Archer Tower

The Archer Tower is a Level 1 Ranged Tower. It shoots arrows into enemies, dealing physical damage. The tower is the same in both Kingdom Rush and Kingdom Rush: Frontiers, with only a change in appearance.

Description

Archers ready to strike at your enemies from a distance.

These trainee archers fire a slow but constant stream of arrows into enemy forces. They deal low damage, but their fire rate is still relatively high, and they can attack both air and ground units.

Archers can be upgraded to Marksmen Tower at Level 2.

Range

(KR) Standard range without Upgrades

(KRF) Standard range without Upgrades

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Strategy

Strengths

• Due to their low damage, non-upgraded archers are only effective against unarmored foes with low health, like Goblins, Shamans or Giant Spiders.

Weaknesses

• Level 1 archers are ineffective against pretty much everything else. In later stages, you should upgrade them as soon as you build them, usually to at least level 2 or 3. As you can gain a great amount of gold in harder stages, it is possible and recommended to upgrade one Archer Tower straight to level 4, where they play a significantly more effective supporting role.

Additional Stats

• Damage Per Second - 4.4 to 8.6 (average 6.5)
• Cost Efficiency - 10.7 gold per point of damage

• The Precision Upgrade increases the DPS by 10%

Related Upgrades

Kingdom Rush

• Salvage (1 Star)
  • Marksmen Towers return 90% of value when sold. (Normally a rate of return is 60%.)
• Eagle Eye (1 Star)
  • Increases Marksmen attack range (by 10%).
• Piercing Shots (2 Stars)
  • Piercing shots ignore a portion of the enemy's physical armor. (1/4)
• Far Shots (2 Stars)
  • Increases marksmen attack range (by 10%).
• Precision (3 Stars)
  • Marksmen attacks have a chance of dealing double damage. (10%)

Frontiers

• Master Shooter (1 star)
  • Increases Archer attack damage.
• Treesinged Bow (1 star)
  • Increases Archer attack range (by 10%).
• Obsidian Heads (2 stars)
  • Archers deal maximum damage against unarmored targets.
• Elven Training (2 stars)
  • Improves all Archer special abilities.
• Bloodletting Shot (3 stars)
  • Archer attacks have a 15% chance of causing heavy bleeding and dealing extra 10% of the damage made by the arrow.

Tower	Maximum Bloodletting Damage
Hunter Arbor	23 (22 iOS)
Watcher Arbor	23 (22 iOS)
Sentinel Arbor	46 (44 iOS)
Arcane Archers	46 (44 iOS)
Golden Longbows	Long-range shot: 161 (154 iOS) Long-range shot combined with a "crit": 299 (286 iOS) Short-range shot: 69 (66 iOS) Short-range shot combined with a "crit": 115 (110 iOS)

Related Achievements

None.

Quotes

• "Archers ready!"
• "Bulls-eye!"
• "Dodge this!"

Trivia

• "Dodge this!"
  • A line spoken by the character Trinity in the 2000 film The Matrix .