Spikey Shots

General Information

Cost

8,500

170,000

Popology

Damage Type(s)

Spike Balls:

Sharp (Mobile)
Shatter (Flash)
Angular Shot
Extra Damage (Flash)
Extra Damage to Ceramics
Small Darts:
Sharp (Mobile)
Shatter (Flash)
Orbital Spray x4
Burst

Statistics

Damage

1 (Mobile), 2 (Flash)(spike balls)
2 (Mobile), 4 (Flash)(spike ball vs ceramics)
1 (small darts)

Pierce

20 (spike balls)
3 (small darts)

Attack Cooldown

0.03s (Mobile), 0.033s (Flash)

Size

15 (Mobile), 20 (Flash)(spike balls)
6 (Mobile), 5(Flash)(small darts)

Projectile Speed

20 (spike balls)
26 (small darts)

Projectile Lifespan

1.07s(Mobile)
1.067s(Flash) (spike balls)
0.07s(Mobile)
0.067s(Flash) (small darts)

Subsequent Upgrades

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Spikey Shots

Dart Ace

[Source]

“	All shots become spiked balls - bigger, more popping power and double damage to Ceramics	”
	^{~ BSM2 Flash Description.}

Spikey Shots is the sixth dart arm upgrade in Bloons Super Monkey 2. This upgrade replaces the stream of three darts for a single spiked ball, which are fired over three times as fast, have 20 pierce instead of three, double damage to ceramics, an increased hitbox, and four flechettes instead of two. They can't pop Lead Bloons but are an excellent all rounder weapon, especially in Flash due to the spiked balls dealing 2 damage base instead of 1.

It costs 8,500 on Flash and 170,000 on Mobile.

Full Popology[]

Statistics (Flash)[]

Spike Ball:

Projectile, Shatter type, Dart Weapon Type, 1j, 20r size, 20 projectile speed, 1.067s lifespan, 0.033s attack cooldown, 2d, +2 ceramic damage, 20p.
Projectiles fired from an angle of 2.864788976 degrees outward from the Supermonkey
On first hit, spawn Split Dart

Split Dart:

Projectile, Shatter type, Dart Type, 4j/360°, 5r size, 26 projectile speed, 0.067s lifespan, 1d, 3p.

Damage Types (Flash)[]

Spike Ball

Shatter
Angular Attack
Extra Damage
Extra Damage to Ceramics

Split Dart:

Shatter
Orbital Spray x4
Burst

Statistics (Mobile)[]

Spike Ball:

Projectile, Sharp type, Dart Weapon Type, 1j, 15r size, 20 projectile speed, 1.07s lifespan, 0.03s attack cooldown, 1d, +1 ceramic damage, 20p.
Projectiles fired from an angle of 2.864788976° outward from the Supermonkey
On first hit, spawn Small Dart

Small Dart:

Projectile, Sharp type, Dart Type, 4j/360°, 6r size, 26 projectile speed, 0.07s lifespan, 1d, 3p.

Damage Types (Mobile)[]

Spike Ball

Sharp
Angular Attack
Extra Damage to Ceramics

Small Darts:

Sharp
Orbital Spray x4
Burst

Strategy[]

Spikey Shots is a very powerful generalist weapon due to its fast attack speed, single target damage, and high pierce. Spikey Shots on both arms, and Solid Doom as the core power, is great for destroying all types of bloons in the flash version and is widely considered the meta loadout.

In the mobile version, Spikey Shots is still good, but is no longer the meta option, because of the greatly increased health MOABs have and its halved damage for the spiked ball. This is because weapons such as Bloon Busters scale much better with powerups than Spikey Shots.