Backyard Monsters

D.A.V.E.

Locker level	4
Favorite target	Anything
Attacks ground	yes
Attacks air	yes
Special ability	Rockets

General information

D.A.V.E. is the strongest non-champion monster in the game, excluding the inferno's King Wormzer. Using Zafreetis can be useful for maximum protection. Unfortunately it is also the second-most expensive monster and the slowest hatching monster in the game. One of its strengths is that it is normally in spread out groups so cannon/laser towers are practically useless against it. It and a level 3+ crabatron are the only monsters (excluding champions) that can survive an Eye-ra attack (provided that the Eye-ra is not maxed out, since a lvl 6 Eye-Ra does 24k damage, so it can easily kill even a lvl 6 D.A.V.E. It is also one of the monsters that can set off a heavy trap. It is the final monster in the Monster Locker, and costs the most putty to unlock.
D.A.V.E. has some disadvantages, like low attack to housing and health to housing, plus is very slow. But that could also be an advantage, since being slow is a plus as Zafreeti can catch up with him.
If D.A.V.E. is used while high health "tank" monsters such as Crabatron and Ichi distract towers, it can easily take down a base, especially if used with Zafreeti.
D.A.V.E. can also be used to kill Champion Monsters in their early stages if there are 2 or more Zafreetis healing it. However, a D.A.V.E. will need to have its rocket ability unlocked in order to kill a Fomor of level 3 and above.
Fomor is useless against a D.A.V.E. with rockets and a Zafreeti because the Zafreeti would heal every time Formor attacks however even with no Zafreetis a D.A.V.E. can kill a lvl 6 Fomor with the 3rd bonus but only if the D.A.V.E. has rockets. Gorgo also stands no chance against D.A.V.E. with Zafreeti healing it, because it deals too low damage. *Note: Drull might defeat D.A.V.E., if there are no more than one or two Zafreeti healing that D.A.V.E.

Ability

D.A.V.E. can get the ability to shoot rockets and so it becomes a ranged monster (attacks from distance). He shoots 2 rockets and each of them does half of the damage (for example, a level 2 D.A.V.E. deals 1500 damage so each rocket he shoots deals 750). He can attack both ground and flying enemies once he has this ability. His level 2 Rockets can take out any Laser Tower without being damaged (excluding outpost tower range bonuses), and level 3 Rockets can even destroy a Cannon Tower level 1-6 without being damaged. D.A.V.E can also kill air units like Teratorn when he has Rockets. He could easily take down a Fomor with this ability.

Tips

Its whopping health means it can spend time chewing on distracting buildings while withstanding the damage. When D.A.V.E. unlocks his ability, Rockets, it becomes a range monster that can shoot flying monsters and buildings up to 220 spaces away from him (Rocket technology is gained from training it in the Monster Lab). Its rockets are effective against short ranged defensive towers such as the Laser Tower. In the early days of BYM, it was possible to destroy nearly any yard with 5 daves and 20 ichi's.

First effective way of using rocket D.A.V.E. is to make 3 Zafreeti, 40 Ichis, 6 D.A.V.E's and about 5-10 Octo Oozes. Attack the yard. Put the Octo Ooze near the monster bunker to see which monster is in the monster bunker. (If they don't have monster bunkers the octo-ooze is not necessary.) If they are Eye-ra, send in octo-ooze one at a time till all of the Eye-ras are gone. Send one D.A.V.E and Zafreeti to distract the victim's champion (multiple Zafreeti's if the champion is Drull, also depends what level your Zafreeti's are). Send in all your DAVES near the DAVE which you had used to distract the victim's champion. Send the Ichis and one Zafreeti in the other end of the yard.( Zafreeti has more chances of flocking together and forget to protect all monsters hence it is better to put Zafreeti's in different areas.) Go back to your DAVES and check if the Zafreeti is still alive. Send in one more Zafreeti when you find that the first one is going to die. You should be able to destroy the whole yard by this kind of attack. Tip: Enrage only the Zafreeti near the Ichi with 100,000 putty and not the one near the D.A.V.E. Never enrage your Ichi's intentionally

Another very effective method is to send a few D.A.V.E.s in with a Fomor and two Zafreeti. The buff from the champion will lessen any damage done to the D.A.V.E.s and the Zafreeti will easily heal it. This will let the D.A.V.E.s survive even a level 6 Drull or a bunker full of Banditos. D.A.V.E.s are good to do this with 3 or more Zafreetis with a champion monster (Formor will help the most with putty rage) and 7 or more D.A.V.Es, and there you go, a completly destroyed yard (best used with rocket D.A.V.Es mostly level 2 - 3 and when they're at level 5 - 6 )

Good Advice: When pairing D.A.V.E with flying monsters, it is recommended to destroy the Aerial Defense Towers (if they have any) using 100,000 twigs and 100,000 pebbles so that your Zafreeti's and/or Fomor wont die.

D.A.V.E. isn't only good for attacking, but is also very useful in Monster Bunkers. If you have Rocket D.A.V.Es, put some in Monster Bunkers since they can attack flying monsters like Teratorn, Zafreeti and Fomor, too. However, D.A.V.E. is not of much use in bunkers without rockets.

Training

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6
Movement speed	0.80 kph	0.85 kph	0.90 kph	1.00 kph	1.10 kph	1.20 kph
Health	8,000	9,100	10,000	12,000	16,500	21,000
Damage	1,500	1,500	1,600	1,700	1,800	1,900
Goo cost	150,000	225,000	337,500	440,000	600,000	800,000
Housing space	160 spaces	160 spaces	160 spaces	160 spaces	160 spaces	160 spaces
Production time	1h	1h	1h	1h	1h	1h
Upgrade cost (putty)	8,192,000	8,192,000	10,000,000	12,200,000	19,200,000	33,750,000
Upgrade time	1d	2d	3d	4d	6d	8d
Attack to housing ratio	9.375	9.375	10	10.625	11.25	11.875
Health to housing ratio	50	56.875	62.5	75	103.125	131.25

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