Monkey Ace



"The only unit that moves, the Monkey Ace patrols the skies above the action, regularly strafing the area with powerful piercing darts."

- Bloons Tower Defense 4 Description

"Monkey Aces are best suited to more spread out tracks where they can inflict the most poppage."

- Round 38 on Bloons Tower Defense 4

The Monkey Ace is a tower that debuted in Bloons Tower Defense 4. It also appears in its Expansion, Bloons Tower Defense 5 and Bloons 2. It will automatically shoot at the bloons. When the player places it on the screen, it will automatically fly in a figure eight form, and has infinite range. However, in BTD5, the player can switch the Monkey Ace's route between a 8 shape, an infinite symbol shape and a O shape.

The monkey ace is mainly used to spot Camo bloons but when there is water in a map that is close to the entrance, some players prefer to add monkey battleships instead. This is a better camo-spotter because it goes all around the map, but it is a lot weaker.

In Bloons TD 4, the Monkey Ace can be placed anywhere. However, in Bloons TD 5, the Monkey Ace has a runway, so you have to place the runway on land.

Rate of fire (BTD4)

Un-upgraded: 25 spm (shots per minute)

Rapid Fire: 40 spm

Operation: Dart Storm: 50 spm

Bloons Tower Defense 4 Upgrades
Pineapple Express - Drops highly explosive pineapples $170/$200/$215

Spy Plane - Allows towers near Monkey Ace to detect Camo Bloons $300/$350/$380

Rapid Fire - Increases attack rate $595/$700/$755

Operation: Dart Storm - Shoots more darts and pineapples at a faster rate $2550/$3000/$3240

BloonsTower Defense 5 Upgrades


Path 1

Rapid Fire - Shoots darts faster. $600/$700/$760

Sharper Darts - Sharper shots pop 8 bloons each. $430/$500/$540

Neva-Miss Targeting - Darts seek out and pop bloons intelligently. $1870/$2200/$2380

Spectre - Fires directly at the bloons with bombs and piercing darts rapidly, bombs create small explosion on impact. $15300/$18000/$19440

Path 2

Pineapple Present - Drops explosive pineapples. $170/$200/$220

Spy Plane - Allows the darts to pop camo bloons. $300/$350/$380

Operation: Dart Storm - Fires rapidly and fires 16 darts. $2550/$3000/$3240

Ground Zero - Gives the special ability to fire a nuke that kills all bloons, excluding ZOMG Bloons. $11900/$14000/$15120

Bloons 2
Monkey Aces make another appearance here. They pop bloons that they touch. You must pop a Monkey Ace Bloon to give the monkey 2 flags, allowing you to send them to pop bloons. If the Monkey Ace hits a wall, it will explode, and the monkey will parachute down. When the reverse gravity bloon is popped, unexpectingly the plane flies upside down and parachutes up.

Trivia

 * In BTD4, the Rapid Fire upgraded plane is very similar to the P-38 Lightning, and the Operation: Dart Storm and Ground Zero are like the B-2. In addition, Spectre is just like the real AC-130 Spectre.
 * In BTD5, the Pineapple Present does not drop faster for 2 upgrades (Rapid Fire and Operation: Dart Storm).
 * In BTD4, this tower non-upgraded can pop Camo Bloons, unlike BTD5's Monkey Ace with Spy Plane upgrade.
 * This is the only moving tower in the BTD series.
 * This tower is deadly in mass amounts, especially with upgrades


 * Unlike the Hydra Rocket Pods upgrade in Dartling Gun, the Spectre still shoots darts. However, it is best for M.O.A.B. Class Bloons on very hard tracks.
 * Some germans says in BTD5 the Hotkey F is for Flugzeug (english: Plane).