Changes: Camo Bloon

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For the bloon of the same name in Bloons 2, see Camouflage Bloon.

“	A Camo bloon is coming next level. Camo bloons cannot be targeted by towers that cannot detect them. Use spikes if you need.	”
	^{~ Round 24 in Bloons TD 4}

“	You're about to attack the first area that has Camo Bloons in it. You should hold off attacking this tile until you're ready. A Centre Of Camo Countermeasures is required for most Monkey upgrades that can detect Camo Bloons.	”
	^{~ Bloons Monkey City when the player is attacking a tile with Camo Bloons for the first time}

“	Camo Bloons are very dangerous since most Towers cannot hit them. Any Bloon type can be a Camo, and so will all the Bloons that come out of that one. They can only be hit by Towers that can detect Camo Bloons, such as the Ninja Monkey. In an emergency, use Road Spikes to pop them.	”
	^{~ Bloons TD 5 Description of Camo Bloons}

“	IMPORTANT! Camo Bloon can't be affected by your Monkeys unless they have a way to detect them. For example Quincy can at level 5 and Dart Monkeys can with the Enhanced Eyesight upgrade.	”
	^{~ First time encountered with Camo Bloons in BTD 6.}

The Camo Bloon is a bloon that made its debut in Bloons TD 4. Its RBE is 11 (the game says it's 9, but it actually takes 11 hits to pop). They move at around the same speed as the Blue Bloon.

In BTD4, they are a type of Bloon which contain 2 Pink Bloons, making them about the same level of parenthood as the White Bloon and Black Bloon.

In BTD5, Camo becomes a property of bloon along with Regrowth, meaning any bloon from a Red Bloon to a Ceramic Bloon can acquire Camo properties. MOAB-class bloons cannot be camos, nor can their children (though the D.D.T. is an exception along with bloons sent in BTDB Flash). They cannot be targeted by most towers. However, there are upgrades that can make surrounding towers and/or themselves able to see them, such as Sonar Beacon and Crow's Nest. Camo bloons first appear on round 24 in both BTD4, BTD5, and BTD6.

Camo Detection

Camo Bloons can only be detected by some monkeys, usually requiring some upgrades or a nearby tower that gives them that ability. It is necessary in both BTD4, and even more important in BTD5 and BTD6, as it is no longer possible to "accidentally" hit Camo Bloons in these games.

Camo Detection in Bloons TD 4

If another tower targets a Bloon and a Camo Bloon gets in the way, the Camo Bloon will be popped. If a tower with piercing projectiles targets a Bloon in front of a Camo Bloon, both will be popped. Usually, all you need is one set of Road Spikes or a Pineapple to set off a chain reaction. Camo RBE: 11 (BTD4), same speed as a blue.

The following towers and upgrades allow the tower and/or nearby towers to detect Camo Bloons:

Tower	Upgrade	Notes
Monkey Beacon	Sonar Beacon (Upgrade #3)	Allows detection to all nearby towers. The Monkey Storm Beacon destroys all bloons including camo bloons.
Monkey Ace	No upgrade required	Spy Plane (Upgrade #2) allows all towers near the ace to detect Camo Bloons.
Monkey Buccaneer	Crow's Nest (Upgrade #2)	Allows detection to all towers within its range (including itself).
Monkey Apprentice	Crystal Ball (Premium Upgrade)	Crystal Ball costs 10 and also increases the Monkey Apprentice's attack range in addition to allowing Camo detection.
Dartling Gun	No upgrade required	Can pop camos anywhere unupgraded.
Spike Factory	No upgrade required	Pops any bloons (except for leads when it doesn't have the 3rd upgrade) that run over its spikes on the track.
Road Spikes	N/A	Pops any bloons, except for leads, that run over the spikes on the track. One pile in BTD4 will pop all of the camo, even though its RBE is 11, and spikes do 10 damage.
Pineapple	N/A	Pops any bloons, including Camo, that get caught in blast radius. 1 damage only.

Camo Detection in Bloons TD 5

In BTD5, Camo becomes a Bloon property: therefore their RBE can be from 1 to 104 unlike in BTD4. If a tower cannot see camo bloons, its projectiles will go straight through them without doing any damage to them. A camo bloon can also be Regrowth at the same time, making them very dangerous if you do not prepare, like in round 82.

