Warden

Stats

Base Cost

1,850

Base Damage

12

Damage Type

Single

Fire Rate

0.6

Hidden Detection

Level 1+

Immune

Stun (Level 4)

Lead Detection

Level 2+

Placement

Ground

Placement Limit

12, 15 (PVP)

Range

6.5

Role

Offense

Selling Price

616

Unlock Cost

Triumph Pizza Party & 4,000 or 600

Description

The Warden is an advanced ground tower with short range that can be purchased from the store for 4,000 Coins after triumphing Pizza Party. Alternatively, it is obtainable through a gamepass for 600 Robux without having to triumph the map. The Warden attacks enemies with its baton. The Warden does not deal damage when it fires, it instead deals damage when its weapon contacts the enemy. It also cannot change which enemy it is targeting while swinging it. Because of this, the Warden may sometimes miss the target, or hit an entirely different enemy. Every third swing is a crit, dealing more damage and stuns an enemy for a few seconds. From Level 3, the Warden stuns enemies with every hit. The stun time depends on how big the enemy is; the bigger the enemy is, the shorter the stun time is. Additionally, if an enemy has the Stun Immunity, it is only slowed down by 40% instead of being completely stopped. It can only damage one enemy with each swing. At Level 4, it gains a riot shield, which it uses to block stuns. The stun block has a 6 second cooldown and the parry itself lasts 1 second. After succesfully blocking a stun, the Warden will grant itself a temporary 100% Damage Buff and Stun Immunity for 6 seconds. When dealing crit damage, the Damage Buff will boost the crit damage by as much as regular damage. For example, for 80 damage and a crit multiplier of 3, an 100% Damage Buff boosts the Warden's damage from 80 to 160, increasing it by 80. Because of this, the crit damage, which is 240, will also get increased by 80 to 320.

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

A few Wardens can be pretty effective in the mid-game. By late-game, its Level 4 can also be useful due to its parry effectively granting it permanent Stun Immunity through the parry itself and the actual immunity the parry gives. Due to Warden's short range, it should be placed at bends or turns on the map to make the most use of its range. The DJ Booth can be useful at increasing its range. The Warden will often struggle against large hordes of enemies, as it can only damage one enemy at a time. Therefore, placing multiple Wardens or using support towers like the Commander is recommended. As the Warden's Level 3 and 4 upgrades are quite expensive, the Farm or the DJ Booth can be used to afford them quicker. The Warden has lead detection at Level 2, making it fairly useful against Frost Invaders and Elite Leads. The Warden can parry stuns at Level 4, as it unlocks Riot Shield, making it useful against enemies that can stun multiple towers, such as major bosses. It also very effective against major bosses, if they stun while in range of your Wardens, due to the 100% Damage Buff. On a lot of waves, no enemies that stun spawn or only enemies that debuff towers appear, making its parry get triggered less. This can be corrected to some degree by activating Exploding Enemies in match, which will make every enemy stun towers on their death, making the parry trigger more often. Multiple Level 4 Wardens can quite effectively slow down enemies. This is very useful for towers with long firerates, cooldowns or spawnrates, as it gives them more time to attack an enemy.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

Patch history

The Warden, Cowboy and Saboteur are the only towers that requires both a badge and coins to unlock. The Warden's Level 4 upgrade name, Class Foxtrot Defense Level, is a reference to the Halloween 2022 Trailer, where the Warden opens a door with its equipment inside. This door has a note which says that it should only be opened in class foxtrot defense level. The term "foxtrot" may also derive from the titular final boss, Wox the Fox. The Warden's Level 1 upgrade name, Night Shift, is most likely a reference to Five Nights at Freddy's. The tower as a whole seems to be very loosely based on the Night Guard from Five Nights at Freddy's 2, although he does not wield a baton. Oddly, the second version of Warden's inventory description was the same as the Gladiator's. The Warden's Warden Job Interviews is a parody of a Five Nights at Freddy's Movie meme. A video of the TikTok can be found here. The Level 2 upgrade cost is a reference to the The Bite of '87 from Five Nights at Freddy's, which in the franchise happened in 1987. The Warden was originally made to act as a permanent stand-in for the Sledger as part of a bigger plan to make new permanent towers based on existing event towers. The Warden was the only tower ever finished from this plan, with the rest of the towers having little progress done on them. The only other known tower was a sawblade launcher tower that would've had a similar function to the Executioner.