Bomb Shooter (BTD6)

Overview

Pre-BTD4

BTD4

BTD5

BTD6

Bloons Pop!

BTDB2

Bomb Shooter

General Information

Game

Bloons TD 6 (v1.0)

Release Date

June 13th 2018

Class

Primary Monkey

Unlocked at

Level 2-6

Cost

$445 (Easy)
$525 (Medium)
$565 (Hard)
$630 (Impoppable)

Activated Ability(s)

MOAB Assassin
MOAB Eliminator

Targeting Options

First, Last, Close, Strong

Hotkey

E

Other Names

Bomb

Statistics

Damage

1

Pierce

14

Attack Speed

1.5s

Range

40

Status Effects

Requires upgrades

Tower Boosts

Requires upgrades

Income/Life Boosts

N/A

Camo Detection

Situational (x-x-5)

Footprint

Medium (7)

Default Damage Type

Explosion

Related Towers

Cannon, for the pre-BTD4 counterpart
Bomb Tower (BTD4), for the BTD4 counterpart
Bomb Tower (BTD5), for the BTD5 counterpart
Bomb Shooter (BTDB2), for the BTDB2 counterpart

“	Launches a powerful bomb at the Bloons. Slow rate of fire but affects a radius around the explosion.	”
	^{~ In-game description}

Bomb Shooter is a Primary-class tower in Bloons TD 6 that shoots bombs. The tower retains its role from the Bloons TD 4, 5, and Classic game generations, but has changed its name from "Bomb Tower" along with other significant changes (though the tower was actually called Bomb Shooter in Bloons Monkey City). Like most Primary Monkeys, the Bomb Shooter was featured in a teaser prior to the game's release.

It uses slow firing, heavy bombs which deal area damage and naturally pop Lead Bloons. However, the base tower is useless against Black, Zebra, and DDTs due to their immunity to explosions, and it possesses the major weakness of having no upgrades that give Camo Detection to its main attack. Interestingly, both the Bloon Crush and MOAB Eliminator can directly pop Black Bloons with their explosions without need for Striker Jones Level 5+ or a MIB.

Bomb Shooters fire exploding bombs every 1.5s with a blast radius of 12. Bomb explosions pop up to 14 bloons each. Bomb Shooter can be upgraded to improve its explosive power, its respective paths granting massive bloon-stunning explosions, fast firing MOAB-destroying missiles, and clusters of grouped-popping explosions.

It costs $445 on Easy, $525 on Medium, $565 on Hard, and $630 on Impoppable.

Description[]

The Bomb Shooter was formerly known as the Bomb Tower. Just like in the preceding games, it shoots somewhat slowly, shooting one bomb at a time with a small explosion. Like the BTD4 and BTD5 counterparts, the base Bomb Shooter takes on the appearance of a traditional renaissance-style cannon with two wooden wheels, one on each side.

Compared to previous games, it now has considerably less popping power per explosion, though that pop limit change is less significant compared to other towers, such as that for the Ice Tower/Ice Monkey and Bloontonium Reactor, which previously had infinite pierce in BTD5 and earlier versions.

The first upgrade path for the Bomb Shooter deals with the size and quality of the bombs, eventually allowing the bombs to stun and push back bloons. Bigger Bombs increases blast radius and pierce of the explosions, while Heavy Bombs lets bombs deal extra damage to bloons. The Really Big Bombs combines the stat bonuses of the first two upgrades to produce huge damaging explosions that can push back bloons. Bloon Impact allows stunning of bloons and popping of any bloon type, while the Bloon Crush upgrade can stun and push back blimps and stuns regular bloons for much longer.

The second path makes the Bomb Shooter shoot missiles that can be made to deal more damage to MOAB-Class bloons. The Faster Reload upgrade increases attack speed of the Bomb Shooter by a fair amount. Like the earlier versions, Missile Launcher increases projectile speed, attack speed, and range of the Bomb Shooter, although it does not grant extra pierce. MOAB Mauler and MOAB Assassin upgrades both deal extra damage to blimps and ceramics, while the MOAB Assassin upgrade grants an ability to instantly deal extra damage to the strongest blimp. MOAB Eliminator increases that ability to deal even more damage with a shorter cooldown.

