes to 10
The druid instinct
It's completely worthless, too. Echosense only buffs other echosense mermonkeys, so the buffs didn't even apply to it as it wasn't crosspathed properly.
also the fact that mermonkey also doesnt hit purple bloons now too and he didnt realise that at all....
@@Cristian145 I think 4 is the minimum efficiency for mermonkey/money
It took until 2:19 for Double Discount Villages to show up
Discount me twice
19:20 NEVER say that again 😭
fr dont go to the brain rot 😭
this is so sigma
what the sigma
I lost my edging streak 😭😭😭
it's ok because isab is sigma
"yeah what the sigma 🗣🗣🔥🔥" 19:20
Bro has 201 likes but no comment 🥶
popseidon did not work without mib bc that hot blimp is purple bruh
Hey ISAB, I’ve been enjoying your videos for a while and I just wanted to say thanks for all the years of the great content
20:20 just throw it into the ocean
I agree with the overheat mechanic. I just tested this boss and I quickly realized that the stun isn’t that threatening so I just started spamming my usual boss killing towers (not the projectile ones tho) and it was so easy to beat. I think they should change the mechanic to it burning up a random tower or 2 (excluding paragons) every time it overheats so it gives us more of a reason to use ice attacks. Either that or just make the stun last longer.
Do that for elite tiers
The only real problem with the stun ard the DDTs
she blast on my pop till i'm lost
[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]
@@reynoodle❌
@@reynoodleShe pop on my lost till I blast
@@reynoodle extremely quiet correct ding
Your father in lae is on top of my happy stick rn
19:18 Pretty funny interaction
Negative effects?
thank you ISAB for blasting inside and within my populous
Blast my popolis
ISAB DID NOT JUST SAY WHAT THE SIGMA
17:13 pargon level 69 ISAB nice 😂😂
Thankyou ISAB for blasting all over the new boss
's populous
I love seeing ISAB beating the boss that quickly
3:14 the ninja sticky bomb does 450 damage, not 500. It is better than my "sticky bomb" 🤖
Next time I want ISAB to show me how to beat Pandaemonium in Kingdom Rush
Barricks only
@@oscarfernandez5599 just spam paladins with barbarian range support
Superjombombo has a whole series of kingdom rush videos on his gaming(?) channel. That’s actually how I found SJB like several years ago and then eventually ISAB
Trueeee
mmmmmmm
MINIGAMES
NOO IM SO SORRY
thank you isab for blasting popoulous
Bots going crazy today
2:00
All we need is a "jungle of the Druid" reference in game now 😂
NK being really generous by apparently not making the range reduction fuck with ice platforms. I was thinking for sure "oh no ISAB forgot" and that the glaive dominus would be sold during tier 3 when the snowstorm's range dropped - but apparently not _shrugs_
I think that ice towers specifically are immune to some of Blast's debuffs.
ISAB you're a 🐐 because I got notification for this video and was confused when you said the update should be out. The update hadn't come out for me yet but I just checked and sure enough it let me update ❤❤❤❤
imbrittlement is an insanely good tower for this boss. 4000$ for extra damage to boss, easily stopping early AI balloons, AND makes the heat bar a non-problem for the entire boss. (seriously i had 2 embrittlements and an icicle impale for late game and the boss exploded a total of like twice or maybe 3 times across all 5 tiers)
On the sulfur springs elite blastpopulas, i used a degree 25 dart paragon, with a degree 41 navarch, and a degree 17 glaive dominus.
19:17 what the sigma
It's occurring to me that this is the only boss boss far that doesn't affect the bloons directly in some way afaik
FLAVOURED TRADES REAL
I found that for tier one even with my terrible farm overdrive and embrittlement is still viable at least for normal but with good farm probably elite aswell cause the embrittlement counteracts the high projectile count of the overdrive
Isab invented flavoured trades and jungle of the druid
Blastapop fireballs the **most expensive** tower on screen and the **closest** and **furthest** towers away from it, at each skull. Close and Far can be directed to cheap decoy towers (e.g. 000 Darts), leaving only one important tower getting crippled per skull.
i had a visceral reaction to "what the sigma" from ISAB
I really feel like this boss could have been WAY cooler if their was an ice paragon and they made it so that in the later tiers it's stun from full heat gage was MUCH longer
This is so awesome thanks isab fir the amazing new video
I’m happy to see this boss again
Thanks for explaining this stuff, I'm new and have been watching for only a little bit
Thanks you for popping ELITE Blastapopoulos
Goated video isab keep up the good work ❤
I honestly never noticed it wasn't called flavored trades
I actually used code ISAB to buy fast track today! NK deserves more than BTD6’s sticker price, so I’m happy to support them (and ISAB).
