Snowstorm (BTD6)

For other uses, see Snowstorm (disambiguation).

Snowstorm

Snowstorm Ability: Freezes all regular Bloons on screen, briefly freezes White, Zebra, and Camo, and slows MOAB-class.

Tower	Ice Monkey — Path 2 — Tier 4
XP cost	8,500
Cash cost	$3,400 — Easy $4,000 — Medium $4,320 — Hard $4,800 — Impoppable

← Arctic Wind

Absolute Zero →

Snowstorm is the Ice Monkey's path 2 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. The Ice Monkey gains +10 range, which also benefits the Arctic Wind's freeze aura and ice bridge aura.

It also gains the Snowstorm Ability, which freezes all Bloons for 6 seconds (7 seconds with Hypothermia) with certain exceptions (see Snowstorm Ability section). Snowstorm also deals 1 damage to all Bloons on screen, including MOAB-Class Bloons, but it requires Cold Snap to damage Lead Bloons or DDTs.

Snowstorm Ability

The ability has a 30 second cooldown, and starts with a cooldown of 10 seconds.

Before freezing, it deals 1 damage to all Bloons on screen, including White, Zebra, Camo, and MOAB-Class Bloons. Camo Bloons will take damage even if the Snowstorm can't detect Camo. Lead Bloons won't be damaged unless it can pop Lead, such as with the Cold Snap crosspath. This damage can be buffed, counts as a single attack, and has infinite pierce.

After this damage is applied, all Bloons on screen get frozen for 6 seconds, which is reduced to 3 seconds for White, Zebra, and Camo Bloons, regardless of if the Snowstorm can detect Camo. Duration penalties do not stack (for example, a Camo White Bloon will get its insides frozen for only 3 seconds). If the snowstorm damage pops a MOAB-Class Bloon, it will not freeze the insides. A frozen ZOMG moves at 2.25 units per second, and other MOAB-Class Bloons move at 5 units per second.

If crosspathed with Permafrost, all non-MOAB-Class frozen Bloons will get the permafrost effect applied, permanently slowing them by 50%.

Stats

For a complete list of Ice Monkey stats, see Stats:Ice Monkey (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 30 units Footprint radius 6 units Targeting options Close

Attack
Cooldown 1.8s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 7 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 30 units Filters Cannot target Camo Cannot target MOAB-Class Cannot target frozen Bloons
Projectile Pierce 45 Damage 1 Damage type Cold Lifespan 0.05s Radius 20 units Filters Ignores Lead if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Cannot hit MOAB-Class Cannot hit frozen Bloons Ignores blockers Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 3s Layers 3

Ability
Cooldown 30s
Projectile Pierce 9,999,999 Damage 1 Damage type Sharp Lifespan 0.05s Radius ∞ units Filters Ignores Lead if its damage type cannot damage it Ignores blockers Does not disappear if it hits an immune target Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 6s Layers 3 Can freeze MOAB-Class

Arctic Wind
Radius 35 units Multiplier ×0.6 Filters Cannot affect Camo Cannot affect MOAB-Class

1-4-0

Attack
Projectile Permafrost Multiplier ×0.5 Duration ∞s Layers 3

Ability
Projectile Permafrost Multiplier ×0.5 Duration ∞s Duration for MOAB-Class 0s Layers 3

2-4-0

Attack
Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Damage type Cold → Glacier Filters Can now hit Camo

Ability
Projectile Damage type Sharp → Normal

Arctic Wind
Filters Can now affect Camo

0-4-1

Tower
Display range 30 units → 37 units

Attack
Targeting range 30 units → 37 units
Projectile Radius 20 units → 27 units

Arctic Wind
Radius 35 units → 42 units

0-4-2

Attack
Filters Can now target frozen Bloons
Projectile Filters Can now hit frozen Bloons

Costs and sell values

Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.

Tiers	Total cost				Sell value
	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
0-4-0	$6,500	$7,650	$8,260	$9,180	$4,550	$5,355	$5,782	$6,426
1-4-0	$6,625	$7,800	$8,420	$9,360	$4,638	$5,460	$5,894	$6,552
2-4-0	$6,920	$8,150	$8,800	$9,780	$4,844	$5,705	$6,160	$6,846
0-4-1	$6,625	$7,800	$8,420	$9,360	$4,638	$5,460	$5,894	$6,552
0-4-2	$6,795	$8,000	$8,635	$9,600	$4,757	$5,600	$6,045	$6,720

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 53.0

Snowstorm serves as a unique support tower for Rounds 81-100, as its ability has strong utility in halting the progress of Bloons and blimps that are near the exit. This pairs especially well with Admiral Brickell, as her Mega Mines ability becomes able to pop more blimps that enter the screen while the current ones are frozen, and the Super Ceramic Bloon rushes can be frozen by the ability as well. However, the frozen Bloons and blimps block Sharp projectiles which is an antisynergy with certain towers such as the Tack Zone.

