Ninja Monkey

"Ninja" redirects here. For other uses, see Ninja (disambiguation).

“	Stealthy tower that can see Camo Bloons and throws sharp shurikens rapidly	”
	~ Official tower description

“	Gotta love all things ninja.	”
	~ Bloons TD 5's Big Bloon Sabotage Description

“	Stealthy and fast Monkey that throws bladed shurikens to pop the Bloons. Can target Camo Bloons.	”
	~ Bloons Tower Defense 6 description

Ninja Monkey
General Information
Appearances	Bloons TD 5 Bloons TD 5 Deluxe Bloons TD 5 Mobile Bloons TD Battles Bloons Monkey City Bloons TD 6
Unlocked at	Rank 6
Cost	$425 (Easy) $500 (Medium) $540 (Hard) $600 (Imppopable)
Final upgrades	23
Special Abilities	Sabotage Supply Lines Shadow Double
Camo detection	Yes
BTD Battles cost	$500/Automatically unlocked
Tier-4 Upgrades	Bloonjitsu Sabotage Supply Lines
Battle Score prerequisite	0 (unlocked immediately)
Specialty Building	Ninja Academy
Hotkey	T
Statistics
Range	Medium
Pierce	2 (per shuriken), increases to 4 (per shuriken) if upgraded to 2/x
Damage	Unknown
Attack Cooldown	Fast (Fires 1.67 times per sec excluding bonuses gained from Monkey Lab and/or Upgrades) (Fires 2.14 times per sec when upgraded to Ninja Discipline excluding bonuses gained from Monkey Lab)

Ninja Monkey is a relatively fast, moderately damaging, Camo detecting monkey tower that can be downright fatal to many bloons if used correctly. It made its debut in Bloons TD 5 and makes appearances in Bloons TD 5 Deluxe and other portable versions of Bloons TD 5. It also is in Bloons Monkey City and Bloons TD Battles. In BTD5, its Specialty Building is named the Ninja Academy, and in BMC, it has an upgrade building that is named the Ninja Dojo.

A 0/0 Ninja Monkey may be worth its cost, acting like a 1/1 Dart Monkey except it fires slightly faster and is a little more expensive than it as well as providing cheap Camo detection. On its own, Lead popping power can be quite a nuisance to get up early as the x/3, the only upgrade that allows the Ninja Monkey to pop leads, costs a hefty $2750 on medium. It is good to have a 0/1 Bomb Tower or a Monkey Apprentice which costs less and works very well with Ninjas. As for the last few upgrades on either path, they both help the Ninja stall bloons for other towers to pop them. A 4/2 Ninja has a very large distraction chance (Though still not 100%) and a 2/4 Ninja has its ability to slow down bloons, a flash bomb to stun bloons as well as the usual Distraction upgrade to send bloons back to the start.

Path 1

	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
Ninja Discipline Increases attack range and attack speed.	$255	$300	$325	$360
Sharp Shurikens Shurikens can pop 4 bloons each.	$295	$350	$380	$420
Double Shot Extreme Ninja skill enables him to throw 2 shurikens at once.	$720	$850	$920	$1020
Bloonjitsu The art of bloonjitsu allows Ninjas to throw 5 deadly shurikens at once!	$2335	$2750	$2970	$3300
Total Sell Amount	$3304	$3880	$4192	$4560 ($5136 with path 2 upgrades)
Total Cost	$4115	$4850	$5245	$5700 ($6420 with path 2 upgrades)

Path 2

	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
Seeking Shuriken Infuses bloon hatred into the weapons themselves - they will seek out and pop bloons automatically.	$210	$250	$270	$300
Distraction Some bloons struck by the Ninja's weapons will become distracted and move the wrong way temporarily.	$295	$350	$380	$420
Flash Bomb Sometimes throws a flash bomb that stuns bloons in a large radius.	$2335	$2750	$2970	$3300
Sabotage Supply Lines Sabotage Supply Lines Ability: Sabotage the bloons supply lines for 15 seconds. During the sabotage, all bloons are crippled to half speed.	$2380	$2800	$3025	$3360
Total Sell Amount	$4516 ($4956 with path 1 upgrades)	$5320 ($5840 with path 1 upgrades)	$5748 ($6312 with path 1 upgrades)	$6384 ($7008 with path 1 upgrades)
Total Cost	$5645 ($6195 with path 1 upgrades	$6650 ($7300 with path 1 upgrades)	$7185 ($7890 with path 1 upgrades)	$7980 ($8760 with path 1 upgrades)

Strategies

Main article: Ninja Monkey/Strategies

Differences Between BTD5 Flash and BTD5 Mobile

Flash Bomb has more contact area, as the stun grenade instead appears as a Bigger Blasts bomb.

After the Sabotage Supply Lines ability wears off, the affected bloons will recover and once again move at full speed.

Shuriken hitbox is smaller.

Seeking Shuriken homing targetting area decreased, making shurikens less able to detect backwards targets.

