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| “ | Super Monkey Fan Club Ability: Converts up to 10 nearby Dart Monkeys including itself into Super Monkeys for 15 seconds. Regular attack speed also increased. | ” |
| ~ In-game description |
Super Monkey Fan Club is the fourth upgrade of Path 2 for the Dart Monkey in Bloons TD 6. It grants the Super Monkey Fan Club ability, which converts the club leader and limited up to the closest 9 other eligible Dart Monkeys into miniature Super Monkeys. Also, the Super Monkey Fan Club monkey attacks 50% faster than Triple Shot, with an attack cooldown of 0.2387s when untransformed, 0.015s when transformed. Unlike Super Monkeys, transformed Super Monkeys don’t have any projectile deviation.
The Super Monkey Fan Club ability prioritises the closest untransformed Dart Monkeys, otherwise refreshes already transformed Dart Monkeys. If multiple Super Monkey Fan Clubs are used at once or if it has enough uptime to re-use its ability, it can affect an infinite amount of dart monkeys at a time. The ability also increases all transformed monkeys’ range to a minimum of 40 attack range. This means Long Range Darts will not affect transformed monkeys’ range, but Enhanced Eyesight will still increase their range by +8 like normal. Crossbow Monkeys, Spike-o-pults and the "Plasma Monkey Fan Club" cannot be transformed by this ability. The ability lasts 15 seconds with a 50 second cooldown, equivalent to 30% uptime. There is an initial 16.67 second cooldown.
This upgrade costs $6,120 on Easy, $7,200 on Medium, $7,775 on Hard, and $8,640 on Impoppable.
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Description[]
Overview[]
Super Monkey Fan Club with 10 fans, and 10 active fans popping Ceramics
Super Monkey Fan Club gives the monkey a homemade Super Monkey costume, complete with stitched up hood and blue shirt and red cape (notably, the shirt has a B rather than the Super Monkey's dart symbol in BTD6). It also retains the headband, now also dyed blue, with the red cover now sporting three yellow stripes.
When transformed, each of the transformed Dart Monkeys become miniature Super Monkeys. However, any x-4-x Dart Monkeys that were transformed become transformed Super Fans; they retain their own headwear while transformed.
Crosspathing adds either green/red tailband (path 1) or green/red wristbands (path 2). Crosspathing has no effect on the transformation, only the untransformed variant of the monkey.
The Super Monkey Fan Club monkey itself gains yet more attack speed compared to its previous tiers, as well as gaining the Super Monkey Fan Club ability. The Super Monkey Fan Club ability transforms itself and up to 9 other "true" Dart Monkeys (i.e. not Spike-o-pult, Crossbow, Plasma Monkey Fan Club, or the Apex Plasma Master) into Super Monkeys for 15 seconds. Each of the transformed Super Monkeys more specifically increase its base attack cooldown to 0.06s and sets range to 40.
Note that crosspaths do in fact affect the transformed Darts, meaning they can potentially receive up to 5 pierce, 0.03s attack cooldown, or +8 range and camo detection, or any combination of the above. This also includes other Dart Monkeys upgraded to Super Monkey Fan Club, which already gain a faster attack cooldown. For instance, Quick Shots makes transformed Dart Monkey's attack Cooldown down to 0.051s while Very Quick Shots makes the transformed Dart Monkey's attack cooldown down to 0.04s instead of 0.06s thanks to the +50% attack speed.
Activated Abilities[]
Super Monkey Fan Club Ability
The Super Monkey Fan Club ability affects the leader monkey and up to 9 of the closest Dart Monkeys that aren't upgraded to 3+-x-x, x-5-x, or x-x-3+, temporarily transforming them into Super Monkeys. Each of these transformed Super Monkeys have more pierce, inherit benefits from internal crosspathing, and are capable of inheriting Primary Village buffs.
Duration is 15 seconds, with cooldown of 50 seconds, resulting in 30% uptime for this duration-oriented ability. As a Primary Monkey, Super Monkey Fan Club can receive faster cooldowns from Primary Mentoring and Primary Expertise. Like all ability-based towers, it can have its ability cooldowns reset by Geraldo's Rejuv Potion, and cooldown reduced by the global Energizer buff and special Monkey Knowledge.
