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Hovers wherever you last tapped on screen. Shoots from twin heavy dart guns.
~ In-game Description, BTDB2 Mobile
Hovers wherever you last clicked on screen. Shoots from twin heavy dart guns.
~ In-game Description, BTDB2 Steam

The Heli Pilot is a Military-class tower that will be released in the initial release of Bloons TD Battles 2. It is the Battles counterpart to its Bloons TD 6 counterpart (refer on this page).

The Heli Pilot controls a helicopter that can fly at a speed of 40 units per second. As a flying tower with mobility, it can move towards any position whenever needed, and has additional targeting priorities that set it to patrol between two points or lock in a specific location. The helicopter shoots a twin straight spray of darts every 0.5s that pierce 3 bloons per dart. While the helicopter has infinite flight range, its dart attack has a range of 42 relative to the helicopter.

Despite its expensive cost, the tower is capable of dishing out lots of damage and providing support where it is needed. It is one of the two towers that can be controlled via the player's mouse/touch, the others being Dartling Gunner and Mortar Monkey.

The base price for Heli Pilot is $800. It is unlocked by spending Monkey Money500, unlocking all upgrades up to Tier 4, plus another Monkey Money1,500 to unlock all its Tier 5 upgrades.

Description[]

The Heli Pilot returns in Bloons TD Battles 2, filling in its same role as a mobile tower. It still has its original targeting options, with Pursuit still being unlocked via upgrade.

Path 1 focuses around DPS and offense starting with Razor Rotors able to pop bloons (Including Lead or Frozen) on contact. Apache Dartship extending its arsenal to homing missiles and powerful machine gun with final upgrade Apache Prime increasing the strength of all its weapons massively.

Path 2 focuses on support. Starting with Bigger Jets that allows it to move faster, then IFR, which gives it camo detection, as well as the first two upgrades improve MOAB Shove followed by Downdraft, which pushes back any non-MOAB bloons on contact. Support Chinook gives the tower two abilities, being a crate ability, which gives either bonus lives or bonus cashes followed by the final upgrade Special Poperations allowing the tower to deploy a powerful Marine temporarily.

Path 3 focuses on defense. The first two upgrades started increasing attack speed, then MOAB Shove to reverse or slow their movement. Comanche Defense summons three Mini-Comanches once bloons reach a certain percentage of the bloon track, followed by the final upgrade Comanche Commander, which increases its weapon as well as the Mini-Comanches are now permanent.

Upgrades[]

Path 1[]

QuadDartsUpgradeIcon
Quad Darts
COST: $600
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Shoots 4 darts per volley instead of 2.
Effect: Self-explanatory
PursuitUpgradeIcon
Pursuit
COST: $250
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: A new targeting option enables Heli to seek and pursue the Bloons automatically.
Effect: Automatically moves in front of the bloon closest to the exit.
RazorRotorsUpgradeIcon
Razor Rotors
COST: $1,800
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Razor rotor blades rip up Bloons on contact, including Lead and Frozen bloons.
Effect: Bloons within close range of the Heli Pilot become damaged, including Frozen and Leads. Pops up to 13 bloons and deals 2 damage per cycle (0.55 seconds).
ApacheDartshipUpgradeIcon
Apache Dartship
COST: $17,500
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Adds a large missile array and powerful machine guns.
Effect: Gains a dart-shooting machine gun attack alongside quad homing missiles that deal 3 damage per missile, +3 damage to ceramics and MOAB-Class. Razor Rotors Also has more pierce and deals more damage.
ApachePrimeUpgradeIcon
Apache Prime
COST: $45,000
UNLOCK: Monkey Money1,500 (T5 Heli Unlocks)

Description: The Apache Prime leaves most bloons wishing they'd never been inflated.
Effect: Quad dart replaced with lasers, dealing 6 damage and having greatly increased pierce. Machine gun replaced with plasma dealing 5 damage, and more pierce, and missiles deal 15 damage, plus +3 to MOAB-class and Ceramics. Razor Rotors deal even more damage and have more pierce.

