Boomer

Boomer

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Boomer

Legacy • Modern

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This article is about Boomer. You may be looking for the Elite Boomer, Boomer 1 or Boomer 2.

Boomer
Mode Appearance	Molten Challenges Juggernaut Jailed Towers Back to Basics Legion Oops! All slimes! Vanguard
Wave Debut	26
Statistics
Base Health	1,500 (Molten) 3,000 (Sandbox) Challenges 2,000 (Back to Basics)
Health Scaling	Duo - 1,700 Trio - 1,900
Speed	Slightly Fast (4.5)
Cash Given	$2,500 on death
Spawned By	Mystery Boss (Fallen, wave 35 onwards, formerly) Summoner Boss (Formerly)
Hidden?	No
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	Bloated (Variable) Corpse (Variable)
Ability
Ability	Weakening Bile - Upon its death, the Boomer explodes into a bile bubble that applies a 50% firerate debuff and 15% range debuff for 10 seconds and deals 400 damage to units in a radius of 9.

"Brace yourselves! Boomers are on their way!
They’re adjusting their strategies, but nothing can break through us!"

―Commander dialogue on Wave 26 (Molten)

Description

The Boomer is an enemy that explodes upon its death, which debuffs towers caught in the bile bubble. It has average health but slightly fast speed. The Boomer appears in Molten mode.

When the original Polluted Wasteland was in the game, the Boomer did not spawn in Golden and Fallen modes and was instead replaced by the Splitter.

Appearance

The current version of the Boomer is a large humanoid with a waist in its rig. It has a green skin color and a crimson-brown torso, waist and legs. It has a bloated chest and stomach with tumors, which has a dark green explosive device strapped on it. The explosive has an orange caution symbol, red and blue wires and an antenna with a flashing red light on it.

Strategy

• The Boomer is quite fast, allowing it to quickly get to your towers and debuff them.
  • Additionally, it often times spawns alongside other, at times faster or aggro enemies, which distract the towers from the Boomer and allowing it to get closer to your towers.
• Killing the Boomer before it gets within range of your towers is the most ideal way to deal with Boomers. Keep in mind that it has quite a long debuff time.
  • Placing your towers away from the path is a good way to avoid the Boomer's debuff.
  • Long-range towers, such as the Turret are the best at keeping a distance away from the Boomer.
  • The Engineer's sentries can also be useful, as the sentries cannot be debuffed.
• The DJ Booth allows towers to shoot the Boomer from further away, potentially defeating it before it blows up near your towers.
  • It and the Commander can also partially negate the Boomer's debuffs.
• You cannot use the Medic's ability to cleanse towers of the Boomer's debuff.
  • Additionally, it is not possible to use any stun immune towers to stop the Boomer from debuffing.

Gallery

Animations

Current stun animation (2 August 2024 – Present)

Corpse Variants

Second Corpse variant, current version, original animation variant (12 March 2025 – Present)

Second Corpse variant, current version, no animation variant (12 March 2025 – Present)

Miscellaneous

Boomer on its Index icon.

Trivia

• The Boomer is based on the Left 4 Dead zombie, the Boomer.

Update History

• 2 August 2024 - v1.27.0
  • Boomer added, replacing its Legacy version.
• 11 December 2024 - v1.45.0
  • No longer appears in Fallen mode, as it has been replaced by the Elite Boomer there.
  • Now appears in Molten mode.
    • Has 1,500 health in Molten mode.
    • Gives $2,500 on death in Molten mode.
  • Updated firerate debuff to now use the one visible on the tower with the chain icon. Because of this, effectiveness of the firerate debuff has been reduced.
• 20 December 2024 - v1.47.0
  • Range debuff decreased from 50% to 15%.
• 5 Febuary 2025 - v1.52.0
  • No longer appears in Badlands II.

Molten
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Molten Mech, Elite Molten & Elite Hazmat Wave 24	Breaker4 & Boomer Wave 26	Bulwark Wave 28