Monkey Ace (BTD6)

Advanced Logistics:
$645 (Easy)
$760 (Medium)
$820 (Hard)
$910 (Impoppable)

Military Conscription:
$455 (Easy)
$535 (Medium)
$580 (Hard)
$645 (Impoppable)

Both:
$420 (Easy)
$495 (Medium)
$535 (Hard)
$595 (Impoppable)

Activated Ability(s)

Ground Zero
Tsar Bomba

Targeting Options

Circle, Figure Infinite, Figure Eight, Centered Path with Centered Path upgrade, Wingmonkey with Monkey Knowledge

Reverse Flight available for all except Wingmonkey

Hotkey

V

Other Names

Ace

Statistics

Damage

1 (per dart, spray of 8)

Pierce

5 (per dart, spray of 8)

Attack Speed

1.68s

Range

22 (dummy range)
Ace location depends on path formation

Flight Paths:
Circle: 80
Figure-Eight: 40, 40
Figure-Infinite: 40, 40

Status Effects

Requires upgrades

Tower Boosts

N/A

Income/Life Boosts

N/A

Camo Detection

Yes (x-2-x)

Footprint

Very Large (28, width)
Large (18, height)

Default Damage Type

Sharp

Related Towers

Monkey Ace (BTD4), for the BTD4 counterpart
Monkey Ace (BTD5), for the BTD5 counterpart
Monkey Ace (BTDB2), for the BTDB2 counterpart

“	Flies above the ground shooting volleys of high-pierce darts.	”
	^{~ In-game description}

Monkey Ace is a Military-class tower in Bloons TD 6. The tower retains its name and role from the Bloons TD 4 and Bloons TD 5 Generation, with significant additions. It did not receive any teasers prior to release, but it was first shown when the game was available to select YouTubers several days before BTD6's official release date.

At base, the Monkey Ace fires 8 darts in a circle around itself. These darts, with no upgrades or Monkey Knowledge, deal 1 damage and have 5 pierce. It creates volleys of these darts every 1.68s. A Monkey Ace will fly around in a fixed pattern around its runway, generally speaking, and its flight pattern can be adjusted based on target priority. It has various upgrades that can benefit from its height advantage, including anti-MOAB missiles, tightly packed bombs, nukes, and rapid-fire alternating darts and bombs.

It costs $680 on Easy, $800 on Medium, $865 on Hard, and $960 on Impoppable by default.

Description[]

The Monkey Ace makes a return in BTD6. Just like in BTD5, it has a landing pad that takes up space. It received a number of new changes, especially splitting several of the most popular upgrades in its predecessor game into different upgrades, most notably being the Operation: Dart Storm becoming a Tier-4 upgrade of Path 1 instead of the Tier-3 upgrade of Path 2. Another change is that when the tower is placed, it will briefly take off from its runway first.

The first path generally increases the numbers of darts sent out. Rapid Fire gives the Monkey Ace a 33% attack speed boost, and Lots More Darts increases the amount of darts fired from 8 to 12. Fighter Plane increases flight speed, as well as a new projectile: a missile that targets and does extra damage to MOAB-Class Bloons. Operation: Dart Storm returns from BTD5, shooting 16 darts per attack cycle at double speed. The final upgrade, Sky Shredder, doubles the amount of darts fired to 32, as well as redoubling attack speed and being able to pop all bloon types.

The second path generally primarily centers around bomb damage. Exploding Pineapple drops Pineapples onto the track, which explode after 3 seconds. Spy Plane gives the Ace camo detection, and Bomber Ace has the Ace dropping a line of 4 bombs regularly on the track, with each bomb doing 3 damage. Ground Zero also returns, dropping a large bomb onto the track as its ability, dealing 700 damage to up to 2,000 bloons, and increasing bomb damage to 10. Tsar Bomba further increases the ability's power, dealing 3,000 damage to up to 5,000 bloons, and stunning any surviving bloons. In addition, the Ace's bombs can now damage all bloon types, including Blacks, Zebras, and DDTs.

The third path generally deals with efficient projectile distribution. Sharper Darts increases the Ace's dart pierce to 8, and Centered Path adds a new targeting option for maximum map coverage. Neva-Miss Targeting adds weak seeking to the darts, allowing them to pop more bloons. Spectre adds a constant stream of darts and bombs which have high pierce and attack power, and increases the power of the preexisting darts. Flying Fortress attacks faster, adds 2 more streams of attacks with different targeting priorities, and, like Sky Shredder, can pop all bloon types.

