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| “ | Throws hundreds of darts at hypersonic speeds with a huge attack range. | ” |
| ~ In-game description |
The Super Monkey is a Magic-class tower. It throws one dart every 0.045 seconds that deals 1 damage per hit. It is specifically built for incredible DPS, primarily suitable for a late-game defense.
The Super Monkey is the fastest attacking base tower in the game, throwing at approximately 22.22 darts per second (equivalent to 0.045s cooldown per shot) each with 1 pierce and 1 damage. The Super Monkey actually has a medium-sized footprint in this game, equal to that of a Boomerang Monkey, Wizard Monkey, or Engineer Monkey; this allows large quantities of Super Monkeys to tightly fit around defensive locations, shutting down rushes with ease. Being the most expensive base tower in the game, the Super Monkey is considered one of the strongest 0-0-0 towers.
The base price for Super Monkey is $2000. It is unlocked by spending 
750, unlocking all upgrades up to Tier 4, plus another 1,500 to unlock all its Tier 5 upgrades.
Description[]
The Super Monkey in Bloons TD 6 (and by extension, Bloons TD Battles 2) has a similar appearance to the Super Monkey in Bloons Super Monkey 2 Mobile. The "B" logo on its chest from earlier generation games has been replaced with a dart symbol instead. Compared to Bloons TD 6, not much has changed about the Super Monkey; it's still a good DPS tower with a high price.
Each path of the Super Monkey has the tower follow a different evolution from third-tier upgrades beyond.
The first path is a heavenly one, turning the Super Monkey into an Avatar of the Sun God.
The second path transforms the Super Monkey through experimental cybernetics and weaponry.
The new third path makes the Super Monkey a traditional anti-hero inspired by the Dark Knight iteration of Batman, contrasting with the original Super Monkey's Superman.'
Upgrades[]
Path 1[]
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Laser Blasts COST: $1,400 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Shoots powerful blasts of laser instead of darts
Effect: Gains +1 pierce and pops Frozen Bloons. Cannot pop Purples or Leads. | ||
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Plasma Blasts COST: $2,500 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Super fast plasma melts through lead bloons.
Effect: Gains another +1 pierce, increase attack speed by +50%, and pops Lead Bloons. Cannot pop Purples. | ||
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Sun Avatar COST: $11,500 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Channels power from the core of the Sun.
Effect: Shoots three waves of sunbeams per shot. Each sunbeam pops up to 8 bloons. | ||
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Sun Temple COST: $80,000 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Tower sacrifices enhance and modify the Temple's attacks.
Effect: Sacrifices all towers within range and absorbs their power into its own special attacks based on both tower categorization and sacrifice values. | ||
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True Sun God COST: $200,000 UNLOCK: 1,500 (Super T5 Unlocks) | |
| Description: Tremble before the AWESOME power of the TRUE Sun God!!
Effect: Sacrifices all towers within range once again, again absorbing their power into its own special attacks based on both tower categorization and sacrifice values. | ||
Path 2[]
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Super Range COST: $1000 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Super Monkeys need Super Range.
Effect: Gains +10 range and +1 pierce. | ||
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Epic Range COST: $1000 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Why settle for super when you can have EPIC?
Effect: Gains a further +12 range and another +2 pierce, plus +25% projectile speed. | ||
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Robo Monkey COST: $10,000 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Half Super Monkey, half killer robot of death. Shoots from 2 guns at once!
Effect: Gains +3 pierce and shoots from both arms at once. Arms have independent targeting and cannot both have the same target priorities. Crits every 15 shots, dealing 10 damage. | ||
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Tech Terror COST: $20,000 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Annihilation ability: Destroys most Bloons completely and utterly within blast radius.
Effect: Base attack becomes dual plasma cannons that each shoot green plasma, for much more pierce and +25% attack speed (x0.8 attack cooldown) per plasma ball. Ability instantly deals 2500 damage to up to 2000 bloons within the blast range. | ||
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The Anti-Bloon COST: $90,000 UNLOCK: 1,500 (Super T5 Unlocks) | |
| Description: <Program Directive> <Eradicate Bloons> <INITIATE>
Effect: Ability instantly deals 5000 damage to up to 10,000 bloons within the blast range. Main attack becomes much stronger, gaining +4 damage, +3 pierce, pops any bloon type, and the Super Monkey gains +10 range. | ||
Path 3[]
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Knockback COST: $3,000 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Bloons get pushed backwards or slowed after each hit.