The following towers and upgrades allow the tower and/or nearby towers to detect and also target Camo Bloons:

Tower	Upgrade	Notes
Dart Monkey	Enhanced Eyesight (Path 1, Upgrade 2)	Dart Monkeys will also get a bit more range with this upgrade. If it has the Triple Darts upgrade, it can pop up to 3 layers of the camo bloon. Only the Juggernaut upgrade can pop camo leads.
Sniper Monkey	Night Vision Goggles (Path 2, Upgrade 2)	Can pop camo bloons. Can also pop camo leads if it also has the Full Metal Jacket upgrade.
Boomerang Thrower	Glaive Lord (Path 1, Upgrade 4)	It can pop infinite amount of bloons as long as the glaives touches it. Also allows to pop lead bloons.
Ninja Monkey	No upgrade needed	If timed correctly, and it has Double Shot or Bloonjitsu, the Ninja can pop up to two or five layers of the camo bloon, respectively. Cannot pop camo leads without the Flash Bomb upgrade.
Bomb Tower	MOAB Assassin (Path 2, Upgrade 4, Ability only)	Only works if the ability is activated when the camo bloon is the strongest bloon on screen. Even then, it only pops one layer. It is not recommended to defend against camos in this way, due to its inefficient popping of camo.
Ice Tower	Viral Frost (Path 1, Upgrade 4); Absolute Zero (Path 2, Upgrade 4, Ability only); Tier 4 Ice Fortress (BTD5 iOS only)	Camo Bloons can be affected by the Viral Frost; Absolute Zero Ability can freeze camo bloons regardless of support for camo detection; Tier 4 Ice Fortress allows to lose the camo status.
Glue Gunner	Glue Striker (Path 2, Upgrade 4, Ability only)	Glue Strike Ability can glue camo bloons regardless of support for camo detection.
Monkey Buccaneer	Crow's Nest (Path 2, Upgrade 2); Tier 3 Pirate Cove	Lets the tower itself (only) be able to detect camo bloons; Tier 3 Pirate Cove also grants other towers in range Camo detection if upgraded to Crow's Nest.
Monkey Ace	Spy Plane (Path 2, Upgrade 2)	Spy Plane lets itself (only) to be able to detect camo bloons. Spectre and Neva-Miss Targeting cannot pop camo bloons without this upgrade, but their projectiles can target them.
Monkey Apprentice	Monkey Sense (Path 2, Upgrade 2)	Allows all attacks from the tower to be able to pop camo bloons.
Monkey Village	Radar Scanner (Path 2, Upgrade 2)	Allows detection to all nearby towers. High Energy Beacon cannot pop camo bloons without this upgrade.
Super Monkey	Temple of the Monkey God (Path 1, Upgrade 4); Tier 3 Super Monkey Lair	Allows detection to the tower, even if no tower with camo detection is sacrificed.
Mortar Tower	Signal Flare (Path 2, Upgrade 3)	Makes the next layer permanently lose camo status. Cannot detect camos without this upgrade.
Dartling Gun	No upgrade required	Pops Camo Bloons regardless of upgrades. Cannot pop camo leads without Depleted Bloontonium or Ray of Doom.
Spike Factory	No upgrade required	Spikes from the tower will pop the camo bloons. Cannot pop camo leads without White Hot Spikes.
Monkey Sub ^[1]	Submerge and Support (Path 1, Upgrade 3)	Bloons within the green circle that appears when submerged will lose their camo status.
Road Spikes	N/A	Pops bloons including camo that come over it. Does not pop lead.
Pineapple	N/A	Explodes bloons including camo bloons that are nearby when pineapple explodes.
Meerkat Spy		Special Agent, allows detection to all nearby towers within its range. Beams from the pro version can also pop camo bloons.
Bloonberry Bush		Special Agent, pops bloons including camo that come over it. Does not pop lead.
Angry Squirrel		Special Agent, detects camo bloons only when it's raging. Also can pop camo leads.
Super Monkey Storm		Special Agent, destroys all bloons on screen, and that includes Camo Bloons.
Bloonsday Device (ability only)		Special Agent, pops all kinds of bloons including camo bloons.
Monkey Engineer (BTD5 Deluxe, BTD5 iOS, Android and BMC only)	Cleansing Foam (Path 1, Upgrade 3)	Removes Camo, Lead and Regen status of bloons with cleansing foam. Cannot detect camos unless a bloon is de-camoised.
Heli Pilot (BTD5 iOS and Android only)	Enhanced IFR Instruments (Path 2, Upgrade 2)	Can pop camo bloons. Without Razor Rotors or Apache Dartship, it cannot pop camo leads.

Camo Detection in Bloons TD 6

BTD6 Camo Detection is similar to that of BTD5’s. Several upgrades that help detect Camo are also available in BTD6, including the Radar Scanner upgrade. Somehow, Glaive Lord in Bloons TD 6 can no longer detect Camo.