The third path deals with the quantity of the bombs and bombs that split into other bombs. The first two upgrades both provide extra range, with Extra Range providing purely extra range and Frag Bombs coming with a spray of 8 sharp fragments. Cluster Bombs changes the fragments into extra explosions for wider damage coverage, while Recursive Cluster allows those extra explosions to spray out extra explosions every other shot. Bomb Blitz increases damage plus the potential to deploy a global range explosion if lives are lost.

Bomb Shooter is a Primary Monkey.

Target Priorities[]

The base Bomb Shooter uses the standard target priorities: First, Last, Close, Strong. Most of its attacks are dependent on its given target priority.

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.

MOAB Assassin and MOAB Eliminator abilities will always target on Strong, and Bomb Blitz's passive ability lacks a noticeable target priority because of its true infinite pierce and whole screen effects.

Upgrades[]

Path 1[]

	Bigger Bombs COST: $300 / $350 / $380 / $420 UNLOCK: 200 XP
	Description: Shoots larger bombs, they have a larger blast area and more popping power. Effect: Explosions have much greater blast area (12 to 18) and pop +6 bloons.

	Heavy Bombs COST: $550 / $650 / $700 / $780 UNLOCK: 1,000 XP
	Description: Heavy duty bombs can smash through 2 layers of Bloon at once and pop more Bloons. Effect: Explosions deal +1 damage and can pop an additional +10 bloons.

	Really Big Bombs COST: $935 / $1,100 / $1,190 / $1,320 UNLOCK: 3,000 XP
	Description: Huge bombs deal greater damage in a large area and allow Frags to pop more Bloons. Effect: Explosions have even greater blast area (18 to 27), deal 3 damage instead of 2, and pop +30 bloons. With Frag Bombs, improves fragment damage, pierce, count, and lifespan. Pushes back Bloons hit by 10 units.

	Bloon Impact COST: $2,720 / $3,200 / $3,455 / $3,840 UNLOCK: 10,000 XP
	Description: Explosions become so violent Bloons are stunned for a short time when they are hit. Range is increased and frags are even more effective. Effect: Explosions stun affected bloons for 1.4s. Gains +3 range. With Frag Bombs, improves frag pierce, count, and lifespan.

	Bloon Crush COST: $46,750 / $55,000 / $59,400 / $66,000 UNLOCK: 37,500 XP
	Description: Bloon shattering explosions do massive damage and can stun MOAB-Class bloons. Effect: Explosions deal +9 more damage, pop Black Bloons, and stun both MOAB-class and normal bloons for 2.0s. With Frag Bombs, fragments deal much more damage, particularly against Ceramics, and gain much more pierce. Pushes back MOAB-class Bloons hit by 5 units.

Path 2[]

	Faster Reload COST: $210 / $250 / $270 / $300 UNLOCK: 180 XP
	Description: Reloads faster. Effect: Attacks +33% faster (0.75x attack cooldown).

	Missile Launcher COST: $340 / $400 / $430 / $480 UNLOCK: 650 XP
	Description: Exchanges bombs for missiles, which fire faster, fly faster, and increase range. Effect: Attacks +36% faster (0.7333x attack cooldown) on top of the previous upgrade, gains +4 range, and gains +50% projectile speed.

	MOAB Mauler COST: $935 / $1,100 / $1,190 / $1,320 UNLOCK: 2,700 XP
	Description: MOAB Maulers do much more damage to MOAB-Class Bloons. Effect: Explosions deal 16 damage to MOAB-class. Also gains +5 range.

