Ice Monkey



"Freezes nearby bloons with every pulse. Frozen bloons are immune to anything sharp."

- BTD4 Description



This tower is called Ice Tower in BTD1, BTD4, and BTD5. It is called Ice Ball in BTD2 and BTD3. The Ice Tower freezes bloons for roughly 1 second without any upgrades and 2½ seconds after all upgrades in BTD1. It has a short range when not upgraded, but is still effective at delaying bloons. It is completely ineffective against White Bloons and Zebra Bloons as they are immune.

Frozen bloons cannot be popped by sharp objects, and must be exploded or "vaporized" using a tower such as the Bomb Tower, Super Monkey with Laser Vision, Monkey Apprentice's Dragon's Breath, or sunrays shot by a Sun God. The M.O.A.B.,? B.F.B.,? and Z.O.M.G.? are immune to the Ice Tower as well.h

The Ice Tower is a very useful tower because of its abilites once it has been upgraded to the Arctic Wind. In the higher rounds, it is recommended to have more than two Arctic Winds.

Putting an Ice tower close to an upgraded Monkey Apprentice takes away the ice towers abilites due to the latter's whirlwind/tempest tornado attack.

Fire rate: 12 shots per minute

Bloons TD 4 Hotkey: I (Uppercase 'i')

Cost: 380

Bloons TD 1
Cost: 850

Long Freeze Time
Description: bloons are frozen longer

Cost: 450

Wide Freeze Radius
Description: the ice tower gets bigger range

Cost: 300

Bloons TD 2
Cost: 385 (Easy), 435 (Medium), 440 (Hard)

Long Freeze Time
Description: bloons get frozen longer

Cost: 270 (Easy), 305 (Medium), 310 (Hard)

Wide Freeze Radius
Description: the ice tower gets a bigger range

Cost: 180 (Easy), 205 (Medium), 210 (Hard)

Bloons TD 3
Cost: 360 (Easy), 435 (Medium), 460 (Hard)

Longer Freeze
Description: bloons get frozen a longer time

Cost: 215 (Easy), 255 (Medium), 270 (Hard)

Permafrost
Description: bloons are slowed after they defrost

Cost: 215 (Easy), 255 (Medium), 270 (Hard)

Wide Freeze Radius
Description: ice tower has bigger range

Cost: 170 (Easy), 205 (Medium), 215 (Hard)

Snap Freeze
Description: pops bloons when it freezes them sometimes

Cost:

245 Easy

295 Medium

315 Hard

Improved Ice Tower

 * Increased freeze time and attack radius.
 * Cost
 * 190 Easy
 * 225 Medium
 * 245 Hard

Permafrost

 * Slows Bloons Down even after they thaw out!
 * Cost
 * 85 Easy
 * 100 Medium
 * 115 Hard

Snap Freeze

 * Freezes so violently that some Bloons may pop before freezing!
 * Cost
 * 340 Easy
 * 400 Medium
 * 430 Hard

Arctic Wind
(Note: When upgraded to Arctic Wind, it increases freeze radius and bloons that are in the Ice Tower's attack radius are slowed down 66%.)
 * Extreme cold slows down anything that comes near the Ice Tower.
 * Cost
 * 5100 Easy
 * 6000 Medium
 * 6480 Hard

(Total Selling Price: 5,684)

Bloons TD 5
 Cost: $325 (Easy), $380 (Med), $410 (Hard)

Path 1
Enhanced Freezing

Cost: $190 (Easy), $230 (Med), $240 (Hard)

Description: This Enhanced Ice Tower has a larger freeze area and freezes bloons for longer.

Snap Freeze

Cost: $340 (Easy), $400 (Med), $430 (Hard)

Description: The tower freezes so fast the bloons pop once before freezing.

***Upgrading past here will lock you out of any further Path 2 upgrades***

Arctic Wind

Cost: $5530 (Easy) ,$6500 (Med), $7020 (Hard)

Description: ''Super cold aura that slows all bloons that come near the tower. In addition the regular freeze effect of this tower has much larger area.''

Viral Frost

Cost: $5100 (Easy), $6000 (Med), $6480 (Hard)

Description: Bloons are frozen so cold that they freeze other bloons that come in contact with them, spreading the freeze like a virus.

Path 2
Permafrost

Cost: $90 (Easy), $100 (Med), $110 (Hard)

Description: Makes the bloons so cold that they move slowly even after thawing out. Bloons move with half speed then.

Deep Freeze

Cost: $300 (Easy), $350 (Med), $380 (Hard)

Description: Freezes 2 layers instead of one.

***Upgrading past here will lock you out of any further Path 1 upgrades***

Ice Shards

Cost: $1700 (Easy), $2000 (Med), $2160 (Hard)

Description: Creates razor sharp pieces of ice on bloons, that when popped, fly out and pop more bloons.

Absolute Zero

Cost: $1700 (Easy), $2000 (Med), $2160 (Hard)

Description: Absolute Zero ability: Freezes the entire screen of bloons for 4 seconds. Does not affect MOAB class bloons.

Trivia

 * Along with the Monkey Ace, the Disciple of Fire, the Glaive Lord, and the Monkey Buccaneer, the Ice Tower is one of the towers with an idle animation (which is the snow around it).
 * In Bloons Tower Defense 4, it is the only tower that does not change it's appearance at all until it is upgraded to the fourth upgrade.
 * In BTD5, the ice tower's name will not change in any way with upgrades.
 * In BTD5, this is the only tower which has Upgrades 3 and 4 (Path 2) costing the same.
 * The Arctic Wind upgrade is very useful in Bloontonium Lab when the tower is placed in the middle.
 * Only in BTD5 does the Ice Tower depict a monkey.
 * The Arctic Wind Ice Tower can only slow down the bloons within its range.
 * The Arctic Wind in BTD4 has a popping power of 40, so it can freeze 40 non-boss bloons per blast.
 * Regen Bloons won't regain layers while frozen.
 * It is called Ice Ball in BTD2 and BTD3
 * In BTD1-4, it's a tower. In BTD5, however, its a real monkey covered in snow and ice.
 * The monkey actually feels cold when it is upgraded.
 * Viral frost can freeze camos without camo detection but can't pop white and zebra bloons.
 * If Arctic Wind is paired with tier 3 Ice Fortress, it can take down an insanely high number of any non M.O.A.B Class Bloon (Can single-handedly beat round 63 on park path)
 * When a Snap Freeze Ice Tower pops the first layer of a Rainbow Bloon it will freeze Zebra Bloons, even though they cannot be frozen normally.