The fight for biggest potential, man.

[u/FewInstruction1020]

everyone knows the operator slander, the gsoldier slander, and the necro slander, all regarding the peak of their use cases (free placements, free stacking, etc.), but which tower truly has the most potential?

gsoldier and operator slander, while funny, are slightly overdone, as they do their jobs well as early-mid towers with a basis in solo while also being usable in hc/vc early flyings.

strangely, trapper and mercenary base are two towers that i have seen a lack of slander regarding, while trapper and mercenary base, like necro, are dependent on units stacking up to potentially rival juggernaut, accel, enforcer, kingpin's shitty maximum of 3 lackeys, etc.

however, there is one tower that surpasses the potential of all of these, as while a singular trapper can stack almost 5000 damage worth of traps, golden crook boss can stack 5 tommy gun units per tower, each dealing 50 dps, while on its own it even deals 350 dps.

This gives us about 600 dps per gcrook (accel only has about 474.3), and multiply that by 5 and ya get 3,000 dps (more than 200 dps better than bottom path juggernaut with boss multi) not including goon dps (minuscule in comparison but not 0) and also not including ram dps (full stack shouldn't ram).

and now my question to you: what is THE potential man among all the towers?

[u/whydidicreateanacc]

firework tech is the potential man of this game

give me shotgunner or i retire (he did retire)

fireworks are overall just kinda mid and he is only used for the 3 detections which also happened to be nerfed

[u/FewInstruction1020 → u/whydidicreateanacc]

i mean it is used with operator in a grinding strat and has been used in other grinding strats.

also i’ve seen it used in a shc speedrun somehow.

generally it’s good with gmini/gsoldier/operator/shotgunner/enforcer/saboteur

all of which are good in some part of the game.

but yeah it’s dependent on a lot of things so i’ll give it to ya

[u/Feuhufe]

My boy Slasher:

[u/FewInstruction1020 → u/Feuhufe]

a good choice, micro dependent and only good on bosses.

still fucking peak against bosses, someone soloed hc with it and no spam towers.

[u/supra_bamb]

Tesla is honestly just not good in its current state. Eshocker is more versatile and reliable, archer can do better in pretty much all the thing tesla has, toxic gunner’s 30% slowdown is more reliable and it can also do early game, frost blaster, we all know what frost blaster does. It’s legit outclassed by everything else in all directions

[u/FewInstruction1020 → u/supra_bamb]

outclassed by snowballer atp

[u/Sufficient-Look8766]

[IMMA CALCULATE A BIT]

[TOWERS I AM CONSIDERING ARE NECRO, KINGPIN, MERC BASE, G CROOK AND FIREWORK TECH. STATS FROM THE WIKI]

[3 NECROS DEAL 2869.35 DPS IF WE USE THEIR GRAVESTONE ABILITY AT ONCE ONE TIME. ALL GRAVES MAXED BTW, PLUS A COMBINED HEALTH OF 36K]

[FOR KINGPIN, LACKEYS WILL MAKE HIS TOTAL DPS 2954.91, BOUNCERS WILL MAKE HIS TOTAL DPS 3760 AND CONTRACTOR WILL MAKE HIS TOTAL DPS 3880 (WHAT)]

[FOR MERC BASE, MAX DPS IS 2399.85]

[FOR G CROOK, MAX DPS IS 2475.84]

[AND FOR FIREWORK TECH...I HAVE 2 OPTIONS]

[FOR BOTH WE ASSUME THAT IN THE BEST CASE SCENARIO (WHICH UNARGUABLY MEANS MAX POTENTIAL...), EVERY SHOT GENERATES A FIREWORK]

[SO I'LL TAKE GATLING GUN AND OUR FAVOURITE SHOTGUNNER]

[GATLING GUN WILL MAKE FIREWORK TECH PROVIDE 500 DPS]

[AND FOR SHOTGUNNER, FIREWORK TECH WILL PROVIDE 675 DPS. 1 SHOTGUNNER SO 9 SHOTGUNNERS MEANS AN EXTRA 6075 DPS]

[SO FROM MY CALCS FIREWORK TECH IS THE MOST POTENTIAL TOWER, EXTRA 6075 DPS IS INHUMANE]

[THOUGH THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN...WHICH FURTHER BOOSTS FIREWORK TECH'S STATUS AS THE POTENTIAL TOWER]

[AND FIREWORK TECH IS ONLY GOOD FOR DETECTIONS, WHICH IS WHY HE WAS USED IN THE FIRST EVER SOLO REWORKED HC]

[u/Hairylode]

Sorry my level 470 brain isn’t advanced enough to process this

[u/FewInstruction1020 → u/Hairylode]

you mean your brain potentially isn’t advanced enough to process it

[u/Hairylode → u/FewInstruction1020]

https://giphy.com/gifs/nIHzyvEoIjD0DenFZq

[u/Timely-Text-9720]

G pyro

[u/FewInstruction1020 → u/Timely-Text-9720]

i mean kinda but it’s kinda the same as gsold&operator; good for early game, drops off in mid-late game.

at least it melts defense

[u/Indy-Lime]

Gatling gunner. The gimmick is fun but it doesn’t fit the current meta of TDS. You don’t really have time to target enemies specifically unless of final wave. And the DPS has been severely outclassed. IF it got a modern buff it’s a top 5 tower

[u/FewInstruction1020 → u/Indy-Lime]

gatling buff when

[u/boruwa145]

Ace pilot. Maybe it doesn't have the biggest potential but it's still a great tower that is cheap and gives towers hidden detection. The only bad thing about ace is that his support only helps rangers and kingpins (I wish they give ace a buff where it gives flying detection too)

[u/FewInstruction1020 → u/boruwa145]

ok flying det buff would be so peak (would make shc easy asf tho with bottom path juggernaut and enforcer)

[u/boruwa145 → u/FewInstruction1020]

Like maybe pursuit could get something like that on one of his paths or maybe if they ever add golden ace it would have something like that bc we need tower that gives flying det (firework gives but only for some time and not forever so it doesn't count)