Boomerang Monkey (BTD6)

BTD6

BATTD

Bloons Pop!

BTDB2

Boomerang Monkey

General Information

Game

Bloons TD 6 (v1.0)

Release Date

June 13th 2018

Class

Primary Monkey

Unlocked at

Level 2-6

Cost

$265 (Easy)
$315 (Medium)
$340 (Hard)
$380 (Impoppable)

- $50 with Cheap 'Rangs Monkey Knowledge

Activated Ability(s)

Turbo Charge
Perma Charge

Targeting Options

First, Last, Close, Strong,
Change Hands

Hotkey

W

Other Names

Boomer

Statistics

Damage

1

Pierce

4

Attack Speed

1.2s

Range

43

Status Effects

Requires upgrades

Tower Boosts

Requires upgrades

Income/Life Boosts

N/A

Camo Detection

Yes (5-x-x)

Footprint

Medium (7)

Default Damage Type

Sharp

Related Towers

Boomerang Thrower (pre-BTD4), for the pre-BTD4 counterpart
Boomerang Thrower (BTD4), for the BTD4 counterpart
Boomerang Thrower (BTD5), for the BTD5 counterpart
Boomerang Monkey (BTDB2), for the BTDB2 counterpart

“	Hurls a boomerang that follows a curved path. Good range and pierce.	”
	^{~ In-game description}

The Boomerang Monkey is a Primary-class tower that was released in the initial release of Bloons TD 6. The tower retains its role from the Bloons TD 4, 5, and Classic game generations, but has changed its name from "Boomerang Thrower" along with other significant changes. Like most Primary Monkeys, the Boomerang Monkey was featured in a teaser prior to the game's release.

Boomerang Monkeys throw boomerangs that pop 4 bloons each and throws them every 1.2s. The monkey has a base range of 43. Boomerangs move in a curved fashion in a counter-clockwise direction from the monkey's right hand. Boomerang Monkeys also feature a Change Hands option to target priority that swaps hands, reversing the origin and direction of thrown boomerangs.

There are various upgrades that greatly improve the Boomerang Monkey's popping power, including ricocheting glaives, cybernetic enhancements for rapid throwing, and heavy straight-thrown boomerangs that can re-hit bloons.

It costs $265 on Easy, $315 on Medium, $340 on Hard, and $380 on Impoppable if Cheap 'Rangs Monkey Knowledge is not active. Otherwise, if Cheap 'Rangs is active, the Boomerang Monkey costs $215, $265, $290, and $330 respectively.

Description[]

Similarly to its BTD5 counterpart, the Boomerang Monkey wears a jumpsuit. Its pattern is somewhat different, but more or less the same. Its official portrait depicts it throwing a boomerang with its dominant hand. The official portrait swaps direction if using Change Hands. When idle, the Boomerang Monkey may inspect its boomerang.

Path 1 generally contains upgrades leading towards the throwing of glaives, with each upgrade increasing the power of the boomerangs themselves into bouncing deadly glaives. Glaive Lord now surrounds itself with deadly glaives alongside throwable shredding glaives that pulversize blimps.

Path 2 generally deals with speed, providing the Boomerang Monkey with faster attacks on bloons. It also deals specialized damage bonuses to MOAB-class starting from Bionic Boomerang and above, and Turbo Charge provides turbotastic attack speed and increased base damage via its ability, topping up with Perma Charge with permanently attacks super quickly and does even more base damage while converting its ability into a great damage boost.

Path 3 generally deals with the element of throwing tough Kylie boomerangs that are thrown further, leading from simply throwing further to hot boomerangs that pop bloons of any type to actual Kylie boomerangs that can be upgraded to deal even more damaging effects to the bloons, particularly MOAB-class on higher upgrades.

As with all towers in BTD6, only two paths may be selected for a tower at one time, and only one of the selected paths may be upgraded to third-tier and beyond.

Target Priorities[]

The base Boomerang Monkey uses the standard target priorities: First, Last, Close, and Strong. All 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.

Certain alternate attacks have a different set of target priorities:

Glaive Lord's orbital glaives are always set on Close by default, for the sake of pierce-consumption calculations.
MOAB Press's anti-MOAB kylies target any MOAB-class bloon except BADs, and are based on main targeting.
MOAB Domination's anti-MOAB kylies target any MOAB-class bloon, and are based on main targeting.
Glaive Dominus's alternate attacks are based on those for Glaive Lord and MOAB Domination, respectively.

Boomerang Monkey has a unique target option "Change Hands", allowing the Boomerang to throw boomerangs from opposite angles in the opposite direction. This special target option is a set of alternating target priority buttons on the upgrade HUD; tapping on the button will swap position of the active button aligned with the corresponding Boomerang Monkey's dominant arm. The "Change Hands" target option was formerly limited to the "Ambidextrous 'Rangs" MK, but the target option had been fully introduced into the main Boomerang Monkey since Version 21.0.

Upgrades[]

Path 1[]

	Improved Rangs COST: $170 / $200 / $215 / $240 UNLOCK: 100 XP
	Description: Can pop up to 8 Bloons per throw. Effect: Gains +4 pierce, equivalent to 8 pierce for most upgrades. Even more pierce on certain upgrades.

