Shimmer

BTD6

BTDB2

Shimmer

General Information

Game

Bloons TD 6

Tower

Wizard Monkey

Unlocked at

2,200 XP

Cost

$1,275 (Easy)
$1,500 (Medium)
$1,620 (Hard)
$1,800 (Impoppable)

Activated Ability

N/A

Targeting Options

First, Last, Close, Strong,
Camo Priority
If purchased, Wall of Fire will default to Close.

Camo Detection

Yes (can decamo)

Popology

Damage Type(s)

Energy

Camo affected

Single Projectile

Straight Attack

Other(s)

Shimmer:

Normal

Camo affected

Area of Effect

Decamo

Statistics

Damage

1 (bolt, e.a.u.)

Pierce

8 (bolt)
500 (Shimmer)

Attack Speed

Moderate (every 1.1s, bolt)
Slow (every 2.5s, shimmer)

Range

60 (bolt)
80 (shimmer)

Status Effects

Decamo (shimmer)

Tower Boosts

N/A

Income/Life Boosts

N/A

Path Upgrades

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Current

Next →

Monkey Sense

Shimmer

Necromancer: Unpopped Army

Path Info

Path

Upgrade Tier

3

Related upgrades

Submerge and Support (BTD6) (Monkey Sub)

[Source]

“	Gains a dark magic attack that periodically reveals location of all nearby Camo bloons permanently.	”
	^{~ In-game description}

Shimmer is the third upgrade of Path 3 for the Wizard Monkey in Bloons TD 6. In addition to increasing its range from 50 to 60, the Wizard also gains a shimmer attack that produces a blast radius of 25% larger than base range (75 by default), occurring every 2s that strip Camo Bloon properties (including DDTs and Reality Warper Phayze), and triggering if Camos reach direct range of the Wizard. Each blast of Shimmer reveals up to 500 Camo Bloons at once, but like Cleansing Foam, the shimmer pierce can be consumed by non-camo bloons too.

This upgrade costs $1,275 on Easy, $1,500 on Medium, $1,620 on Hard, and $1,800 on Impoppable.

Description[]

Overview[]

Shimmer off camo pinks — Shimmer decamoing many Camo Pinks

A Wizard Monkey with Shimmer takes on the appearance of a dark magic wizard, its dark villainous appearance expressed through the gloomier clothing, crossed eyebrows, and emerald irises. The monkey loses its wizard hat and spectacles, and replacing its old hat and cloak with a black hooded cloak. On the hood of the cloak is an adornment of purple celestial patterns, and thick purple seams are present on the edges of the hood, the latter being somewhat similar to that seen on the Prince of Darkness. Hanging below the collar of the cloak are two black hoodie ribbons, tipped with purple on the edges. On the monkey's left hand, it holds a dark magic wizard staff, which is a wooden stick with a black orb at the end, the orb embedded with dark purple markings that resemble the cracks of volcanic rock.

On the upgrade portrait, the Shimmer is striking its glowing dark magic wand towards the monkey's left side, with a serious expression.

Taking on the dark arts of magic further, the Wizard gains even more range and learns the epoynymous shimmer spell. Shimmer removes camo properties from bloons that get affected. It's quite slow, but covers a very large radius.

Targeting Priorities[]

Shimmer standard attack targets bloons using the standard targeting priorities. It shoots straight movement projectiles.

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.

Shimmer decamo bloons blast in a zone-like style, in regards to determining pierce consumption. Technically, is locked on the Close targeting priority.

Shimmer can access Camo Prioritization, allowing all its attacks to prioritize Camo Bloons over other types when this secondary targeting option is active.

Full Popology[]

Statistics[]

Updated as of Version 44.2

Base stats

Bolt:
- Projectile, energy type, camo detection, 60 range, 1.1s attack cooldown, 1 damage, 8 pierce. Projectile size of 4, projectile speed of 400, projectile lifespan of 0.4s.
Shimmer:
- Zone, normal type, camo detection, 60 range, 1.25x radius (75), 2s attack cooldown, 0 damage, 500 pierce, decamos all affected bloons. Lifespan of 0.05s.

