My ranking of the 8 fully upgraded towers in the original Kingdom Rush. What do you think? If you haven't played the game. Do it. Ok, see you around. Thanks for watching.
Here I am, having played this game for YEARS. Completed every single level (except Blackburn castle lol) on EVERY difficulty MULTIPLE TIMES on both the steam version and the mobile version. And yet I never came to realize that you could kill frcking sheep from the polymorph by TAPPING ON THEM…. Bruh
a lot of people don’t realize the power of musketeers shrapnel shot, they just think, “why don’t i just get an artillery?” but at full upgrade it does 720 damage…. 7 2 0 DAMAGE! and on a 9 second cooldown! Nothing melts bosses faster
Yeah if you look correctly this is an amateur, who has not fullu 3-starred the KR1. I can tell he has some grudge against musketeer when showing himself levelling snipe shot on a map full of clustered, low armor enemies (facepalm**)
But this cost 900 gold!!! Its so expensive for already weak dmg tower. You can always play orange mages and block bosses with golems for long time, its better boss stategy.
Its weak dmg tower his upgrades are expensive, elven towers are cheaper and got times 100 better utility with 3 second aoe stun. You want aoe? Play tessla with, you want kill big enemies? Arcane or Orange Mages with Golems can do this for you.
The sorcerer tower also lowers the enemies armor for a few seconds with each attack and always attacks enemies that do not the debuff. Also polymorph always targets the strongest enemy in range unlike all the other exuctes in the game
Actually the only downside of the musketeer is it's cost , this thing is way too expensive to deal with. Recently I tried to unlock its potential (beat level with musketeer only) ( it was difficult) however i finally managed to do that in "the dark tower" heroic challenge it was pretty tough at the beginning but my God when i got 4 musketeer towers half upgraded it was as easy as a sip of water since the headshot ability is good but the really amazing one is the shrapnel shot this one would annihilate powerful enemies so fast overall i really like this game lot's a memories there ...
I would put arcane way lower than sorcerer. Sorcerer actually does MORE dps than arcane because the curse does 40 true dmg over 5 seconds. That means it’s effectively doing 82-118 dmg per 1.5s = 66.5dps, vs arcane’s 76-140 every 2s = 54dps. And 40 of sorcerer’s damage is true damage, on top of significantly lowering all cursed enemy’s physical armor. However all this is dependent on sorcerer shooting a non-cursed enemy each shot, so spamming sorcerers have diminishing returns. Polymorph is also cheaper than death ray while on the same cooldowns, and if you click the sheep it will die, making polymorph effectively just as good an instakill as death ray while being cheaper. I personally prefer the sorcerer way more than the arcane for the sheer damage and supportive power, and because of the interesting mini game of finding spots to minimize overlapping their ranges to always make sure each sorcerer has an abundance of targets.
I had no clue that tapping the sheep made it die instantly. Guess I should’ve learned from how tapping the sheep off the track kills them in the early stages lol
Barbarian hall has a different used, they are meant to kill quick and they can really multi task, they have axes for flying, they have the spin for crowds, they can respond very quickly and if you get a pack of them then it's most likely a hail of axes and damage
Boneyard in KRV is my most favorite one. I love building tons of it and send dozens of skeleton soldiers down the lane, effectively pushing enemies back to spawning point
Big Bertha can actually hit aerial enemies with its explosive splash damage ( just like all explosives ) , you just need ground enemies enemies for it to shoot at
I usually like spamming big bertha for those cluthes shots. If you get like 3 of them in one shot you will more frequent cluthes shots and missiles that shoot the whole map.
Imo id switch the places of sorceress and arcane wizard. 1. Sorceress basic attack reduces enemy's physical resistance 2. The golem is super strong when max upgraded 3. The polymorph can be tapped to death 3.
I could have get in some boss stages to waves over 10 with bertha alone,the thing that the bomb attacks and air if they are in the range of the bomb ,the upgrades make it such a good tower,rockets that deals over 200damage to enemies ,the multi attack bombs deals a nice damage over a very big area
Musketeers is 3rd place. Shrapnel shot is broken. 900 gold for 720 damage every 9 seconds? Well worth buy it. Sorcerer is 2nd. Sheep can be tapped to death. Golems to tank bosses. Basic attack is already good. Barbarian is 8th. More axes is too expensive, Throwing axes has 3,5s attack rate, and they lack durability to do damage. Here's my placement: 1. Tesla 2. Sorcerer 3. Musketeers 4. Rangers 5. Paladins 6. Arcane wizards 7. Big bertha 8. Barbarian Don't get me wrong. Kr1 has good towers, but your placement is messed up.
I think BB should be moved up to 5th, the missile deals way too much damage for its range, same thing with the cluster bomb. Actually, the BB’s range is really what makes it so powerful, it feels like a ‘safety net’ that allows some enemies to slip through my defenses without having to worry about losing lives.
I'd swap paladins and barbarians, too many enemies can ignore armor so the increased hp and lower respawn time is much more worthwhile, and they can be upgraded to for more damage
I find that the barbarians function best if you use them as a pseudo-ranged tower. Put them behind your paladins, and they'll throw axes while the paladins do the tanking, while whirlwind and dual axes make short work of any enemies the paladins leak. Since the enemies have to get past the paladins first, the barbarians are not expected to see much melee combat and therefore will not die even with their relative fragility, so damage output is more important in this situation than survivability, especially since if you're using this tactic, the barbarians will probably be the absolute last towers the enemies pass by, so you don't have a lot of time to kill them, nor are they likely to be within range of your ranged towers. I also unironically love musketeers. Their extra range directly increases their damage output, since you're more capable of having multiple towers focus on the same enemy and the musketeers can focus on the same enemy for longer. Also, their snipe ability doesn't actually have a range limit. It's map wide, as opposed to the arcanist's disintegrate which can only target enemies within its attack range. While musketeers would likely be a rather poor choice for supporting barracks, these two factors together makes it an incredible choice for thinning out the enemies before they reach your barracks so your main defenses have less to deal with. Plus, their snipe ability technically means that *any musketeer in the map* can support your barracks regardless of range.
agree but i would put sorcerer above arcane because polymorph is basically an instakill as you can tap on the sheep to kill them and the rock golem is strong enough to permastall bosses with micro
I used to love playing only cannons, especially big Bertha, cuz it had that voice line on the rockets "YIPPIE KAYE MOTHERF***!". Ahhh, good ol memories. Now im playing Vengeance like im that kid from 3rd grade. Thanks for reviving my love for this game!
