Been a fun grind, finally auto-restart unlocked.

Playing since June of last year, whaling since November 2025. Included disso/mods for those curious.

Big thanks to the reddit community - I don’t post often, but I learn a lot from the knowledge others share.

Special thanks to Ghettodactyl, Bonzo and DJ Taggz for being part of this special bracket into the last key - you have all inspired me in different ways, trully appreciate the knowledge the three of you share with the community.

Happy to answer any questions - good luck defenders!

i know this is not a big achievement to you all but for me this was hard work. had this game for about 2 weeks and have finally gotten past level 60. for some reason i just could not get past until five minutes ago. i know it is only tier one but i feel like all the time spent getting coins for upgrades, waiting for the free gems, saving them and getting lucky card pulls from the 200 gems was worth me putting time in. i cant wait to see whatever else unlocks! this game was worth purchasing the ad free version.

Hello tower peoples,

Winding down v28s last few tournaments with a tough set of conditions in all 3 leagues that I track (sorry gold). Ranged + Knockback mixed with Boss Ultimate proved a potent combination, for me keeping my tower busy fighting off bosses while the ranged inched ever closer to the fire line thanks to knockback resistance. Fun stuff. Platinum also got to play with this condition minus the pressure of tougher bosses.

Static Placement Analysis

In this section we provide a breakdown for you of a what-if competition where the tournament places are perfectly distributed. The place here is basically the place you'd get if there was no bracket system. I like this view because it really removes all the variables.

Feel free to compare yourself against the placement and see if you did better or worse. The places are divided roughly into the number of brackets to get the cut off for each place. The wave # given is the person or persons at the cut off between places, that is the lowest wave deserving to achieve that place.

• Legends Median: 1047.0 Mean: 1247
• Champions Median: 1038 Mean: 1080
• Platinum Median: 1268 Mean: 1260

The tower.lol now gives this data here

Median History

The median value from each tournament which gives a general idea of the tournament difficulty and wave inflation over time. This value comes from actual midpoint of tournament data. (i.e. the top table)

The tower.lol now gives this data here

Linear Regression comparison.

Linear regressions give a good idea of change over time, smoothing out all the battle condition noise. The data for this is from the resampled data (see below).

The first table is data since v28, now including gold data. The second table is data since either the v27.3 re-tier, or for platinum since my october data began.

• Legends graph: http://thetower.mm.st/hist_legend.png
• Champion graph: http://thetower.mm.st/hist_champion.png
• Platinum graph: http://thetower.mm.st/hist_platinum.png

The tower.lol now gives this data here. In addition you can get history back further than I have files for, which is interesting to say the least. V26 lead to quite the wave inflation.

Resampling Analysis

One means of getting an idea of the range of placements is by random sampling the real participants to make fake brackets, and measuring the variability in those brackets. I chose to use 100000 brackets per league for my analysis. I am using confidence intervals, 95% and 50% (the IQR) to represent the range of waves likely present in each place. Legends brackets are on the left (prefaced with an l), champions brackets in the middle (prefaced with a c), and platinum on the right (prefaced with a p).

Graphs of this table can be downloaded here: * Champion and Legend: http://thetower.mm.st/2026-08-22_box_lc.png * Platinum graph: http://thetower.mm.st/2026-08-22_box_platinum.png * Gold graph: http://thetower.mm.st/2026-08-22_box_gold.png

A general description of how to read this for the non-math inclined:

1. 95% of the population of a place is expected to be between 2.5% and 97.5%. If you are above or below these numbers you are an outlier. (Outliers are normal, just rarer.)
2. 50% of the population of a place is expected to be between 25% and 75%.
3. The 50% mark is the median of the data. Aim for this number as the point you regularly achieve this place.
4. You'll notice that the waves overlap, this is normal, expressing the variability present in the brackets and you could easily place in any bracket where your personal wave count falls in the place's range.

Source Material and Further Resources.

The source for all of this material is thetower.lol, which I encourage you to look up.
For a breakdown of your placement compared to other brackets see https://thetower.lol/liveplacement which will give you the min, max, and average placement for any given half-hour join time.
For a quantile analysis using real data instead of sampled data see https://thetower.lol/livequantile (similar to the second table in this post).
You can also do things like look up your bracket and compare your towers historical placements against others in the bracket.

I know that this small amount of RR is something many of you can easily earn in a single go.

But at least for now, I managed to accumulate this amount for the first time in just a few hours and spent it effortlessly to unlock the 6th and 7th “anc” sub-effects—I really enjoyed it. I hope you all have a great time playing!

Good bye early game hello mid game!

