Spike-O-Pult



"Gives the monkey a catapult that hurls giant spiked balls."

- Bloons Tower Defense 4 Description

"Converts the Dart Monkey into a Spike-O-Pult, a powerful tower that hurls a large spiked ball instead of darts. Good range, but slower attack speed.Each ball can pop 18 bloons."

- Bloons Tower Defense 5 Description

In Bloons TD 3, appears as a tower separate from the dart monkey. It is an upgrade for the Dart Monkey in Bloons TD 4, Bloons TD 4 Expansion and Bloons TD 5. It is the 3rd upgrade for the Dart Monkey and costs 325 on Hard Difficulty. The Triple Shot upgrade from Bloons TD 3 was renamed for Bloons TD 4. It became the Dart Monkey's 4th upgrade and was called Multi Shot and costs 1080 on Hard Difficulty.

In Bloons TD 4, this upgrade is located on the first path. On easy difficulty this upgrade costs 255, on medium it costs 300 and on hard it costs 325. Place these towers at the end of long lines with target priority set to last for maximum effectiveness.

In Bloons TD 5 it is about 3x bigger than previous versions. Its top upgrade Juggernaut makes the ball bigger than a monkey and can pop 161 bloons as well as lead bloons and does extra damage to ceramic bloons although it occasionally misses.

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Trivia

 * It appears to be based off of the onager, a type of catapult that uses torsion to power the shot. The onager, aka. mangolnel, is named after a wild species of donkey because of the intense force with which the projectile is shot, causing the device to jump forward every shot.
 * The projectile fired by the Juggernaut upgrade is even bigger than a Dart Monkey in BTD5.
 * In Bloons TD 3, Juggernaut made the balls go even further. It also allowed the spike-o-pult to be strong enough to crack open the ceramic layer of ceramic bloons. In Bloons TD 5, it can pop lead bloons and pop half of a ceramic bloon.
 * Spike-O-Pult is a play on the word catapult.
 * The way the monkey holds the Spike-O-Pult changes as the BTD series progresses
 * HYPER_SPIKEOPULT.png BTD4, spiked balls won't explode if you have explosive darts
 * In BTD4 and 5 the Spike-O-Pult is an upgrade to the Dart Monkey. In BTD3 the Spike-O-Pult was a tower.
 * If you place a 2-0 Dart Monkey near a Dart Monkey with Super Monkey Fan Club upgrade, then if you use the ability and once the 2-0 Dart Monkey has transformed into a Super Monkey, upgrade it to Spike-O-Pult then it change into a Spike-O-Pult Dart Monkey but it will shoot as fast as a super monkey for the duration of the Super Monkey Fan Club ability.
 * In BTD4, the Spike-O-Pult upgrade shrinks the Dart Monkey operating it.
 * In BTD5 if you have Splodey Darts it won't explode until they have popped 18 bloons so exploding darts are not very useful with Spike-O-Pult
 * The Spike-O-Pult shoots slower than the upgrade before it.