Popping Power

Popping Power is a term that describes effectiveness of a Tower at harming bloons, usually by directly damaging them. It is often measured as a combination of pierce, damage, attack speed, among other factors. An attack with more popping power has "stronger" in-game stats. Generally speaking, towers with better popping power have an improved combination of pierce, damage, and attack speed.

Attacks are often associated with those that directly damage bloons, but some attacks purely apply status effects, other indirectly offensive effects, or inoffensive effects. For offensive attacks, popping power is approximated as DPS (short for "damage per second"). DPS is a simpler term that describes only a combination of pierce, damage, and attack speed of an attack, including damage-over-time if applicable.

In the Bloons TD series games, "popping power" is an ambiguous term for pierce, attack speed, or general optimization of a tower. Certain in-game upgrades refer to "popping power" in such a way that doesn't distinctly describe a specific game mechanic (e.g. Full Auto Rifle doesn't increase pierce or damage but its upgrade description refers its statistical improvements as "incredible popping power").

All factors that contribute to "popping power" of an attack include:


 * Pierce of each attack
 * Damage of each attack, including Extra Damage sources
 * Attack speed at which the attack is generated
 * Numbers of projectiles shot per attack
 * "Strength" of status effects (e.g. slowdown, damage-over-time, disability status effects, property-stripping, and other secondary effects)
 * Types of bloons it can damage (refer to this table for the list of original damage types)
 * Black-Popping Power
 * White-Popping Power
 * Purple-Popping Power
 * Lead-Popping Power
 * Frozen-Popping Power
 * Camo Detection ("Camo-Popping Power")
 * General effectiveness of an attack (e.g. penetrating through MOAB-class bloons, dynamic scaling of attacks, mobility, ignoring Line of Sight)
 * General reliability (e.g. lack of RNG or erraticity, type of seeking, absent cooldown timer)

Quotes (BTD5 generation)
The following quotes are mentions of the word "popping power" in BTD5 generation games, including Bloons Monkey City and Bloons TD Battles: "Increases the popping power of all nearby monkeys by 1."

- BTD5 Mobile description for Monkey Fort

"Grants a (2-20)% increase in popping power of every offensive tower and agent you deploy..."

"Airburst darts split into 3 on impact for massively increased popping power"

- BTD5 Mobile description for Airburst Darts

"Snipers set to strong targetting can help maximize their popping power"

- BMC Mobile "Loading ..." screen advice

"Researching upgrades allows you to increase your Monkeys' popping power."

- BMC Mobile "Loading ..." screen advice

Quotes (BTD6)
The following quotes are mentions of the word "popping power" in BTD6: "Fully automatic weapon with incredible popping power."

- Full Auto Rifle upgrade descriptoin

"Airburst darts split into 3 on impact for massively increased popping power. Further enhances Ballistic Missile and Bloontonium Reactor."

- Airburst Darts upgrade descripton