Super Maelstrom (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Super Maelstrom (Battles 2).

Super Maelstrom

Even more powerful Maelstrom ability and lasts longer.

Tower	Tack Shooter — Path 2 — Tier 5
XP cost	28,000
Cash cost	$12,750 — Easy $15,000 — Medium $16,200 — Hard $18,000 — Impoppable

← Blade Maelstrom

Crucible of Steel and Flame →

Super Maelstrom is the Tack Shooter's path 2 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It upgrades the Blade Maelstrom's ability to last 9 seconds instead of 3, shoot out 4 blades at a time instead of 2, gains +8 bonus Ceramic damage, and increases the pierce of the ability's blades from 100 to 300. Additionally, its regular attack gains +3 additional damage (5 total), +5 bonus Ceramic damage, and its damage type is changed to Normal. These changes do not apply to the ability.

Super Maelstrom Ability

The Super Maelstrom ability has a cooldown of 20 seconds, with an initial cooldown of 6.67 seconds. When activated, it fires out four extra-strong blades per shot in an 360° amgle at rapid rates, while spinning the ejection angles at 360° per second clockwise; this creates a spiral pattern with the ejected blades. The ability lasts for 9 seconds. Each blade deals 2 Shatter damage (+8 bonus damage to ceramics), has 300 pierce, and is fired with an attack cooldown of 0.045 seconds. It can be affected with all types of buffs (e.g. damage, attack speed, pierce).

The ability also receives crosspathing benefits:

• Faster Shooting — ability gains ~17.6% increased attack speed (0.85x attack cooldown).
• Even Faster Shooting — ability gains ~38.4% increased attack speed total (0.85x attack cooldown on top, total of 0.7225x).
• More Tacks — ability gains +1.5s duration and spins counter-clockwise.
• Even More Tacks — ability gains +3s duration total.

Stats

For a complete list of Tack Shooter stats, see Stats:Tack Shooter (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 46 units Footprint radius 6 units Targeting options Close

Attack
Cooldown 1.12s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 13.9 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 46 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Count 8 Angle 360° Pierce 8 Damage 5 Damage to Ceramic +5 Damage type Normal Speed 187.2 units/s Lifespan 0.3419s Radius 4 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

Ability
Cooldown 20s Lifespan 9s
Attack Cooldown 0.045s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 13.9 Targeting range ∞ units Rotation speed -360 deg/s Ignores blockers Can fire without a target Projectile Count 4 Angle 360° Pierce 300 Damage 2 Damage to Ceramic +8 Damage type Shatter Speed 150 units/s Lifespan 2s Radius 2 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

1-5-0

Attack
Cooldown 1.12s → 0.84s

Ability
Attack Cooldown 0.045s → 0.0382s

2-5-0

Attack
Cooldown 0.84s → 0.63s

Ability
Attack Cooldown 0.0382s → 0.0325s

0-5-1

Attack
Projectile Count 8 → 10

Ability
Lifespan 9s → 10.5s
Attack Rotation speed -360 deg/s → 360 deg/s

0-5-2

Attack
Projectile Count 10 → 12

Ability
Lifespan 10.5s → 12s

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
0-5-0	$16,005	$18,835	$20,345	$22,600	$11,204	$13,185	$14,242	$15,820
1-5-0	$16,130	$18,985	$20,505	$22,780	$11,291	$13,290	$14,354	$15,946
2-5-0	$16,385	$19,285	$20,830	$23,140	$11,470	$13,500	$14,581	$16,198
0-5-1	$16,100	$18,945	$20,465	$22,730	$11,270	$13,262	$14,326	$15,911
0-5-2	$16,195	$19,055	$20,585	$22,860	$11,337	$13,339	$14,410	$16,002

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 51.2

With support for Lead Bloons and Camo detection, Super Maelstrom is a win condition in Race Events. Super Maelstrom transitions smoothly from Blade Maelstrom as it extends the duration of Blade Maelstrom's ability when upgraded from it while the ability is active. 0-5-2 is the preferred crosspath in Race Events because of the longer duration. Super Maelstrom is also powerful against Bloonarius's spawns, especially in Timed settings.

Elsewhere, Super Maelstrom is a below average DPS option that falls off on Expert maps, but fulfills a niche role in cleaning up Super Ceramics for cheaper than most T5s (e.g. The Bloon Solver). In CHIMPS, 2-5-0 and 0-5-2 are equally favorable, with the former having stronger burst damage and the latter being more reliable. It benefits from Primary Mentoring's cooldown reduction; Primary Expertise and Energizer are far too expensive.

Update history

For a complete list of Tack Shooter changes, see Update history:Tack Shooter (BTD6).

