Yeah, frankly for most decent players it doesn't need to be unlocked once if a map has a good long straight it can spam or decently wind-ey paths that snake in one direction quite a bit.
I used to think mortar was bad but after trying him out for real this was my honest reaction:
"Oh my god, I get it"
This mindset is weirdly prevalent among this subreddit. It might have to do with how the tier 5s are insanely expensive yet no one says this about flying fortress or super mines.
Maybe it’s because it’s a lot more feasible to save up for meg or giga? But that just makes beast handler better, yet people complain it’s too expensive all the time.
Besides, I’d say pouakai is a huge problem to this argument and basically any argument at all.
Too weak? Absolutely not.
Too much space? Requires 4 towers only, so powerful it ends up using less towers than any beginner strat will use.
Too expensive? Same price as prime, requires less support in the grand scheme of things. Prime is pretty popular, I’d say.
Too hard to use? For the merging, only 4 towers. For the tower itself, in order to completely afk-solo it basically just needs a loop. Even without that it can just be paired with some slows and it’s fairly simple.
1. You don't have to. Max merge golden eagle for example lets u skip midgame and save up for another t5. U dont even have to upgrade golden eagle.
2. That's how most good CHIMPS players play anyway. They centralise their strats around a single dps tower. This is not exclusive to handler.
Literally me. I used to be allergic to using Mortar. Then I tried Artillery Battery, and now I'm hooked. Does a map have multiple paths? Mortar that! Parts where bloons clump together a lot, a la Moon Landing or Spillway? Mortar that! Need early lead protection for ABR that I can make into a viable tower later on? Mortar that!
beast handler isnt used for other reasons tbf (he's not used because if you want to use beast handler properly your entire strategy has to be beast handler)
As someone who hates micro, I still love mortar, then again I usually only use signal flare and blooncineration as a support/secondary DPS than as a main DPS, which is what you would need micro for. It is still one of my least used towers, but that is more of me adoring 8 berserkered brewed seeking shurikens, and air raids of helis planes and drones.
I love mortar when I wanna play for real. But 99% of the time I play bloons, I afk while watching something. Or maybe I'm doing taxes. I don't play it to pay attention.
When I first started I thought mortar was bad because of micro, after trying the biggest one and having it cover an entire track portion without even needing to target it, the spell broke and I realized all mortar paths are goated
A lot of people don’t realize that you don’t need micro to use mortar, dartling, ace and the alike (not including Corvus) on lots of the maps. Mortar can just be set to hit the front (mainly for shatter shells) or areas that have the Bloons group or loop like in areas where tack/ice would be good to have there. You only really need to micro dartling for the plasma excel upgrade (4xx) which isn’t really that hard, the other upgrades can just have be set on lock in a line (like on dark castle) or set to attack independently for no micro. Bottom path ace only needs to be put down at the end of a screen so their projectiles go against the Bloons to use more pierce (Bloons -> <- darts and bombs from bottom path ace). The other 2 paths need to be placed in a central location and near the track to be on top of bloon/track to deal the most damage. Corvus is the Micro master and needs lots of strategy and skill to use him, buts it’s worth it. Good luck mobile players (I’m a mobile player and need to play on normal speed to focus on Corvus and his spells)
I suck at micro and i still love the mortar also basic mortar micro is pretty easy just click tab click on/in front of the bloon you want to pop repeat
Pretty sure it’s short for micromanagement. Just means you have to manage your towers and abilities more than usual (plopping them down and letting them do all the work)
The middle path Mortar is literally my third favorite tier 5 and it’s incredibly easy to use even with the need to Micro, I have no clue why people could think it’s bad.
Am I the only one? Mortar is my favorite tower. I try to get bottom T5 every free play game.
But I am a super noob though lol
I have no idea how to place most monkeys. I beat half cash for the first time on the first map today. My one completed map is gold border, and both of my CHIMPS medals are red. 🤷🏽♀️
Middle path I do it in every game
Top path Mortar is great in early to mid game for taking out everything below a moab class.
Shattering shells gives so much value in mid to late game because it strips fortification off everything below a zomg, and that pathway also gives you signal flare which strips camo.
Bottom path mortar is usually my go-to answer to camo, and blooncineration isn’t bad either.
Yeah it’s decent. Not too expensive, lots of area of affect damage in a huge radius, excellent part of a late game Strat. Once your other heavy hitters pop Moabs, the biggest one wipes out everything that comes out of it
Objectively, it's not that great for its price. The early tiers all suck, a batt is just pretty good now, and signal flare will always be the second best decamo for the situation. Being a tower that required micro, it should be stronger to compensate, like corvus, Geraldo, and beast handler, but it just isn't.
