- For the upgrade for the Monkey Engineer, see Sentry Gun (BTD5) and Sentry Gun (BTD6).
- For the Master Builder's Mega Sentries, see Mega Sentry.
The Sentry is a sub-tower in Bloons Monkey City, Bloons Monkey City Mobile, Bloons TD 5 Mobile, Bloons TD 5 Deluxe, Bloons TD 5 Steam, and Bloons TD Battles Mobile, and Bloons TD 6. It is spawned by an Engineer Monkey (or Monkey Engineer) with the Sentry Gun upgrade or above.
Bloons Monkey City[]
The Sentry is a sub-tower spawned from a Monkey Engineer with at least the Sentry Gun upgrade. They will spawn every 10 seconds, and last 25 seconds before disappearing. With the Fast Engineering upgrade, the spawn time is reduced to 6 seconds Additionally, in BMC and its mobile counterpart, they suffer a bug where it is missing a line of code, "OnlyTargetPlacementLocations": true
, so Sentries can be deployed anywhere, including on water.
Upgrades[]
The Sentry has no visible upgrades. However, it internally has one upgrade, that being Sprockets. The Sprockets upgrade increases the firerate of the Sentry by 27%. All other upgrades have no function, though the Sentry's upgrades will match the upgrades of its parent Engineer.
Bloons TD 6[]
The Sentry is a tower spawned from an Engineer Monkey with the upgrades Sentry Gun, Faster Engineering, or Sprockets. Production rate increases with the second option, and +66% attack speed for the third. Most of the Engineer's upgrades will not pass on their upgrades to their respective sentries, but any external buffs onto the Engineer will buff the production speed of all sentries. Different from early game, not only engineer, sentry also can applies any various crosspath upgrade such as Oversize Nails or Cleansing Foam.
Upgrading further to Sentry Expert or Sentry Champion will spawn different types of sentries. Both of these upgrades will produce sentries with attacks that are far distinct from the standard green variants.
Variations[]
BTD5[]
SentryTier4[]
Also called "Super Sentry", all sentries will become SentryTier4s when Engineer's Workshop is upgraded to Tier 4. These sentries spawn every 20 seconds and last 37.5 seconds. These sentries also shoot twice as fast.
BTD6[]
Crushing Sentry[]
This is the first of the four Sentry variants that the Engineer can spawn after receiving the Sentry Expert upgrade. It's a red Sentry with a green stripe, and shoots spiky balls which have high popping power and high efficiency deal Ceramic Bloons. They cannot, however, damage Leads or DDTs without Lead-popping support.
Boom Sentry[]
The second of the four Sentry variants spawned from Sentry Expert. It is a black Sentry with a green stripe, and shoots black bombs. Due to their projectiles, Boom Sentries cannot pop Blacks, Zebras, or DDTs without support.
Cold Sentry[]
The third of the four Sentry variants spawned from Sentry Expert. It is colored light blue with a green stripe, and is able to shoot snowballs that freeze Bloons. Much like the Ice Monkey, it cannot freeze White or Zebra Bloons without the help of a Monkey Intelligence Bureau. It also cannot freeze Frozen bloons or Leads either without an M.I.B.'s support.
Energy Sentry[]
The final of the four Sentry variants that comes with the Sentry Expert upgrade. This one is a yellow Sentry with a green stripe that shoots laser blasts and has a high attack speed, but the lowest pierce among the specialized sentries. It also deal extra damage to MOAB-class Bloons. As a laser-shooting tower, it cannot pop Lead and Purple Bloons without popping support.
Champion Sentry[]
This type of Sentry is spawned by Engineers with the Sentry Champion upgrade. It is a purple Sentry that is very powerful but also unstable; it shoots plasma at Bloons and also delay briefly of time to cause explodes (causing up to 100 damage to up to 50 bloons) instead of just disappearing once its lifetime expires. Its weakness are only Purple Bloons and Camo Bloons.
Green Mega Sentry[]
This is the first kind of Sentry spawned by Master Builders. As its name suggests, it is primarily green and has purple accents. It fires a purple laser beam that follows the player's cursor/touch, much like a Plasma Accelerator. Unlike the Plasma Accelerator, the Mega Sentry's beam will always follow the player. It naturally has the ability to pop Camo Bloons.
Red Mega Sentry[]
This is the second kind of Sentry spawned by Master Builders. It is primarily red and has yellow accents. Its attack consists of quickly firing plasma projectiles, similar to a Sun Avatar or an Anti-Bloon. Like the Green Sentry, it has the ability to pop Camos.
Blue Mega Sentry[]
The final kind of Mega Sentry spawned by Master Builders. It is blue with orange accents. It fires missiles that deal more damage to blimps, similar to a M.A.D. Like the previous Mega Sentries, it can detect Camo Bloons.
Modified Paragon Sentries[]
These Sentries are created by the Mega Sentries. They are purple with green batteries sticking from their tops. Modified Paragon Sentries act nearly identical to Champion Sentries, but with camo detection.
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Trivia[]
- In the BTD5 generation, sentries consume around the same footprint as a Dart Monkey. The only exception is Bloons TD Battles Mobile, where sentries no longer consume footprint as of Version 6.9, following similar rules compared to Bloons TD 6.
- In the BTD5 generation, sentries can spawn anywhere in the Engineer Monkey's range. This includes the track which Bloons go down and Water.
- In BTD6, a Sentry from a 1-0-0 Engineer with no MK is almost equivalent to a 0-0-0 Dart Monkey, with the only difference being that Sentries have more range.
- Like all Path 1 upgrades, except Sentry Champion (cannot be picked up as Door Gunner), picking up any type of Engineer (such as one from a Sentry Expert) with a Special Poperations with the Door Gunner MK will cause the Engineer's spawn of Sentries to spawn around the Engineer's original range prior to picking up. This is likely a bug, but the Engineer will correctly place sentries around his new range radius once re-deployed back to a new location.
- Since Version 16.0, a visual change was made to all Sentry Guns in BTD6 whereby the tripods rotate with the sentries' own bodies instead of only rotating their own bodies.
- Boom Sentry has the largest barrel compared to its body out of all sentries in the entire franchise.
- According to Ninja Kiwi's 10th March 2023 blog, sentry construction is only permitted by individuals with a special sentry license, of which only Engineers have.
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