Minigun (Tower)

Minigun
Description	Very fast attack speed, high damage to single targets
Price	110 coins
Available from level	3.7 (first seen in 3.6)
Strengths
Regular	100%
Fast	50%
Strong	50%
Heli	100%
Jet	50%
Armored	150%
Healer	150%
Toxic	50%
Icy	25%
Fighter	0%
Light	25%
Bosses	100%

Starts firing very slowly at the target, but firing speed increases with each shot up to a maximum, and slows while not attacking. Firing speed is also immediately dropped by one third when changing targets (even when switch could otherwise occur with no time gap).

Unique Characteristics

Minigun has Acceleration as its Unique Characteristic.

Acceleration - The rate (in %) of increase of firing speed [% of Attack Speed] per each shot at its target. Higher acceleration, reduces the time needed to reach the maximum firing speed. At full acceleration, shots will diverge from the main trajectory and shoot out in a radius.

Increasing Tower experience level increases acceleration.

Acceleration = 15 + 0.9 / Tower Experience Level

Other Characteristics

Minigun initially starts firing slowly at 0% acceleration, with each shot, the firing speed increases as the amount depends on "Acceleration" stat. Once it reaches 100% acceleration, the firing speed will reach its "Attack Speed" stat.

Whenever Minigun switches targets, its firing speed is reduced by 33% (66% of its previous firing speed).

If Minigun is not attacking, its firing speed decreases rapidly.

Minigun does not have "Projectile Speed" since its projectiles instantly hits its target.

Main characteristics:

Range		✓	✓	✓	✓
Attack speed	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Damage		✓	✓	✓	✓
Crowd Damage					✓
Agility				✓	✓

Statistics

Range	3.5
Damage	13.6
Attack speed	4.5
Rotation speed	40.0
Acceleration	15.0

Upgrade Level	Range	Damage	Attack Speed	Rotation Speed	Upgrade Cost	Cumulative Cost
0	3.5	13.6	4.5	40	42	110
1	3.65	17.6	4.7	43	60	152
2	3.8	25.2	4.95	43	115	212
3	4	30.7	4.95	48	175	327
4	4	43.8	5.2	50	280	502
5	4	55.9	5.8	55	450	782
6	4.2	77	6.3	55	740	1,232
7	4.5	99	6.7	57	1,300	1,972
8	4.8	133	7.8	60	2,000	3,272
9	5.15	185	8.2	60	3,200	5,272
10	5.5	232	9.1	60	n/a	8,472

Abilities

Ability	Description
Heavy weapons	Damage x 1.2
Heavy mechanism	Acceleration x 0.8, attack speed x 1.3
Foundation	Rotation speed x 1.5, changes Hot bullets damage type to poison with 5% dps bonus
Hot bullets	At full speed, ignites enemies for 5s dealing 15% of DPS each second (unlocks at 10th level)
Ultimate	Every 60 seconds, creates a microgun on a random empty road in tower's range with 18% of attack speed and 45% of range. Max 2 microguns. (available at level 20)
Powerful	PWR x1.1 (available at level 20)

Hot Bullets - Once Minigun reaches its maximum firing speed, it will activate burning effect.

Choosing Foundation abilities changes burning effect to poison effect.

Minigun's burning effect decreases Freezing effectivenesses from towers by 33% (behaves like Flamethrower).

Heavy Mechanism - Boosts average attack speed (while accelerating its firing speed) by 6.25%

Strategy

Minigun boasts the highest DPS for single target. Its advantage against slow enemies such as Armored and Healer. However despite this it only deals half damage to Strong enemies. It also can attack air enemies as well making it a generalist tower against Air enemies.

It's rotation speed however makes it a poor choice when dealing with clusters of enemies since by the time it faces the enemy, the enemy already went out of Minigun's range.

Minigun struggles against fast enemies since they do less damage and also less time to focus on them

Minigun is widely used against bosses since they always deal 100% damage to them and can deal the maximum amount of dps against it.

If there is a freezing tower nearby, always get Foundation to replace Hot Bullets with poison as its Exp Level 10 effect will remove freezing effect making it a nuisance for other towers to hit it.

Minigun is best against boss levels (custom maps, .8 levels) but not against all others since every wave features a group of enemies rather than just having only one enemy per wave.

Minigun weakness is its inability to attack Fighter enemies which requires other towers such as Sniper / Flamethrower to be able to remove Fighters.

Minigun will lose acceleration when switching targets. using SEARCH will reduce the percentage of acceleration lost when switching targets.

Best tile placement: Damage/Attack Speed

Damage boosts its already impressive single target DPS. Useful alongside Heavy Weapon ability which is a core for Minigun.

Attack Speed boosts its already impressive attack speed. It also increases firing speed as it is % of attack speed. Use Attack Speed tile if you are going to get the Heavy Mechanism ability which also increases its attack speed by 25% giving it a whopping 56.25% attack speed boost when firing at full firing speed.

Optimal 2 Abilities: Heavy Weapon/Foundation, Heavy Weapon/Heavy Mechanism

Heavy Weapon is a must have. The 25% damage is a free stat for all Miniguns to take.

Foundation: Despite being a horrible ability (with research), it is needed since it will change its Hot Bullets ability to being Poison Effect. Without foundation, Minigun will interfere with Freezing Slow effect. This poison effect will perform the same as Burning effect except it will not remove the slow effect from Freezing. Always get this if you are using Freezing Tower. Also useful in Daily challenges as researches are disabled and minigun has extremely low rotation speed making it difficult to chase enemies. It is also a viable choice to compensate for the low rotation speed.