Bruh wait til' you see how good the musketeer is on steam with the smart targeting upgrade edit: I made this comment even before you started the video. Muskies are only good if you invest that 900 gold into that sweet sweet shrapnel shot. In total that would only cost you 1470 gold, which isn't all that much for a great area ability with good dps edit again: the barbarians have great damage if you would just upgrade the throwing axes. Then they would also be able to keep enemies far away from them. Then buy the more axes, but don't get the whirlwind attack, because it doesn't benefit from the more axes upgrade. edit once again: the sorcerers polymorphed enemies (the sheeps) can be tapped to death the same way as the ones on the background in the first few levels. They're the same lamb. the tesla isn't good. It's op like literally the best tower in the series.
Fun fact: you should never be forced to use your Rain of Fire ability on a sheep because you can actually tap the sheep to kill it like you can do with the sheep in the grasslands. Polymorph is an instakill with this knowledge.
Honestly as someone who is also a fan of the game I don't use the tesla that often but I really like the barbarians since they kill air targets easily as for the ground ones the rangers stun and poison them to death while the wizards deletes their health
Some thing you got wrong: Barbarians: the strongest upgrade for barbarian is the whirlwind attack. On paper this doesn't seem to do much, in practice this upgrade melt every thing. And don't use more axe. Whirlwind practically add a tier 3 artilery worth of dps for 350 gold. Musketeer: people talk about their sniper shot all the times, but never realize that snapnel shot deal 720 damage. 720 DAMAGE! Witb just 9 seconds cooldown. Big bertha a great tower. You won't see how strong big bertha is, until you spam it. Missiles dealing 280 damage with only 7 second cooldown. Maxed tesla actually cost more than big bertha. Ranger suck. I'll be honest here if you have barbarians you don't need ranger, since barbarians have better dps anyway. Ranger miss half of their shots. And poison arrow? They can only poison 4 enemies at max, which only add 60 dps, for 600 gold! More axe of barbarian add 90 dps for 500 gold. The fact that you use Alleria.
I agree except for musketeers, the fire they are better in every way then the arcane, the abilities are better, it fires faster, and the abilities happen more often. And mead hall, just do what i do; holy order in front then mead hall in the back, and don’t Get the whirlwind either
i think the arcane wizard is in between the two barracks upgrades, just because it's abilities are both pretty underwhelming and the main attack has very little versatility
I agree with you points but I'd say that the barrack towers are the most unnecessary ones. Obviously you need them in the beginning but later you can beat most stages with only ranged towers.
I think that the Arcane Wizard and Sorcerer should be swapped. Yeah Polymorph isn't great, but the Sorcerers reduce the armor, both physical and magical of enemies, making their attacks more effective and giving your other towers a better shot at taking them down.
I have completed all 4 games for 100% with EVERYTHING on the hardest difficulty: veteran/impossible depending on the game, INCLUDING all the iron and hero challanges AND challanges on post game lvls on highest difficulty too, so basically Undeniable 100% of entire franchise, AND I DIDNT KNOW THE SHEEP COULD BE BOPPED WITH MOUSE??! bruh. how can i call myself a veteran now...
After carefully studying all the towers I have decided to switch up the top 8 ranking, which would be as follows: 1. Tesla No explanation needed, the highest area attack, chains lightning attacks, can directly attack flying enemies, AND does more damage than Big Bertha. 2. The Sorcerer Polymorph to tap the sheep into extinction, huge rock elemental that excels at killing AND blocking the enemies, lowers armor on hit, and has a lingering damage effect. 3. Paladins Holy protectors which have area damage, Supreme armor rating, good health, damage, and can regenerate every few seconds for more than HALF their health. 4. Rangers Fast fire-rate, good damage, poison hit every few seconds and the vine attack that completely stops all incoming enemies AND damages them. 5. Barbarians Whirlwind attack excels at demolishing large crowds of lesser powerful enemies, double axes increases the damage of the barbarians by double (I think) and throwing axes also allows it to attack flying enemies and ground enemies from a distance. 6. Arcane mage Can teleport enemies back down the path every few seconds, can literally turn even the most powerful enemies to literal ash every few seconds and has high damage as well as good range. 7. Big Bertha My favorite tower, shoots rockets at the enemy, can carpet bomb almost half the track, does huge damage, has huger area effect, and has good range. 8. Musketeers Very good range, good damage, can buckshot all enemies into extinction in an area, and can either do heavy damage OR insta-kill one enemy (depending on chance of course) Problem is, he just has the tiniest chance of doing any of these things So yeah, that's my new ranking
Well, when I clicked this video, I already knew Tesla x104 will be on the first place, its just too op, like you said. You MUST have this built in every stage. Actually sorcerer tower is pretty good, but it isn't a good decision to upgrade Polymorph.
I will say though, some of these towers would be better in Endless mode since I beat all the main levels, it's mostly just me experimenting in survival mode.
I really like the barbarian brawl but i think the stats differ in the mobile version coz the barbarians had the same health and more attack than paladins, plus they return damage and throwing ability is broken
The main problem with barbarism’s is that they have no armour. So yeah on paper they have more health than the paladins but the latter have high armour and heal themselves.
The best is the sorcerer tower from KR1. Your attack is reasonably fast and don’t sacrifice that much power for fire rate. Plus when you upgrade to be able to summon an elemental golem, you are unstoppable. Those things, when having full toughness, can stall bosses for long times!! Arcane wizard tower is good too from KR1. I like to upgrade to the death ray. Instant kill all powerful enemies every few seconds.
