Dart Monkey

“	Shoot a single dart that pops a single bloon. A good, cheap tower suitable for the early rounds.	”
	~ BTD5 Official Description

“	Throws a single dart at nearby bloons. Short range and low pierce but cheap.	”
	~ BTD6 description

Dart Monkey
General Information
Appearances	Bloons Bloons 2 Bloons TD Bloons TD 2 Bloons TD 3 Bloons TD 4 Bloons TD 4 Expansion Bloons TD 5 Bloons TD 5 Deluxe Bloons TD 5 Mobile Bloons TD Battles Bloons TD Battles Mobile Bloons Monkey City Bloons Monkey City Mobile Bloons TD 6 Bloons Adventure Time TD
Unlocked at	Start (All games except for Bloons Adventure Time TD) Common (BATTD)
Cost	$250 in BTD $250, $280 & $285 in BTD2 $215, $255 & $270 in BTD3 $170, $200 & $215 in BTD4-5 $170, $200, $215 & $240 in BTD5M, BTD6 $200 in BMC/M $200 in BTD Battles
Final upgrades	19
Special Abilities	Super Monkey Fan Club, Plasma Monkey Fan Club
Camo detection	Yes (2/X)
Tier-4 Upgrades	Juggernaut Super Monkey Fan Club
Battle Score prerequisite	0
Specialty Building	Dart Training Facility
Footprint	6
Hotkey	D (BTD4), Q (BTD5), Q (BTD6)
Statistics
Range	Small radius 100 px in BTD1, 2 and 3 98 px apparent in BTD4 102 px apparent in BTD5 123 px apparent in BTD5M but this was when viewed in a 27% wider (tower placable) game play area, 887 px wide (as per screen used) 32.0 (BTD6)
Pierce	1 (2 in BTD6)
Damage	1
Attack Cooldown	Medium - with arrack rates: BTD5: approx. 1 per 7 frames; BTD5M: 67 per minute; Spike-o-pult - 40 per minute; Juggernaut - 43 per minute. Excludes bonuses from Monkey Lab and upgrades.

Description

The Dart Monkey is a tower in the Bloons TD series. It is one of the 5 original towers. This tower is named Dart Tower in BTD1 and Dart Monkey in subsequent games. The Dart Monkey is the first and cheapest tower that is unlocked and available from the start in every BTD game. The Dart Monkey is a standard brown monkey with a single dart in its hand, capable of popping one bloon (two in BTD6) unless it is upgraded. This tower's darts are ineffective against Lead Bloons, unless the premium upgrade Exploding Darts (renamed as Splodey Darts in BTD5) is applied and/or if it is upgraded to Juggernaut or if it's affected by a Monkey Intelligence Bureau (0-3-0 Monkey Village) or Acidic Mixture Dip since it allows monkeys to pop Leads. This will allow the Dart Monkey to pop multiple Bloons without any upgrades and is much more effective against M.O.A.B.s and B.F.B.s. They also will become outclassed by many other towers as you progress throughout the game.

Appearance

The Dart Monkey is a normal, brown monkey, with deep brown fur, and with tan fur on its face, ears, the front of its hands, the bottom of its feet, and his belly. On the top of his head are two tufts of hair, and on his face are two beady, black eyes (prior to BTD6), and a tiny nose and mouth. In Bloons Tower Defense games, the Dart Monkeys are much thinner than their Bloons counterparts. In Bloons Tower Defense 5, if upgraded on any two upgrades for the first and second paths, they will receive a colored bandana (red or green). If it upgrades to Spike-o-pult, the monkey will lose its bandana (and will not obtain it again if they upgrade to Juggernaut) and receives a catapult with a spiked ball (the spiked ball becomes much larger if it is upgraded to Juggernaut). If it upgrades to Triple Darts, it will gain an elite black bandana with red in the middle, and a quiver of darts. If upgraded to Super Monkey Fan Club, it will gain a green cloak with a green visor, and hide the bandana under it, and will keep its quiver of darts.