Effect: Bloons affected are pushed backwards by 30% speed, Leads and Ceramics slowed by 60%, and MOAB-class slowed by 30%. | ||
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Ultravision COST: $1,200 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Enables Super Monkey to shoot slightly further and to see Camo Bloons.
Effect: +3 range and gains camo detection. | ||
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Dark Knight COST: $4,500 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Dark blades increase knockback and pierce and deal extra damage to MOAB class bloons. Gains Darkshift ability to shift to a nearby location.
Effect: Gains +2 MOAB-class damage, pushes back affected Leads and Ceramics by 100% speed, and gains +4 pierce. Can teleport onto any valid land location within range with a new ability. | ||
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Dark Champion COST: $27,000 UNLOCK: Unlock Super Monkey | |
| Description: Champion dark blades excel at puncturing and ruining all Bloon types. Darkshift ability extends mapwide.
Effect: Gains +1 damage to all bloons, another +1 damage to MOAB-class, doubles attack speed, gains another +2 pierce, and pops any bloon type. Ability now allows it to teleport to any valid land location on screen. | ||
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Legend of the Night COST: $100,000 UNLOCK: 1,500 (Super T5 Unlocks) | |
| Description: We turn to him, when all hope is lost...
Effect: If bloons reach the exit, a black hole is summoned on all exits, deleting any bloons passing through them. Black holes last for up to 4s, and can absorb up to one BAD before immediately closing off. Main attack gains even more damage and pierce. | ||
Total Costs[]
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Strategy[]
Summary[]
The Super Monkey is a magic monkey in Bloons TD Battles 2 that is great for DPS, but it is expensive and subpar for early-midgame defense. Usually, it is oriented for its incredible late-game defense. That being said, its early-game and mid-game isn’t terrible when given additional support, particularly with various synergies from normal Adora.
Tips[]
- Monkey Village is a good pair with Super to accompany its incredible DPS potential if oriented for late-game.
- Adora increases Super Monkey's pierce and range as early on as level 2, and increases Sun Avatar Damage and the True Sun God in the late game, making her very effective in Super Monkey strategies.
Further Strategies[]
Monkey Mastery[]
Monkey Mastery is unlocked once all of its upgrades are unlocked. Monkey Mastery gives customization which is purchased using XP and Monkey Money. Has a total of 9 customizations available.
| Item | Type | Description | Cost | Notes |
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 Superhero Landing |
 Placement Animation |
Ready for action! | 600 75,000
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TBA |
Monkey Signal |
 Emote |
The hero we deserve, notthe hero we need. | 16020,000
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TBA |
Sun God Decal |
 Bloon Decal |
Bloon Worshipers. | 20030,000
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TBA |
Sonic Boom |
 Trail Effect |
Darts faster than the speed of sound. | 30040,000
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TBA |
Secret Identity |
 Avatar Icon |
Where's the nearest phone box? | 30040,000
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TBA |
Loop The Loop |
 Idle Animation |
Showing off. | 45060,000
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TBA |
 Named Super Monkeys |
 Custom Names |
Name your Super Monkeys! | 30040,000
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Default name is Clark. |
Up Up And Away |
 Sell Animation |
Off to save the day. | 24030,000
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TBA |
Hero Pose |
Idle Animation
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Show off those guns. | 45060,000
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TBA |
Version History[]
Balance Changes[]
Just like its Battles 1 counterpart, the Super Monkey is rarely used in most games due to its sheer cost and inability to be used in early game and midgame (Most notably round 13) rushes. Despite its Dark Night and Tech Terror upgrade excelling at ZOMGs and DDTs, its BAD damage is considered to be a bit too inefficient to be effective. Instead, it is often reserved for special events like Play with Fire due to money being much more available and easy to stockpile. Currently, the only common loadout used in normal games with Super Monkey is Super-Dartling-Farm/Village, which is often paired with DJ Benjammin to help Dartling against mid-game rushes. It is also meta on Thin Ice, with the strategy Engi-Farm-Super with Churchill.
