Shielded Bloon

"TIP: SHIELD BLOONS

Shield Bloons incoming! These Bloons are protected by an energy shield. You'll need to damage and destroy the shield before you can pop the bloon inside."

- Cuber's warning for Shield Bloons, Bloons Adventure Time TD "Oh, Bananas! Bloons can now have Shields! Looks like shields take one hit to remove, but can soak up any amount of damage in that hit!"

- Patch's warning for Shielded Bloons, Bloons Pop!

 (or Shield Bloon in BATTD) is a new type of bloon that made its debut in Bloons Super Monkey 2 (Stage 1-4), and also appear in Bloons Supermonkey 2 Mobile, Bloons Adventure Time TD and Bloons Pop!. As its name suggests, it has a shield around it (in fact a bloon-shaped "forcefield"), which takes 30 hits in the BSM series, 5 in BATTD, or 1 in Bloons Pop! to be destroyed, except for the Mini MOAB's, which takes 50. Similar to Camo or Regrowth Bloon types in BTD5, any bloon (even Glass, Golden and UFO) can be a Shielded Bloon. With the exception of Bloons Pop!, Shielded Bloons will be signified by the shock symbol on them.

In BSM2, the shield is only visible when the player hits it, but it will fade out soon after. With the exception of MOAB-Class Bloons, The shield also pushes away the Super Monkey in Bloons Super Monkey 2. In Bloons Supermonkey 2 Mobile, the shield is always visible and gets smaller and redder for each hit it takes, representing its health.

Bloons Pop!
"Shields absorb and minimize damage"

- Short description

In Bloons Pop!, Shielded Bloons absorb all damage taken from a single hit that has the appropriate damage type.

Strategy (Bloons Pop!)
Shielded Bloons need to be hit multiple times. Multi-damage attacks will be bad against them but multi-projectile attacks will do well against them.

Bloons Pop!

 * Do not waste attacks whose primary strength is damage (like Sniper Monkeys) on Shielded Bloons, because they cannot directly penetrate shields.
 * Attacks with large pierce and/or good Area of Effect coverage may be used to remove large numbers of present shields at once.

Trivia

 * This idea entirely may have been stolen from the fangame Bloons TD X
 * The shield remains unchanged no matter how many times it gets hit in Bloons Adventure Time TD.
 * With Precision Flight, the Super Monkey cannot get pushed by Shielded Bloons before the 1.7 version update (Precision Flight nerf, Daily Blop Reward).
 * In BATTD, Shielded Bloons' shields can be damaged and destroyed by attacks that can't harm the bloon normally. Any damage beyond the Shielded Bloon's remaining shield health will carry over to the bloon itself, assuming the damage source can harm that type of bloon.
 * There exists a Shielded Bloon shield in the Bloons TD 6 game files, which is currently used in Bloons Pop!.