	MOAB Assassin COST: $2,635 / $3,100 / $3,350 / $3,720 UNLOCK: 10,000 XP
	Description: Assassinate MOAB ability: Special missile flies out and does massive damage to MOAB-Class Bloons. Regular attack range and MOAB-class damage also increased. Effect: Ability targets the strongest blimp on screen and deals an instant 750 damage plus a weaker explosion to the first blimp hit. Main attack deals 31 damage to MOAB-class and 5 damage to Ceramics, and gains +5 range.

	MOAB Eliminator COST: $21,675 / $25,500 / $27,540 / $30,600 UNLOCK: 35,000 XP
	Description: Massive damage to MOABs and Assassinate ability deals 6x damage with a short cooldown. Effect: Ability targets the strongest blimp on screen and deals an instant 4500 damage to the first blimp hit with 3x faster ability cooldown. Main attack deals 100 damage to MOAB-class and gains normal damage type.

Path 3[]

	Extra Range COST: $170 / $200 / $215 / $240 UNLOCK: 150 XP
	Description: Increases attack range. Effect: Gains +7 range.

	Frag Bombs COST: $255 / $300 / $325 / $360 UNLOCK: 600 XP
	Description: Explosions throw sharp fragments that can pop more Bloons. Effect: Adds +2 range. Explosions produce sharp fragments that pop up to 1 bloon each. Frags cannot pop lead bloons. Frags can be improved with higher-level Path 1 upgrades.

	Cluster Bombs COST: $680 / $800 / $865 / $960 UNLOCK: 2,500 XP
	Description: Throws out secondary bombs instead of sharp fragments every shot. Effect: Produces 1 cluster of 8 smaller secondary bombs that pop up to 8 bloons per secondary bomb.

	Recursive Cluster COST: $2,380 / $2,800 / $3.025 / $3,360 UNLOCK: 10,000 XP
	Description: Every second shot the cluster bombs send out more cluster bombs for even more destruction. Effect: Every second shot, the bomb explosion explode three times per shot with much larger explosions and huge pierce. Can hit the same target up to 17 times despite visuals depicting 73 explosions. Explosions deal extra damage to all bloons.

	Bomb Blitz COST: $29,750 / $35,000 / $37,800 / $42,000 UNLOCK: 25,000 XP
	Description: Deals much more damage and gains the passive Bomb Storm Ability - when lives are lost, the Bomb Storm automatically triggers, which destroys all but the biggest of Bloons. Effect: Deals 6 damage and plus 5 damage to Fortified per explosion, creates recursive explosions every shot, and gains a passive ability that deals an instant 2000 damage on screen and wipes out BFBs and below after losing a life.

Total Costs[]

Easy:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	300	550	1,020	3,060	46,750
	Cumulative Cost	745	1,295	2,315	5,375	52,125
	Base Sell	210	385	714	2,142	32,725
	Cumulative Sell	521.5	906,5	1620.5	3,762.5	36,487.5
Path 2
	Base Cost	210	340	935	2,720	21,250
	Cumulative Cost	655	995	1,930	4,650	25,900
	Base Sell	147	238	654.5	1,904	14,875
	Cumulative Sell	458.5	696,5	1,351	3,255	18,130
Path 3
	Base Cost	170	255	680	2,380	29,750
	Cumulative Cost	615	870	1,550	3,930	33,680
	Base Sell	119	178.5	476	1,666	20,825
	Cumulative Sell	430.5	609	1,085	2,751	23,576

Medium:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	350	650	1,200	3,600	55,000
	Cumulative Cost	875	1,525	2,725	6,325	61,325
	Base Sell	245	455	840	2,520	38,500
	Cumulative Sell	613	1,068	1,908	4,428	42,928
Path 2
	Base Cost	250	400	1,100	3,200	25,000
	Cumulative Cost	775	1,175	2,275	5,475	30,475
	Base Sell	175	280	770	2,240	17,500
	Cumulative Sell	543	823	1,593	3,833	21,333
Path 3
	Base Cost	200	300	800	2,800	35,000
	Cumulative Cost	725	1,025	1,825	4,625	39,625
	Base Sell	140	210	560	1,960	24,500
	Cumulative Sell	508	718	1,278	3,238	27,738

