Effects

Enemies can get different effects from towers, skills, and other enemies. Most of the effects affect them negatively (debuffs), but some types of enemies can provide positive effects (buffs).

Buffs

Give a positive effect to enemies, which makes killing enemies with those effects more complicated.

Armor

Reduces the damage taken by half. Armored enemy has an aura that adds this buff to enemies nearby except other Armored and itself.

Regeneration

Restores health by 5% each second. Healer has an aura that adds this buff to nearby enemies besides itself and other Healers, and Toxic receives this effect (3% HP/s) after not taking any damage for 3 seconds.

Debuffs

Give a negative effect to enemies, which makes it easier to deal with them or gives a reward for it. These effects are given by towers and player abilities.

Blizzard

Completely stops enemy for a while, even burning ones. Applies to all enemies on map when using the Blizzard ability. Icy with its shield is immune to this effect, as well as other cold-related debuffs.

Bonus coins

Affected enemies will drop more coins when killed. Applied by Multishot's Buckshot ability and Laser's Ionization ability (and Gauss' Superconductors ability prior to 1.9).

Bonus XP

Affected enemies give more experience to towers. Applied by Crusher and Splash's Fast Bullets ability.

Burn

Periodically deals fire damage to enemies, cannot stack. Applied by Antiair, Minigun (without Foundation), and Flamethrower, as well as the Fireball and Firestorm ability. This debuff makes all freezing effects only 1/3 as effective. Heli and Jet move 40% slower while burning. Healers are immune to this effect.

Contrary to a popular belief, burning DOES NOT increase enemies' movement speed.

Chain reaction

Affected enemies have a chance of spreading all their buffs/debuffs on death within a short radius and prolonging the effects' duration. Applied by Venom's Ultimate ability.

Death explosion

Affected enemies will explode when killed, damaging other nearby enemies. Applied by Gauss' Overload ability.

Freezing

Slows movement speed. Applied by Freezing tower, Flamethrower with the Cold fire ability, and the Blizzard ability. Freezing gradually slows (max 65%) an enemy as it continues to be within its range. Flamethrower's Cold fire, in contrast, immediately applies a 25% (upgradable) slowdown on the enemy. In combination with the Napalm ability, this increases to 37% (upgradable).

Poison

Periodically deals damage. Enemies can have several stacks of poison at once, but not more than one from each tower. Applied by Venom and by Minigun with Foundation and Hot bullets active. Toxic is immune to this effect.

Snowball

Completely stops an enemy for a few seconds. Applied by Freezing. Each enemy can only be snowballed 6 times.

Stun

Completely stops an enemy for a few seconds. Applied by Blast and Gauss' Overload ability. When applied, the duration of consecutive stuns on a single enemy is decreased by 10% the max duration. Icy with its shield is immune to this.

Throwback

Pushes enemies towards the beginning of the map. Applied by Blast's Stopping force ability, landmines from Cannon's Ultimate ability and Windstorm. Each enemy can only be thrown back 3 times.