The Abyssal Kraken

The Abyssal Kraken: the briefing

What the game tells every player before this wave.

What it does

• Black Tide: every tower it has passed is drowned and stops firing for the rest of the wave.
• Grab: every 10 s it grabs the most valuable tower ahead of it and stuns it for 5 s.
• If it reaches the goal: 10 lives lost and no lives restored for Act II.

How to beat it

• Sell behind, build ahead: while it walks, every sale refunds 100 %.
• Best spot for your carries: 3 to 6 tiles from its path. Out of the tide and the grab, still at full damage.
• Towers more than 6 tiles away deal it less damage.

Giant rules

• Black Tide: every tower within 2.5 tiles of its path stops firing for the rest of the wave once it has passed.
• Grab: every 10 s it seizes the most valuable tower ahead of it within 3.2 tiles and stuns it for 5 s.
• If it reaches the goal: 10 lives lost, and the act's lives are not restored.
• While it walks, every tower you sell refunds 100%: sell what it has passed and rebuild ahead of it.
• Towers more than 6 tiles from it deal ×0.6. Slows work on it at 65% strength, poison at ×0.5.
• Its body is huge: a splash hit lands on it 2 more times, and a chain with nothing else to jump to hits it again at ×0.35.
• Each race's towers deal giants their own share of damage: Fire ×1.35, Frost ×1.4, Water ×1.2, Light ×1.3, Gale ×1.45, Storm ×1.25 and Arcane ×0.72.

What works against it

• It regenerates, so damage has to come faster than it heals. Slowed creeps regenerate at 50% of their rate.