Hard:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	380	700	1,295	3,890	59,400
	Cumulative Cost	945	1,645	2,940	6,830	66,230
	Base Sell	266	490	906.5	2,723	41,580
	Cumulative Sell	661.5	1,151.5	2,058	4,781	46,361
Path 2
	Base Cost	270	430	1,190	3,455	27,000
	Cumulative Cost	835	1,265	2,455	5,910	32,910
	Base Sell	189	301	833	2,418.5	18,900
	Cumulative Sell	584.5	885.5	1,718.5	4,137	23,037
Path 3
	Base Cost	215	325	865	3,025	37,800
	Cumulative Cost	780	1,105	1,970	4,995	42,795
	Base Sell	150.5	227.5	605.5	2117.5	26,460
	Cumulative Sell	546	773.5	1,379	3496.5	29,956.5

Impoppable:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	420	780	1,440	4,320	66,000
	Cumulative Cost	1,050	1,830	3,270	7,590	73,590
	Base Sell	294	546	1,008	3,024	46,200
	Cumulative Sell	735	1,281	2,289	5,313	51,513
Path 2
	Base Cost	300	480	1,320	3,840	30,000
	Cumulative Cost	930	1,410	2,730	6,570	36,570
	Base Sell	210	336	924	2,688	21,000
	Cumulative Sell	651	987	1,911	4,599	25,599
Path 3
	Base Cost	240	360	960	3,360	42,000
	Cumulative Cost	870	1,230	2,190	5,550	47,550
	Base Sell	168	252	672	2,352	29,400
	Cumulative Sell	609	861	1,533	3,885	33,250

Strategy[]

See also: Bomb Shooter (BTD6)/Strategies

Summary[]

Bomb Shooter is weak at its lower-tier upgrades but possesses many powerful explosive options at Tier 3 and above. It typically requires spam usage and high synergization to maximize its power. Many of its upgrades focus on utilizing its relatively high pierce for clearing out dense groups of bloons. Bomb Shooter synergizes well with Striker Jones, who specifically buffs various stats of Bomb Shooters.

Tips[]

Bomb Shooter set on Close in an area of congregating bloons, such as the tight loop on Resort, allows it to be usable as an early-game start, taking advantage of its pierce.

Additional Strategies[]

Crosspathing/Bomb Shooter

Monkey Knowledge[]

This section displays Monkey Knowledge that has effects on Bomb Shooter and its changes when compared to one by default:

Increased Lifespan: Projectiles shot from Bomb Shooter have increased lifespan.
- x seconds → x seconds.
Fraggy Frags: Frag bombs get 2 extra frags.
- 8 fragments → 10 fragments.
Budget Clusters: Bomb Shooter's Cluster Bombs cost reduced by 100.
- Cluster Bombs price reduced from $800 → $700 on Medium.
Mega Mauler: Increases the bonus MOAB-class damage of the explosions of MOAB Maulers by 2.
- MOAB Maulers will deal 21 damage instead of 19
- MOAB Assassins will deal 33 damage instead of 31
- MOAB Eliminators will deal 102 damage instead of 100.
Violent Impact: Bomb Shooter's Bloon Impact stuns for 25% longer.
- Bloon Impact stun effect from 1.4 seconds to 1.75 seconds.
- Bloon Crush stun effect from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
Come On Everybody!: Primary towers attack 5% faster if all are below tier 3, and cost 5% less if all are tier 3 or 4.
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%.
Global Ability Cooldowns: All Ability cooldowns for all Monkeys reduced by 3%.

Version History[]

Differences Between BTD5 and BTD6[]

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Listed are comparisons of the Bomb Shooter in BTD6 compared to BTD5. Takes into account Flash and Mobile versions.

