Warden (Modern Enemy)

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Description

The Warden is an enemy that appears in Polluted Wasteland II and Challenge Trials. It also spawns once in Fallen mode during the Hidden Wave. It has very high health with high defense and average speed. It has an ability where it fires a glowing purple laser from its chest to stun every tower and damage every unit that comes in contact with it, making it very dangerous and a number-one priority.

Appearance

The Warden is a large humanoid entity with a waist in its rig. It has a dark blue skin color and the ends of its limbs are covered in a cyan fluid. It has an energy pack on its back with an antenna that emits yellow sparks along with batteries connected to it. This energy pack has grey straps. The Warden also has metal plating on its body. Its chest has a gaping cavity, revealing its rib cage and a pink cube inside, which emits light blue particles. It has red wounds that span horizontally across the chest cavity.

Strategy

• Like all other tanky enemies, high DPS towers like the Accelerator or Minigunner should be used to take the Warden down.
  • The Commander should be used to boost the firerate of these towers.
  • The Engineer is recommended, as its sentries will continue firing even when the Engineer is stunned by the Warden's Heartfelt Laser ability.
  • The Ranger and Pursuit cannot be stunned by the Warden's Heartfelt Laser ability.
  • The Military Base's units deal full collision damage to the Warden, regardless of its defense, making them quite useful.
    • Do note that their ranged damage is still decreased.
• It is recommended to place your towers away from the path to avoid getting stunned by the Warden's Heartfelt Laser ability.
• It may be viable to have a cheap distraction tower to distract the Warden's Heartfelt Laser from your main offensive towers.
• When the Warden spawns, it will not use its Heartfelt Laser ability for a few seconds. Use this period of time to defeat the Warden before it can stun any towers.
• The Medic can be used to shield towers that, preventing them from being stunned by the Warden's Heartfelt Laser ability.
  • Do note that this will be ineffective while the Warden is still using Heartfelt Laser, as the towers will be continuously stunned until the ability is over.
• The Gladiator's stun blocking is ineffective against the Warden, since even after it successfully blocks Heartfelt Laser's initial stun, it will be stunned again because of how long the ability lasts.
• Slowing towers like the Cryomancer, Electroshocker, Warden or Freezer can be used to slow down the Warden.
  • However, because of its large size, freezing towers and the Warden will slow it down for a shorter amount of time.
  • Do note that the Warden will not stop using its ability when frozen or stunned.
• Defense dropping towers like the Pyromancer, Jester or Freezer can help to reduce the Templar's defense.

Sounds

Sound	Description
Abilities
File:TemplarLaserIntro.ogg	When the Templar performs Heartfelt Laser ability
File:TemplarLaserLoop.ogg	When the Templar performs Heartfelt Laser ability
File:TemplarLaserEnd.ogg	When the Templar performs Heartfelt Laser ability

Gallery

Animations

• Walking animation (2 August 2024 – Present)
  Walking animation (2 August 2024 – Present)
• Heartfelt Laser animation (2 August 2024 – Present)
  Heartfelt Laser animation (2 August 2024 – Present)
• Stun animation (2 August 2024 – Present)
  Stun animation (2 August 2024 – Present)

Converted Variants

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  Green variant, current version (11 June 2025 – Present)

Corpse Variants

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  Second Corpse variant, current version (12 March 2025 – Present)

Promotional Videos

• Templar on a promotional video.
  Templar on a promotional video.

Miscellaneous

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  Templar on its Index icon.

Trivia

• For some reason, despite being called the Templar, its design does not have any single resemblance to the templar from the Knights Templar, a Catholic medieval chivalric order, most infamously known for the Crusades.
• The Templar is a slightly modified version of the Warden enemy.
  • Later in 2025, it would actually completely replace the Warden in Polluted Wasteland II.

Update History

• 2 August 2024 - v1.27.0
  • Templar added, replacing its Legacy variant.
  • Bug: Poison and electric defense dropping no longer decreases Templar's defense.
• 6 November 2024 - v1.40.0
  • Bugfix: Poison and electric defense dropping now drops Templar's defense, though the Jester still cannot drop it.
• 19 February 2025 - v1.54.0
  • Now appears in Polluted Wasteland II, replacing the Warden.
    • Has 50,000 health in Polluted Wasteland II.
    • Gives Error creating thumbnail: File missing$150,000 on death in Polluted Wasteland II.
• 24 September 2025 - v1.75.0
  • Now appears in Challenge Trials.
    • Has 25,000 health.
    • Gives Error creating thumbnail: File missing$8,000 upon death.
• 22 April 2026 - v1.89.0
  • Name changed from Templar to Warden.
  • Now is a Hidden enemy.

Notes

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Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Fallen King Wave 40	Awakened Fallen King & Templar Wave ???	End N/A

Challenge Trials
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Grave Digger Wave 35	Templar Wave 39	Champion Templar Wave 40

Nuclear (Polluted Wasteland II)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Super Toxic Wave 21	Templar Wave 22	Cursed Skeleton & Necromancer King Wave 23

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