Rocketeer

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Description

The Rocketeer, formerly known as the Rocketer, is an intermediate ground tower that attacks enemies with a rocket launcher. It is purchasable in the store for Coin 2,500.

The Rocketeer is a splash damage tower that deals very high damage to enemies within an explosion radius. It however, has a rather slow firerate. It has no damage drop-off, meaning it will always deal the same amount of damage to an enemy regardless of its distance from the explosion. Additionally, similarly to other splash damage towers, it is also able to damage Lead enemies and bypass defense. It has decent range, and can detect Hidden enemies at later levels. These aforementioned attributes allow it to be very effective against hordes of enemies.

At Level 4, it gains a quad missile launcher, which allows it to fire four missiles at once, targeting up to four different enemies at a time in its spread angle. This upgrade comes with the cost of reduced missile accuracy. If there are less than four enemies in the spread angle, the missiles will target an enemy already targeted by other missiles.

The Rocketeer is mostly considered a mid-to late-game tower due to its relatively high cost, as well as its ability to take down hordes of strong enemies with its high damage.

The Rocketeer has a placement limit of eight per player.

Upgrades

Faster Reloading

Level 1 • Cost: Cash

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3.75 > 3 Firerate Firerate

Sell Price changes to Cash

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Heavier Payload

Level 2 • Cost: Cash

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+20 Damage Damage

+2.5 Range Range

3 > 4 Explosion Range Explosion Range

+Hidden Detection Template:Hidden

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Explosive Risks

Level 3 • Cost: Cash

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+45 Damage Damage

3 > 2.75 Firerate Firerate

4 > 5 Explosion Range Explosion Range

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Missile Maelstrom

Level 4 • Cost: Cash

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+1.5 Range Range

2.75 > 4.5 Firerate Firerate

Sell Price changes to Cash

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Statistics

To see all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page.

Skins

To see all the upgrades of a skin, see the gallery page.

	File:DarkmatterRocketeerIcon2025.png	File:PumpkinRocketeerIconIGJan25.png	File:BosankaRockteerIcon2025.png	File:SteampunkRocketeerIcon2025.png
Skin	Dark Matter	Pumpkin	Bosanka	Steampunk
Rarity	Rare	Event	Common	Uncommon
Daily Store Cost	Robux 120	N/A	Robux 85	Robux 105
Obtained From	Premium Crate	Halloween 2019 Crate, Pumpkin Crate	Premium Crate	Premium Crate
	File:XmasRocketeerIconIGJan25.png	File:Feb12ToyRocketeerIcon.png	File:LunarRocketeerIcon.png	File:FortressRocketeerIconIG.png
Skin	Xmas	Toy	Lunar	Fortress
Rarity	Event	Common	Rare	Rare
Daily Store Cost	N/A	Coin 850	Coin 5,000	Robux 120
Obtained From	Christmas 2025 Crate, Xmas 2019 Crate	Toy Crate	Lunar Crate	Premium Crate
	File:LovestrikerRocketeerIcon.png	File:DuckyRocketeerIconIG.png	File:GhostRocketeerIconIG.png	File:TromboneRocketeerIconIG.png
Skin	Lovestriker	Duck	Ghost	Trombone
Rarity	Legendary	Legendary	Rare	Uncommon
Daily Store Cost	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Lovestruck Crate, Love Launcher Mission Quest	Ducky Revenge Regular Battle Pass	Null & Void Regular Battle Pass	Showtime Crate
	File:LeprechaunRocketeerIconIG.png	File:TiderunnerRocketeerIcon.png	File:BeachRocketeerIconIG.png
Skin	Leprechaun	Tiderunner	Beach
Rarity	Legendary	Uncommon	Rare
Daily Store Cost	N/A	Coin 4,000	Coin 6,500
Obtained From	Shamrock Crate	Pirate Crate	Beach Crate

