Monkey Buccaneer

"Monkey Buccaneer is a powerful mid-level tower for a good price. However, they can only be placed on water."

- Round 41 on Bloons Tower Defense 4

"Monkey Buccaneers can only be placed in water. They shoot a single heavy dart. Upgrades include Grape Shot, Crow's Nest and Battleship."

- Description upon unlocking in BTD4

The  is a tower introduced in Bloons Tower Defense 4. It is an all-rounder tower with a decent rate of fire, firing 60 shots per minute for a good price ($510/$595/$650). Monkey Buccaneers are operated by a monkey. However, it can only be placed in water. Since some tracks do not have water, strategies involving Monkey Buccaneers will not succeed. Depending on the map, it may be able to solo several rounds with the Battleship upgrade. It also makes an appearance in Bloons TD 5, it can be placed in water as well as in the Portable Lake.

Grape Shot
Grape Shot allows the Monkey Buccaneer to shoot sharpened grapes at bloons. Once upgraded to this, every time the shoots, it shoots 4 grapes along with the dart. At sometime though, on a BTD5 update, grape shot's price went up, due to its pierce becoming 2, instead of one. The complete list of updates and discussion can be found [http://archive.ninjakiwi.com/Forum/showthread.php/20185-New-BTD5-tower-changes! here]

Flash Prices: $255/$300/$325

iOS Prices: $435/$500/$540

Crow's Nest
Crow's Nest allows the ship and any other towers within it's range to detect Camo Bloons.

$130/$150/$160

Longer Cannons
Longer Cannons increases the 's range by a bit.

$155/$180/$195

Battleship
Battleship increases fire rate by 3x, destroying many more Bloons. Total domination.

$1700/$2000/$2160

Dreadnaught
Dreadnaught is a premium upgrade purchasable since BTD4; the Monkey Buccaneer shoots flaming cannonballs that pops frozen and Lead Bloons instead of darts. Apart from being able to pop bloons it normally cannot, it has no other change besides its appearance.

Bloons TD 5
Please note that, while there are two separate paths, the player chooses a path when the third upgrade in a path is purchased. After you have bought the third upgrade in a path, you may only buy the first two upgrades in the other path.





Differences between BTD5 Flash and BTD5 Mobile
Bombs fired from the Cannon Ship have smaller explosions.

Base cost is more expensive ($500 → $525).

Aircraft Carrier is weaker (particularly against Regrows).

MOAB Takedown Ability (Monkey Pirates Ability) takes less time to take down a bloon (4.0s → 0.5s), and still continues its normal shooting during the ability.

Cannon Ship bombs can be duplicated if the Buccaneer is under the influence of Monkey Fort.

Update History (Bloons TD Battles Mobile)
The Monkey Buccaneer is a fairly balanced tower, though at times it has been given a reasonable number of buffs. Some popular loadouts include Buccaneer Farm Apprentice (arguably the most popular loadout out of the ones listed, especially on maps like Swan Lake and Hydro Dam), Buccaneer Farm Boomerang, Buccaneer Farm Mortar, Buccaneer Farm Bomb and Buccaneer Apprentice Boomerang. Aircraft Carrier price decreased ($15000 → $9000).
 * 3.1

Tower price decreased ($525 → $450).
 * 4.3

Destroyer price decreased ($2200 → $1500).

4.9 

Grape Shot price increased ($500 → $550).

Aircraft Carrier price decreased ($9000 → $7000).

Cannon Ship bombs no longer duplicate when the Monkey Buccaneer is under the influence of Monkey Fort.

Bloons Tower Defense 6
In Bloons TD 6, The Monkey Buccaneer is capable of firing from both sides of the tower, provided there are bloons in range.

Trivia

 * In Bloons Monkey City, the Monkey Buccaneer is one of only three towers (as well as the Sniper Monkey, and Mortar Tower) not to be specifically restricted on any type of tile, even though it cannot be placed on the majority of them due to no water. When replaying Caves Terrain, the Mortar Monkey is also restricted (Flash only).
 * Aircraft Carrier interacts strangely with speed buffs. BOTH launch speed AND Monkey Ace shoot speed increase when buffed: you get 4 times the darts under CTA, and 11.9 times the darts when simultaneously under CTA, 2/X village and Overclock.
 * This is one of the few towers that has a different image for each individual upgrade in BTD4.
 * In Bloons TD 5 Mobile, its unupgraded and first path 1 upgrade official artwork depicts it being strict and serious.
 * It only uses one set of cannons at a time, although it has two sets.
 * The Destroyer shoots grapes every 6 shots.
 * An Aircraft carrier still shoots grapes to bloons everywhere on the screen.
 * Path 1 depicts the Buccaneer being more civilized by being a navy admiral ship, while Path 2 depicts it being barbaric by being a pirate ship.
 * The Destroyer can be viewed as a cheaper version of the Epic Range Super Monkey, albeit shooting slightly slower with higher pierce and camo detection (when upgraded to 3/2).
 * This tower has more range than an unupgraded Super Monkey.
 * Strangely, Monkey Aces with Sharper Darts have darts with more pierce than those from the Buccaneer's even though they are smaller.
 * Aircraft Carrier's Monkey Aces shoot 2 streams of darts so one dart can pierce through 5 bloons, meaning it can pop 10 Bloons every time.
 * Because cells are largely composed of water, Buccaneers can be placed on the cells on the DNA Test track.
 * Some of the Monkey Buccaneer's Pictures are smaller than the original picture of the ship with no upgrades.
 * In the original artwork, the monkey is bailing out the buccaneer.
 * In Bloons Tower Defense 5, when placing the Monkey Buccaneer, the ship is not shown to have cannons.
 * This is one of two towers that can be only be placed on water. The other is the Monkey Sub.
 * This is also one of two towers whose Tier 4 upgrade uses another tower. The other being the Dart Monkey.
 * The Cannon Ship has exactly 15% more range than the Destroyer ship.
 * In Bloons Monkey City, the MOAB Takedown Ability will not give any cash for any bloons destroyed.
 * In BTD5, if the MOAB Takedown ability is used and the MOAB or BFB is already partially destroyed and you can see a few rips and/or cracks on it, when it is being pulled to the Buccaneer, the rips and cracks will seem to disappear.
 * On Park Path, it's possible for a red bloon to outrun a 2/3 Monkey Buccaneer.