Heavy disagree with Muskeeters. Their damage is kinda meh, but their long range and the fact that they dont miss like other archers makes up for it. Its abilities are very strong - shrapnel shot clearing out small enemies with huge area danage, and Sniping ability takes out strong enemies. Imo its more versatile and helpful than rangers
I agree on your lost for all the spots but one and that is that I think that the Sorcerer tower should be on the number 3 spot and the arcane at 4 because how versatile it can be. The amount times I've seen my arcades shoot like a spider instead of a dark knight just because it's in front is infuriating. The Sorcerer does this too but has a better attack speed which minimizes the consequences. Also the Sorcerer works great as a support tower of sorts. It has the passive ability of lowering armor which can be used to make for example your rangers deal the same damage against brigades as spiders which is just insane and the Sorcerer can still deal with armored units it self. For the abilities the polymorphism is pretty bad so don't use it. It's as simple as that. Spend the money on something else instead. But the elemental is crazy good for tanking big units. For example the element ca n basically tank a cerberus by itself because every time you upgrade it it gets full hp and it only cost 150 gold. That's why I think the Sorcerer should be at number 3
@@victorvirgili4447 it's either going to hit a small minion and be an waste of time or it will hit a big minion which essentially gives you a timer to kill said enemy as it can't be blocked. For 300 gold its just not worth it. Its better to get a level 3 tower or to spend on other upgrades. It's not inherently bad but it's not worth the cost unless you're swimming in gold
So about the Musketeer Garrison.The shrapnel shot works like artillery does meaning that the 55-110 Damage the big bertha does depends How close the enemy is to the explosion so it will always deal 110 damage on the Target hit directly decreasing in the damage the furthee away the other enemies are until you reach the minimum of 55 Damage.Now a Star upgrade for the artillery Completely negates this and makes everything hit tale 110 Damage.But this also includes the shrapnel shot Upgrade for the musketeers.So for like a 10 second cooldown you get 800(or 600 idr) Area Explosive damage(which ignores 50% of armor).So the fastest boss killer in a AOE attack the Muskeeteer possesses 2:22 Not everything actually.It has it's own range which gets larger the more you upgrade the skill 2:55 They also respawn very fast.8 seconds compared to the Paladin's 14 They're also meant to be paired with the paladins to hide behind and deal their damage with their ranged attack,Which is like 150 per Volley I'd say you said some wrong info at times but you came to the right conclusion so GJ!
i would place the tesla at the bottom, I never use it because big bertha can just hit more enemies at once. Also, musketeer is VERY strong with insane crowd control and long range instakill, just don't buy it early on because of the cost
Wtf tesla is the most broken thing in that game😂. It hits like all the enemys in his range, unlike big berta who only its a lot of enemys with the bloster bombs.
I'm not sure about the rating for Barbarians. For killing enemies, I would rather have them than Sorcerers. Yeah, Barbarians don't do their alleged job of blocking units for other towers. Instead they slaughter things -- better than Sorcerers imo. In a pinch, they can block 3 enemies for a brief period. But mostly they slaughter. Definitely not a top 3 tower, but a decent #4.
personally i think that the arcane wizard is too expensive for its speed. the sorcerer shoots faster, also the damage persists after the first hit like the poison upgrade for the rangers (plus u get that bonus for free since it comes with the tower). holy order is also better than arcane wizard (imo) js bc they can hold up anything and anyone. nothing gets through them for only 400 coins while u have to invest waaay more for the arcane wizard to be effective whether its the teleport or the death ray.
i wont going to lie sorcerer is way better than arcane. I mean sorcerer main basic attacks deals more damage with curse curse deals true damage so its viable on magic resistance enemies such as fallen knights. main attack also can lowers resistance. If you spam sorcerer even high resistance enmies like dark slayers armor even can be none which is absurdly broken. Abilities are decent aswell, Polymorph has really weird mechanic i mean sometimes it can pass your defense and make you lose health( i heard some ppl say it can be killed by tapping). So elemantel is god-like ability. It creates time to sorcerer to curse them and make other towers hit them which is crazy. Arcane wizard is basic. his damage really strong but thats it. abilitys are kinda meh. Like teleport is kinda sucks. Instakills is meh bc its too expensive.
Musketeers are actually better than rangers due to their area damage. Rangers are almost pointless to build in later stages or games where you get stormed by large crowd of enemies.
i only disagree with your placement with the barbarian hall. it does more then stall enemies. if done right they can handle crowed control by themselves as well as deal with flying troops. not to mention that they just deal more damage. there great at killing
Arcane Wizard > Archer Tower, it is insulting to be placed lower. You can beat levels without unit stalling by just having enough of them teleporting the enemy over and over again. That said, the number 1 spot needs no debate, Tesla no brainer, 100% agree with the rest.
