Elite Defender (BTD6)
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For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Elite Defender (Battles 2).
Elite Defender
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Fires super fast and does more damage to MOAB-class Bloons. Fires faster the further the Bloons are along the track. Gains 4x attack speed briefly on losing lives. | ||
| Tower | Path | Tier | |
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| Sniper Monkey | 3 | 5 | |
| XP cost | 30,000 | ||
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| Cash cost | $12,665 — Easy $14,900 — Medium $16,090 — Hard $17,880 — Impoppable | ||
Elite Defender is the Sniper Monkey's path 3 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It reduces Sniper Monkey's attack cooldown by 50%, effectively doubling its attack speed, and increases the bullets' MOAB-Class damage from +2 to +4. Additionally, it gains more attack speed equal to the percentage of the track that the furthest Bloon is at, up to +100%.
Elite Defender also has a passive ability that grants 4× faster attack speed for 7 seconds upon losing lives. This ability has a 10-second cooldown (2.5-second cooldown with 
Master Defender). At its maximum attack speed, Elite Defender attacks 16× faster than Full Auto Rifle.
Stats
[edit | edit source]For a complete list of Sniper Monkey stats, see Stats:Sniper Monkey (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 54.0
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Costs and sell values
[edit | edit source]Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
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| 0-0-5 | $19,505 | $22,950 | $24,785 | $27,540 | $13,654 | $16,065 | $17,350 | $19,278 |
| 1-0-5 | $19,800 | $23,300 | $25,165 | $27,960 | $13,860 | $16,310 | $17,616 | $19,572 |
| 2-0-5 | $20,905 | $24,600 | $26,570 | $29,520 | $14,634 | $17,220 | $18,599 | $20,664 |
| 0-1-5 | $19,715 | $23,200 | $25,055 | $27,840 | $13,801 | $16,240 | $17,539 | $19,488 |
| 0-2-5 | $20,095 | $23,650 | $25,540 | $28,380 | $14,067 | $16,555 | $17,878 | $19,866 |
Strategy
[edit | edit source]This section was last updated for: version 55.0
As with Full Auto Rifle, Elite Defender serves highly divergent roles depending on the crosspath. Overall, 0-2-5 is a generalist that excels against groups of bloons when facing against them, whereas 2-0-5 excels at accurate, rapid single-target damage. With crosspaths, Elite Defender is quite strong for a single cheap T5.
0-2-5 is a good mid-game tower, carrying the mid-game and dealing solid overall damage when placed on a location (such as Muddy Puddles's bottom-middle section) where it can shoot Bloons while they travel toward it. It benefits immensely from a 4-2-0 Stronger Stimulant, which significantly boosts its damage, pierce, and attack speed. On maps with optimal placements, using it with with 0-2-4 Full Auto Rifles, the 0-5-2 Elite Sniper, and Permanent Brew produces a powerful CHIMPS strategy. However, it suffers on maps without such placements, such as Pat's Pond and X Factor.
The 2-0-5 Full Auto Rifle is tailored towards single-target damage towards blimps, excelling in this regard but falling short when facing groups of Bloons or blimps. It is preferred when no optimal spots are possible for 0-2-5 or when facing Boss Bloons (except Phayze, which demands innate Camo detection, making 0-2-5 superior, or 0-1-5 if stalling out rounds). It fares especially well against Vortex (which it ignores the shield of), and setting it on Strong is optimal in nearly all cases, minus Lych and Dreadbloon (use First targeting).
Both 0-2-5 and 2-0-5 synergize well with Ezili's Sacrificial Totem and Dan D'Monke's Rabble Rouser, as these abilities trigger the attack speed buff. Corvus's Soul Barrier spell can work as a synergy for leaks, even in CHIMPS where Sacrificial Totem becomes non-functional, but it is still not worth the effort due to dense bloons still being able to outpace Elite Defender. 0-2-5 also synergizes with Geraldo, whose Jar of Pickles and Sharpening Stone grant large damage and pierce boosts to it.
Update history
[edit | edit source]For a complete list of Sniper Monkey changes, see Update history:Sniper Monkey (BTD6).