Bloons Tower Defense

Bloons Tower Defense
General Information
Cost	$250
Hotkey	Unknown
Statistics
Range	100
Pierce	1
Damage	Unknown
Attack Cooldown	Fast

Tower Cost	Piercing Darts	Long Range Darts
$250	$210	$100

Piercing Darts: Allows Dart Monkey to pop through two Bloons

Long Range Darts: Longer range (Shoots farther)

Bloons Tower Defense 2

Bloons Tower Defense 2
General Information
Cost	$250 (Easy) $280 (Medium) $285 (Hard)
Hotkey	Unknown
Statistics
Range	100
Pierce	1
Damage	Unknown
Attack Cooldown	Fast

	Easy	Medium	Hard
Tower Cost	$250	$280	$285
Piercing Darts	$180	$205	$210
Long Range Darts	$80	$90	$95
Total Sell Amount	$428	$456	$464
Total Cost	$510	$575	$590

Bloons Tower Defense 3

Bloons Tower Defense 3
General Information
Cost	$215 (Easy) $255 (Medium) $270 (Hard)
Hotkey	Unknown
Statistics
Range	Small
Pierce	1
Damage	Unknown
Attack Cooldown	Fast

	Easy	Medium	Hard
Tower Cost	$215	$255	$270
Long Range Darts	$75	$90	$95
Extra Long Range Darts	$75	$90	$95
Piercing Darts	$120	$145	$150
Razor Darts	$100	$120	$130
Total Sell Amount	$496	$556	$576
Total Cost	$585	$700	$740

Bloons Tower Defense 4

Bloons Tower Defense 4
General Information
Cost	$170 (Easy) $200 (Medium) $215 (Hard)
Camo detection	No; like all other towers, this one can pop camo bloons accidentally
Hotkey	D
Statistics
Range	Small
Pierce	1
Damage	Unknown
Attack Cooldown	Fast

	Easy	Medium	Hard
Tower Cost	$170	$200	$215
Piercing Darts	$120	$140	$150
Long Range Darts	$75	$90	$95
Spike-o-pult	$255	$300	$325
Triple Shot	$935	$1,100	$1,190
Total Sell Amount	$1,176	$1,384	$1,492
Total Cost	$1,555	$1,830	$1,975

Bloons Tower Defense 5

Bloons Tower Defense 5
General Information
Appearances	Bloons TD 5 Bloons TD Battles* Bloons Monkey City* Bloons TD 5 Mobile Bloons TD Battles Mobile* Bloons Monkey City Mobile* * Only Medium Level costs apply
Unlocked at	Rank 1
Cost	$170 (Easy) $200 (Medium) $215 (Hard) $240 (Impoppable)
Final upgrades	19
Special Abilities	Super Monkey Fan Club
Camo detection	Yes (2/x)
Specialty Building	Dart Training Facility
Hotkey	Q
Statistics
Range	Small
Pierce	1
Damage	1
Attack Cooldown	Medium

Tower XP

Level	Upgrade	XP To Get To This Level	Total XP	Rank Required
1	Base Tower	N/A	0	1
2	Long Range Darts	30	30	1
3	Sharp Shots	75	105	1
4	Enhanced Eyesight	460	565	1
5	Razor Sharp Shots	580	1145	1
6	Spike-O-Pult	1890	3035	1
7	Triple Dart's	3250	6285	1
8	Juggernaut	9330	15615	21
9	Super Monkey Fan Club	14535	30150	21

Path 1

File:DartMonkeyLeftSide.png	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
Long Range Darts Makes the Dart Monkey shoot further than normal.	$75	$90	$95	$110
Enhanced Eyesight Further increases attack range and allows Dart Monkey to see Camo Bloons.	$100	$120	$130	$145
Spike-O-Pult Converts the Dart Monkey into a Spike-O-Pult, a powerful tower that hurls a large spiked ball instead of darts. Increases range even more, albeit slightly, but has slower attack speed. Each ball can pop 18 bloons.	$425	$500	$540	$600
Juggernaut Hurls a giant unstoppable killer spiked ball that can pop lead bloons and excels at crushing ceramic bloons. Deals 100 pierce, 5 damage to ceramics.	$1,275	$1,500	$1,620	$1,800
Total Sell Amount	$1,636	$1,927	$2,080	$2,316 ($2,616 with path 2 upgrades)
Total Cost	$2,045	$2,210	$2,600	$2,895 ($3,270 with path 2 upgrades)

Path 2

File:DartMonkeyRightSide.png	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
Sharp Shots Can pop 1 extra bloon per shot.	$120	$140	$150	$170
Razor Sharp Shots Can pop 2 extra bloons per shot (4 in total).	$145	$170	$185	$205
Triple Darts Throws 3 darts at a time instead of 1.	$280	$330	$355	$395
Super Monkey Fan Club Super Monkey Fan Club Ability: Converts up to 10 nearby dart monkeys into Super Monkeys for 15 seconds.	$6,800	$8,000	$8,640	$9,600
Total Sell Amount	$6,012	$7,072	$7,636	$8,488 ($8,692 with path 1 upgrades)
Total Cost	$7,515	$8,840	$9,545	$10,410 ($10,865 with path 1 upgrades)

Differences Between BTD5 Flash and BTD5 Mobile

Dart Monkeys are slightly more useful in mobile versions of BTD compared to flash.

