Acid Gunner

"I call this the Blooniversal solvent!"

- Quote from Acid Gunner

Acid Gunner is a monkey that appears in Bloons Pop!. It is a variation of the BTD6 Glue Gunner that can shoot green blobs of acidic glue. Every time the Acid Gunner hits a bloon, it will shoot a blob of acid downwards, each blob affecting all bloons directly below and adjacent to the direction the blob projectile. Its acid blobs have 10 pierce and deal 1 corrosion damage after a few seconds before ending its turn. It will slowly deal 1 damage for one more move until the acid wears out. These blobs of acid are actually made of a mix between Corrosive Glue and Bloon Dissolver, which means it also slows down affected bloons whenever the bloons rise upwards after every move is done. Acid Gunner can also deal 1 damage to any bloon it collides with. Its blobs can pop Leads but is poor versus Ceramics and Fortified and cannot see invisible Camo Bloons, although Camo Bloons cannot turn invisible while coated in acid. Acid Gunner is unlocked at Level 5.

Strategy
Acid Gunners are optimal at stripping down layers of bloons deep in the terrain or handling "cake layer" bloon formations. It is especially useful at melting Leads, stripping off immunity bloons into weaker bloon variants, and removing Shielded Bloon layers off bloons.

Merging two Acid Gunners to form a Mega Acid Gunner. Mega Acid Gunner creates many more glue splatters per hit, 5 at a time, and corrodes at a rate of 3 damage per turn. Only one move is consumed when using a Mega Acid instead of using two moves to use two separate Acids.

Tips

 * Try let it jump around more than just the same column.

Trivia

 * According to Ninja Kiwi's June 24th 2021 blog, Acid Gunner was not called the "Glue Gunner" because players not familiar with the Bloons TD series did not recognize the Glue Gunner. There were plans to call it the "Honey Gunner" before changing it to Acid Gunner (which is much more appropriate to its purpose of damaging affected bloons per move).
 * The "Use Acid Gunner X Times" goals use an Acid Gunner with yellow acid (or glue) that resembles honey for their icons, supporting the fact that "honey" was at least used during the development of Bloons Pop!.
 * Strangely, Acid Gunner's icon depicts a Glue Gunner-type monkey sans protective suit with a splatter of lime green acid on its head, much like the Stickier Glue Glue Gunner's artwork from BTD6, unlike the Corrosive Glue Glue Gunner (who also shoots corrosive glue, but always wears a protective suit for that reason).