Gwendolin is a hero in CSBTD7, who retains her role in BTD6. She attacks bloons by shooting fireballs from her flamethrower. Gwendolin is the first female Hero to be unlocked, and the second Hero overall, being unlocked at Level 12. She is a hybrid Hero, providing DPS on her own, as well as giving general buffs to Monkeys in her range.
Gwendolin's base pierce has been increased back to 3, reverting the update 41.0 nerf she got in BTD6, to account for the overall higher Bloon density in this game. Her base cost has been increased to $750 on Medium difficulty to account for that.
In-game descriptions[]
Level 1: Blasts Bloons with fire from her flamethrower.
Level 2: Increased pierce per shot.
Level 3: Cocktail of Fire: Hurls a flask of flammable liquid, burning Bloons that pass through the fire.
Level 4: Heat it up: Every 40 attacks Gwendolin creates a powerful wave of fire that pops Bloons and gives extra pierce and Metal popping to nearby Monkeys.
Level 5: Increased pierce per shot.
Level 6: Attacks cause a burn effect on Bloons.
Level 7: Cocktail of Fire is more effective.
Level 8: Shoots two fireballs per attack.
Level 9: Fireballs pop an extra Bloon layer. Burn damage now increases as Gwendolin levels.
Level 10: Firestorm: Sets the whole screen alight, burning all Bloons and granting the Heat it up buff to all Monkeys.
Level 11: Increased range, and Heat it up deals more danage.
Level 12: Increased attack speed.
Level 13: Fireballs have increased pierce and travel faster.
Level 14: Cocktail of Fire deals more damage.
Level 15: More increased attack speed.
Level 16: Firestrom deals more damage with increased duration. Purple Bloons are no longer immune to Gwendolin's attacks.
Level 17: Heat it up deals more damage, and empowers Monkeys with +1 damage, and another +2 damage to Metal Bloons.
Level 18: More increased attack speed.
Level 19: Shoots three fireballs per attack.
Level 20: Firestrom deals hugely increased damage.
Level 21: Cocktail of fire deals more damage, and burn damage increases further with each level.
Level 22: Fireballs deal more damage.
Level 23: Heat it up deals even more damage, and empowers Monkeys with an additional +1 damage and +2 pierce.
Level 24: Shoots four fireballs per attack, and fireballs have even more pierce.
Level 25: Firestorm deals massively increased damage, and Cocktail of fire deals even more damage.
Detailed stats[]
Level 1[]
Cost: $675/750/825/900, 0XP
Effect:
- Footprint: 7
- Range: 38
- Attack cooldown: 0.5s
- Damage: 1
- Pierce: 3
- Projectile speed: 300
- Projectile lifespan: 0.5s
- Damage Type: Fire (Weak to Purple)
Appearance: Gwendolin looks similar to her BTD6 appearance, but more human and altered to the CSBTD7 art stye. She looks like a standard Monkey with brown fur and brown eyes. She has yellow and orange dyed hair, and she wears a red headband that wraps around parts of her hair and forehead. She has a bandaid stuck below her left eye (the player's right). Gwendolin wears a pink T-shirt, a blue overall, red wristbands, and purple sneakers. She wears a black belt carrying a yellow bottle (presumably filled with fuel). She carries a flamethrower that has a grey gun muzzle with several holes for emitting fire. It has a brown handle and a red bottle attached as a fuel tank. The fireballs appear like orange flames.
Level 2[]
Cost: 180 XP
Effect: Pierce: 3 -> 4
Level 3[]
Cost: 450 XP
Effect:
- Gains the Cocktail of Fire ability. When activated, throws a cocktail of fire on a selected point in range, creating a firewall that pops Bloons.
- The cocktail is a lobbed attack, meaning it ignores short walls.
- CoF Firewall tick time: 0.2s
- CoF Firewall damage per tick: 1
- CoF Firewall pierce per tick: 30
- CoF Firewall effect radius: x
- CoF Firewall duration: 12s
- CoF Firewall can affect Camo Bloons.
- CoF Firewall extinguishes when it makes contact with a Bloon with Purple immunity.
- CoF cooldown: 30s
- CoF initial cooldown: 10s
Appearance: Gwendolin now carries a red handbag that holds two orange bottles with a red cap (presumably molotov cocktails). The firewall appears like an orange flame.