Darts have a larger hitbox.

Super Monkey Fan Club affects Spike-o-pults and Juggernauts (besides using the Super Juggernaut exploit)

Super Monkey Fan Club can no longer cause Spike-o-Pults and Juggernauts to become hypersonic; instead, affected Spike-O-Pults and Juggernauts shoot only darts, or also spiked balls/juggernauts if attempting to use the Super Juggernaut exploit.

Juggernaut pop count registers twice as many bloons popped compared to how many it actually popped (ex: if the Juggernaut pops 3 bloons the pop count will show 6 bloons popped).

Update History (Bloons TD Battles Mobile)

The Dart Monkey is one of the most used towers in the game thanks to its versatility. It has been nerfed via game updates (albeit not as severely as the Bloonchipper), but despite this it continues to be a popular tower among players and is used in various tower loadouts (often with the Banana Farm).

Popular loadouts include Dart-Farm-Ace (arguably the most popular loadout in the game), Dart-Farm-Bomb, Dart-Farm-Ice, and Dart-Farm-Wizard. Dart-Farm-Chipper used to be arguably the most popular one until the Version 4.1 nerf to the Bloonchipper's ZOMG-sucking capabilities, though it still is used (albeit pretty rarely).

Initial Release

Juggernaut cannot pop frozen bloons.

3.1

Triple Darts price increased ($330 → $380).

3.2

Super Monkey Fan Club no longer affects Spike-o-pults or Juggernauts.

Juggernaut price increased ($1500 → $1750).

3.4

Juggernaut can now pop frozen bloons.

3.9

Triple Darts price increased ($380 → $400).

4.1

Triple Darts price increased ($400 → $500).

Enhanced Eyesight price increased ($120 → $160).

Juggernaut price increased ($1750 → $1900).

Super Monkey Fan Club ability duration decreased (15s → 11s).

4.3

Triple Darts price decreased ($500 → $475).

Spike-o-pult popping power increased (18 → 40).

Bloons Tower Defense 6

Bloons Tower Defense 6
General Information
Appearances	Bloons TD 6
Unlocked at	Start
Cost	$170 (Easy) $200 (Medium) $215 (Hard) $240 (Impoppable)
Final upgrades	Ultra-Juggernaut · Plasma Monkey Fan Club · Crossbow Master
Special Abilities	Super Monkey Fan Club · Plasma Monkey Fan Club
Camo detection	Yes (x/x/2)
Footprint	6
Hotkey	Q (BTD6 Steam)
Statistics
Range	Small (32)
Pierce	2
Damage	1
Attack Cooldown	Medium (every 0.95s)

Dart Monkey is one of the first towers to be teased prior to release of BTD6. Its base tower image was displayed as part of the way to convince players of BTD5 that BTD6 is still in production. Later, the Dart Monkey was teased in future BTD6 teasers until the official release of BTD6.

Many changes have occurred for the Dart Monkey, the most significant of which is that Triple Darts is now separated from Sharp Shots and Razor Sharp Shots upgrades and that the Spike-O-Pult upgrade is now an upgrade from Razor Sharp Shots. In addition to this is an entirely new set of higher-tier upgrades that dedicates to crossbows.

Path 1 is dedicated for increasing the pierce and therefore the penetration for each projectile. Starting from increased pierce to darts, then towards transforming to a Spike-O-Pult into Juggernaut, and finally an upgrade that produces extra Juggernauts.

Path 2 is all about speed and projectiles. The first two upgrades are all about extra attack speed, something not yet given for the Dart Monkey in the Bloons TD series before. The third upgrade is Triple Shot, allowing it to shoot three darts per shot instead of one. The final upgrades provide abilities to turn nearby Dart Monkeys into Super Monkeys and Plasma Monkeys.