Heavy Mechanism: Boosts attack speed overall (while charging) by 6.25% and 25% at full charge. Overall, this does not have a downside. Though if there is no Freezing Tower available in daily quest, it is viable choice alongside Heavy Weapons.

Research

(Does not include endless research)

These research are exclusive to Minigun Tower Only. To see all researches, see Researches

Damage - Damage dealt to enemies

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+2%	+4%	+6%	+9%	+12%	+15%	+18%	+21%	+25%	+30%

Max Upgrade Level - Upgrade Level Limit

Increases the max upgrade level of the tower (Upgrade level). At level 0, the max tower upgrade level is 3.

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Max Tower Upgrade Level	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

Max Experience Level - Experience Limit in levels

Increases the max experience level of the tower (EXP level). At level, the max tower experience level is 4.

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	4	5	6	7	9	10	12	14	16	18	20

Projectile Speed - Tiles per second

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+2%	+4%	+6%	+9%	+12%	+15%	+18%	+21%	+25%	+30%

Range - Range in tiles

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+1%	+2%	+3%	+4%	+5%	+6%	+7%	+9%	+11%	+13%

Price - Tower Price in Coins

Reduces the cost to build Minigun Tower. By default it costs 110 coins.

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Minigun Tower Coins Build Cost	110	108	106	104	102	100	98	96	93	91	86

Attack Speed - Shots per second

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+2%	+4%	+6%	+9%	+12%	+15%	+18%	+21%	+25%	+30%

Rotation Speed - Degrees per second

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+2%	+4%	+6%	+8%	+10%	+12%	+15%	+18%	+21%	+25%

Experience Multiplier - Each XP point is multiplied by this.

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+3%	+6%	+9%	+12%	+16%	+20%	+24%	+28%	+33%	+40%

Upgrade Price - Price of tower upgrades in coins

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	-0%	-1%	-2%	-3%	-4%	-5%	-6%	-8%	-10%	-12%	-15%

Acceleration (Unique Characteristics) - Weapons acceleration speed

Acceleration is multiplied by this value. This increases Acceleration from 15%/s - 32.1%/s to 17.7%/s - 37.88% (Based on Tower EXP level)

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+1.5%	+3.0%	+4.5%	+6.0%	+7.5%	+9.0%	+11.0%	+13.0%	+15.0%	+18.0%

Starting Level - Initial Tower Level

When purchased, Minigun Tower will immediately start at that EXP Level. At Max level, Minigun Towers will start at EXP Level 4 with 1 Ability Unlocked.

Level	0	1	2	3
Initial Tower EXP Level	1	2	3	4

Passive XP at max upgrade level - Amount of tower gets per second on max upgrade level.

If not at max level, the formula of XP/second goes by (XP rate / 10 * tower upgrade level)

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5
Experience Gain per second	+0.00/s	+0.10/s	+0.20/s	+0.30/s	+0.40/s	+0.50/s

Rotation speed - Foundation - Tower Ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Rotation speed - Foundation and adds it per level. (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Rotation speed - Foundation	1.50x	1.52x	1.55x	1.60x

Hot bullet bonus DPS - Foundation - Tower Ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Hot bullet bonus DPS - Foundation and adds it per level. (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Hot bullet bonus DPS - Foundation	5.0%	5.2%	5.5%	6.0%

Acceleration - Heavy Mechanism - Tower ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Acceleration - Heavy Mechanism and adds it per level. (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Acceleration - Heavy Mechanism	0.80x	0.81x	0.83x	0.86x

Attack Speed - Heavy mechanism - Tower ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Attack Speed - Heavy mechanism and adds it per level (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Attack Speed - Heavy mechanism	1.3x	1.32x	1.355x	1.4x

Duration - Hot bullets - Tower ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Duration - Hot bullets and adds it per level. (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Duration - Hot bullets	5.0s	5.2s	5.5s	6.0s

Damage - Hot bullets - Tower ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Damage - Hot bullets and adds it per level (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Damage - Hot bullets	15%	16%	17.5%	20%

Attack speed - Ultimate - Tower Ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Attack speed - Ultimate and adds it per level (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Attack speed - Ultimate	18%	19%	22%	25%

Build interval - Ultimate - Tower Ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Build interval - Ultimate and adds it per level (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Build interval - Ultimate	60s	58s	54.5s	50s

Range - Ultimate - Tower Ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Range - Ultimate and adds it per level (Additive)

Level	0	1	2
Range - Ultimate	45%	51%	60%

First Generation - Significant Increase of Characteristics

-Rotation Speed + 5% / Damage +7%

Second Generation - Significant increase of Characteristics

-Attack Speed + 10%

Third Generation - Significant increase of Characteristics

-Upgrade price - 2%, Damage + 10%

Advinas

3.7

Advinas: Meet the new weapon for your arsenal - Minigun tower.

Advinas: Its attack speed gradually increases while it attacks an enemy and quickly loses speed when not attacking

Advinas: It also has low rotation speed and attacks only one target, but can reach air enemies as well.

Trivia

• Minigun is one of the two towers that appears one level earlier - Level 3.6 that is automatically built at the beginning of the Level with Random Target. However the player cannot build miniguns unless they have access to Level 3.7. The other is Laser.