Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-108.28.180.209-20141002022817/@comment-24.114.85.24-20150318155036

Ray of Doom>>>>>>>>>BADS Why? Ray of doom does one layer of damage PER FRAME. BTD5 runs constantly at 30 FPS, no matter if your computer runs at 250 or 25 FPS. To put that into perspective, a BADs, without it's ability, can take down a MOAB on monkey lane in 8 seconds. For a RoD, it's 3 seconds. The BADS fires three streams of rockets, which does a fair job at eliminating grouped bloons, but the RoD's 100 penetration power, plus its amazing firerate excels at pwning grouped bloons; as of Febuary 26, 2015, a RoD can defeat infinite grouped ceramics, while the BADs is quickly overwhelmed.

As for the tier-3 upgrades, for early game the Hydra Rockets fare very well vs. most bloons, but the laser cannon is still superior when it comes to general popping power. If you like explosions, use Hydra rockets. If you want better, all-around popping power, use Laser cannon.