Base tower bombs deal less pierce (40 → 14).
Bigger Bombs deals less pierce (50 → 20).
Bloon Impact no longer has the Cluster Bombs attack.
Bloon Impact deals more damage (1 → 3).
Missile Launcher no longer grants extra pierce, only extra projectile speed and attack speed.
Cluster Bombs secondary bomb explosions now have smaller blast radiuses.
Cluster Bombs secondary bomb explosions are now closer to the main bomb explosion.
MOAB Mauler no longer adds extra attack speed.
MOAB Assassin now has a short initial cooldown before initial usage.
Some upgrades are now on different paths (e.g. Bigger Bombs no longer in same path as Missile Launcher, Cluster Bombs separate from Bloon Impact).

Balance Changes[]

Initial release (compared to BTD5)

Note: Lists all balance changes implemented for the Bomb Shooter when it was first released in Bloons TD 6 (June 14th 2018) in comparison to Bloons TD 5. Takes into account Flash and Mobile versions of Bloons TD 5.

Base tower bombs deal less pierce (40 → 18).
Bigger Bombs deals less pierce (50 → 28).
Bloon Impact deals less pierce (50 → 48).
Bloon Impact no longer has the Cluster Bombs attack.
Bloon Impact deals more damage (1 → 2).
Missile Launcher no longer grants extra pierce or extra attack speed, only extra projectile speed.
Cluster Bombs secondary bomb explosions now have smaller blast radiuses.
Cluster Bombs secondary bomb explosions are now closer to the main bomb explosion.
MOAB Mauler no longer adds extra attack speed.
MOAB Assassin now has a short initial cooldown before initial usage.
Some upgrades are now on different paths (e.g. Bigger Bombs no longer in same path as Missile Launcher, Cluster Bombs separate from Bloon Impact).

4.0

MOAB Mauler deals more bonus damage to MOAB-class bloons (+10 → +15).
Recursive Cluster will trigger tertiary clusters every 2nd shot instead of every 3rd shot.
Bomb Blitz will now trigger tertiary clusters every shot.

7.0

3-x-x Really Big Bombs price reduced from $1,500 → $1,200.
4-x-x Bloon Impact damage increased from 2 → 3.
5-x-x Bloon Crush damage increased from 6 → 12.

11.0

Bomb Blitz passive ability now has an initial cooldown that starts once purchased.

12.0

Missile Launcher increases attack speed by 15%. Also affects subsequent upgrades.
Recursive Cluster price increased from $2,400 to $2,800.
MOAB Mauler gains damage bonus to ceramic +5.

15.0

Base MOAB Mauler range increased from 44 to 49.
Base MOAB Assassin range increased from 44 to 54.

16.0

4-x-x Bloon Impact range increased from 40 → 43. Also applies for Bloon Crush.
x-3-x MOAB Mauler MOAB damage bonus increased 15 → 18. Also affects MOAB Assassin, but not MOAB Eliminator.
x-x-5 Bomb Blitz base damage increased 1 → 5.

18.0

x-1-x Bomb Shooter fire rate buff increased from +25% to +33% (or attack cooldown multiplier from 0.8x to 0.75x). Also affects later upgrades. Total attack cooldown decreased (1.2s → 1.2s).
x-2-x Bomb Shooter fire rate buff from +18% to +36% (or attack cooldown multiplier from 0.85x to 0.73333x). Also affects later upgrades. Total attack cooldown decreased (1.02s → 0.825s).
3-0-2 Bomb Shooter increases radius (i.e. hitbox size) of frags from 2 → 3.
3-0-2 Bomb Shooter increases pierce of frags from 1 → 2.
3-0-2 Bomb Shooter increases lifespan of frags from 0.191s‬ → 0.257s.
4-0-2 Bomb Shooter increases damage of frags from 1 → 2.
4-0-2 Bomb Shooter increases lifespan of frags from 0.191s‬ → 0.322s.