Target Priorities/Flight Paths[]

As the Monkey Ace does not directly aim at Bloons, its targeting priorities are replaced by flight patterns centered around the runway (Centered Path and subsequent upgrades are the exceptions to this). By default, its set target priority is Circle. If target option is changed partway through the Monkey Ace's flight, the Ace will attempt to fly promptly from its old target priority to its new target priority. The Monkey Ace will fly in a clockwise direction by default and counterclockwise with Reverse Flight toggled.

The following are a list of target priorities that a Monkey Ace can use:

Circle: Flight pattern becomes a circular path around the runway.
Figure Infinite: Flight pattern becomes the shape of the infinite symbol (∞). As the Monkey Ace flies, it will pass its runway during its flight, specifically at each half of the whole flight path.
Figure Eight: Flight pattern becomes the shape of the number 8. As the Monkey Ace flies, it will pass its runway during its flight, specifically at each half of the whole flight path.
Centered Path: Flight path becomes a large circular path, centered around the center of the map by default. The center of the flight path can be changed manually. Can be accessed by purchasing the Centered Path upgrade, and once upgraded the Ace defaults to this target priority.
Wingmonkey: Instead of a fixed flight path, the Monkey Ace will attempt to fly as close to the path as possible, similarly to an Aircraft Carrier Plane. Available only via the Wingmonkey MK.
Reverse Flight: Shown by an icon of a reverse aircraft, the Ace will reverse direction of flight. Unlike other target priorities such as Change Hands, there is a cooldown of 5 seconds before being able to reverse flight direction again. It can be coupled with all flight options except Wingmonkey.
Set Linear Path: Sets a linear path for the mini-doomships to carpet bomb. Default path is along the primary diagonal. A valid path must be at least 100 units long. Exclusive to Goliath Doomship.

Main dart attacks are produced in a zone-like attack centered from where the Ace was at the time of deployment. Certain Monkey Ace upgrades have different target priorities, and therefore interact with targeting in different ways. Flight pattern remains unchanged with its alternate attacks.

Fighter Plane's anti-MOAB missiles will only target blimps, and they will target Close relative to the aircraft.
Exploding Pineapple's pineapples are spawned at the location where the Ace was at the time of deployment.
Bomber Ace's bomb arrays always land on nearby bloon track.
Ground Zero and Tsar Bomba abilities affect the whole screen, and target Close relative to its runway for purposes of calculating pierce consumption.
Spectre rapid dart-and-bomb attacks target First relative to the aircraft.
Flying Fortress's three rapid dart-and-bomb attacks target First, Last, and Close relative to the aircraft.
Goliath Doomship's frontal gun attack is locked on Close.

Upgrades[]

Path 1[]

	Rapid Fire COST: $550 / $650 / $700 / $780 UNLOCK: 160 XP
	Description: Shoots faster than normal. Effect: Attacks +33% faster (0.75x attack cooldown).

	Lots More Darts COST: $550 / $650 / $700 / $780 UNLOCK: 750 XP
	Description: Shoots 12 darts at a time. Effect: Each dart volley shoots 12 darts at a time.

	Fighter Plane COST: $850 / $1,000 / $1,080 / $1,200 UNLOCK: 2,700 XP
	Description: Flies fast and launches anti-MOAB missiles. Effect: Every 4 seconds shoots twin anti-MOAB missiles that deal 18 damage per shot and affect up to 4 blimps. Anti-MOAB missiles can only target MOAB-class bloons.

	Operation: Dart Storm COST: $2,550 / $3,000 / $3,240 / $3,600 UNLOCK: 8,000 XP
	Description: Shoots 16 darts per volley, and twice as fast. Effect: Shoots 16 darts per volley, darts and missiles attack 2x faster, and increases fighter plane missile damage to 24.

	Sky Shredder COST: $36,125 / $42,500 / $45,900 / $51,000 UNLOCK: 35,000 XP
	Description: The bloons will wish they had never come. Effect: Attacks 33% faster, pops any bloon type, and shoots 32 darts per volley. Darts deal 3 damage plus another +2 to Ceramics. Anti-MOAB missiles deal 150 damage and up to 6 blimps.

