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| “ | Stealthy and fast Monkey that throws bladed shurikens to pop the Bloons. Can target Camo Bloons. | ” |
| ~ In-game Description |
The Ninja Monkey is a Magic Monkey released for Bloons TD Battles 2. Ninja Monkey is one of two towers in BTD6 to detect camo by default, the other being Spike Factory.
Ninja Monkey attacks at a moderately fast speed, throwing a shuriken every 0.62s. Ninjas deal 1 damage and hit up to 3 bloons per shuriken. It has a moderate range of 40. Ninja Monkey is one of two towers in BTD6 to detect camo by default, the other being Spike Factory, but the only to receive the Camo Prioritization target option by default. Many of its upgrades are powerful as supportive and offensive options, including shurikens that seek, buffing attack speed and pierce of nearby Ninjas, deadly sticky bombs, and immediate slowdown of all bloons on screen. (Except BADs, as they are immune to all slows.)
The base price for Ninja Monkey is $400. It is unlocked by spending 
750, unlocking all upgrades up to Tier 4, plus another 1,500 to unlock all its Tier 5 upgrades.
Description[]
The Ninja Monkey is a monkey with a red jumpsuit revealing only its hands, feet, and eyes, along with a white ninja belt. On its official portrait, it holds a dark grey shuriken with its right hand, and appears to be in a prepared pose for throwing the shuriken, with a crouching stance, a focused glare, and a shuriken prepared to be thrown. When dropped on the screen, the Ninja will do a three-point landing pose with its right hand and both feet. When idle, the Ninja Monkey occasionally bows or looks around both sides.
Path 1 increases the amount of shurikens the ninja monkey can throw. This is the standard Ninja Monkey path and has remained mostly unchanged from BTD5. This path focuses on throwing out large numbers of shurikens for bloon and MOAB damage.
Path 2 turns the Ninja Monkey into a support tower. This is through his new abilities to confuse bloons, reveal camos, speed up other Ninja Monkeys and to slow bloons.
Path 3 turns the Ninja Monkey into a MOAB killer. This is through the tier 4 upgrade Sticky Bomb. The previous upgrades are just generally helpful abilites such as caltrops and flash bombs.
Target Priorities[]
The base Ninja Monkey uses the standard target priorities: First, Last, Close, Strong. Most its attacks are dependent on its given target priority.
- 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.
Most of its alternate attacks have different target priorities:
- Caltrops always targets sporadically in a similar way to a base Spike Factory's Normal targeting.
- Shinobi Tactics is a range-based buff, and targets only Ninja Monkeys.
- Bloon Sabotage targets all bloons on screen instantaneously and all incoming bloons.
- Grand Saboteur targets bloons similarly to Bloon Sabotage, but its unique blimp health percentage reduction only targets incoming blimps.
- All attacks from Flash Bomb, Sticky Bomb, and Master Bomber target based on the Ninja's own target priority. Sticky Bomb's sticky bombs have slightly more range, and Master Bomber's sticky bombs have infinite range, excluding Line of Sight restrictions.
Ninja Monkey is unique in that it comes with the Camo Prioritization target option, a separate option that allows it to target Camo Bloons before all others, and if multiple Camo Bloons are on screen, it will attack the first, last, closest, or strongest, depending on the main targeting.
Upgrades[]
Path 1[]
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Ninja Discipline COST: $150 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Increases attack range and attack speed.
Effect: All attacks gain +42% attack speed (0.7x attack cooldown) and range increases by +7. | ||
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Sharp Shurikens COST: $200 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Shurikens can pop 4 Bloons each.
Effect: Self-explanatory | ||
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Double Shot COST: $700 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Throws 2 shurikens at once.
Effect: Throws 2 shurikens per shot in a narrow spread. With Caltrops, caltrops deal 5 damage instead of 3. | ||
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Bloonjitsu COST: $2750 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Throws 5 shurikens at once!