Targeting Priorities[]
Super Monkey Fan Club 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.
Adding Enhanced Eyesight adds 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 47.0
- Base stats
- Base Darts:
- Projectile, sharp type, 3 per shot, 32 range, 0.2378s attack cooldown, 1 damage, 2 pierce.
- Transformed Super Monkey Darts:
- Projectile, sharp type, 40 range, 0.06s attack cooldown, 1 damage, 2 pierce, lasts 15 seconds. Affects up to 9 other X-4-X Dart Monkeys and itself.
- Crosspathing interactions
- 1-4-0:
- Per darts pierce increased from 2 to 3, compared to 0-4-0, also applies within transformed ability
- 2-4-0:
- Per darts pierce increased from 3 to 5, compared to 0-4-0, also applies within transformed ability
- 0-4-1:
- Gains +8 range (32 → 40), does not affect Transformation
- Projectile lifespan of per darts increased by 15%
- 0-4-2:
- Gains +8 range to both Base and Transformation (32 → 40 → 48)
- Projectile lifespan of per darts increased by 20%
- Projectile speed of per darts increased by 10% (300 → 330)
- Base tower gains camo detection, and all new attacks can affect camo (including Transformed ability)
- Monkey Knowledge interactions
Increased Lifespan: Projectiles shot from Dart Monkey have increased lifespan.- Extra Dart Pops: Increase projectile pierce by 1.
- 4 And 4: Dart Monkey's Triple Shot gets 4 darts every 4th shot.
- Bonus Monkey!: Each game starts with a Free Dart Monkey.
- Come On Everybody!: Primary towers attack 5% faster if all are below tier 3, and cost 5% less if all are tier 3 or 4.
- 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%.
- Global Ability Cooldowns: All Ability cooldowns for all Monkeys reduced by 3%.
Attack Interactions[]
- See also: Attack Interactions/Bloons TD 6/Primary
- Updated as of Version 36.0
Base attack(s)
- Darts:
- Sharp
- Angular Spray x3
- Straight Attack
Ability
- Super Monkey Fan Club Darts:
- Sharp
- Single Projectile
- Straight Attack
- Super Monkey Fan Club Transformed:
- Passive
- Target Tower(s)
- Tower Buff(s)
- Transform
- Transforms Other(s)
- Whole Screen
- Charge
Costs[]
- Updated as of Version 51.0. 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-4-X) | $6,120 | $7,200 | $7,775 | $8,640 | - | |||
| Total (0-4-0) | $6,915 | $8,140 | $8,790 | $9,770 | $4,841 | $5,698 | $6,153 | $6,839 |
| Crosspath (1-4-0) | $7,035 | $8,280 | $8,940 | $9,940 | $4,925 | $5,796 | $6,258 | $6,958 |
| Crosspath (2-4-0) | $7,205 | $8,480 | $9,155 | $10,180 | $5,044 | $5,936 | $6,409 | $7,126 |
| Crosspath (0-4-1) | $6,990 | $8,230 | $8,885 | $9,880 | $4,893 | $5,761 | $6,220 | $6,916 |
| Crosspath (0-4-2) | $7,160 | $8,430 | $9,100 | $10,120 | $5,012 | $5,901 | $6,370 | $7,084 |
This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: 
Bonus Monkey!, 
Come On Everybody!, 
Better Sell Deals
Strategy[]
Summary[]
Super Monkey Fan Club provides a large amount of extra DPS whenever necessary, all for a moderately high cost. Even a small army of transformed Dart Monkeys can act as an equivalent to a number of base Super Monkeys with extra pierce and the potential for much cheaper camo detection. On CHIMPS, Super Monkey Fan Club is generally the stepping stone to Plasma Monkey Fan Club, and is used during the mid-game in conjunction with other strong mid-game towers while saving up for said upgrade.
Tips[]
- The transformed Monkeys are affected by Tier 1 and Tier 2 upgrades, making a considerable difference in DPS compared to transforming 0-0-0 Dart Monkeys.
- Upgrading Dart Monkeys to Long Range Darts does not affect the range of the transformed Dart Monkeys compared to not getting it, Enhanced Eyesight gives +8 range and camo detection however.
