Bomb Blitz (BTDB2)

BTDB2

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“	Deals much more damage and, when lives are lost, the Bomb Storm automatically triggers, which destroys all but the biggest bloons.	”
	^{~ BTDB2 description}

Bomb Blitz is the 5th upgrade of Path 3 for the Bomb Shooter in Bloons TD Battles 2. Unlike its BTD6 counterpart, its secondary clusters and tertiary clusters now each only count as one larger explosion, dealing a flat 5 damage per explosion, and can pop Black Bloons, but no attack speed bonus. In addition, it no longer has an initial cooldown for its passive ability, and leaked Bloons will activate the ability before you lose lives, similar to the Legend of the Night’s passive ability, and lost lives only occur if the bomb storm fails to one-shot leaked bloons. The passive ability's bomb storm deals 3000 damage, cooldown of 40s.

It costs $38,000, and is unlocked with the other tier 5 Bomb Shooter upgrades for 1500.

Strategy[]

Summary[]

In a similar manner to Tsar Bomba, you can quickly upgrade to Bomb Blitz if you fear that you will die to a rush so you can insta-kill everything the opponent sends up to a BFB. Unlike in BTD6, you won’t lose lives if a Bloon leaks and is destroyed in the explosion, so it can be used much more effectively and efficiently. While it can’t be commanded at will like the Tsar, its overall cheaper price gives it a unique role in being Bomb’s reliable DDT defense, being cheaper than the alternative, Bloon Crush.

Alternatively, with Ezili's Sacrificial Totem ability, activating the passive ability is trivial due to the ability manually taking lives on command.

Tips[]

0-2-5 crosspath is usually better to make the maximum DPS. 2-0-5 has bigger blasts and a little more damage, but a lower DPS increase compared to the pure speed. Crosspathing does not directly impact the passive ability.
During a large scale DDT rush, you can quickly buy and resell Bomb Blitz constantly in order to obliterate the entire rush for an affordable price. Affording this style of micro will be easier with an efficient Farm-Bomb strategy, as the excessive money gain will fuel sufficient funds to perform it.
Bomb Blitz can be used against a R22 all-out, as any leaking bloon can just trigger the storm passive ability while the rest of the rush is wiped out. Just pop any incoming ZOMGs first before it can wipe out everything else.

Version History[]

Initial release (compared to BTD6 during Version 28.0)

Bomb Blitz secondary and tertiary clusters now each only count as one larger explosion.
Bomb Blitz no longer has an initial cooldown.

1.5.0

Affected by Cluster Bombs nerf
No longer requires 12,500 XP to unlock. Players who have unlocked this upgrade before the update will not receive a full refund, as well as unlock all Tier 5 Bomb Shooter upgrades.

1.8.0

[undocumented] Bomb Blitz will now trigger Bomb Storm before losing lives.
- Ninja Kiwi mentioned the buff in their 1.9.0 patch notes, stating that this buff was omitted from the 1.8.0 patch notes.

1.9.0

Bomb Blitz’s Bomb Storm now does more damage 2,000 -> 3,000

1.9.3

[bug fix] Bomb Blitz passive ability now pops Bloons that were offscreen

3.2.4

2-0-5 Bomb Blitz secondary cluster pierce bonus reduced from +10 to +6, total cluster pierce bonus reduced from 24 to 20

“	Cluster Bombs has always stood out as a top tier early-mid game tower, leaving very little room for effective rushes against it on certain maps. We have decided to limit the pierce increase that 2xx gives to the clusters since it’s an extremely efficient upgrade, providing a big pierce bonus on top of extra damage.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

4.2

Cost increased: $35,000 → $38,000

“	Bomb Blitz is a great option to effectively deal with large rushes like tight MOABs and grouped DDTs. We have upped the price a bit so that it will be a bit more costly to keep on buying and selling it for its ability.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Bug Fixes and General Changes[]

1.8.0

Leaking Bloons or DDTs might occasionally cause a defeat instead of destroying Bloons that are otherwise eligible to be destroyed.

1.9.3

Fixed bug where leaking Bloons offscreen don’t get popped by Bomb Blitz passive ability

Bugs[]

Current

[1.8.0?, definitely 1.9.2] Bomb Blitz occasionally may fail to kill bloons despite dealing sufficient damage to one-shot a certain bloon type. It seems to work on MOABs but not BFBs.