Level 4[]
Cost: 1,000 XP
Effect:
- Gains the Heat it up attack. This is a zone-type attack.
- Heat it up minimum cooldown: 1.5s
- Heat it up frequency: every 40th attack.
- Heat it up damage: 3
- Heat it up pierce: 100
- Heat it up damage type: Fire (Weak to Purple)
- Heat it up gives the Heat it up buff to all Monkeys in its range, excluding Gwendolin herself.
- Heat it up buff: +1 pierce, bypass Metal and Frozen immunity.
- Heat it up buff duration: 8s
Appearance: The Heat it up attack appears like a ring of orange flames. Monkeys buffed by Heat it up have a yellow outward expanding ring effect on them.
Level 5[]
Cost: 1,800 XP
Effect: Pierce: 4 -> 6
Level 6[]
Cost: 3,300 XP
Effect:
- Main attack inflicts a burn DoT to affected Bloons.
- Burn DoT tick time: 1.5s
- Burn DoT damage per tick: 1
- Burn DoT duration: 3.0s
- Burn DoT damage type: Fire (Weak to Purple)
Level 7[]
Cost: 5,200 XP
Effect:
- CoF Firewall tick time: 0.2s -> 0.1s
- CoF Firewall pierce per tick: 30 -> 50
Level 8[]
Cost: 8,400 XP
Effect: Fireballs per attack: 1 -> 2 (In a straight spray)
Level 9[]
Cost: 9,500 XP
Effect:
- Damage: 1 -> 2
- Burn DoT damage per tick: 1 -> L - 7 (2 at Level 9, 13 at Level 20)
- Burn DoT duration: 3.0s -> 4.5s
Level 10[]
Cost: 13,500 XP
Effect:
- Gains the Firestrom ability. When activated, damages and applies burn DoT to all Bloons on screen.
- Firestorm damage: 5
- Firestorm damage to MOAB-Class: +15
- Firestorm pierce: infinite
- Firestorm burn DoT tick time: 0.5s
- Firestorm burn DoT damage per tick: 1
- Firestrom burn DoT damage per tick to MOAB-Class: +7
- Firestorm burn DoT duration: 8s
- Firestorm can affect Camo and Ghost Bloons.
- Firestorm applies Heat it up buff to all Monkeys on screen.
- Firestrom cooldown: 60s
- Firestorm initial cooldown: 20s
Appearance: Gwendolin's handbag now carries a red barrel with a yellow stripe around its top ridge (Presumably filled with fuel). The flamethrower's gun muzzle now has orange flame art on it, and its handle is now colored red. The Firestorm ability produces a large ring of orange flames, as well as yellow smoke particles all over the screen.
Level 11[]
Cost: 16,500 XP
Effect:
- Range: 38 -> 46 (Also applies to Heat it up)
- Heat it up damage: 3 -> 10
Level 12[]
Cost: 14,500 XP
Effect: Attack cooldown: 0.5s -> 0.4s
Level 13[]
Cost: 16,500 XP
Effect:
- Pierce: 6 -> 9
- Projectile speed: 300 -> 400
Level 14[]
Cost: 15,000 XP
Effect:
- CoF Firewall damage per tick: 1 -> 2
- CoF Firewall damage per tick to MOAB-Class: +0 -> +3
- CoF Firewall pierce per tick: 50 -> 70
Level 15[]
Cost: 16,500 XP
Effect: Attack cooldown: 0.4s -> 0.3s
Level 16[]
Cost: 18,000 XP
Effect:
- All of Gwendolin's attacks have their damage type changed form Fire to Normal (Now pop Purple).
- CoF Firewall no longer extinguishes when making with a Bloon with Purple immunity.
- Firestrom burn DoT damage per tick: 1 -> 5
- Firestorm burn DoT damage per tick to MOAB-Class: +7 -> +10
- Firestorm burn DoT duration: 8s -> 10s
Level 17[]
Cost: 19,000 XP
Effect:
- Heat it up damage: 10 -> 30
- Heat it up buff: +1 pierce, bypass Metal and Frozen immunity -> +1 damage, +2 damage to Bloons with Metal immunity, +1 pierce, bypass Metal and Frozen immunity (Also applies to buff granted by Firestrom)
Level 18[]
Cost: 20,500 XP
Effect: Attack cooldown: 0.3s -> 0.15s
Level 19[]
Cost: 16,500 XP
Effect: Fireballs per attack: 2 -> 3
Level 20[]
Cost: 17,000 XP
Effect:
- Firestorm damage: 5 -> 20
- Firestorm damage to MOAB-Class: +15 -> +30
- Firestrom burn DoT damage per tick: 5 -> 15
- Firestorm burn DoT damage per tick to MOAB-Class: +10 -> +15
Appearance: Gwendolin now wears an orange visor. The flamethrower's gun muzzle becomes larger and it now has a more detailed orange and red flame art on it. Its handle is now colored dark grey.
