- For the Monkey Knowledge Pack group, see Monkey Knowledge Packs#Bloon Sabotage.
“ | Sabotage ability: Lasts 15 seconds. During the sabotage, all Bloons move at half speed. | ” |
~ In-game description |
Bloon Sabotage (often referred to as Sabotage or Sabo) is the fourth upgrade of Path 2 for the Ninja Monkey in Bloons TD 6, corresponding to Sabotage Supply Lines from the previous generation. It adds an ability that instantly slows down all bloons on-screen (except BADs and Bosses) by 50% for 15 seconds. The ability has a cooldown of 60 seconds. The only difference besides the additional immediate slowdown is that the Bloon Sabotage's sabotage effect cannot affect children bloons popped from MOAB-class after the start of a recent Bloon Sabotage activation, but the sabotage effect can carry over rounds while duration has not yet expired.
This upgrade costs $4,420 on Easy, $5,200 on Medium, $5,615 on Hard, and $6,240 on Impoppable.
Description[]
Overview[]
Bloon Sabotage changes the Ninja Monkey to wear a black suit with bring four eyes that has a brown headpiece on top. The ninja scroll is now covered and its base recolored green with red at the ends of the larger cylinder.
Compared to Shinobi Tactics, Bloon Sabotage adds the Bloon Sabotage ability, which slows all bloons on screen by 50% for 15 seconds, but cannot soak through MOAB-class bloons. The ability can carry over rounds. Also, as a Tier 4, Bloon Sabotage cannot be affected by Total Transformation.
Activated Abilities[]
During the ability, all bloons and blimps on screen are slowed by 50% for 15 seconds. The ability's slowdown cannot soak through blimp layers. Cooldown of 60 seconds.
Like most magic-based activated abilities, Bloon Sabotage's ability cooldowns can be reduced by adding a global Energizer buff or Obyn Level 12+. It can have its ability cooldowns reset with Geraldo's Rejuv Potion.
Targeting Priorities[]
Bloon Sabotage targets bloons using the standard targeting priorities. It shoots straight movement projectiles.
- First: Targets the first bloon visible within its range.
- Last: Targets the last bloon visible within its range.
- Close: Targets the closest bloon visible within its range.
- Strong: Targets the strongest bloon visible within its range.
Bloon Sabotage ability slowdown targets Whole Screen. Bloon Sabotage also has a tower buff that targets nearby Ninja Monkeys.
All Ninja Monkeys can access Camo Prioritization. While Camo Prioritization is active, it allows all its attacks to prioritize Camo Bloons over other types.
Costs[]
- Updated as of Version 44.0. Listed prices exclude external buffs, any sacrifices, and Monkey Knowledge.
[Module | Data] | Purchase | Sell | ||||||
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Costs | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable |
Upgrade (X-4-X) | $4,420 | $5,200 | $5,615 | $6,240 | - | |||
Total (0-4-0) | $6,330 | $7,450 | $8,040 | $8,940 | $4,431 | $5,215 | $5,628 | $6,258 |
Crosspath (1-4-0) | $6,625 | $7,800 | $8,420 | $9,360 | $4,638 | $5,460 | $5,894 | $6,552 |
Crosspath (2-4-0) | $6,920 | $8,150 | $8,800 | $9,780 | $4,844 | $5,705 | $6,160 | $6,846 |
Crosspath (0-4-1) | $6,585 | $7,750 | $8,365 | $9,300 | $4,610 | $5,425 | $5,856 | $6,510 |
Crosspath (0-4-2) | $6,965 | $8,200 | $8,850 | $9,840 | $4,876 | $5,740 | $6,195 | $6,888 |
This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: Better Sell Deals
Strategy[]
Summary[]
Bloon Sabotage is a powerful option to slow all bloons on screen by 50% for 15 seconds, regardless of where the Ninja Monkey is on screen. This makes its ability one of the only options at immediately slowing infinite bloons currently present on screen for the duration, especially against DDTs. It is mostly seen in the late-game where blimp speed ramping increases, although it is sometimes used in the mid-game in some scenarios. The Bloon Sabotage upgrade is either bought as a separate tower or as an upgrade to an existing Shinobi Tactics army. With an active Bloon Sabotage, defenses will have more time to defend against the Bloons, consequently allowing slow-attacking towers to more reliably attack fast-moving bloons.
Tips[]
- Bloon Sabotage is very useful for slowing down Rounds 90, 93, 95, and 99, where hordes of DDTs may appear. It is very useful for when MOAB Glue cannot glue every blimp.