Path 2[]

	Exploding Pineapple COST: $170 / $200 / $215 / $240 UNLOCK: 120 XP
	Description: Drops pineapples to the ground that explode violently after a few seconds. Ace's explosive attacks are improved. Effect: Drops exploding pineapples onto the ground every 1.7 seconds, and increases the pierce and blast radius of all of Ace's explosive attacks. Pineapples explode after 3 seconds and deal 1 damage to up to 20 bloons.

	Spy Plane COST: $295 / $350 / $380 / $420 UNLOCK: 600 XP
	Description: Allows Monkey Ace to hit Camo Bloons and do more damage to them. Effect: Allows Monkey Ace to hit Camo Bloons and any attacks deal +1 damage to Camo Bloons

	Bomber Ace COST: $765 / $900 / $970 / $1,080 UNLOCK: 2,500 XP
	Description: Drops a line of bombs when crossing the Bloon track. Effect: Instead of pineapples, drops an array of 4 bombs every 1.7 seconds but only when crossing the track. Bombs deal 3 damage per explosion, and each explosion pops up to 20 bloons.

	Ground Zero COST: $15,300 / $18,000 / $19,440 / $21,600 UNLOCK: 15,000 XP
	Description: Bomb damage increased significantly. Ground Zero Ability: Drops a huge bomb that destroys most things on screen. Effect: Ability drops a nuke that inflicts 700 damage to all bloons on screen, including explosion-immune bloons, affecting up to 2000 bloons on screen and wiping out any weaker bloons. Main bomb explosions deal 10 damage instead of 3 and can pop up to 40 bloons.

	Tsar Bomba COST: $25,500 / $30,000 / $32,400 / $36,000 UNLOCK: 30,000 XP
	Description: A very, very large bomb. Someone put a stop to this craziness! Effect: Ability nuke deals 3000 damage, affects up to 5000 bloons on screen, and stuns all survivors of the blast except BADs. Has a shorter ability cooldown. Main bomb explosions pop any bloon type.

Path 3[]

	Sharper Darts COST: $425 / $500 / $540 / $600 UNLOCK: 160 XP
	Description: Darts can pop 8 Bloons each. Effect: Darts pop up to 8 bloons and dropped bombs gain +12 pierce.

	Centered Path COST: $465 / $550 / $595 / $660 UNLOCK: 600 XP
	Description: New central flight path for maximum map coverage. Effect: Gains the Centered Path flight path, which moves the Ace along a unified path in a circular formation. This flight path can be adjusted so it flies around a different central point.

	Neva-Miss Targeting COST: $2,165 / $2,550 / $2,755 / $3,060 UNLOCK: 3,000 XP
	Description: Darts automatically seek out and pop Bloons by themselves. Effect: Darts will automatically rotate to continuously seek at nearby bloons, gaining Weak Homing.

	Spectre COST: $19,890 / $23,400 / $25,270 / $28,080 UNLOCK: 19,000 XP
	Description: Rapidly fires darts and bombs, dominating most Bloon types easily. Effect: Additionally shoots rapid-fire alternating darts and bombs that both seek. Darts deal 5 damage per shot, and pop up to 15 bloons. Bombs deal 3 damage to up to 20 bloons (+15 with Exploding Pineapple). Darts deal +1 Ceramic damage, and bombs deal +3 Ceramic damage. Volleys of seeking darts deal 3 damage.

	Flying Fortress COST: $72,250 / $85,000 / $91,800 / $102,000 UNLOCK: 45,000 XP
	Description: This is a BIG plane. Effect: Attacks +50% faster (0.66x attack cooldown), shoots three rapid-fire attacks with separate targeting: first, last and close, Pops any bloon type. Darts deal 5 damage and bombs deal 4, and darts deal a further +10 to MOAB-class.

Paragon Upgrade[]

	Goliath Doomship COST: $765,000 / $900,000 / $972,000/ $1,080,000 UNLOCK: 1,000,000 XP
	Description: A flying shadow of darkness spells Bloon obliteration. Effect: Shoots quick volleys of 16 non-homing missiles, regularly deploys 4 anti-MOAB homing missiles every shot, and rapidly fires twin darts when facing bloons. Flies twice as slowly as a normal Monkey Ace. Carpet Bomb Ability: Deploys 3 mini-doomships that carpet bomb along a straightline path.