Path 3 is all about providing extra range and damage. Most of the upgrades provide extra range to the Dart Monkey, but the Upper Path 3 provides extra damage on top, including random critical hits for the Tier 4 upgrade Sharp Shooter. The final upgrade, Crossbow Master gives the Dart Monkey with significantly increased attack speed along with even more range and pierce.

Path 1

File:Screenshot 2019-01-02 at 4.29.27 PM.png All 5 upgrades for Path 1 in Bloons TD 6	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Unlock XP
Sharp Shots Can pop 1 extra Bloon per shot. (3)	$120	$140	$150	$170	100
Razor Sharp Shots Can pop 2 more Bloons per shot. (5)	$185	$220	$235	$265	500
Spike-O-Pult Converts the Dart Monkey into a Spike-o-pult that hurls a large spiked ball instead of darts. Good range, but slower attack speed. Each ball can pop lots of Bloons. (22)	$225	$300	$325	$360	1,900
Juggernaut Hurls a giant spiked ball that pops lead and excels at crushing Ceramic Bloons. (3 Damage to Ceramics, 100 Pierce)	$1,530	$1,800	$1,945	$2,160	7,500
Ultra-Juggernaut Gigantic spiked ball splits twice into 6 Juggernaut balls for even more destructive power.	$12,750	$15,000	$16,200	$18,000	22,000
Total Sell Amount	Tier 4: $1,561 ($1,673 with BSD) Tier 5: $10,486 ($11,235 with BSD)	Tier 4: $1,862 ($1,995 with BSD) Tier 5: $12,362 ($13,245 with BSD)	Tier 4: $2,009 ($2,153 with BSD) Tier 5: $13,349 ($14,303 with BSD)	Tier 4: $2,237 ($2,396 with BSD) Tier 5: $14,837 ($15,896 with BSD)	N/A
Total Cost	Tier 4: $2,230 Tier 5: $14,980	Tier 4: $2,660 Tier 5: $17,660	Tier 4: $2,870 Tier 5: $19,070	Tier 4: $3,195 Tier 5: $21,195	32,000

Path 2

File:Screenshot 2019-01-02 at 4.34.02 PM.png All 5 Path 2 upgrades in BTD 6	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Unlock XP
Quick Shots Shoots 15% faster.	$85	$100	$110	$120	80
Very Quick Shots Shoots 33% faster!	$160	$190	$205	$230	400
Triple Shot Throws 3 darts at a time instead of 1.	$340	$400	$430	$480	2,000
Super Monkey Fan Club Super Monkey Fan Club ability: Converts up to 10 nearby Dart Monkeys including himself into Super Monkeys for 10 seconds.	$6,800	$8,000	$8,640	$9,600	9,500
Plasma Monkey Fan Club Elite membership of this club grants the Dart Monkeys even more power!	$42,500	$50,000	$54,000	$60,000	30,000
Total Sell Amount	Tier 4: $5,289 ($5,666 with BSD) Tier 5: $35,039 ($37,541 with BSD)	Tier 4: $6,223 ($6,668 with BSD) Tier 5: $41,223 ($44,168 with BSD)	Tier 4: $6,720 ($7,200 with BSD) Tier 5: $44,520 ($47,700 with BSD)	Tier 4: $7,469 ($8,003 with BSD) Tier 5: $49,469 ($53,003 with BSD)	N/A
Total Cost	Tier 4: $7,555 Tier 5: $50,055	Tier 4: $8,890 Tier 5: $58,890	Tier 4: $9,600 Tier 5: $63,600	Tier 4: $10,670 Tier 5: $70,670	41,980

Path 3

File:Screenshot 2019-01-02 at 4.37.14 PM.png All Path 3 Dart Monkey Upgrades	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Unlock XP
Long Range Darts Makes the Dart Monkey shoot further than normal.	$75	$90	$95	$110	50
Enhanced Eyesight Shoots even further and can detect Camo Bloons.	$170	$200	$215	$240	450
Crossbow Uses a long range Crossbow that can pop 3 layers of Bloon for every hit.	$530	$625	$675	$750	2,100
Sharp Shooter Sharp Shooter does powerful Crit Shots every few seconds that do a lot more damage.	$1,700	$2,000	$2,160	$2,400	12,000
Crossbow Master Crossbow Master shoots really fast and devastates most Bloon types with ease.	$21,250	$25,000	$27,000	$30,000	35,000
Total Sell Amount	Tier 4: $1,852 ($1,984 with BSD) Tier 5: $16,727 ($17,921 with BSD)	Tier 4: $2,181 ($2,336 with BSD) Tier 5: $19,681 ($21,086 with BSD)	Tier 4: $2,352 ($2,520 with BSD) Tier 5: $21,252 ($22,770 with BSD)	Tier 4: $2,618 ($2,805 with BSD) Tier 5: $23,618 ($25,305 with BSD)	N/A
Total Cost	Tier 4: $2,645 Tier 5: $23,895	Tier 4: $3,115 Tier 5: $28,115	Tier 4: $3,360 Tier 5: $30,360	Tier 4: $3,740 Tier 5: $33,740	49,600

