Rocketeer

Stats

Base Cost

2,000

Base Damage

30

Damage Type

Splash

Fire Rate

3.75

Hidden Detection

Level 2+

Immune

None

Lead Detection

Level 0+

Placement

Ground

Placement Limit

8

Role

Defense

Selling Price

666

Unlock Cost

2,500

Range

20, 3 (Explosion Range), 9 (Deadzone Range)

Description

The Rocketeer, formerly known as the Rocketer, is an intermediate ground tower that attacks enemies with a rocket launcher. It is purchasable in the store for 2,500 Coins. The Rocketeer is a splash damage tower that deals very high damage to enemies within an explosion radius. It however, has a rather slow firerate. It has no damage drop-off, meaning it will always deal the same amount of damage to an enemy regardless of its distance from the explosion. Additionally, similarly to other splash damage towers, it is also able to damage Lead enemies and bypass defense. It has decent range, and can detect Hidden enemies at later levels. These aforementioned attributes allow it to be very effective against hordes of enemies. At Level 4, it gains a quad missile launcher, which allows it to fire four missiles at once, targeting up to four different enemies at a time in its spread angle. This upgrade comes with the cost of reduced missile accuracy. If there are less than four enemies in the spread angle, the missiles will target an enemy already targeted by other missiles. The Rocketeer is mostly considered a mid-to late-game tower due to its relatively high cost, as well as its ability to take down hordes of strong enemies with its high damage. The Rocketeer has a placement limit of eight per player.

Statistics

To see all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page.

Skins

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

Strategy

The Rocketeer should not be used as an early game tower because of its high cost. If you wish to have splash damage during the early game, towers such as the Mortar or Electroshocker are cheaper choices. While the Rocketeer does have better DPS from its main projectile, the Mortar can often deal higher DPS due to its clusters when facing off against large hordes, which have a far greater reach than Rocketeer's missiles, even if they are unlikely to all deal full damage. In contrast, the Rocketeer can be far more ideal against single enemies in comparison to the Mortar due to it having much higher DPS, especially since it does not have damage dropoff. Due to its high DPS and hidden detection, the Rocketeer can reliably take down high health Hidden enemies such as the Shadow Boss. An explosion may also indirectly damage a Hidden enemy on Levels 0-1 if there are other detectable enemies nearby. The Rocketeer can be very useful when paired with the Firework Technician, as the fireworks generated by the tower can assist in Rocketeer's area of effect potential. This is especially true at Level 4, where it will begin to fire four missiles at once, with each one having a decent chance to generate fireworks, resulting in higher overall odds for the Rocketeer to generate fireworks. Due to its high splash DPS bypassing defense and with great area coverage from its large range, the Rocketeer can also be very helpful against high health targets and bosses such as the Slow King, Fallen Guardian or even the Fallen King, which can gain up to 60% defense.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

Patch history

Prior to the MEGA Update, this was called the Rocketer. Rocketeer is the more universally-recognized correct spelling and, as such, was changed. Originally, the Rocketeer gained a Howitzer artillery cannon at the final Level instead of a quad missile launcher. The quad missile launcher was the originally planned weapon that the Rocketeer would use at the final Level, though this never happened until January of 2025. The v1.51.0 rework of Rocketeer could knock back enemies similarly to towers like the Hallow Punk, though this did not make it into the actual game. The Rocketeer was loosely based on the Tuber from Tower Battles.