Monkey Ace



"The only unit that moves, the Monkey Ace patrols the skies above the action, regularly strafing the area with powerful piercing darts."

- Bloons Tower Defense 4 Description

"Monkey Aces are best suited to more spread out tracks where they can inflict the most poppage."

- Round 38 on Bloons Tower Defense 4

The Monkey Ace is a tower that debuted in Bloons Tower Defense 4. It also appears in its Expansion, Bloons Tower Defense 5 and Bloons 2. It will automatically shoot at the bloons. When the player places it on the screen, it will automatically fly in a figure eight form, and has infinite range. However, in BTD5, the player can switch the Monkey Ace's route between a vertical 8 shape, a horizontal 8 shape and a circular O shape.

The monkey ace is mainly used to spot camo bloons but when there is water in a map that is close to the entrance, some players prefer to add monkey battleships instead. This is a better camo-spotter because it goes all around the map, but it is a lot weaker.

Rate of fire (BTD4)

Un-upgraded: 25 spm (shots per minute)

Rapid Fire: 40 spm

Operation: Dart Storm: 50 spm

BloonsTD 5
Path 1

Rapid Fire - shoots darts faster. $600/$700/$760

Sharper Darts - better poppage. $430/$500/$540

Neva-Miss Targeting - shoots homing darts. $1700/$2000/$2160

Spectre - Fires directly at the bloons with bombs and piercing darts rapidly, bombs create small explosion on impact. $15300/$18000/$19440

Path 2

Pineapple Present - drops explosive pineapples. $170/$200/$220

Spy Plane - allows the darts to pop camo bloons. $300/$350/$380

Operation: Dart Storm - Fires rapidly and fires more darts. $2550/$3000/$3240

Ground Zero - Gives the special ability to fire a nuke that kills all bloons, excluding MOAB-Class and ZOMG bloons. $11900/$14000/$15120

Bloons 2
Monkey Aces make another appearance here. They pop bloons that they touch. You must pop a Monkey Ace Bloon to give the monkey 2 flags, allowing you to send them to pop bloons. If the Monkey Ace hits a wall, it will explode, and the monkey will parachute down. When the zebra bloon is popped, unexpectinly the plane flies upside down and parachutes up.

Trivia

 * In BTD4, the rapidfire upgraded plane is very similar to the P-38 Lightning, and the Operation: Dart Storm and Ground Zero are like the B-2. In addition, Spectre is just like the real AC-130 Spectre.