- It is beneficial to add a Primary Mentoring or Expertise nearby for higher uptime for Super Monkey Fan Club abilities, as well as decreasing costs of Dart Monkeys that would be in range of both the Village and the Super Monkey Fan Club leader itself.
- If multiple SMFC abilities are chained together, the ability prioritizes the closest untransformed Dart Monkeys first before transforming just the closest Dart Monkeys. This usually isn't a problem unless it's specifically about refreshing the duration of already transformed Dart Monkeys. However, the leader of the ability always assures transformation of itself.
Version History[]
Balance Changes[]
Super Monkey Fan Club retained the main initiative of transforming Dart Monkeys into Super Monkeys. In the adaptation into BTD6, it now primarily comes into fruition in combination with Primary Village buffs (especially Primary Mentoring). It was buffed in Version 35.0 to remove the old global limit of transformed monkeys.
Fixing out the interaction with Total Transformation. While initially not patched by Ninja Kiwi during earlier releases because of both abilities' long cooldowns, the interaction was removed after they said the addition of Co-Op Mode has made the combo too overpowered.
- 2.0
- Other Super Monkey Fan Club monkeys can be transformed with the Super Monkey Fan Club ability
- 12.0
- Super Monkey Fan Club's boosts do not stack with Total Transformation.
- 35.0
| “ | [...] Also, we’re already fairly happy with the SMFC abilities, but at T4 it feels clunky and outdated that the ability can only influence a max of 10 dart monkeys at a time when casting the ability multiple times in quick succession from multiple T4s so we are removing that limitation. We discussed whether the SMFC change would reduce the specificity of which Monkeys are affected but the benefits seemed greater, so we’ll be looking for feedback from folks who enjoy dart multitude builds. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Super Monkey Fan Club is no longer limited to 10 maximum conversions at a time.
- 43.0
| “ | [...] We are slightly reducing the cost of Super Monkey Fan Club to overall improve the value of taking multiple to maintain higher uptime | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Super Monkey Fan Club cost reduced from $8000 to $7500
- 47.0
- Super Monkey Fan Club cost reduced from $7500 to $7200
- Super Monkey Fan Club attack cooldown multiplier reduced from 0.75x to 0.50x, base attack cooldown reduced from 0.4375s to 0.2378s.
Bug Fixes and General Changes[]
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- 24.0
- Added "Regular attack speed also increased." to the description.
- 36.0
- Changed reflexive pronoun from "himself" to "itself" in the upgrade description
Extra Notes (Version History)[]
Bugs[]
- Current
None (so far)
- Patched
- [38.3] When combining Total Transformation with Super Monkey Fan Club via the "entanglement bug", the linked tower becomes hypersonically fast, but only half as fast as Plasma Monkey Fan Club. Patched in 39.0 with the fix to the "entanglement bug".
Sounds[]
When activated Super Monkey Fan Club Ability:
- [Crowd cheering]
Gallery[]
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Official artwork[]
Videos[]
Other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| English | Super Monkey Fan Club | |
| German | Superaffen-Fanclub | Super Monkey Fan Club |
| Polish | Fanklub supermałpki | |
| Russian | Фан-клуб супер-обезьяны | Fan Club of Super Monkey |
Trivia[]
- The Super Monkey Fan Club's activation sound effect is that of a sports crowd.
- The Super Monkey Fan Club wears a blue T-shirt with a letter "B" on it. This recalls the visual appearance of Super Monkeys in most games before the Bloons TD 6 generation, where they have "B" logos on their capes and suits.
- Other than x-4-x Dart Monkeys, Dart Monkeys transformed into Super Monkeys look exactly like base Super Monkeys but smaller. In BTD5, however, the transformed Dart Monkeys have the same size as base Super Monkeys.
- The old description of SMFC implied that all Dart Monkeys used masculine pronouns.
- Although the maximum limit of conversions was removed in Version 35.0, the Super Monkey Fan Club's description still claims that only 10 can be transformed at once. However, this could just be an open interpretation, among which one of the interpretations implies referring to the ability itself activating up to 10 at a time.
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