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Revision as of 04:28, 21 April 2020

Trained in the ancient arts of monkey wizardry. Learns new magic spells with every upgrade. This unit is flexible and will continue randomly using his old spells with his new ones.
~ Bloons TD 4 Description
Trained in the arts of monkey magic, the Monkey Apprentice weaves magical bolts that pop bloons. Each shot can pop 2 bloons. Can upgrade to cast additional spells.
~ Bloons TD 5 Description
Hurls magical bolts of energy at the Bloons. Can upgrade to a variety of powerful spells.
~ BTD6 description

Monkey Apprentice is a tower in the BTD series, debuting in Bloons Tower Defense 4 under the name Monkey Apprentice, and continuing into Bloons TD 5. It launches a blue ball that can pop 2 bloons; it can be upgraded to add many other attacks. After its final upgrade has been purchased, it is known as a Monkey Wizard (BTD4) or a Master of Air/Master of Fire (BTD5). In BTD6, the tower has renamed to Wizard Monkey.


Bloons Tower Defense 4

Monkey Apprentice made its debut in Bloons TD 4, offering four powerful upgrades, with its final 2 upgrades gaining the ability to blow back bloons while popping them with lightning-interlaced whirlwinds and tornadoes.

Easy Medium Hard
Tower Cost $470 $550 $595
Intense Magic $255 $300 $325
Fireball $255 $300 $325
Summon Whirlwind $1700 $2000 $2160
Tempest Tornado $6800 $8000 $8640
Total Sell Amount $9480 $11500 $12045
Total Cost $9480 $11500 $12045



Bloons Tower Defense 5

Monkey Apprentice 2

It launches a purple ball that can pop 2 bloons; it can be upgraded to add many other attacks. It is able to be upgraded to specialize in air or fire.

Path 1 Upgrades

Easy Medium Hard Impoppable

Intense Magic
Shoots larger and more powerful magical bolts.

$255 $300 $325 $360

Lightning Bolt
Unleashes the power of lightning to zap all bloons at once in a chain.

$1020 $1200 $1295 $1440

Summon Whirlwind
Whirlwind blows bloons off the path away from the exit. However, removes ice and glue from the bloons.

$1700 $2000 $2160 $2400

Tempest Tornado
The tempest blows more bloons faster, further, and more often. Also pops bloons once before blowing. However, removes ice and glue from the bloons. Around 70 pierce.

$6800 $8000 $8640 $9600
Total Sell Amount $8196 $9640 $10412 $11568 ($12144 with path 2 upgrades)
Total Cost $10245 $12050 $13015 $14460 ($15280 with path 2 upgrades)

Path 2 Upgrades

Easy Medium Hard Impoppable

Fireball
The Apprentice adds a powerful fireball attack to its arsenal.

$255 $300 $325 $360

Monkey Sense
Allows the Monkey Apprentice to target and pop camo bloons. Does not grant detection to other towers.

$255 $300 $325 $360

Dragon's Breath
Spews endless flames at nearby bloons, roasting and popping them with ease.

$3570 $4200 $4535 $5040

Summon Phoenix
Summon Phoenix Ability: Creates a super powerful flying phoenix that flies around wreaking bloon havoc for 20 seconds.

$4250 $5000 $5400 $6000
Total Sell Amount $7040 $8280 $8944 $9936 ($11376 with path 1 upgrades)
Total Cost $8800 $10350 $11180 $12420 ($14220 with path 1 upgrades)

Differences Between BTD5 Flash and BTD5 Mobile

BUFF Dragon's Breath has a faster attack speed (10 shots per second → 12).

NERF If the Master of Fire is sold while the Summon Phoenix ability is active, the phoenix will disappear.

Change Lightning Bolt no longer creates its lightning bolt sound.

Change Activating Summon Phoenix Ability no longer creates a phoenix call.

Update History (Bloons TD Battles Mobile)

The Monkey Apprentice (also called the Wizard by some players) has been buffed via game updates, as a lot of its upgrades have been made cheaper, most notably the Dragon's Breath upgrade. The Monkey Apprentice is still considered quite a popular tower, having good all round popping power and providing cheap Camo Lead defence. Some popular load outs include Ninja Farm Apprentice, Boat Farm Apprentice, Heli Farm Apprentice, Apprentice Farm Chipper, Apprentice Farm Ice, and Engineer COBRA Apprentice.

3.1

BUFF Tempest Tornado price decreased ($8000 → $4500).

BUFF Dragon's Breath price decreased ($4200 → $3600).

3.9

BUFF Dragon's Breath price decreased ($3600 → $3200).

BUFF Summon Phoenix price decreased ($5000 → $4000).

4.1

BUFF Intense Magic price decreased ($300 → $200).

BUFF Fireball price decreased ($300 → $200).