My list: 1. Tesla 2. Sorcerer 3. Rangers 4. Big Bertha 5. Musketeers 6. Arcane Wizard 7. Holy Order 8. Barbarians Reasons: 1.Barracks are in low place, because I don't need to upgrade it to 4 level. 2. I don't use Arcane, becouse Sorcerer has higher DPS + he can reduce armor. 3. Arcane is worse than Musketeer. Why? Musketeer tower has AOE upgrade and Arcane don't. 4. Rangers are very good, but without posion they are weak against armored enemies. (Sorcerer can easily kill high-armored and high HP enemies)
musketers needs like 100-120damage *come on, Rangers got stucking enemies abiloty* _idk why i heard Tesla sucks but_ Well Tesla is good, with upgrades it will always help other soldiers From down for example, and thst is good because it can take care of infinite packs of enemies
lmao what. musketeers literally melt everything that comes across if you fully upgrade them, literally impossible to pass them unless its gigantic swarms for which you would simply use one or two tesla
The towers in the whole series can't be ranked the're all use full musketeers are use full for ther low cooldown RNG baset instakill and druid henge for the fast for an altylery towers atack speed plus they ignore armor with star upgrades
Rangers are a bit shit though aren’t they, why waste the money on them when you can spam more Teslas, the problem with this game’s balance is that everything has to be compared to the Tesla because of how good it is, ignoring all resistances except ghosts immunity to physical damage, so it leads to the conclusion that the next best towers after the Tesla are the ones which do something the Tesla can’t, which makes Arcane wizard and Musketeers jump out as they have 1shot abilities, obviously the arcane wizard is better than the musketeers, but I don’t think musketeers are as bad as you think, they do really well on the post campaign troll levels because there’s so many long range tower spots, which are what effect the musketeers ability if I am not mistaken; the musketeers can only fire the headshots at long ranges, which very efficiently deal with the ridiculous regen of some of the trolls as it just gets ignored, and the musketeers are far cheaper than the arcane wizard making it a great alternative, especially since the Tesla spam does all the necessary dps
My rankings would be: 1) Tesla 1.5) every subsequent Tesla 2) Arcane 3) Sorcerer (it’s good at the start of the track) 4) Musketeers 5) Big Bertha 6) Tier 3 barracks 7) Rangers 8) Holy order 9) barbarian hall
0:35 finishing the campaign without even 3 staring all LET ALONE 5 staring them means you DON'T have a lot of experience 😂🤦♂️ Lol bro you are so wrong. Big Bertha is the most underrated tower. The rocket launcher is (for it's cost) a really powerfull and the cluster bombs are really strong (I have to admit, only if this abi is lv 3). Barbs are fine dmg deallers, but they are only good in a few lv, and for holding the enemies paladins (as you said) are way better. Musketer's grape shot abiltiy is really really expensivie, and it's not always worth it, BUT the head shot is better than death ray. D ray has a longer cooldown and a lv 3 head shot ability has 60% for doing head shot, with an insane range (bigger than the musketer's tower range). Sourcerer is a better tower than the arcane mage. The poly morph ability will ALWAYS target big beefy enemies, while a d ray can target a ducking goblin. Sure, you have to tap the sheep to die, but for a guaranteed "hiting the strong enemy" it's just worth it. Stone (or rock, sry I don't really know what the ability's name) elemental is also really strong (althought I don't really use it). AND sourcerer is a good support tower for reducing the enemies phisical armor. Archane mage is overrated af, the teleport ability is kinda usefull, but it's a bit outclassed by wrath of the forest, and the death ray is just a worst alternative of poly morph and head shot. The dmg is really good though. So the correct tier list {from worst to best (even worst tower is a fine tower)} Barbarians, Arcane mage, Big Bertha, musketer tower, paladins, sourcerer, ranger, Tesla
Barbarian hall should be last because holy crap those guys are useless. Yeah they do a lot of damages, to bad they never do that much because they die in 2 seconds. And to me the throwing axe is the most overrated ability in the game, because for the cost of the barrack, ability couple with low range and damages, your better off with another tower. At least the musketeers have a very powerful cluster shoot clean small group of chaff so they are more useful. Then you include the fact that you unlock first the exponentially more powerful holly order and yeah, never used these guys.
Here I am, having played this game for YEARS. Completed every single level (except Blackburn castle lol) on EVERY difficulty MULTIPLE TIMES on both the steam version and the mobile version. And yet I never came to realize that you could kill frcking sheep from the polymorph by TAPPING ON THEM…. Bruh
Same lmao, I have three 100% save files and never knew that
how the hell would anyone know this shit?
@@newt2120 apparently it's an in game tip somewhere, I've personally never seen it myself but that's what some commenters are saying
That’s a thing?!??!
i think its hinted at by oviphobia
The enemy that got polymorph can be click or tab to death like the sheep in the scenery so you dont need to waste your tower dps or rain of fire
Ah, I didn't know that. Good tip!
wait what the hell? Really?
Daaaamn
That has made me like the tower so much more
Didnt know that.
Thought polymorph was the Worst ability cuz it helped buff enemies get through my defences.
a lot of people don’t realize the power of musketeers shrapnel shot, they just think, “why don’t i just get an artillery?” but at full upgrade it does 720 damage…. 7 2 0 DAMAGE! and on a 9 second cooldown! Nothing melts bosses faster
Yeah if you look correctly this is an amateur, who has not fullu 3-starred the KR1. I can tell he has some grudge against musketeer when showing himself levelling snipe shot on a map full of clustered, low armor enemies (facepalm**)
But this cost 900 gold!!! Its so expensive for already weak dmg tower. You can always play orange mages and block bosses with golems for long time, its better boss stategy.
@@jyteks522 musketeer still has much better dps for gold price with shrapnel shot. so yeah no
But the shrapnel shot launches 6 seperate bombs, not all of them are going to hit the boss
@@danielplocica8766 even if half hit its probably the highest dps still
I feel like classic kingdom rush has the good mage towers, frontiers has the good artillery, and origins has the good barracks
Frontiers got good archers too
@@OmkaR-lg2nt Haha barrage goes brrr
Only crossbow fort tho...
The only reason the axe throwers aren't horrible is cuz of their totem of weakness , if it weren't for that they'd suck
@jorgen i never realised that , so true
And vengeance has archers? Bone flingers are kinda op
My man really did Musketeers dirty, huge dps on the shrapnel shot. Even though it’s a bit expensive
Yeah but the problem is that big Bertha does this better with cluster shit. And yes the tower is more expensive but the upgrades are dirt cheap.
That thig seems to shoot even rarer than the bertha's cluster bomb lol
Its weak dmg tower his upgrades are expensive, elven towers are cheaper and got times 100 better utility with 3 second aoe stun. You want aoe? Play tessla with, you want kill big enemies? Arcane or Orange Mages with Golems can do this for you.
The sorcerer tower also lowers the enemies armor for a few seconds with each attack and always attacks enemies that do not the debuff. Also polymorph always targets the strongest enemy in range unlike all the other exuctes in the game
Actually the only downside of the musketeer is it's cost , this thing is way too expensive to deal with.
Recently I tried to unlock its potential (beat level with musketeer only) ( it was difficult) however i finally managed to do that in "the dark tower" heroic challenge it was pretty tough at the beginning but my God when i got 4 musketeer towers half upgraded it was as easy as a sip of water since the headshot ability is good but the really amazing one is the shrapnel shot this one would annihilate powerful enemies so fast overall i really like this game lot's a memories there
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I beat spider lair level with them
Tbh they very underrated i personality love their bomb(?) Ability it can be pretty powerfull especially if you have multiple musketeers
I would put arcane way lower than sorcerer.
