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Onett4smash/TrapperRevamp
Unlock Cost	3,000
Placement	Ground
Placement Limit	5
Statistics
Base Cost	$700
Base Selling Cost	$233
Base Damage	15
Damage Method	Single Splash (Level 3+)
Base Firerate	6.508
Base Range	7
Hidden Detection	Level 0+ (Traps only)
Flying Detection	N/A
Immunities	None

Watch your step.. Place various traps on the path to damage and stun enemies!

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Description

The Trapper is an intermediate tower that can be bought for 3,000. It places down various traps on the ground, which when they come in contact with an enemy, or are activated via ability, damage it in various ways or apply debuffs to them. When there are no enemies in range, the Trapper will lay its traps randomly, but if there is an enemy within range the Trapper will target it by laying its traps directly at the enemy.

There are two types of traps that the Trapper can place down. The first is the spike trap, available from Level 0 to Level 2. Spike traps have a set amount of health, which when decreased to zero make them disappear. This trap can hit as many enemies as long as it still has health.

The second type is the landmine, available from Level 3 to Level 5. Landmines do not explode when an enemy steps on it; rather, they are activated by an ability, which will detonate all landmines for a single Trapper at once, dealing massive splash damage to all enemies caught in its explosion. This explosion deals full damage to enemies with defense. At Level 5, the mines also slow the enemy down for a set duration depending on how many mines are detonated at once.

Upgrades

Level 1 - Faster Throwing - $450
+10 Spike Damage 6.508 > 5.508 Spike Firerate +1 Max Traps Sell Price changes to $383

Better Traps

Level 2 • Cost: Better Traps - $1,350

+15 Spike Damage

+2 Range

+1 Max Traps

Sell Price changes to $833

Watch Your Step

Level 3 • Cost: Watch Your Step - $3,500

+10 Spike Damage

5.508 > 5.008 Spike Firerate

+1 Range

+1 Max Traps

+Landmines

•65 Damage

•3 Burn Damage

•6.008 Firerate

•0.5 Tick

•6 Explosion Range

•0.5 Burn Time

Sell Price changes to $2,000

Don't try this at home

Level 4 • Cost: Don't try this at home - $7,000

+10 Spike Damage

+10 Landmine Damage

+3 Burn Damage

5.008 > 4.008 Spike Firerate

6.008 > 4.508 Spike Firerate

0.5 > 6 Burn Time

6 > 9 Explosion Range

Now drops 7.5% defense each burn tick

+1 Max Traps

+Bear Traps

•100 Damage

•5.008 Firerate

•3 Stun Time

Sell Price changes to $4,333

Stats Table

Total Cost
Level 0	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
$700	$1,150	$2,500	$6,000	$13,000

SpikeLandmineBear Trap

Spikes
Level	Trap Health	Firerate	Range	Max Traps	DPS
0	15	6.508	7	5	2.3
1	25	5.508	7	6	4.54
2	40	5.508	9	7	7.26
3	50	5.008	10	8	9.98
4	60	4.008	10	9	14.97

Landmine
Level	Trap Health	Burn Damage	Firerate	Burn Time	Burn Tick	Range	Explosion Range	Total Elapsed Damage	Defense Drop	Max Traps	DPS
3	65	3	6.008	0.5	0.5	10	6	3	N/A	8	12.32
4	75	6	4.508	6	0.5	10	9	72	7.5%	9	28.64

Bear Trap
Level	Trap Health	Firerate	Range	Stun Time	Max Traps	DPS
4	100	5.008	10	3	9	19.97

Strategy

• As it takes a long time for the Trapper to place down its traps, it is generally recommended to place it down in the back, where it has more time to pile up traps.
• The Trapper's spikes can be very useful early on at dealing with both hordes of weaker enemies like the Abnormal and stronger enemies like the Abnormal Boss.
• Landmines can be quite useful at clearing out hordes of enemies, because of their high damage, them setting enemies on fire and their ability to ignore defense.
  • At Level 4, the burn applied by landmines can now reduce an enemy's defense by 7.5% each tick, decreasing it up to 50%.
    • This does not stack with other forms of burn defense dropping, such as the Pyromancer.
    • As defense is dropped through burn, if an enemy has burn immunity, the Trapper cannot decrease its defense.
    • The Trapper's burn prevents enemies from being frozen by freezing towers and instantly thaws any enemy that was frozen.
• Bear traps only deal damage to a single enemy, meaning that it should generally only be used for high health enemies.
  • It is best to set the Trapper's targeting to Strongest as it means bear traps are less likely to be used by enemies with lower health.
  • Additionally, the bear traps stun enemies for three seconds, making them quite effective at stalling enemies.
    • If an enemy has stun immunity or is a boss enemy, it will not be stunned but only slowed down instead.
• When the Trapper is set to Random, it will not target a random enemy. It will instead drop its traps in random spots.
• The Trapper is very useful in Polluted Wasteland II, due to the path's length allowing it to accumulate many traps, and the intersections allowing for a Trapper to damage the same enemy multiple times over.
  • Its bear traps also allow it to slow or stun fast and/or tanky enemies, which Polluted Wasteland II has many of.

Trivia

• The Trapper is loosely based on the Spike Factory from the Bloons Tower Defense series.

Update History

• 24 February 2024
  • Trapper added.

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