Exploding Enemies

Exploding Enemies
Affects	Enemy Stats Enemy Appearance
Active In	Challenge Trials
Available in Sandbox?	✖ No
Rewards Increase	+10%

Enemies explode on death

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Description

Exploding Enemies is a modifier that only appears in Challenge Trials, after Jailed Towers and before Inflation. When a Challenge Trial with this modifier is beaten, it will be unlocked for the player to apply on any match.

Exploding Enemies is part of a group of six modifiers consisting of itself, Glass, Limitation Makes Creativity, Committed, Speedy Enemies and Flying Enemies. These six modifiers cannot have their total reward boost exceed 50%, limiting their boosts to that. This does not prevent modifiers not part of this group from applying their boosts. For example, Fog will still apply its 20% reward boost when all six are applied, increasing the reward boost from 50% to 70%, though still lower from the expected 95%.

Effects

When applied, enemies will start exploding on their death in similar fashion as for example the Boomer. This will stun towers for 1 second and deal 20 damage to units.

There is also an additional effect where it adds pirate hats to enemies in similar fashion to the Talk Like a Pirate Day modifier.

Enemy Appearance

This does not include every enemy in the game, but only some to show the effects of the modifier.

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  Legacy Normal affected by the Exploding Enemies modifier.
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  Legacy Abnormal affected by the Exploding Enemies modifier.
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  Legacy Cool Ducky affected by the Exploding Enemies modifier.
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  Goo affected by the Exploding Enemies modifier.
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  Lead Balloon affected by the Exploding Enemies modifier.
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  Gold Titan affected by the Exploding Enemies modifier.

Update History

• 24 September 2025 - v1.75.0
  • Exploding Enemies added.
• 2 July 2026 - v2.1.7
  • Added a cap for the total reward boost from the Glass, Limitation Makes Creativity, Exploding Enemies, Speedy Enemies, Flying Enemies and Committed, limiting their total boosts to 50%, though this is only active in Casual mode.
• 17 July 2026 - v2.3.0
  • Reward boost lowered from +30% to +10%.
  • Cap for total reward boost from Glass, Limitation Makes Creativity, Exploding Enemies, Speedy Enemies, Flying Enemies and Committed expanded to all gamemodes.