Shooty Turret

“	A permanent, hand-crafted dart shooting turret. [sic]	”
	~ Description of "Shooty Turret" at Level 1-12

“	A permanent, hand-crafted dart shooting turret. [sic] Upgraded! Fires faster and does more damage.	”
	~ Description of "Shooty Turret" at Level 13+

Shooty Turret
General Information
Games	Bloons TD 6
Parent	Geraldo
Clickable	Yes
Deployment Rules	Purchased from Geraldo's shop. 4 In-Stock Max. Deployable anywhere on player's side of map
Expires	When Sold
Targeting Options	First, Last, Close, Strong
Restock Rate	5 rounds
Max Allowed	Unlimited
Cost	$210 (Easy) $250 (Medium) $270 (Hard) $270 (Impoppable)
Special Abilities	None
Native Camo Detection	If Geraldo has Camo Detection
Tower Interactions
Able to Receive Buffs	All but Alchemist buffs can be directly applied. (Needs further testing).
Buffs to other Towers	None
Inherits Parent Buffs	Inherits Jar of Pickles, See Invisibility Potion, and passive buffs. Does not inherit Engineer or Alchemist buffs. Several other interactions also present needing further research.
Redeploy Eligible	No
Door Gunner Eligible	No
Sacrifice Eligible	Not to temple. Unknown if Eligible for Blood Sacrifice.
Provides Advance Intel Range	Yes
Fits on Carrier Flagship	Yes, 5 (perhaps more) can fit on one platform.
Statistics
Range	50
Pierce	10
Damage	2 (Level 1-12) 5 (Level 13+)
Footprint	3
Attack speed	Slow (dart, every 1.5s Level 1-12) Fast (dart, every 0.8s Level 13+)
Damage Types	Sharp Single Projectile Straight Attack Extra Damage
Hotkey	None

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The Shooty Turret is an item available in Geraldo's Shop at Level 1. It is a sub-tower which shoots arrows every 1.5s that deal 2 Damage and have 10 pierce. Turrets purchased after Geraldo reaches Level 13 will shoot arrows every 0.8s with 5 damage and 10 pierce. Geraldo starts off with two Shooty Turrets in stock, and refreshes each one every 4 rounds, up to four Shooty Turrets.

Shooty Turrets have a footprint radius of 3 Range Units, among the smallest non-zero footprints in the game. Shooty Turrets do not expire, and the pop count of each individual Turret counts towards Geraldo's total pop count. They are also classified as Support Towers based on their orange portrait background and eligibility to be placed on the Support Platform on Encrypted.

It costs $210 on Easy, $250 on Medium, $270 on Hard, $300 on Impoppable.

Strategy

Summary

Shooty Turrets are cheap, deployable units that provide an excellent bolster to Geraldo's early game popping power, or, offer a way to cover other lanes/regions of the track. Having a considerable amount of them contribute to Geraldo's total popping power while also consuming minimal footprint. By inheriting Geraldo's buffs, they also wield significant power in the late-game.

Tips

• Shooty Turrets consume a very small footprint, allowing a lot of Shooty Turrets to be placed in a condensed area.
  • Keep in mind however that Shooty Turrets will go out of stock after four purchases at a time, but will regenerate stock slowly over time.
• They have a high damage cap for a tower of its cost which makes it a tower to contend with other early-game towers.
• Existing Level 1 Shooty Turrets don't upgrade automatically when Geraldo upgrades to Level 13. It may help to avoid buying Shooty Turrets at one level before Geraldo reaches Level 13; this helps stock more of these empowered turrets.
• Shooty Turret can be affected by the Monkey Knowledge Point "Weak Point", giving each turret +1 Ceramic and +1 Fortified damage.
• Level 13+ Shooty Turrets are very cheap for their cost of DPS, allowing large quantities of Shooty Turrets to reliably chip extra damage to bloons and blimps, which is helpful for late-game CHIMPS rounds where most towers have little space. An example of a map where Shooty Turrets work well at is Dark Dungeons' left-hand room.
• Large quantities of Shooty Turrets scattered around the map can act as cheap ranged intel for Advanced Intel, and if Geraldo has the See Invisibility Potion, he and his Shooty Turrets will become cheap camo intel too.

Bugs

• Shooty Turrets that are rotated (either via Sanctuary or Geared) show an additional, rotated base when the platform is not in the position it was in when the Shooty Turret was placed.
• Placing down 3 or more Shooty Turrets will earn the achievement Collaborate! without needing Co-op.

Version History

Balance Changes

31.0

• Released

31.1

• [bug fix] Shooty Turret now correctly use Impoppable prices on Impoppable.

38.0

• Shooty Turret no longer takes one more round to refresh stock if bought from full stock

43.0

“	Geraldo has been far too powerful for a while and all-round nerfs are coming to many outstanding aspects, however in return a little quality of life is coming with some more forgiving stock capacities and [...]	”
	~ Ninja Kiwi

• Level 13+ Shooty Turret (Variant 2) damage reduced from 7 to 6

44.0

“	Geraldo has pushed the heroes up into a whole new level of power, and tales are being sung of his ability to dodge nerfs blindfolded, but we are cracking down on some of his interactions with a little bit of QoL consistency being added back in the case of creepy idol.	”
	~ Ninja Kiwi

• Level 13+ Shooty Turret (Variant 2) damage reduced from 6 to 5

Bug Fixes and General Changes

31.1

• All Geraldo items now correctly use Impoppable prices on Impoppable.

34.0

• Shooty Turrets are now considered Heroes instead of Support.

Sounds

Placing a Shooty Turret:

• [Gadget placement]
• [Gadget placement]

Gallery

Turret not fitting within a gap that an Adasaurus can

2 damage to Whites from default Shooty Turrets

7 damage to Rainbows from upgraded Shooty Turrets (pre-43.0)

6 damage to Rainbows from upgraded Shooty Turrets since v43.0

Trivia

• Shooty Turrets are the cheapest permanent units in BTD6 to deal 2 damage.
  • In Bloons Adventure Time TD, Pirate Crew is even cheaper, at $200, even if accounting the Easy price of Shooty Turret.