	Glaives COST: $240 / $280 / $300 / $335 UNLOCK: 520 XP
	Description: Throws glaives instead of boomerangs. Glaives are bigger and faster, hitting more Bloons with each throw. Effect: Gains +5 pierce on top of the previous upgrade, equivalent to 13 pierce for most upgrades. Also gives +50% knockback for MOAB Press. Even more pierce for certain upgrades.

	Glaive Ricochet COST: $510 / $600 / $650 / $720 UNLOCK: 2,500 XP
	Description: Glaives will bounce from Bloon to Bloon automatically and aggressively. Effect: Glaives automatically bounce towards each bloon with sharp turning. Pops up to 30 bloons per glaive. Glaives can travel through obstacles, and can jump up to 60 units between targets.

	M.O.A.R Glaives COST: $1,700 / $2,000 / $2,160 / $2,400 UNLOCK: 8,500 XP
	Description: Multiple Object Advanced Ricochet greatly enhances the already extraordinary powers of the Glaive Ricochet Monkey. Effect: Pierce increased from 30 to 80, +1 damage to Ceramics, attack speed is triple, glaive bounce distance is greatly increased.

	Glaive Lord COST: $27,625 / $32,500 / $35,100 / $39,000 UNLOCK: 37,500 XP
	Description: Glaive Lord surrounds itself in 3 special glaives that shred anything that comes near. Glaive Lord's glaives now rip through MOAB-class Bloons, slowly tearing them apart from the inside. Effect: Gains a sharp 30 range zone that deals 2 damage every 0.08 seconds to all affected bloons in radius, including Camo Bloons, +8 to Ceramics and +5 to MOAB-class. Main glaive deals +7 damage and +8 to Ceramics, is capable of rehitting the same targets at a 0.6s cooldown, and can now inflict a shredding damage-over-time to MOAB-class, slowly dealing 100 damage every 1.0s for 10s, and bounce anywhere on screen.

Path 2[]

	Faster Throwing COST: $150 / $175 / $190 / $210 UNLOCK: 120 XP
	Description: Throws boomerangs faster. Effect: Attacks +33% faster (0.75x attack cooldown).

	Faster Rangs COST: $210 / $250 / $270 / $300 UNLOCK: 550 XP
	Description: Boomerangs fire and travel faster. Effect: Attacks +33% faster (0.75x attack cooldown) on top of the previous upgrade, and projectile speed increased.

	Bionic Boomerang COST: $1,060 / $1,250 / $1,565 / $1,500 UNLOCK: 2,500 XP
	Description: Replaces arm with a strong bionic arm that can throw boomerangs extremely fast and does extra damage to MOAB-class bloons. Effect: Attacks over 5x faster (0.1983x attack cooldown) than an ordinary Boomerang Monkey and deals +2 damage to MOAB-class.

	Turbo Charge COST: $3,570 / $4,200 / $4,535 / $5,040 UNLOCK: 9,000 XP
	Description: Turbo Charge ability: Makes this Monkey attack incredibly fast for 10 seconds. Effect: Ability makes the Boomerang Monkey attack 7x faster and deal +1 damage for 10 seconds. Has a cooldown of 45 seconds.

	Perma Charge COST: $29,750 / $35,000 / $37,800 / $42,000 UNLOCK: 32,000 XP
	Description: Perma Charge has a permanent super fast attack speed. Ability increases the lethality even more. Effect: Permanently gains Turbo Charge attack speed and deals 4 damage by default. Ability now deals +8 damage for 15 seconds. With Red Hot Rangs, its attacks deal another +4 damage, and the ability damage is further increased by +2.

Path 3[]

	Long Range Rangs COST: $85 / $100 / $110 / $120 UNLOCK: 110 XP
	Description: Can throw boomerangs further than normal. Effect: Gains +14.19 range (+33%) and boomerangs are thrown on a wider curve.

	Red Hot Rangs COST: $255 / $300 / $325 / $360 UNLOCK: 490 XP
	Description: Allows boomerangs to pop Frozen and Lead Bloons and do more damage to all. Effect: Pops any bloon type and main attack and Glaive Lord's glaive orbitals deal +1 damage. Gives even more damage with Perma Charge.

	Kylie Boomerang COST: $1,100 / $1,300 / $1,400 / $1,560 UNLOCK: 3,000 XP
	Description: Throws heavy Kylie boomerangs that follow a straight path instead of curved. Effect: Kylie boomerangs are thrown and returned in a straight path instead of curved. Pierce improves to 18 and can rehit the same bloons after 0.3 seconds.

	MOAB Press COST: $2,040 / $2,400 / $2,375 / $2,880 UNLOCK: 9,500 XP
	Description: Heavy Kylie boomerangs hit MOAB-Class Bloons multiple times per throw and sometimes knocks them back a short way along the path. Effect: Independently throws a powerful knockback boomerang at MOAB-class bloons every once in a while, dealing 1 damage to Bloons in its path, and 5 to MOABs, while pushing them backwards by a set amount of distance. These boomerangs have 200 pierce and can re-damage Bloons after 0.1 seconds. Path 1 upgrades increase pierce and knockback distance.