Effect: Now throws 5 shurikens per shot instead of 2. | ||
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Grandmaster Ninja COST: $35000 UNLOCK: 1,500 (T5 Ninja Unlocks) | |
| Description: Throws incredibly fast, 8 shurikens per shot!
Effect: Throws 8 shurikens at once, with 2 damage and +100% faster (0.5x attack cooldown). Also gains a +10 range boost. 5-1-0 crosspath has full blowback chance against Ceramics and below, plus a 50% chance to blowback MOABs at full distance and 45-75 units against BFBs. 5-0-2 crosspath's caltrops deal 75 damage. | ||
Path 2[]
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Distraction COST: $200 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Some Bloons will become distracted and move backwards.
Effect: All attacks gain a 25% chance to blowback bloons between 100-150 units. | ||
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Counter-Espionage COST: $375 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Ninja attacks can strip camo from Bloons they hit.
Effect: All Ninja attacks strip camo from bloons hit. | ||
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Shinobi Tactics COST: $2100 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Increases attack speed and pierce of nearby Ninjas. Stacks 10 times.
Effect: Increases attack speed of itself and other Ninjas in range by +16% multiplicatively and pierce by +16% additively. Stacks up to 10 times. | ||
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Bloon Sabotage COST: $4500 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Sabotage Ability: Lasts 15 seconds. During the sabotage, all Bloons move at reduced speed.
Effect: Ability slows down all bloons on screen by 50% for 15 seconds. Cannot soak through MOAB-class layers nor affect BADs. | ||
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Grand Saboteur COST: $20000 UNLOCK: 1,500 (T5 Ninja Unlocks) | |
| Description: Ability duration is longer, and MOAB bloon health is reduced during the sabotage. Shinobis in range get increased range and MOAB damage.
Effect: Ability lasts twice as long and MOAB-class bloons spawning from the entrance, BADs included, start with 25% less health. Slows all blimp layers for the duration of ability. All Shinobi Ninjas in range, including Grand Saboteur itself, gain +10 range and +2 MOAB-class damage. | ||
Path 3[]
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Seeking Shuriken COST: $200 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Shurikens will seek out and pop Bloons automatically.
Effect: Shurikens will aggressively seek out bloons, regardless of where they are. | ||
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Caltrops COST: $250 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Throws out spiked caltrops onto the track nearby.
Effect: Regularly throws out caltrops onto nearby track every 8.0s. Pops up to 6 bloons per caltrop, and deals 3 damage. Caltrops last for 25s on the track. Note that Caltrops cannot inherit any kinds of pierce buffs. | ||
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Flash Bomb COST: $1800 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Throws a flash bomb that stuns multiple Bloons.
Effect: Every third shuriken, it instead throws a Flash Bomb that stuns bloons and pops any bloon type including Lead and Black Bloons. | ||
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Sticky Bomb COST: $4900 UNLOCK: Unlock Ninja Monkey | |
| Description: Throws powerful timed charges at MOAB bloons.
Effect: Throws sticky bombs onto MOAB-class bloons every few seconds. Sticky bombs detonate after 3.0s, dealing 450 damage to that blimp and 100 damage, 10 pierce, and 40 blast radius to bloons around it upon detonation. | ||
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Master Bomber COST: $40000 UNLOCK: 1,500 (T5 Ninja Unlocks) | |
| Description: One Monkey MOAB demolition machine.
Effect: Throws stronger sticky bombs over any distance that stun affected blimps and deal 1000 damage upon detonation instead of 450, damage of area explosion increases from 100 to 200. Flash bomb attack deals more damage and briefly stuns blimps too. | ||
Strategy[]
Summary[]
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The Ninja Monkey specializes in dealing with Camo Bloons and has many different upgrades that help fulfill particular niches that most towers cannot do alone. Ninja Monkey has additional support-oriented upgrades in the form of Counter-Espionage's decamo and the slowdown from Bloon Sabotage. Most importantly, the Ninja is very capable of maximizing its power through external buffs, including synergizing attack speed and pierce with stacks of nearby Shinobis.