2-4-0 is the optimal crosspath for Snowstorm, granting it both Permafrost for Super Ceramics and the innate ability to freeze DDTs.

In addition, Snowstorm's increased ice bridge range allows more towers to fit on nearby water, granting extra land space. For this role, 0-4-1 is the better crosspath for Snowstorm due to Larger Radius increasing the freeze aura's range further.

Update history

For a complete list of Ice Monkey changes, see Update history:Ice Monkey (BTD6).

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Version 2.0

•  Main attack: Freeze duration increased ― 2.2s → 3s
•  Ability: Now freezes White, Zebra, and MOAB-Class Bloons for half the normal duration
•  Main attack: Pierce increased ― 20 → 100

Version 7.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $1,500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Range increased ― 20 → 30

Version 8.0

•  Can now pop Lead Bloons when buffed by Acidic Mixture Dip (bug fix)

Version 11.0

• "Resolved some issues with Ice Platforms produced by x4x Ice Monkeys"

Version 12.0

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $1,800 → $3,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $600 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 17.0

• "[R]esolved numerous specific crashes" (bug fix)
•  Arctic Wind: No longer sells towers twice if the ice platform is removed on maps with water in the middle (bug fix)

Version 23.0

“

Ice Monkey power is currently too bottom heavy and mid-to-higher tiers are neglected, so some tweaks to mid-tier upgrades have been made. — Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Ability: Ability cooldown reduced ― 60s → 30s

Version 25.0

•  Ability: No longer affects DDTs unless crosspathed with Metal Freeze (undocumented) (bug fix)
  • Note: Unconfirmed
•  Arctic Wind: No longer slows Lead Bloons unless crosspathed with Metal Freeze (undocumented) (bug fix)
  • Note: Unconfirmed

Version 27.0

“

Snowstorm’s duration has been improved to give it more bang for its buck as an alternate option to Ninja’s Bloon Sabotage — Update notes

”

•  Ability: Duration increased ― 4s → 6s
  • Note: Does not carry over to Absolute Zero

Version 31.0

1-4-0, 2-4-0

•  Snowstorm Ability: Now applies 50% Permafrost to MOAB-Class bloons (bug)

Version 31.2

1-4-0

•  Snowstorm ability: No longer applies 50% permafrost to MOABs (bug fix)

Version 33.0

“

Arctic Wind hardly gets used for its actual basic intended purpose, which would be cool to see used for more than just causing ice platform bug reports.
— Update notes

”

•  Arctic Wind aura slow amount increased ― 50% → 60%
  • Note: Patch notes made an error that states the old value was 40%

Version 36.0

“

Arctic wind felt extremely overbuffed with the slowing field going from 40 to 50%, but we like seeing the use on it go up so we want to meet halfway on that & keep the higher slow at T5. While we like the added pierce value on x2x crosspathing, the drop of pierce on xx3 feels too large now on a tower that already had quite good crosspath balance, so we want to try out removing the pierce downgrade entirely here. — Update notes

”

•  Slowing aura: Slowing reduced ― -60% → -50%
  • Note: Absolute Zero unaffected

Version 38.0

“

Plenty of attention has been drawn to the high power of Ice, so we’re continuing to work on slowly dialing this back in fair ways. — Update notes

”

•  Pierce reduced ― 100 → 40
  • Note: Absolute Zero unaffected

Version 39.0

“

We’re happier with more recent freeze changes succeeding in some of the intentions of older nerfs, given the base tower value in races being hit far more than intended we’re going back over the pierce for Ice Monkey base & middle crosspath. Snowstorm continues to outshine any similar supportive options while being generally cheaper & more versatile. — Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $3,000 → $3,800
•  Pierce increased ― 40 → 45

Version 40.0

“

Arctic Wind it feels was heavily underrated before it’s large slow aura increase, with so many players now working out how good it is and how much better an upgrade it leads into than any similar options we feel this aura needs to be reduced again although it will remain the same at T5. — Update notes

”

•  Aura: slowdown reduced ― 50% → 40%
  • Note: Absolute Zero aura slowdown unchanged

Version 48.0

“

Arctic Wind’s price is shifting up into Snowstorm to allow for cheaper utility use. — Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $3,800 → $4,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Damage type ― Shatter → Sharp (undocumented)
  • Note: Causes snowstorm ability to only have 1 pierce and unable to damage bloons

Version 48.1

•  Snowstorm ability: Should no longer pierce cap on a single Bloon (bug fix)

Version 49.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $25 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Can now be placed on water

Version 53.0

•  Ability: Freeze effect will now be applied after damage rather than before (undocumented)

Gallery

For more Ice Monkey images, see Gallery:Ice Monkey.

Screenshots

• 
  Snowstorm with no crosspath
• 
  Snowstorm with 140 crosspath
• 
  Snowstorm with 240 crosspath
• 
  Snowstorm with 041 crosspath
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  Snowstorm with 042 crosspath
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  Snowstorm ability

Assets

• 
  Portrait
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  Upgrade icon
• 
  Insta Monkey icon

Trivia

• The platform its in-game model is standing on heavily resembles the BTD4 Ice Tower.

