Bigger Jets (BTD6)

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Bigger Jets
General Information
Game	Bloons TD 6
Tower	Heli Pilot
Unlocked at	150 XP
Cost	$255 (Easy) $300 (Medium) $325 (Hard) $360 (Impoppable)
Activated Ability	N/A
Targeting Options	Follow Touch/Mouse, Lock in Place, Patrol Points, Pursuit with Pursuit Upgrade.
Camo Detection	No (can be upgraded to X/2/X)
Popology
Damage Type(s)
Sharp Straight Spray 2x Straight Attack Self-Mobility
Statistics
Damage	1 (darts, spray of 2)
Pierce	3 (darts, spray of 2)
Attack Speed	Fast (every 0.56s, e.a.u.)
Range	~40 (darts, spray of 2)
Status Effects	N/A
Tower Boosts	N/A
Income/Life Boosts	N/A
Path Upgrades
Current	Bigger Jets
Current	Bigger Jets
Next →	IFR
Next →	IFR
Path Info
Path	2
Path	2
Upgrade Tier	1
Upgrade Tier	1
[Source]

“	Powerful jets make Heli move much faster.	”
	~ In-game description

Bigger Jets is the first upgrade of the second path for the Heli Pilot in Bloons TD 6. It increases the movement speed for the Heli Pilot from 40 to 70 units/second, for a total of 75% faster flight speed. There is a special interaction with MOAB Shove that increases knockback potency versus MOAB-class. There is no special interaction with Razor Rotors.

This upgrade costs $255 on Easy, $300 on Medium, $325 on Hard, and $360 on Impoppable. If this tower is nearby Level 6+ Rosalia's workshop, this upgrade costs $230 on Easy, $270 on Medium, $290 on Hard, and $325 on Impoppable.

Description

Overview

Bigger Jets (left, bottom) moving faster than a base Heli Pilot

With Bigger Jets, the tail of the Bigger Jets becomes yellow to signify its bigger upgraded jets, which are placed internally in the helicopter and not visible to the player. The tail rotor is absent in this upgrade.

Bigger Jets improves the efficiency of the helicopter's flight speed, plus additional crosspathing benefits when given MOAB Shove.

Targeting Priorities

Bigger Jets utilizes touch-based mobility and self-mobility to move around the screen with different flight targetings. Its main attack shoots straight movement projectiles, which originate from the Heli Pilot with its independent range like an ordinary tower.

• Follow Touch / Follow Mouse: Moves to where the player taps. On desktop versions, Follow Touch instead becomes Follow Mouse, which will make the Heli Pilot move to wherever the cursor is currently at.
• Lock In Place: Stops the Heli Pilot where it is when the Target Priority is selected. Can be adjusted to choose a different locked location.
• Patrol: Patrols between two spots chosen by the player. Can be adjusted to choose different points.
• Pursuit: Equivalent to the target priority First, except the Heli Pilot will follow in front of the bloons while shooting them. It is unlocked with the purchase of the second upgrade on the first path, with the same name as the target priority. Once upgraded to the respective upgrade, it automatically switches to this target priority.

The Heli Pilot's main attacks always default on First based on the range of the helicopter's weaponry.

Full Popology

Statistics

Updated as of Version 44.0

Base stats

• Landing Base has a rectangular footprint of 27x27. "Dummy range" of 22. Upon placement, spawn Heli Pilot as the main tower.
• Heli Pilot moves at a flight speed of 70. Can be set on Follow Touch / Follow Mouse, Lock In Place, Patrol Points, or Pursuit. Creates Dart projectiles from centre of Heli Pilot if detecting bloons within range.
  • Follow Touch / Follow Mouse: move towards wherever the screen was last touched, or wherever the cursor is on screen.
  • Lock In Place: move towards the locked location, otherwise stop moving
  • Patrol Points: move between two points.
• Dart:
  • Projectile, sharp type, 42 range, spray of 2, 0.57s attack cooldown, 1 damage, 3 pierce. Projectile size of 3. Projectile speed of 260, projectile lifespan of 1s.

Crosspathing interactions

• 5-1-0: Flight speed increased from 70 to 87.5.
• 0-1-3: Shove knockback increased by a -10% speed modifier
• 0-1-4: Shove knockback increased by a -10% speed modifier. Flight speed of Mini-Comanche increased from 70 to 100.
• 0-1-5: Shove knockback increased by a -10% speed modifier. Flight speed of Heli Pilot increased from 50 to 87.5, flight speed of Mini-Comanche increased from 70 to 100.