Total Costs[]

Easy:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	550	550	850	2,550	34,000
	Cumulative Cost	1,230	1,780	2,630	5,180	39,180
	Base Sell	385	385	595	1,785	24,693
	Cumulative Sell	861	1,246	1,841	3,626	28,319
Path 2
	Base Cost	170	295	765	15,300	25,500
	Cumulative Cost	850	1,145	1,910	17,210	42,710
	Base Sell	119	207	535	10,710	17,850
	Cumulative Sell	595	802	1,337	12,047	29,897
Path 3
	Base Cost	425	255	2,380	19,890	72,250
	Cumulative Cost	1,105	1,360	3,740	23,630	95,880
	Base Sell	298	178	1,666	13,923	50,575
	Cumulative Sell	774	952	2,618	16,541	67,116

Medium:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	650	650	1,000	3,000	41,000
	Cumulative Cost	1,450	2,100	3,100	6,100	47,600
	Base Sell	967	1,400	700	2,100	29,050
	Cumulative Sell	1,015	1,470	2,170	4,270	33,320
Path 2
	Base Cost	200	350	900	18,000	30,000
	Cumulative Cost	1,000	1,350	2,250	20,250	50,250
	Base Sell	140	245	630	12,600	21,000
	Cumulative Sell	700	945	1,575	14,175	35,175
Path 3
	Base Cost	500	300	2,800	23,400	85,000
	Cumulative Cost	1,300	1,600	4,400	27,800	112,800
	Base Sell	350	210	1,960	16,380	59,500
	Cumulative Sell	910	1,120	3,080	19,460	78,960

Hard:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	700	700	1,080	3,240	44,820
	Cumulative Cost	1,565	2,265	3,345	6,585	51,405
	Base Sell	490	490	756	2,268	31,374
	Cumulative Sell	1,096	1,586	2,342	4,610	35,984
Path 2
	Base Cost	215	380	970	19,440	32,400
	Cumulative Cost	1,080	1,460	2,430	21,870	54,270
	Base Sell	150	266	679	13,608	22,680
	Cumulative Sell	756	1,022	1,701	15,309	37,989
Path 3
	Base Cost	540	325	3,025	25,270	91,800
	Cumulative Cost	1,405	1,730	4,755	30,025	121,825
	Base Sell	378	227	2,118	17,689	64,200
	Cumulative Sell	984	1,211	3,329	21,018	85,278

Impoppable:

		Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Path 1
	Base Cost	780	780	1,200	3,600	49,800
	Cumulative Cost	1,740	2,520	3,720	7,320	57,120
	Base Sell	546	546	804	2,520	34,860
	Cumulative Sell	1,218	1,764	2,604	5,124	39,984
Path 2
	Base Cost	240	420	1,080	21,600	36,000
	Cumulative Cost	1,200	1,620	2,700	24,300	60,300
	Base Sell	168	294	756	15,120	25,200
	Cumulative Sell	840	1,134	1,890	17,010	42,210
Path 3
	Base Cost	600	360	3,360	28,080	102,000
	Cumulative Cost	1,560	1,920	5,280	33,360	135,360
	Base Sell	420	252	2,353	19,656	71,400
	Cumulative Sell	1,092	1,344	3,696	23,352	94,752

Strategy[]

See also: Monkey Ace (BTD6)/Strategies

Summary[]

Monkey Aces have a high skill ceiling in true optimizations with its various flight patterns that assist its maximum potential with its arsenal of various weapons available. The base Monkey Ace starts off like a flying Tack Shooter moving in a fixed flight pattern around its base, making it somewhat inconsistent in accurate damage but stronger in localized positions. This trend tends to continue for most upgrades, with many of its higher-tier upgrades offering more weapons that either rely on optimal micromanagement or alter its overall accuracy for a high cost.

Tips[]

Ace micro (refer to Micromanagement#Ace Micro) is an important skill to use for optimizing a Monkey Ace.