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Tips[]
- Lower-tier Ninjas aren't particularly powerful, but do have some useful early-game. For early-game carries, use Double Shot.
- Pairing with Alchemist is a great synergy with Ninja, especially if defenses are centered around the Ninja.
- Ocean Obyn is a good synergy with Ninja.
Further Strategies[]
- Strategies
- General Strategy
- Optimization Strategy
- Countermeasures Strategy
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 |
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 Smokebomb! |
 Placement Animation |
A dramatic entrance | 600 75,000
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Ninja Monkey appears from smoke. |
Detonate |
 Emote |
Kaboom! | 16020,000
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Sticky Bomb Ninja pressing detonator. |
Ninja's Wrath |
 Bloon Decal |
Don't mess with Ninja Monkeys. | 20030,000
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Several shurikens pierced through bloons. |
Psychic Shurikens |
 Weapon Skin |
Empowered with psyonic energy, | 45060,000
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Ninja's shuriken turn bright purple. |
Infiltration |
 Avatar Icon |
Like a shadow. | 30040,000
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Ninja Monkey in the night sky. |
Bow |
 Idle Animation |
The Ninja respects their opponents. | 45060,000
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Ninja Monkey bows. |
 Named Ninja Monkeys |
 Custom Names |
Name your Ninja Monkeys! | 30040,000
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Default name is Ryu. |
Ninja Vanish! |
 Sell Animation |
Like they were never here... | 24030,000
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Ninja disappears in a cloud of smoke. |
Psychic Trails |
 Trail Effect |
Overflowing with psyonic energy. | 45060,000
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Shurikens leave purple trail. |
Version History[]
Balance Changes[]
Just like in Battles 1, the Ninja Monkey is a fairly popular and strong tower overall. The introduction of Alchemist buffs has removed Ninja’s weakness towards Lead Bloons and its new bottom path is extremely valuable for handling all types of MOAB-class Bloons. Each path is about equally used, and this makes it versatile overall, especially because it can be effective in just about every stage of the game. Popular Ninja loadouts include Ninja-Alc-Heli/Farm/Boat, and the very popular Ninja-Dartling-Farm. The most common hero it is paired up with is Ocean Obyn due to being able to buff the Ninja’s pierce early on, making it far easier to start off and defend rushes.
- Initial release (compared to BTD6 Version 28.0)
Counter-Espionage can now decamo any bloon type, even those it cannot damage.- Shinobi Tactics price increased ($900 → $2000)
- Shinobi Tactics stack amount decreased (20 → 10)
- Shinobi Tactics attack speed and pierce buffs increased (8% → 16% pierce increase and reload time decrease)
- Double Shot price decreased ($850 → $700)
- Bloon Sabotage price decreased ($5200 → $4500)
- Flash Bomb price decreased ($2750 → $2000)
- Bloon Sabotage's slowdown effects now are removed when the Ninja performing the ability is sold.
- 1.0.4
- Base Ninja costs less ($500 → $450)
- Sharp Shurikens costs less ($350 → $300)
- Double Shot costs less ($700 → $650)
- Distraction costs less ($350 → $300)
- Counter-espionage costs less ($500 → $375)
- Caltrops costs less ($400 → $350)
- Master Bomber damage decreased (1000 → 850)
- Grand Saboteur costs more (22k → 25k)
- 1.0.6
- xx2 Caltrops duration 70s → 25s
- 1.1.0
- 1xx Ninja Discipline: $300→ $250
- xx1 Seeking Shurikens: $250 → $200
- xx2 Caltrops: $350 → $300
- 1.3.0
- xx4 Sticky Bomb: damage decreased 500 → 450
- 1.4.0
- x4x Bloon Sabotage: slow effect no longer soaks through MOAB class bloons (still soaks through regular bloons however)
- x4x Bloon Sabotage: if a ninja is sold while its ability is active, bloons already on screen will now continue to be slowed for the remainder of the ability duration. Newly spawned bloons will not be slowed.
