Glue Gunner is a monkey tower making its first appearance in Bloons TD 4. It also appears in Bloons TD 4 Expansion and Bloons TD 5. It slows down bloons to 50% speed (40% for Glue Hose, and 30% with Glue Striker Ability) by shooting them with globs of glue. It costs $230 on Easy, $270 on Medium, $290 on Hard and $325 on Impoppable. The Glue Gunner can glue Ceramic Bloons but they won't be slowed by it (unless in the iOS version).
Glue Splatter can create 2 splats at a time when the Glue Gunner is under the influence of an x/1Monkey Village.
Glue hose splat 6 bloons at a time instead of 12.
Glue Striker slows bloons down to 50% instead to 40%.
Update History (Bloons TD Battles Mobile)
Glue Gunner is considered to be one of, if not the weakest towers in Bloons TD Battles Mobile, due to a lack of camo-affecting and MOAB-class-affecting capabilities, as well as the upgrades being far too expensive for their effect on bloons. Because of this, it has been drastically buffed, especially the upgrades that involve more popping power. But despite these buffs, there are still no popular loadouts that use the Glue Gunner.
3.1
Glue Hose price decreased ($3250 → $2200).
Bloon Liquefier price decreased ($12500 → $6000).
Glue Striker price decreased ($5500 → $4000).
3.2
Glue Splatter price decreased ($2200 → $1500).
The Glue Projectile the Glue Gunner shoots has a larger hitbox.
4.1
Glue Splatter price decreased ($1500 → $900).
4.6
Glue Strike price decreased ($4000 → $2500).
Bloon Liquefier splat radius increased by 25% and splats more (6 → 10) when Glue Splatter is also bought.
4.9
Tower price decreased ($270 → $225).
Glue Soak price decreased ($200 → $150).
Bloon Dissolver price decreased ($3200 → $2900).
Glue Gunner projectiles and Glue Splatters no longer duplicate when the tower is under an influence of a Monkey Fort.
Bloons Tower Defense 6
The Glue Gunner in Bloons TD6 has been improved. As an unupgraded tower, its basic glue shots can now soak through 3 layers of bloon instead of just 1, and can be applied to MOAB Class bloons, regardless of upgrades. Upgrading to Glue Soak allows the soaking of all layers, just like the orginal version. Upgrading it to Corrosive Glue or Bloon Liquefier can even damage MOAB-Class, enhancing his use in gameplay capabilities, but it cannot slow them down without the MOAB Glue upgrade.
The Glue Gunner is classed as a Primary class tower.
MOAB Glue Improved glue formula allows it to stick to MOAB-Class Bloons.
$2,125
$2,500
$2,700
$3,000
2,500
Relentless Glue Popped Bloons that were glued, leave a blob of glue on the track.
$2,550
$3,000
$3,240
$3,600
8,000
Super Glue Glue so strong it temporarily immobilizes all affected Bloons!
$34,000
$40,000
$43,200
$48,000
30,000
Total Sell Amount
Tier 4: $3,745
Tier 5: $27,545
Tier 4: $4,407
Tier 5: $32,407
Tier 4: $4,757
Tier 5: $34,997
Tier 4: $5,289
Tier 5: $38,889
N/A
Total Cost
Tier 4: $5,350
Tier 5: $39,350
Tier 4: $6,295
Tier 5: $46,295
Tier 4: $6,795
Tier 5: $49,995
Tier 4: $7,555
Tier 5: $55,555
41,230
Bugs
The Glue Gunner upgrade seems to have halved the extension to the glue duration added by the Stickier Glue upgrade
Trivia
This (along with the Ice Tower) is arguably the worst starting tower in any game, if no upgrades are bought.
In the BTD5 generation series, The tower is also pretty much worthless past round 46 when the first MOAB shows up. (Round 18 for player sent and 27/23 naturally in Bloons TD Battles Mobile/Bloons TD Battles Flash respectively). This is only true in past BTD games. BTD6 allows the Glue Gunner to hit MOABs.