Level 21[]
Cost: 27,000 XP
Effect:
- Burn DoT damage per tick: L - 7 -> 5*(L - 18) (15 at Level 21, 35 at Level 25)
- Burn DoT duration: 4.5s -> 15s
- CoF Firewall damage per tick: 2 -> 5
Level 22[]
Cost: 29,000 XP
Effect: Damage: 2 -> 4
Level 23[]
Cost: 31,000 XP
Effect:
- Heat it up damage: 30 -> 100
- Heat it up buff: +1 damage, +1 pierce, other previous effects -> +2 damage, +3 pierce, same other previous effects
Level 24[]
Cost: 30,000 XP
Effect:
- Fireballs per attack: 3 -> 4
- Pierce: 9 -> 12
Level 25[]
Cost: 35,000 XP
Effect:
- CoF Firewall damage per tick: 5 -> 20
- CoF Firewall damage per tick to MOAB-Class: +3 -> 10
- Firestorm damage: 20 -> 100
- Firestrom damage to MOAB-Class: +30 -> +100
- Firestorm burn DoT damage per tick: 15 -> 60
- Firestorm burn DoT damage per tick to MOAB-Class: +15 -> +60
Appearance: Gwendolin now wears a black mask with orange and red flame art on it. The gun muzzle now has yellow and orange flame art on it.
Voicelines[]
When selected in the Heroes menu:
- "Doesn't get hotter than this!"
When placed down:
- "With enough fuel and air, everything burns!"
- "We have ignition!"
When selected:
- "Yes?"
- "Yeah?"
- "Hey!"
- "What's up?"
- "Fired up!"
- "I wouldn't do that if I were you!" - When selected many times
- "You're on my list now" - When selected many times
When leveling up:
- "Haha!"
- "Yes!"
- "Nice!"
- "Oh yeah!"
- "Oh, sweet!"
- "Alright!"
- "Awesome!"
- "Doesn't get hotter than this!" - Level 25
When a MOAB-Class Bloon appears:
- "MOAB! Burn it!" - MOAB
- "BFB! Burn it" - BFB
- "ZOMG! Burn it" - ZOMG
- "BAD? Gonna need more gas" - BAD
- "What? Not flammable?!" - BLON
- "Oh screw it!" - PAIN
When popping a MOAB-Class Bloon:
- "Bloon-cinerated!"
- "Incinerated!"
When using an activated Ability:
- "Fire bomb!" - Cocktail of Fire
- "It's all on fire now!" - Firestorm
When Bloons leak:
- "They're leaking!"
- "Stop them!"
General information[]
Gwendolin, full name Gwendolin Clark, was born in the year 62 AB (After Bloons). Her father is Ryan Clark, a firefighter. Her mother is Caroline Jane, whose profession is unknown. Gwendolin has at least one sibling, a younger sister named Harley Clark, who turned to the dark side after being tempted by the Prince of Darkness (The PoD has a habit of taking his enemy's family members to turn against them). Gwendolin was born and raised in Texas, USA, and she now lives in a small Texan town with her firefox pet named Mo Zillah. She has a crush on Quincy.
Gwendolin is a pyromaniac, meaning she is obsessed with fire. She is also quite an energetic person. She is hot-headed, as in short-tempered, and she aspires to be hot, as in flirty. Gwendolin is also a bit tomboyish, as she likes to act in a masculine way. She loves spicy food.
History[]
Gwendolin was born in the year 62 AB, just after the fourth TD War. She has felt a strange attraction towards fire as early as age 5. One day, her mother's family hosted a barbecue party to celebrate some family member's birthday. The five year old Gwendolin noticed the smell of burning coals, and when her parents weren't looking, she decided to investigate. After a while, she found the barbecue, and wanting to investigate further, she burnt her hand trying to touch it. Despite the pain of her hand being burnt, Gwendolin felt a strange satisfaction she never felt before when she was close to the fire. Her parents became worried when they found out, and they suspected their daughter had some form of pyromania. Although she was never officially diagnosed, Gwendolin showed more and more signs of pyromania when growing older.
