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Exchanges bombs for missiles, which fire faster, fly faster, and increase range.
~ In-game description

Missile Launcher is the second upgrade of Middle Path of the Bomb Shooter in Bloons TD 6. The Missile Launcher upgrade adds significantly faster projectile speed (180 to 270), slightly longer range (+4 range, about 10% extra range), and additional attack speed (from every 1.125s to every 0.825s, a +36% increase). This attack speed bonus is additional to the preceding upgrade Faster Reload; altogether about +76.4% attack speed. Missile Launcher also adds extra projectile speed to tertiary clusters from Recursive Cluster and Bomb Blitz, spreading them further apart.

This upgrade costs $340 on Easy, $400 on Medium, $430 on Hard, and $480 on Impoppable.

Description[]

Overview[]

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Missile Launcher

The Missile Launcher looks like a small rocket launching station. The station has the same design as the Pre-Emptive Strike's missile silo. The missiles are launched off from the station and have a shark-like face. Each missile is grey with a red stripe around its "belly" and has a red pointy tip.

When crosspathed with Top Path upgrades, the Missile Launcher missiles becomes thicker with Bigger Bombs and gains dark stripes when crosspathed with Heavy Bombs. When crosspathed with Bottom Path, the Missile Launcher's missiles gain a target symbol on the missile "forehead" with Extra Range or a frag explosion symbol if with Frag Bombs. Any Tier 3 and above crosspath with Missile Launcher loses the missile silo in exchange for the original cannon form of the Tier 3, leaving the missiles only visible when fired instead of resting on the silo.

Missile Launcher further increases attack speed by 36%, reducing attack cooldown from 1.125 seconds to 0.825 seconds; it also gains +4 range, and +50% faster projectile speed (180 → 270).

Targeting Priorities[]

Missile Launcher targets bloons using the standard targeting priorities. It shoots straight movement projectiles.

  • First: Targets the first bloon visible within its range.
  • Last: Targets the last bloon visible within its range.
  • Close: Targets the closest bloon visible within its range.
  • Strong: Targets the strongest bloon visible within its range.

Full Popology[]

Statistics[]

Updated as of Version 45.0
Base stats
  • Missile:
    • Projectile, explosion type, 44 range, 0.875s attack cooldown, 1 damage, 14 pierce. Blast radius of 12, and 270 projectile speed.
Crosspathing interactions

In addition to the speed bonuses, the projectile changes to Missile and gains bonus projectile speed.

  • 4+-2-0: Range increased from 43 to 47.
  • 0-2-1: Range increased from 47 to 56.
  • 0-2-2+: Range increased from 49 to 58.
  • 0-2-4: Tertiary cluster projectile speed increased.
  • 0-2-5: Attack cooldown reduced from 0.75s to 0.5833s. Tertiary cluster projectile speed increased.
Monkey Knowledge interactions

Attack Interactions[]

See also: Attack Interactions/Bloons TD 6/Primary
Updated as of Version 36.0
Base attack(s)
  • Bomb:
    • Explosion Type (pops White, Purple, Lead, Frozen) Explosion
    • Single Projectile Single Projectile
    • Straight Attack Straight Attack
    • Area of Effect Area of Effect

Costs[]

Updated as of Version 44.0. Listed prices exclude external buffs, any sacrifices, and Monkey Knowledge.
[Module | Data] Purchase Sell
Costs Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Easy Medium Hard Impoppable
Upgrade (X-2-X) $340 $400 $430 $480 -
Total (0-2-0) $870 $1,025 $1,105 $1,230 $609 $718 $774 $861
Crosspath (1-2-0) $1,080 $1,275 $1,375 $1,530 $756 $893 $963 $1,071
Crosspath (2-2-0) $1,630 $1,925 $2,075 $2,310 $1,141 $1,348 $1,453 $1,617
Crosspath (0-2-1) $1,040 $1,225 $1,320 $1,470 $728 $858 $924 $1,029
Crosspath (0-2-2) $1,295 $1,525 $1,645 $1,830 $907 $1,068 $1,152 $1,281

This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: BetterSellDealsIcon Better Sell Deals

Strategy[]

Summary[]

Missile Launcher's main strengths come from its faster projectile speed and attack speed. It is helpful for chasing down faster bloons a bit more reliably. The Missile Launcher upgrade is often used as a crosspath for higher level upgrades in order to maximize the attack speed potential of the Bomb Shooter.

Tips[]

  • Missile Launcher can have an easier time chasing early fast bloons, but there are many other more reliable options for countering fast bloons, with the best examples being 2-0-1 Ninja Monkey, 1-0-2 Sniper Monkey, and X-X-2 Airburst Darts Sub.
  • Missile Launcher provides the highest possible amount of attack speed for the Bomb Shooter outside of external buffs. If attack speed is desired, this upgrade is the best to crosspath towards.

Version History[]

Balance Changes[]

Over history, Missile Launcher gained bonus attack speed to make middle path crosspathing more worth approaching. Missile Launcher has overall been buffed since it was first released because of this.

12.0
  • BUFF Missile Launcher now reduces attack cooldown to the Bomb Shooter by 0.85x (1.2s → 1.02s)
18.0
  • BUFF Missile Launcher attacks faster (1.02s → 0.825s)
    • Attack cooldown multiplier for x-2-x decreased from 0.85x to 0.73333x, with the total attack cooldown multiplier actually being 0.55x, not 0.75x multiplied by 0.80x. Stacks with the new x-1-x decreased attack cooldown multiplier from 0.80x to 0.75x.
22.0
Some low tier Bomb pierce has been shifted further up into the 2xx Heavy Bombs upgrade to effectively nerf 130 Mauler meta in price, but the price of these upgrades and [...] have both been buffed to benefit other variations of bomb better. [...]
~ Ninja Kiwi, referring to nerfing Mauler
  • NERF Base pierce decreased (18 → 14)
45.0
  • Change Missile Launcher now increases projectile speed of tertiary clusters from Recursive Cluster and Bomb Blitz
    • This increases the spread of the tertiary bombs, which is helpful for spreading further but worse for compact damage.

Bug Fixes and General Changes[]

???
  • Change Updated description to account for the extra attack speed, by adding the phrase "fire faster".
30.0
  • BUFF x2x Should no longer become ‘lower’ and lose vision over objects

Extra Notes (Version History)[]

  • Version 42.0 altered the cooldown of the Bomb Blitz crosspath with Missile Launcher (0-2-5), going down from 0.825s to 0.55s, due to Bomb Blitz becoming the only other Bomb Shooter upgrade aside from Path 2 upgrades to alter attack speed.

Gallery[]

Official artwork[]

Trivia[]

  • Although Missile Launcher was claimed by NK to be buffed in attack speed bonus from +15% to +20%, it was actually buffed from +18% to +36%. the 15% and 25% values are actually additive decreases in attack cooldown. Furthermore, the actual attack cooldown decrease compared to x-1-x is 27.77%.
    • Even though the patch motes claim the attack cooldown reduction was 20%, it was actually 27.77% when compared to the x-1-x. The reason the notes claim 20% is because it fires 45% faster than the base bomb tower, and the patch notes subtracted the Faster Reload attack speed bonus of 25% from 45%.
  • The pre-BTD6 Missile Launchers do not have a shark-like face. The shark-like face on Missile Launcher is new to the BTD6 Generation.


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