Strategy

• The Rocketeer should not be used as an early game tower because of its high cost. If you wish to have splash damage during the early game, towers such as the Mortar or Electroshocker are cheaper choices.
• While the Rocketeer does have better DPS from its main projectile, the Mortar can often deal higher DPS due to its clusters when facing off against large hordes, which have a far greater reach than Rocketeer's missiles, even if they are unlikely to all deal full damage.
  • In contrast, the Rocketeer can be far more ideal against single enemies in comparison to the Mortar due to it having much higher DPS, especially since it does not have damage dropoff.
• Due to its high DPS and hidden detection, the Rocketeer can reliably take down high health Hidden enemies such as the Shadow Boss.
  • An explosion may also indirectly damage a Hidden enemy on Levels 0-1 if there are other detectable enemies nearby.
• The Rocketeer can be very useful when paired with the Firework Technician, as the fireworks generated by the tower can assist in Rocketeer's area of effect potential.
  • This is especially true at Level 4, where it will begin to fire four missiles at once, with each one having a decent chance to generate fireworks, resulting in higher overall odds for the Rocketeer to generate fireworks.
• Due to its high splash DPS bypassing defense and with great area coverage from its large range, the Rocketeer can also be very helpful against high health targets and bosses such as the Slow King, Fallen Guardian or even the Fallen King, which can gain up to 60% defense.

Trivia

• Prior to the MEGA Update, this was called the Rocketer.
  • Rocketeer is the more universally-recognized correct spelling and, as such, was changed.
• Originally, the Rocketeer gained a Howitzer artillery cannon at the final Level instead of a quad missile launcher.
  • The quad missile launcher was the originally planned weapon that the Rocketeer would use at the final Level, though this never happened until January of 2025.
• The v1.51.0 rework of Rocketeer could knock back enemies similarly to towers like the Hallow Punk, though this did not make it into the actual game.
• The Rocketeer was loosely based on the Tuber from Tower Battles.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

