Bloonarius the Inflator (BMC)

BMC

BSM2 Mobile

BTD6

Bloonarius the Inflator
General Information
Debut	Bloons Monkey City
Appearances	Bloons Monkey City Flash Bloons Monkey City Mobile
RBE	Varies
Layer HP	Varies (see #Health)
Movement speed	7 (0.1x Red Bloon speed)
Parent of	Varies (see #Spawns)
Child of	None
Characteristics
Slowest Bloon in BTD series, Boss Bloon, health increases by 2000 every level, M.O.A.B. Class Bloon.
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“	The mighty Bloonarius has risen from the murky depths and only you can defeat him. It'll take all of your skill to bring down this behemoth, but beware; the more punishment he absorbs the more of his deadly minions he'll summon!	”
	~ Description in the mobile and PC versions

Bloonarius the Inflator is a Boss Bloon in Bloons Monkey City, introduced to the Flash version in the June 25 2015 update and the mobile and PC versions in the January 20 2016 update. It is a massive, slow-moving MOAB-Class Bloon that spawns other Bloons each time a certain amount of health is lost. Compared to other Boss Bloons in BMC, Bloonarius has the lowest speed and the highest HP.

Bloonarius can only be fought during its Boss Bloon event. It can be fought at level 1 at any time, but once defeated, it can only be re-fought by clearing tiles with the Bloon Beacon, after which it will become available to fight again for one hour. Its level increases each time it is defeated.

Overview

Each time Bloonarius' health is reduced by 25% (indicated by the skulls on its health bar), it spawns a Bloon at its current position. The type of Bloon it spawns depends on its level and threshold, and varies between the Flash version and the mobile and PC versions. Bloonarius spawns lower-ranked Bloons in the mobile and PC versions overall, likely to compensate for the natural Bloons in those versions being much more difficult.

Properties

• Bloonarius has a base movement speed of 7, or 10% the speed of a Red Bloon (70).
• Bloonarius has a hitbox radius of 100 units in the Flash version, or 60 units in the mobile and PC versions.
• Bloonarius gives 1 cash per point of damage it takes.
• As with all Boss Bloons, Bloonarius only takes 375 damage from the MOAB Assassin Ability instead of the usual 750, and takes 3000 damage from First Strike Capability.
• Bloonarius has no damage type immunities.
• Bloonarius cannot be targeted by the following:
  • Bloonchipper
  • MOAB Takedown Ability
• Bloonarius is immune to the following status effects:
  • Burn
  • Slowdown
  • Freeze
  • Permafrost (is affected by the special form of Permafrost applied by the Absolute Zero Ability in the mobile and PC versions)
  • Shardable
  • Template:EffectViralFrostViral Frost
  • Stun (except Pop and Awe in the mobile and PC versions)
  • Blowback
  • Sabotage

Health

Level	Total health	Health increase
1	2000	N/A
2	4000	2000
3	6000	2000
4	8000	2000
5	10000	2000
6	14000	4000
7	18000	4000
8	22000	4000
9	28000	6000
10	36000	8000
11	48000	12000
12	64000	16000
13	84000	20000
14	108000	24000
15	136000	28000
16	170000	34000
17	210000	40000
18	256000	46000
19	308000	52000
20	366000	58000
21	432000	66000
22	506000	74000
23	588000	82000
24	678000	90000
25	776000	98000

Bloonarius' health for levels 20 and above is determined using the following formula: $Health = 4000(Level)^2-98000(Level)+726000$

Spawns

Flash version

Level	1 skull	2 skulls	3 skulls
1	Lead	Lead	Lead
2	Lead	Lead	Lead
3	Rainbow	Rainbow	Rainbow
4	Ceramic	Ceramic	Ceramic
5	Ceramic	MOAB	MOAB
6	MOAB	MOAB	MOAB
7	MOAB	MOAB	BFB
8	MOAB	BFB	BFB
9	BFB	BFB	BFB
10	BFB	BFB	BFB
11	BFB	BFB	BFB
12	BFB	BFB	BFB
13	BFB	BFB	BFB
14	BFB	BFB	BFB
15	BFB	BFB	BFB
16	BFB	BFB	ZOMG
17	BFB	BFB	ZOMG
18	BFB	ZOMG	ZOMG
19	BFB	ZOMG	ZOMG
20	ZOMG	ZOMG	ZOMG
21+	None