Path 2[]

BiggerJetsUpgradeIcon
Bigger Jets
COST: $200
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Powerful jets make Heli move much faster.
Effect: Heli Pilot moves +75% faster. With MOAB Shove, improves MOAB Shove effect.
IFRUpgradeIcon
IFR
COST: $350
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Allows Heli Pilot to detect and shoot Camo Bloons.
Effect: Allows the Heli to detect and attack Camo Bloons.
DowndraftUpgradeIcon
Downdraft
COST: $3,200
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Blows bloons away from the Heli, back toward the entrance.
Effect: Periodically blows back 1 bloon at a time at a rate of 6.67 bloons per second. Can blowback even faster with Faster Firing.
SupportChinookUpgradeIcon
Support Chinook
COST: $7,500
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Abilities: Drops lives and cash crates, or can pick up and redeploy most Monkey types.
Effect: Gains two abilities, a crate ability and a redeployment ability. Crates give bonus lives and bonus cash. Can redeploy all "non-heavy" types of tower. (non-heavy being all primary, magic excluding temples, some military, engineer, spike factory and most heroes.)
SpecialPoperationsUpgradeIcon
Special Poperations
COST: $30,000
UNLOCK: Monkey Money1,500 (T5 Heli Unlocks)

Description: Adds another ability which deploys a powerful special Monkey Marine with machine gun. The crates are worth more cash and trigger all other crate drop abilities not on cooldown.
Effect: Gains an ability that deploys a Marine. The Marine comes with a powerful machine gun that deals 6 damage to up to 20 bloons per dart, pops any bloon type, and comes with camo detection. The Marine shoots faster with Faster Firing upgrade.

Path 3[]

FasterDartsUpgradeIcon
Faster Darts
COST: $350
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Darts are propelled much faster through the air, allowing them to hit more bloons.
Effect: Improves projectile speed of main dart attack, plus some extra range and pierce of that dart attack. Also more pierce for Razor Rotors.
FasterFiringUpgradeIcon
Faster Firing
COST: $250
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Faster attack speed for all Heli attacks.
Effect: Attacks +25% faster (0.80x attack cooldown).
MOABShoveUpgradeIcon
MOAB Shove
COST: $3,700
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Can collide with and shove MOAB-Class Bloons, reversing or slowing their movement. Shove is amplified by Bigger Jets and IFR upgrades.
Effect: Shoves back against MOAB-class bloons close to it, pushing them backwards or slowing down their movement. Improves shove effect with the Bigger Jets upgrade.
ComancheDefenseUpgradeIcon
Comanche Defense
COST: $7,500
UNLOCK: Unlock Heli Pilot

Description: Automatically calls in mini Comanches when they're most needed.
Effect: Mini-Comanches can be summoned once bloons reach a certain percentage of the bloon track, one more for every 25% of the bloon track surpassed, capped at 3. Mini-Comanches shoot darts and missiles and automatically attack on Pursuit.
ComancheCommanderUpgradeIcon
Comanche Commander
COST: $35,000
UNLOCK: Monkey Money1,500 (T5 Heli Unlocks)

Description: Upgraded weapons. Also automatically calls in 3 more Comanches. Permanently.
Effect: All attacks deal +1 damage, massively improves Comanche missiles, and the 3 mini-Comanches are now permanent.

Total Costs[]

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 5
Path 1
Base Cost 600 400 1,750 19,600 45,000
Cumulative Cost 1500 1900 3,650 23,250 68,250
Base Sell 420 280 1,225 13,720 31,500
Cumulative Sell 1,050 1,330 2,555 16,275 47,775
Path 2
Base Cost 300 450 3,000 7,500 30,000
Cumulative Cost 300 490 890 8,890 53,890
Base Sell 70 133 280 5600 31,500
Cumulative Sell 210 343 623 6,223 37,723
Path 3
Base Cost 250 350 3,500 8,500 35,000
Cumulative Cost 290 490 1,115 3,115 28,115
Base Sell 63 140 438 1,400 17,500
Cumulative Sell 203 343 781 2181 19,681

Strategy[]

Summary[]

Heli Pilot is a mix between a DPS and a support tower. Its high mobility allows it to be flexible with positioning, although still susceptible to chasing bloons if not careful. It has some support options like Downdraft's blowback, increased cash via Chinook, and pickup of towers. Many of its high-DPS options are limited to synergetic purposes where other tower choices cannot suffice, such as in the Heli-Ice-Village combo, rather than like the Ninja-Alch-Heli combo where Ninja-Alch reigns supreme.

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Tips[]

  • Heli's Support Chinook has good cost-efficiency for income generation, but really large footprints.
  • MOAB Shove is good at knocking back individual blimps.
  • Early-game Heli is rather expensive but can hold off bloons decently.
  • Base Heli's $800 cost allows it to be purchased and still allow for immediate ecoing of bloons.