	MOAB Domination COST: $42,500 / $50,000 / $54,000 / $60,000 UNLOCK: 28,000 XP
	Description: Special knockback kylies trigger more often and do lots of extra damage. Effect: Kylie boomerangs deal +10 damage, and have +36 pierce (+54 with Glaives), all attacks fire twice as fast, plus much stronger special knockback boomerangs. Special knockback boomerangs deal increased MOAB-class damage, have +100 pierce, double range, and produce a powerful burning explosion upon projectile expiry for even more damage.

Paragon[]

	Glaive Dominus COST: $212,500 / $250,000 / $270,000/ $300,000 UNLOCK: 500,000 XP
	Description: The Bloons will look upon my Glaives, and they will know fear. Effect: Attacks ricocheting glaives hypersonically fast, surrounds itself in a powerful glaive ring, and regularly throws stronger explosive anti-blimp glaives that ignite damaged targets. Also buffs attack speed of all Primary Monkeys on screen by a 0.90x attack cooldown multiplier.

Total Costs[]

Easy:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	170	240	510	2,550	24,990
	Cumulative Cost	435	675	1,185	3,735	28,725
	Base Sell	119	168	357	1,785	17,493
	Cumulative Sell	312	480	830	2,615	20,108
Path 2
	Base Cost	150	210	1,230	3,570	29,750
	Cumulative Cost	415	625	1,855	5,425	35,175
	Base Sell	105	147	861	2,499	20,825
	Cumulative Sell	291	438	1,299	3,798	24,623
Path 3
	Base Cost	85	255	1,100	1,870	42,500
	Cumulative Cost	350	605	1,705	3,575	46,075
	Base Sell	59.5	178.5	770	1,309	29,750
	Cumulative Sell	245	424	1,194	2,503	32,253

Medium:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	200	280	600	2,000	32,500
	Cumulative Cost	515	795	1,395	3,395	36,695
	Base Sell	140	196	420	2,100	20,580
	Cumulative Sell	361	557	977	3,077	23,657
Path 2
	Base Cost	175	250	1,250	4,200	35,000
	Cumulative Cost	490	740	1,990	6,390	41,390
	Base Sell	122.5	175	1,015	2,940	24,500
	Cumulative Sell	350	525	1,540	4,480	28,980
Path 3
	Base Cost	100	300	1,300	2,200	50,000
	Cumulative Cost	415	715	2,015	4,215	54,215
	Base Sell	70	210	910	1,540	35,000
	Cumulative Sell	297.5	507.5	1,417.5	2,957.5	37,957.5

Hard:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	215	300	650	3,240	31,750
	Cumulative Cost	555	855	1,505	4,745	36,495
	Base Sell	150.5	210	983.5	2,268	24,493
	Cumulative Sell	389	599	1,054	3,322	25,547
Path 2
	Base Cost	190	270	1,565	4,535	37,800
	Cumulative Cost	540	800	2,365	6,900	44,700
	Base Sell	133	189	1,095.5	3,174.5	26,460
	Cumulative Sell	378	560	1,656	4,830	31,290
Path 3
	Base Cost	110	325	1,400	2,375	54,000
	Cumulative Cost	450	775	2,175	4,550	58,550
	Base Sell	77	227.5	980	1,662.5	37,800
	Cumulative Sell	315	543	1,523	3,185	40,985

Impoppable:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	240	335	720	3,600	35,280
	Cumulative Cost	620	955	1,675	5,275	40,555
	Base Sell	168	234.5	1,092	2,520	27,216
	Cumulative Sell	434	669	1,173	3,693	28,389
Path 2
	Base Cost	210	300	1,740	5,040	42,000
	Cumulative Cost	590	890	2,630	7,670	49,670
	Base Sell	147	210	1,218	3,528	29,400
	Cumulative Sell	413	623	1,841	5,369	34,769
Path 3
	Base Cost	120	360	1,560	2,640	60,000
	Cumulative Cost	500	860	2,420	5,060	65,060
	Base Sell	84	252	1,092	1,848	42,000
	Cumulative Sell	350	602	1,694	3,542	45,542

Strategy[]

See also: Boomerang Monkey (BTD6)/Strategies

Summary[]

The Boomerang Monkey throws boomerangs that move in a curve and generally have a moderate amount of pierce. It can utilize its curved trajectories to hit bloons along the way, and has a special Change Hands targeting priority to alter the direction of the boomerangs. The Boomerang Monkey generally has better utility than the Dart Monkey, with many upgrades that are stronger against grouped rounds and multiple upgrades that specifically excel against MOAB-class bloons and Ceramics, but it has a glaring weakness to Camo Bloons.

Tips[]

In CHIMPS, 0-1-1 Boomerang can be afforded to reach a wide amount of track, especially in multi-lane maps.
Glaive Lord and Glaive Dominus has a good synergy with The Final Harmonic since it can trigger the damage-over-time effects they apply.

