Camo Detection

Camo Detection (also referred as camo detection) is the capability for a tower to target and affect Camo Bloons. This attack property first appears in Bloons TD 4, where the Camo Bloon had debuted. Camo detection can also apply to towers that grant camo detection to nearby towers, the primary example being Radar Scanner, which appears in all main series where the Camo Bloon appears in. Bloons Wiki depicts attacks that affect camo with this icon:, depicted as a Camo Green Bloon from Bloons TD 6, as that is the only Camo Bloon that spawns on Round 24, the earliest camo bloons being to appear.

Most towers have some method of affecting Camo Bloons. They may have a camo detection upgrade to allow them to combat Camo Bloons directly (e.g. Enhanced Eyesight, Night Vision Goggles, Quincy Level 5+) or indirectly (e.g. Cleansing Foam, BTD6 Glaive Lord, Glue Strike, Glue Storm), may have innate camo detection (e.g. Ninja Monkey, Ezili, Spike Factory), or they may indirectly affect Camo Bloons by a normally unorthodox method (e.g. Inferno Ring's meteor, which can target camo but strangely only the meteor balls themselves affect and damage camo). Some may even have none at all, with examples being the Alchemist, Striker Jones, Pat Fusty, and Adora. In Bloons TD 4, all towers can affect camos even without being able to target them directly, but starting from Bloons TD 5 the tower must be able to detect camo directly in order to pop them.

Camo detection is separate from standard Damage Elements, and it is emphasized by how Admiral Brickell provides Normal damage without the camo detection between Level 5-7.

Camo Detection in Bloons TD 4
If another tower targets a Bloon and a Camo Bloon gets in the way, the Camo Bloon will be popped. If a tower with piercing projectiles targets a Bloon in front of a Camo Bloon, both will be popped. Usually, all you need is one set of Road Spikes or a Pineapple to set off a chain reaction. Camo RBE: 11 (BTD4), same speed as a blue.

The following towers and upgrades allow the tower and/or nearby towers to detect Camo Bloons:

Camo Detection in Bloons TD 5
In BTD5, Camo becomes a Bloon property: therefore their RBE can be from 1 to 104 unlike in BTD4. If a tower cannot see camo bloons, its projectiles will go straight through them without doing any damage to them. A camo bloon can also be Regrowth at the same time, making them very dangerous if you do not prepare, like in round 82.

The following towers and upgrades allow the tower and/or nearby towers to detect and also target Camo Bloons:

Camo Detection in Bloons TD 6
In BTD6, the methods for Camo Detection are similar to BTD5. Several upgrades that help detect Camo are also available in BTD6, including the Radar Scanner upgrade. Alongside this, many more options are available to detect Camo, with nearly every tower having some way to combat Camo. Somehow, Glaive Lord in Bloons TD 6 can no longer detect Camo, though Camo Bloons can become popped by its rotating glaives.

The only tower to have no camo detection whatsoever is Alchemist. The only heroes to have no camo detection whatsoever are Striker Jones, Pat Fusty, and Adora.

In addition to these lists of towers and their upgrades with camo detection, many camo-detecting upgrades gain access to the Camo Prioritization target priority, and the list of those can be found on here.

Camo Detection in Bloons Adventure Time TD
As in other Bloons games, one of the only innately camo-detecting 'towers' is the Ninja Monkey. BATTD provides an adaptation of the BTD Ninja in the form of the non-speaking Sai the Shadow.

Upgrades can be purchased for certain characters and allies to enable camo detection. Characters that don't need to achieve certain 'Star Levels' (the BATTD parallel to character experience levels) to unlock camo detection are: Princess Bubblegum (with Super Intelligence) and Ice King (with Wizard Eyes) from the Adventure Time universe and personalized adaptations of BTD towers: Max (with Enhanced Range) (a Triple Darts Dart Monkey variant), Sam (with Wizardly Wisdom) (a Wizard Monkey variant), Captain Cassie (with Crows Nest, can grant her nearby allies camo detect as well) (a Cannon Ship Monkey Buccaneer variant), and Commander Cassie (with Enhanced Tactical Radar) (a Destroyer Monkey Buccaneer variant). C4 Charlie (a Bomb Shooter hybrid) has an upgrade to enable a Signal Flare ability that will strip all modifiers (including camo) from all bloons on the field. Flame Princess (from Adventure Time) can unlock personal camo detection, via her Heat Sense upgrade, from her third star level. Hunter Marceline can give camo detection to herself, but needs to suck the soul of a camo bloon via at least Soul Sucking to do so.

Characters that don't have personalized potentials for camo detection include Finn, Dungeon Finn, Jake, Tuxedo Jake (cannot give camo detection to characters either despite specializing heavily in support), Marceline, and Warrior Bubblegum (who seemingly have for the sake of gameplay options forgotten her camo detection potentials) as well as BTD spin-offs C4 Charlie (anything but the Signal Flare ability), Supermonkey (not even with Sun God) and, perhaps surprisingly, Juggernaut Max.