Additional Strategies[]

Crosspathing/Monkey Ace

Monkey Knowledge[]

This section displays Monkey Knowledge that has effects on Monkey Ace and its changes when compared to one by default:

Airforce Upgrades: All Monkey Aces get +1 pierce.
- Base pierce increased from 5 → 6.
Elite Military Training: All Military Monkeys get a one-off +1000 XP and earn XP in-game 5% faster permanently.
Accelerated Aerodarts: Darts from Monkey Aces fly faster.
- Darts fly 50% faster.
Targeted Pineapples: Pineapples are only dropped near tracks.
Gun Coolant: Monkey Aces attack 10% faster.
Wingmonkey: Grants all Monkey Aces with a new target priority that allows it to fly around the screen like the planes from the Aircraft Carrier.
Aeronautic Subsidy: Reduces the cost of all Monkey Ace Tier 5 Upgrades by 10%.
- Cost reduced from $40,000, $35,000, $100,000 to $36,000, $31,500, $90,000 on Medium difficulty for Path 1, Path 2, Path 3, respectively.
Military Conscription: First military tower costs only ⅔ of the original cost.
- Monkey Ace base cost from $680, $800, $865, and $960 → $455, $535, $580, and $645 on Easy, Medium, Hard, and Impoppable, respectively.
Advanced Logistics: All Military Monkeys base costs reduced by 5%.
- Monkey Ace base cost from $680, $800, $865, and $960 → $645, $760, $820, and $910 on Easy, Medium, Hard, and Impoppable, respectively.
  - If Military Conscription is also enabled, the final cost will be $420, $495, $535, and $595.
Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more.
- Increases sell potency from 70% to 75%.
Veteran Monkey Training: All Monkeys reload time reduced by 3%.
Global Ability Cooldowns: All Ability cooldowns for all Monkeys reduced by 3%.

Version History[]

Differences Between BTD5 and BTD6[]

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Listed are comparisons of the Monkey Ace in BTD6 compared to BTD5. Takes into account Flash and Mobile versions.

Defaults to Circle instead of Figure-Eight
Monkey Ace can now toggle flight direction for any pattern.
Rapid Fire only increase 33% attack speed instead of twice as fast
Rapid Fire price decrease ($700 → $650)
Spy Plane price increase ($300 → $350)
Ground Zero price increased ($14,000 → $18,000)
Operation: Dart Storm now shoots anti MOAB missiles to MOAB-class Bloons (upgrade from Fighter Plane)
Spy Plane now deals +1 damage to Camo Bloons
Ground Zero ability has deal double damage (350 → 700)
Ground Zero ability pierce reduced ( infinite → 1000)
Neva-Miss Targeting now all darts will always seek at bloons regardless of position
Spectre price increased ($18,000 → $24,000)
Spectre darts and bombs both increase damage
Spectre darts and bombs both deal extra damage to ceramics
Exploding Pineapple(Or Pineapple Present) now increase Spectre bomb pierce and blast radius
Spectre bomb cannot pop black bloons or zebra bloons itself
Spectre dart pierce reduced (TBA → 15)
Spectre bomb pierce reduced (TBA → 30)
Several changes in path placement of the upgrades; some upgrades are moved to different paths. This allows for more options with the first two middle path upgrades but means that no longer have at once.

Balance Changes[]

Note: Due to the volatility of seeking changing unknowingly throughout updates, seeking changes may not be properly reflected here. This affects all Top Path Monkey Ace and Neva-Miss Targeting.

Initial release (compared to BTD5 Flash and BTD5 Steam)

Monkey Ace base cost decreased ($900 -> $800)

4.0

x-x-4 Spectre attack rate reduced by about 16.6%, Flying Fortress remains unchanged.

6.0

x-x-5 Flying Fortress attack rate increased by 20%.

7.0

x-3-x Bomber Ace bombing run blast radius increased 25 to 35.
x-3-x Bomber Ace bombing run attack cooldown reduced 3s to 1.5s.
x-3-x Bomber Ace bombing run damage increased from 2 to 4.
x-3-x Bomber Ace costs more ($500 → $900).

8.0

5-x-x Sky Shredder - damage from radial darts increased 2 to 3.
x-x-3 Neva-Miss Targeting projectile lifespan +50%.
x-x-3 Neva-Miss Targeting projectile speed +50%.
x-x-3 Neva-Miss Targeting increased homing tightness to accommodate new speed.
x-x-4 Spectre dart damage increased 1 to 2.
x-x-4 Spectre bomb damage increased 2 to 3.
x-x-4 Spectre price increased from $18,000 to $24,000.
x-x-5 Flying Fortress dart damage increased 2 to 4.
x-x-5 Flying Fortress bomb damage increased 3 → 5.