Additional Strategies[]

Crosspathing/Boomerang Monkey

Monkey Knowledge[]

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

Cheap 'Rangs: Base cost of Boomerang Thrower reduced by 50.
- $265/$315/$340/$380 → $215/$265/$290/$330 on Easy, Medium, Hard, and Impoppable, respectively.
Recurring 'Rangs: Boomerangs that return to the Boomerang Monkey will be thrown a second time.
Extra Bounce: Increases the pierce of ricocheting Glaives, including M.O.A.R Glaives and Glaive Lord, by 30.
- Glaive Ricochet bounces from 30 → 60 times.
- M.O.A.R. Glaive bounces from 80 → 110 times.
- Glaive Lord bounces from 80 → 110 times.
Hard Press: MOAB Press special knockback boomerangs push back 30% further.
Bionic Augmentation: When the Turbo ability is active, Boomerang Monkey is able to detect Camo for the entire duration of the ability.
Long Turbo: Increases Turbo Ability duration by 5 seconds.
- Effect lasts from 10 → 15 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[]

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

Boomerang Monkey pops four bloons instead of three.
Improved Rangs (former Multi-Target) pops more (7 → 8).
Improved Rangs (former Multi-Target) costs less ($250 → $200).
Glaives (former Glaive Thrower) pops more (12 → 13)
Glaive Ricochet pops less (100 → 30)
Glaive Ricochet cost reduced ($1,500 → $600)
Glaive Lord's rotating glaives can now pop Camo, rotating glaives are now a zone instead of separate contacting projectiles, rips through Bloons with a attack cooldown of 0.08s, and have extra damage to ceramics and MOAB-class. Main attacks gains more damage and extra damage to ceramics, can rehit bloons after a 0.6 second cooldown, and leaves a strong DoT on MOAB-class, but cost is increased to $32,500 instead of $9,000.
Only one Glaive Lord can be placed on the map as it is now a Tier 5 upgrade.
Bionic Boomerang cost reduced ($1,600 → $1,450) and attacks faster (x3.2->x5) and have +2 extra MOAB-class damage
Turbo Charge now has an initial cooldown of a quarter of the cooldown.
Turbo Charge cost increased ($3,000 → $4,200).
Turbo Charge ability bonus attack speed from x5 to x7, and gives +1 damage
Red Hot 'Rangs cos more ($150 -> $300), but gives +1 extra damage
Several changes in path placement of the upgrades; some upgrades are moved to different paths.

Balance Changes[]

NOTE: Top path upgrades (Glaive Ricochet, M.O.A.R. Glaives, and Glaive Lord) may have inconsistent results with seeking across versions despite not being documented in patch notes. As such, not all such changes can be documented here.

Initial release (compared to BTD5)

Note: Lists all balance changes implemented for the Boomerang Monkey 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.

Boomerang Monkey pops four bloons instead of three.
Improved Rangs (former Multi-Target) pops more (7 → 8).
Improved Rangs (former Multi-Target) costs less ($250 → $200).
Glaive Ricochet pops less (100 → 50).
Glaive Ricochet cost reduced ($1,500 → $1,300).
Turbo Charge now has an initial cooldown of a quarter of the cooldown.
Turbo Charge cost increased ($3000 → $4000).
Glaive Lord's rotating glaives can now pop all Bloon types including Camo, has unlimited pierce, and rips through Bloons with a fast attack speed, but cost is increased to $40,000 instead of $9,000.
Only one Glaive Lord can be placed on the map as it is now a Tier 5 upgrade.
Several changes in path placement of the upgrades; some upgrades are moved to different paths.

2.0

x-5-x Perma Charge deals much more damage during its ability (4 → 8).
x-x-4 MOAB Press' special MOAB attack no longer has infinite range and will not knock back higher tier MOABs as much.
x-x-5 MOAB Domination has increased attack speed and damage.
x-x-5 MOAB Domination cost increased ($50,000 → $75,000).
x-x-5 MOAB Domination has a longer cooldown for its special MOAB attack.

4.0

5-x-x Glaive Lord's Orbital Glaives' damage increased (2 → 7).

7.0

x-1-x Faster Throwing increases attack speed by 25% instead of 20%.
x-2-x Faster Rangs now adds an additional 25% attack speed (Bionic Boomerang attack speed unchanged).
Faster Rangs cost increased ($120 → $250).
x-x-1 Red Hot Rangs now pops 2 layers (Kylie Boomerang damage unchanged).
x-x-1 Red Hot Rangs cost increased ($150 → $300).
x-x-3 Kylie Boomerang cost decreased ($1,400 → $1,300).
x-x-5 MOAB Domination main kylie damage increased (7 → 12).
x-x-5 MOAB Domination cost reduced ($75,000 → $60,000).
x-x-5 MOAB Domination special attack range reduced from Unlimited to 100.

8.0

x-3-x Bionic Boomerang damage to MOAB-class increased by +1.
- This change was bugged and only applied to normal MOABs instead of MOAB class, but was fixed in Version 8.1 (see Bug fixes and other changes).

