Research (BSM2)

Research is a New Feature added in Bloons Super Monkey 2. When you buy it, it makes your attacks periodically stronger/capable to pop a certain type of bloon.

The first stage of each Research is cheap (around $100), and fires a special attack each a huge amount of attacks (around 40). 12th stage is very expensive, and fires a special attack every small amount of attacks. Hotter Cooldown and Blop Magnet work different than other Research, they work with percentages.

Research also appears in the mobile version of the game, but Blop Magnet and Hotter Cooldowns can no longer be researched as they are now crate abilities, and there is now research for Ice and Storm weapons.

Research Types

 * Sharp Darts: Periodically fire Mega darts and spiked balls that do blistering damage.
 * Bloontonium Darts: Periodically fire Super darts and spike balls that can pop lead bloons.
 * Mega Rangs: Periodically fire Mega boomerangs, shuriken, and glaives that can hit more bloons.
 * Hot Rangs: Periodically enable Hot boomerangs, shuriken, and blades can pop lead bloons.
 * Heavy Ordinance: Periodically fire Mega bombs and pineapples that have wider AOE.
 * Phosphorus Bombs: Periodically fire Super bombs and pineapples so hot they can pop black bloons.
 * Technological Terror: Periodically fire Mega tech powers that have increased damage.
 * Focused Beams: Periodically fire Super tech tree powers that can pop glass bloons.
 * Wizard Lord: Periodically fire Mega magic that does big damage.
 * Earth Magic: Periodically fire Super powers that can damage Ceramic Bloons.
 * Big Bloon Sabotage: Periodically all powers fire Mega shots that do more damage to MOAB-Class and bosses.
 * Forcefield Phasing: Periodically all weapons fire Mega shots that do increased damage to force fields.
 * Hotter Cooldowns (Flash): Regenerative science makes activated abilities come back faster.
 * Blop Magnet (Flash): Dark matter nanosiphons increase the radius of blop collection.
 * Frost Bite (Mobile): Ice weapons do extra damage.
 * Deep Freeze (Mobile): Ice weapons can affect white and zebra bloons.
 * Severe Weather (Mobile): Storm weapons do extra damage.
 * Eye of the Storm (Mobile): Storm weapons can affect glass, lead and ceramic bloons.

Web Version (Costs/Effect)
On Effects,
 * Upgrades decreasing in  number , it shows the effect will work after the number of attacks.
 * Upgrades increasing in  percentage , it shows how big the radius (Blop Magnet) and how many percentage to subtract 100% (Hotter Cooldown).

Mobile Version
These cost 50 times from the web version.

Trivia

 * On Software Mode, attacks with Research have the same look as normal attacks. In Hardware through, research attacks look different than normal attacks (red colored).