Updated: August 17, 2026

Tower Heroes Tier List (2026) — All 34 Towers Ranked

By Money Lord — Founder & Editor | Updated: August 17, 2026 · 9 min read

Spectre is the best tower in Tower Heroes. Its Level 5 aura gives every tower in radius a flat +100% damage buff, multiplying your whole board instead of adding one damage source. For raw damage, Chef has the highest base DPS in the game at 153.33 — and is one of only two free starter towers. This list ranks all 34 towers, accurate as of the Balloon Defense Weekly patch, checked August 17, 2026.

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S Tier — the best towers in Tower Heroes

Six towers that either multiply your entire board or post a max-level DPS number nothing below them matches for the mana.

1. Spectre — Support

The buff ladder runs +10% / +25% / +40% / +70% / +100% damage, with support range growing 5 → 12 studs, for 17,400 mana (500 / 1,700 / 3,300 / 4,000 / 7,900). Its ability adds 25% attack rate for a flat 10,000 mana that never inflates on reuse. Two real costs: from Level 3 it raises the upgrade price of towers in range (+10% at Level 5), and it does not buff summoner minions.

2. Chef — Melee

Free. Chef and Wizard are the only towers you own on joining. Level 5 hits for 230 on a 1.5-second swing — 153.33 DPS, the highest base DPS in the game — for 13,010 mana (110 / 1,000 / 2,200 / 3,700 / 6,000). One enemy per swing, no burst: Chefs shred bosses and thin waves but need help against crowds.

3. Buzzer — Summoner

Level 5 keeps 8 bees alive for 221.52–352 DPS depending on the Fighter/Elite mix — the highest ceiling in the game, for 100 coins. The admission price is brutal: 20,930 mana to Level 5, the most expensive path of any tower, plus 40,000 for her explode-on-death ability. Open with cheap mana-efficient towers or she never gets there.

4. Yasuke — Melee

Level 5 is 58 damage in bursts of 5 for 126.09 DPS, plus an unstackable Dragon Flame tick worth about 32.5 DPS, for 13,360 mana. His ability lifts him to roughly 202 DPS with stun immunity while active. He also has the smallest range in the game at 4.7 studs, so a tight corner is mandatory.

5. Branch — Ranged

131.25 DPS at Level 5 with splash — the highest single-tower figure here behind Buzzer's bees. The wiki calls it "a go-to option in most situations, whether it's DPS, crowd control, or early game." Its one weak map is its own unlock map, where raw range beats damage.

6. Discount Dog — Support

Level 5 cuts upgrade costs in a 9-stud radius by 40% (-3 / -5 / -15 / -25 / -40%), and its ability raises the total placement cap and per-tower limits, for 13,100 mana. Two catches: from Level 3 it applies a damage debuff (-1% / -1.5% / -2%), and the discount misses most summoners.

A Tier — excellent, with one condition each

Beebo has the highest ranged DPS in the game at 97.78, but orbits his placement point with below-average effective range, so he wants Balloon Pal beside him. He is free to unlock, not to place — 120 mana at Level 1. Balloon Pal buffs range and attack rate, not damage; its ability spawns a 5,000 HP Bomb Float dealing 2,500 splash on death, which also hits your own summons.

Stella paints Wuffle, Jem, Snow Minion, Doug and Crab Bot by Level 5 (17,000 mana), and drawings sell back at 25:1. She only paints when an enemy is in range, so she is dead weight early and a map-carry after that. Hotdog Frank reads as only 42.11 DPS, but gains area damage from Level 2 with a splash radius wider than his own range for just 11,035 mana. Scientist bursts to 135 DPS, though its limit of 5 means it only pays off where you can finish it, and Nuki Launcher's 130.43 DPS leans entirely on its summons.

B Tier — good, situational, or slow to come online

Volt's 64.71 DPS excludes chain damage — his chain limit climbs from 3 to 15 targets by Level 5, so real output tracks how tightly enemies bunch. Fracture has hidden detection at every level, making Level 1 Fractures a cheap answer to Ghosts. Quinn is a slow long-range sniper with a 15,000-mana ability that slows everything in range to 0.6x.

Slime King is the best-value unlock in the game — 100 coins after Castle Town on Easy — and its 75.71 DPS includes Incinerate. Byte deals zero damage; it exists to stop things, ending at a 5-second full paralyze with a 25-second immunity per enemy. Lemonade Cat is pure economy at 1,400 mana per wave for 9,800 invested. Keith hits twice per throw with infinite pierce and is the cheapest tower to max at 9,880 mana.

C Tier — niche picks

Mako charges up to 250–500 damage, but is an anti-leak tower — if your defence holds, he has no job. Wizard is only 25.45 DPS, but four ability boosts push him to 61.82 at 16 studs for just 8,930 mana, and he has the highest placement limit in the game at 13. Dumpster Child's Level 3/4/5 burn effects do not overwrite each other, so mixed levels stack. El Goblino's crucifix stuns 10 seconds while dealing 5% of max health, Hayes sends crows with infinite range, and Kart Kid gets 7 seconds of cart invincibility. Jester sits here provisionally — its damage table is not publicly documented and we will not invent one.

D Tier — skip unless you are collecting

Sparks Kilowatt is Scientist's burst archetype at under half the output. Maitake manages only 45 DPS from poison but adds healing and an un-stun effect at every level, genuinely useful on stun-heavy maps. Oddport's student squad counts as one summon. Wafer charges 6,000 mana for its final upgrade alone.

All 34 Tower Heroes towers ranked

Shop price is in coins; "Max DPS" is Level 5 damage per second per the Tower Heroes Wiki, read August 17, 2026. Support towers list their buff instead.

* Free after you complete the listed map requirement — no coins needed, but the tower still costs mana to place in a match.

Event-locked towers you cannot earn right now

Four towers are tied to seasonal events, and as of August 17, 2026 no event is running, so their map unlocks are closed. All four remain buyable as game passes, confirmed against the live Roblox listing:

Each drops to about 300 Robux during its own event. El Goblino is often mislabelled event-locked but is not — it stays free from the DOORS crossover maps. Short on Robux? See our guide to legitimate ways to get free Robux.

How we ranked these towers

Max-level DPS (50%) — every damage figure is the Level 5 number on the Tower Heroes Wiki, cross-checked against that page's upgrade table on August 17, 2026. Where output is a range (Buzzer, Fracture, Wafer, Oddport) we quote the range, not the flattering end.

Mana to get there (30%) — a tower peaking at 352 DPS after 20,930 mana is not automatically better than one peaking at 153 after 13,010, so we summed every upgrade step.

Limit and role coverage (20%) — a limit of 12 multiplies a tower's contribution, a limit of 1 caps it. Obtainability sits in its own column, so event towers are ranked on performance.

What we corrected on August 17, 2026

This page previously blamed the meta on a "Targeting Update". No such patch exists in the game's change log, and searching for it returns nothing but copies of our own article, so every reference is gone. Also fixed: the tower count (35 → 34) and free starters ("18" → 2); Yasuke's DPS ("~222" → 126.09) and unlock map ("Holy Sanctuary" → Sacred Shrine); six other wrong map names; three misspelled towers (Voce → Voca, Specter → Spectre, Hot Dog Frank → Hotdog Frank); and unsourced stats such as "Beebo costs zero mana" (it is 120) and "Volt up to 1,000 DPS". Nine missing towers — Wizard, Bunny, Branch, Soda Pop, Jester, Hayes, Oddport, El Goblino and Nuki Launcher — are now included. Older patch history is in our April 2026 crossover write-up.

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