BUFF Monkey Sense price decreased ($300 → $250).

BUFF Dragon's Breath price decreased ($3200 → $2600).

BUFF Summon Phoenix now deals an extra +1 damage to MOAB-class bloons (effectively dealing double damage to them now).

4.3

BUFF Fireball has a 20% larger explosion radius.

Bloons Tower Defense 6

Wizard Monkey has a moderate overhaul in Bloons TD 6, losing several key abilities that had been a staple for the tower in prior installments and instead replaced with some new attacks. Most lost spells from prior installments however are now found in the Druid Monkey instead. The Wizard Monkey also lost the power to pop Leads, unless its Lead-popping upgrades such as Fireball are bought.

The Wizard Monkey can select two paths at a time, one that enhances their main energy bolt, a second that grants fire-based spells, and a third that focuses on spells geared towards debuffing Camo Bloons and necromancy.

Path 1

Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Unlock XP Icon Artwork

Guided Magic
Magic shots seek out the Bloons, even behind cover.

$125 $150 $160 $180 110

Arcane Blast
Bigger, more powerful magic blasts pop through 2 layers of Bloon.

$510 $600 $650 $720 600

Arcane Mastery
Attacks 2X faster over 2X longer range and adds 4+ pierce.

$1,105 $1,300 $1,405 $1,560 2,300

Arcane Spike
Magic does extra damage to MOAB-Class Bloons and adds a 2X attack speed bonus

$8,500 $10,000 $10,800 $12,000 11,000

Archmage
A true master of magical wizardry. Gives the monkey Shimmer and Dragon's Breath and a 2X attack speed up for the magic bolts

$27,200 $32,000 $34,560 $38,400 35,000
Total Sell Amount Tier 4: $7,497

Tier 5: $22,337

Tier 4: $8,820

Tier 5: $31,220

Tier 4: $9,527

Tier 5: $33,719

Tier 4: $10,584

Tier 5: $37,464

N/A
Total Cost

Tier 4: $10,710

Tier 5: $31,910

Tier 4: $12,600

Tier 5: $44,600

Tier 4: $13,610

Tier 5: $48,170

Tier 4: $15,120

Tier 5: $53,520

49,010


Path 2

Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Unlock XP Icon Artwork

Fireball
Every few seconds casts an explosive fireball spell.

$255 $300 $325 $360 130

Wall of Fire
Creates a super hot wall of fire across the track to roast the Bloons as they pass. able to obliterate up to rainbow bloons, but will get deleted if a Purple Bloon passes by.

$765 $900 $970 $1,080 700

Dragon's Breath
Spews endless flames at nearby Bloons.

$2,550 $3,000 $3,240 $3,600 2,600

Summon Phoenix
Summon Phoenix ability: Powerful phoenix wreaks Bloon havoc for 20 seconds.

$3,400 $4,000 $4,320 $4,800 13,000

Wizard Lord Phoenix
Wizard Lord becomes a master of the flame, turning into a super powerful Lava Phoenix for a short time.

$51,000 $60,000 $64,800 $72,000 35,000

Total Sell Amount

Tier 4: $5,208

Tier 5: $40,908

Tier 4: $6,125

Tier 5: $48,125

Tier 4: $6,715

Tier 5: $51,975

Tier 4: $7,350

Tier 5: $57,350

N/A
Total Cost

Tier 4: $7,440

Tier 5: $58,440

Tier 4: $8,750

Tier 5: $68,750

Tier 4: $9,450

Tier 5: $74,250

Tier 4: $10,500

Tier 5: $82,500

51,430


Path 3

Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Unlock XP Icon Artwork

Intense Magic
More powerful magic shots move faster and can pop up to 7 Bloons.

$255 $300 $325 $360 140

Monkey Sense
Allows the Wizard to hit Camo Bloons.

$255 $300 $325 $360 500

Shimmer
Dark magic reveals location of all nearby Camo Bloons permanently.

$1,530 $1,800 $1,945 $2,160 2,200

Necromancer: Unpopped Army
Reanimate recently popped enemies as servants to destroy the Bloons. Each unpopped bloon rips up 2 layers per hit and can survive 2 bloons before dissapearing.

$2,975 $3,500 $3,780 $4,200 10,000

Prince of Darkness
Reanimate even more powerful bloon servants to obliterate the enemy.