9.0

x-5-x Perma Charge ability cooldown reduced from 45s to 40s.

12.0

x-4-x Turbo Charge ability speed multiplier increased from x5 to x7 while charged.
x-5-x Perma Charge also gains this bonus.
x-5-x Perma Charge base damage increased (2 → 4).
x-x-4 MOAB Press special MOAB attack will now crosspath. Also affects MOAB Domination.

15.0

0-5-2 Red Hot Rangs bonus to Perma Charge increased from +1 to +4. This increases the base 052 Boomerang damage from 5 to 8.

17.0

3-x-x Glaive Bounce pattern improved.
5-x-x Glaive Lord main ricochet now leaves fragments in the first Bloon hit which slowly slash it apart dealing 150 damage over 15 seconds. This can stack multiple times on a single bloon.
x-x-5 MOAB Domination applies a brief stun of 0.25s on the MOAB Glaive before knocking back.

18.0

2-0-4 MOAB Press knockback power increased by 50%.

19.0

x-x-4 MOAB Press price increased from ($1,800 → $2,000).
x-x-5 MOAB Domination can now target but not Stun or Knockback BADs.
x-x-5 MOAB Domination's secondary boomerang will now explode instead of returning, with impact damage of 100, and burn application of 50 damage per second for 4 seconds.
x-x-5 MOAB Domination explosion radius of 50 increased to 75 when crosspathing 2-0-5.
x-x-5 MOAB Domination explosion pierce of 20 increased to 30 when crosspathing 2-0-5.

21.0

“	Glaive Lord's 502 gives no use over 520 with how the main attack currently works, so now 502 will additionally apply damage to the secondary revolving attack to target a different niche. MOAB Press spam is overperforming with a high 024 preference, so we are moving pierce from the base 004 into a 204 buff to give this choice some more high density round value.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

5-0-2 Glaive Lord Boomerang gains increased Orbital Glaives damage 2 → 3.
0-0-4 MOAB Press pierce reduced from 300 → 200.
1-0-4 MOAB Press pierce reduced from 350 → 300.
2-0-4 MOAB Press pierce increased from 410 → 420.

22.0

“	MOAB Press still feels dominant but not wildly outpacing other options so a small price increase has been made.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Ambidextrous 'Rangs knowledge is now a part of the base tower by default. (Is replaced by Recurring 'Rangs)
x-x-4 MOAB Press price increased ($2,000 → $2,200).

23.0

“	Small price adjustment to push when you get this tower a little closer to when it's useful.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Glaive Lord costs less ($40,000 → $35,000).

24.0

“	Rotating Glaives aren't quite enough for higher tier rounds, and especially struggle against Fortified Super Ceramics so we have added a small bonus to combat these.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Glaive Lord rotating glaives now deal +2 bonus damage to Fortified Bloons.

26.0

“	To reduce some top crosspath dominance, have middle path stay the true speed crosspath and also provide a small buff to the base Boomerang, Glaive's attack speed bonus has been moved down into the base Boomerang Tower. Glaive Lord's innate lead popping has been removed to allow that meaning to remain in the crosspath along with price being reduced to compensate. MOAB Domination's explosion has had pierce increased to improve consistency on children Bloons.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Base Boomerang attack cooldown reduced from 1.42 → 1.2.
Glaives no longer increases attack speed (formerly provided 0.85x attack cooldown, now provides none).
- Attack cooldown for Glaives is very slightly buffed, technically, as it previously had 1.207s attack cooldown.
Glaive Lord price reduced from $35,000 → $32,400.
Glaive Lord no longer passively pops Lead without Red Hot Rangs.
MOAB Domination's explosion pierce increased from 20 → 40.

27.0

“	Due to large memory leak issues with Glaive Lord's stacking DoT which could not be resolved this upgrade has seen a rework to the DoT. Bionic Boomerang's base attack rate has been improved to compensate for recent reworking of the 2xx Glaives Crosspath	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Glaive Lord's DoT no longer stacks
Glaive Lord's DoT damage increased from 10 -> 100
[undocumented] Glaive Lord's orbital glaives now have 1000 pierce instead of infinite.
- Proof can be found here.
Bionic Boomerang attack delay reduced from 0.28s -> 0.238s

28.0

“	While the higher tiers are quite good, Bionic Boomerang does not feel like a strong stepping stone, and 052 is still mostly considered an inferior crosspath due to base tower damage already being high, so Bionic's ability increase to damage has been increased further. MOAB Domination's MOAB damage has been increased to give it a little more power than just stalling & finally we're tweaked up some of the numbers on Boomerang Paragon's damage to even out some parts of it that were not contributing effectively	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Bionic Boomerang MOAB damage bonus increased from +1 -> +2
0-5-2 Perma Charge ability bonus damage increased from +8 -> +10
MOAB Domination damage on MOAB throw per hit increased from 20 -> 25
Boomerang Paragon burn DoT damage tic increased from 50 -> 100
Boomerang Paragon Shred DoT damage tic increased from 250 -> 750
Boomerang Paragon rotating glaive base damage increased from 20 to 42

