Mega Mortar Monkey

"Fire in the hole!"

- Quote from Mega Mortar Monkey

Mega Mortar Monkey is a Mega Monkey that appears in Bloons Pop!. It aims one infernal mortar shell onto any location on screen. Upon detonation, the mortar shell creates a powerful explosion of super hot fire at the center, dealing up to 3 damage there, plus a larger secondary explosion of fire that deals 3 burning damage ticks. Mega Mortar Monkey is effective against Leads and Camos, although it lacks permanent Camo Detection. The explosion itself can also stun damaged bloons but cannot affect Black Bloons or Zebra Bloons. The fire can affect those, but in turn cannot affect Purple Bloons. Mega Mortar Monkey is based on the BTD6 Blooncineration. The entry for Mega Mortar Monkey is available upon using a Mega Mortar Monkey.

Strategy
Mega Mortar Monkey is a much more powerful version of the normal Mortar Monkey that inflicts much higher damage at impact point and widespread burning damage on the side. Rather than waste a single Mega Mortar Monkey shot on a minor location, save the Mega Mortar Monkey for a moment where a dense widespread crowd of bloons need to be wiped out. That way, it can make the most of its massive explosion potential

Compared to other Mega Monkeys, Mega Mortar Monkey has a significant strategy change compared to its normal counterpart. Mega Mortar Monkey specializes much better as a form of controlled widespread damage than simply making a small explosion within a small focused location. As such, it is still very worth to merge two normal Mortar Monkeys, but the specialty of the Mega Mortar Monkey should be reserved when truly needed where it would shine the best.

Tips

 * The fire is enough to fully destroy a Green Bloon. Targeting slightly away from the Green Bloons shouldn't be a problem as long as the flame "explosion" is still within range. Blue Bloons with Shielded Bloon properties are also not a problem.
 * The flame "explosion" has approximately double the explosion radius compared to normal explosions. Therefore, the main explosion doesn't have to be too far from weaker bloons.
 * Purple Bloons can only be damaged by the direct impact of the shell, therefore a Shielded or Fortified Purple Bloon will always survive a single mega mortar explosion.

Trivia

 * Mega Mortar is one of the few Mega Monkeys with different damage types for different attacks, in this case the Mega Mortar's napalm compared to its explosions. The other to do so is Mega Sniper Monkey.