Update History (BTD6)

Initial (compared to BTD5)

Dart Monkey pops two bloons instead of one.

Sharp Shots pops three bloons instead of two.

Razor Sharp Shots pops five bloons instead of four.

Super Monkey Fan Club now has an initial cooldown of a quarter of the cooldown.

Super Monkey Fan Club no longer increases attack range temporarily.

Super Monkey Fan Club now applies bonuses from 1st tier upgrades, 2nd tier upgrades, and middle path upgrades when the ability is active.

Spike-O-Pult now pops 22 bloons instead of 18.

Spike-O-Pult costs less ($500 --> $300)

Juggernaut costs more ($1500 --> $1800)

Triple Shot (former Triple Darts) costs more ($330 --> $400)

Several changes in path placement of the upgrades; some upgrades are moved to different paths. This allows for more options with the first two middle path upgrades but means that Triple Shots and higher can no longer have extra Pierce per shot and camo detection at once.

Enhanced Eyesight cost increased ($120 --> $200)

Updates

2.0

Super Monkey Fan Club monkeys can now be converted into Super Monkeys by their own ability.

3.0

Dart Monkeys will no longer miss bloons directly in front of them. This indirectly brought back progress on beating #OUCH CHIMPS, but is overall a buff.

Juggernaut balls will now directly bounce off walls when crosspathed.

Master Double Cross (a powerful Monkey Knowledge that allows you to have two Crossbow Masters at once) now works more consistently.

4.0

Juggernaut's description now mentions that it can pop Lead Bloons.

Sharpshooter now deals more damage per shot (4 > 5).

7.0

Ultra-Juggernaut does +1 damage, from 3 > 4 (9 > 12 for ceramics)

Crossbow Master's price was reduced by $2,000 on Medium, from $27,000 to $25,000.

8.0

Crossbow Master's crit rate was increased, from every 8-12 shots to every 6-10 shots.

11.0

Placing a Dart Monkey Insta-Monkey will no longer consume all of your free Dart Monkeys.

12.0

Crossbow Master's crit rate was increased, from every 6-10 shots to every 4-8 shots.

Crossbow Master's Attack speed bonus changed from 66% -> 75% (attacks 4 times faster than Sharp Shooter instead of 3)

Sharp Shooter now deals more damage per shot (5 > 6)

12.1

Crossbow Master's base attack damage (correctly) increased (5 > 6)

14.0

Ultra-Juggernaut's projectiles can hit the same target multiple times

18.0

Crossbow Master's base attack speed increased by roughly 50% (0.2375s -> 0.16s)

Crossbow Master's base pierce reduced from 23 to 10

1/0/5 and 2/0/5 pierce bonus increased to +6 and +7, up from +1 and +2

Overall, these changes are a buff to the Crossbow Master. If you want to use what is basically the unchanged original version, use a 2/0/5. If you want to use a new faster version that has less pierce, go with 0/2/5.

Bloons Adventure Time TD

In Bloons Adventure Time TD, the Dart Monkey is a common ally equippable by all monkey heroes except C4 Charlie. It costs $200 to place, has 1 pierce and attacks once every second, working the same way it does in BTD5. Only three Dart Monkeys can be placed per hero at a time, up to 21 if all mentioned heroes have a Dart Monkey in their ally slot and if you have all the monkey heroes in your party.

Unlike BTD5 and BTD6, the Dart Monkey does not have upgrades to increase range or detect camos.

Upgrades

• Sharp Shots $140: Can pop one extra bloon per shot (2 pierce per shot)
  • Razor Sharp Shots $170: Can pop 2 extra bloons per shot (4 pierce)
    • Triple Shots $550: Throws 3 darts at a time instead of 1

Bloons series

The Dart Monkey from Bloons throws darts to pop the various bloons in the levels. It is the icon for the BFB in BTD4, as well as for BTD5 with a cross through it. It has a long tail, two small dots for eyes, and tan fur on his face, body, hands, and feet. It throws a single dart that can pop an infinite amount of Bloons.

