Candy Duck Axe

"Don't let its cute looks fool you. This axe is a bloon destroyer."

- BATTD description

The Candy Duck Axe is an Uncommon weapon in Bloons Adventure Time TD. It grants the equipped character with +2 range, +0.25 per star level. As Candy Duck Axe is a Sword weapon, it can only be equipped to Finn, Dungeon Finn, and Warrior Bubblegum.

Strategy
As an alternative to the sword that Finn already owns after finishing the tutorial, the Candy Duck Axe trades the pierce value (maximum number of hittable targets per attack) that Scarlet has for additional range (marked by a large dark circle, which increases in size as range increases, underneath the weapon holder when placing or selecting them) to the equipped character.

Even though sword users are mainly offensive short range units and generally do not serve as support based towers that depend on range to provide buffs, having a bit of extra range gives them better options to be put slightly further away from the track while still reaching the bloons just as they are able to closer to the track without the range increase, especially on certain maps that have two or more lanes that do not have tower space in between them. The Candy Duck Axe also benefits Finn in that he can be placed from Jake/Tuxedo Jake slightly further than usual, perhaps with the help of the Limber Limbs upgrade, to get access the Bro Fist upgrade.

Trivia

 * Before the update that changed range stat increases from percentage to additive increments, the Candy Duck Axe gave +5% range and +1% per 2 stars.
 * The Candy Duck Axe is slashed in both ways(?) and can be used to charge(?).