The only Allies with reported potentials for camo-detection are Banana Man via his X-Ray Scope upgrade and Huntress Wizard via her Hunter's Instinct upgrade. Clarence, Dirt Beer Guy, Dr. Monkey (strips regular but not DDT camo), Hunson Abadeer (strips regular and DDT camo), Monkey Apprentice (without upgrades, apparently), and perhaps ironically, Super Fans, can detect camo by default. Banana Guards and Banana Air Corps can pop camo bloons that touch them. Party God can be upgraded to summon miniature clones of himself (Party Crashers upgrade) and a shockwave ability (Off The Hook upgrade); only his clones and shockwaves can hit camo, not his main laser attack (but it is his only way of popping lead, so he cannot pop camo lead). BATTD includes a number of Trinkets that relate to countering Camo Bloons. The Uncommon Horsey Soap distributes regular bloon-only decamo-ing foam along sections of the track that are within the range of the equipped character, similar to the Cleansing Foam upgrade in the BTD series. the Super Rare Anti-Camo Dust removes camo from all bloons, just like its BMC Flash counterpart. Trinkets that enable camo-detection include: the Super Rare Night Vision X-Ray Goggles; the Epic Dragon Eyes (also extra damage to them) and Glasses of Nerdicon (+9 range), and the Martian Exclusive Martian Tracking Device (+8 range).

There are some powers that can combat or help the towers combat camo bloons. Many ability-based offensive powers that target bloons independently can affect camo. Hot Dog Knights, like the Banana Guards, pop camos on contact. The Most Perfect Sandwich That Has Ever Existed grants all towers camo detection.

Camo Detection in Bloons Pop!
Most attacks require the Camo Bloons to flicker into visibility in order for them to affect Camo Bloons. However, there are some that naturally can pop Camo regardless of camo flickering. Monkeys and Heroes who lack camo detection will cause the screen to display flickering Camo Bloons, provided there are Camo Bloons on screen, while those that do have camo detection will leave the Camo Bloons visible at all times. Switching to and from any monkey/hero slot can determine its ability to detect Camo Bloons.
 * Monkeys


 * Heroes


 * Powerups

Camo Detection in Bloons TD Battles 2
Camo detection methods in Bloons TD Battles 2 should be fairly similar compared to in Bloons TD 6. The only towers to have no camo detection at all in this game are Alchemist and Striker Jones.

Bloons TD 4
When the Camo Bloon was first introduced, it was a separate bloon in itself. All towers can pop camo as long as one attack hits a Camo Bloon, and even popping one can let off a chain reaction of popping Camo Bloons. There are camo-related upgrades via Crow's Nest and Spy Plane upgrades, as well as Sonar Beacon as the pre-BTD5 Radar Scanner. Camo detection is hardly a necessity in that game due to how easy it is to counter, especially because even planting one load of Road Spikes can trigger a large chain reaction.

Bloons TD 5
Camo Bloons now are a property and not a separate type of bloon. In addition, the tower must detect camo itself to pop them, rather than merely letting an attack hit a camo. This makes Camo Bloons more dangerous than its BTD4 counterparts.

The Ninja Monkey, Spike Factory, and Dartling Gun can detect camo bloons by default. Many more towers gain a camo detection upgrade. Radar Scanner appears, granting camo detection to all towers within range, but is much more expensive than its BTD4 Sonar Beacon upgrade counterpart. And lastly, certain towers can decamo bloons, which allows bloons to be stripped of camo properties.

Bloons TD 6
The Camo Bloon property returns. Many more upgrades receive camo upgrades and certain towers now receive the option to decamo with certain upgrades. However, since crosspathing is locked out to up to 2 of 3 upgrade paths in this game, sometimes the crosspath that grants camo detection is locked out entirely for certain upgrade crosspaths.

The Radar Scanner upgrade for the Monkey Village returns in BTD6. Again, it can make all monkeys its range be able to detect Camo Bloons. It is not the only one to do so in this game, as Etienne can do this too.

The Dartling Gunner lost its default camo detection from BTD5, now requiring Advanced Targeting to hit camos.

There are four known instances of an update adjusting direct camo detection:
 * Version 17.0 buffed both Embrittlement and Super Brittle to let them detect camo bloons and strip camo properties.
 * Version 17.1, on the other hand, stripped Sky Shredder of its innate camo detection.
 * Version 28.0 buffed Cold Snap (formerly Metal Freeze) and Ice Shards to have innate camo detection.
 * Version 30.0 added Bionic Augmentation, which gives Turbo Charge and Perma Charge with camo detection whenever ability is active.

Version 28.0 gave some camo-detecting upgrades plus the Ninja Monkey with the Camo Prioritization target option, which gives those upgrades a bit more of a camo specialization.