Bomb Shooter (BTD6)

"Launches a powerful bomb at the Bloons. Slow rate of fire but affects a radius around the explosion."

- In-game description

Bomb Shooter is a Primary-class tower in Bloons TD 6 that shoots bombs. The tower retains its role from the Bloons TD 4, 5, and Classic game generations, but has changed its name from "Bomb Tower" along with other significant changes (though the tower was actually called Bomb Shooter in Bloons Monkey City). Like most Primary Monkeys, the Bomb Shooter was featured in a teaser prior to the game's release.

It uses slow firing, heavy bombs which deal area damage and naturally pop Lead Bloons. However, the base tower is useless against Black, Zebra, and DDTs due to their immunity to explosions (although this can be overcome using the Frag Bombs upgrade), and it possesses the major weakness of having no upgrades that give its main attack Camo Detection. Interestingly, every single Tier 5 Bomb Shooter can directly pop Black Bloons with their explosions without need for Striker Jones Level 5+ or a MIB.

Bomb Shooters fire exploding bombs every 1.5s with a blast radius of 12. Bomb explosions pop up to 14 bloons each. Bomb Shooter can be upgraded to improve its explosive power, its respective paths granting massive bloon stunning explosions, fast firing MOAB-destroying missiles, and cascading clusters of explosions.

It costs $445 on Easy, $525 on Medium, $565 on Hard, and $630 on Impoppable.

Description
The Bomb Shooter was formerly known as the Bomb Tower. Just like in the preceding games, it shoots somewhat slowly, shooting one bomb at a time with a small explosion.

Compared to previous games, it now has considerably less popping power per explosion, though that pop limit change is less significant compared to other towers, such as that for the Ice Tower/Ice Monkey and Bloontonium Reactor, which previously had infinite freezing power in BTD5 and earlier versions.

The first upgrade path for the Bomb Shooter deals with the size and quality of the bombs, eventually allowing the bombs to stun bloons. Bigger Bombs increases blast radius and pierce of the explosions, while Heavy Bombs lets bombs deal extra damage to bloons. The Really Big Bombs combines the stat bonuses of the first two upgrades to produce huge damaging explosions. Bloon Impact again allows stunning of bloons and popping of any bloon type, while the Bloon Crush upgrade can stun blimps and stun regular bloons for much longer.

The second path makes the Bomb Shooter shoot missiles that can be made to deal more damage to MOAB-Class bloons. The Faster Reload upgrade increases attack speed of the Bomb Shooter by a fair amount. Like the earlier versions, Missile Launcher increases projectile speed, attack speed, and range of the Bomb Shooter, although not extra pierce. MOAB Mauler and MOAB Assassin upgrades both deal extra damage to blimps and ceramics, while the MOAB Assassin upgrade grants an ability to instantly deal extra damage to the strongest blimp. MOAB Eliminator increases that ability to deal even more damage with a shorter cooldown.

The third path deals with the quantity of the bombs and bombs that split into other bombs. The first two upgrades both provide extra range, with Extra Range providing purely extra range and Frag Bombs coming with a spray of 8 sharp fragments. Cluster Bombs exchanges fragments for extra explosions for wider damage coverage, while Recursive Cluster further increases the explosive potential of bonus explosions. Bomb Blitz comes with even more damage plus the potential to deploy a global range explosion if lives are lost.

Target Priorities
The base Bomb Shooter uses the standard target priorities: First, Last, Close, Strong. Most of its attacks are dependent on its given target priority.

MOAB Assassin and MOAB Eliminator abilities will always target on Strong, and Bomb Blitz's passive ability lacks a noticeable target priority because of its true infinite pierce and whole screen effects.

Total Costs
Note: these numbers refer to Medium Mode.

Monkey Knowledge
This section displays Monkey Knowledge that has effects on Bomb Shooter and its changes when compared to one by default:


 * IncreasedLifespanIcon.png Increased Lifespan: Projectiles shot from Bomb Shooter have increased lifespan.
 * x seconds → x seconds.
 * FraggyFragsIcon.png Fraggy Frags: Frag bombs get 2 extra frags.
 * 8 fragments → 10 fragments.
 * BudgetClustersIcon.png Budget Clusters: Bomb Shooter's Cluster Bombs cost reduced by 100.
 * Cluster Bombs price reduced from $800 → $700.
 * MegaMaulerIcon.png Mega Mauler: Increases non-ability MOAB-class damage by 2.
 * MOAB Maulers will deal 21 damage instead of 19
 * MOAB Assassins will deal 33 damage instead of 31
 * MOAB Eliminators will deal 102 damage instead of 100.
 * ViolentImpactIcon.png Violent Impact: Bomb Shooter's Bloon Impact stuns for 25% longer.
 * Bloon Impact stun effect from 1 seconds to 1.25 seconds.
 * Bloon Crush stun effect from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
 * ComeOnEverybodyIcon.png Come On Everybody!: Primary towers attack 5% faster if all are below tier 3, and cost 5% less if all are tier 3 or 4.
 * MonkeyEducationIcon.png Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
 * BetterSellDealsIcon.png Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more.
 * Increases sell potency from 70% to 75%.
 * VeteranMonkeyTrainingIcon.png Veteran Monkey Training: All Monkeys reload time reduced by 3%.
 * GlobalAbilityCooldownsIcon.png Global Ability Cooldowns: All Ability cooldowns for all Monkeys reduced by 3%.

Trivia

 * Cluster Bombs can pop Black and Zebra Bloons, including MOAB-class Bloons like DDT.