- Initial release (compared to BTD6 Version 28.0)
Footprint size decreased 11 → 8- Sun Avatar Price reduced $22k → 19k
- Knockback Price reduced $3,000 → $2,700
- Robo Monkey no longer has different priorities for each arm.
- 1.0.6
- Sun Avatar price reduced ($19k → $17k)
- Robo Monkey price reduced ($8400 → $8000)
- Tech Terror initial ability cooldown removed (??? → none)
- The Anti-Bloon initial ability cooldown removed (??? → none)
- Knockback price increased ($2700 → $3000)
- Dark Knight price increased ($5500 → $5600)
- 1.2.0
- Dark Champion price reduced ($60,000 → $55,000)
- 1.3.0
- Epic Range pierce increased (3 → 4)
- Legend of the Night no longer has an initial cooldown, but the black hole cooldown persists even if sold
- 1.4.0
- Sun Avatar pierce increased (6 → 7)
- 1.5.0
- Sun Avatar price reduced ($17,000 → $16,000)
- 1.6.0
- Sun Temple damage increased (5 → 6)
- Sun Temple pierce increased (20 → 30)
- True Sun God damage increased (15 → 20)
- Legend of the Night damage increased (5 → 10)
- Legend of the Night gains bonus Ceramic damage (+0 → +4)
- Legend of the Night bonus MOAB damage increased (+5 → +8)
- 1.7.0
- Ultravision gains the new Camo Prioritization option
- 1.8.0
- Sun Avatar price reduced ($16,000 → $15,000)
- True Sun God price reduced ($500,000 → $400,000)
- 2.0.0
- Base Cost decreased: ($2300 -> $2100)
- Sun Avatar cost decreased ($15,000 → $13,000)
- 2.0.4
- Super Monkey base cooldown decreased (0.06s → 0.45s)
- Plasma Blasts speed bonus decreased (+100% → +50%). Overall attack cooldown remains the same.
- Sun Avatar cost decreased ($13,000 → $11,000)
- 2.1.2
- 0-4-1 & 0-5-1 ability now knocks back any surviving targets by a large amount
- Anti-Bloon: ability cooldown reduced (45s → 30s)
| “ | We copied over this interesting knockback change from BTD6, helping to make Super Monkey's ability more reliable with an added benefit. Additionally, the tier 5 ability cooldown was reduced so that there is more value in having the Anti-Bloon as a permanent tower, rather than just a tower to be sold and rebought for the ability. | ” |
- 3.1
- Base: $2.1k → $1.8k
- Laser Blasts: $2.3k → $1.4k
- Plasma Blasts: $4.5k → $3k
- Epic Range: $1.4k → $1k
- Robo Monkey: $7k → $10k
- Dark Knight: $5.6k → $4k and deals +3 → +2 damage to MOAB class
- Sun Temple: $100k → $80k and main attack deals 6 → 9 damage
- Tech Terror: ability knockback speed x23 → x18 (x5x unchanged)
- Dark Champion: $55k → $30k, gains +4 → +2 pierce, and deals +5 → +2 damage to MOAB-class
- True Sun God: $400k → $200k and deals 20 → 30 damage
- Legend of the Night: $240k → $100k, gains +8 → +4 damage, deals +8 → +4 damage to MOAB-class, and gains +15 → +8 pierce
- Legend of the Night: portal duration 8s → 4s. and each portal can only absorb a maximum of 1 BAD (Portal now closes after absorbing a BAD)
- Sun Temple / True Sun God: requires $20k → $15k of sacrifices to receive the sacrifice benefits.