ISAB saying "yeah what the sigma this should not be taking so long" is 🗣🔥💯
W video as always btw
I just beat elite blastopopoulos, spent a lot of monkey money, using DART and NINJA paragons, then watched this video. How great :)
its always nice when you find out that youtubers you like are canadians and not americans
just pour water on it and it's done for
Blastapopulous:
*gulp* you've found my weakness!
I love you isab you inspired me to create a bloons channel of my own
"You'll be hard pressed to find a rock formation that blocks both arms"
*T2 last skull casually makes a formation that blocks both arms*
19:20 HE SAID IT AGAIN! HE SAID THE THING!
What the sigma
i hate that i cant say that "flavored trades" is wrong now
its going to start feeling right, it most certainly isnt
The popseidon doesn't work on blastapopoulos because it also has a purple bloon weakness. Only ice towers can actually reduce the heat of blastapopoulos.
Thanks Isab for poping hot bloons for is!
I kinda wish the heat bar was more of a factor on elite
You absolutely made Flavored Trades happen
The new map is so easy you can save 107k in chimps
I was honestly half expecting an ice paragon to be released along this boss update
As soon as ISAB said "yeah what the sigma 🔥🔥" my fluids started flooding my bedroom
I can't believe they actually added flavored trades 🤣
IT IS HERE!!!!!
at 19:20 I was like: Erm, what the sigma?
Bro, I was NOT expecting that “what the sigma”
Looking forward to ISAB doing the “5 minutes of frozen over” quest for max score
Flavour me
I'm not really that good at bloons but I played the elite boss on the new map and it was tough I couldn't get past stage 4. Good job on this completion though.
13:17 ISAB got ISAB
7:29 Honestly I'd rather you don't pull out or stop
Flavored projectiles is amazing. I love ninja kiwi
Wtf HE DID IT WITH ONLY 2 PARAGONS BRO I DID IT WITH FOUR DART AND NINJA AND BOOMER AND BOAT AND VTSG WITH GLUE STROM AND ALL THE OTHER BUFFS AND ON ROUND 120 I HAD 134K TO SPARE AND ALMOST LOST???
there is something infinitely funny about ISAB putting in his own creator code when making a purchase
It feels weird that they add a boss that dislikes having multiple projectiles and then they say "yeah tack paragon is next". Odd.
Well, ace paragon shoots slower than the sky shredder (unless you get an insanely high degree) so maybe they'll do the same for tack paragon.
10:15 let's see the boss block both arms.
5 secs later: Rocks block both arms
Flavored trades is canon
Get it? Cuz buccaneer? Ok
19:20 reminds me of the bridge incident
0:40 ISAB rewarding ISAB for buying ISAB the speed up that ISAB needs
Its such a shame that popseidon is nullified by the purple property of blastapopoulus. It would be a great tower for reducing heat, but because the projectiles are blocked it does nothing. Only ice towers are effective, but they dont do enough to the heat meter be worth investing in for that strategy
My favorite tower for this Boss is a 5-2-0 sniper with a 2-5-0 sniper
Flavored trades is without any doubt the best thing in this update
thank you isab for beating your busting populous
"Thank you ISAB for beating Blastapopoulos" 🤖
So the volcano boss is difficult bc of the drastic global debuffs.
*Thats very spicy of you NK.*
Btw fighter plane works it has anti moab missles 🚀
Bruh it has purple properties lol. It wasn’t a rock blocking popseidon
She blastapopulous on my ancient portal till i fast rack
Did anyone notice that ISABs MAD was a 250 instead of a 150?!? He baught lasershock... Without telling us😮😮
Weeb
is it live? what timezone are you on because i haven't gotten it yet
nk went hard while designing the boss
finally someone acknowledges that assassins are actually top tier
Day 2 of asking isab to do the 6 bosses at once
a few operation dart storms is not bad for t1
ISAB using brainrot slangs will never not be weird
not that im very smart but the elite defender worked great for me for tier 1 of the boss
Do they drop new para every 2 updates? What's the calculation for releasing paragons?
I didn't expect ISAB to say something like "What the Sigma"
Not the first time he's said it.
ISAB is so smart. he released a video right as the school bell rang.
ISAB is actually ISAB extras in disguise
Wow the update is conveniently on my birthday
18:00 wasn't echosense network buffed to cap at 10x mermonkeye this update? And doesnt Popseidon need echosense network to benefit from it as well? /genq
yeah you cant buff popseidon without bottom path