9.0

x-x-3 Neva-Miss Targeting darts should no longer perform considerably worse with the Accelerated Aerodarts knowledge active.

10.0

1-3-x Bomber Ace will now benefit from the 40% rate increase crosspath, lowering the rate from 1.7s to 1.02s.
x-3-x Bomber Ace bomb damage reduced from 4 to 3.
x-3-x Bomber Ace cooldown increased from 1.5s to 1.7s.
x-4-x Ground Zero Bombs dropped by this tower now deal 10 damage permanently.

16.0

5-x-x Sky Shredder ceramic damage bonus added +2.

17.0

3-x-x Fighter Plane missile pierce increased from 1 to 3.
3-x-x Fighter Plane missile rate reduced from 3s to 4s.
3-x-x Fighter Plane missile damage reduced 25 to 18.
4-x-x Operation: Dart Strom Fighter Plane missile pierce increased from 1 to 4.
4-x-x Operation: Dart Storm Fighter Plane missile rate reduced from 1.5s to 2s.
5-x-x Sky Shredder Fighter Plane missile pierce increased from 1 to 5.
5-x-x Sky Shredder Fighter Plane missile rate reduced from 1.5s to 2s.

18.0

Monkey Ace is now affected by the Carrier Flagship 15% speed buff effect.

21.0

“	Tsar Bomba currently holds low value compared to multiple Ground Zero purchases aside from the stun, this greatly requested change should hopefully add more niche benefit	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

x-5-x Tsar Bomba bombs damage type changes from Explosive → Normal.
x-5-x Tsar Bomba cooldown reduced from 45 → 40.
[undocumented] Tsar Bomba ability initial cooldown reduced (15s → 10s).

22.0

“	While Pineapples are never the star of the show, the amount of pierce they have is completely unnecessary for their usage window and has only led to balance problems for Bombing Run, specifically in races. This high amount of pierce has been more evenly spread through higher tiers & crosspath. Flying Fortress has also been reduced in price because, while achievable, it doesn't match well with freeplay progress	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Base Exploding Pineapple bomb pierce decreased (40 → 20).
0-1-1 Exploding Pineapple bomb pierce decreased (40 → 32).
Pierce nerfs for Exploding Pineapple also apply to Bomber Ace. Ground Zero pierce remains at current pierce value of 40.
0-4-1 Ground Zero pierce increased from 40 to 52.
Flying Fortress price reduced from $120,000 to $105,000.

23.0

“	Monkey Ace was never intended to be a great starting tower and instead come into power at mid- and high-tier upgrades, but since the base tower feels lacking to new players (and some of us old timers) we decided to rework low tier power into the base tower. In addition to this we are experimenting with adding a small amount of homing to the spectre upgrade as rapid fire missing is not the intended design	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Monkey Ace projectile size increased (2 → 3).
Monkey Ace attack cooldown reduced (2.1s → 1.68s).
Rapid Fire attack rate buff decreased (0.6x → 0.75x).
- Spectre and Flying Fortress attack speed bonus from Rapid Fire remains the same.
Exploding Pineapple base attack cooldown decreased (3s → 2s).
Spectre now has a very slight seeking effect on the dart projectiles. Also affects Flying Fortress.
Flying Fortress price decreased ($105,000 → $100,000).

24.0

“	Similar to Tack Shooter Maelstrom upgrades, we have targeted a nerf to Ground Zero for race conditions by amounts which are not relevant outside of those conditions. Additionally Tsar Bomba has received a much smaller version of this nerf along with a reduced cooldown to increase its relevance.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Ground Zero ability pierce reduced (infinite → 1,000).
Tsar Bomba ability pierce reduced (infinite → 5,000).
Tsar Bomba ability cooldown reduced from (40s → 35s).
[undocumented] Tsar Bomba ability initial cooldown reduced (10s → 5s).

26.0

“	As Dart Storm currently feels like a lossy stepping stone the damage has been increased.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Operation: Dart Storm homing missile damage increased from 18 to 24. Does not affect Sky Shredder.