20.0

“	We're really excited about the recent rise in Bomb fame, and we want to encourage this by buffing some of the detracting parts of Bomb Shooters. But larger groups of basic T3 Maulers are now performing far too well against everything when they are intended to be more of a MOAB Specialist. This change means little in the early game, but should pull these groups back a little in more higher round gameplay.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

3-x-x Really Big Bombs damage increased 2 → 3. Does not affect Bloon Impact.
x-3-x MOAB Mauler Ceramic bonus reduced from 5 → 4.
x-4-x MOAB Assassin MOAB bonus increased from 18 → 25.
x-5-x MOAB Eliminator MOAB bonus increased from 79 → 99.

22.0

“	Some low tier Bomb pierce has been shifted further up into the 2xx Heavy Bombs upgrade to effectively nerf 130 Mauler meta in price, but the price of these upgrades and MOAB Damage of T4 Maulers have both been buffed to benefit other variations of bomb better. Bloon Impact's price was increased as it didn't need to benefit from this buff, and a buff was made to 502's Bloon Impact's frags to alter this underused crosspath.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

0-0-0 base pierce reduced from 18 to 14.
Bigger Bombs pierce bonus reduced from 10 to 6, for only 20 base pierce instead of 28.
Bigger Bombs price reduced from 400 to 350.
Heavy Bombs now increases pierce by a further +10, for an overall pierce of 30 instead of 28.
Heavy Bombs price reduced from 800 to 650.
Bloon Impact price increased from 3200 to 3600.
MOAB Assassin MOAB damage bonus increased from 25 to 30.
5-0-2 Bloon Crush frag damage increased from 3 → 12.
5-0-2 Bloon Crush frag pierce increased from 2 → 3.

23.0

“	Small nerf to the regular-Bloon power of MOAB Mauler's domination.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

MOAB Mauler deals less extra damage to Ceramics (+4 → +3). Does not affect MOAB Assassin or above.

25.0

“	In some cases the effort to make upgrades feel powerful eclipsed the need for monkey tower weaknesses to be supported by path or other tower synergies. Reviewing the state of White compared to Black Bloons we feel it no longer makes sense for Bomb stall path to ignore inherent Bomb weakness compared to Ice, which can't fully get around it's weakness until T5. MOAB Maulers have been a very strong meta spam for a while now, so we are chipping off most of its ceramic bonus at T3.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Bloon Impact damage type Normal (All) changed to Explosive. Bloon Crush remains Normal type.
MOAB Mauler bonus ceramic damage reduced from 3 → 1. MOAB Assassin ceramic bonus unchanged.

28.0

“	While MOAB Maulers are a current popular meta the base bomb shooter is unaffordable early on for the little contribution it can make at early levels when not much pierce is really needed, so some cost has been moved out of the base upgrade and into the Mauler with an overall price increase to Mauler. We've acknowledged that Frag Bombs have felt like an inconsistent crosspath both in what they add to the tower and what they lose when upgraded further on their own path, so now in addition to frags popping Black Bloons xx2+ will allow all attacks from the tower to pop Black.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Bomb Shooter base price decreased from $600 → $525
MOAB Mauler price increased from $900 → $1,100
Frag Bombs upgrade now grants 'fraggy explosions' which allows all explosions from the tower to pop Black Bloons.

30.0

“	Has strong meta usage, Mauler as a moab focus upgrade no longer needs the bonus to ceramic crutch	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

MOAB Mauler no longer deals +1 damage to Ceramics. Does not affect MOAB Assassin.

31.0

“	The Frags crosspath for top path Bomb Shooter has always been quite a poor choice, trying to compete with attack speed as a benefit for stun utility isn't going to ever work out so we have instead gone the route of turning the frags crosspath into a DPS/Stun hybrid with a lot of small buffs to frag power.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

3-0-2 Really Big Bombs frag damage increased 1 → 3
3-0-2 Really Big Bombs gains more frags 8 → 12
4-0-2 Bloon Impact frag pierce increased 2 → 3
4-0-2 Bloon Impact frag damage increased 2 → 3. Does not carry over into 5-0-2 Bloon Crush.
4-0-2 Bloon Impact gains even more frags 8 → 16. Also affects 5-0-2 Bloon Crush.
5-0-2 Bloon Crush frag damage gains +12 bonus damage to Ceramics. Base damage remains 12.
5-0-2 Bloon Crush gains more frags 8 → 16
5-0-2 Bloon Crush frag pierce increased 3 → 20

32.0

“	Has been a standout tier 3 for long enough, T4 remaining unchanged to still encourage more focussed use over low tier spam	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

MOAB Mauler bonus MOAB damage +18 → +15. Does not affect MOAB Assassin.

