Maitake

== Description==
Maitake is a support tower who uses poisonous flasks to damage enemies. At level 2, she gains the ability to heal most types of Summons, such as Slime King's Slimes, Kart Kids, and Hayes's Crows.
	
*Immune to stuns.
*Can deal with most early-game threats if you spread out multiple along the path.
*Level 3 has splash damage while level 4 and 5 have area damage.
*Can heal summons up to 50 health with Spectre, most noticeable with Hayes & Beetrice's low health summons.
*Has hidden detection from Level 1, which helps with early wave Ghosts.
*Combos well with other effect towers such as Dumpster Child, since different effects can stack on enemies.
*Levels 4 & 5 can remove stuns from other Heroes in her range.
*She can be used for early waves.	
*First two levels can only hit one enemy, making Maitake struggle against crowds and fast enemies. Though, Level 3 is a single-target, but has splash damage.
*Poison-Type enemies are highly resistant to her Poison, causing her to deal very low damage to them.
*Unlike Dumpster Child, uses the same Effect on every level, and thus cannot stack.
*Later levels are incredibly expensive for their damage output, especially when compared to Dumpster Child.
== Upgrades ==
To see all the upgrades of a skin, see the Maitake/Gallery page.
Level	Appearance	Mana Cost	💀 Effect 	🏹 Range 	🌊 Splash area 	🌀 Area Damage 	Un-Stun	👁️ Detection	🕒 Cooldown 	
DPSThe DPS of Maitake is calculated with the formula Damage / Tick. Please note that the number assumes the tower is only attacking one enemy, it does not include the Splash Area or the Area Damage.
1 	 	350 	💀 Poison: 8s
💀 Damage: 2
💀 Tick: 0.2
💀 Total Damage: 80	3.5 	 	❌ 	❌ 	✔️ 	3s 	10
2 	 	1500 	💀 Poison: 11s
💀 Damage: 5
💀 Tick: 0.2
💀 Total Damage: 275
❤️ Heal: 8s
❤️ Health: +10	4.5 	 	❌ 	❌ 	✔️ 	2.8s 	25
3 	 	2200 	💀 Poison: 13s
💀 Damage: 6
💀 Tick: 0.2
💀 Total Damage: 390
❤️ Heal: 10s
❤️ Health: +15	5.5 	2 	✔️ 	❌ 	✔️ 	2.5s 	30
4 	 	5600 	💀 Poison: 15s
💀 Damage: 7
💀 Tick: 0.2
💀 Total Damage: 525
❤️ Heal: 13s
❤️ Health: +20	5.9 	 	✔️ 	✔️ 	✔️ 	2.9s 	35
5 	 	6800 	💀 Poison: 17s
💀 Damage: 9
💀 Tick: 0.2
💀 Total Damage: 765
❤️ Heal: 15s
❤️ Health: +25	5.9 	 	✔️ 	✔️ 	✔️ 	2.7s 	45
==Strategy==
*Maitake is a great early game tower due to the poison effect being able to deal with almost all early enemies.
*Level 3 Maitake has splash damage, allowing the poison to affect multiple enemies at once.
*Level 4 Maitake gains area damage, allowing the poison to affect every enemy in her range.
*Level 5 Maitake's attack now lingers for several seconds, affecting enemies that enter her range.
*If you plan on using Maitake to unstun towers, it is recommended to keep her at Level 4 due to the fact she attacks faster, and Level 5's lingering effect doesn't unstun.
==Trivia==
*She is named after the Hen-of-the-wood fungus, for short, Maitake.
*She was added along with the Grand Garage map.
*Her description in the TH Info Place is "Turn into mushrooms!".
*Maitake is one of the only towers designed by Smelly, the other being Slime King.
*Despite having her bangs covering her face, she actually has eyes behind them. If you position your spectator camera (Can be accessed by pressing Shift+P) correctly, or if your wifi is bad and her hair doesn't load, or you use the Ghostly skin, you can see her closed eyes behind her bangs.
*Maitake is the 1st tower to be immune to stuns, 2nd being Lure and 3rd being Nuki Launcher.
== Update Log ==
08/03/2020
*Maitake was added to the game
08/03/2020
*[Buff] Maitake now adds on to the Base Health of Summons
08/31/2020
*Shop Price Increased 180 -> 400
*[Nerf] Level 2 Cost increased 700 -> 800 
*[Nerf] Level 3 Cost increased 1,600 -> 1,800
*[Nerf] Level 4 Cost increased 3,000 -> 3,500
*[Nerf] Level 4 💀 Poison Damage decreased 12 -> 11
*[Nerf] Level 5 Cost increased 5,000 -> 5,600
*[Nerf] Level 5 💀 Poison Damage decreased 15 -> 13
04/02/2021
*[Buff] Level 1 Cooldown decreased 🕒4s -> 🕒3s
*[Buff] Level 2 Cooldown decreased 🕒3.5s -> 🕒2.8s
*[Buff] Level 3 Cooldown decreased 🕒3s -> 🕒2.5s
06/02/2021
*[Nerf] Level 2 Healing reduced ❤️15+ -> ❤️10+
*[Nerf] Level 3 Healing reduced ❤️25+ -> ❤️15+
*[Nerf] Level 4 Healing reduced ❤️35+ -> ❤️20+
*[Nerf] Level 5 Healing reduced ❤️50+ -> ❤️25+
07/28/2021 
*[Nerf] Healing now makes the Summons Max Health the amount they are currently at
*[Nerf] Levels 2 - 5 can only heal Summons once
*[Nerf] Level 4 💀 Poison Damage decreased 11 -> 9
*[Nerf] Level 4 💀 Poison Duration decreased 25s -> 22s
*[Nerf] Level 5 💀 Poison Damage decreased 13 -> 11
*[Nerf] Level 5 💀 Poison Duration decreased 35s -> 30s
08/22/2021 
*[Nerf] Level 2 Cost increased 800 -> 1,500
*[Nerf] Level 3 Cost increased 1,800 -> 2,200
*[Nerf] Level 3 💀 Poison Damage decreased 9 -> 6
*[Nerf] Level 4 Cost increased 3,500 -> 5,600
*[Nerf] Level 4 💀 Poison Damage decreased 9 -> 7
*[Nerf] Level 5 Cost increased 5,600 -> 6,800
*[Nerf] Level 5 💀 Poison Damage decreased 11 -> 9
02/25/2022 
*[Nerf] Level 2 💀 Poison Duration decreased 12s -> 11s
*[Nerf] Level 3 💀 Poison Duration decreased 18s -> 13s
*[Nerf] Level 4 💀 Poison Duration decreased 22s -> 15s
*[Nerf] Level 5 💀 Poison Duration decreased 30s -> 17s
12/09/2022
*[Buff] No longer needs Enemies in range in order to un-stun towers
Category:Towers
Category:Support
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