Sniper

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Description

The Sniper is a long range single-target tower with a slow Reload Time that deals high damage and gains Pierce on later levels. It features very cheap Stealth Detection, being unlocked on 2-X. It is the first level-locked tower with it requiring players to be at least Rank 15 in order to purchase it. It is great for picking off enemies that make it past your main line of defense and is a great tower for beginners.

Upgrades

The Top Path for the Sniper grants it 2 Pierce, allowing it to hit up to 3 enemies at once. It is also granted the Ignore Bullet Resistance on 4-X, allowing it to take care of enemies with high bullet resistance such as the Revived Titan. Additionally, it also gains Stealth, allowing it to not be targeted by attacking enemies, increasing its lifespan. However, it has a significantly slower Reload Time and, lower DPS, and lower Range when compared to its Bottom Path.

The Bottom Path features much more range and DPS, but does not ignore any resistances. At level X-4, it gains an ability that unstealths any nearby enemies, similar to the Laser Gunner's Stealth Sensor. While the range covers a much larger range, it has a large windup and can only unstealth enemies for 8 seconds rather than permanently like the Laser Gunner. On Level X-5, its damage type also changes to Laser, allowing it to deal full damage to armored enemies like the Super Heavy Zombie, but less to enemies like the Revived Mutated Zombie. It is slightly more expensive to max out.

• Top Path
• Bottom Path

$300

ADVANCED TRAINING

+10 Health

-0.75s Reload Time

+4.0 Range

$425

ENHANCED SIGHT

+15 Health

+6.0 Range

Stealth Detection

$2,800

INTERVENTION

+50 Health

+21.0 Damage

-0.20s Reload Time

+5.0 Range

+1 Pierce

$3,450

AP BULLETS

+170 Health

+35.0 Damage

+0.30s Reload Time

+3.0 Range

Ignore Bullet Resistance

Stealth

Regain Stealth Time: 7s

$14,250

PATHFINDER

+700 Health

+150.0 Damage

+0.60s Reload Time

+3.0 Range

+1 Pierce

Regain Stealth Time: -3.0s

$300

HIGH VELOCITY

+15 Health

+4.0 Damage

$1,250

160 GR BULLET

+20 Health

+12.0 Damage

$2,850

MARKSMAN

+80 Health

+5.0 Damage

-1.00s Reload Time

+5.0 Range

$4,350

LASER EYE

+185 Health

+18.0 Damage

+18.0 Range

Ability: Flare Gun

$17,250

LASER BARRETT

+625 Health

+120.0 Damage

Damage Type: Bullet → Laser

+0.25s Reload Time

+22.0 Range

+1 Pierce

Abilities

ELITE TARGETING

TYPE: PASSIVE

LEVEL UNLOCKED: 0-0

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Targeting can be switched to Elite, making the Sniper prioritize Enemies with Abilities, Deployables and their creators over other enemies.

FLARE GUN

TYPE: INTERACTIVE

LEVEL UNLOCKED: X-4+

COOLDOWN: 10.00s

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Reveals stealthed enemies in its range for 8.0s.

Stats Table

• Linear Path
• Cross Path

• Top Path
• Bottom Path

Level	Total Cost	Health	Damage	Reload Time	Range	Pierce	Regain Stealth Time	DPS	Cost : DPS
0-0	$285	100	8.0	2.75s	21.0	0	N/A	2.9	98.3 : 1
1-0	$585	110	8.0	2.00s	25.0	0	N/A	4.0	146.3 : 1
2-0	$1,010	125	8.0	2.00s	31.0	0	N/A	4.0	252.5 : 1
3-0	$3,810	175	29.0	1.80s	33.0	1	N/A	16.1	236.6 : 1
4-0	$7,260	345	64.0	2.10s	36.0	1	7.0s	30.5	238 : 1
5-0	$21,510	1045	214.0	2.70s	39.0	2	4.0s	79.3	271.4 : 1

Level	Total Cost	Health	Damage	Reload Time	Range	Pierce	DPS	Cost : DPS
0-0	$285	100	8.0	2.75s	21.0	0	2.9	98.3 : 1
0-1	$585	115	12.0	2.75s	21.0	0	4.4	133 : 1
0-2	$1,835	135	24.0	2.75s	21.0	0	8.7	210.9 : 1
0-3	$4,685	215	29.0	1.75s	23.0	0	16.6	282.2 : 1
0-4	$9,035	400	47.0	1.75s	41.0	0	26.9	335.9 : 1
0-5	$26,285	1025	167.0	2.00s	63.0	1	83.5	314.8 : 1

