Extra Damage to Blimps

MOAB Mauler doing extra damage to a MOAB

Extra Damage to Blimps (also referred to as Extra Damage to MOAB-Class or Extra Damage to MOABs) is a projectile behavior characterized by dealing more damage than that tower's base damage to MOAB-Class Bloons per hit. It is part of the damage types family.

Extra Damage to Blimps is represented on Bloons Wiki as , the upgrade icon for MOAB Mauler in Bloons TD 6, since the MOAB Mauler was the first and formerly only one to do so in Bloons TD 4. Extra Damage to Blimps is simply a subset of Extra Damage . Typical examples with Extra Damage to Blimps include MOAB Mauler, MOAB SHREDR, MOAB Press special boomerangs, and Arcane Spike. Bloon Solver also deals extra damage to blimps, but because that only applies to its status effect it is not included as such according to Bloons Wiki.

Most attacks require an upgrade to deal more than one damage to blimps per hit compared to its base damage. Sauda is among the few to gain this by default.

Some upgrades do not directly deal extra damage to MOAB-class bloons but happen to expertise at dealing high damage to those types for other reasons. These towers are not tagged with Extra Damage to Blimps because they will still deal the same amount of damage to non-blimps per shot technically speaking. Overdrive is an example of this, as its fast attack rate and many projectiles against the large hitboxes of blimps makes it naturally perform better against MOAB-class than ordinary bloons. Attacks that deal damage to MOABs but only target them should use Target Blimp instead.

Towers that gain Extra Damage to Blimps

BTD4

Note that in BTD4 Flash, towers with high pierce can damage the same blimp multiple times, creating the illusion of Extra Damage to Blimps. In reality it is Contact Damage, and this mechanic is not present in BTD4 Mobile.

• MOAB Mauler

BTD5 and its variants

• MOAB Mauler and MOAB Assassin
• MOAB-SHREDR Spikes and Spike Storms
• Meerkat Spy (pro only)

BTDB1 Mobile only

• Summon Phoenix (Version 4.1)

BMC

• Boomerang Thrower Monkey Knowledge levels 5, 10, and 15

BSM2

• Mauler missiles from Bloon Busters, Sidewinder Ace, and (flash only) Bomber
• MOAP (mobile only)
• Doom Gauntlets (flash only)
• Blow Back
• Weapons enhanced by Big Bloon Sabotage research
  • Mass Distraction (gains +750 damage to MOABs if the hit has Big Bloon Sabotage in Flash)

BTD6

Heroes:

• Quincy Level 8 or Above
• Captain Churchill's Armor Piercing Shells ability
• Ezili Level 8 or Above
• Sauda All Level
• Geraldo's Genie Bottle when Level 18 or above
• Corvus's spirit base attack when Level 9 or above

Towers:

• Tier 1:
  • None
• Tier 2:
  • Perishing Potions and subsequent upgrades
  • Deconstruction and subsequent upgrades
• Tier 3:
  • Bionic Boomerang and subsequent upgrades (Version 8.0)
  • MOAB Mauler and subsequent upgrades
  • Ballistic Missile and subsequent upgrades
  • MOAB Shove's rockets
  • Heavy Shells and subsequent upgrades
  • Dark Knight and subsequent upgrades
  • MOAB SHREDR and subsequent upgrades
• Tier 4:
  • Full Auto Rifle and Elite Defender (Version 30.0)
  • Armor Piercing Darts and subsequent upgrades
  • Monkey Pirates's Cannon attack (Version 33.0)
  • Comanche Defense's rockets and mini-Comanche's Missiles and subsequent upgrades
  • Plasma Accelerator's laserpoint
  • Arcane Spike and Archmage's magic bolts
  • Sentry Expert's Energy Sentries (Version 31.0)
• Tier 5:
  • Glaive Lord's Orbital Glaives (Version 4.0)
  • Inferno Ring's main attack (Version 6.0)
  • Tack Zone (Version 33.0)
  • Icicle Impale's direct attack
  • Super Glue's direct attack (Version 8.0)
  • Pirate Lord's Cannon bomb and bomb fragments (Version 33.0)
  • Trade Empire (Version 16.0)
  • Flying Fortress's dart attacks (Version 33.0)
  • Apache Prime's rockets
  • The Biggest One's main explosion (Version 11.0)
  • M.A.D's main attack and its Ability
  • Spirit of the Forest's thorned vines (Version 7.0)
  • Primary Expertise (Version 8.0)
• Paragon:
  • Glaive Dominus' Glaive Ring
  • Nautic Siege Core's darts and Final Strike fallout
  • Navarch of the Seas' turret projectiles
  • Magus Perfectus' bolts
  • Blue Sentry Paragon's (via Master Builder) rockets
  • Modified Paragon Sentry's (via Master Builder's Paragon Sentries) plasma

From Tower Buffs:

• Trade Empire (only Merchantman or above)
• Grand Saboteur When active ability (only Shinobis) (Version 31.0)
• Acidic Mixture Dip

From Monkey Knowledge:

Primary:

• Force vs Force
• Mega Mauler

Magic:

• Arcane Impale

Support:

• Very Shreddy

Heroes:

• Big Bloon Blueprints

From Relic Knowledge:

• MOAB-Clash

Former upgrades with Extra Damage to Blimps:

• Ray of Doom deals 25 damage all bloons, instead of only 25 damage to blimps. (Version 28.0)

BATTD

Characters:

• Finn's MOAB Ripper, Finn of Fury, and Level 10 bonus
• Princess Bubblegum's Bloon Science
• Ice King's Big Freeze
• Max's Weak Spots and Bullseye
• Juggernaut Max's Juggernaut, Keep Rolling, and Spiky Chaos
• Commander Cassie's Mounted Mauler
• Sai's Bloonatomy
• Sam's Meteor Storm
• C4 Charlie's MOAB Mauler
• Hunter Marceline's attacks after sucking a soul from a MOAB-Class Bloon

Trinkets

• Paper Plate Mask
• Treetrunk's Dagger
• Engineers Blueprints

Powers

• Heavy Weapons
• Nightosphere Amulet

Bloons Pop!

• Attacks enhanced by the bonus MOAB Specialist (Party Crashers only; only affects regular MOABs)