Explosive Economics

Explosive Economics

Common	When Support Monkeys are sold, an Area of Effect explosion deals 250 damage to all nearby Bloons. Spike Factory, Engineer, and Beast Handler placement cooldown reduced 1 round(s)
Rare	When Support Monkeys are sold, an Area of Effect explosion deals 500 damage to all nearby Bloons. Spike Factory, Engineer, and Beast Handler placement cooldown reduced 1 round(s)
Legendary	When Support Monkeys are sold, an Area of Effect explosion deals 900 damage to all nearby Bloons. Spike Factory, Engineer, and Beast Handler placement cooldown reduced 2 round(s)
Hero parties	—
Introduced	Version 47.0

Explosive Economics is a type of Artifact in the Rogue Legends DLC for Bloons TD 6. This makes Support Monkeys create an explosion when they are sold, similar to Sentry Champion, but sub-towers (like Engineer Sentries) are not affected by this Artifact. Spike Factories, Engineer Monkeys and Beast Handlers also benefit by having their placement cooldowns reduced by 1 round (2 for the Legendary variant). The explosion can damage Camo Bloons and increases in power with the rarity of the artifact, but all other stats remain the same.

Stats

Explosive Economics - Common
Pierce 300 Damage 250 Damage type Normal Lifespan 1s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 60 units
Ignores blockers

Explosive Economics - Rare
Damage 250 → 500

Explosive Economics - Legendary
Damage 500 → 900

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The explosions can be used to clear clusters of Bloons with stall support or do decent damage to MOABs and BFBs in the early stages if the player can have access to a base Engineer or Beast Handler that can be sacrificed for the explosion without compromising the rest of the defense. However, as the campaign progresses, the explosion damage is negligible against higher HP targets like ZOMGs and Boss Bloons and the towers are more valuable as they get Artifact buffs which deal much more damage than this Artifact.

The cooldown reduction can help to have towers to sacrifice for explosions early and in the late game, and it helps to build Beast Power quicker, but at this point cash might be more limiting than the tower cooldown. Having both Legendary of itself and Dream Teams makes Beast Handlers have no placement cooldown outside of the Low Stamina Curse, which opens up strategies involving buying many Beast Handlers at a time and saving the need to equip more Beast Handlers in the same party.

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Version 47.2

•  Common: Explosion damage increased ― 50 → 100
•  Rare: Explosion damage increased ― 150 → 300
•  Legendary: Explosion damage increased ― 500 → 900
  • Note: Descriptions of all rarities changed accordingly

Version 48.0

•  Now removes the cash penalty for towers in the range of a Support Monkey in all rarities
  •  Description changed ― When Support Monkeys are sold, an Area of Effect explosion deals 100 damage to all nearby Bloons. Bloons in range of Support Monkeys give 5% less cash → When Support Monkeys are sold, an Area of Effect explosion deals 100 damage to all nearby Bloons
    • Note: Descriptions of other rarities changed accordingly

Version 49.0

•  Now reduces the placement cooldown of Spike Factories, Engineer Monkeys and Beast Handlers
  • Common / Rare: −1 round
  • Legendary: −2 rounds
•  Description changed ― When Support Monkeys are sold, an Area of Effect explosion deals 100 damage to all nearby Bloons → When Support Monkeys are sold, an Area of Effect explosion deals 100 damage to all nearby Bloons. Spike Factory, Engineer, and Beast Handler placement cooldown reduced 1 round(s)
  • Note: Descriptions of other rarities changed accordingly

Version 54.0

•  Common: Damage increased ― 100 → 250 (undocumented)
•  Rare: Damage increased ― 300 → 500 (undocumented)

In other languages

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	اقتصاد متفجر	—
Danish	Eksplosiv økonomi	—
German	Explosive Wirtschaft	—
Spanish	Economía explosiva	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Economía explosiva	—
Finnish	Räjähtävä talous	—
French	Économie explosive	—
Italian	Economia esplosiva	—
Japanese	経済は爆発だ	—
Korean	경제 폭발	—
Dutch	Explosieve economie	—
Norwegian	Eksplosiv økonomi	—
Polish	Wybuchowa gospodarka	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Economia Explosiva	—
Russian	Взрывная экономика	—
Swedish	Explosiv ekonomi	—
Thai	เศรษฐกิจระเบิด	—
Turkish	Patlayıcı Ekonomi	—
Chinese (simplified)	经济大爆炸	—
Chinese (traditional)	爆炸性經濟	—