Bloons 2

The Dart Monkey throws darts which your arrow guides. When you pop the Monkey Ace Bloon, the Dart Monkey throws signal flags to guide the Monkey Ace.

Tower tips

• When a tight cluster of bloons appear, it is best to use 2-3 upgrades, especially on curves, since it can easily pop away all of them due to its fast attack speed and high popping power.
  • But if players want to pop them in a row, 3-0 or 4-0 upgrades are the best, especially on a straight track.
• Putting 2-3 Dart Monkeys close to each other can easily shred off the Ceramic layer off of a tightly grouped cluster of Ceramic Bloons regardless if it is normal, Regrowth or Camo.
  • The same goes to MOAB-class Bloons whose before 2-4 upgrades. Even before players use its ability, 10 or more of Dart Monkeys with 2-3 or 2-4 can 'drain' its life quickly and absolutely (20 or more for BFBs and 30 or more for Z.O.M.G.s. Recommended).
  • In BMC, if you want to use Dart Monkeys with 2-3 or 2-4 upgrades on D.D.T.s, best use 2-3 upgrade from Monkey Village.
• Sometimes it's best not to have 0-1 and 0-2 upgrades if players want a 4-0 upgrade because it already has a high popping power.
• Using the Super Monkey Fan Club Ability, and then upgrading the Dart Monkeys that turned into Super Monkeys to Juggernauts, then the "Super" Juggernauts will spit out the balls incredibly fast. This tactic doesn't work on mobile versions however.
  • Instead, the Juggernaut just shoots like a normal Super Monkey, but with the occasional spiked balls at the same fire rate as the normal Juggernaut. It also shoots from the middle, instead of the side.
• Spamming the Super Monkey Fan Club Ability will cause the towers to throw darts even faster and do even more damage. So 10 Dart Monkeys all using their Super Monkey Fan Club Ability will be just as powerful as 100 Super Monkeys.
• 10 Dart Monkeys at 2/4 can destroy 2 Z.O.M.G.s in BTD5, as long as they keep buffing each other to stay at super monkey status.
• In BTD6, it is almost always more useful to spam several dart monkeys in a bad spot than upgrade to Quick Shots, this can be seen clearly on the expert track, Dark Castle.

Gallery

The Dart Monkey in Bloons

The Dart Monkey in Bloons 2

The Dart Monkey in Bloons 2 Spring Fling

The Dart Monkey in Bloons 2 Christmas Pack

The Dart Monkey tech tree

Dart Monkey upgrades (BTD4)

Halloween-themed dart

Dart Monkey Path 1 Upgrades

Dart Monkey Path 2 Upgrades

Juggernaut

Super Monkey Fan Club Ability

Dart Monkey in BTD4 (iPhone/iPod Touch)

Dart Monkey in the Bloons TD5 Title Screen

Xmas BTD5 title screen (Monkey sitting on Bloons TD5 logo)

Dart Monkey Knowledge Book in BMC

Dart Monkey Ally in BATTD

A Dart Monkey in Bloons Tower Defense 6.