Tower	Upgrade	Notes
Dart Monkey	Enhanced Eyesight (Path 3, Upgrade 2)	Dart Monkeys will also get a bit more range with this upgrade. This upgrade plus Juggernaut can pop Camo Leads, the only way that can be done by a Dart Monkey without enhancements.
Bomb Shooter	Bomb Blitz (Path 3, Upgrade 5)	Only works when a bloon leaks.
Sniper Monkey	Night Vision Goggles (Path 2, Upgrade 1)	Allows the Sniper to detect camo. Must add Full Metal Jacket to pop Camo Leads.
Ninja Monkey	Gains camo detection as a 0-0-0 tower.	Needs Flash Bomb to pop camo leads, and Sticky Bomb to hit D.D.T.s. Can remove the camo property from the Bloons hit by the ninja with Counter-Espionage (Path 2, Upgrade 2).
Monkey Sub	Submerge and Support (Path 1, Upgrade 3)	Removes the camo property from all bloons in its range.
Monkey Ace	Spy Plane (Path 2, Upgrade 2)	Allows the Monkey Ace to see camo. Can pop Camo Leads with this upgrade, but the pineapples are highly unreliable (even with Monkey Knowledge).
Wizard Monkey	Monkey Sense (Path 3, Upgrade 2) and Shimmer (Path 3,Upgrade 3)	Monkey Sense allows the Wizard to pop camo bloons. Must be under influence of Monkey Village with Monkey Intelligence Bureau to pop Camo Purple. Shimmer can remove the camo property from the Bloons.
Super Monkey	Ultravision (Path 3, Upgrade 2)	Allows the Super Monkey to see Camo. Cannot pop Camo Lead or DDTs without Plasma Blasts (Path 1, Upgrade 2), Technological Terror and The Anti-Bloon (Path 2, Upgrades 4 and 5) or Dark Champion and Legend of the Night (Path 3, Upgrades 4 and 5). Do note that using Plasma Blasts or Technological Terror does leave Camo Purple impossible to pop without being under the influence of a Monkey Intelligence Bureau, or being upgraded to Dark Champion or The Anti-Bloon.
Druid	Superstorm (Path 1, Upgrade 5)	Not viable camo detection due to its high cost.
Quincy	Level 5	Allows Quincy to see Camo Bloons. Can pop camo leads due to Level 7 Exploding Arrow
Gwendolin	Level 3	Cocktail of Fire ability can pop Camos and Camo Lead. Cannot pop Camo Purple without influence of Monkey Village with Monkey Intelligence Bureau.
Obyn Greenfoot	Level 3	Obyn can use Brambles ability that can pop Camo. Level 10 Wall of Trees ability required to pop Camo Lead. Cannot pop or damage DDTs without Radar Scanner other form of camo detection.
Captain Churchill	Level 6	Churchill can pop Camo Lead naturally at Level 6 and has no trouble with Camo Black, but must activate Armor Piercing Rounds or have an Monkey Intelligence Bureau to pop DDTs
Ezili	Level 1	Ezili can naturally see and attack Camo Bloons (including DDTs), and can also strip all special properties of Bloons up to Ceramic Bloons at Level 9. In addition, her Sacrificial Totem ability can grant Camo detection to all towers in the totem’s radius for a few rounds.
Monkey Village	Radar Scanner (Path 2, Upgrade 2) and Primary Expertise (Path 1,Upgrade 5)	Radar Scanner allows every tower in its range to pop Camo Bloons.Primary Expertise can pop Camo Bloons itself even without Radar Scanner.
Heli Pilot	IFR (Path 2, Upgrade 2)	Allows the Heli Pilot to see camo. Cannot pop Camo Lead without Razor Rotors or Apache Dartship.