$20,400 $24,000 $25,920 $28,800 30,000
Total Sell Amount

Tier 4: $3,840

Tier 5: $18,120

Tier 4: $4,515

Tier 5: $21,315

Tier 4: $4,879

Tier 5: $23,023

Tier 4: $5,418

Tier 5: $25,578

N/A
Total Cost

Tier 4: $5,485

Tier 5: $25,885

Tier 4: $6,450

Tier 5: $30,450

Tier 4: $6,970

Tier 5: $32,890

Tier 4: $7,740

Tier 5: $36,540

42,840


Bloons Adventure Time TD

Monkey Apprentice BATTD

Before potential unlock

Monkey Apprentice is a super rare ally in Bloons Adventure Time TD. He can be upgraded up to equivalent 2/1 Apprentice at maximum (ie, with Fireball, Intense Magic, and Lightning Bolt). He costs $470 to place. He is available in groups of two per every Monkey Apprentice ally equipped to characters.

Upgrades:

  • Fireball ($550) - TBA
    • Intense Magic ($200) - TBA
      • Lightning Bolt ($1200) - TBA.

More info TBA

Strategies

  • In BTD4 and BTD5, since they can push back bloons, it is a good idea to place the tower near loops or near the end of the track.
  • Several of them bunched together can sometimes work very well on strong bloons.
  • Apprentices with Dragon's Breath are best at the start of the track because they can pop any incoming Leads and weaker bloons with ease, especially if Lightning Bolt is purchased.
  • They can pop Lead Bloons even without upgrades, so if you don't have enough cash for a bomb tower by round 28+, then place an apprentice.
    • However, this is no longer true in BTD6.
  • Summon Whirlwind and Tempest Tornado are useful in Regen Farming in BTD5.
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  • Monkey Apprentices with at least Lightning Bolt can be used in groups to quickly dispose of clustered bloons.
  • They should not be used against Ceramics or MOAB-Class bloons without Dragon's Breath, as they do little damage to them.
  • Watch out for Regrow Bloons if players rely heavily on Monkey Apprentices. Since Lightning Bolt can pop bloons practically anywhere on a track, this can potentially allow them time to regrow and start a Regrow Farm.

Trivia

  • A 4/4 version of the Monkey Apprentice is available in the BTD5 mission Wizard Lord, but it sacrifices the players most expensive tower every other round. It can use all attacks of the Monkey Apprentice and the Summon Super Phoenix ability, a more powerful version of Summon Phoenix ability.
  • In BTD4, the first upgrade to the Monkey Apprentice changes its name to Monkey Sorceror. The second upgrade changes it to Monkey Mage. The third changes it to Monkey Archmage. The fourth and final upgrade changes its name to Monkey Wizard.
  • In BTD4, the Monkey Apprentice is one of the towers that changes form upon each upgrade. The others are the Monkey Buccaneer, the Monkey Ace, the Monkey Beacon and the Banana Farm.
  • All of the upgrades for the Monkey Apprentice in Bloons TD 5 allow it to pop any type of non-Camo bloon.
  • In BTD5, the Monkey Apprentice is the only tower that can pop a Lead Bloon with no upgrades and without using explosives.
  • In BTD5, with upgrades, a Monkey Apprentice uses multiple spells at once; however, it could only shoot one at a time in BTD4.
  • This is not advised to be the main defense against many Regens, because it usually fails. It's better against bloons than MOABs.
  • In the BTD4 logo there is a Monkey Apprentice.
  • In BTD5, the Tier 1 upgrades give the Apprentice glasses. The Tier 2 upgrades give it a bigger hat.
  • In BTD5, the Path 1 specializes in air while Path 2 specializes in fire.
  • In BTD5 the old artwork of the Monkey Apprentice is now the artwork of Monkey Sense upgrade.
  • In BTD5, a Summon Whirlwind will have a description written "Disciple of Air". Dragon's Breath is called Disciple of Fire, Tempest Tornado is Master of Air, and Summon Phoenix is called Master of Fire.
  • The Monkey Apprentice uses the elements of the world such as wind, fire, lightning, and storms. It lacks the forces of earth and water however. Though in Bloons Super Monkey 2, the Monkey Research for the Magic abilities is labeled "Earth Magic," proving that the monkeys have a form of magic related to the element of earth, but still no references to the element of water. Also, in Chinese tradition, air isn't an element, but metal and wood are.
  • The Fireball upgrade shoots the same fireballs as the Dreadnought Premium Upgrade for the Monkey Buccaneer.
  • The Monkey Apprentice is a popular tower due to its low initial production cost, and its upgrades allowing it to hit every type of bloon without the assistance of other towers.
  • In BTD5 and Bloons Monkey City, the Monkey Apprentice is able to pop Lead Bloons, even if unupgraded; In BTD4 and BTD6 Monkey Apprentice cannot if Fireball is not bought.
  • The BMC artwork for Monkey Apprentice is similar to the BMC artwork for Ice Monkey/Tower.
  • The Monkey Wizard is the only tower in Bloons TD 6 to have two fifth tier towers that have abilites being, Wizard Lord Phoenix and Soulbind.
  • In BTD6, the three paths are based on base magic, fire and undead or 'dark' magic.

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