Shadow Double Ability (from Ninja Academy Specialty Building) now only creates a 0/0 regardless of upgrades of any Ninja.

Update History (Bloons TD Battles Mobile)

The Ninja Monkey is a pretty popular tower. With its versatility, it is able to counter most early-game bloons pretty well, as well as being all-round Camo-detectors. In particular, the Sabotage Supply Lines ability is still popular among the late-game, where sent MOAB-class bloons can be a pain for many towers, where slowing them would be of great help. On the other side, Bloonjitsu is a very popular all-round popper (except Leads of course), and spamming them can often defeat most bloon rushes.

Popular strategies for the Ninja Monkey include the Ninja-Mortar strategy, the Ninja-Bomb strategy, the Ninja-Apprentice (this one is especially so among newer players), and Ninja-Boomerang strategy. The most powerful combination currently is the Ninja-Mortar, which can become almost unstoppable until Round 18 if played correctly, while also being a good counter to the COBRA.

The Ninja in general is overall nerfed in terms of cost, with Sabotage Supply Lines becoming directly more expensive than in other games. (The overall cost to get a 4/x Ninja used to be cheaper compared to BTD5 but after 4.9 it's now the same.)

Initial release

Purchasing Double Shot no longer decreases the attack speed for the tower (unlike BTDB Flash).

Sabotage Supply Lines slows all bloons on screen as opposed to just the newly spawned ones.

Version 3.1

Sabotage Supply Lines price increased ($2800 → $4000).

Distraction price increased ($350 → $500).

Version 3.9

Sabotage Supply Lines price increased ($4000 → $5000).

Version 4.3

Distraction price decreased ($500 → $400).

Double Shot price decreased ($850 → $550).

Sharp Shurikens price decreased ($350 → $250).

Version 4.6

Double Shot price increased ($550 → $700).

Version 4.9

Bloonjitsu price increased ($2750 → $3000).

Flash Bombs no longer duplicate when the Ninja Monkey is under the influence of a Monkey Fort.

Bloons Tower Defense 6

Bloons Tower Defense 6
General Information
Appearances	Bloons TD 6
Unlocked at	Ranks 15 - 17 or Ranks 19 and 20
Cost	$425 (Easy) $500 (Medium) $540 (Hard) $600 (Impoppable)
Final upgrades	Grandmaster Ninja · Grand Saboteur · Master Bomber
Special Abilities	Bloon Sabotage · Grand Saboteur
Camo detection	Yes
Hotkey	N/A
Statistics
Range	Medium (40)
Pierce	2 (0/0/0)
Damage	1 (0/0/0)
Attack Cooldown	Medium (every 0.7s)

The Ninja Monkey makes a return in BTD6, and it attacks similarly to how it did in BTD5. It pops two bloons per shot at a speed faster than the unupgraded Dart Monkey, as well as always detecting Camo regardless of upgrades. Compared to BTD5, the Ninja Monkey now also can be upgraded to various upgrades that specifically remove Camo status from bloons, upgrades that enhance other Ninjas in its radius, and upgrades specifically damage MOAB-class bloons heavily. It can be upgraded to be Anti-MOAB, to be able to unleash a river of deadly shurikens or be able to heavily reduce the impact of incoming bloons.

The Ninja Monkey is classed as a Magic Category Tower.

Path 1

File:Screenshot 2019-01-02 at 5.18.16 PM.png Path 1 Ninja Monkey upgrades in Bloons TD 6	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Unlock XP	Icon	Artwork
Ninja Discipline Increases attack range and attack speed.	$255	$300	$325	$360	150
Sharp Shurikens Shurikens can pop 4 Bloons each.	$295	$350	$380	$420	550
Double Shot Throws 2 shurikens at once.	$720	$850	$920	$1,020	2,000
Bloonjitsu Throws 5 shurikens at once!	$2,335	$2,750	$2,970	$3,300	16,000
Grandmaster Ninja Throws incredibly fast, 8 shurikens per shot!	$29,750	$35,000	$37,800	$42,000	50,000
Total Sell Amount	Tier 4: $2,643 Tier 5: $23,468	Tier 4: $3,325 Tier 5: $27,825	Tier 4: $3,595 Tier 5: $30,055	Tier 4: $3,990 Tier 5: $33,390	N/A
Total Cost	Tier 4: $3,775 Tier 5: $33,525	Tier 4: $4,750 Tier 5: $39,750	Tier 4: $5,135 Tier 5: $42,935	Tier 4: $5,700 Tier 5: $47,700	68,700