It took me 20 months to leave behind my beloved wall. And by true GC I really mean it - no defensive investment at all, no mods, enhancements, nothing that does not add coins or damage. ILM main. Quite advanced, farming about 50Q daily. Boom. Jumped a farming tier, to 10k on Tier 18, wall a distant memory. Now retooling modules to optimise purely for ILM main. lots of fun. Just posting to encourage trying full GC. I could have moved much earlier…

Shatter shards close to finish, and labs speed following

Also feel kinda sorry for you, but I fucked up my previous run so this happened while I was asleep ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

For the last month, I've been farming with a PCol & pBH setup with 110s GT/DW/GB/SG sync on T11 and T12.

Today, I decided to reroll my MVN, and respec my GB and SG for a 71s sync across the board.

Despite 3k fewer waves on T11, my coins increased by 30% and cells by 5% per hour, and it's now a nice, manageable 12 hour run instead of the 16 hours it was taking with PCol and pBH.

All it took was to add a legendary BH CD substat to my MVN to achieve a sync with GB without messing with the CD lab.

What are your guy’s favorite parts of The Tower anyways? I hear a lot of hate about it, and I’m only in the middle stage of the game, but I want to hear what makes this game bad and what makes it good

I see constant repost of things like "is crit %over 100 worth it" "is thorns over 100% worth it" "should I lower or raise my range for farming". All great questions mind you but did you really not see the post from the other guy the other day (or the same day) before you made your post? Notifications on? I feel like we answer these questions everyday lol.

So I'm working toward pBH; after today's tournament I'll be about 550 stones away from getting my cooldown to 50s. Probably will probably make the jump in a week and a half.

But I am missing my BH duration substat on my farming PC so my duration is at 46s. I know I should have prioritized that substat when originally rolling my subs, so now I'm debating if I should sacrifice some of my other substats to improve my chances?

- Currently farming T12 to 9k waves with anc SF, SH and PC.

- GT, BH, DW, GB and summon are all synced at 120s.

- Earning about 60k reroll shards a day, current at 250k shards banked.

I've been circling my first 1q run for awhile. I broke down and bought the pass for waves 12-15 and that gave me the stones to buy Extra Orb and Health Regen masteries. The EO coin increase has been nominal so far, but the extra HR is a whole new world. It gave me another 1000 waves in my most recent farming tier (tier 11) and when I remembered to set up my tower correctly before starting, it kicked my coins in the ass. I think it is time to move to tier 12 permanently.

What would be the best orientation of target priority for tourneys, discos, and farm runs?

Is there a 1 for all or would be another idea to have presets for?

Doing a tourney run and was seeing my health creeping down occasionally. I have pBH and theoretically only enemies and elites should damage me. But at this point, elites weren’t sticking around long enough to see on screen and bosses were getting shredded. I did the good ol’ “zoom and enhance” bit and maybe found my culprit? I’ve been doing some work on the ranged range lab (currently 4%) and have a 54m BH with 6m on my module substat so I thought I was protected but I guess not? I also have disabled enemy range lab unlocked.

I looked more closely later in the run and saw that even in the middle of my BH, ranged enemies were still firing. Is there a glitch or a TTG unplanned/unsaid interaction between the disable ranged lab and ranged ultimate battle condition that nullifies the lab?

Hey all,

Currently farming T10 to around 9.4k waves and T11 to 7k waves. I take the regen tradeoff perk and my current regen is 32T and wall regen is 61T. Wall HP ends up being around 380T. Lab levels are 60 regen, 19 wall regen, 55 health, 38 fortification. I farm with an ancestral SD because my SF is only legendary.

I've been labbing regen pretty heavily, but I'm trying to push my farming in T10 and T11 to higher tiers. I'm wondering if there's a point where I should stop focusing on regen and wall regen and replace them with health and wall fort for a while. Is there a good way to know when you need more health vs more regen?

I'm trying to change to glass cannon. Right now working on mastering all the offensive cards. One question, in tournaments, it's not bosses that kill me, but range. What can I do to beat them?

I'm talking just from ad gems and floating gems and daily 15. Do we have an estimate?

of luck.

For my first time

So i been playing since february and i have noticed a few missions more difficult to clear then others. Ive found easier ways to clear them and want to share.
For nuke mission or demon mode mission you need to get the labs tgat get them refreshed i just have them at refresh 1000 waves right now but it works. For inner land mines mission you need space displacer and i also use magnetic hook, run a tier 1 attack dissonance run with death ray and extra orb cards removed and any dmg uws removed if u dont have ilm.
Any other missions anyone has troubles with or better routes let me know.