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	عاصفة جليدية قدرة العاصفة الثلجية: تجمد جميع البالونات العادية التي تظهر على الشاشة، وتجميد البالونات البيضاء، والمخططة بنمط الحمار الوحشي، والمموهة لفترة وجيزة، وإبطاء حركة البالونات من فئة "موآب".	—
Danish	Snestorm Snestormsevne: Fryser alle bloons på banen, og fryser midlertidigt hvide, zebra, camo, og sinker MOAB-klasse bloons.	—
German	Schneesturm Schneesturm-Fähigkeit: Friert alle normalen Bloons auf dem Bildschirm ein, friert für kurze Zeit Weiße, Zebra- und Tarn-Bloons ein und verlangsamt MOAB-Bloons.	—
Spanish	Tormenta de nieve Habilidad Tormenta de nieve: congela a todos los bloons en pantalla, congela durante un tiempo corto a los blancos, cebras y camufloons y desacelera a los clase MOAB.	—
Spanish (LA)	Tormenta de nieve Habilidad Tormenta de nieve: congela a todos los bloons en pantalla, congela durante un tiempo corto a los blancos, cebras y camufloons y desacelera a los clase MOAB.	—
Finnish	Lumimyrsky Lumimyrsky-kyky: Jäädyttää kaikki tavalliset bloonit näytöllä ja jäähdyttää hetkeksi valkoiset, seeprakuvioidut ja maastokuvioidut bloonit ja hidastaa MOAB-luokkaa.	—
French	Tempête de neige Aptitude Tempête de neige : gèle tous les Bloons ordinaires à l'écran, gèle brièvement les Bloons blancs, zébrés et camouflés, et ralentit les Bloons de classe MOAB.	—
Italian	Tempesta di neve Abilità Tempesta di neve: congela tutti i bloon normali sullo schermo e inoltre congela per un breve lasso di tempo i bloon bianchi, zebrati e mimetizzati. Rallenta invece i bloon di classe MOAB.	—
Japanese	雪嵐 雪嵐の能力：画面上の全てのブルーンを凍結させる。白、ゼブラ、カモフラージュ、MOAB級は短時間凍結させる。	—
Korean	눈폭풍 눈폭풍 능력: 화면의 모든 일반 풍선을 얼리며, 잠시 동안 하얀 풍선, 줄무늬 풍선, 캐모 풍선을 얼리고 MOAB급 풍선을 느리게 만듭니다.	—
Dutch	Sneeuwstorm Sneeuwstorm-vaardigheid: bevriest alle gewone Bloons op het scherm, bevriest Witte, Zebra- en Gecamoufleerde Bloons kort, en vertraagt MOAB-klasse Bloons.	—
Norwegian	Snøstorm Snøstorm-evne: Fryser alle vanlige bloons på skjermen, fryser i kort tid hvite og kamuflasjebloons og zebrabloons, og sakker ned bloons av MOAB-klasse.	—
Polish	Śnieżna burza Umiejętność śnieżna burza: zamraża wszystkie zwyczajne blony na ekranie, na krótko zamraża blony białe, pasiaste i kamuflażowe oraz spowalnia klasę MOAB.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Nevasca Habilidade Nevasca: Congela todos os Bloons comuns na tela, congela brevemente Bloons Brancos, Zebra e Camuflados, e desacelera classe MOAB.	—
Russian	Снежная буря Снежная буря: замораживает все обычные шары на экране, ненадолго замораживает белые, камуфлированные и зебро-, а также замедляет MOAB.	—
Swedish	Snöstorm Snöstormförmåga: Fryser alla normala Bloons på skärmen och fryser Vita, Zebra och Kamo under en kort stund och gör Bloons i MOAB-klassen långsammare.	—
Thai	พายุหิมะ สกิลพายุหิมะ: แช่แข็งลูกโป่งธรรมดาทั้งหมดในหน้าจอ แช่แข็งลูกโป่งสีขาว ม้าลาย และลายพรางเป็นเวลาสั้นๆ พร้อมลดความเร็วคลาส MOAB	—
Turkish	Kar Fırtınası Kar Fırtınası Yeteneği: Ekrandaki tüm normal Bloon’ları, Beyaz, Zebra ve Kamuflajlıları dondurur ve MOAB Sınıfı Bloon’ları yavaşlatır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	暴风雪 暴风雪技能：冻结屏幕上所有的普通气球，短暂冻结白气球、斑马气球和迷彩气球，并减速MOAB级气球。	—
Chinese (traditional)	暴風雪 暴風雪技能：凍結螢幕上包括白色氣球、斑馬條紋氣球、偽裝氣球在內的所有普通氣球，並使MOAB級氣球減速。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1