BTD6 upgrades list

Entire upgrade tree for the Dart Monkey in BTD6

Dart from BTD5 and BTD battles

Trivia

• In BTD5, both Long Range Darts and Enhanced Eyesight increase the range by 25% of the base tower's range.
• The Dart Monkey in Bloons TD series is based off of the dart throwing monkey in the Bloons games.
• Dart Monkeys are right-handed, which means they will throw darts from the right side of the tower.
• If a Dart Monkey with no third or fourth tier Path 2 upgrades is transformed by the Super Monkey Fan Club ability, by quickly upgrading these affected Dart Monkeys into the Juggernaut upgrade, it will become a hypersonic Juggernaut Monkey, throwing spiked balls extremely quickly. This speed can be enhanced with M.I.B. Call to Arms ability, or even the Overclock ability from the x/4 Monkey Engineer in Bloons TD 5 Mobile and Bloons TD 5 Deluxe.
• The Juggernaut and the Crossbow Master upgrades are the only non-premium upgrades that allow the Dart Monkey to pop Lead Bloons.
• If one has a Tier 4 Specialty building on BTD5 Mobile or the Splodey Darts premium upgrade for the PC version, the only upgrade that is not able to pop lead bloons is the Spike-O-Pult upgrade.
• A Dart Monkey does not change its appearance in BTD1, BTD2, or BTD3 no matter what it is upgraded to.
• Path 1 upgrades focuses on popping power, while Path 2 focuses on the darts.
• Super Monkey Fan Club range stacks, albeit temporarily.
• In BTD6, the Dart Monkey's upgrade paths stack with the Super Monkey Fan Club upgrade.
  • The top path gives extra pierce on the transformed monkeys, up to second tier.
  • The middle path gives extra speed, including Triple Shot (only 1 dart is shot out at a time, but the speed bonus is kept).
  • The bottom path gives extra range and camo detection, up to second tier.
• A Dart Monkey appears on the top of a B.F.B., being crossed with an anti sign.
  • However this is not the case in BTD6.
• The hotkey for Dart Monkeys Q will not select free dart monkeys if the player does not have enough money to buy one, regardless of whether the player has free Dart Monkeys (due to its Specialty Building in BTD5 and special item in BMC). The player must manually click the Dart Monkey's panel on the right.
  • Same with some free towers awarded from completing quests in BTD5, e.g. if you don't have enough money to buy Monkey Buccaneer and you have one free, the hotkey D will not trigger the free Monkey Buccaneer to be selected.
• Interestingly enough, in Bloons Monkey City, the upgrade image at the Monkey Academy without any upgrades depicts him holding three darts in his left hand. This does not show in the upgrade image in a tile battle.
• The Dart Monkey is one of the two towers whose Tier 4 upgrade completely changes its tower, the other being the Monkey Buccaneer.
• Placing a 0/2, 3/x or 4/x Dart Monkey at the top or bottom of a straight line with the targeting at last can pop more bloons.
• When you upgrade a Dart Monkey, the arm moves farther to the right than normal. After the first attack, the arm returns to normal.
• Super Monkey Fan Club ability will change the x/4 monkey itself too, it shoots hyperspeed triple darts.
  • This has been patched. If Super Monkey Fan Club is activated on Triple Dart Monkeys, they will only shoot ONE stream of hyper-speed razor sharp darts (which means it could still pop 4 bloons per dart).
  • In Mobile, Triple Dart Monkeys and the Super Monkey Fan Club Monkey will shoot one stream of darts super fast, and triple darts at the same speed before the transformation.
• It is possible to beat BTD1 using only Dart Monkeys since there is no Lead Bloons to pop. This was proven impossible in BTD2 and BTD3, as Lead Bloons could not be popped with any of the Dart Monkey's upgrades. In BTD4, it became possible again, although Splodey Darts had to be used since it is the only way to pop Lead Bloons using Dart Monkeys. With the Juggernaut upgrade popping leads in BTD5, it became possible to win a game using Dart Monkeys normally again.
• In BTD6, the first upgrade path specializes in popping power, the second path specializes in darts and the third specializes in crossbows and archery.
• In BTD6, the 4th and 5th tier upgrades of its final upgrade path grants the Dart Monkey the ability to crit. These crits do 50 damage flat, enough to one shot any non-MOAB class bloon.
• In the middle of the Hedge map, there is a Dart Monkey statue which rotates 90 degrees when it is tapped.
• In Bloons TD 6, the 1st and 2nd tier upgrades of Path 1 of the Dart Monkey have a band on his tail, while the Path 2 has a bandana on his head, whereas the Path 3 has bands on his arms.
• In BMC, a 2/0 or 2/1 Dart Monkey has a headband blocking one eye, a red pupil in the other, and looks aggressive.
• In BTD6, the Dart Monkey is said to have a base range of 32. Rohan from Ninja Kiwi has stated this in their Version 7.0 Reddit post while addressing the Snowstorm and Absolute Zero buffs to the Ice Monkey.
• In BTD6, when given all buffs, (Homeland Defense, Permanent Brew, True Sun God support sacrifices, etc) a single 0-0-0 Dart Monkey can solo a Z.O.M.G on Firing Range
  • An entire screen of 2-0-2 Dart Monkeys can beat a Z.O.M.G. on Winter Park, but only on Easy Difficulty.
• In BTD6, the fifth tier on path 3 has colors similar to the hero Quincy

Sounds

Bloons games

Darts throwing sound in bloons 1 games Darts throwing sound in bloons 2 games