Fallen Guardian

Fallen Guardian

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This article is about Fallen Guardian (Legacy). You may be looking for other uses of Fallen, Gold Guard or Nuclear Guardian.

Fallen Guardian
Mode Appearance	Legacy Fallen Hardcore
Wave Debut	40 (Legacy Fallen) 48 (Hardcore)
Statistics
Base Health	14,000 Challenges 6,000 (Back to Basics)
Defense	80%
Speed	Below Average (2.5)
Cash Given	$5 on death
Spawned By	Fallen King Nuclear Fallen King (Formerly)
Hidden?	No
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	Stun Immune
Ability
Ability	Spear Thrust - The Fallen Guardian thrusts its spear at a tower which may stun multiple towers, if they are close to the target. The stun lasts for 3-4 seconds.

Description

The Fallen Guardian is a large guardian enemy that appears in Hardcore mode and in the Sandbox exclusive Legacy Fallen mode. Although it could not spawn naturally in The Classic Event, the Fallen King could summon the Fallen Guardian during Rage Mode. The Fallen Guardian always spawns just before the Fallen King and Void Reaver (it also used to appear before the Nuclear Fallen King spawns). It also appears when the Fallen King (and formerly the Nuclear Fallen King) summons them during Rage Mode. It also appeared in the legacy Hidden Wave before its removal.

The Fallen Guardian is an extremely difficult enemy to defeat due to its high health (far higher than the Summoner Boss and Slow King) and below average walkspeed. Additionally, it has a defense of 80%, meaning that the damage capabilities of most towers are reduced drastically. On top of that, the Fallen Guardian has the ability to thrust its spear at towers, stunning them for a period of time.

The Fallen Guardian is replaced by the Nuclear Guardian in Polluted Wasteland II, the Cavalry in Badlands II and the Minigunner in Pizza Party.

Appearance

• Current
• Original

The current Fallen Guardian is similar to its original version, except it dominus is now dark turquoise. It is now also right-handed and has a twisted left leg. Its neon parts are now light purple.

The original Fallen Guardian had black reflective skin. It wore dark turquoise granite armor, which comprised of armbands, knee-pads, sleeves and chestplate. It had black granite gloves, its torso was dark turquoise granite, and it wielded a spear with purple halos near the head. It also wore a black marble dominus. On its dominus, there were parts which were neon purple. Purple smoke was emitted from their torso.

Strategy

• Deal with the Fallen Guardian before moving on to the major boss that it spawns in front of. With high health, faster speed, the ability to stun towers and extremely high defense, the Fallen Guardian protects the major boss and can overwhelm poorly prepared defenses.
• As the Fallen Guardian has quite high defense, defense dropping towers like the Freezer, Pyromancer or Jester can be quite useful at dropping it. Some towers, like the Freezer, Frost Blaster or Toxic Gunner can also be useful at slowing it down.
  • However, freezing towers and Warden can only freeze or stun the Fallen Guardian for a shorter period of time due to its size.
    • Because of its stun immunity, stunning towers like the Electroshocker can only slow it down instead of stopping it completely while knockback towers cannot knock it back.
    • Having a concentrated group of Sledgers may be able to impede Fallen Guardians.
• The Accelerator, Ranger, Engineer, Golden Minigunner and Pursuit are excellent towers against the Fallen Guardian due to their high DPS.
  • The Commander can decrease the firerate of these towers, especially with its Call to Arms ability.
  • The Ranger and Pursuit can be very useful, as they cannot be stunned.
  • Be aware that if the Accelerator is stunned by the Fallen Guardian, it will have to charge up again.
  • While the Engineer can be stunned, its sentries cannot be damaged by the Fallen Guardian, making it great against this enemy.
• If you can, try not to clump towers close together, as they will all be stunned by the Fallen Guardian with one thrust of its spear.
  • It is best to place towers a distance away from the path so that they cannot get stunned.
• Splash damage towers, like the Mortar and Rocketeer, can be useful against the Fallen Guardian, as they spawn in groups and splash damage ignores defense, dealing full damage to the Fallen Guardian.
  • You should not rely on these towers to kill Fallen Guardians, as they do not have enough DPS to deal with Fallen Guardians alone.
• You can use the Medic's ability to cleanse towers from the Fallen Guardian's stun.