Further Strategies[]

Monkey Mastery[]

Monkey Mastery is unlocked once all of its upgrades are unlocked. Monkey Mastery gives customization which is purchased using XP and Monkey Money. Has a total of 9 customizations available.

Item Type Description Cost Notes
Placeholder other
TBA
BTDB2-PlacementAnim-Icon
Placement Animation
TBA Monkey Money600
Tower XP75,000
TBA
Placeholder other
TBA
BTDB2-Emote-Icon
Emote
TBA Monkey Money160
Tower XP20,000
TBA
Placeholder other
TBA
BTDB2-BloonDecal-Icon
Bloon Decal
TBA Monkey Money200
Tower XP30,000
TBA
Placeholder other
TBA
BTDB2-MOABSkin-Icon
MOAB Skin
TBA Monkey Money300
Tower XP40,000
TBA
Placeholder other
TBA
BTDB2-Avatar-Icon
Avatar Icon
TBA Monkey Money300
Tower XP40,000
TBA
Placeholder other
TBA
BTDB2-IdleAnim-Icon
Idle Animation
TBA Monkey Money450
Tower XP60,000
TBA
000-HeliPilot
Named Heli Pilots
BTDB2-CustomNames-Icon
Custom Names
Name your Heli Pilots! Monkey Money300
Tower XP40,000
Default name is Budgie.
Placeholder other
TBA
BTDB2-SellAnim-Icon
Sell Animation
TBA Monkey Money240
Tower XP30,000
TBA
Placeholder other
TBA
BTDB2-Trail-Icon
Trail Effect
TBA Monkey Money450
Tower XP60,000
TBA

Version History[]

Balance Changes[]

Overall, compared to its Battles 1 counterpart, the Heli Pilot is significantly more popular. Its Support chinook upgrades is helpful in building an additional source of income, and serves a useful role in moving towers around the map, particularly the Perma-Brew Alc. Additionally, MOAB Shove has given Heli the ability to deal with MOAB sends effectively, and this combined with its alternative income has made it much more versatile. Furthermore, the top path of the Heli Pilot synergises well with debuffs, making it amazing lategame. Popular Loadouts include Heli-Ninja-Alc, Heli-Ice-Village, and Heli-Engi-Dartling. Hero choice is often reserved for other towers in the loadout or defaults to the strongest hero at the time.

Initial release (compared to BTD6 Version 28.0)
  • BUFF Support Chinook costs less ($12,000 → $7,000)
  • BUFF Support Chinook crate ability decreased (90s → 60s)
  • BUFF Support Chinook initial cooldown reduced (100% → 25%; 90s → 15s)
  • BUFF Support Chinook crate ability cash per crate increased ($2,000 → $4,000)
  • BUFF Support Chinook crate ability lives per crate increased (10 → 15)
  • Change Support Chinook crate ability changed to produce a single crate with both extra cash and lives, instead of two separate simultaneously dropped crates of cash and lives.
  • BUFF Heli Footprint size decreased.
  • BUFF Base Price reduced $1,600 → $1,100
  • NERF MOAB Shove no longer has a base missile attack.
  • NERF Comanche Defense no longer has a base missile attack.
1.0.4
  • BUFF Base price $1,100 → $900
  • BUFF Quad Darts: $800 → $600
  • BUFF Pursuit: $500 → $400
  • BUFF IFR: $600 → $450
1.0.6
  • BUFF Base attack cooldown 0.57s → 0.53s
  • BUFF Apache Dartship missiles gain +3 damage to ceramic bloons and higher
  • BUFF Apache Prime missiles buff to ceramic bloons and higher increases to +15 (instead of just moab class)
  • BUFF Comanche Defense/Commander mini comanches' missile damage type changed to Normal
1.1
  • BUFF Razor Rotors rate 0.75 → 0.55

