Lead Bloon/Strategies

This page contains tips for defeating Lead Bloons.

Tips
As the description says, it is quite easy to kill leads as long as your strategy is not based off "sharp" towers. Try to include a few explosive or "slow down" towers. Leads are mainly dangerous because of their special ability and of the abilities of their children and grandchildren. The blacks are immune to most of the explosions popping the leads whereas the pinks are fast enough to avoid most attacks. Leads can be popped by bomb towers and hot spikes. In BTD5, a 2/1 Glue Gunner (that is, Corrosive Glue) or higher performs very well against Leads with very low upgrade cost (though the rather-expensive Glue Splatter is recommended). On some rounds, you may encounter Camo-Lead Bloons and on special missions. The best way to defend against these bloons are Monkey Apprentice (X/2) as they can pop lead and camo with Monkey Sense. You can also use Dartling Guns (X/2) utilizing the "Depleted Bloontonium" upgrade. A 1/2 Sniper Monkey is also sufficient, but is rather slow to fire, so it is useless against a large number of camo-lead bloons.