Sorcerer actually does MORE dps than arcane because the curse does 40 true dmg over 5 seconds. That means it’s effectively doing 82-118 dmg per 1.5s = 66.5dps, vs arcane’s 76-140 every 2s = 54dps. And 40 of sorcerer’s damage is true damage, on top of significantly lowering all cursed enemy’s physical armor. However all this is dependent on sorcerer shooting a non-cursed enemy each shot, so spamming sorcerers have diminishing returns.
Polymorph is also cheaper than death ray while on the same cooldowns, and if you click the sheep it will die, making polymorph effectively just as good an instakill as death ray while being cheaper.
I personally prefer the sorcerer way more than the arcane for the sheer damage and supportive power, and because of the interesting mini game of finding spots to minimize overlapping their ranges to always make sure each sorcerer has an abundance of targets.
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@@makoto7461 cope more arcane wizard fan
I had no clue that tapping the sheep made it die instantly. Guess I should’ve learned from how tapping the sheep off the track kills them in the early stages lol
me too
Does the sheep die in one tap?
Man really put all my favorites in last 😭. But fair enough, this video deserves more views tbh
You can hand tap the polymorphed sheeps to kill them!
I am brand new to this game and this video helped a ton, thank you!
Barbarian hall has a different used, they are meant to kill quick and they can really multi task, they have axes for flying, they have the spin for crowds, they can respond very quickly and if you get a pack of them then it's most likely a hail of axes and damage
It's also good at Stalin bosses that instakill because it has a higher respawn rate than the holy order
@@THEKNlGHT along with long range harassment against them
On top of that I also like having Paladins and Barbarians next to each other so the Barbarians can throw their axes while the Paladins stall
@@LilKardboard yep that's what I do now
@@THEKNlGHT the respawn time of paladins doesn't matter cause with upgraded armor and healing they just can't die lol
Boneyard in KRV is my most favorite one. I love building tons of it and send dozens of skeleton soldiers down the lane, effectively pushing enemies back to spawning point
Big Bertha can actually hit aerial enemies with its explosive splash damage ( just like all explosives ) , you just need ground enemies enemies for it to shoot at
I usually like spamming big bertha for those cluthes shots. If you get like 3 of them in one shot you will more frequent cluthes shots and missiles that shoot the whole map.
As a kid I used to think the musketeers were the best thing ever😂
Imo id switch the places of sorceress and arcane wizard.
1. Sorceress basic attack reduces enemy's physical resistance
2. The golem is super strong when max upgraded
3. The polymorph can be tapped to death
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@Anonymous K you mean the armor-reaping thingy? That does damage? I didnt know that
Sorcerers also don't have to rely on expensive upgrades to be good, they also synergise very well with the rest of the towers
And are really good to stall bosses with golems. Good support for teslas and green archers :)
Interesting tidbit about the musketeers: despite dealing pure physical damage, they can damage ghosts with the headshot ability.
Great video, this is probably the most valid tear list of kingdom rush towers I've ever seen
It’s “ tier list” not “tear list”
And no this isn't the most valid tier list.
@@xuansangdotrinh1055 yes i barbarian hall was better than holy Order
I feel that the musketeers got too much bullied. They have an jnsane range and the shotgun ability gives a lot of value sometimes
I could have get in some boss stages to waves over 10 with bertha alone,the thing that the bomb attacks and air if they are in the range of the bomb ,the upgrades make it such a good tower,rockets that deals over 200damage to enemies ,the multi attack bombs deals a nice damage over a very big area
the smart targeting for artillery works on the shrapnel shot and it makes it broken as it does 720 damage each time
Haha, the long time ago that I had played, I had never used the Tesla, I had thought it was the worst one after Musketeers.
Great video!!!
Musketeers is 3rd place. Shrapnel shot is broken. 900 gold for 720 damage every 9 seconds? Well worth buy it.
Sorcerer is 2nd. Sheep can be tapped to death. Golems to tank bosses. Basic attack is already good.
Barbarian is 8th. More axes is too expensive, Throwing axes has 3,5s attack rate, and they lack durability to do damage.
Here's my placement:
1. Tesla
2. Sorcerer
3. Musketeers
4. Rangers
5. Paladins
6. Arcane wizards
7. Big bertha
8. Barbarian
Don't get me wrong. Kr1 has good towers, but your placement is messed up.
Tip: he's not yourself
i agree with your placemnt
I think BB should be moved up to 5th, the missile deals way too much damage for its range, same thing with the cluster bomb. Actually, the BB’s range is really what makes it so powerful, it feels like a ‘safety net’ that allows some enemies to slip through my defenses without having to worry about losing lives.
I'd swap paladins and barbarians, too many enemies can ignore armor so the increased hp and lower respawn time is much more worthwhile, and they can be upgraded to for more damage
@@andrewgreeb916 Yeah Barbs got destroyed before they can even do dmg
I find that the barbarians function best if you use them as a pseudo-ranged tower. Put them behind your paladins, and they'll throw axes while the paladins do the tanking, while whirlwind and dual axes make short work of any enemies the paladins leak. Since the enemies have to get past the paladins first, the barbarians are not expected to see much melee combat and therefore will not die even with their relative fragility, so damage output is more important in this situation than survivability, especially since if you're using this tactic, the barbarians will probably be the absolute last towers the enemies pass by, so you don't have a lot of time to kill them, nor are they likely to be within range of your ranged towers.
I also unironically love musketeers. Their extra range directly increases their damage output, since you're more capable of having multiple towers focus on the same enemy and the musketeers can focus on the same enemy for longer. Also, their snipe ability doesn't actually have a range limit. It's map wide, as opposed to the arcanist's disintegrate which can only target enemies within its attack range. While musketeers would likely be a rather poor choice for supporting barracks, these two factors together makes it an incredible choice for thinning out the enemies before they reach your barracks so your main defenses have less to deal with. Plus, their snipe ability technically means that *any musketeer in the map* can support your barracks regardless of range.
agree but i would put sorcerer above arcane because polymorph is basically an instakill as you can tap on the sheep to kill them and the rock golem is strong enough to permastall bosses with micro
I used to love playing only cannons, especially big Bertha, cuz it had that voice line on the rockets "YIPPIE KAYE MOTHERF***!". Ahhh, good ol memories. Now im playing Vengeance like im that kid from 3rd grade. Thanks for reviving my love for this game!
