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| “ | Shoots darts like a machine gun, super fast but not very accurate. The Dartling Gun will shoot towards wherever your mouse is, so you control how effective it is! | ” |
| ~ Flash description |
The Dartling Gun is a tower in Bloons TD 5, Bloons TD Battles, and Bloons Monkey City. It retains its role from Bloons TD 4, with significant additions.
The Dartling Gun attacks by rapidly firing darts at a specific position that is controlled by the player. For mobile devices, this is the last position that the play area was tapped on; for PCs, this is the position of the mouse; and for the console version of BTD5, this is the position of the left-stick cursor. Its shots have a wide degree of spread. Each dart can pop 1 Bloon at a time and it can pop Camo Bloons, but it cannot pop Lead Bloons or Frozen Bloons without upgrades.
Description[]
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Upgrades[]
Path 1[]
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Focused Firing COST: $210 / $250 / $270 / $300 UNLOCK: 325 XP | |
| Description: Greatly reduces spread of the gun.
Effect: Reduces spread from 23° to 8°, or from 0.4 radians to 0.15 radians in the Flash versions. | ||
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Faster Barrel Spin COST: $1,020 / $1,200 / $1,295 / $1,440 UNLOCK: 2,605 XP | |
| Description: Makes gun fire much faster.
Effect: Reduces attack cooldown by 43%, increasing its attack speed by ~75%. | ||
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Laser Cannon COST: $5,100 / $6,000 / $6,480 / $7,200 UNLOCK: 9,985 XP | |
| Description: Converts the gun into a super powerful laser cannon. Blasts from this cannon can pop 13 bloons each, can pop frozen bloons, and have increased attack rate.
Effect: Reduces attack cooldown by ~25%, increasing its attack speed by ~33%. Increases pierce by 12, slightly increases projectile size, and allows it to pop Frozen Bloons. | ||
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Ray of Doom COST: $46,750 / $55,000 / $59,400 / $66,000 UNLOCK: 81,698 XP | |
| Description: The Ray of Doom is a persistent solid beam of bloon destruction.
Effect: Fires a constant beam of energy that spans the length of the entire play area. Deals 1 damage at a rate of 30 times per second and can pop any Bloon type. In the Flash versions, the tower follows the mouse at a much slower rate, and the beam can only pop up to 100 Bloons at a time and is unaffected by attack speed and pierce buffs. | ||
Path 2[]
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Powerful Darts COST: $510 / $600 / $650 / $720 UNLOCK: 1,035 XP | |
| Description: Makes darts shoot with greater velocity. Darts move faster and can pop 3 bloons each.
Effect: Increases pierce from 1 to 3 and increases projectile speed by 40%. | ||
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Depleted Bloontonium COST: $850 / $1,000 / $1,080 / $1,200 UNLOCK: 4,325 XP | |
| Description: Shoots specially modified darts that can hurt any bloon type.
Effect: Self-explanatory | ||
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Hydra Rocket Pods COST: $5,950 / $7,000 / $7,560 / $8,400 UNLOCK: 23,145 XP | |
| Description: Shoots vicious little missiles instead of darts. Hydra rockets have sharp tips that can pop black bloons.
Effect: Fires rockets instead of darts that explode on contact, popping up to 40 Bloons in a small area. | ||
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Bloon Area Denial System COST: $17,000 / $20,000 / $21,600 / $24,000 UNLOCK: 147,428 XP | |
| Description: The BADS covers a wide area with each shot. Enables the Rocket Storm Ability: Rocket Storm shoots out a missile towards the nearest 100 bloons on screen. Ouch.
Effect: Fires three rockets at a time instead of one, with a spread of 30° on top of the random spread. Gains an Activated Ability that launches five waves of rockets at up to 100 of the closest Bloons, firing one rocket at each target for up to 100 rockets, with a 2-second delay between each wave. Each rocket explosion can pop up to 23 Bloons (40 Bloons in the Flash versions) in a small area. | ||
In Bloons TD 5[]
The Mortar Tower is unlocked at rank 18. Its tier 4 upgrades are unlocked at rank 38 in the Flash version, or rank 39 in the mobile version.
It costs $810 on Easy, $950 on Medium, $1,025 on Hard, and $1,140 on Impoppable.
Specialty Building[]
The Dartling Gun is enhanced when using the Dartling Ammo Dump, but is more expensive when using the Mortar Emplacement.
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Dartling Ammo Dump
TOTAL COST:  5,000
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| I | 1,000
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Description: Reduces tower and upgrade cost by 5% Increases the cost of Mortar Towers and upgrades by 5% | ||
| II | 1,000
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Description: Increases attack speed by 10%
Effect: Self-explanatory | ||
| III | 1,500
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Description: Dartling gunners can lock their attacks
Effect: Enables "Set Target" targeting mode. | ||
| IV | 1,500
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Description: All dartling shots do +1 pierce
Effect: Increases the pierce of all of the Dartling Gun's projectiles by 1. This is affected by the "Monkey Fort glitch". | ||
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Dartling Ammo Dump
TOTAL COST: 3,500
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| I | 1,000
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Description: Reduces the cost of Dartling Guns and their upgrades by 5% Increases the cost of Mortar Towers and their upgrades by 5% | ||
| II | 1,000
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Description: Increases attack speed of Dartling Guns by 10%
Effect: Self-explanatory | ||
| III | 1,500
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Description: Dartling gunners can lock their attacks to a fixed position
Effect: Enables "Fixed" targeting mode. | ||
In Bloons TD Battles[]
Cards[]
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Mobile version history[]
In general, Dartling Gun is fairly balanced, but has been buffed via game updates as some upgrades have been buffed for balancing reasons.
