Missile Launcher (BTD6)

"Exchanges bombs for missiles, which fire faster, fly faster, and increase range."

- In-game description

Missile Launcher is the second upgrade of Path 2 of the Bomb Shooter in Bloons TD 6. The Missile Launcher upgrade adds significantly faster projectile speed, slightly longer range (10%, or +4 range), and additional attack speed (from every 1.125s to every 0.90s, a +25% increase). This attack speed bonus is additional to the preceding upgrade Faster Reload.

It costs $340 on Easy, $400 on Medium, $430 on Hard, and $480 on Impoppable.

Appearance
The Missile Launcher looks like a small rocket launching station. The station has the same design as the Pre-Emptive Strike's missile silo. The missiles are launched off from the station and have a shark-like face. Each missile is grey with a red stripe around its "belly" and has a red pointy tip.

When crosspathed with Path 2 upgrades, the Missile Launcher missiles becomes thicker with Bigger Bombs and gains dark stripes when crosspathed with Heavy Bombs. When crosspathed with Path 3, the Missile Launcher's missiles gain a target symbol on the missile "forehead" with Extra Range or a frag explosion symbol if with Frag Bombs.

Summary
Missile Launcher's main strengths come from its faster projectile speed and attack speed. It is helpful for chasing down faster bloons a bit more reliably. The Missile Launcher upgrade is often used as a crosspath for higher level upgrades in order to maximize the attack speed potential of the Bomb Shooter.

Tips

 * Missile Launcher can have an easier time chasing early fast bloons, but there are many other more reliable options for countering fast bloons, with the best examples being 2-0-1 Ninja Monkey, 1-0-2 Sniper Monkey, and X-X-2 Airburst Darts Sub.
 * Missile Launcher provides the highest possible amount of attack speed for the Bomb Shooter outside of external buffs. If attack speed is desired, this upgrade is the best to crosspath towards.

Trivia

 * Although Missile Launcher was claimed by NK to be buffed in attack speed bonus from +15% to +20%, it was actually buffed from +18% to +25%, the 15% and 20% values are actually the decrease in attack cooldown.
 * The pre-BTD6 Missile Launchers do not have a shark-like face.