Mastery Mode

“	Masteries are only for the BTD5 Elite. Bigger Bloons, bigger rewards, and bigger challenges await this prestigious mode. You'll need to prove yourself a Bloon popping veteran by winning ALL medals on 17 beginner tracks AND at least bronze on 39 other tracks before you can undertake the challenge of Masteries.	”
	~ BTD5 Mobile description before unlocking

“	Welcome to the elite! You can now play all beginner tracks in Mastery Mode with tougher Bloons for double the rewards! You have also unlocked Level 9 Monkey Lab research.	”
	~ BTD5 Mobile description after unlocking Beginner Mastery Mode

Mastery Mode is a new feature added in Bloons Tower Defense 5 Mobile in October 23, 2015 and afterwards in other versions of Bloons Tower Defense 5.

This mode adds 5 new medals to each track, and each of these appears the same as the one from the normal gameplay, except they appear to have stars instead of monkeys on them. Money and token rewards received from Mastery tracks are doubled.

Also with this update came Monkey Lab upgrades, with the maximum upgrade level increased from level 8 to level 13. Notable among these upgrades is that to tower sell price - it maxes out at the ability to sell towers at 99% of their value.

In this mode, all bloons except Z.O.M.Gs have their rank boosted by one, but cash from popping bloons is halved, along with cash penalties happening sooner, making Banana Farms almost a necessity. Natural Z.O.M.Gs are unchanged. Due to ceramic rushes on rounds 63, 76, 78 and some later rounds being upgraded to a M.O.A.B. rush, it will lag on most low memory devices like iPhones or Androids. Some rounds that contain the deadliest and most dangerous rushes are Round 55, Round 63, Round 76, Round 78, Round 82, Round 83, Round 84, Freeplay Rounds, etc.

Unlocking

Requirement for unlocking are following:

Mastery unlocked	Monkey Lab slot unlocked	Requirements for unlocking
Master Mode & Beginner Mastery	9th slot	Winning all medals (including Reverse Mode) on 17 Beginner tracks At least a Bronze Medal on 39 other tracks
Intermediate Mastery	10th slot	Winning all medals (including Reverse Mode) on 13 Intermediate tracks Beginner Mastery unlocked
Advanced Mastery	11th slot	Winning all medals (including Reverse Mode) on 14 Advanced tracks Intermediate Mastery unlocked
Expert Mastery	12th slot	Winning all medals (including Reverse Mode) on 9 Expert tracks Advanced Mastery unlocked
Extreme Mastery	13th slot	Winning all medals (including Reverse Mode) on 3 Extreme tracks Expert Mastery unlocked

Rounds

Round	Bloons	RBE	Non-Mastery RBE
1	20 Blue	40	20
2	30 Blue	60	30
3	20 Blue, 5 Green	55	30
4	30 Blue, 15 Green	105	60
5	5 Blue, 25 Green	85	55
6	15 Blue, 15 Green, 4 Yellow	91	57
7	20 Blue, 25 Green, 5 Yellow	135	85
8	10 Blue, 20 Green, 14 Yellow	136	92
9	30 Yellow	120	90
10	102 Green	306	204
11	10 Blue, 10 Green, 12 Yellow, 2 Pink	108	74
12	15 Green, 10 Yellow, 5 Pink	110	80
13	100 Blue, 23 Yellow, 4 Pink	312	185
14	49 Blue, 15 Green, 10 Yellow, 9 Pink	228	145
15	20 Blue, 12 Yellow, 5 Pink, 3 Black	146	91
16	20 Yellow, 8 Pink, 4 Black	164	112
17	8 Pink Regrowth	40	32
18	80 Yellow	320	240
19	10 Yellow, 4 Pink, 5 Pink Regrowth, 7 Black	162	101
20	6 White	66	66
21	14 Black	154	70
22	8 Lead	184	88
23	5 White, 4 Lead	147	99
24	1 Yellow Camo	4	3
25	31 Pink Regrowth	155	124
26	23 Black, 4 Rainbow	441	207
27	120 Blue, 55 Green, 45 Yellow, 45 Pink	810	545
28	4 Zebra	92	92
29	25 Pink, 12 Black Regrowth	257	160
30	9 Zebra	207	207
31	8 Rainbow, 2 Rainbow Regrowth	470	230
32	25 White, 28 Lead, 8 Zebra	1103	767
33	20 Pink Camo	100	80
34	140 Pink, 5 Rainbow	935	675
35	35 Blacks, 25 Lead, 5 Ceramic	1480	685
36	81 Black	891	405
37	20 White, 20 Lead, 7 Lead Camo, 15 Zebra, 10 Rainbow	1656	1092
38	42 Black Regrowth, 17 Lead, 14 Zebra, 10 Rainbow, 4 Ceramic	2061	1137
39	10 White, 10 Lead, 20 Zebra, 20 Rainbow, 18 Ceramic	3612	1986
40	10 Ceramic, 4 M.O.A.B.	3504	886
41	60 White, 60 Rainbow	3480	2040
42	6 Ceramic Camo, 6 Ceramic Regrowth	1248	564
43	10 Ceramic, 7 M.O.A.B.	5352	1198
44	50 Rainbow	1880	920
45	200 Black, 8 Zebra, 25 Ceramic	4984	2359
46	1 B.F.B.	3164	616
47	70 Black Camo, 12 M.O.A.B.	8162	1598
48	120 Black Regrowth, 50 Ceramic	6520	2950
49	343 Yellow, 20 Rainbow, 20 Ceramic, 10 Ceramic Regrowth, 18 M.O.A.B.	16520	4771
50	20 Blue, 8 Zebra, 20 M.O.A.B., 2 B.F.B	18872	3516
51	10 Ceramic Regrowth, 28 M.O.A.B.	14192	3382
52	25 Ceramic, 10 M.O.A.B., 2 B.F.B	15088	3447
53	80 Black Camo, 3 B.F.B	10372	2248
54	35 M.O.A.B., 2 B.F.B	27888	4872
55	45 M.O.A.B., 1 B.F.B	27804	4776
56	40 Ceramic Regrowth, 1 B.F.B	7324	2496
57	40 Ceramic, 4 B.F.B	16816	4344
58	29 M.O.A.B., 5 B.F.B	33684	6096
59	28 Zebra Camo, 50 M.O.A.B.	31444	5844
60	1 Z.O.M.G..	16656	3164
61	150 Rainbow Regrowth, 5 B.F.B	22870	6530
62	300 Black Camo, 15 Ceramic Camo Regrowth, 6 B.F.B	23844	5901
63	75 Zebra, 122 M.O.A.B.	76877	14413
64	9 B.F.B	28476	5544
65	100 Rainbow, 70 Ceramic, 50 M.O.A.B., 3 B.F.B, 2 Z.O.M.G.	85584	18966
66	12 B.F.B (2 groups of 2, 2 groups of 4)	37968	7392
67	15 M.O.A.B., 10 B.F.B (2 groups of 5)	40880	7720
68	4 B.F.B, 1 Z.O.M.G.	29312	5628
69	60 Zebra, 70 M.O.A.B.	44500	8660
70	200 Ceramic Camo, 4 B.F.B	33456	11864
71	30 M.O.A.B., 10 B.F.B	50120	9280
72	38 M.O.A.B., 2 Z.O.M.G.	56720	10280
73	9 B.F.B, 2 Z.O.M.G.	61788	11872
74	200 M.O.A.B., 1 Z.O.M.G.	78256	13564
75	28 Zebra, 4 B.F.B, 3 Z.O.M.G.	63268	12600
76	60 M.O.A.B.	36960	6240
77	14 B.F.B, 5 Z.O.M.G.	127576	24444
78	150 Ceramic, 147 M.O.A.B., 1 Z.O.M.G.	122808	25502
79	500 Ceramic Regrowth, 7 Z.O.M.G.	168592	45648
80	31 B.F.B	98084	19096
81	9 Z.O.M.G.	149904	28476
82	400 Ceramic Camo Regrowth, 10 Z.O.M.G.	208160	50440
83	150 M.O.A.B., 30 B.F.B	187320	34080
84	50 B.F.B, 10 Z.O.M.G.	324760	62440
85	1 Z.O.M.G (5 in Impoppable Difficulty)	16656 (83280)	16656 (83280)