29.0

“	Just a cool/fun factor and "because it should" reasoning here honestly, not necessarily necessary but we think it fits.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Glaive Lord with Long Range Range now increases area of orbital glaives by +15%

“	Separately, we noticed the Glaive Dominus press knockback's actual explosion was only dealing a fraction of the damage of any other part on this upgrade, this combined with it pushing targets out of the tower's radius made it somewhat stally so we juiced up the power of this explosion significantly.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Paragon Press Attack: Explosion damage increased from 100 → 2500
Paragon Press Attack: Explosion bonus damage to boss → +5000
Paragon Press Attack: Fire DoT increased from 100 → 500

30.0

“	To buff Glaive Lords middle crosspath as a choice & utilize more of an attack that is mostly rendered useless by this tier, the base damage of the thrown ricochet attack has been increased. Bionic Boomerang’s price has been lowered to make this upgrade slightly more approachable, but Turbo Charge’s price increased as we’re ok with the higher tiers on this path. Finally MOAB Dom’s price has been reduced a little, while this upgrade mostly fits as an early freeplay support/carry this price buff will make it more affordable before then and slightly benefit saveup for the paragon.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Glaive Lord main attack damage increased from 1 -> 8
Bionic Boomerang price $1600 -> $1450
Turbo Charge price $4000 -> $4200
MOAB Domination price reduced $60k -> $50k

32.0

“	A small price increase to MOAB Press as combinations of this tower with others slows or spam with more of itself is very strong.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

xx4 MOAB Press price increased from $2200 -> 2400

34.0

“	In many situations, especially moving into the deeper lategame, T4 MOAR Glaives didn’t quite feel like enough of a step up over the T3; leading on into the high ceramic cleanup of the T5 we have decided to introduce that ceramic bonus earlier at T4 along with allowing Glaives to overcome their long-standing weakness of being consumed by nearby blockers at T4 with MOAR Glaives ignoring all blocking objects completely. In efforts to cut down on unnecessarily high pierce for more reliable base stats Glaive Lord is having its excessive orbit pierce converted into high base ceramic damage bonus on the orbit & an added bonus to the main attack as well. When the Dart & Boomerang paragons were first introduced the more expensive T5 upgrades were not taken into account for balance as much as the raw paragon upgrade cost, in addition to this we have for a long time taken a no-MK approach to general game balance, however paragons have proven that they should follow the opposite of this ideal and be balanced around a max MK assumed approach, due to MK balance the Dart Paragon gains an incredible degree bonus, so we would like to counterbalance some of that advantage in the base Boomerang design by reducing the price greatly.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

MOAR Glaives now deal +1 Ceramic damage on top of the new damage buff
MOAR Glaives' projectiles now ignores Line of Sight
Glaive Lord main attack now deal +8 Ceramic bloons damage on top of the new damage buff
Glaive Lord Rotating Glaives bonus to ceramic increased 5 -> 8
Glaive Lord Rotating Glaives pierce reduced 1000 -> 80
Glaive Dominus price reduced $400,000 -> $325,000

36.0

“	Boomerang’s Ricochet buildup into T4 feels rough compared to many other options that exist nowadays, ignoring obstacles worked out as a strong fix for the T4 so we want to bring that down to the T3 as well along with some other general tweaks to bridge this gap. Glaive lord is too expensive for so low a single target tower so this is going down. We wanted to include a take on the Boomerang paragon’s range buff improving so much to apply to other primaries along with the buff synergy in the last update, but time didn’t quite allow for it.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

3xx Glaive Ricochet now ignores obstacles
3xx Glaive Ricochet price reduced from $1300 > 1200
3xx Glaive Ricochet pierce increased from 50 > 60 (4xx same)
3xx Glaive Ricochet jump distance increased from 62.5 > 90
4xx MOAR Glaives jump distance reduced from 187.5 > 180
5xx Glaive Lord price reduced from $32400 > 29400
Boomerang Paragon grants *0.9 rate to other primary towers including paragons

37.0

“	This part has to be included along with the Lych Soul rework with Paragons which is finally making it in this update after necessary delays. As Boomerang Paragon’s knockback hits so many times so quickly, we need to make it more reasonable when applied to targets that aren’t immediately destroyed.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Glaive Dominus anti-MOAB glaives knockback amount reduced 3 → 1

38.0

“	Long Range Rangs is increasing its benefit to be more meaningful of a crosspath choice for the range rather than purely the Red Hot Rangs. Permacharge as a very good T5 doesn’t feel like it needs to have a cooldown buff over the T3 given how small this benefit is. As mentioned above on the Dart Monkey, these Paragons are having their prices swapped around and Boomerang Paragon’s Orbit attack is having the fortification bonus damage removed as this number was so small it added no value to the tower anyway.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

xx1 Long Range Rangs range bonus increased 15% → 33%
501 Glaive Lord radius increase from LRR increased 15% → 33%
050 Perma-Charge ability cooldown 40s → 45s
Glaive Dominus orbit no longer deals +2 damage to fortified
Glaive Dominus cost increased from $325,000 → $350,000

