Sticky Bomb (status effect)

Sticky Bomb is a status effect in Bloons TD 6. Blimps affected by this status effect will produce a devastating explosion onto that blimp and all nearby bloons other than its descendants. It takes a pre-determined amount of time for that explosion to take effect.

Bloons Wiki represents this status effect with, the asset of the projectile for the Sticky Bomb attack. This status effect does not have an immediate reaction and will take some time before the status effect reacts. Once enough time elapses, the sticky bomb will instantly deal a large amount of damage to the affected blimp but not to its descendants, along with a deadly secondary explosion. Blimps affected by this will have a sticky bomb attached to it. Attacks with this status effect have Target Blimp too. Multiple of the same type cannot stack, but different types can stack.

The status effect itself, once the initial countdown timer wears off, causes an Impact damage on the blimp originally attached with the sticky bomb status effect, and at the same time causes an Area of Effect  explosion as a Burst  + Shrapnel, as secondary sticky bomb explosions cannot affect the blimp originated from that sticky bomb.

Sticky Bomb and Master Bomber in Bloons TD 6 are the only towers to inflict this status effect. Master Bomber's sticky bombs are separate from the original Sticky Bomb's sticky bombs, and use the subset of the Sticky Bomb status effect, Master Sticky Bomb, instead. Therefore, both status effects can be on the same blimp.