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Trivia

11 hits are needed to pop the entire Camo Bloon in BTD4, yet one bunch of Road Spikes (10 spikes) can pop it.
Letting a Camo leak in BTD4 makes you lose 9 lives instead of 11, meaning letting the Camo's children out is actually slightly more dangerous than letting the Camo out itself, as leaking the Camo's children cost you 10 lives as opposed to 9.
In BTD5, Camo Bloons can be very dangerous, especially on Round 78, which contains a dense rush of Camo Ceramic Bloons.
Only two things in Bloons TD 5 can make camo bloons lose their camo status: the Mortar Tower with the Signal Flare, best used at the beginning of a track, and the submerged Monkey Sub with Submerge and Support. In Bloons Tower Defense 5 Deluxe, Bloons Tower Defense 5 Mobile and Bloons Monkey City, however, you can also use the Monkey Engineer's Cleansing Foam (or, in BTD5 Mobile, the Tier 4 Ice Fortress).
- In BTD6 however there are more ways to do it. Other than the Submerge and Support and Signal Flare, there are 4 more ways to reveal Camo Bloons, with 2 involving Magic monkeys, 1 involving a Hero, and 1 involving a power: Ninja Monkeys can with Counter-Espionage, Wizard Monkeys can with Shimmer, a Camo Trap can strip 500 Bloons (600 with the Bigger Traps perk), and a level 9+ Ezili can with her basic attack, alongside stripping Regrowth and Fortified properties off the target.
The first Camo Bloon appears in Round 24 in all installments when Camo Bloons are added where such a bloon appears. In BTD5 and BTD6, the Bloon is Green.
- In BTD5, this is also the round with the lowest RBE of only 3. However, in BTD6 it has actually more RBE than that due to the 40 Blues.
- In BTD6’s Alternate Bloon Rounds mode, multiple Camo Bloons appear as early as round 5.
Covert Pops, a Special Mission in BTD5, gives all bloons Camo Properties. Those who are normally Camo acquire Regrowth properties instead.
Blade Maelstrom, Technological Terror and Activate Sea Monster! abilities cannot hit Camos even if the towers themselves can detect them.
In BTD4, it is possible for towers to "accidentally" pop a camo bloon without camo-detection. This is no longer possible in BTD5.
Dartling Gun, Ninja Monkey and Spike Factory are the only towers (not agents) capable of detecting camo bloons without an upgrade.
In BTD4, upgrades of towers that help their own Camo-detection can also make other towers around those radii to be granted ability to see Camo Bloons, but this is no longer the case with any tower except Monkey Village and Monkey Buccaneer with a Tier 3 Pirate Cove in BTD5 and Bloons Monkey City.
In Bloons Monkey City, Camo Bloons can appear in assaults as well as tiles with the maximum bloon type Rainbow Bloon or stronger.
The camo rounds in BTD5 Beginner difficulty are 24 (1 Green Camo), 33 (20 Yellow Camo), 37 (7 White Camo), and 42 (The deadliest, 8 Rainbow Camo along with 8 Rainbow Regen).3

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↑ The Monkey Sub can pop camo bloons by using Advanced Intel, but only if there is another tower on the screen with the capability of popping camo bloons.

[1] The Monkey Sub can pop camo bloons by using Advanced Intel, but only if there is another tower on the screen with the capability of popping camo bloons.

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 |[[Monkey Sense]] (Path 3, Upgrade 2) and [[Shimmer]] (Path 3,Upgrade 3)
 |[[Monkey Sense]] allows the Wizard to pop camo bloons. Must be under influence of [[Monkey Village]] with [[Monkey Intelligence Bureau]] to pop Camo Purple. [[Shimmer]] can remove the camo property from the Bloons.
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+|[[Super Monkey]]
+|Ultravision (Path 3, Upgrade 2)
+|Allows the Super Monkey to see Camo. Cannot pop Camo Lead or DDTs without [[Plasma Blasts]] (Path 1, Upgrade 2), [[Technological Terror]] and [[The Anti-Bloon]] (Path 2, Upgrades 4 and 5) or [[Dark Champion]] and [[Legend of the Night]] (Path 3, Upgrades 4 and 5). Do note that using Plasma Blasts or Technological Terror does leave Camo Purple impossible to pop without being under the influence of a [[Monkey Intelligence Bureau]], or being upgraded to Dark Champion or The Anti-Bloon.
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 |[[Druid]]
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 |Level 3
 |Obyn can use Brambles ability that can pop Camo. Level 10 Wall of Trees ability required to pop Camo Lead. Cannot pop or damage DDTs without Radar Scanner other form of camo detection.
+|-
+|[[Captain Churchill]]
+|Level 6
+|Churchill can pop Camo Lead naturally at Level 6 and has no trouble with Camo Black, but must activate Armor Piercing Rounds or have an [[Monkey Intelligence Bureau]] to pop DDTs
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+|[[Ezili]]
+|Level 1
+|Ezili can naturally see and attack Camo Bloons (including DDTs), and can also strip all special properties of Bloons up to Ceramic Bloons at Level 9. In addition, her Sacrificial Totem ability can grant Camo detection to all towers in the totem’s radius for a few rounds.
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 |[[Monkey Village]]