Nice list most of what you say make sense
Wait you're agree with Musketeers in bottom?
Bruh wait til' you see how good the musketeer is on steam with the smart targeting upgrade
edit: I made this comment even before you started the video. Muskies are only good if you invest that 900 gold into that sweet sweet shrapnel shot. In total that would only cost you 1470 gold, which isn't all that much for a great area ability with good dps
edit again: the barbarians have great damage if you would just upgrade the throwing axes. Then they would also be able to keep enemies far away from them. Then buy the more axes, but don't get the whirlwind attack, because it doesn't benefit from the more axes upgrade.
edit once again: the sorcerers polymorphed enemies (the sheeps) can be tapped to death the same way as the ones on the background in the first few levels. They're the same lamb.
the tesla isn't good. It's op like literally the best tower in the series.
I wouldn’t say tesla is the best in the swirlies only because of the Mech in fronteers, even then I think it is a tie
@@gabriellethomas3852 yes, but he's talking about kingdom rush not frontiers, but I do think it's a tie between them
4:45 is a non-issue because you can just tap the sheep to kill it lol
i love how you can bully any elite stage boss with just a single golem
Fun fact: you should never be forced to use your Rain of Fire ability on a sheep because you can actually tap the sheep to kill it like you can do with the sheep in the grasslands. Polymorph is an instakill with this knowledge.
Honestly as someone who is also a fan of the game I don't use the tesla that often but I really like the barbarians since they kill air targets easily as for the ground ones the rangers stun and poison them to death while the wizards deletes their health
Some thing you got wrong:
Barbarians: the strongest upgrade for barbarian is the whirlwind attack. On paper this doesn't seem to do much, in practice this upgrade melt every thing. And don't use more axe. Whirlwind practically add a tier 3 artilery worth of dps for 350 gold.
Musketeer: people talk about their sniper shot all the times, but never realize that snapnel shot deal 720 damage. 720 DAMAGE! Witb just 9 seconds cooldown.
Big bertha a great tower. You won't see how strong big bertha is, until you spam it. Missiles dealing 280 damage with only 7 second cooldown.
Maxed tesla actually cost more than big bertha.
Ranger suck. I'll be honest here if you have barbarians you don't need ranger, since barbarians have better dps anyway. Ranger miss half of their shots. And poison arrow? They can only poison 4 enemies at max, which only add 60 dps, for 600 gold! More axe of barbarian add 90 dps for 500 gold.
The fact that you use Alleria.
Hi bro! Good video! Do you now who is the best hero??
well you can tap several times on the polymorph and they will explode easily
I agree except for musketeers, the fire they are better in every way then the arcane, the abilities are better, it fires faster, and the abilities happen more often. And mead hall, just do what i do; holy order in front then mead hall in the back, and don’t Get the whirlwind either
Did Voduke teach you the way?
I have never used Tesla is it that good?
Arcane wizard is underrated by a lot of people I swear, he has very high damage and can teleport a bunch of enemy’s and 1 shot sometimes
i think the arcane wizard is in between the two barracks upgrades, just because it's abilities are both pretty underwhelming and the main attack has very little versatility
I agree with you points but I'd say that the barrack towers are the most unnecessary ones. Obviously you need them in the beginning but later you can beat most stages with only ranged towers.
big berthia's cluster is very good against spider and provine some crowd control just worse than tesla
i use it to beat sagarles"lair
Same opinion for no.1 spot, tesla is insane like you can pick tesla and any type of barracks to defend enough your base😊
I think that the Arcane Wizard and Sorcerer should be swapped. Yeah Polymorph isn't great, but the Sorcerers reduce the armor, both physical and magical of enemies, making their attacks more effective and giving your other towers a better shot at taking them down.
I have completed all 4 games for 100% with EVERYTHING on the hardest difficulty: veteran/impossible depending on the game, INCLUDING all the iron and hero challanges AND challanges on post game lvls on highest difficulty too, so basically Undeniable 100% of entire franchise, AND I DIDNT KNOW THE SHEEP COULD BE BOPPED WITH MOUSE??! bruh. how can i call myself a veteran now...
I’m such a fan of the series that I don’t even need to watch the video to know the answer, spam teslas lol
Kingdom rush hero tier list when?
After carefully studying all the towers I have decided to switch up the top 8 ranking, which would be as follows:
1. Tesla
No explanation needed, the highest area attack, chains lightning attacks, can directly attack flying enemies, AND does more damage than Big Bertha.
2. The Sorcerer
Polymorph to tap the sheep into extinction, huge rock elemental that excels at killing AND blocking the enemies, lowers armor on hit, and has a lingering damage effect.
3. Paladins
Holy protectors which have area damage, Supreme armor rating, good health, damage, and can regenerate every few seconds for more than HALF their health.
4. Rangers
Fast fire-rate, good damage, poison hit every few seconds and the vine attack that completely stops all incoming enemies AND damages them.
5. Barbarians
Whirlwind attack excels at demolishing large crowds of lesser powerful enemies, double axes increases the damage of the barbarians by double (I think) and throwing axes also allows it to attack flying enemies and ground enemies from a distance.
6. Arcane mage
Can teleport enemies back down the path every few seconds, can literally turn even the most powerful enemies to literal ash every few seconds and has high damage as well as good range.
7. Big Bertha
My favorite tower, shoots rockets at the enemy, can carpet bomb almost half the track, does huge damage, has huger area effect, and has good range.