1.1.1

  • BUFF Comanche Defense: main dart damage increased 1 → 2
  • BUFF Comanche Defense: mini commanche’s pierce increased 3 → 4
  • BUFF Comanche Commander main dart damage increased 2 → 3
  • NERF Support Chinook: initial ability cooldown 15s → 20s
  • NERF Support Chinook $7,000 → $7,500
1.3.0
  • BUFF Apache Dartship: machine gun pierce 5 → 7
1.5.0
  • BUFF Razor Rotors pierce increased 10 → 13
1.7.0
  • BUFF Apache Dartship rotors damage increased 2 → 4
  • BUFF Apache Dartship rotors pierce increased 13 → 20
  • BUFF Apache Prime rotors damage increased 2 → 8
  • BUFF Apache Prime rotors pierce increased 13 → 40
  • BUFF Faster Darts also increases attack distance of dart attacks by +30%
  • BUFF IFR grants Heli Pilot the new camo prioritization option.
2.0.0
  • BUFF Apache Dartship: Machine Gun pierce 7 → 9
  • BUFF Apache Prime: Machine Gun pierce 13 → 15
2.0.4
  • BUFF Pursuit: $400 → $250
  • NERF Razor Rotors: $1750 → $1,900
  • BUFF Bigger Jets: $300 → $200
  • BUFF IFR: $450 → $350
  • NERF Downdraft: $3000 → $3,200
  • BUFF Faster Darts: $250 → $150
  • BUFF Faster Firing: $350 → $250
  • NERF MOAB Shove: $3500 → $3,700
  • BUFF Comanche Commander: missile damage 3 → 15, bonus MOAB damage 2 → 8
2.1.2
  • BUFF Apache Dartship: $19,600 → $17,500
This upgrade feels just slightly too expensive for what it offers, so we have dropped the price a little
~ Ninja Kiwi
2.2
  • BUFF Special Poperations: activating cash crate ability now also triggers all other cash crate abilities
  • Change Special Poperations: cash crate ability no longer shares button space in the ability quickbar with tier 4 cash crate abilities
We've extended the change that we did to Sniper's ability to Heli Pilot, as it is a nice quality of life change that fits here as well.
~ Ninja Kiwi
3.2
  • BUFF Comanche Defense/Commander: mini comanches missile attack rate 3s → 2s
Comanche Defense and Comanche Commander are the least used tier 4 and 5 Heli Pilot upgrades respectively, plus Heli Pilot in general is not particularly known for being great at pure damage but plays a more supportive role with its abilities. Therefore, we felt like the Comanche upgrades were in need of a buff to be more on par with the top path.
~ Ninja Kiwi
3.2.4
  • NERF MOAB Shove: slows ZOMGs by 66% → 50%
    • NERF 0-1-3 slows by 78% → 66%
  • BUFF Razor Rotors: $1.900 → $1.800
  • BUFF Apache Dartship: Missile damage 2 → 3, Rotor blades damage 4 → 6
  • BUFF Apache Prime: Missile damage 2 → 3, Rotor blades damage 8 → 10
MOAB Shove has always felt too effective at stalling MOAB class bloons, however since Heli Pilots overall has not been top tier, this upgrade has been left untouched until now. We have decided to nerf it now since we are simultaneously buffing some of its other less effective upgrades
~ Ninja Kiwi
4.0
  • BUFF Comanche Defense/Commander: Missile blast radius 18 → 25
The mini comanche's missile have incredibly high pierce (100) but it would very rarely make use of it all due to such a small blast radius. This minor change should help it out a little bit, not increasing its DPS potential but allowing it to perform slightly better in a lot of scenarios.
~ Ninja Kiwi
4.0.2
  • NERF Faster Darts: $150 → $350
  • BUFF Faster Darts: now increases dart pierce by 1 and razor rotor pierce by 3
Faster Darts does not provide any significant benefit and Heli Pilot is not a common starting tower either. This change is intended to improve both of these aspects.
~ Ninja Kiwi
4.1
  • BUFF Base price $900 → $800
Heli Pilot rarely sees much use as a starting tower so we hope that this change will make this option more attractive.
~ Ninja Kiwi
4.2
  • BUFF Base: Footprint size reduced 23x23 → 18x18
  • BUFF Comanche Defense: $8,500 → $7,500
  • BUFF Apache Prime: Missile damage 3 → 15
  • NERF Apache Prime: Missile bonus damage to Ceramics and MOAB-class +15 → +3
Heli Pilot’s large footprint has been a major limitation on the tower’s viability on a lot of maps, so we hope to open up its viability by reducing its size. Comanche Defense has never been a popular choice so we think it’s fair to make it slightly more affordable, and Apache Prime’s damage has been altered so that it performs better against Bonnie’s minecarts.
~ Ninja Kiwi

Bug Fixes and General Changes[]

1.0.2
  • TBA

Gallery[]

Official artwork[]

Trivia[]

  • Base Heli is even cheaper in this game compared to Battles 1 Mobile.
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