39.0

“	A few buffs for the Boomerang Paragon ended up being split up and spread out over a few updates, which resulted in repeated buffs which didn’t seem so necessary after the first, given the fairly high power level it had in v38, as well as suffering less from the bug fix than the Dart Monkey, it felt like it needed more general nerfs to justify any price reduction.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

??? [buff/nerf indeterminate] Glaive Dominus's overall Boss damage undetermined
Glaive Dominus range reduced (75 → 60)
Glaive Dominus price reduced ($350,000 → $275,000)
Glaive Dominus main attack boss damage multiplier reduced (60x → 50x)
Glaive Dominus Press attack's final explosion base Boss bonus reduced (+5000 → +4000)
Glaive Dominus Press attack's base cooldown delay increased (2.5s → 3s)
Glaive Dominus Orbital attack base bonus Boss damage reduced (+160 → +150)
Glaive Dominus Orbit attack radius reduced (60 → 50)
Glaive Dominus's Ceramic damage bonuses now properly scales with Paragon degrees when interacting with Bosses

41.0

“	Glaives are heavily focused grouped cleanup with low damage but high target count, however this scales poorly into MOABs & lategame so we're reworking Ricochet to a much cheaper but weaker starting cleanup with MOAR staying a significant upgrade over this. As Glaive Lord is a more heavily concentrated version of the previous tiers we are increasing its bounce distance to a map wide ricochet and increasing the orbital attack consistency.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Glaive Ricochet price reduced from $1200 to $600
Glaive Ricochet pierce reduced from 60 to 30
Glaive Ricochet bounce distance reduced from 90 to 60. Does not affect MOAR Glaives bounce distance, which remains 180.
MOAR Glaives attack cooldown reduced from 0.6s to 0.4s
MOAR Glaives pierce reduced from 100 to 80
Glaive Lord bounce distance increased from 180 to infinite
Glaive Lord orbital attack no longer deals +2 bonus Fortified damage
Glaive Lord orbital attack cooldown reduced from 0.1s to 0.08s

43.0

“	Boomerang base price is being slightly reduced, already a decent start in many cases though this seemed enough to make slight game start changes and price it differently to other towers. The main attack for MOAB Domination has been scaled up as overall it is a good upgrade but the pierce on this main attack was previously unchanged from the T3. Glaive Lord’s main thrown attacks will now be able to bounce back again and hit the same target multiple times, this can be a very powerful effect so there is a cooldown on how frequently any single Bloon can be re-targeted.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Boomerang Monkey base cost reduced from $325 to $315
x-x-5 MOAB Domination main projectile pierce increased from 18 to 54
2-x-5 MOAB Domination main projectile pierce increased from 27 to 81
Glaive Lord main attack can now bounce back to the same target, with a cooldown of 0.6s.

44.0

“	The MOAB Press top crosspath is the ‘better’ crosspath for most cases due to having more than double the pierce as well as a stronger knockback amount on a tower that most effectively uses high pierce, as this is one of the better support towers in the game we are reducing that superior crosspath without nerfing the lesser one to even this more.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

1-0-4 MOAB Press knockback kylie pierce bonus reduced from +100 to +60, total pierce reduced from 300 to 260. Also affects MOAB Domination (400 to 360).
2-0-4 MOAB Press knockback kylie pierce bonus reduced from +220 to +140, total pierce reduced from 420 to 340. Also affects MOAB Domination (520 to 440).
- Note: For a strange reason, in-game code shows that the pierce of 2-0-4 is changed to 340, not 320. Ninja Kiwi specifically listed the balance change as +120, which would make 200 pierce become 320 if true. However, in-game code and in-game testing shows that the pierce actually is 340.

45.0

“	With Glaive Lord being the big winner of recent balance, there is a price gap among towers that fill a similar gameplay role so instead of taking away too much power we're pushing its price up slightly to fit into that gap. We were unhappy with the recent MOAB Press nerf, so this is being undone for further review. Boomerang paragon use has dropped in use recently so we are taking the opportunity to lower its price.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Glaive Lord shred DoT duration reduced from 15s to 10s
Glaive Lord price increased from $29,400 to $32,500
[Bug Fix] Glaive Lord no longer applies shred DoT to DDTs without Lead-popping power
1-0-4 MOAB Press knockback kylie pierce bonus increased from +60 to +100, total pierce reduced from 260 to 300. Also affects MOAB Domination (360 → 400).
2-0-4 MOAB Press knockback kylie pierce bonus reduced from +140 to +220, total pierce reduced from 340 to 420. Also affects MOAB Domination (440 → 520).
Glaive Dominus price reduced from $275,000 to $250,000
- Note: Glaive Dominus cash sacrifice per power decreased in all game difficulties
  - Easy: $11.6875 ($12.271875) → $10.625 ($10.94375)
  - Medium: $13.75 ($14.4375) → $12.5 ($12.875)
  - Hard: $14.85 ($15.2925) → $13.5 ($13.905)
  - Impoppable: $16.5 ($17.325) → $15 ($15.45)
- Note: Glaive Dominus max cash sacrifice per power decreased in all game difficulties
  - Easy: $701,250 ($736,312) → $637,500 ($656,625)
  - Medium: $825,000 ($866,250) → $750,000 ($772,500)
  - Hard: $891,000 ($935,550) → $810,000 ($834,300)
  - Impoppable: $990,000 ($1,039,500) → $900,000 ($927,000)