8. Musketeers
Very good range, good damage, can buckshot all enemies into extinction in an area, and can either do heavy damage OR insta-kill one enemy (depending on chance of course) Problem is, he just has the tiniest chance of doing any of these things
So yeah, that's my new ranking
Late to the party, but you can click/tap several times on the polymorphed sheep to kill (at least to my knowledge)
Nice
Musketeer only can help you win almost all veteran stages
What’s is he on about #8?
Musketeers are there for the insane shrapnel ability, snipe is just gravy
It has to be just the Tesla right
Well, when I clicked this video, I already knew Tesla x104 will be on the first place, its just too op, like you said. You MUST have this built in every stage. Actually sorcerer tower is pretty good, but it isn't a good decision to upgrade Polymorph.
Tesla is not the be all end all.
It does a lot, but it just doesn't cut it on a lot of maps
@@andrewgreeb916 yeah ik that's why I am trying to place it in the spot with thr best shape
I beat the game without ever building a single Tesla tower.
I will say though, some of these towers would be better in Endless mode since I beat all the main levels, it's mostly just me experimenting in survival mode.
I really like the barbarian brawl but i think the stats differ in the mobile version coz the barbarians had the same health and more attack than paladins, plus they return damage and throwing ability is broken
The main problem with barbarism’s is that they have no armour. So yeah on paper they have more health than the paladins but the latter have high armour and heal themselves.
The best is the sorcerer tower from KR1. Your attack is reasonably fast and don’t sacrifice that much power for fire rate. Plus when you upgrade to be able to summon an elemental golem, you are unstoppable. Those things, when having full toughness, can stall bosses for long times!! Arcane wizard tower is good too from KR1. I like to upgrade to the death ray. Instant kill all powerful enemies every few seconds.
Tesla better
Heavy disagree with Muskeeters. Their damage is kinda meh, but their long range and the fact that they dont miss like other archers makes up for it. Its abilities are very strong - shrapnel shot clearing out small enemies with huge area danage, and Sniping ability takes out strong enemies. Imo its more versatile and helpful than rangers
I agree on your lost for all the spots but one and that is that I think that the Sorcerer tower should be on the number 3 spot and the arcane at 4 because how versatile it can be. The amount times I've seen my arcades shoot like a spider instead of a dark knight just because it's in front is infuriating. The Sorcerer does this too but has a better attack speed which minimizes the consequences. Also the Sorcerer works great as a support tower of sorts. It has the passive ability of lowering armor which can be used to make for example your rangers deal the same damage against brigades as spiders which is just insane and the Sorcerer can still deal with armored units it self. For the abilities the polymorphism is pretty bad so don't use it. It's as simple as that. Spend the money on something else instead. But the elemental is crazy good for tanking big units. For example the element ca n basically tank a cerberus by itself because every time you upgrade it it gets full hp and it only cost 150 gold.
That's why I think the Sorcerer should be at number 3
What’s so bad about Polimorph? Isn’t it just a slightly more complex insta-kill?
@@victorvirgili4447 it's either going to hit a small minion and be an waste of time or it will hit a big minion which essentially gives you a timer to kill said enemy as it can't be blocked. For 300 gold its just not worth it. Its better to get a level 3 tower or to spend on other upgrades.
It's not inherently bad but it's not worth the cost unless you're swimming in gold
@@LinJer. nah polymorph is good since you can just click on the sheep to kill it
So about the Musketeer Garrison.The shrapnel shot works like artillery does meaning that the 55-110 Damage the big bertha does depends How close the enemy is to the explosion so it will always deal 110 damage on the Target hit directly decreasing in the damage the furthee away the other enemies are until you reach the minimum of 55 Damage.Now a Star upgrade for the artillery Completely negates this and makes everything hit tale 110 Damage.But this also includes the shrapnel shot Upgrade for the musketeers.So for like a 10 second cooldown you get 800(or 600 idr) Area Explosive damage(which ignores 50% of armor).So the fastest boss killer in a AOE attack the Muskeeteer possesses
2:22 Not everything actually.It has it's own range which gets larger the more you upgrade the skill
2:55 They also respawn very fast.8 seconds compared to the Paladin's 14
They're also meant to be paired with the paladins to hide behind and deal their damage with their ranged attack,Which is like 150 per Volley
I'd say you said some wrong info at times but you came to the right conclusion so GJ!
barbarians die fast but they re spawn so fast its like they never died
i would place the tesla at the bottom, I never use it because big bertha can just hit more enemies at once.
Also, musketeer is VERY strong with insane crowd control and long range instakill, just don't buy it early on because of the cost
Wtf tesla is the most broken thing in that game😂. It hits like all the enemys in his range, unlike big berta who only its a lot of enemys with the bloster bombs.
I fully agree except for the Arcane wizard. I really do think hes way stronger tha the ranger tower
I like Kingdom Rush and Boolyc TD, don't know why it's not so popular, good vibe and fun
This tier list is so true, The Tesla is the best tower
I'm not sure about the rating for Barbarians. For killing enemies, I would rather have them than Sorcerers. Yeah, Barbarians don't do their alleged job of blocking units for other towers. Instead they slaughter things -- better than Sorcerers imo. In a pinch, they can block 3 enemies for a brief period. But mostly they slaughter. Definitely not a top 3 tower, but a decent #4.
Polymorph, Golem, Armor reduction: am i a joke to you?
Barbarians outshine paladins in circumstances where their armor doesn't help them, which in the post game is all of it.
personally i think that the arcane wizard is too expensive for its speed. the sorcerer shoots faster, also the damage persists after the first hit like the poison upgrade for the rangers (plus u get that bonus for free since it comes with the tower). holy order is also better than arcane wizard (imo) js bc they can hold up anything and anyone. nothing gets through them for only 400 coins while u have to invest waaay more for the arcane wizard to be effective whether its the teleport or the death ray.