- Note that Bloon Sabotage does not soak through MOAB-class layers, making it less useful on big blimp rush rounds, although it is still not a bad slowdown option for the blimp innards.
- It is worth complementing Bloon Sabotage with MOAB Glue for a more consistent blimp slowdown, especially while the ability is on cooldown.
- The ability can also be used to intentionally slow down all bloons on screen to give more time for Rubber to Gold to apply goldify potions to bloons without "stealing" pops.
- As Bloon Sabotage has the Shinobi Tactics upgrade, it can be paired with many high-level Ninjas to accrue the massive sacrifice costs required for a high-level Ascended Shadow. While less expensive than Sticky Bomb, Bloon Sabotages serve more overall value in the save-up for Ascended Shadow.
- Three Bloon Sabotages together have enough uptime to cover a reliable global slowdown for both speedy rounds (e.g. Round 95 and Round 99) and hyperdense rounds (e.g. Round 96 and Round 98).
- Pairing an active Bloon Sabotage with the Embrittlement allows for Embrittlement to more consistently decamo and de-lead DDTs. This is especially helpful on sustained DDT rounds like Round 95 and difficult DDT rounds like Round 99.
Version History[]
Balance Changes[]
Bloon Sabotage received price nerfs and a carry-over effect buff. In addition, the ability itself works somewhat differently compared to its BTD5 counterpart.
- Initial release (compared to BTD5)
- Bloon Sabotage ability now instantly slows down all bloons on screen as well as any incoming bloons.
- Bloon Sabotage effect can no longer soak through MOAB-class bloons.
- 2.0
- Bloon Sabotage price increased ($4,000 → $5,000).
- 3.0
- Bloon Sabotage effect can carry over rounds.
- 25.0
“ | Ninja's Bloon Sabotage is often used in tricky rounds as a powerful slow with a long duration, so we have made a gentle price increase here to reflect that support strength. | ” |
~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Bloon Sabotage cost increased ($5000 → $5200).
- 28.0
“ | As ninja is the 'Camo Specialist' and has been since inception, it is the only tower that will unlock Camo Prioritization on the base tower. [...] | ” |
~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Affected by base Ninja Monkey, by gaining natural Camo Prioritization target option
- 29.0
- Affected by Distraction alternate attacks buff
- 40.0
“ | For an early game Distraction improvement the consistency of blowbacks is being averaged out more with increased minimum distance but reduced maximum, in many cases there would not actually be 250 units of track length in front of defenses to be blown back across anyway so the overall average distance is slightly lower. More at the mid to endgame we are also weakening distraction distance against Ceramics specifically as by this point Ninja have stacked so much speed and projectiles the consistency doesn’t matter anymore. Finally, distraction values for secondary projectiles are being modified, as Distraction chance as it has existed was never balanced around more than the main attack | ” |
~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Affected by the Distraction rework
- 43.0
“ | While a great early game option, Ninja generally struggles with dominant crosspathing choices and also has relatively poor base tower value. Without going into every single change, T3s onward remain relatively unchanged with a lot of prices below T3 being moved around from less favorable crosspaths into better/higher tier upgrades. [...] | ” |
~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Bloon Sabotage base shuriken attack speed increased from 0.7s to 0.62s. Does not affect 1-4-0 (0.434s).
Bug Fixes and General Changes[]
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Extra Notes (Version History)[]
Sounds[]
When activating Bloon Sabotage Ability:
- [Degenerating wind blowing]
Gallery[]
Official artwork[]
Particles[]
Trivia[]
- The Bloon Sabotage upgrade is more similar to Bloons TD Battles Mobile's version of the upgrade, due to how all bloons (including those already on the track) are slowed, unlike other versions, where the only bloons that are slowed are those that recently spawned.
- Unlike in earlier games, Bloon Sabotage now produces visual and audio sound effects when activating the ability. The ability visuals and audio are cherry blossom petals blowing in the wind and a slowdown whoosh effect, respectively.
- Aside from the unupgraded Ninja, the Bloon Sabotage upgrade is the only Ninja Monkey upgrade whose artwork matches the same pose as the corresponding BTD5 upgrade.
- From Version 10.0 to Version 10.1/10.2, there was a bug where the Bloon Sabotage ability (but surprisingly not the Grand Saboteur ability) could slow down BADs. This was fixed in Version 11.0.
- Interestingly, the original price for Bloon Sabotage was the same price as Sabotage Supply Lines in Bloons TD Battles Flash, while the Version 2.0 price of Bloon Sabotage was the same as the current price of Sabotage Supply Lines in Bloons TD Battles Mobile.
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