Monkey Knowledge interactions

• Elite Military Training: All Military Monkeys get a one-off +1000 XP and earn XP in-game 5% faster permanently.
• Military Conscription: First military tower costs only ⅔ of the original cost.
  • Heli Pilot base cost from $1,360, $1,600, $1,730, and $1,920 → $910, $1,070, $1,160, and $1,285 on Easy, Medium, Hard, and Impoppable, respectively.
• Advanced Logistics: All Military Monkeys base costs reduced by 5%.
  • Heli Pilot base cost from $1,360, $1,600, $1,730, and $1,920 → $1,290, $1,520, $1,640, and $1,825 on Easy, Medium, Hard, and Impoppable, respectively.
    • If Military Conscription is also enabled, the final cost will be $845, $990, $1,070, and $1,190.
• Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
• Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more. Increases sell potency from 70% to 75%.
• Veteran Monkey Training: All Monkeys reload time reduced by 3%.

Attack Interactions

See also: Attack Interactions/Bloons TD 6/Military

Updated as of Version 44.0

Base attack(s)

• Dart:
  • Sharp
  • Straight Spray (2)
  • Straight Attack
  • Touch-Based Mobility
  • Flying

Costs

Updated as of Version 51.0. Listed prices exclude external buffs, any sacrifices, and Monkey Knowledge.

[Module | Data]	Purchase				Sell
Costs	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
Upgrade (X-1-X)	$255	$300	$325	$360	-
Total (0-1-0)	$1,530	$1,800	$1,945	$2,160	$1,071	$1,260	$1,362	$1,512
Crosspath (1-1-0)	$2,210	$2,600	$2,810	$3,120	$1,547	$1,820	$1,967	$2,184
Crosspath (2-1-0)	$2,635	$3,100	$3,350	$3,720	$1,845	$2,170	$2,345	$2,604
Crosspath (0-1-1)	$1,740	$2,050	$2,215	$2,460	$1,218	$1,435	$1,551	$1,722
Crosspath (0-1-2)	$2,035	$2,400	$2,595	$2,880	$1,425	$1,680	$1,817	$2,016

This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: Military Conscription, Advanced Logistics, Better Sell Deals

Strategy

Strategy

Bigger Jets improves the overall performance of the Heli Pilot by improving its flight speed. This helps it become better suited for micromanagement and therefore will have a considerably easier time chasing faster bloons. In addition, there is a special bonus for MOAB Shoves with this upgrade that allow them to deal greater shoving knockback versus MOAB-class.

Tips

• Adding this to Pursuit makes the Heli Pilot more reliable at properly managing its automatic flight pattern. In some cases, Bigger Jets is better than adding Faster Firing.

Version History

Balance Changes

The difference in base Heli speed has increased by implementing a nerf to base Heli Pilot and a buff to this upgrade, specifically designed to encourage more Path 2 crosspathing.

21.0

• Bigger Jets flight speed increased (67.5 → 70).

22.0

• Bigger Jets now improves MOAB Shove knockback.

Extra Notes (Version History)

• Version 44.0 buffed Rosalia's Level 6+ discount from 5% to 10%, which changed the prices of Bigger Jets when buffed by her:
  • Easy: $240 → $230
  • Medium: $285 → $270
  • Hard: $305 → $290
  • Impoppable: $340 → $325

Gallery

Crosspathing (Top: Path 1, Bottom: Path 3)

Enough XP to unlock

Official artwork

Upgrade portrait

Upgrade icon

Instamonkey icon

Trivia

• Despite the name, the Heli Pilot's helicopter does not have visible jet engines before or after purchasing this upgrade. This applies to every game that the Heli Pilot has been in.
  • However, most helicopters drive their rotor using what is known as a turboshaft jet engine. This is a jet engine similar to those on winged aircraft, but modified so that the engine's primary output is spinning a shaft rather than expelling high velocity exhaust. This shaft is connected to the rotor of the helicopter. Thus the Bigger Jets upgrade likely increases the size of this turboshaft engine, giving the Heli Pilot a much more powerful rotor.