28.0

“	Monkey Ace has had an overall rework to a lot of different upgrades in order to highlight the x1x Exploding Pineapples upgrade as a buff to all explosives, in addition to this Spectre has been reworked to have less base pierce but a higher damage bonus to Ceramic Bloons in order to make the new option of a pierce crosspath more viable while also allowing it to carry on better into the endgame against Super Ceramics.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Fighter Plane missiles pierce increased from 3 -> 4. Operation Dart Storm Missiles pierce remains 4.
3-1-0 Fighter Plane missiles pierce increased from 3 -> 6
3-1-0 Fighter Plane missiles radius increased from 30 -> 34.5
4-1-0 Dart Storm missiles pierce increased from 4 -> 6
5-1-0 Sky Shredder missiles pierce increased from 5 -> 7
Spectre dart damage deals +2 damage to Ceramics, for 4 damage versus Ceramics instead of 2. Flying Fortress also inherits this Ceramic bonus.
Spectre dart pierce reduced from 30 -> 15
Spectre bomb damage deals +2 damage to Ceramics, for 5 damage versus Ceramics instead of 3. Flying Fortress also inherits this Ceramic bonus.
Spectre bomb pierce without Exploding Pineapples reduced from 60 -> 30
0-1-4 Spectre bomb pierce reduced from 60 -> 45
0-1-4 Spectre bomb radius increased from 20 -> 23

30.0

“	More of a straight quality of life, Ace has gained a new special toggle button to allow it to turn back and fly in reverse on any selected flight pattern. As Ground Zero stands out in power, & enough so to make the upgrade to Tsar Bomba questionable, some upgrade cost has been moved out of Tsar Bomba into Ground Zero to make Ground Zero more expensive while not changing Tsar much other than a slight overall cost buff. While Flying Fortress has started to see use in Boss events this feels like more of a cash dump than actual value in the tower. As Spectre value already drops off the later any game gets, the saveup into a ‘better version’ also drops off in value, and so the price should reflect that better.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Monkey Ace can now toggle flight direction for any pattern via Reverse Flight. Cooldown of 5 seconds per use on the same Ace.
Ground Zero price increased from $14,000 -> $18,000
Tsar Bomba price decreased from $35,000 -> $30,000
Flying Fortress price $100,000 -> $85,000

31.0

“	Spy Plane is always a lesser crosspath aside from specific challenges that call for camo detection. It has a similar vibe to Night Vision sniper so we have given it a similar buff.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Spy Plane grants attacks bonus damage to camos +1

32.0

“	Neva-Miss has been generally over performing for quite a cheap T3, increasing price here slightly but not carrying that increase up through higher tiers.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Neva-Miss Targeting price increased from $2200 -> $2800
Spectre price reduced from $24,000 -> $23,400

33.0

“	To help you work towards the new Ace Paragon we have reduced Spectre’s lategame ceramic weakness with improved targeting for the bomb projectiles & a large increase to their bonus Ceramic damage to help out later on, to change focus on these projectiles we have also shifted damage around for the darts to deal single target with the bombs providing ceramic AoE cleanup. Flying Fortress’s value drops off by the lategame when you can realistically afford it, so following on with this dart single target focus change at T4 we have added a large MOAB damage bonus to Flying Fortress darts.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Spectre darts & bombs now both have a weaker homing effect
- [undocumented] Spectre darts angular speed decreased (80 → 20)
- [undocumented] Spectre bombs angular speed decreased (0 → 10)
Spectre dart damage increased from 2 -> 3
Spectre bomb damage reduced from 3 -> 2
Spectre bomb ceramic bonus increased from 2 -> 4
Flying Fortress darts now gain deal bonus +10 damage to MOABs

34.0

“	Sky Shredder has a higher skill ceiling than most towers so has evaded many nerfs, but is still too good for what it offers so is finally seeing a slight price increase. Same as mentioned above for the flagship, we are experimenting with new homing changes for the Spectre & Flying Fortress to improve their feeling. Users have noticed that Goliath Doomship's ability overall has far less pierce than the T4 ability, while this rarely matters at all the pierce value downgrading by that much was not an intended reduction, so we are bumping up each of those ability bombs to bring the total pierce up.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Sky Shredder price increased $40,000 -> $41,500
Spectre new homing style
Goliath Doomship ability Carpet-Bomb pierce increased 50 -> 150

35.0

“	While we wanted to initially ensure general farming achievability of the (still very high) price compared to how good we actually felt the Doomship was due to the target goal of giving it an intentional ability niche and the jump it would be as most expensive paragon, but after seeing the results of its power we're happy to take this up now	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Goliath Doomship price increased $800,000 -> $900,000