Crosspathing interactions

1-0-3: Bolt and Shimmer ignore Line of Sight. Bolt projectile lifespan increased from 0.4s to 0.8s and has weakish homing.
2-0-3: Bolt damage increased from 1 to 2 and gains increased projectile size.
0-1-3: Gains an improved Fireball attack.
- Fireball: Projectile, fire type, 60 range, 2.2s attack cooldown. Upon collision, produce Fireball Explosion.
- Fireball Explosion: Burst, explosion type, 10 blast radius, 1 damage, 20 pierce.
0-2-3: Gains an improved Wall of Fire attack.
- Wall of Fire: Spawn, fire type, 60 range, 15 radius, 1 damage, 15 pierce, 0.15s rehit cooldown, 0.15s pierce refresh, 6.5s attack cooldown. Lasts for 4.5s. Locked on Close targeting.

Monkey Knowledge interactions

Lingering Magic: Projectiles fired from all Wizard Monkey have longer lifespan.
- Bolt without 1-x-x lasts 20% longer, from 0.4 seconds to 0.48 seconds.
Magic Tricks: Guided Magic and Intense Magic cost 25 less.
- Intense Magic cost reduced from $255, $300, $325, $360 to $230, $275, $300, $335 on each difficulty.
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%.

Attack Interactions[]

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See also: Attack Interactions/Bloons TD 6/Magic

Updated as of Version 34.3

Base attack(s)

Bolt:
- Energy
- Camo Detection
- Single Projectile
- Straight Attack
Shimmer:
- Normal
- Camo affected
- Area of Effect
- Decamo

Costs[]

Updated as of Version 50.0. Listed prices exclude external buffs, any sacrifices, and Monkey Knowledge.

[Module \| Data]	Purchase				Sell
Costs	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
Upgrade (X-X-3)	$1,275	$1,500	$1,620	$1,800	-
Total (0-0-3)	$1,995	$2,350	$2,540	$2,820	$1,397	$1,645	$1,778	$1,974
Crosspath (1-0-3)	$2,145	$2,525	$2,730	$3,030	$1,502	$1,768	$1,911	$2,121
Crosspath (2-0-3)	$2,525	$2,975	$3,215	$3,570	$1,768	$2,083	$2,251	$2,499
Crosspath (0-1-3)	$2,250	$2,650	$2,865	$3,180	$1,575	$1,855	$2,006	$2,226
Crosspath (0-2-3)	$2,930	$3,450	$3,730	$4,140	$2,051	$2,415	$2,611	$2,898

This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: Magic Tricks, Better Sell Deals

Strategy[]

Summary[]

While Shimmer serves as fairly reliable decamo when placed on curves, it is more expensive than Submerge and Support and more restrictive than Radar Scanner. Shimmer is generally used when there is a lack of water for Submerge and Support and space for Radar Scanner village, such as decamoing the top path on Infernal. The incredibly high decamo pierce also reduces its struggle on Race Events and Time Attack.

Tips[]

The best placement of Shimmer is to place it around a corner or curve somewhat near the start of the track.
Shimmer can also be used to remove camo from Camo Leads without popping them themselves unless Path 2 upgrades are bought. Interestingly, this can be used together with a Lead to Gold Alchemist so that it maximizes income generation.
Note that Shimmer has a delay on the shimmer attack, which is notable when decamoing Camo Pinks. To alleviate this issue, it is best to still have some towers that can cleanup some camo, for example using the Wall of Fire crosspath, or low tier Ninja Monkey or Spike Factory.
Archmages have intrinsic Shimmer. However, the Shimmer upgrade is much cheaper.
1-0-3 Shimmer can activate over walls, despite not doing so in earlier versions. Upgrading along Path 2 for the Wall of Fire upgrade provides an additional powerful attack but does not improve Shimmer.
Be careful when using Shimmer in combination with towers that do bonus damage to camo bloons, such as x-2-x Monkey Ace, x-1-x Sniper Monkey, or level 19 See Invisibility Potion, as removing the camo property will cause them to lose the bonus damage as well. This can be especially important late game when trying to pop DDTs and their fortified variants.