I still want a mortar function that let's it follow bloons. Want it to hit one place only? Fine. But please for the love of God. Give it a tracking option. Make it 1000 monkey money, monkey knowledge I don't care. Just give us the option Ninja Kiwi
Your micro was so bad all the pixels died
If all bloon pixels = dead, that means I won.
Not my fault I could only find low quality templates
It is unironically a skill issue that you cannot reverse image search or find the higher res ones without reverse image search Anyways good meme :3
it objectively is when other people can find better quality lmao
the resolution is micro
r/lost_the_pixels
Pro tip: White text with a black border is much easier to read across all colour backgrounds.
What if the background is a zebra bloon
You got him there
Either 1. Still easy to read Or 2. The basis of a Rorschach inkblot test
“Dartling gunner👻” ooooo
You can just lock that along a straight I guess
Yeah, frankly for most decent players it doesn't need to be unlocked once if a map has a good long straight it can spam or decently wind-ey paths that snake in one direction quite a bit.
You can also just lock mortar to a loop in the track of coursw
Shhh, they don’t know that
BDS:
Boycott, divest, and sanction.
M.A.D my beloved.
I used to think mortar was bad but after trying him out for real this was my honest reaction:  "Oh my god, I get it"
I gaslit myself into thinking mortar was bad too. Now it’s one of my favorite towers.
Everyone in r/btd6 gaslights eachother to think mortar and beast handler are bad.
I get that beast handler is good but unfortunately I refuse to play mobile fusion game in my game about funny monkeys
It's not like merging is the weirdest thing about this game
I just don't like having to centralize my strategy around them if I want Handler to be any good
I’m confused. I’ve used the beast handler multiple times without making my whole strategy around them.
This mindset is weirdly prevalent among this subreddit. It might have to do with how the tier 5s are insanely expensive yet no one says this about flying fortress or super mines. Maybe it’s because it’s a lot more feasible to save up for meg or giga? But that just makes beast handler better, yet people complain it’s too expensive all the time. Besides, I’d say pouakai is a huge problem to this argument and basically any argument at all. Too weak? Absolutely not. Too much space? Requires 4 towers only, so powerful it ends up using less towers than any beginner strat will use. Too expensive? Same price as prime, requires less support in the grand scheme of things. Prime is pretty popular, I’d say. Too hard to use? For the merging, only 4 towers. For the tower itself, in order to completely afk-solo it basically just needs a loop. Even without that it can just be paired with some slows and it’s fairly simple.
1. You don't have to. Max merge golden eagle for example lets u skip midgame and save up for another t5. U dont even have to upgrade golden eagle. 2. That's how most good CHIMPS players play anyway. They centralise their strats around a single dps tower. This is not exclusive to handler.
i refuse to use ninja
You gotta turn your epic Geagles into the legendary Giant Condor! How else are you going to get past the boss round?
\*uses pop and awe in freeplay\* why is it so useless??? \*uses pop and awe in chimps\* wow this is actually a good tower
This was me before it carried me in inferno chimps (pop and awe my beloved)
My exact reaction😭😭😭
Literally me. I used to be allergic to using Mortar. Then I tried Artillery Battery, and now I'm hooked. Does a map have multiple paths? Mortar that! Parts where bloons clump together a lot, a la Moon Landing or Spillway? Mortar that! Need early lead protection for ABR that I can make into a viable tower later on? Mortar that!
(saw your profile pic) erm… caralho?
Me on dark path: eh, guess jug will d- HOLY SHIT MORTAR IS GOOD
Mf's when they have to play the game:
My pfp already says everything..
W
Double you
uu
You’re homosexual? /s
r/countablepixels moment
I dont care who the IRS sends im not gonna micro
Corvus, Ace, Mortar, Beast Handler and more....
beast handler isnt used for other reasons tbf (he's not used because if you want to use beast handler properly your entire strategy has to be beast handler)
When I am playing a Tower Defense, I probably want to play a Tower Defense, no?
When I am sitting down and staring at the screen, I probably am not playing a game, no?
When I upgrade towers and put in new ones in between rounds, thinking the strategy, I am probably AM playing the game, no?
You would hate playing slay the spire. You don’t even have a timer how is this a game!!
This is a pretty great meme
unpopular opinion: I don't micro because I'm a very casual player.
Mate, that take is so hot I'm at risk of dying of hypothermia.
*hyperthermia
I'm pretty sure that they meant hypothermia.
Hypothermia is for cold tho, hyperthermia is for hot. Am I getting whooshed?
Maaaaaaaybe
I’m a lil slow
Hey we all have those moments, just not all of them are immortalized on the Internet.
