Bloons Super Monkey 2/Strategies

Strategy 1
Stage 1: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (pic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 2: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 3: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 4: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 5: Left Arm: Pulse Whip Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: Pulse Laser/Laser Vision Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: Pulse Whip Right Arm (epic): ???

Bloon Dunes
Stage 1: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 2: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 3: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 4: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 5:Left Arm: Plasma Whip Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: Dual Blast Core (epic): ???Right Arm: Plasma Whip Right Arm (epic): ???

Deep Bloon Sea
Stage 1: Left Arm: Spikey Shots Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: Doom Burst Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: Spikey Shots Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 2: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 3: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 4: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 5: Left Arm: Spikey Shots Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: Spikey Burst Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: Spikey Shots Right Arm (epic): ???

Mount Magma
Stage 1: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: Doom Burst Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 2: Left Arm: Spikey Shots Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: Solid Doom Core (epic): Spikey Chaos Right Arm: Spikey Shots Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 3: Left Arm: Shuriken Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: Doom Burst Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: Shuriken Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 4: Left Arm: ??? Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: ??? Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: ??? Right Arm (epic): ??? Stage 5:Left Arm: Spikey Shots Left Arm (epic): ??? Core: Solid Doom Core (epic): ??? Right Arm: Spikey Shots Right Arm (epic): ???

210577bloons's tips (incomplete)
1-1: Your given powerset should be able to beat the bloons which range from red to pink. Buy the dart core for later use. Make sure you don't miss the golden bloon (appears on the left)! For trophies, seeking weapons are recommended for the random clots at the middle.

1-2: You will meet stray groups of blue bloons around. Try to keep high-pierce weapons like boomerangs as large bloon clusters will jump at you unexpectedly.

1-3: This wave you will meet blacks and leads, as well as the first 'real' bloon formations. Catching the golden bloon early on is highly recommended as a curtain of blacks will surround you and you want to pop it. Darts are useful on this stage.

1-4: Shielded bloons will appear on this wave. Tier 2 rang powersets can beat this level without difficulty. Remember to catch the Mystery Bloon which appears near the start, and prioritize normal bloons over shields.

1-5: You will encounter your first MOABs. Some sort of tech whip is highly recommended as they can inflict quick damage. Keep a fast-firing core like darts against the flower formations. StealthCoder967's tips on this level - This is a good level to go back and get blop cash for more advanced levels.

2-1: Retaining the boomerangs, explosives, and whips along with a goot core (e.g. tier 2 tech) will obliterate most of the formations and waves you will encounter. Remember that magic is near useless without high (Elemental Strike or above) upgrades as many shielded and ceramic bloons appear. Your research should help get rid of immunities, especially for the rang powerset which has high popping power.

2-2 The best power in the game is the crouching monkey, the epic from the rangs tree. If you get 2 of these on two monkeys and have your research powered up, you can diamond 80% of all the levels without even moving your character and just spamming your epics.

TechTerr0r's Tips (Being actively worked on)

 * Research is your best friend. High leveled research is extremely powerful, and removes most worry about bloon immunities and moab-class.
 * Boomerang arms are essential for bloon dunes diamond trophies, as while they do not pop many bloons, they are able to seek out the stray yellows that go extremely fast along the screen.
 * Solid doom is by far the most powerful upgrade in the entire game, as while expensive, can absolutely shred through most stages on its own with minimal research.
 * Double spikey shots are the optimal arm setup, as they deal big damage to pesky ceramics, have extreme pierce and speed, and have good damage overall. Weaknesses to lead can be covered by energy or magic cores or research. Spikey shots are also relatively cheap, so they are easy to obtain.
 * Magic arms are generally subpar, as they are weaker than tech arms and are weak against ceramics as well, which are common in the later stages. Magic arms are, however, good in the early stages when good lead popping power is needed.
 * Bomb core is generally useless, it misses quite often and doesn't have that much popping power overall. Better options include tech core (highly recommended) and dart core (also extremely powerful)
 * Boomerang core is also generally bad, as it's usually just a lesser dart core that seeks bloons out at close range, which, when the bloons are at close range, would generally get popped by most powerful core upgrades anyways.
 * For trouble with Moab-class and boss bloons, bomb arms are among the most powerful upgrades in the game at taking them down. Try to time it so that the mauler shots every 5th shot hit the boss or moab that you would like, and use the bloon busters to take out the residual bloons.

TechTerr0r's Tips on Epic Powers

 * Most epic powers have their uses in some situations, while other epic powers go above and beyond and excel in multiple departments.
 * Dart ace is good if there are no leads or other upgrades that you have to pop leads. When uninterrupted by leads, dart ace excels at shredding through big clusters of bloons and dealing heavy damage to shield clumps.
 * Crouching monkey is excellent for diamonds on bloon dunes, as they don't pop many bloons, but they can snipe stray bloons that escape your arms and core. Other than bloon dunes diamonds, however, it is outclassed entirely.
 * Sidewinder ace is effectively an extra set of bloon buster arms, which as stated above, can help with residual bloons and deal massive damage to moab-class and boss bloons that may overwhelm other epic powers, such as crouching monkey.
 * Phoenix is generally considered to be a useless upgrade, but it sometimes useful with getting diamonds on some stages. Because of how long it is active for and how wide of an area it covers, using two of them and using one to cover the other's downtime while catching the bloons they don't get can save you some pain on diamonds.
 * Doom gauntlets are obscenely powerful, being able to shred through even boss bloons like butter, but the super monkey's arms have to be near the bloon for it to pop. It is recommended to use a core epic that can deal with a large amount of shield bloons, such as MOAP or spikey chaos, so that your super monkey's movement will not be interrupted as you move it closer to a boss bloon to deal massive damage.
 * Spikey chaos is a very powerful core epic, generally considered to be the best in the game. It is effectively a screen clear, with only dense groups of shielded leads being able to survive the onslaught with medium-high research put into dart and universal research upgrades. Spikey chaos can also be used while the super monkey is directly on top of a boss bloon or moab-class bloon to deal massive damage to said bloon, as all of the spiked balls will hit the bloon, since the balls are shot out from all directions of the super monkey. It's one downside is it's not as useful in world 4 as other core epics are, since there are very many shielded lead clusters present.
 * Mass distraction is powerful in some situations, being able to snipe a stray bloon and prevent it from exiting to save a diamond trophy. Other than that, it's usually not very good, as it stuns very few bloons if there are shielded bloons present, which there are very many in the later stages.
 * MOAP is extremely powerful, being effectively the same as spikey chaos except not able to pop blacks in exchange for wiping out every single bloon, including leads, on the screen instantly. As blacks are not a very common weakness, your arms and core upgrades will easily be able to clean up the now-crippled bloon waves, as they will have turned from shielded glass, lead, and ceramics into zebras. MOAP is highly recommended on stage 3-5 for this reason, as the circles of shielded lead, glass, and ceramic bloons will be vaporized by the MOAP. The MOAP also has a fast recharge rate, which is very nice as it allows it to be easily spammable.
 * Lightning trail is powerful, being able to pop a near-infinite amount of non-ceramic bloons so long as it is used properly. It is recommended to use lightning trail in the boss phase of 3-5, as it can shred the annoying shielded black bloon clumps as soon as a bloon touches the trail.
 * Sidekick is very powerful, but generally not worth the $30,000 cost. It can help with 4-5, as it is essentially even more power to your arsenal, but even for 4-5 it is generally better to go for a MOAP to demolish the shielded leads with a shorter cooldown. Sidekick is, however, the most powerful core epic by raw damage output, assuming you stay close enough to the bloons to take advantage of SM Jr.'s plasma whips