• 19 July 2019 - BETA v1.6.0a
  • Rocketer added.
• 19 July 2019 - BETA v1.6.0b
  • Unlock cost decreased from Coin 2,650 to Coin 2,000.
  • Placement limit decreased from 8 to 4.
• 19 July 2019 - BETA v1.6.0c
  • Unlock cost increased from Coin 2,000 to Coin 2,650.
• 22 July 2019 - BETA v1.6.1
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 1
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 5
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
• 5 August 2019 - BETA v1.8.0
  • Placement limit increased from 4 to 5.
• 13 October 2019 - Release v1.0.0
  • Renamed from Rocketer to Rocketeer.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Direct damage increased from 4 to 6.
      • Splash damage increased from 2 to 6.
    • Level 1
      • Splash damage increased from +1 to +2.
    • Level 2
      • Splash damage increased from +2 to +4.
    • Level 3
      • Splash damage increased from +11 to +23.
    • Level 4
      • Splash damage increased from +15 to +30.
    • Level 5
      • Splash damage increased from +38 to +75.
    • Now uses the new projectile and explosive system.
      • Direct damage and splash damage now deal the same amount of damage instead of splash damage being half of direct damage.
  • New skin: Dark Matter
• 18 October 2019 - Release v1.1.0
  • New skin: Pumpkin
• 9 November 2019 - Release v1.2.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 5
      • Damage decreased from +75 to +55.
• 25 November 2019 - Release v1.3.0
  • New skin: Bosanka
• 8 December 2019 - Release v1.4.1
  • New skin: Steampunk
• 24 December 2019 - Release v1.5.0
  • Direct damage removed.
  • New skin: Xmas
• 12 January 2020 - Release v1.6.0
  • Template:Bug Placement limit is higher than intended by 1.
• 13 January 2020 - Release v1.6.0a
  • Template:Bugfix Placement limit is now the correct value.
• 11 February 2020 - Release v1.7.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Damage decreased from 6 to 5.
• 18 March 2020 - Release v1.8.1
  • New SFX.
  • New skin: Toy
• 29 October 2020 - Overhaul v1.0.0
  • Unlock cost decreased from Coin 2,650 to Coin 2,500.
  • Upgrade names added.
  • Placement limit increased from 5 to 8.
  • Splash damage equation reworked.
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being made less severe.
  • Skin rarity added to Premium Crate skins.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Range decreased from 15 to 10.
      • Explosion range decreased from 12 to 4.
      • Firerate decreased from 6.05 to 6.03.
      • Lead detection added.
    • Level 1
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from +2 to +0.
      • Range increased from +1 to +4.
    • Level 2
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from +4 to +5.
      • Range decreased from +2 to +0.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to 6.03.
    • Level 3
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from +23 to +5.
      • Range increased from +1 to +4.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
      • Explosion range changed from 12 > 17 to 4 > 5.
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from +30 to +15.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to 5.03.
    • Level 5
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from +55 to +30.
      • Explosion range changed from 17 > 20 to 5 > 6.
• 23 November 2020 - Overhaul v1.1.1
  • Template:Bug Rocketeer's firerate becomes extremely low depending on how close the enemy targeted is.
    • This was fixed a few hours later.
• 8 May 2021 - Overhaul v1.3.0
  • Rocketeer now ignores defense.
  • Splash damage reworked. Now the explosion is separated into two spheres. Inner sphere deals 100% of the stated damage while the damage in the outer sphere decreases linearly.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from 5 to 8.
      • Range increased from 10 to 16.
    • Level 1
      • Name changed from Improved Handling to Faster Reloading.
      • Range decreased from +4 to +0.
      • Firerate changed from 6.03 to Template:Tooltip.
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 2
      • Name changed from Better Protection to Aiming Practice.
      • Damage decreased from +5 to +0.
      • Range increased from +0 to +4.
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 3
      • Name changed from Anti-Tank Rocket to Explosive Risks.
      • Damage increased from +5 to +12.
      • Range decreased from +4 to +0.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 4
      • Name changed from Explosive Risks to Artillery Cannon.
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from +15 to +20.
      • Range increased from +0 to +8.
      • Explosion range increased from 5 to 5 > 6.
    • Level 5 removed
      • Statistics:
        • Name: Artillery Cannon
        • Cost: Cash
        • +30 Damage
        • +4 Range
        • 5 > 6 Explosion Range
  • Template:Bug Toy animations and cosmetics are bugged. It also cannot attack enemies.
• 12 March 2022 - v1.1.0
  • The Rocketeer now uses a path based movement prediction, causing it to hit enemies more accurately.
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being made less severe.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 6.03 to 6.025.
    • Level 1
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip.
    • Level 3
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip.
  • Template:Bugfix Toy animations and cosmetics now work properly.
• 21 December 2022 - v1.6.0
  • Skin rarity added to all skins.
  • Dark Matter skin rarity changed from Legendary to Rare.
• 21 March 2023 - v1.6.3e
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Firerate decreased from 6.025 to 5.025.
      • Damage increased from 8 to 25.
      • Range increased from 16 to 22.
      • Deadzone range of 12 added.
      • Explosion range decreased from 4 to 2.5.
    • Level 1
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 2
      • Damage increased from +0 to +30.
      • Range decreased from +4 to +3.
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Renamed from Aiming Practice to Direct Hit.
    • Level 3
      • Damage increased from +12 to +45.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
      • Explosion range changed from 4 > 5 to 2.5 > 3.5.
      • Hidden detection added.
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from +20 to +125.
      • Range decreased from +8 to +3.
      • Explosion range changed from 5 > 6 to 3.5 > 4.
• 31 March 2023 - v1.6.4
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Damage decreased from 25 to 20.