Mobile and PC versions

Level	1 skull	2 skulls	3 skulls
1	Lead	Lead	Lead
2	Lead	Lead	Lead
3	Lead	Lead	Lead
4	Zebra	Zebra	Zebra
5	Rainbow	Rainbow	Rainbow
6	Rainbow	Rainbow	Rainbow
7	Ceramic	Ceramic	Ceramic
8	Ceramic	Ceramic	Ceramic
9	Ceramic	Ceramic	MOAB
10	MOAB	MOAB	MOAB
11	MOAB	MOAB	MOAB
12	MOAB	MOAB	MOAB
13	MOAB	MOAB	BFB
14	MOAB	BFB	BFB
15	MOAB	BFB	BFB
16	BFB	BFB	BFB
17	BFB	BFB	BFB
18	BFB	BFB	BFB
19	BFB	BFB	ZOMG
20	BFB	BFB	ZOMG
21+	ZOMG	ZOMG	ZOMG

Strategies

See also: Boss Bloon/Strategies/BMC#Bloonarius: The Inflator

• On BMC Mobile you can do insane amounts of damage (up to ~10k) by placing many Spike Storms right next to it. Note that the spikes fired by the ability are not used up when damaging Bloonarius, only when they settle on the track.
• Dartling Guns can take out Bloonarius fairly quickly in the early levels, but become less effective with each level.
• Begin with mainly grape shot boats at entrance to maximize early damage and build maximum income. Sell all except for one and upgrade to an aircraft carrier. Save for overclock. Monkey boost the carrier and overclock at same time. Build as many carriers as you can constantly buying and selling the overclock ability.
  • Due to nerfed Aircraft Carrier on mobile, do not try this on mobile.
  • When using this strategy, it is recommended to place a 1/1 Sniper Monkey to deal with lead bloons. Set its attack target depending on where Bloonarius is. Early in the round, set it to "First" then later set it to "close".
• "For the early rounds, I've found a 3/1 buccaneer tore Bloonarius apart well enough", ~ DuelMasterP.
• Multiple 0/1 boats work better than a single 3/1 boat because of the bosses large size.
• Glue does seem to hurt it (somewhat), but does not slow it down , ~ Rohan.
• The battle does seem to consist of multiple continuous rounds, particular as evidenced by production from Banana Farms, as well as deployment of crates.
• A Monkey Buccaneer with MOAB Takedown Ability can easily take down the BFBs and MOABs that come from it one higher levels.
• Spamming and selling MOAB Assassins could be used. It becomes effective at the end to do some damage against it. With Monkey Tycoon lvl 13, you can spam them without money loss (dealing damage fills your bank again) and your damage is only depending on your speed.
  • On Mobile, First Strike Capabilities do a large amount of damage to Bloonarius, even more than MOAB Assassins. Each usage deals 3600 damage to Bloonarius and with selling and rebuy spam, First Strike Capabilities can easily wear down Bloonarius very quickly, especially on higher levels.
• MOAB Maulers do deal more damage to it than Missile Launchers, so they can be of some use.
• Tack Shooters work better than Boats with enough income from damage to Bloonarius on early levels.
  • However, Blade Maelstrom is usually required to survive the harsh rushes of natural bloons that comes, especially on mobile where on levels 15 and up, the naturals sent will usually be lots of Ceramic Bloons and MOABs.
• Judging by the HP table, one can make an estimate for the HP Bloonarius for any level by adding 8,000 to the current Hp increment of the previous level boss then adding that value to the previous level's HP
  • E.G for level 26: 98,000 + 8,000 =106,000, Hp for level 25 Bloonarius is 776,000 so 776,000 + 106,000 = 882,000
• It can be easily taken down by spamming Monkey Buccaneers with Grape Shot during the first few levels.

Quotes

“	I'll be back!	”
	~ Bloonarius' message when defeated

Sounds

When Bloonarius spawns:

• [something huge rising from the water]

When Bloonarius is defeated:

• [deep growling with explosion]

Gallery

The event menu

Bloonarius

Bloonarius' first degrade

Bloonarius' second degrade

Bloonarius' third degrade

Bloonarius frozen using the Boss Chill ability

Event in the Monkey News

Bloonarius' sprites found in BTD5 Steam

Mobile menu

Victory in Mobile!

Bloonarius icon

Bloonarius artwork

Trivia

• The message after you've defeated Bloonarius, "I'll be back!" might be a reference to the Terminator movie series.
• Bloonarius has the slowest movement speed of all Bloons in the Bloons TD series.
• Bloonarius is the only Bloon in the Bloons TD series that can spawn Lead Bloons.
• Bloonarius is the third Bloon in the Bloons series to have eyes, the first two being the BFB and ZOMG.
• Bloonarius has 4 propellers, the largest amount of any Bloon.
• According to the title message for the third Bloonarius event, Vortex is Bloonarius' little brother.
• Bloonarius has Monklish text that translates literally to "TE DEEP"[sic], though, as Monklish usually uses T for the digraph Th, the text likely translates to "THE DEEP".
• It was unintentionally soft released on Mobile together with the Bloon Beacon. Bloonarius was later removed. This was only shown on Android soft release, and fully released on the core release.