34.0

“	Cluster Bombs has far superior pierce over top path which is the actual pierce path while also providing better overall cleanup power, so for now we’d like to reign those in a little closer.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Cluster Bombs cluster pierce reduced 10 → 8
[undocumented] Recursive Cluster tertiary cluster base pierce 60 → 48
- 0-x-4: 60 → 48
- 1-0-4: 96 → 84
- 2-0-4: 160 → 144
Really Big Bombs pierce increased 50 → 60

35.0

“	Upon closer inspection, Recursive Cluster has been hitting pierce in the 100’s, far more than was really intended for it so we are pulling back on this but adding in some fortified bonus to cancel out this large weakness the upgrade has.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Recursive Cluster second cluster pierce multiplier x6 → x3
- 0-x-4: 48 → 24
- 1-0-4: 84 → 42
- 2-0-4: 144 → 72
Recursive Cluster now deals +1 Fortified damage
Bomb Blitz now deals +5 Fortified damage from all primary, secondary, and tertiary explosions

37.0

“	MOAB Assassin fills a useful role of a pure long cooldown ‘single target assassination’ in the game, but when compared to something like First Strike it feels a little lacking that it is unable to carry damage through MOAB Layers	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

MOAB Assassin and MOAB Eliminator abilities now penetrates through MOAB layers
MOAB Assassin and MOAB Eliminator ability explosions now center around the impact target

38.0

“	We wanted to add something unique to Bloon Impact while also improving Really Big Bombs very slightly as a stepping stone into it, so now both of these upgrades will become capable of pushing back Bloons that they hit – even if they are stunned or frozen! This allows Bloon Impact to now catch groups of Bloons in a stun net and slowly push them back the way they came while keeping them stunned. Recursive Cluster is also having the pierce of the recursions increased a little again; while we felt it needed a nerf earlier, the amount cut from it last time was too high.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

3xx Really Big Bombs now pushes back Bloons by 10 units
4xx Bloon Impact stun duration increased from 1 > 1.4
4xx Bloon Impact now also pushes Bloons back on every hit in addition to the Stun
5xx Bloon Crush pushes back MOAB class by half this amount
xx4 Recursive Cluster cluster pierce multiplier increased *3 > *4

40.0

“	Slight price reduction to Really Big Bombs, it is meant to be a stepping stone upgrade into Bloon Impact but neither of these upgrades are standout right now. A while ago Frag Bombs was reworked to give Bomb normal type damage however we were not happy with the results of that change in the end, we didn’t want to go back and remove that again without giving back something nice in return so it has taken a while but now we have decided to go ahead with changing that back along with swapping out Recursive fortified damage for raw damage which we hope also improves crosspathing as the damage crosspath isn’t such a large increase over the base damage anymore.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Really Big Bombs price reduced ($1200 → $1100)
Frag Bombs no longer changes damage type of explosions from Explosion to Normal. Does not affect Bloon Crush or MOAB Eliminator, but also affects Bomb Blitz.
Recursive Cluster no longer deals +1 Fortified damage. Does not affect Bomb Blitz (+5).
Recursive Cluster damage increased (1 → 2)
Bomb Blitz damage increased (5 → 6)

41.0

“	Just a little cost coming off the Bloon Impact upgrade, with some cost also moving up from Assassin to Eliminator to move this usage.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Bloon Impact price reduced from $3600 to $3200
MOAB Assassin price reduced from $3200 to $3100
MOAB Eliminator price increased from $25,000 to $25,500

Bug Fixes and General Changes[]