Strategies

Due to Mastery's main gimmick being strengthened Bloons, you should prepare much earlier for several milestones - Ceramic Bloons arrive on Round 35, there are 7 Camo Leads on Round 37, 4 M.O.A.Bs at the end of Round 40, and a B.F.B on Round 46. Additionally, if playing on any difficulty higher than easy, you must be capable of dealing with a Z.O.M.G on Round 60, and an extremely packed M.O.A.B rush on Round 63, 76 and 78.

Banana Farms are almost essential. More money is required to place powerful defenses earlier in the game - this is best accomplished with several banana farms. Some further tips:

• Using multiple 4/x Bloonchippers is effective to deal with most M.O.A.B-class Bloons before Round 63, including B.F.Bs. Using the upgrade 'Super-Wide Funnel' is among the more cost-effective methods to shred M.O.A.Bs - provided you have further towers to destroy the bloons that emerge once they're popped.

• To defeat the packed M.O.A.B rushes, use explosive towers of some sort. The immense number in certain round's rushes may seem intimidating, but even a single Spectre can demolish Round 63, 76 and 78 easily on most tracks. Non-explosive towers will be next to useless against these rushes, but explosive ones will make them trivial.

• Ballistic Missile and MOAB Mauler are both good choices to deal with M.O.A.Bs in this gamemode. On tracks with a lot of water, spamming lots of 2/3 Monkey Subs is generally effective. With sufficient funds, a Spectre is also an excellent choice.

• The Monkey sub's fourth upgrade on the second path, First-Strike Capability, can also be useful, again if you are playing on a track with water. This can eliminate a group of powerful bloons, or, more importantly - destroy a Z.O.M.G instantly. It is expensive, however, priced at over $20,000 on higher difficulties.

• If you are NOT playing on a track with water, the Portable Lake special agent can be used. This costs $40 of Monkey Money, but will allow you to place a Monkey Sub with First Strike Capability on almost any map, if you so desire.

• Using the 4/x Monkey Engineer may be viable on impoppable due to early ceramics and the need for money for popping 4 M.O.A.B.s on round 40.

Trivia

• In update 3.4, due to a bug, all ceramic bloons were boosted to golden bloons instead of MOABs. This also affected daily challenges/random missions with boosted bloon ranks. This has since been patched.
• Fast Track mode is disabled for all Mastery tracks. You must always start from Round 1.
• Oddly, nothing was done to make the Zeppelin Of Mighty Gargantuaness (Z.O.M.G.) bloon tougher to fight in Mastery Mode. This renders the final round of Hard or Impoppable difficulty quite comical. You will face quite staggering and difficult rushes of bloons and M.O.A.B.s during Rounds 78-84... only to still face just 1 or 5 Z.O.M.Gs on the final round. This seems like a strange oversight, considering a single Z.O.M.G could just have been replaced with 2 or 3 Z.O.M.Gs to make things more difficult.
• The Red Bloons do not spawn in Mastery Mode. They only can be found by popping higher bloons.

Gallery

Masteries medals

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Mastery requirements

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