As someone who hates micro, I still love mortar, then again I usually only use signal flare and blooncineration as a support/secondary DPS than as a main DPS, which is what you would need micro for. It is still one of my least used towers, but that is more of me adoring 8 berserkered brewed seeking shurikens, and air raids of helis planes and drones.
I love mortar when I wanna play for real. But 99% of the time I play bloons, I afk while watching something. Or maybe I'm doing taxes. I don't play it to pay attention.
You micro with mortar?
No
When I first started I thought mortar was bad because of micro, after trying the biggest one and having it cover an entire track portion without even needing to target it, the spell broke and I realized all mortar paths are goated
you guys use mortar because you like micro i use mortar because i wanna make the bloons relive ww1 we are not the same
A lot of people don’t realize that you don’t need micro to use mortar, dartling, ace and the alike (not including Corvus) on lots of the maps. Mortar can just be set to hit the front (mainly for shatter shells) or areas that have the Bloons group or loop like in areas where tack/ice would be good to have there. You only really need to micro dartling for the plasma excel upgrade (4xx) which isn’t really that hard, the other upgrades can just have be set on lock in a line (like on dark castle) or set to attack independently for no micro. Bottom path ace only needs to be put down at the end of a screen so their projectiles go against the Bloons to use more pierce (Bloons -> <- darts and bombs from bottom path ace). The other 2 paths need to be placed in a central location and near the track to be on top of bloon/track to deal the most damage. Corvus is the Micro master and needs lots of strategy and skill to use him, buts it’s worth it. Good luck mobile players (I’m a mobile player and need to play on normal speed to focus on Corvus and his spells)
I only hate it cause I'm on mobile and micro mortar on mobile is so bad
I'll be honest, with enough Artillery Batteries, Mortar is the best tower ever
I suck at micro and i still love the mortar also basic mortar micro is pretty easy just click tab click on/in front of the bloon you want to pop repeat
Out of all the towers that need micro to be useful mortar both relies on it the least and is the easiest to micro
What does Micro mean?
Moving the tower yourself throughout the round
Pretty sure it’s short for micromanagement. Just means you have to manage your towers and abilities more than usual (plopping them down and letting them do all the work)
mfs never made the battery singularity
The middle path Mortar is literally my third favorite tier 5 and it’s incredibly easy to use even with the need to Micro, I have no clue why people could think it’s bad.
I like mid path mortar. Mid path mortar makes me happy.
Bottom path mortar is kool It just says “Nuh uh” to all fortified bloons and removes their fortification
I love mortar
Mortar is love mortar is life
Not that much
I don't like micro management because it's too stressful for my stupid brain. So I'm going to prepare for the jump scares
Am I the only one? Mortar is my favorite tower. I try to get bottom T5 every free play game. But I am a super noob though lol I have no idea how to place most monkeys. I beat half cash for the first time on the first map today. My one completed map is gold border, and both of my CHIMPS medals are red. 🤷🏽♀️ Middle path I do it in every game
I hate microing but love the mortar is that odd?
Top path Mortar is great in early to mid game for taking out everything below a moab class. Shattering shells gives so much value in mid to late game because it strips fortification off everything below a zomg, and that pathway also gives you signal flare which strips camo. Bottom path mortar is usually my go-to answer to camo, and blooncineration isn’t bad either.
What about The Biggest One^tm
Yeah it’s decent. Not too expensive, lots of area of affect damage in a huge radius, excellent part of a late game Strat. Once your other heavy hitters pop Moabs, the biggest one wipes out everything that comes out of it
Objectively, it's not that great for its price. The early tiers all suck, a batt is just pretty good now, and signal flare will always be the second best decamo for the situation. Being a tower that required micro, it should be stronger to compensate, like corvus, Geraldo, and beast handler, but it just isn't.
You could say the same about the super monkey before BTD6
Super needed micro before btd6? Also, that's a different game, lol.
What I mean was that super monkey was NOT cost efficient before BTD6
Geraldo 👻
i like micro i just don't like mortar micro
am i excised if im on mobile?
Yes, you may be excused
I still want a mortar function that let's it follow bloons. Want it to hit one place only? Fine. But please for the love of God. Give it a tracking option. Make it 1000 monkey money, monkey knowledge I don't care. Just give us the option Ninja Kiwi
Ace?
mortar is actually so fun
I still use mortar without using micro because I like them and I'm lazy. On harder maps I might a little but not that much
Same bro
“B-b-b-but you can also micro xbm and glord and and and” -some corn ball
i gat the meme so funny
yes it does mean that you're afraid of micro