37.0

“	Spectre is shifting a little of the ceramic bonus around into basic all damage at the cost of reduced pierce, which should make up for lack of single target damage while also making the pierce crosspath more necessary when being used for cleanup focus.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Spectre Dart damage increased 3 → 4
Spectre Dart ceramic bonus reduced +2 → +1
0-x-4 Spectre Dart pierce reduced 15 → 10
2-0-4 Spectre Dart pierce reduced 18.75 → 12.5
Spectre Bomb damage increased 2 → 3
Spectre Bomb ceramic bonus reduced +4 → +3
x-0-4 Spectre Bomb pierce reduced 30 → 20
0-1-4 Spectre Bomb pierce reduced 45 → 35
Note: Spectre base damage and Ceramic bonus damage changes also affect Spectre
Flying Fortress Dart damage increased 5 → 6
Flying Fortress Dart ceramic bonus reduced +2 → +1
0-x-4 Flying Fortress Dart pierce reduced 15 → 10
2-0-4 Flying Fortress Dart pierce reduced 18.75 → 12.5
Flying Fortress Bomb damage increased 3 → 5
Flying Fortress Bomb ceramic bonus reduced +4 → +3
x-0-4 Flying Fortress Bomb pierce reduced 30 → 20
0-1-4 Flying Fortress Bomb pierce reduced 45 → 35

38.0

“	As the price of Ground Zero has been considerably increased in the base game since then, the nerf to 1000 pierce set for races a long time ago now feels restrictive for the price.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Ground Zero ability pierce increased from 1000 → 2000

39.0

“	Limiting many changes to Ace for now, we feel that it wasn’t nerfed that badly from the bug fix and we also currently want it to stay one of the much higher level price tags. It has been performing incredibly well even as the most expensive paragon, however given it is very cooldown dependent and scaling that cooldown via degrees is going to be much harder now we want to wait and see the impact of the rest of that rework before anything more significant to it.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Goliath Doomship's overall Boss damage slightly decreased
Goliath Doomship's Carpet Bomb base ability cooldown increased (40s → 45s)

40.0

“	The homing for Neva-miss darts can cause darts to expire just before they are able to loop around and hit their target, which is unsatisfying to see – we like the pattern this attacks with though so allowing a little extra distance before expiration should mostly solve this.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Neva-Miss Targeting projectile distance increased (450 → 600)

41.0

“	Sky Shredder somewhat justifies its power as one of the very best towers in the game, although everything at this level is a bit too cheap. Exploding pineapples gained a larger rate bonus from crosspathing than the main attack did to make up for its base rate being so poor, so we're fixing that poor base rate while keeping the crosspath bonus the same. Centered Path these days adds a lot more potential power to Ace than before and we are moving price down into it from Neva-Miss. Neva-Miss itself is too fun and cool to be lost completely on the very next upgrade so it's coming back to Spectre as an additional attack, as this main attack is back again 204 no longer needs to give an additional conflicting crosspath benefit. Finally, the Doomship continues to outperform all other paragon significantly enough even for the much higher price that we feel the need to slightly increase the ability cooldown - although the new buff from sub paragon lowers this back down to exactly 45 again anyway.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Sky Shredder price increased from $41,500 to $42,500
0-1-x Exploding Pineapple attack cooldown decreased from 2s to 1.7s
Rapid Fire bomb crosspath's attack cooldown reduction multiplier to pineapples and bombs decreased from 0.60x to 0.75x, matching attack cooldown reduction multiplier of darts
- 1-1-0 Exploding Pineapple attack cooldown increased from 1.2s to 1.275s
- 1-3-0 Bomber Ace attack cooldown increased from 1.02s to 1.275s
Centered Path price increased from $300 to $550
Neva-Miss Targeting price reduced from $2800 to $2550
Spectre now keeps the original Neva-Miss Targeting attack alongside its rapid-fire dart-and-bomb barrages, additionally increasing damage of its Neva-Miss Targeting darts from 1 to 3. Also affects Flying Fortress.
2-0-4 Spectre no longer gains +25% pierce for darts
Goliath Doomship ability cooldown increased from 45s to 50s

Bug Fixes and General Changes[]