Dartling is quite a versatile tower but is often very expensive to be reliable grouped bloon-popping power or MOAB-class-popping power. In Version 4.3.1, it was significantly buffed to be a much more reliable tower in the early-game, particularly against Grouped Reds. Later Dartling became drastically more used when people discovered the exploit with Hydra Rocket Pods and Monkey Fort, which can easily defend pretty much anything. Popular loadouts include Dartling-Farm-Village, Dartling-Farm-Ice, Dartling-Farm-Bomb, and Dartling-Village-Ice.
- 3.4
Ray of Doom attack rate increased, making it more powerful than the Ray of Doom in other games.
- 4.3.1
| “ | We don't see the Dartling Gunner out on the battlefield as much as we'd like and this could be down to it's relatively expensive placement cost. We've lowered this slightly and increased the pierce of its Powerful Darts upgrade to hopefully make it a more worthwhile tower to include in your loadout. | ” |
| ~ "BTD Battles Update 4.3.1 Balance Changes" |
- Tower price decreased ($950 → $850).
- Powerful Darts pierce increased (3 → 4).
- 4.6
| “ | The Dartling's first upgrade path tends to be the favoured choice, so we've dropped the cost of its 0-4 upgrade to make it more cost effective. | ” |
| ~ "BTD Battles Update 4.6 Balance Changes" |
- Bloon Area Denial System price decreased ($20000 → $16000).
- 6.0
- Bloon Area Denial System ability will no longer increase rockets spawned when near x-1 Village or when activating the Pierce Boost Power.
- 6.0.1
- Hydra Rocket Pods and Bloon Area Denial System rockets will no longer multiply when near a x-1 Village or when activating the Pierce Boost Power.
- 6.9
- Ray of Doom price decreased ($55k → $50k)
- Hydra Rocket Pods cost decreased ($7,000 → $6,500)
- 6.11
- Powerful Darts price increased ($600 → $750).
- 6.17
- Dartling Gun price decreased ($850 → $750)
- Powerful Darts price increased ($750 → $850)
- Depleted Bloontonium price decreased ($1000 → $800)
- 6.18
- Faster Barrel Spin price decreased ($1200 → $1100)
- Bloon Area Denial System main attack pierce increased (23 → 60)
- Bloon Area Denial System main attack explosion radius increased (50 → 60)
In Bloons Monkey City[]
The Dartling Gun's population is increased by building Dartling Gun Caches, which are unlocked at City Level 5. Its upgrades can be researched by building the Gun Training Hall (Flash version) or Dartling Test Range (mobile version). Its tier 4 upgrades require building the Crystal Fusion Array and Advanced Rocket Lab respectively, in order to be researched.
It is not favored on any terrain. It is restricted on Mountain Terrain, Snow Terrain, and High Desert Terrain. In the Flash version, it is not restricted on Caves Terrain when playing from the My Tracks menu, but is restricted otherwise.
It costs $950 normally, or $1,025 on Hardcore Mode.
Monkey Knowledge[]
| 1 | Spread decreased by 5% | 6 | Spread decreased by 10% | 11 | Spread decreased by 15% |
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| 2 | Pierce increased by 1 | 7 | Pierce increased by 2 | 12 | Pierce increased by 3 |
| 3 | Base cost and all upgrade costs 3% cheaper | 8 | Base cost and all upgrade costs 6% cheaper | 13 | Base cost and all upgrade costs 9% cheaper |
| 4 | Attack speed increased by 5% | 9 | Attack speed increased by 10% | 14 | Attack speed increased by 15% |
| 5 | Depleted Bloontonium Darts costs 200 less | 10 | Depleted Bloontonium Darts costs 300 less | 15 | Depleted Bloontonium Darts costs 400 less |
Strategy[]
- Main article: Dartling Gun/Strategies
Quotes[]
| “ | Shoots darts like a machine gun, at any position you tap. | ” |
| ~ Mobile versions description |
| “ | Shoots darts like a machine gun, at any position you mouseover. | ” |
| ~ PC versions description |
| “ | Shoots darts like a machine gun towards your cursor. | ” |
| ~ BTD5 Console description |
| “ | Dartling Gunners excel at rapid fire bloon destruction wherever you want it most, including camos. Powerful upgrades include: Depleted Bloontonium Darts, Laser Cannon, Ray of Doom, Area Denial System. | ” |
| ~ BMC summary description |
Trivia[]
The Dartling Gun is referred to as the "Dartling Gunner" in its bio in BMC and in the descriptions for the Dartling Ammo Dump, Gun Training Hall, Dartling Test Range, and Crystal Fusion Array. This would later become its name in Bloons TD 6.
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