Achievements[]

10K	I see you FIRST RELEASED: Version 12.0
	Description: Reveal 10,000 Camo Bloons using Shimmer
	Rewards: x3

Version History[]

Balance Changes[]

Overall, Shimmer was buffed, but only by a small amount. It still remains an effective decamo option on maps without water.

A significant rework in Version 39.0 has allowed Shimmer to now rely on base range to trigger the decamo blast but cover a wider range. Version 43.0 followed up with a major pierce buff to justify the slow firing rate, making it more suitable as a decamo for Races when compared to similar options like Decamo Sub.

20.0

“	Second and third path upgrades get some fine tuning for more internal consistency. We want to make slow tweaks here to bring them into better balance	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Shimmer cost decreased ($1,800 → $1,700).

21.0

Main bolt has more pierce (7 → 8, inherited from the base Wizard pierce buff).

25.0 (Possibly? 27.3 discovered)

[Undocumented] 1-0-3 Shimmer now activates over walls

28.0

“	[...] we have added a brand new Camo Prioritization option that is added to the towers when taking this crosspath.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Affected by Monkey Sense providing Camo Prioritization

30.0

“	[...] Wizard Prince of Darkness is annoying to position correctly due to the sudden massive radius increase & it also needs a power nerf. So overall here we are moving all of the range increase down into a lower amount at the T3 so that range positioning is known before buying any necromancer upgrades, as well as moving some of the lifespan of the zombies themselves into the lesser used 1xx lifespan crosspath.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi, referring to Prince of Darkness}

Shimmer range increased (40 → 60)

33.0

“	[...] Shimmer is prone to missing a lot of camo Bloons due to the low attack rate, we do want it to be slower than other decamos to account for the larger radius and better T5 so we are making the radius benefit more noticable and lowering price	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Shimmer radius increased from 70 to 80
Shimmer cost decreased from $1700 to $1500

39.0

“	[...] Shimmer’s range/radius values are being adjusted to match the attack trigger area to the tower’s range but with a far larger radius on the actual effect once it is triggered, this reduces inconsistency where Shimmer would often hit only first camo target to enter radius then be stuck on long cooldown. [...]	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Shimmer decamo pulse range now matches tower range, detection range decreased (80 → 60)
Shimmer decamo pulse radius set to 25% more than tower range, radius increased (70 → 75)

43.0

“	[...] As Shimmer is the slowest de-camo in the game it is important that it not miss when it does trigger, so pierce is greatly increased. [...]	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Shimmer decamo pierce increased from 200 to 500. Also affects Archmage's Shimmer decamo.

47.0

“	[...] Shimmer struggles as a de-camo option due to the low consistency, so the attack rate is being improved.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

Shimmer's shimmer attack cooldown decreased from 2.5s to 2s

Bug Fixes and General Changes[]

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24.0

Description changed from "Dark magic reveals location of all nearby Camo Bloons permanently." to "Gains a dark magic attack that periodically reveals the location of all nearby Camo bloons permanently."

Extra Notes (Version History)[]

Gallery[]

Official artwork[]

Videos[]

Shimmer with Guided Magic is weird

Trivia[]

Before the Version 3.0 update, Shimmer did not have a full stop at the end of its description in BTD6, being the only instance of this occurrence.
Previously, Shimmer attack did not see over walls, even with the Guided Magic crosspath.
- This was fixed as of presumably Version 25.0, which had a massive damage types rework for many upgrades in the game, although discovered in 27.3.
Shimmer is the least implemented aspect for the Magus Perfectus, the Wizard Monkey Paragon. However, the Shimmer is sort of replicated in the form of the Phoenix Explosion ability causing a purple infernal area-of-effect.