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Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.13s → 0.065s (attack speed increased by 100%)
- Passive ability correctly triggers when losing lives above max (bug fix)
- Now gains attack speed based on the distance between the furthest Bloon on the track and the exit
Passive ability: now has an initial cooldown (undocumented)
Description changed (undocumented)
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| A lost life gives this Sniper 4x attack speed for a short time in retaliation. | A lost life gives this Sniper 4x attack speed for a short time in retaliation. Also attacks faster the further the Bloons are along the track. |
| “ | This tower felt like it’s strength too heavily required the xx2 upgrade, and that this harmed crosspath choices. So we increased the base attack rate while nerfing the increase from these upgrades. This is a slight overall buff — Update notes |
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- Fire rate increased ― 0.065s → 0.0649s
- Overall cost reduced by $500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Damage type changed ― Normal → Sharp
- 0-2-5
- Shrapnel: pierce reduced ― 3 → 2 (undocumented)
| “ | Elite Defender falls off a lot after midgame & really lacks any true cross pathing choice, so it has had some MOAB damage added to the base attack with the amount improved from crosspathing. — Update notes |
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- Gains MOAB-class bonus ― +0 → +2
- 1-0-5
- Gains MOAB bonus ― +0 → +3
- 2-0-5
- Gains MOAB bonus ― +0 → +4
| “ | All paths of the Sniper Monkey are really starting to show strong use in different cases, and we’re quite happy with this, although bottom path feels like it relies a little too heavily on the top-end upgrades for such an overall cheap path, we are shifting a small amount of price out from the T3 into the T5 — Update notes |
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $14,000 → $14,500
Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
| “ | Sniper is feeling really good, but Elite Defender gaining further increased MOAB Damage locked behind the 205 crosspath feels unnecessary now given how much current crosspath balance has started leaning towards favoring 205 anyway. — Update notes |
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- Bonus MOAB-class damage increased ― +2 → +4
- 1-0-5
- Bonus MOAB-class damage increased ― +3 → +4
- Note: Full Metal Jacket no longer increases MOAB Damage by 1
- 2-0-5
- Large Calibre no longer increases MOAB Damage by 1
- Note: Bonus MOAB remains at +4
| “ | Full auto sniper's 024 crosspath sees a lot of fun/meme use, but not so much more than that. We’re hoping that applying the MOAB bonus that it gains to the shrapnel as well will help improve non-meme use here. (And looking over my notes, it seems this was meant to be included a while ago…But better late than never!) — Update notes |
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- 0-2-5
- Shrapnel: now deals +1 damage to MOAB-Class
| “ | Sniper Monkey has some very powerful upgrades but also many poor stepping stones. We felt this tower needed a big price shuffle all around, pushing down the cost of many underwhelming upgrades but returning this back into stronger upgrades. — Update notes |
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $14,500 → $14,700
- Overall cost increased by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
| “ | Players have requested a bonus for the 025 Sniper shrapnel given it’s meant to be a pierce crosspath but struggles on anything non-MOAB, so we’d like to try moving the bonus MOAB damage on 024 shrapnel into base damage instead. — Update notes |
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- 0-2-5
- Shrapnel: base damage increased ― 1 → 2
- Shrapnel: no longer deals +1 damage to MOAB-Class
| “ | [...] a small price shift has been made for bottom path to bring Semi-Auto Rifle online sooner. — Update notes |
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $14,700 → $14,900
- Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Retaliation: Passive no longer activates by tapping the Activate Selected Tower Ability 1 hotkey (bug fix)
| “ | Shrapnel defender has been doing too good a carry job early on across too many maps, so the flat damage has been reduced back to a ceramic bonus, keeping it quite good but not overstaying its welcome. — Update notes |
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- 0-2-5
- Shrapnel: Damage reduced ― 2 → 1
- Shrapnel: Now deals +1 damage to Ceramic Bloons
- 0-2-5
- Shrapnel: No longer deal bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons (undocumented) (bug)
- 0-2-5
- Shrapnel: Deals +1 damage to Ceramic Bloons
Related achievement
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Axis of Havoc Have one of each T5 sniper in one game of CHIMPS Reward(s):  ×2,  ×2
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Gallery
[edit | edit source]For more Sniper Monkey images, see Gallery:Sniper Monkey.
Screenshots
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Elite Defender for all crosspaths -
Elite Defender upon losing lives and activating the passive ability
Assets
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Portrait -
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Insta Monkey icon
Trivia
[edit | edit source]- Unlike the in-game model, it is depicted with a tripod in its Insta Monkey sprite.
- An Elite Defender that activates its passive ability and full 100% track distance together has the fastest attack speed of any tower, without external buffs.
- Its portrait is almost identical to the upgrade icon of the Special Poperations.
- Elite Defender is frequently seen rotating itself at inhuman speeds especially while targeting multiple lanes, leading to the community humorously accusing it of using aimbot.
- In previous versions, a bug allowed the player to activate passive abilities using a hotkey. This also affected Bomb Blitz, and to a lesser extent the Legend of the Night.
- After the bug was patched, Bomb Blitz received a buff to compensate, unlike Elite Defender.