Level	Total Cost	Health	Damage	Reload Time	Range	Pierce	DPS	Cost : DPS
0-0	$285	100	8.0	2.75s	21.0	0	2.9	98.3 : 1
1-1	$885	125	12.0	2.00s	25.0	0	6.0	147.5 : 1
2-2	$2,560	160	24.0	2.00s	31.0	0	12.0	213.3 : 1

• Top Path
• Bottom Path

Level	Total Cost	Health	Damage	Reload Time	Range	Pierce	Regain Stealth Time	DPS	Cost : DPS
3-2	$5,360	210	45.0	1.80s	33.0	1	N/A	25.0	214 : 1
4-2	$8,810	380	80.0	2.10s	36.0	1	7.0s	38.1	231.2 : 1
5-2	$23,060	1080	230.0	2.70s	39.0	2	4.0s	85,2	270,7 : 1

Level	Total Cost	Health	Damage	Reload Time	Range	Pierce	DPS	Cost : DPS
2-3	$5,410	240	29.0	1.00s	33.0	0	29.0	186.6 : 1
2-4	$9,760	425	47.0	1.00s	51.0	0	47.0	207.7 : 1
2-5	$27,010	1050	167.0	1.25s	73.0	1	133.6	202.2 : 1

Skins

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

Skin	Sniper Recolors	Neko	Tower Battles
Rarity	Common-Uncommon	Legendary	Exclusive
Obtainment Method	Basic Crate	Basic Crate	85
Skin	Toxic	Valentine's	Sniper Camo Variants
Rarity	Epic	Exclusive	Uncommon-Epic
Obtainment Method	Basic Crate	2024 Valentine's Event	Basic Crate
Skin	Ghost	Conspiracy
Rarity	Uncommon	Common
Obtainment Method	Ghost Crate	April Fools Crate

Strategies

• The Top Path is best used against enemies that have bullet resistance. The Top Path also has pierce, which allows it to damage multiple enemies at once. This can be useful when facing larger numbers of enemies.
• While the Bottom Path may have less damage, no bullet resistance pierce and no stealth, but boasts more range, better overall single-target use, and an ability that temporarily removes the stealth property from enemies. This ability is very powerful when paired with Patrol Boat or other towers that don't detect stealth.
• Snipers are cheap in the first few levels and can be used for early-game defense, but Sniper becomes more expensive in the last levels. Though it can be used as a DPS option for midgame, it is recommended to use better endgame towers if the player has them.
• Snipers have a lot of range, so make sure to utilize this by placing them in spots with the best map coverage.
• Players can easily solo Easy Mode solely relying on this tower, although this isn't recommended.
  • However, Sniper is also very effective for Intermediate Mode.
• The Sniper has a very cheap stealth detection upgrade cost of 425 cash. Pair this with its high damage and range and it can be very effective against stealth enemies from early to late game.
  • Additionally, because it's not exclusive to either path, both paths receive stealth detection, making the Sniper more effective.

Trivia

• Sniper is the first of the 10 towers that requires a certain level in order to be obtained. Laser Gunner, Artillery, Warship, Slammer, XWM Turret, Ghost, Helicopter, Mobster and Armored Factory are the other 9 towers in this list.
  • All of towers mentioned are also the only 10 in the game purchasable with Robux (excluding Golden Mine Layer).
• The nerf Sniper received on December 25th, 2023, was most likely due to a strategy being discovered where the tower could solo the entirety of Legacy Elite Mode.
  • This fate was later shared by the Barracks, since it also received a large nerf.
• According to John, he originally had no plans for a Sniper tower, but he changed his mind somewhere around the release of Warship and Missile Trooper’s addition to the game's demo phase.
• If you use Sniper's Flare Gun ability right before you win the game, the Sniper will dance with the Flare Gun in his hand instead of his sniper rifle.
• Sniper and EDJ are capable of soloing Expert Mode.
• When the Skin Update released, the Yellow Sniper skin had a bug where its head was also yellow. This bug has long been fixed tho.

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