Black Bloons are immune to explosions and contain 2 Pink Bloons!
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~ Message when first encounting Black Bloons along with White and Zebra Bloons in BTD 5.
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80 black bloons. Enjoy.
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~ Round 40 in BTD1
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Just black bloons coming up. Lots of 'em.
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~ BTD1 round 37
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Lots and lots and lots of black bloons. More than ever.
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~ BTD1 round 44
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This is the last level. There are TONS AND TONS of black AND white bloons coming. Hope you have lots of lives left...
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~ BTD1 round 50
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The good thing about black bloons is that they move slower than yellows.
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~ BTD1 round 32
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Lots and lots of yellows - more than a hundred even, followed by a bunch of black bloons.
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~ BTD1 round 29
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Lots of white, then black, then yellow bloons. The next level is going to hurt.
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~ BTD1 round 46
The Black Bloon is a Bloon that appears in all games of the BTD (and BSM2). It has an unique property - it is immune to explosions. It usually appears around rounds 20-25.
It is immune to freezing - It is immune to less effects that towers and upgrades have.
It moves twice as fast as a Red Bloon, and faster than a Black.
They are encountered later in the games.
It could be said that the Black Bloon was formerly more powerful than the White Bloon, and thus was once the most powerful Bloon. In BTD1, only Bombs could pop frozen Bloons, so you needed bombs to have any use for Ice Towers. Also, since BTD1 does not have Snap Freeze, the Ice Tower could not deal damage. Because of this, more people used Bombs back then, and thus more people were affected by the Black Bloon's immunity to explosions.
In BTD3 and BTD4, a single pile of Road Spikes can almost take down an entire Black Bloon, leaving only a Red Bloon. In BTD5, one spike pile can pop a Black Bloon whole.
It is sometimes confused with the Bomb Bloon. Both deal with Bombs in some way.
In BTD1 and BTD2, because of its resistance to bombs, it is impossible to win the game using only Bomb Towers. In BTD3, BTD4 and BTD5, it is possible because of the Frag Bombs upgrade, and also, in BTD5, the Bloon Impact upgrade.
Strangely, Black (and also White) Bloons are small, yet containing two larger (Pink) Bloons.
However, in the flash version of Bloons Tower Defense 5, the Regrow property clears up this issue, as all Regrow bloons have the same size.
If the player upgrades a Frag BombsBomb Shooter to a Cluster Bombs Bomb shooter, the tower will not be able to pop Black Bloons anymore until upgraded to the Bloon Impact upgrade, because the bombs replace frags in the upgrade.
In Bloons Tower Defense 6, Cluster bombs is considered a downgrade at times because of the fact that Cluster bombs and Bloon impact are in seperate paths with Recursive Cluster not being able to pop blacks.
In BTD1, Black Bloons can not be popped at all while frozen because they are immune to Bombs, while frozen Bloons are immune to everything except Bombs, this makes it more powerful than the white bloon at times.
There are 4 Bloon types in the entire Bloons series that have multiple "parents" - Black Bloons, Ceramic Bloons (however, they also released from DDT on Bloons Monkey City, but with Camo and Regen properties) and Pink Bloons. The Black Bloon has the Lead Bloon and the Zebra Bloon and the Ceramic Bloon has the MOAB and the DDT.
The Black Bloon and the White Bloon are the only Bloons smaller than the Bloons they spawn.
In BTD5, they can be popped by a Missile Launcher upgrade. This may be due to the fact that in the files, a 'missile' and a 'bomb' are set to two different things.
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