Supply Drop Ability



"Supply Drop Ability: Drops a crate full of cash."

- Official Bloons TD 5 description

 is the final upgrade on Path 2 for the Sniper Monkey in Bloons Tower Defense 5, costing $10200 on Easy, $12000 on Medium, $12960 on Hard and $14400 on Impoppable. When used, this ability summons an Operation: Dart Storm plane (which does not attack) to drop a small crate with a banana symbol on it, identical to the crates produced by the Banana Research Facilty. It contains a random amount of money between $500 and $1500; the player must hover their mouse cursor over the crate to collect the money from the crate. When purchased, this ability must go through a chargeup before use, probably to prevent placing 0/4 Snipers, selling them, and buying them to use the ablity again and again.

As the money that can be earned from the Supply Drop Ability in a round is not fixed, longer rounds like Freeplay in combination with this ability will earn more than Banana Farms.

Trivia

 * In Bloons Tower Defense 5 (including Deluxe), this is the only ability that has to cool down upon purchasing. This is probably intentional. This does not apply to Bloons Tower Defense 5 Mobile.
 * Supply Drop Ability is not useable in Deflation Mode because you could slowly earn money back. Although in BTD5 iOS Supply Drop can be bought and used, the crates will not give the player any money.
 * A handful of Supply Drop Sniper Monkeys can earn lots of cash if you can survive during the longer rounds, becoming more efficient than Farms, which give fixed amount of money per round.
 * A bug involves spamming the Supply Drop Ability button on a computer that has lots of lag; there can occasionally be extra Supply Drops.
 * In Bloons Tower Defense 5 Mobile the Monkey Farmer can catch the Supply Drop
 * Strategies for exploiting the use of Supply Drop Ability is called Supply Drop Farming.