Path 2

	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Unlock XP	Icon	Artwork
Distraction Some Bloons will become distracted and move backwards.	$295	$350	$380	$420	200
Counter-Espionage All attacks strip Camo from Bloons they hit.	$425	$500	$540	$600	600
Shinobi Tactics Increases attack speed of all ninjas in its range - more Shinobi means more attack speed, with a cap of 20	$765	$900	$970	$1,080	2,000
Bloon Sabotage Sabotage ability: Lasts 15 seconds. During the sabotage, all Bloons move at half speed.	$4,250	$5,000	$5,400	$6,000	14,000
Grand Saboteur Ability duration is longer, and MOAB-Class Bloons spawn with less health during the sabotage.	$18,700	$22,000	$23,760	$26,400	35,000
Total Sell Amount	Tier 4: $4,312 Tier 5: $17,402	Tier 4: $5,075 Tier 5: $20,475	Tier 4: $5,481 Tier 5: $22,113	Tier 4: $6,020 Tier 5: $24,500	N/A
Total Cost	Tier 4: $6,160 Tier 5: $24,860	Tier 4: $7,250 Tier 5: $29,250	Tier 4: $7,830 Tier 5: $31,590	Tier 4: $8,600 Tier 5: $35,000	51,800

Path 3

	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Unlock XP	Icon	Artwork
Seeking Shuriken Shurikens will seek out and pop Bloons automatically.	$210	$250	$270	$300	140
Caltrops Throws out spiked caltrops onto the track nearby.	$340	$400	$430	$480	500
Flash Bomb Throws a flash bomb that stuns multiple Bloons.	$2,335	$2,750	$2,970	$3,300	2,500
Sticky Bomb Throws powerful timed charges at MOAB-Class Bloons.	$3,825	$4,500	$4,860	$5,400	15,500
Master Bomber One Monkey MOAB demolition Machine.	$34,000	$40,000	$43,200	$48,000	37,500
Total Sell Amount	Tier 4: $4,995 Tier 5: $20,795	Tier 4: $5,880 Tier 5: $27,880	Tier 4: $6,349 Tier 5: $36,589	Tier 4: $7,056 Tier 5: $40,856	N/A
Total Cost	Tier 4: $7,135 Tier 5: $41,135	Tier 4: $8,400 Tier 5: $48,400	Tier 4: $9,070 Tier 5: $52,270	Tier 4: $10,080 Tier 5: $58,080	56,140

Trivia

• The Ninja Monkey with x/3 throws a stun grenade on every fourth throw.
• Ninja Monkey is the only tower that has two skins for 2/2 upgrades; white and purple and black and blue. But in sandbox there is a glitch where 2/2 only only shows up as black and blue.
• When using a 4/x Monkey Village next to a Ninja with Shadow Double Ability reduces the time from 24 seconds to 19 seconds.
• Both 4/2 and 2/4 Ninjas are in the same stance in the bottom left corner and both have a red belt.
• There was a glitch when you put a 2/2 Ninja Monkey and put 1/0 Monkey Village on it the ninja will change its color from purple and white to blue and black.
• There is a glitch where the range slightly increases upgraded from 2/1 to 2/2, but if you upgrade the tower it will decrease slightly.
• The Ninja Monkey is one of three Bloons TD 5 towers that can detect Camo Bloons without support, the others being the Dartling Gun and Spike Factory.
• The Ninja Monkey is the only tower non-exclusive Bloons TD 5 tower that can have 2 abilities (Sabotage Supply Lines and Shadow Double Ability from Ninja Academy).
• If the Ninja Monkey has Seeking Shuriken, it can throw like a Glaive Riccochet, albeit with fewer pops and a different attacking style.
• Two Bloonjitsus placed on the sockets of power in The Crucible can complete the entire mission.
• Path 1 upgrades give the Ninja Monkey a lighter color while Path 2 upgrades give it a darker color.
• It is possible to complete Monkey Lane or Park Path on Easy with only this tower.
• A single Ninja Monkey by itself can last about 25 rounds without any bloons leaking on most tracks.
  • If very lucky, a 4/2 Ninja Monkey with support for Lead Bloons can survive 45 rounds without any bloons leaking in a short track.
• This, along with the Monkey Ace, are the only monkeys whose sideburns are not visible.
• Flash Bomb, along with Glaive Riccochet, are one of the best "Monkey pairs" possible.
• In BTD5, Flash Bomb is the only upgrade that allows the Ninja Monkey to pop Lead. This is not recommended due to its cost, unless it's the only way to pop Camo Leads.
• The Ninja Monkey during game play, throws shurikens with only one hand. With Bloonjitsu it throws 5 shurikens with a single hand.
• The Bloonjitsu ninja has no red headband on BTD5 Mobile and steam.
• The Ninja Monkey in monkey team event wears a red shirt and a red headband. (No ninja clothing)
• In Bloons TD 6, this monkey is one out of the two towers in the game to pop Camo Bloons without any upgrades, the other being the Spike Factory.

Gallery

BTD5 - Path 1 upgrades

BTD5 - Path 2 upgrades

Ninja Monkey on a socket of power in The Crucible

Knowledge Book in BMC

BTD6 - Path 1 upgrades

BTD6 - Path 2 upgrades

BTD6 - Path 3 upgrades

Lots of Ninjas