- xx5 Master Bomber: sticky bomb splash damage reduced from 300 → 200
- 1.7.0
- Ninja Monkey gains the new Camo Prioritization option.
- 2.1
- xx3 Flash bomb: Stun duration 1 → 1.3 and pierce 60 → 75
| “ | Despite Ninja Monkey being common in many top strategies over the seasons, Flash Bomb has never been a popular upgrade. We’ve bumped up its pierce and stun length so that hopefully it becomes a more appealing option. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 3.1
- Base: $450 → $400
- 1xx $250 → $150
- x1x Distraction: projectiles have a 15% → 25% chance of distracting bloons. Distracted bloons are sent back between 10 and 300 → between 100 and 250 units.
- x1x Distracton: $250 → $200
- x3x Shinobi Tactics: $2000 → $2100
- xx2 Caltrops: $300 → $250
- xx3 Flash Bomb: $2000 → $1800
- xx4 Sticky Bomb: $4500 → $4900
| “ | Ninja Monkey is a little bit lacking in early game popping power, only being effectively utilised when paired with another tower like an Alchemist. We have made some price cuts and improvements so that its early and unused upgrades are slightly better. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 3.2
- xx2 Caltrops: caltrops damage 1 → 3.
- 5-0-2 Grandmaster Ninja: Caltrops damage 1 → 30
- xx2 Caltrops: caltrops drop every 4.4s → 9s
- 1-0-2 increases rate to every 5.6s
- 5-0-2 increases it to every 2.8s
- 5-1-0 Grandmaster Ninja: Distraction chance 25% → 100%
- 5-1-0 Grandmaster Ninja: projectiles now have a 15% chance of distracting MOABs (not BFBs and above) by a distance between 45-75
| “ | The basic Caltrops change has been made so that they can pack more of a punch, since previously they often got disregarded as being insignificant. Additionally, they were known for contributing towards lag, especially if you had lots of them, so hopefully the slower attack rate will offer a slight improvement in this area. For 5xx Grandmaster Ninja, we’ve made 2 interesting crosspath changes. The middle path was never used as the preferred crosspath due to the distraction not being very relevant, so it has been greatly improved for 5xx by now including MOABs. For the bottom crosspath, although already the preferred choice, we wanted to buff it up anyway so that 5xx would be stronger overall now, since previously it was often more efficient to buy multiple 4xx Bloonjitsu Ninjas instead of a 5xx. The 5xx upgrade provides more shuriken and higher damage on them, yet Caltrops did not benefit from either of these things, so it provided negligible damage relative to the shuriken. It has received a massive damage buff so that it can now scale up with the shuriken and play a greater role in Grandmaster Ninja’s overall firepower. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 3.2.4
- Flash Bomb: Throws bomb every 4 → 3 attacks
- Flash Bomb: stun length 1.3s → 1.1s
- 0-2-3 Flash Bomb: bomb now has an additional decamo attack with larger blast radius (no damage) with 65 range and 75 pierce.
- 5-1-0 Grandmaster Ninja: Can now distract BFBs. Chance of MOAB/BFB distraction 15% → 50% and MOAB blowback distance 45-75 → 60-100.
