Blender refers to the default game strategy of just maxing your workshop and where you usually rely on orbs killing most enemies and thorns handling elites and bosses. This is opposed to a “Devo” where you do not max everything for various purposes such as hoarding enemies for more coin gain (e.g., Orb Devo Guide for Increased Coin Gain & Progression).

Detailed Strategy Information - Work-in-progress

Blender is usually considered the second beginner build for new players - after the Turtle Strategy (early game) build. For many, it will be the go-to build for the next couple of months in the game, while you are working on improving your Workshop and Lab upgrades, farm coins and climb the Tournament ranks.

Blender Build Overview

The Blender Build prioritizes survivability through high Health and Effective HP (eHP) (eHP) rather than Defense Absolute. While initially weaker, it scales significantly with upgrades.

Overall, the broad core summary of the build and strategy is as follows:

• Damage relies on Orbs for normal enmies,
• Knockback for crowd control (juggling the enemies away from your tower and instead near your orbs)
• Thorns for Boss and close-range threats (including Elites at higher wave counts).

Essential Cash In-Run Upgrades

A blender build is largely just a “just max everything” approach to the game and its workshops and labs. However, starting out, there are some things that are fairly more important.

Depending on the stage of the game you are in and how many workshop upgrades are purchased, this order might vary a lot, but it's important to balance out several main things:

• Coins & Cash: Try maxing cash as early as possible as well as coin, for overall increased gains.
• Free Upgrades (Utility > Defense > Attack):
  • To help gain free upgrade levels in-run. Roughly prioritised in this order: Utility -> Defense -> Attack.
    • That’s because Free Utility Upgrades will give you more free levels in the various Free Upgrades, and also will help with survivability once you unlock Recovery Packages and Enemy Level Skips. And the Free Defense Upgrades will help with increasing your survivability. Whereas the Free Attack Upgrades matters less for your initial Blender build because it is orbs and thorns that does the main damage/killing.
  • Overall the Free Upgrades might not feel like much at first, but eventually will be maxed in the Workshop and will provide a lot of free upgrades, saving loads of Cash that you can spend elsewhere.
• Health: Maintain a high health pool to survive enemy attacks.
• Defense %: Reduce enemy damage.
• Knockback Chance and Knockback Force: Maximize to juggle as many enemies as far away from your Tower as possible.
• Orbs and Orbs Speed: Maximize for efficient enemy elimination.
• Thorns Damage: High levels are crucial for boss encounters.
• Attack Speed: Increases trigger rates for effects and knockback.