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For the Mortar Tower upgrade, see Rapid Reload.
For the Dartling Gun upgrade, see Faster Barrel Spin.
Shoots faster than normal.
~ In-game description

Rapid Fire is the first upgrade of Path 1 for the Monkey Ace in Bloons TD 6. It increases attack speed of all attacks by 33%. Volleys of 8 darts are shot every 1.26s instead of 1.68s.

This upgrade costs $550 on Easy, $650 on Medium, $700 on Hard, and $780 on Impoppable. If this tower is nearby Level 6+ Rosalia's workshop, this upgrade costs $495 on Easy, $585 on Medium, $630 on Hard, and $700 on Impoppable.

Description[]

Overview[]

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Rapid Fire

Monkey Ace's exterior gains two additional red lines on the middle of the upper biplane wing. This also applies to relevant crosspaths with the Monkey Ace.

With Rapid Fire, attack speed increases for Monkey Ace, by +33% for every weapon. Dart volleys are deployed every 1.26s instead of 1.68s, and dropped bombs every 1.2s instead of 1.6s.

Targeting Priorities[]

Like all Monkey Aces, Rapid Fire uses flight patterns as its targeting priority settings.

  • 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.
  • 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.

Rapid Fire can also receive the Centered Path targeting option when given the 1-0-2 crosspath.

Full Popology[]

Statistics[]

Updated as of Version 44.0
Base stats
  • Landing Base has a rectangular footprint of 28x18. "Dummy range" of 22. Upon placement, spawn Monkey Ace as the main tower.
  • Monkey Ace moves in a fixed pathway around its base, flying above all obstacles. Creates Dart projectiles from centre of Monkey Ace.
    • Circle: circular loop of 80 radius, center is the runway
    • Figure-Eight: figure-eight loop of (40, 40) radii, center is the runway
    • Figure-Infinite: figure-infinite loop of (40, 40) radii, center is the runway
  • Dart:
    • Projectile, sharp type, spray of 8, 1.26s attack cooldown, 1 damage, 5 pierce. Projectile lifespan of 300.
Crosspathing interactions
  • 1-1-0: Attack cooldown of Pineapple reduced from 1.6s to 1.2s
  • 1-3-0: Attack cooldown of Bomb Array reduced from 1.6s to 1.2s
  • 1-0-4: Barrage attack cooldown (alternates between Dart and Shell) reduced from 0.06s to 0.045s. Homing Dart attack cooldown reduced from 1.68s to 1.26s.
  • 1-0-5: Barrage attack cooldown (alternates between Dart and Shell) reduced from 0.04s to 0.03s. Homing Dart attack cooldown reduced from 1.68s to 1.26s.
Monkey Knowledge interactions
  • EliteMilitaryTrainingIcon Elite Military Training: All Military Monkeys get a one-off +1000 XP and earn XP in-game 5% faster permanently.
  • AcceleratedAerodartsIcon Accelerated Aerodarts: Darts from Monkey Aces fly 50% faster.
  • GunCoolantIcon Gun Coolant: Monkey Aces attack 10% faster.
  • WingmonkeyIcon 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.
  • MilitaryConscriptionIcon 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.
  • AdvancedLogisticsIcon 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.
  • MonkeyEducationIcon Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
  • BetterSellDealsIcon Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more. Increases sell potency from 70% to 75%.
  • VeteranMonkeyTrainingIcon Veteran Monkey Training: All Monkeys reload time reduced by 3%.

Attack Interactions[]

See also: Attack Interactions/Bloons TD 6/Military
Updated as of Version 42.0
Base attack(s)
  • Dart:
    • Sharp Type (pops Black, White, Purple) Sharp
    • Orbital Spray (8) Orbital Spray (8)
    • Straight Attack Straight Attack
    • Path-Based Mobility (The location at where the projectiles will spawn depend on where the Monkey Ace was when the attack was made Path-Based Mobility
    • Flying Flying

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 (1-X-X) $550 $650 $700 $780 -
Total (1-0-0) $1,230 $1,450 $1,565 $1,740 $861 $1,015 $1,096 $1,218
Crosspath (1-1-0) $1,400 $1,650 $1,780 $1,980 $980 $1,155 $1,246 $1,386
Crosspath (1-2-0) $1,695 $2,000 $2,160 $2,400 $1,187 $1,400 $1,512 $1,680
Crosspath (1-0-1) $1,655 $1,950 $2,105 $2,340 $1,159 $1,365 $1,474 $1,638
Crosspath (1-0-2) $2,120 $2,500 $2,700 $3,000 $1,484 $1,750 $1,890 $2,100

This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: MilitaryConscriptionIcon Military Conscription, AdvancedLogisticsIcon Advanced Logistics, BetterSellDealsIcon Better Sell Deals

Strategy[]

Summary[]

The Rapid Fire upgrade increases attack speed for the Monkey Ace, allowing them to attack more often. Although the timing at which the Ace may deploy weapons may seem like it is disrupted, strictly speaking an attack speed increase is actually overall better for the Monkey Ace, because adding more attack speed will increase the consistency of its attacks too. Therefore, more weapons can be deployed per second, increasing damage potential of the Monkey Ace.

Tips[]

Version History[]

Balance Changes[]

Rapid Fire's base attack speed bonus has been reduced, but overall attack speed with this upgrade is exactly the same. Therefore, it was not nerfed overall, but rather buffed overall because of another buff inherited into the base Monkey Ace.

23.0
  • Change Rapid Fire attack rate buff decreased (0.6x → 0.75x) but base attack speed remains the same.
    • This change did not affect Spectres or Flying Fortresses, which already had the same attack speed benefit from 1-x-x crosspath.
  • BUFF Monkey Ace dart projectile size increased (2 → 3).
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. [...]
~ Ninja Kiwi, referring to Reverse Flight
  • BUFF Monkey Ace can now toggle flight direction for any pattern.
41.0
[...] 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. [...]
~ Ninja Kiwi
  • NERF Rapid Fire speed bonus on dropped bombs decreased (0.6x → 0.75x). Overall attack speed with this crosspath reduced.

Bug Fixes and General Changes[]

Extra Notes (Version History)[]

  • Version 44.0 buffed Rosalia's Level 6+ discount from 5% to 10%, which changed the prices of Rapid Fire when buffed by her:
    • Easy: $525 → $495
    • Medium: $615 → $585
    • Hard: $665 → $630
    • Impoppable: $740 → $700

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Trivia[]

  • Despite being the 3rd upgrade in BTD4, it became the first upgrade in each path in BTD5 and BTD6.
  • Prior to Version 23.0, there was a special case for Spectre and Flying Fortress that increased their attack speeds by only +33% instead of +66% for all other upgrades. This has since changed to a plain +33% for all dart attacks since then, and later a uniform +33% on every type of attack including dropped bombs.
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