- 5-0-2 Grandmaster Ninja: Caltrops damage 30 → 25
| “ | Ninja Monkey’s Flash Bomb and Counter Espionage upgrades have never been commonly used upgrades. By buffing the combination of them, we hope to open up a new use case for these upgrades and Ninja as a whole, a somewhat reliable decamo option. As for Grandmaster Ninja, we liked giving the crosspaths much more utility in the previous update, however it needs some adjusting - Caltrops was a little bit too powerful and Distraction could not compete. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 3.3
- Base: pierce 2 → 3
- 3-0-2 Double Shot: caltrops damage 3 → 5
- 4-0-2 Bloonjitsu: caltrops damage 5 → 10
- x5x Grand Saboteur: ability slow down effect can soak through MOAB class bloons
| “ | We have increased Ninja’s early-game potential since it stood out as a tower with relatively low DPS in the early game, always depending on another tower to deal the damage or to buff it. Additionally, we have made x5x Ninja’s ability stall more reliable by letting the slow effect soak through MOAB class bloons (so a stalled ZOMG will now pop into stalled BFBs | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 3.3.2
- 2-x-x Sharp Shurikens: $300 → $200 and increases pierce by 2 → 1
- 3-x-x Double Shot: $650 → $750
- x-x-2 Caltrops: Caltrops can no longer receive any pierce buffs
- x-x-4 Flash Bomb: Stun duration 1.1 → 1s
- 4-x-x Bloonjitsu: Caltrops damage 10 → 5
| “ | Ninja Monkey has spiked up in popularity since the last update, with the Ninja + Alchemist combo standing out as overly strong in all stages of the game. We have made quite a few changes to address this, such as keeping the additional +1 pierce on the early tiers but taking it back off for 2xx, with some price rearranging to accommodate. Caltrops no longer benefit from pierce buffs which nerfs their interaction with Alchemist's buff, and Bloonjitsu's caltrops have additionally been nerfed. Bloonjitsu already stood out as a super effective upgrade even in the late game (when surrounded by Shinobi buffs), so the added caltrops damage is unnecessary. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 4.0.2
- Base: Shuriken attack rate 0.7s → 0.62s
- Ninja Discipline: Reduces all weapons’ attack rates by 38% → 30%
- 0-x-2: Caltrops attack rate 9s → 8s
- 0-x-4: Sticky bomb attack rate 5s → 4.5s
- 0-x-5: Sticky bomb attack rate 2s → 0.18s
- Note: This is not a typo; Master Bomber's attack speed was significantly increased.
| “ | These changes buff 0xx Ninja upgrades while leaving 1xx Ninja upgrades unchanged. One major reason for this is so that 023 Ninja can be slightly more dependable. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 4.0.3
- [Bugfix] 0-x-5: Sticky bomb attack rate 0.18s → 1.8s
- 4.1
- Double Shot: $750 → $700
- Bloon Sabotage: ability now soaks through MOAB-class bloons.
| “ | Ever since Ninja’s major nerfs a few updates ago, it has not been at the level that we would like. We are very conscious to not repeat past mistakes and over-buff it’s early game, so we’re just making very small changes for now. Bloon Sabotage has also been changed so that it can be used more reliably and easily when defending ZOMGs and BFBs. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 4.2
- Master Bomber: sticky bombs deal 850 → 1000 damage
| “ | Ninja Monkey has been out of the limelight for a while now and so we would like improve it by targeting its late game support damage, rather than its early game which caused problems in the past. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 4.3
- Grand Saboteur: cost decreased $25,000 → $20,000
- Grand Saboteur: now grants all Shinobis, including itself, +10 range and +2 damage to MOAB-class bloons
| “ | The Grand Saboteur is the weakest of the Ninja Monkey’s tier 5 upgrades. We are bringing over a popular balance change from BTD6 in order to improve its usage, although we are limiting it to only Ninjas in the Grand Saboteur’s range rather than a map wide buff to limit its interaction with other, more powerful combos. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
Bug Fixes and General Changes[]
- 1.0.2
- Fixed occasional crash when placing Ninja Monkeys
- Fixed incorrect description on x3x Ninja Monkey
- 1.0.4
- Fixed Ninja Monkey ability being able to slow BADs.
- Fixed Ninja Monkey's sticky bomb incorrectly transferring to MOAB-class children
- Fixed 005 Ninja Monkey Sticky Bomb using the same art as the 004's sticky bomb
Gallery[]
A bunch of ninjas
Ninja Monkey
Ninja Monkey placed down, compared to a standing Ninja Monkey
Ninja Monkeys in various poses
Official artwork[]
Tower portrait
Videos[]
TBA
Trivia[]
- Cheaper camo tower than 0-0-2 Dart since the 1.0.4 update, at $450 as of the time. $400 base cost later on, and still cheaper even after v3.2 buffed Dart (0-0-2 Dart costs $440 as of this update).
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