In other languages
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| Arabic | مدافع النخبة الإطلاق بسرعة فائقة وإيقاع المزيد من الضرر على المناطيد من فئة MOAB، حيث يتم إطلاق النار بشكل أسرع كلما زادت مسافة البالونات على طول المسار، واكتساب سرعة هجوم 4 مرات لفترة وجيزة عند فقدان الأرواح. |
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| Danish | Elite-forsvarer Skyder super hurtigt og gør mere skade på MOAB-klasse bloons. Affyrer hurtigere, jo længere bloonsene er langs banen. Får i kort tid 4x angrebshastighed når der mistes liv. |
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| German | Elite-Verteidiger Feuert superschnell und richtet bei Bloons der MOAB-Klasse mehr Schaden an. Er greift superschnell an und noch schneller, je weiter die Bloons auf der Strecke sind. Ein verlorenes Leben verleiht ihm für kurze Zeit 4-fache Angriffsgeschwindigkeit. |
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| Spanish | Defensor de élite Dispara superrápido y hace más daño a los bloons clase MOAB. Dispara más rápido cuando los bloons están más lejos. Gana velocidad de ataque x 4 durante poco tiempo cuando pierde vidas. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Defensor de élite Dispara superrápido y hace más daño a los bloons clase MOAB. Dispara más rápido cuando los bloons están más lejos en el camino. Gana velocidad de ataque x 4 durante poco tiempo cuando pierde vidas. |
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| Finnish | Eliittipuolustaja Ampuu erittäin nopeasti ja aiheuttaa enemmän vahinkoa MOAB-luokan blooneille. Ampuu sitä nopeammin, mitä kauempana bloonit ovat reitin varrella. Hyökkäysnopeus nelinkertaistuu hetkeksi aina, kun elämiä menetetään. |
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| French | Défenseur d'élite Tire très vite et inflige davantage de dégâts aux Bloons de classe MOAB. Plus les Bloons ont avancé sur le circuit, plus les tirs sont rapides. Obtient brièvement 4x plus de vitesse d'attaque lorsque des vies sont perdues. |
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| Italian | Difensore élite Spara più velocemente e infligge più danni ai bloon di classe MOAB. Spara a una velocità maggiore se i bloon sono più distanti sul tracciato. La velocità d'attacco aumenta di 4 volte per un breve periodo in caso di perdite. |
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| Japanese | エリートディフェンダー 発射速度がものすごく速くなり、MOAB級ブルーンにより大きなダメージを与える。ブルーンがトラックの遠くにいるほどもっと速くなる。ライフを失うと、短時間の間攻撃速度が4倍になる。 |
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| Korean | 엘리트 수비수 공격 속도가 매우 높고, MOAB급 풍선에 더 많은 피해를 줍니다. 트랙 위의 풍선의 거리가 멀수록 더 빨리 공격합니다. 목숨을 잃으면 잠시 공격 속도가 4배로 증가합니다. |
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| Dutch | Elite verdediger Schiet supersnel en doet meer schade aan MOAB-klasse Bloons. Vuurt sneller naarmate de Bloons verder langs het pad komen. Krijgt kort 4 x aanvalssnelheid bij het verliezen van levens. |
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| Norwegian | Elite-forsvarer Skyter superkjapt og påfører mer skade på bloons i MOAB-klasse. Skyter kjappere jo lengre bloonsene har kommet på banen. Gir 4x angrepshastighet i kort tid ved tap av liv. |
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| Polish | Obrońca wyborowy Strzela bardzo szybko i zadaje większe obrażenia blonom klasy MOAB. Im dalej blony są na torze, tym szybciej strzela. Na krótko zyskuje 4-krotną prędkość ataku po utracie żyć. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Defensor de Elite Dispara super-rápido e causa mais dano aos Bloons classe MOAB. Dispara mais rápido quanto mais longe os Bloons estiverem na pista. Ganha 4x velocidade de ataque brevemente ao perder vidas. |
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| Russian | Элитный защитник Начинает стрелять супербыстро и наносит больше урона шарам MOAB. Стреляет ещё быстрее по мере продвижения шаров дальше по трассе. При потере жизни ненадолго даёт 4-кратное ускорение атаки. |
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| Swedish | Elitförsvarare Avfyrar supersnabbt och åsamkar mer skada på Bloons i MOAB-klassen. Avfyrar snabbare ju längre Bloons har kommit på banan. Får 4 gånger högre attackhastighet en kort stund vid förlust av liv. |
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| Thai | ผู้พิทักษ์ยอดฝีมือ ยิงเร็วยิ่งยวดและสร้างแรงโจมตีมากขึ้นกับบลูนคลาส MOAB ยิงรัว ๆ ใส่บลูนที่อยู่ไกล ๆ ในเส้นทาง ความเร็วโจมตีเพิ่มขึ้นเป็น 4 เท่าครู่หนึ่งเมื่อเสียแต้มชีวิต |
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| Turkish | Elit Koruyucu Süper hızlı atış yapar ve MOAB Sınıfı Bloon’lara daha fazla hasar verir. Bloon’lar parkurdan ne kadar uzaktaysa o kadar hızlı atış yapar. Can kaybından sonra 4 kat saldırı hızı kazanır. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 精英防御者 攻击速度超快，对MOAB级气球造成更多伤害。气球沿着路径移动得越远，攻击速度就也越快。失去生命会让狙击手短暂获得4倍攻速。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 精英防禦者 射擊速度超級快，且可以對MOAB級氣球造成更多傷害。氣球行進越遠，攻擊速度就越快。損失生命時攻擊速度會暫時提高4x。 |
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Unused content
[edit | edit source]There are two unused icons that are meant to be used by the Elite Defender's buffs, but are not displayed. The first icon is supposed to display while its ability is active. The second icon is supposed to display a number from 0-100 below it to indicate the current status of its distance-based buff.
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"BuffIconSniperLeakxx5" -
"BuffIconSniperDistancexx5"
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