      • Explosion range increased from 2.5 to 4.
    • Level 3
      • Damage decreased from +45 to +40.
      • Explosion range changed from 2.5 > 3.5 to 4 > 5.
    • Level 4
      • Damage increased from +125 to +135.
      • Firerate changed from 3.525 to Template:Tooltip.
      • Explosion range changed from 3.5 > 4 to 5 > 6.
• 3 May 2024 - v1.20.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from 20 to 40.
      • Explosion range decreased from 4 to 2.5.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Hidden detection added, moved from Level 3.
    • Level 3
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from +40 to +50.
      • Explosion range changed from 4 > 5 to 2.5 > 4.
      • Deadzone range decreased from +0 to -2.
      • Hidden detection moved to Level 2.
    • Level 4
      • Damage increased from +135 to +140.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
      • Explosion range changed from 5 > 6 to 4 > 5.
• 31 May 2024 - v1.23.5
  • No longer bypasses defense.
• 15 January 2025 - v1.49.0
  • Now bypasses defense.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from 40 to 30.
      • Firerate decreased from 5.025 to 3.525.
      • Explosion range increased from 2.5 to 3.
      • Deadzone range decreased from 12 to 10.
    • Level 1
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from +65 to +90.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to 3.025.
      • Explosion range changed from 2.5 > 4 to 3 > 4.
      • Deadzone range increased from -2 to +0.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from +140 to +250.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to 3.025.
      • Explosion range changed from 4 > 5 to 4.
• 29 January 2025 - v1.51.0
  • Updated accuracy, now accuracy of projectiles can be altered through upgrades.
  • Now can fire out multiple rockets at once. Each rocket targets a different enemy in the spread angle of the Rocketeer, though if there is less enemies than missiles, multiple missiles will target the same enemy.
  • Damage update, now can generate fireworks.
  • Statistical Changes:
    • Level 2
      • Renamed from Direct Hit to Heavier Payload.
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from +250 to -60.
      • Range increased from +3 to +5.
      • Explosion Range increased from 4 to 4 > 5.
      • Missile Count increased from +0 to +3.
      • Renamed from Artillery Cannon to Missile Maelstrom.
  • New skin: Lunar
  • Template:Bug Rocketeer's missiles at Level 4 can target Flying enemies when it has no flying detection if there are other non-Flying enemies nearby.
• 5 Feburary 2025 - v1.52.0
  • New skin: Fortress
  • Template:Bugfix Rocketeer's missiles at Level 4 can no longer target Flying enemies if it has no flying detection.
  • Template:Bug Rocketeer has damage drop off.
• 12 February 2025 - v1.53.0
  • New skin: Lovestriker
• 9 April 2025 - v1.60.0
  • Template:Bug Rocketeer has no tower role.
• 16 April 2025 - v1.61.0
  • New skin: Duck
  • Template:Bug Duck skin is not affected by certain debuffs.
  • Template:Bug Duck skin is unaffected by stuns from legacy enemy if they are fired like a minigun or beam, examples include the Gunslinger, Warden and Minigunner enemies.
  • Template:Bug When in range of a Medic, it will be able to affect less towers with its Cleansing ability. Stacks with each Duck skin or other similarly bugged tower/skin in range.
• 28 May 2025 - v1.65.0
  • Template:Bugfix Duck skin no longer breaks the Medic's Cleansing ability.
• 4 June 2025 - v1.66.0
  • Template:Bugfix No longer has damage drop-off.
• 9 July 2025 - v1.70.0
  • Deadzone removed.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Damage decreased from 30 to 25.
      • Range decreased from 22 to 17.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from +30 to +25.
      • Range decreased from +3 to +2.
    • Level 3
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from +90 to +85.
      • Range increased from +0 to +1.5.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from -60 to -70.
      • Firerate changed from 3.025 to Template:Tooltip.
      • Range increased from +0 to +1.5.
• 18 October 2025 - v1.77.0
  • New skin: Ghost
• 20 December 2025 - v1.83.0
  • Deadzone re-added.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Placement cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from 25 to 30.
      • Range increased from 17 to 20.
      • Deadzone range increased from 0 to 10.
      • Firerate increased from 3.525 to 4.025.
    • Level 1
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip
    • Level 2
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from +25 to +20.
      • Range increased from +2 to +2.5.
      • Explosion range changed from 3 to 3 > 4.
    • Level 3
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage decreased from +85 to +35.
      • Range decreased from +3.5 to +0.
      • Deadzone range decreased from +0 to -1.
      • Explosion range changed from 3 > 4 to 4 > 5.
      • Firerate changed from 3.025 to Template:Tooltip
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from -70 to +0.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
      • Explosion range changed from 4 > 5 to 5.
      • Angle increased from +60 to +100.
      • Accuracy decreased from -0.65 to -0.75.
  • New skin: Trombone
• 11 February 2026 - v1.85.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 4
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
• 11 March 2026 - v1.86.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 4.025 to 3.775.
      • Deadzone range decreased from 10 to 9.
    • Level 1
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from Cash to Cash.
      • Damage increased from +35 to +45.
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
      • Deadzone range increased from -1 to +0.
    • Level 4
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
• 22 April 2026 - v1.89.0
  • Template:Bugfix Now has the defense role.
• 5 June 2026 - v2.0.0
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being fixed.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 3.775 to 3.75.
    • Level 1
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
    • Level 3
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
    • Level 4
      • Firerate changed from Template:Tooltip to Template:Tooltip.
• 17 July 2026 - v2.3.0
  • Corrected incorrect explosion values in tower information.
  • New skin: Tiderunner
• 7 August 2026 - v2.5.0
  • New skin: Beach

Notes

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