Nuclear Guardian

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Nuclear Guardian
Mode Appearance	Nuclear Challenges Oops! All slimes!
Wave Debut	24 (Nuclear) 40 (Oops! All slimes! Challenge)
Statistics
Base Health	125,000 Challenges 14,000 (Oops! All slimes!)
Health Scaling	Trio - 143,800 Quad - 162,600
Defense	20%
Speed	Slightly Slow (2.4)
Cash Given	$125,000 every 50% health
Hidden?	No
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	Stun Immune Freeze Immune Bloated (Wave 24 only) Boss Immunities: Freeze Immunity Stun Immunity Toxic Gunner Slowdown Jester Confusion Thorns Slowdown Nuke Fallout Damage DJ Booth Slowdown Defense Dropping
Base Health	80,000 Challenges 14,000 (Oops! All slimes!)
Defense	50%
Speed	Slightly Slow (2)
Hidden?	No
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	Stun Immune Freeze Immune
Ability
Ability	Black Death - The Nuclear Guardian slashes the nearest tower with its scythe and stuns them for a few seconds.

Description

The Nuclear Guardian is a large guardian enemy that appears in Polluted Wasteland II. It has a very high amount of health but a slightly slow speed. It has one ability, where it slashes a nearby tower with its scythe, stunning them. The Nuclear Guardian replaces the Fallen Guardian in Oops! All slimes! Challenge Map.

Appearance

The Nuclear Guardian is a very large humanoid with a waist and lower arms in its rig. It has a desaturated dark green skin color and a black torso, waist and legs. It wears a black hood with grey feathers beside it, and has a grey metal bird beak along with two glowing green eyes. It wears grey shoulder-pads with glowing green insides, armbands with glowing green diamonds on the center of all of its sides and a chestplate with a green glowing diamond in the middle, with wiring connecting it to two cross shaped buttons. It wields a grey scythe that glows green which it uses to attack towers.

The Nuclear Guardian has a death animation, where it will convulse while emitting sparks and small explosions, before all of its green lights turn dark grey with it subsequently falling backwards. It also plays a bird cawing sound on death.

Mutation

Mutation
Percentage	Increase
5%	6,250
Wave	Health
25	131,250

Strategy

• High DPS towers, such as the Engineer, Ranger, Pursuit and Accelerator are needed to use against this, due to its high health.
  • You should also use the Commander to boost these towers' firerate, making them deal more damage to it.
• The Medic is highly recommended so that you can cleanse the stuns caused by the Nuclear Guardian from your towers, as it stuns quite frequently.
• You can use defense dropping towers, such as the Golden Pyromancer, Pyromancer, Electroshocker or Toxic Gunner to decrease the Nuclear Guardian's defense, allowing your towers to deal more damage to it.
  • As freezing towers drop defense when an enemy is frozen or slowed down, they cannot be used as the Nuclear Guardian has the Freeze Immunity.
• Freezing towers cannot freeze or slow down the Nuclear Guardian due to its Freeze Immunity.
  • The Warden and Electroshocker can also only slow it down instead of stunning it while knockback towers like the Brawler cannot knock it back, as it has the stun immunity.
    • Because of its size, the Warden will only slow it down for a shorter amount of time.

Gallery

Trailers

Tower Defense Simulator- ☢️ NUCLEAR Update!☢️

Nuclear Guardian in the game trailer.

Miscellaneous

Nuclear Guardian on its Index icon.

Trivia

• The Nuclear Guardian has the highest base health for a non-major boss.
• The scythe wielded by the Nuclear Guardian is a re-textured version of the Molten Boss' scythe.
• The Nuclear Guardian's design is based on the Nuclear Fallen King's design.
• The mask worn by the Nuclear Guardian may be a reference to a plague doctor.
  • However, unlike a plague doctor, the beak on the mask worn by the Nuclear Guardian can open and close.

Update History

• 29 July 2022 - v1.3.0
  • Nuclear Guardian added.
• 23 May 2023 - v1.7.3a
  • Energy immunity replaced with stun immunity.
• 19 July 2024 - v1.26.0
  • Health decreased from 80,000 to 14,000 in Oops! All slimes!.
• 19 February 2025 - v1.54.0
  • Modern version added.
    • None of the changes are applied to the legacy version.
  • Health increased from 80,000 to 125,000.
  • Speed increased from 2 to 2.4.
  • Defense decreased from 50% to 20%.
  • Now gives $125,000 every 50% health lost.
  • Bug: Appears twice in the Index, one of them not loading in any model for the preview.

Notes

Nuclear (Polluted Wasteland II)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Cursed Skeleton & Necromancer King Wave 23	Nuclear Guardian Wave 24	Nuclear Monster Wave 25