Gallery

Previous Variants

First version (13 October 2019 – 29 October 2020)

Corpse Variants

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

Thumbnails

Fallen Guardian on the game thumbnail.

Promotional Videos

April Fools 2022 - Tower Defense Simulator

Fallen Guardian on a promotional video.

Trailers

Tower Defense Simulator Trailer

Fallen Guardian in the game trailer.

Miscellaneous

Fallen Guardian on the Accelerator's first Level 5 upgrade icon.

Fallen Guardian on its Index icon.

Trivia

• Prior to the Overhaul Update, the Fallen Guardian did not have partial electric immunity, unlike the Gold Guard.
  • While the Gold Guard was immune to the effects of the Freezer and Frost Blaster, the Fallen Guardian is not.
• The Fallen Guardian has the second highest defense of an enemy in the game, alongside the Slow King (with Shield) and the Eggroll, only being beaten by the Vindicator, the Packed Ice and the Reaver.
• The Fallen Guardian's appearance is similar to the Guardian from Tower Battles.
  • The Fallen Guardian was the only enemy in the legacy Hidden Wave that was not an enemy exclusive to the Hidden Wave or an event enemy.

Update History

• 13 October 2019 - Release v1.0.0
  • Fallen Guardian added.
• 27 November 2019 - Release v1.3.0a
  • Health increased from 12,000 to 20,000.
  • Speed increased from Slow to Above Average.
• 29 November 2019 - Release v1.4.0
  • Speed decreased from Above Average to Average.
  • Health increased from 20,000 to 22,000.
  • Burn and freeze immunity removed.
• 11 February 2020 - Release v1.7.0
  • Death animation added.
• 18 March 2020 - Release v1.8.1
  • Health decreased from 22,000 to 18,000.
• 29 October 2020 - Overhaul v1.0.0
  • Health decreased from 18,000 to 14,000.
  • Speed decreased from Average to Below Average (2.5).
  • Defense of 80 added.
  • Appearance changed.
  • Energy immunity added.
  • Bug: Selling a tower while a Fallen Guardian is attacking it will cause its animations to break, it will be unable to move and will not be able to use its Spear Thrust ability.
• 8 May 2021 - Overhaul v1.3.0
  • Defense changed from 80 to 80%
• 4 December 2021 - v1.0.0
  • No longer appears in the Hidden Wave as it has been removed.
• 12 March 2022 - v1.1.0
  • Bugfix: Selling a tower while a Fallen Guardian is attacking it will no longer cause its animations to break.
• 23 May 2023 - v1.7.3a
  • Energy immunity replaced with stun immunity.
• 23 May 2024 - v1.23.0
  • Now appears in the Classic Castle.
    • Has 2,000 health in Classic Castle.
• 28 May 2024 - v1.23.3
  • No longer appears in Classic Castle, as it has been removed.
• 2 August 2024 - v1.27.0
  • No longer appears in Fallen Mode as it has been replaced by its modern variant.
• 16 December 2024 - v1.46.0
  • Bug: Has broken animations in Sandbox mode.
• 17 December 2024 - v1.46.4
  • Fallen Guardian now appears in Legacy Fallen mode, if activated through Sandbox mode.
• 17 December 2024 - v1.46.5
  • Fallen Guardian no longer appears in Legacy Fallen mode, as it has been removed.
• 12 February 2025 - v1.53.0
  • No longer copies the statistics of the modern version in Sandbox mode.
  • Bugfix: Animations now work again in Sandbox mode.
• 12 February 2025 - v1.53.3a
  • Fallen Guardian now appears in Legacy Fallen mode and the legacy Hidden Wave, which are exclusive to Sandbox mode.
• 12 February 2025 - v1.53.3b
  • Fallen Guardian no longer appears in the legacy Hidden Wave, as it has been removed.

Legacy Fallen
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Fallen Hero Wave 39	Fallen Guardian & Fallen King Wave 40	End N/A

Hardcore
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Fallen Swordmaster Wave 47	Fallen Guardian & Fallen King Wave 48	Unknown & Vindicator Wave 49

Fallen (Polluted Wasteland)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Fallen Hero Wave 39	Fallen Guardian & Nuclear Fallen King Wave 40	Glitched Giant Hidden Wave

Hidden Wave (Legacy)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Mechanical Rot	Fallen Guardian	Creator