Arctic Wind

Arctic Wind
Arctic Wind In Bloons Tower Defense 5
Upgraded From	Snap Freeze
Upgrade #	4 (BTD4) P1U3 (BTD5)
Price	Easy: $5525 Medium: $6500 Hard: $7020 Impoppable: $7800
Price with ALL previous upgrades	Medium: $7960
Official Description	Extreme cold slows down anything that comes near the ice tower. (BTD4) Gives a super cold aura that slows anything near the tower. As a result, Ice Tower has a much larger range.
First Appearance	Bloons Tower Defense 4
Appearances	BTD4, BTD4 Expansion, BTD5, BTD5 Deluxe, iOS versions of BTD4 and BTD5

Arctic Wind is the final upgrade for the Ice Tower in Bloons TD 4 and the third upgrade of the first path for the Ice Tower in BTD5. With this upgrade, bloons slow to 33% of their original speed due to the cold of Arctic Wind. Arctic Wind does not slow M.O.A.B.s, B.F.B.s or Z.O.M.G.s, though its snap freeze will damage them (3 Times Around around is a good track for testing this). Unlike glue, Arctic Wind slows ceramics. In Bloons TD 4, It costs $5100 on Easy, $6000 on Medium, and $6480 on Hard. In Bloons TD 5, it costs $5525 on Easy, $6500 on Medium, $7020 on Hard, and $7800 on Impoppable.

Strategies

One of the best ways to use this tower is to use it against hordes of bloons. Even the bloons that can't be frozen will be slowed down to let the other towers do their work.

Another great way to use this tower is to place it next to a Monkey Intelligence Bureau to let it freeze anything. If the Bureau has also got Jungle Drums, then the Arctic Wind will be able to continually freeze all bloons that come near it, apart from M.O.A.B. Class Bloons. To rectify the problem, move or sell and replace towers away from the tower, or place the MIB in range of any towers that cannot normally pop frozen bloons.

In the mobile versions of BTD5, as Ceramic Bloons can be slowed down by glue, combining this with a Glue Splatter Glue Gunner can allow towers to easily take down any non-MOAB class bloons.

Another great strategy with this tower is to combine it at a chokepoint with a Ring of Fire: Even though the freeze effect will kind of be denied by the flames, the 33% speed bloons will take three times as long to pass through the Ring of Fire and thus get popped extremely fast. On top of this, the ring of fire will not remove the freeze effect from frozen ceramic bloons until the ENTIRE ceramic layer is popped.

Trivia

• The Arctic Wind in BTD4
• Arctic Wind in use.
• Official artwork in BTD5.
• BMC icon

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• Even though the Arctic Wind slows Camo Bloons in Bloons TD 4, it can't attack them (unless it is in the range of a Sonar Beacon).
• Under the effects of Monkey Intelligence Bureau or with Specialty building, an Arctic Wind can pop infinite Regen Ceramics.
• In Bloons TD 4, Arctic Wind does not slow down Whites and Zebras.
• In Bloons TD 5, an Arctic Wind combined with a Tier 3 Ice Fortress will pop Ceramic Bloons right where they were first frozen. This includes Regrowth Bloons and Camo Bloons if the Arctic Wind has Camo detection.
• In Bloons Monkey City, Camo Bloons are not slowed down when in radius of the tower. However, Cleansing Foam, Signal Flare, and Anti-Camo Dust can remove the camouflage status from bloons, allowing the Arctic Wind tower to slow them down.
• In BTD5 Arctic Wind can still slow down camo bloons when it is under the village, even if the village is then sold.
• It is not advised to use this upgrade on its own against regrow rainbows.
  • Ice can't pop white and zebra bloons, so they regrow into rainbows and the game will start to lag really bad after 10 seconds, and the game will eventually crash.

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