I remember beating most stages just spamming the big bertha that tower is op af don't know what you're talking about
You also forget the Tesla ignores ALL armour.
i wont going to lie sorcerer is way better than arcane. I mean sorcerer main basic attacks deals more damage with curse
curse deals true damage so its viable on magic resistance enemies such as fallen knights. main attack also can lowers resistance. If you spam sorcerer even high resistance enmies like dark slayers armor even can be none which is absurdly broken. Abilities are decent aswell, Polymorph has really weird mechanic i mean sometimes it can pass your defense and make you lose health( i heard some ppl say it can be killed by tapping). So elemantel is god-like ability. It creates time to sorcerer to curse them and make other towers hit them which is crazy. Arcane wizard is basic. his damage really strong but thats it. abilitys are kinda meh. Like teleport is kinda sucks. Instakills is meh bc its too expensive.
Ah yeah my favorite Tesla
Musketeers are actually better than rangers due to their area damage. Rangers are almost pointless to build in later stages or games where you get stormed by large crowd of enemies.
Make more kr videos plsss
Another one is in the works...
Lol I literally guessed the whole lost besides 5-4
i only disagree with your placement with the barbarian hall. it does more then stall enemies. if done right they can handle crowed control by themselves as well as deal with flying troops. not to mention that they just deal more damage. there great at killing
Arcane Wizard > Archer Tower, it is insulting to be placed lower. You can beat levels without unit stalling by just having enough of them teleporting the enemy over and over again. That said, the number 1 spot needs no debate, Tesla no brainer, 100% agree with the rest.
The restraint it must've took, not to call this a tier list
Happy rushing, is it 😅🤗
My list:
1. Tesla
2. Sorcerer
3. Rangers
4. Big Bertha
5. Musketeers
6. Arcane Wizard
7. Holy Order
8. Barbarians
Reasons:
1.Barracks are in low place, because I don't need to upgrade it to 4 level.
2. I don't use Arcane, becouse Sorcerer has higher DPS + he can reduce armor.
3. Arcane is worse than Musketeer. Why? Musketeer tower has AOE upgrade and Arcane don't.
4. Rangers are very good, but without posion they are weak against armored enemies. (Sorcerer can easily kill high-armored and high HP enemies)
musketers needs like 100-120damage
*come on, Rangers got stucking enemies abiloty* _idk why i heard Tesla sucks but_
Well Tesla is good, with upgrades it will always help other soldiers From down for example, and thst is good because it can take care of infinite packs of enemies
Sorcerer is better than arcane, it has higher dps since it inflicts a debuff that deals damage over time like a poison and reduces armor
i found big bertha to be better than the other tower.
hello, tesla tower
goodbye
Berthia make me win all maps...
lmao what. musketeers literally melt everything that comes across if you fully upgrade them, literally impossible to pass them unless its gigantic swarms for which you would simply use one or two tesla
don't even need to watch, tesla
The towers in the whole series can't be ranked the're all use full musketeers are use full for ther low cooldown RNG baset instakill and druid henge for the fast for an altylery towers atack speed plus they ignore armor with star upgrades
Sorcerer decreases physical armor...
Rangers are a bit shit though aren’t they, why waste the money on them when you can spam more Teslas, the problem with this game’s balance is that everything has to be compared to the Tesla because of how good it is, ignoring all resistances except ghosts immunity to physical damage, so it leads to the conclusion that the next best towers after the Tesla are the ones which do something the Tesla can’t, which makes Arcane wizard and Musketeers jump out as they have 1shot abilities, obviously the arcane wizard is better than the musketeers, but I don’t think musketeers are as bad as you think, they do really well on the post campaign troll levels because there’s so many long range tower spots, which are what effect the musketeers ability if I am not mistaken; the musketeers can only fire the headshots at long ranges, which very efficiently deal with the ridiculous regen of some of the trolls as it just gets ignored, and the musketeers are far cheaper than the arcane wizard making it a great alternative, especially since the Tesla spam does all the necessary dps
My rankings would be:
1) Tesla
1.5) every subsequent Tesla
2) Arcane
3) Sorcerer (it’s good at the start of the track)
4) Musketeers
5) Big Bertha
6) Tier 3 barracks
7) Rangers
8) Holy order
9) barbarian hall
No way polymorph can kill the sheep..
Tesla is sooooo op
Purple wizard dude and tesla are the best towers.
0:35 finishing the campaign without even 3 staring all LET ALONE 5 staring them means you DON'T have a lot of experience 😂🤦♂️
Lol bro you are so wrong. Big Bertha is the most underrated tower. The rocket launcher is (for it's cost) a really powerfull and the cluster bombs are really strong (I have to admit, only if this abi is lv 3). Barbs are fine dmg deallers, but they are only good in a few lv, and for holding the enemies paladins (as you said) are way better. Musketer's grape shot abiltiy is really really expensivie, and it's not always worth it, BUT the head shot is better than death ray. D ray has a longer cooldown and a lv 3 head shot ability has 60% for doing head shot, with an insane range (bigger than the musketer's tower range). Sourcerer is a better tower than the arcane mage. The poly morph ability will ALWAYS target big beefy enemies, while a d ray can target a ducking goblin. Sure, you have to tap the sheep to die, but for a guaranteed "hiting the strong enemy" it's just worth it. Stone (or rock, sry I don't really know what the ability's name) elemental is also really strong (althought I don't really use it). AND sourcerer is a good support tower for reducing the enemies phisical armor. Archane mage is overrated af, the teleport ability is kinda usefull, but it's a bit outclassed by wrath of the forest, and the death ray is just a worst alternative of poly morph and head shot. The dmg is really good though. So the correct tier list {from worst to best (even worst tower is a fine tower)} Barbarians, Arcane mage, Big Bertha, musketer tower, paladins, sourcerer, ranger, Tesla
dude, with all due respect, I'm here for the information. Give me the info not the cringe thank you
Do you even know what cc means?
Barbarian halls the best
8 Musheketrs....insta noob skill issue
I mean ,kinda expected from 84 star mobile player but still
Barbarian hall should be last because holy crap those guys are useless. Yeah they do a lot of damages, to bad they never do that much because they die in 2 seconds. And to me the throwing axe is the most overrated ability in the game, because for the cost of the barrack, ability couple with low range and damages, your better off with another tower. At least the musketeers have a very powerful cluster shoot clean small group of chaff so they are more useful. Then you include the fact that you unlock first the exponentially more powerful holly order and yeah, never used these guys.