Turbo Charge (BTD5)

BTD5

BTD6

BTDB2

Turbo Charge

BTD5 Mobile
BTD5 Flash/BTDB
BMC

General Information

Game

Bloons TD 5, Bloons TD Battles, Bloons Monkey City

Tower

Boomerang Thrower

Unlocked at

Rank 22

Cost

Easy: $2,550
Medium/BTD Battles Mobile and Flash: $3,000
Hard: $3,240
Impoppable: $3600

Activated Ability

Turbo Charge

Targeting Options

First, Last,
Close, Strong

Popology

Statistics

Damage

1

Pierce

3

Attack Speed

Fast??? (Normal)
Hypersonic??? (Ability)

Range

TBA

Path Upgrades

← Previous

Current

Bionic Boomer

Turbo Charge

Path Info

Path

Upgrade Tier

2

4

Related upgrades

Turbo Charge (BTD6), for the BTD6 counterpart
Turbo Boost, for a similarly named BSM2 Mobile powerup

[Source]

“	Turbo Charge Ability: increase attack speed to hypersonic for 10 seconds.	”
	^{~ BTD5 Flash Description}

“	Ability: attacks incredibly fast for 10 seconds.	”
	^{~ BTD5 Mobile Description}

“	Ability: attacks incredibly fast for 8 seconds.	”
	^{~ BTD Battles Mobile Description}

Turbo Charge is an upgrade to the Boomerang Thrower that made its debut in Bloons TD 5. It is the final upgrade on Path 2, costing $2550 on Easy, $3000 on Medium, $3240 on Hard and $3600 on Impoppable.

This upgrade adds the Turbo Charge adds the Turbo Charge Ability, which increases the firing speed of the tower by 5x for 10 seconds. It is recommended to combine the Glaive Thrower upgrade along with this upgrade; not only will the Boomerang Thrower have more pierce, it will also increase its attack rate even more.

In Bloons TD Battles Mobile, the ability grants itself camo detection but the ability lasts for 8 seconds instead of 10.

Strategy[]

Summary[]

A turbotastic speed boost for a fairly low cost, allowing to gain a large DPS increase alongside effective general cleanup.

Tips[]

TBA

Version History (Bloons TD Battles Mobile)[]

This ability has always been a good way to defend against a lot of rushes (such as the notorious RRROD), and has become even more reliable thanks to it now being able to deal with Camo Bloons. However because of this it became very hard to try to kill a player if they brought the Boomerang Thrower in their loadout since they could easily place down a 2/4 Boomer and easily destroy any rushes. Overall this upgrade has been buffed as it's better overall at defending rushes compared to the initial release of Bloons TD Battles Mobile.

4.1

Turbo Charge now grants camo detection to the Boomerang Thrower while the ability is activated.

4.9

Turbo Charge ability duration decreased (10s → 8s).

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

In Bloons TD 5 Deluxe, the Boomerang Thrower's Turbo Charge arm is white and blue, while in Bloons TD 5, it is gray like its previous upgrade.
The theoretical fastest possible method for glaives to attack combines Jungle Drums and M.I.B. Call to Arms, the Sockets of Power in The Crucible, using the Overclock Ability, as well as Tier 3 Boomerang Dojo and Double Ranga. Practically however, glaives can only throw as fast as every one glaive per frame, limiting the effectiveness of this combination.
Just like the Bionic Boomer, Turbo Charge Boomerang Throwers have a bionic arm and a bionic eye, though slightly different from each other.
When you use it with Glaive Thrower and M.I.B. Call to Arms, it looks like the Bionic Boomer Boomerang Thrower is throwing glaives in Fast Forward.
The description may be a reference to Bloons Tower Defense as it references hypersonic attack speed.
The fastest method for glaives to attack combines Jungle Drums and M.I.B. Call to Arms, using the Overclock Ability, this can pop a BFB layer in one second and can also pop about a line of MOABs beautifully.
Turbo Charge is one of the few upgrades that have the same in-game tower appearance the same as preceding upgrades*, the others being Super Range, M.I.B. Call to Arms, Long Life Bananas, and Valuable Bananas.