Monkey Buccaneer

"Monkey Buccaneer is a powerful mid-level tower for a good price. However, they can only be placed on water."

- Round 41 on Bloons Tower Defense 4

The  is a tower introduced in Bloons Tower Defense 4. It is an all-rounder tower with a decent rate of fire, firing 50 shots per minute for a good price ($510/$595/$650). However, it can only be placed in water. Since some tracks do not have water, strategies involving Monkey Buccaneers will not succeed. Depending on the map, it may be able to solo several rounds with the Battleship upgrade. It also makes an appearance in BTD5; it can be placed in water as well as in the Portable Lake.

Grape Shot
Grape Shot allows the Monkey Buccaneer to shoot sharpened grapes at bloons. Once upgraded to this, every time the shoots, it shoots 4 grapes along with the dart.

255/300/325

Crow's Nest
Crow's Nest allows the ship to and all towers within range to see Camo Bloons.

255/300/325

Longer Cannons
Longer Cannons increases the 's range by a bit.

155/180/195

Battleship
Battleship increases fire rate by 3x, destroying many more Bloons. Total domination.

1700/2000/2160

Dreadnaught
Dreadnaught is a premium upgrade purchasable since BTD4; the Monkey Buccaneer shoots flaming cannonballs that pops frozen and Lead Bloons instead of darts. Apart from being able to pop bloons it normally cannot, it has no other change besides its appearance.



Bloons TD 5
Please note that, while there are two separate paths, the player chooses a path when the third upgrade in a path is purchased. After you have bought the third upgrade in a path, you may only buy the first two upgrades in the other path.



Path 1
Faster Shooting -$340/$400/$430

Shoots faster. This allows the to shoot a bit faster.

Longer Cannons - $155/$180/$195

Much longer range. Gives the a bigger range.

* if you pass this upgrade you will be locked for the 3rd and 4th upgrades on the other path

Destroyer -$1870/$2200/$2375

Attacks super duper fast! Increases the 's fire rate to about 3x the speed of the original ship.

Aircraft Carrier -$12750/$15000/$16200

Rapidly launches Monkey Ace pilots that strafe the area with darts. Launches three miniature Monkey Ace pilots at a time. They, in addition to shooting darts out in eight directions, also shoot two stream of darts in front of the ace. Each Monkey Ace pilot launched from the does not appear to be as powerful as an actual Monkey Ace pilot. Very powerful upgrade but causes lots of lag.

Path 2
Grape Shot - $255/$300/$325

Sprays out a blast of 4 sharp grapes for additional poppage. Shoots 4 sharp grapes along with a dart.

Crow's Nest - $215/$250/$270

''Allows the buccaneer to detect and target Camo bloons. Does not grant detection to other towers.'' Lets the detect and target Camo Bloons.

*if you pass this upgrade you will be locked for the 3rd and 4th upgrades on the other path

Cannon Ship - $1020/$1200/$1295

Adds a powerful, independantly firing cannon to the buccaneer. The cannon is about as fast as the original Bomb Tower, and has about the same power.

Monkey Pirates - $3825/$4500/$4860

MOAB Takedown Ability: Grabs hold of the nearest M.O.A.B. Class Bloon and destroys it, ZOMG Bloons are immune to this. Allows the to hook on to the highest ranked bloon in play except Z.O.M.G.s, and destroy them. If only Z.O.M.G.s exist, the sound effect will play but the hook will not appear. (This ability takes 55 seconds to recharge)

Trivia

 * This is one of the few towers that has a different image for each individual upgrade in BTD4.
 * In Bloons TD 5 iOS, its unupgraded and first path 1 upgrade official artwork depicts it being strict and serious.
 * It only uses one set of cannons at a time, although it has two sets.
 * The Destroyer shoots grapes every 6 shots.
 * The Aircraft Carrier upgrade only shoots out 3 Monkey Aces; the animation just keeps going so it looks like it shoots out Monkey Aces constantly.
 * Path 1 makes it a navy admiral ship, while Path 2 makes it a pirate ship.
 * The Destroyer can be viewed as a cheaper version of the Epic Range Super Monkey, albeit shooting slightly slower with higher pierce.
 * This tower has more range than an unupgraded Super Monkey.
 * A Pirate Cove with 2nd upgrade can be very awesome for Aircraft Carriers.
 * Strangely, Monkey Aces with Sharper Darts have darts much stronger than those from the Buccaneer's even though they are smaller.
 * Aircraft Carrier's Monkey Aces shoot 2 streams of darts so one dart can pierce through 5 bloons, meaning it can pop 10 Bloons every time.
 * Buccaneer's can be placed on the cells on the DNA Test track. However, this makes sense as most cells are composed largely of water.
 * Some of the Monkey Buccaneer's Pictures are smaller than the original picture of the ship with no upgrades.