Gwendolin was 13 years old during the 5th TD War. While her father was away extinguishing fires caused by the Bloons, Gwendolin hid in a bunker with her mother's family. She had secretly smuggled a few fireworks into the bunker. Unfortunately, the Bloons found the bunker and started attacking it. When Gwendolin saw the Bloons approaching, she grabbed some of the fireworks she smuggled into the bunker in an impulsive act of rage and fear, and threw them at the Bloons. When she saw the Bloons burning, Gwendolin felt her destiny to fight Bloons with fire. Despite bringing in dangerous goods into the bunker, she was praised for her heroic act.
After returning home from the 5th TD War, Gwendolin decided to build her own flamethrower that she would use to fight Bloons in the future. After conducting some experiments that often left her with burns, she managed to build a prototype flamethrower. She also made ideas for a better version, but since no new Bloon attacks were coming at that time, she decided to leave her ideas on the backburner. At age 18, Gwendolin joined the engineering sector of the Monkey Military, where she would work on a better flamethrower, and also get the required military training to follow her destiny.
During the 6th TD War, the then 20 year old Gwendolin went to fight at the frontline. Her own flamethrower turned to be pretty powerful, incinerating many Bloons withe ease. She also proved to be a good team captain, earning her the Hero title. She was one of the first to get said title, and she was deemed the most powerful Hero initially. But as more Monkeys earned the Hero title, she got overshadowed by more powerful Heroes. Still, Gwendolin thought she had successfully fulfilled her Bloon-popping destiny. She also found herself to be in love with Quincy, another Hero, but no proposal came yet.
During the 7th TD War, the then 24 year old Gwendolin fought at the frontline once again. This time she had refined her flamethrower further, giving her even more power. During this time Quincy also finally proposed to her, and she happily accepted it.
Changes from BTD6 (Version 52.x)[]
Functional changes:
- Base cost increased to $750 on Medium difficulty.
- Base pierce increased to 3, reverting the update 41.0 nerf from BTD6, to account for the overall higher Bloon density.
- Level 2 pierce increased to 4, Level 5 pierce increased to 6, and Level 13 pierce increased to 9, back to their pre-41.0 amount.
- Cocktail of Fire pierce increased for most levels, to account for the overall higher Bloon density.
- Removed the Pyrotechnics buff, as I think it was quite an out of place addition to BTD6. Not all Heroes have to give buffs to similar Monkeys.
- Level 7 no longer increases Heat it up range. Instead, its range now scales along with Gwendolin's main range at Level 11.
- Level 11 range increased to 46.
- Heat it up damage now increases at Level 11 and 17. This is done to better distribute power over levels.
- Level 14 Cocktail of Fire no longer applies burn DoT to MOAB-Class Bloons, because having one Hero applying three different burn effects gets a little hectic. Instead, the Cocktail now gains a simple damage bonus to MOAB-Class Bloons.
- Level 20 no longer increases Cocktail of Fire damage. The damage is moved to Level 21.
- Added Level 21-25 upgrades.
Visual changes:
- The belt only carries one bottle instead of two.
- The flame art on the flamethrower's gun muzzle is simpler at Level 10. It becomes more detailed at Level 20.
- Gwendolin no longer wears her mask at Level 20, but she does wear the visor which is now colored orange. She gains back her mask at Level 25.
Trivia[]
- In this game, Gwendolin has no voicelines for when a DDT or GHOL apprears, as since she has no direct Camo or Ghost detection, she has no way of noticing they are there. She is one of several Heroes where this is the case.
- Even when she has been given external Camo/Ghost detection, of the DDT/GHOL in question has had its Camo/Ghost property stripped, Gwendolin won't make any remark about it, as the voicelines are simply absent. The canonical reason for this is that Gwendolin is not used to seeing these Bloon Types, and the sight of it will leave her speechless.
- Gwendolin's voiceline for when a BLON appears references the fact that BLONs have Purple immunity, which in a sense makes them not flammable.
- However, it is a bit ironic, as in most realistic scenarios, Gwendolin should reach Level 16 long before the first BLONs arrive, so she should be able to set them on fire at all times anyways.