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The  is a tower in the Bloons Tower Defense series that first appeared in the original Bloons Tower Defense. It appears in every BTD game. The Dart Monkey is a regular monkey that throws a single dart at a time. As it continues to upgrade, the Dart Monkey undergoes several aesthetic changes.

Although it has small range, these towers are really precis, good for cleaning up get-away bloons. These towers are relatively cheap, making them useful in early rounds. Each individual art that the Dart Monkey Throws has a popping power of 1. This doesn't change regardless of the upgrades. Dart monkey have a Medium-Slow rate of fire(it shoots about once every two seconds, twice per second if fast fowarded) compared to other towers, which limits their strength.

Dart Monkey were always called Dart Monkeys even in Bloons Tower Defense and Bloons Tower Defense 2.



Bloons Tower Defense
Dart Monkey, along with the Tack Shooter, Ice Tower, Bomb Tower, and Super Monkey, are the towers featured in the original Bloons Tower Defense. These 5 towers also appear in every subsequent BTD game. As with every other tower, the Dart Monkey has one upgrade on two different paths: Faster Shooting and Extra Range Tacks. Unlike BTD3 and future BTD games, the Dart Monkey does not change appearance regardless of upgrades.

As mentioned before, Dart Monkeys are good for clean up because of thier acurracy. This tower performs best in groups. It is best to purchase Dart Monkeys at the start of the game, as starting the game with Tack Shooters will cause a money issue later in the game. Adding Dart Monkeys to your defense can really help out with popping fast balloons, and it is a good idea to include them in your defense.

Bloons Tower Defense 2
The Dart Monkey appears in Bloons Tower Defense 2. There are no new upgrades for the Dart Monkey, or most towers as a matter of fact. The Dart Monkey undergoes no change between BTD and BTD2, in terms of functionality and appearance.

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Bloons Tower Defense 3
The Tack Shooter appears in Bloons Tower Defense 3. As with all other towers, the Tack Shooter has two upgrades on two separate paths. The first path focuses on offensive upgrades, while the second path focuses on range upgrades. The second upgrade for the first path is the new addition to the Tack Shooter: the Blade Shooter. The Blade Shooter greatly increases the popping power of the Tack Shooter. Besides the Blade Shooter upgrade, there has been no major change in the Tack Shooter since BTD2, appearance-wise and function-wise.

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Bloons Tower Defense 4
In Bloons Tower Defense 4, the Tack Shooter, along with every other tower, gets a huge improvement.

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Bloons Tower Defense 5
Once again, the Tack Shooter along with all towers in BTD gets a huge improvement, with two paths of powerful upgrades. 

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Path 2


Trivia

 * Ninjakiwi says that beating the original Bloons Tower Defense with only Tack Shooters is impossible. Despite this, the task has been done many times before.
 * The icon for Bloons Tower Defense (iPhone/iPod) is a Tack Shooter.
 * If you have Monkey Fort, Tack Awesomizer, and Tack Research Center, a single Tack can pierce through 3 bloons (4 every second shot).
 * The Blades spin if the Blade Shooter is shooting.
 * The x's on the menu's (like the tracks menu) look like tacks.
 * In the artwork for BTD5, the upgrade Faster Shooting gives the shooter 3 tack icons on the top. It actually keeps the crossed over tacks on the top in the game. Vice versa when you get Even Faster Shooting.