Artwork + Knowledge Book in BMC
Most upgrades for Glue Gunner in BTD4 have two containers of glue, but in BTD5 this tower mostly has 1.
Although it doesn't slow down Ceramic Bloons (except in the mobile versions of BTD), it can still damage them after Corrosive Glue has been bought. Bloon Dissolver destroys a whole Ceramic Bloon in less than 10 seconds, while the Bloon Liquefier can destroy a whole Ceramic Bloon in just 1.7 seconds.
It can still glue Ceramic Bloons, even without Corrosive Glue.
Even without Glue Soak, it can still glue Ceramic Bloons before it breaks, even though it has absolutely no effect.
Once the bloon has been glued, it cannot be glued by other glue before it is stripped or the glue wears off. This means that, when using any of the corrosive glue upgrades, it is a good idea to wait until a new tower can be upgraded to the same level as the rest.
In Bloons Tower Defense 4, the Glue Splatter upgrade gives the monkey 2 hoses but in BTD5, this does not apply.
A Glue Gunner with Bloon Liquefier pops an entire Ceramic Bloon in just 1.7 seconds not 1.8 seconds because Bloon Liquefier pops bloons once before glueing.
The Glue Gunner is almost essential for completing the Bloontonium Lab track by placing one on each the 3 entrances, upgraded 2/1.
Note that, similarly to most BTD5 Path 2 Final Upgrades, there is no difference in power between Upgrades 3 and 4 except for the Special Ability.
This used to be true until Ninja Kiwi buffed this tower to slow bloons even more with the 3rd and 4th upgrade on path 2: Glue Hose slows to 40% while Glue Striker slows to 30%.
In BTD4, look hard enough and you will see a tail sticking out of the glue gunner's right side. In BTD5, this has been fixed.
Glue Gunners without Glue Splatter are very effective when the target priority is Strong.
The Glue Gunner has as much range as an unupgraded Super Monkey.
In BTD4, glue gunners can shoot at M.O.A.Bs, but not pop them, but in BTD5, they don't shoot at them at all.
Path 1 upgrades improves its ability to pop bloons while Path 2 upgrades improves its ability to glue bloons.
Sometimes in BTD4 Corrosive Glue will not pop bloons when Fast Forward is activated.
In the BTD5 Deluxe tech tree, the Glue Hose image is switched with the Glue Striker image.
According to Bloons Monkey City, the Glue from Glue Gunners come from a plant called Sticky Sap. This plant has an ability that act the same as Glue Striker with Corrosive Glue on.
1/0 and 0/1 glue gunners look the same.
Tier 2 upgrades make the body of the glue gunner almost completely covered. At tier 3 the face gets covered.
There is a bug in BTD4 where corrosive glue pop ceramic shell in one hit. This has been fixed in BTD5.
Due to the fact that Regen Bloons take the same time to regen as Corrosive Glue takes to damage Bloons, having Regen Bloons hit with Corrosive Glue nullifies their ability.
To an extent. The corrosion is slightly faster than the regenerative ability of the bloons, so a yellow Regen can be popped with just Corrosive Glue and Stickier Glue. However, using this is extremely dangerous against Blacks, Whites, Zebras and Rainbow Regens, as they split into two, and then regenerate back one step before popping again. This quickly multiplies the number of Regen Bloons on the track.
This is the only Tower, besides Banana Farm, that never damages MOAB Class Bloons.(at least until BTD6 and the MOAB glue)
The Mortar Tower can stun MOAB-class bloons temporarily, if the Pop and Awe ability is activated from an Artillery Battery.
This is because MOAB Class Bloons are immune to glue. If this immunity is removed, Glue Gunners will not target MOAB Class Bloons, but with Glue Splatter can glue them.
Sometimes, the bloon gets glued for a split-second before the game removes the glue.
Glue can slow down Ceramic Bloons.
Glue hose splat 6 bloons at a time instead of 12.
