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The build at a glance
Support Only is the most counter-intuitive mode. The natural instinct is to spam Banana Farms, but farms don't pop bloons. The actual win condition is Beast Handler + Engineer + Spike Factory for damage, with Banana Farms for income.
Beast Handler is the only damage tower that can keep up with the late game. The Sun Avatar path (3-0-0) or Piranha path (4-0-0) both work.
Step by step
Sauda is the best hero — she does a lot of damage herself, which is the main weakness of Support Only.
Place 0-0-0 Beast Handler. Get 2-0-0 (Microraptor) by round 10. The Microraptor is your main DPS for the next 30 rounds.
Add 0-0-0 Spike Factory. Get to 2-0-0 (Bigger Stacks) by round 18.
Save through ceramic rush. Sauda + Microraptor + Spikes should handle it. Don't stress.
Place 0-0-0 Engineer to 2-0-0 (Sentry Gun). Add a 0-0-0 Banana Farm to 2-0-0.
Beast Handler to 3-0-0 (Sun Avatar) by round 55. This is a huge damage spike.
Spike to 4-0-0 (Spike Storm). Add more farms to 2-3-0.
Beast Handler to 4-0-0 (Piranha) if you went 3-0-0, or get 0-0-3 Piranha path. Use Sauda's level 20 ability on round 100.
None of the Support towers pop camo on their own except Engineer sentries and Beast Handler. You need to either: (1) pick a hero with camo detection (Sauda, Gwen, Striker), (2) get a 0-2-0 Village, or (3) get the 0-0-3 Engineer sentry crosspath. Do not skip this — round 35+ will leak every camo bloon if you're unprepared.
Common mistakes
- Going straight to Banana Farms. You'll have $50K and 0 damage and lose on round 30.
- Skipping Beast Handler. It's your only real damage tower.
- Forgetting camo defense. This is the #1 way to lose Support Only runs.