Glue Strike

"Glue Strike ability: Glues all Bloons on screen, causing them to take more damage from all sources while it lasts."

- BTD6 Description

 is the fourth upgrade of Path 2 for the Glue Gunner in Bloons TD 6. It unlocks the Glue Strike Ability, which when used causes glue to rain down all over the screen, gluing all non-MOAB-class bloons on screen for a short time, and causing all affected bloons on screen to take in +2 damage, and render Leads vulnerable to any damage type. This ability sticky glue soaks up to 6 layers (all with Glue Soak). Adding Corrosive Glue allows the main attack and ability to stick to and attack MOAB-class bloons too. If crosspathed with Corrosive Glue, ability glue applies a damage-over-time that deals 3 damage per 2.3s. Cooldown for the ability is 30 seconds.

It costs $2,975 on Easy, $3,500 on Medium, $3,780 on Hard, and $4,200 on Impoppable.

Summary
Glue Strike's ability is rather simple in concept, gluing all regular bloons currently on screen to slow them down, but it additionally comes with the benefit of making them all temporarily more vulnerable to increased damage from all other attacks. Addition of other towers is beneficial to take advantage of the weakened bloons.

Crosspathing is beneficial with Glue Strike, and the most favorable crosspath is usually with Corrosive Glue (2-4-0). With this crosspath, it can be used to deal heavy damage-over-time to bloons and cause MOAB-class to become temporarily vulnerable as well. The alternate crosspath with Stronger Glue, although less favored, is still useful if regular bloons, specifically Super Ceramics, need to be slowed much further.

Tips

 * Glue Strike ability now causes all glued Bloons, including MOAB-class if crosspathed with Corrosive Glue, to take +2 damage while glued. Because of this, this upgrade is useful for providing an extra debuff to all currently active blimps and bloons on screen, making an extra source of bonus damage besides support towers that grant only tower buffs (e.g. Berserker Brew's damage buff from Alchemist). Regardless, it would still be more worth further upgrading to Glue Storm for a greatly extended ability duration.
 * Version 17.0 makes the 2-4-0 Glue Strike ability viable when countering Regrow Bloons before Super Ceramics appear (Rounds 81+), because the Glue Strike ability with Corrosive Glue crosspath is able to damage the Regrows faster than they can regenerate.
 * Glue duration is halved on MOAB-class bloons, which means the 2-4-0 Glue Strike ability glue will only last for 5.5 seconds on MOAB-class bloons. Even still, it's a worthwhile option for providing extra damage for MOAB-class bloons currently on screen.

Sounds
When activating Glue Strike Ability:


 * [Glue splatting]

Trivia

 * On Medium Difficulty, the Glue Strike upgrade costs $2000 less than what it was in BTD5.
 * The Glue Strike ability soaking buff added in Version 22.0 is designed to make the 0-4-2 crosspath better for bloons, specifically before Super Ceramics.
 * The new Version 24.0 Glue Strike ability description is currently lacking a period at the end of the description. The description used in this article correctly adds it in.