- Sacrificing $15k of primary towers to 4/5xx reduces attack cooldown by 25% → 10%
- Sacrificing $15k of support towers to 4/5xx no longer gives towers in range +1 damage
- [Undocumented bug] This was not implemented in this update
- Sacrificing $15k of support towers to 4/5xx reduces attack cooldown of towers in range by 10% → 15%
- Sacrificing $15k of support towers to 4/5xx spawns crates worth $750 → $2,000
- Sacrificing $15k of support towers to 5xx creates big perma-spikes at a rate of 60s → 30s and no longer limited to 1 at a time
- Sacrificing $15k of primary towers to 4xx provides blades that deal 25 → 20 damage
- Sacrificing $15k primary towers to 5xx provides glaives that deal 30 → 25 damage and have 50 → 40 pierce
- Sacrificing $15k of magic towers to 5xx provides mini sun avatars that deal 3 → 1 damage
| “ | We have made significant adjustments to a lot of Super Monkey's upgrades, as we feel like Super Monkey is not and has never been properly balanced for this game. While its main strength is its late game and we want to keep it that way, we do not think it should be to the extent where is has almost no use in the early/mid game. Therefore, we are making some pretty big price cuts to early tiers, while adjusting the tier 3s to balance out these price cuts so that they don't become too strong. A lot of the higher tiers have either been too expensive or too inefficient to have any practical use in ranked matches, and we want to change that. Legend of the Night's price tag was justifiably high for what it did, so it had to be reworked to receive a price cut. True Sun God (without sacrifices) was actually incredibly weak for its extreme price tag, with a lot of its strength coming from the weapons/buffs it receives and provides from sacrifices. We wanted to shift more of its strength to the vanilla weapon, as it should always be a powerful tower given its hefty price. Therefore, in addition to a giant price buff, we have increased its damage while weakening some of the strongest sacrifice benefits. Tech Terror has proven to be a great ability with the knockback addition, so we have slightly lowered its effectiveness. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 3.3
- [Bugfix] 4/5xx with support sacrifices no longer gives +1 damage
| “ | No balance changes for Super Monkey, although note that there is a bugfix which is impactful on balance - 4/5xx with support sacrifices will no longer provide towers in range with +1 damage. 4xx with support sacrifices was an extremely cost effective upgrade due to this bug, so we have fixed this without changing anything else. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 3.3.2
- Robo Monkey: always crits every 15 shots rather than randomly between 15 and 20
- Tech Terror: gains +4 → +6 pierce (x5x total pierce unchanged, upgrades now grants +3 instead of +5)
- Anti Bloon: crits every 15 shots rather than randomly between 13 and 17
| “ | We've removed the minimal RNG from Robo Monkey while slightly buffing it at the same time, as it's not seen as a particularly great upgrade. Likewise, Tech Terror is not amazing if you disregard its ability, meaning it's always sold instantly after using the ability. We've buffed up its regular attack so that there is more value in keeping it around | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 4.0
- Plasma Blasts: $3,000 → $2,500
- Sun Avatar: $11,000 → $11,500
- Dark Knight: $4,000 → $4,500
- Sun Temple: main weapon base damage 8 → 11
| “ | Plasma Blasts in an upgrade that rarely gets used on its own (usually just used as a crosspath), so we’ve lowered its cost while adjusting 3xx and xx3 so that their total cost remains unchanged. Additionally, Super Monkey has struggled quite a bit since we fixed/nerfed Sun Temple a few updates ago, so we’re giving it a much needed damage buff. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 4.0.2
- Dark Champion: $30,000 → $27,000
- Sacrificing $15k of magic monkeys to 4xx or 5xx: The Super Monkey will buff towers in range with +10% → +50% projectile lifespan and +2 pierce
- 4.2
- True Sun God: main weapon base damage 30 → 38
| “ | True Sun God doesn't provide enough damage considering its massive price tag | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 4.2.1 OTA Update 2
- Base price increased from $1,800 → $2,000
| “ | Super Monkey is proving to be a bit too good as an early game defender which isn’t in keeping with its intended use as a late game powerhouse. We’re increasing its base cost so that it’s harder to get out early without impacting its late game usage too much. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
Bug Fixes and General Changes[]
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Gallery[]
8 base Super Monkeys attacking bloons
Base Super whiffing Yellow
Official Artwork[]
Tower portrait
Trivia[]
- Super Monkey is still the most expensive base tower in the entire game, also surpassing Captain Churchill.
- Before v4.2.1 OTA Update 2, it had the same cost as the Battles 1 Mobile counterpart.
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