47.0

“	While the higher tier upgrades work well, Bionic Boomerang is often not as effective as expected for this price range.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Bionic Boomerang cost decreased from $1450 to $1250

48.0

“	MOAR Glaives is shifting into a lower price point, and Glaive Lord is seeing a general shift around increasing rate and pierce but lowering bonuses as a simplification. Faster Rangs has had some inconsistency resolved for an overall crosspathing improvement	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

4xx MOAR Glaives pierce reduced 80 > 60
4xx MOAR Glaives price reduced $3000 > $2000
5xx Glaive Lord glaive damage reduced 8 > 6
5xx Glaive Lord glaive Ceramic bonus increased 8 > 10
5x2 Glaive Lord glaive damage 9 > 8
5xx Glaive Lord Orbit damage 2 > 4
5xx Glaive Lord Orbit attack cooldown 0.08 > 0.05
5xx Glaive Lord Orbit pierce 80 > 200
5xx Glaive Lord Orbit no longer soaks damage
5xx Glaive Lord Orbit MOAB Bonus 5 > 0
5xx Glaive Lord Orbit Ceramic Bonus 8 > 4
x2x Faster Rangs attack cooldown 0.675s > 0.6s
x14 MOAB Press attack cooldown 7.5s > 8s
x24 MOAB Press attack cooldown 5s > 6s
2x5 Moab domination no longer increases speed of press attack
xx5 Moab domination press attack cooldown 5s > 4s
x15 Moab domination press attack cooldown 3.75s > 3.2s
x25 Moab domination press attack cooldown 2.8125s > 2.4s

Bug Fixes and General Changes[]

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8.1

The +1 damage to MOABs for Bionic Boomerang now (correctly) applies to all MOAB-class bloons.

12.0

0-5-2 Red Hot Rangs now correctly increases damage.

15.0

2-5-0 Perma Charge should (correctly) no longer lose its bonus +1 damage to MOABs.

21.0

2-0-4 Kylie Boomerang no longer loses the ability to hit 1 Bloon multiple times with regular attack.

24.0

5-x-x Glaive Lord description has been updated with more detail.

27.0

xx5 MOAB Domination press attack should correctly explode even if it runs out of pierce

27.1

Fixed an issue where the Boomerang Paragon portrait would break after loading a save.

28.0

5-0-2 Glaive Lord will now use the red-tipped glaives projectile for rotating glaives.

28.2

502 Boomerang no longer loses orbiting glaive trails at 502 crosspath

Merchandise[]

Boomerang Monkey Plush[]

Boomersaudabfb coming soon — Boomer Plush, Sauda Plush, and BFB Plush

Boomerang Monkey Plush has officially been teased on June 18th 2023 on Ninja Kiwi's Twitter account, posting the teaser for Sauda Plush, Boomerang Monkey Plush, and BFB Jumbo Plush. A Ninja Kiwi Twitter giveaway was posted on June 20th 2023, with the end date on June 21st at 2pm (ET). On June 23rd 2023, the official announcement for these three plushes were announced on this post. Final week announcement for these plushes was posted on July 7th 2023.

The Boomerang Monkey's campaign can be seen on their entry on the Makeship website. Boomerang Monkey Plush costed $29.99 USD.

Boomerang Monkey Plush campaign ran from June 23rd 2023 to July 15th 2023 (specifically 11:00am NZST). At the end of the campaign, 1734 Boomerang Monkey Plushes were sold, funding 867% of the campaign. They were manufactured starting from July 14th 2023, and they were shipped by October 7th 2023.

Sounds[]

When placed:

Gallery[]

Official Artwork[]

Assets[]

Boomerang Monkey Plush[]

Other languages[]

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Boomerang Monkey
Traditional Chinese	迴旋鏢猴
Danish	Boomerang-Abe
Dutch	Boemerangaap
Finnish	Bumerangiapina
French	Singe à Boomerangs
German	Bumerangaffe
Italian	Scimmia Boomerang
Norwegian	Bumerang-Ape
Polish	Bumerangowa Małpka
Brazilian Portuguese	Macaco Bumerangue
Russian	Обезьяна с Бумерангом
Spanish	Mono Lanzabumeranes (Europe and Latin America)

Trivia[]

Boomerang Monkey's third path gives it an Australian look, seeing as boomerangs were used by the natives aborigines of Australia.
The Glaive Dominus Upgrade refers to the boomerang tower in the first person with the use of "my". This is the only tower and only upgrade in the game besides heroes that refers to itself in the first person.
The word Glaive usually refers to a polearm, not a kind of throwing weapon. The use of the word in Bloons is a reference to Science Fiction film Krull, where a weapon like the first upgrade path uses is called a Glaive.