Slowdown

Slowdown is a status effect characterized as slowing down bloons so that they are moving less than 100% but more than 0% their normal speed. It is part of the damage types family. It was introduced in Bloons TD 4 with the introduction of the Glue Gunner.

Slowdown is represented on the Bloons Wiki as , the upgrade icon for Sticker Glue, as makes the bloons slowdown for longer and emphasize its ability to slowdown bloons as long as possible. There is a blimp slowdown variant called Slowdown MOAB , the upgrade icon for MOAB Glue, because it clearly looks like a MOAB affected by a slowdown. The Slowdown MOAB damage type icon is used as a tag for slowing down MOAB-class bloons. Super Glue has a special variant called Slowdown Stuck because it acts like a stun but isn't a true Stun .

It is a core element of Glue Gunner because they get this status effect by default.

Slowing M.O.A.B-class bloons through upgrades like MOAB Shove and Knockback (the upgrade) does not count since as soon as that attack stops connecting, the blimp will return to normal speed which is unlike slowdown, which will always slow down Blimps regardless if it is being attacked or not. MOAB Shove belongs in Knockback (the damage type). Stunning the bloon is also not an example of slowdown, as that fully prevents a bloon from moving at all and belong in the damage type Stun .

It has subset that is Sabotage , which describes an attack slowing all bloons on the screen.

Also has subset called Permafrost , which describes an attack that permanently slows the top layer of a bloon, but is removed once that layer is popped.