Learn how to unlock the Desperado tower fast in BTD6! This step-by-step guide shows you an efficient strategy using no Monkey Knowledge, focusing on pop farming up to round 76. Includes tower placements, upgrades, and timing tips to get Desperado unlocked quickly and easily.
Want to unlock the new tower Desperado quickly in Bloons TD 6? This guide shows you how to do it efficiently, even without using any Monkey Knowledge. This method also works great for unlocking any other tower that requires a large number of pops.
To unlock Desperado in BTD6, you’ll need to click on the Gift icon in the Main Menu (note: you must be at least level 30 to see it). Select Desperado as the active tower to start contributing Pops toward its unlock. To fully unlock Desperado, you need to accumulate 3.5 million Pops.
You might be thinking that you can just do a high-round run, but the damage you see on the towers doesn't equate to the actual total pop count. In the image, you can see an example of a run with only two towers, and it shows that the total damage is much higher than the pop count we achieved.
As you can see in the table below, here is the approximate figure of how many pops you will earn based on the rounds played.
The trick to AFK farm monkey pops is to create a Regrow Farm. Regrow farms can be created in rounds that contain a lot of regrow bloons. They used to be used to farm XP for paragons and tower upgrades, but that has been patched. However, we can still use them to farm Bloon Pops. We will be using round 76, which contains 60 Regrow Ceramics. Let’s use a really easy map called Resort on Medium Standard difficulty.
Instructions: The round guide indicates when to make purchases. For example, "Round 3" means to buy at the end of Round 3, between Rounds 3 and 4, unless stated otherwise. We recommend disabling Auto Start for easier following.
First, you’ll need to reach round 60, select Freeplay, and then continue to round 75. At the end of round 75, just before round 76, we will set up the farm. Below is an easy guide to help you reach round 75, which you can skip here.
Quincy is a reliable hero who can detect camo bloons and deal good damage to MOABs.
The Boomerang Monkey will handle the Lead Bloons for us.
The Sniper Monkey will be our main tower in this run, as he can handle all types of bloons with the help of the Alchemist, which we will acquire later.
Now you’re set to reach Round 75 without any additional tweaks. Just make sure that auto-start is disabled before then.
Be sure to continue in Freeplay mode.
Now we can set up the Regrow Farm for Round 76. First, set the Heli Pilot’s targeting to 'Lock in Place' and position him in the top right corner, centered on the small platform. Above him, place a 0-4-2 Glue Gunner, and in the bottom left corner of the map, place a 0-2-5 Dart Monkey, buffed with a Monkey Village and an Alchemist. Then, start Round 76 and let it run. When you're ready to stop, sell the Glue Gunner and Heli Pilot, and then purchase an additional 4-0-2 Boomerang Monkey or another tower to clear the remaining bloons.
As mentioned, once you're satisfied, finish the round with additional towers, then sell them in the next round to intentionally lose. As you can see in the image, I managed to gain around 1 million pop counts in just 15 minutes of AFK-ing.
After you've accumulated 3.5 million pops, you can then unlock Desperado by clicking on the present in the main menu of BTD6 and selecting Desperado.
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