Ranger (2024)

Ranger

ARTICLE

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HISTORY

Description

The Ranger, formerly known as the Outlaw, is an advanced cliff tower with long range that can be purchased in the store for 12,000.

The Ranger deals high damage with very long range but has a slow firerate. As a cliff tower, it can detect flying enemies, but cannot detect hidden enemies at any level. The Ranger can also damage lead enemies at any level. Additionally, it is immune to all stuns by default. At Level 2, it gains the ability to give towers a range buff within its inner radius at the start of every wave for 20 seconds. At Level 4, it also deals splash damage.

The Ranger deals extremely high damage at higher levels, but is expensive to upgrade to these levels. Due to these reasons, it is considered a mid-to-late game tower and is most effective for harder gamemodes.

The Ranger has a placement limit of seven per player.

Upgrades

Level 1 - Faster Reloading - $1,500
4.508 > 3.508 Firerate Sell Price changes to $2,000

Level 2 - Intelligence Radio - $4,500
+60 Damage +15% Range Buff •12 Buff Range •Lasts 20 seconds Sell Price changes to $3,500

Level 3 - Trained Outlaw - $13,500
3.508 > 3.258 Firerate +160 Damage Sell Price changes to $8,000

Level 4 - Experimental Weapon of Destruction - $27,500
+825 Damage 3.258 > 7.008 Firerate +Explosive Impact •200 Splash Damage •3 Explosion Range Sell Price changes to $17,166

Stats Table

To see all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page, while for the statistics without the Firerate Bug, visit the Firerate Bug page.

Level	Total Price	Damage	Splash Damage	Firerate	Range	Buff Range	Explosion Range	Range Buff	DPS
0	$4,500	80	N/A	4.508	50	N/A	N/A	N/A	17.75
1	$6,000	80	N/A	3.508	50	N/A	N/A	N/A	22.81
2	$10,500	140	N/A	3.508	50	12	N/A	15%	39.91
3	$24,000	300	N/A	3.258	50	12	N/A	15%	92.08
4	$51,500	1,125	200	7.008	50	12	3	15%	189.07[2]

Skins

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

Skin	Railgunner	Wraith	Green	Blue
Rarity	Legendary	Rare	Common	Common
Cost	N/A	120	1,250	1,250
Obtained From	Mission Quests	Premium Skincrate	Basic Skincrate	Basic Skincrate
Skin	Black Ops	Partisan	Valentines	Bunny
Rarity	Common	Uncommon	Event	Event
Cost	85	105	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Premium Skincrate	Premium Skincrate	Valentine Skincrate	Bunny Skincrate
Skin	Gun Gale	Dark Matter	Frost	Eclipse
Rarity	Legendary	Rare	Event	Event
Cost	560	120	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Deluxe Skincrate	Premium Skincrate	Frost Skincrate	Solar Eclipse Season
Skin	Classic	Pumpkin	Phantom	Beast Slayer
Rarity	Rare	Exclusive	Rare	Event
Cost	120	5,000	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Premium Skincrate	Halloween Skincrate	Phantom Skincrate	Krampus' Revenge Season
Skin	Propellars	Badlands	Steampunk	5ouls
Rarity	Legendary	Rare	Uncommon	Rare
Daily Store Cost	4,500	N/A	105	3,000
Obtained From	Daily Skin Store	Mission Quests	Premium Skincrate	Daily Skin Store

Strategy

• The Ranger is a cliff tower. Its viability changes depending on the map's available cliffs and their locations.
  • It is important to know a map's layout before using the Ranger. Some maps, like Abandoned City, have many cliff spots in good locations, while others, like Dead Ahead have very few of them.
• Being a cliff tower, the Ranger is immune to almost all stuns. It is recommended to deal with enemies like the Vindicator.
  • The Ranger is only not immune to some stuns from event enemies, like the Jack-o-Bot.
  • However, it is not immune to debuffs.
• The Ranger is a very expensive tower to use. As such, the Ranger should not be used as an early game option, due to its high cost and weaknesses. It should be reserved for mid-to-late game.
  • Economy towers like the Farm or Golden Cowboy are highly recommended to utilize the Ranger's maximum potential.
  • The DJ Booth provides upgrade discounts, effectively making it cheaper to upgrade the Ranger.
• The Ranger grants a range boost to nearby towers at higher levels, so it is recommended to place towers near the Ranger.
  • The range buff stacks with the DJ Booth's.
  • Other expensive towers like the Turret may not be as viable as you may not have enough cash to use both towers in tandem, though this depends on the gamemode and how you use your Farms and/or Cowboys.
  • When a support tower, like the DJ Booth and Commander, is affected by this range buff, the towers in the buffed range will keep their buff even when the range buff ends, making it quite close to a permanent buff, which is especially useful for the DJ Booth.
    • If a support tower is upgraded after the range buff ends, towers in the buffed range will not receive the stronger buff until the range buff is applied to the support tower again.
    • Selling a support tower will remove the buffs from towers in the buffed range, even if the range buff is not active.
    • For the Commander, the Call to Arms ability only affects towers in the buffed range while the range buff is active. If it not active, the firerate buff will not be applied to them, only making the passive firerate buff active.
• The Ranger's slow firerate makes it struggle against some fast enemies.
  • Towers with a fast firerate or towers that can damage multiple enemies at once should be used. The Commander should also be used to help boost the Ranger's firerate.
• The Ranger has splash damage at Level 4, making it useful against hordes of enemies.
  • Additionally, it deals full damage to defense enemies, making the Ranger slightly more useful against them.
• When using the Ranger, it should be upgraded to Level 2 as soon as possible, as it is the most cost-efficient upgrade.
• The Ranger should be set to Strongest in most scenarios to ensure it does its maximum damage.
  • Other towers should be used to kill lower health enemies in case they leak.
• The Ranger has flying detection and lead detection, making it useful against enemies such as the Lead Balloon.
• The Ranger does not have hidden detection, meaning it is ineffective against enemies like the Shadow Boss and Soul Boss. While the splash damage from Level 4 can indirectly damage them, it is usually too weak to have a major effect on them, requiring multiple Rangers.
  • A Level 4+ Ace Pilot can grant it permanent hidden detection, but it must be close to do so.
  • The UAV can grant it hidden detection plus extra range, but only for 30 seconds and with a limit of 4 uses.

Trivia

• Prior to the MEGA Update, the Level 4+ Ranger (then called the Outlaw) used to deal splash damage, dealing splash damage to all enemies within the impact radius. This meant that the targeted enemy was dealt 150% of the quoted damage.
  • This was removed in the MEGA Update. It was later brought back in the Lunar Overture Update.
• The Outlaw's purple laser used to make a unique zapping sound when fired.
• The Ranger currently has the highest total damage per shot in the game.
• The Ranger currently has the longest range of any publicly available tower in the game.
  • If exclusive towers are included, the Mecha Base has larger range of 100 at Level 4 and 5.
• The Ranger currently has the highest firerate of any tower in the game.
• The Ranger is the second most expensive store item that can be purchased with Coins in the game, only being beaten by the Golden Skincrate.
  • During Hardcore Testing BETA, the Bloxy Cola emote was more expensive than the Ranger, but it was removed.
• When the Ranger was added, the game thumbnail called it the Space Outlaw even though it was only called Outlaw in the game.
• Originally, the Ranger was meant to give hidden detection at the beginning of the wave. However, this was changed to a range buff when the Lunar Overture Update rework released.
  • It is unknown if the hidden detection was only given to the Ranger itself or given to towers in its range like the Ace Pilot.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

Notes