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Parent of Lych-Soul, and various MOAB-class bloons as Resurrected Blimps “ Gravelord Lych drains buffs from your Monkeys, healing itself in the process. When each skull on its health bar is reached, Lych goes ethereal, resurrecting the empty shells of recently popped MOAB class Bloons. When ethereal, Lych cannot be damaged until all resurrected Bloons have been popped, including the life-draining Lych-soul Bloon. Resurrected MOAB class Bloons do not spawn children, selling towers will heal Lych. ” ~ BTD6 Description Gravelord Lych is a Boss Bloon added Bloons TD 6 in the 28.0 update. It is the second Boss Bloon to be introduced to Bloons TD 6, and the first Boss Bloon unique to the BTD6 Generation. Its unique properties center around resurrecting MOAB-Class Bloons and regaining health upon the use of applied/temporary tower buffs and selling.

Visual Description Lych is a large MOAB-class bloon with a diamond-shaped hull similar to ZOMG, and is much bigger than the previously debuted boss, Bloonarius. Lych has a small propeller with multiple blades forming a cone shape and pointy black fence rods protruding from its backside. It has holes that leak out cyan-green mist, as well as lime green eyes and smaller hole in middle. It also has stitches strewn across its frontside. Purple shark-like fins protrude from its hull. Later tiers include fence tips at frontside.

Lych's presence is signified by clouds of ghostly green mist that periodically float across the map.

Elite

Elite Lych has a more macabre appearance, most notably through its chain censer attachment and third eye on the forehead. It also has more stitches, soul-emitting holes, and twin set of fins on its body. The fins on its sides have jagged bat-like appearance. Later tiers include second set of tail fins, and lime green chains surrounding it and Tier 5 changing the censer with a golden one with spikes.

Where there are multiple simultaneous lanes on a map (e.g. Encrypted, Sunken Columns, X Factor), Lych chooses the first available path. For maps with alternating lanes (e.g. Bazaar, Chutes, X Factor), Lych will still take the first available path instead of the round's corresponding first lane. If there is a blimp-only lane available (e.g. Quiet Street, Cargo, Workshop), Lych will guarantee to spawn from that lane. On the map, Bloonarius Prime, Lych will take a special path that integrates both lanes. In Balance map, Lych takes different path in each tier and has the cycle of path taken by 4 tiers. (e.g. The tier 5 of both normal and elite ones will choose the same path as the tier 1 does.)

Special Properties

Lych will absorb certain buffs from nearby towers upon spawning and every 12 seconds after spawning, healing itself in the process. Lych is not able to leech buffs while invulnerable, and if 12 seconds since its last leech has passed while invulnerable, Lych will instead immediately use its buff sap upon exiting its ethereal state. Selling towers heals it instantly instead. Applied and temporary buffs as well as Permanent Brew and Ultraboost count as buffs, including charge-related abilities such as Super Monkey Fan Club, Elite Defender's life-loss trigger, and Call To Arms. However, permanent passive buffs (auras), like Jungle Drums, Shinobi Tactics, and Elite Sniper, are not able to be sapped.

Every time Lych leeches out benefits from buffs, it will also stun nearby towers with the stolen buff for 5 seconds, regardless of whether it's inflicted by Elite Lych or Normal Lych. Lych regenerates 1% health by default, plus 1% of its HP per highest tier of each sold tower (e.g. a Tier 5 tower heals 6% HP regardless of crosspathing, an unupgraded tower heals 1% hp when sold) and 2% of its HP per stolen buff.

Lych also becomes invulnerable to damage while reaching skull health. When Lych does so, it will produce a miniature version of itself, Lych-Soul, as well as chained resurrections of any MOAB-Class Bloons that were popped in the last 20 seconds. The Lych-Soul will drain a certain amount of lives every 4 seconds; the number of lives drained depends on the tier and is much higher for the Elite version, and Lych-Soul can defeat the player through draining all lives. The chained MOAB-Class Bloons have significantly more health than normal, but spawn no children when destroyed. Lych remains invulnerable until the Lych-Soul and all of the resurrected MOAB-Class Bloons are popped, although it spends 7.5s phasing in and out at minimum, regardless of how fast they are popped.

Lych is noticeably faster than Bloonarius, over twice as fast in its final Tier 5 Elite form in comparison to the Tier 5 Elite Bloonarius. Like Bloonarius, only standard game modifiers (Easy = base speed, Medium = +10%, Hard = +25%) and the MOAB Speed modifier affect the speed of Lych.

Lych also regularly summons MOAB-class bloons from the entrance, causing rounds especially in the earliest Lych tiers to contain more MOAB-class bloons than normal. During Lych events, more MOABs appear than normal in earlier rounds along with rounds 40, 60, 80, and 100 also being modified. The normal bloon spawns on Round 41-48 are modified on top of each Boss Bloon spawn round and normal Round 41-48. Round modifiers are listed below:

Round Description 40 MOAB replaced by 6 Ceramics 41 1 MOAB 42 1 MOAB 43 1 Fortified MOAB 44 2 MOABs 45 1 Fortified MOAB, 1 MOAB 46 1 Fortified MOAB, 1 MOAB 47 2 Fortified MOABs 48 2 Fortified MOABs 60 BFB replaced by 6 MOABs 80 ZOMG replaced by 6 BFBs 100 BAD replaced by 10 ZOMGs, 15 DDTs Immunities

If at skull health, it will stay invulnerable until its resurrected offspring are all killed. It will also spawn a mini ghost version of itself, the Lych-Soul, that slowly drains lives (quantity of lives removed depends on tier and if it's normal/elite). The lives that it drains are used to heal Lych, and leaking it will result in an immediate loss. The Lych-Soul is quite fast and durable. During Lych's invulnerable phase, Lych will move at half speed.

Otherwise, Gravelord Lych's immunities are the same as other Boss Bloons:

The same immunities as the BAD (Stuns, Slowness, Knockback & Instapops). Immune to all forms of percentage-based damage and instant health reduction (i.e. MOAB Hex, Big Bloon Sabotage, and Grand Saboteur ability). Immune to Legend of the Night's passive black hole ability, meaning that leaking the boss will always result in a game over. Immune to Navarch of the Seas hook ability. Immune to Megalodon devour attack.

Bloon Swarms

Lych will send Lych-Soul and a number of childless MOAB-class bloons upon reaching skull health.

Drained Lives

Lych's Lych-Soul absorbs a certain number of lives for every four seconds it exists on the screen. How many lives it drains depends on its tier.

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