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Version 4.0

•  Ability: Duration increased ― ??? → 6s
•  Ability: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
•  Main blade: Damage increased ― 1 → 2

Version 11.0

•  Ability: duration increased ― 6s → 9s

Version 24.0

“

Maelstrom upgrades are in a good spot overall, but specifically for the low cost of this tower with such a rapid cooldown it was able to hit too many targets under race conditions. This targeted nerf is to the value of it under those race conditions and should be negligible in other game areas.
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 500

Version 37.0

“

Blade Shooter has always struggled to find much value without MK or as a step to Maelstrom, so to give it build value on its own we feel like this should be a part of the base value on the upgrade.
— Update notes

”

•  Blade pierce increased ― 6 → 8

Version 38.0

“

Maelstrom crosspathing? Why not, feels that this could be cool to try out, and more consistency on bottom crosspath may be able to make it the preferred ability crosspath while top path which already improves the base tower more will give back the massive pierce amount for times where the greater punch per use is required.
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: Pierce reduced ― 500 → 300

0-5-1, 0-5-2

•  Ability: Now rotates counter-clockwise with this crosspath

1-5-0

•  Ability: Pierce reduced ― 500 → 400
  • Note: 250 unchanged

0-5-1

•  Ability: Duration increased ― 9s → 10.5s

0-5-2

•  Ability: Duration increased ― 9s → 12s

Version 41.0

“

The recent ability crosspathing for Tack Shooter was fun but feels too lopsided as pierce concerns are very niche on Maelstrom, instead we want to shift this entire focus around for top path to be the rate crosspath for more damage in a shorter amount of time and leaving bottom mainly about greater overall uptime.
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.03s → 0.045s (attack speed reduced by 33.33%)
•  Ability: Damage type changed ― Normal → Shatter
•  Ability: Pierce increased ― 300 → 500

1-5-0

•  Ability: Faster Shooting no longer increases pierce
  •  Overall pierce is unchanged (due to changes to the base pierce)
•  Ability: Faster Shooting now reduces attack cooldown by 15%
  •  Overall attack cooldown with this crosspath increased ― 0.03s → 0.03825s (due to changes to the base attack cooldown)

2-5-0

•  Ability: Even Faster Shooting no longer increases pierce
  •  Overall pierce is unchanged (due to changes to the base pierce)
•  Ability: Even Faster Shooting now decreases attack cooldown by 15%
  • Reduces overall attack cooldown by 27.75% (due to changes to the previous tier)
  •  Overall attack cooldown with this crosspath increased ― 0.03s → 0.0325125s (due to changes to the base attack cooldown)

Version 43.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $20 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Ability blade: Pierce reduced ― 500 → 300
•  Ability blade: Damage increased ― 2 → 3 (bug)

Version 43.2

•  Super Maelstrom deals the correct amount of damage again ― 3 → 2 (bug fix)

Version 46.0

“

Blade Shooter has always visually increased the projectile size considerably but not actually changed this value at all, Blades will now actually be bigger.
— Update notes

”

•  Blade Maelstrom ability: Projectile radius increased ― 2 → 4
•  Reload rate reduced ― 1.19s → 1.12s
  • Note: Stacks with top crosspath: 1-X-0 ― 0.8925s → 0.84s. 2-X-0 ― 0.6694s → 0.63s
•  Main attack: Projectile radius increased ― 0 → 4

Version 48.0

“

Range fits well for this path, so we’re working this more into the main attack of middle path
— Update notes

”

•  Acquisition range increased ― 31 → 46
•  Blade: Projectile range increased ― 49.24 → 64

Version 49.0

“

Middle Tack has always been ability heavy, so the base tower damage is improving with higher tiers to get more than just the ability.
— Update notes

”

•  Main blade: Damage increased ― 2 → 5

Version 51.0

“

As it is primarily a small Bloon cleanup tower path, Super Maelstrom has struggled to keep up in the lategame, mostly because Super Ceramics don’t care how fast you’re spinning if you can’t break them so we’ve added a Ceramic bonus to the attack and ability.
— Update notes

”

•  Main attack: Now deals +5 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons
•  Ability: Now deals +8 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons

Gallery

For more Tack Shooter images, see Gallery:Tack Shooter.

Screenshots

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  Activation of the 050 ability
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  Activation of the 150 ability
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  Activation of the 250 ability
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  Activation of the 051 ability
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  Activation of the 052 ability

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Assets

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  Portrait
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  Upgrade icon
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  Ability icon
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  Insta Monkey icon

Trivia

• Its portrait resembles that of BTD5 Blade Maelstrom. This is ironically not the case with BTD6 Blade Maelstrom.

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	الدوامة الفائقة قدرة أكبر على عمل دوامة قوية والاستمرار لفترة أطول.	—
Danish	Super malstrøm Endnu kraftigere malstrøm-evne, som varer længere.	—
German	Super-Inferno Noch stärkere Infernofähigkeit, die noch länger dauert.	—
Spanish	Supervorágine La habilidad vorágine es aún más poderosa y dura más tiempo.	—
Spanish (LA)	Supervorágine La habilidad vorágine es aún más poderosa y dura más tiempo.	—
Finnish	Supermyrsky Vieläkin tehokkaampi ja pidempikestoinen myrskykyky.	—
French	Super maelström Aptitude Maelström encore plus puissante, et durée plus longue.	—
Italian	Super vortice Abilità Vortice ancora più potente e di durata maggiore.	—
Japanese	スーパー大混乱 もっとパワフルな大混乱能力で、持続時間も長い。	—
Korean	슈퍼 소용돌이 소용돌이 능력이 더욱 강력해지며 지속 시간도 길어집니다.	—
Dutch	Superkolk Nog krachtigere kolkvaardigheid en duurt langer.	—
Norwegian	Super malstrøm Enda kraftigere malstrøm-evne som varer lengre.	—
Polish	Super wir Jeszcze potężniejsza i dłużej działająca umiejętność wir.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Supertempestade Habilidade Tempestade ainda mais poderosa e mais duradoura.	—
Russian	Суперводоворот Водоворот мощнее и длится дольше.	—
Swedish	Supermalström Ännu mera kraftfull Malströmförmåga och varar längre.	—
Thai	ซูเปอร์เมลสตรอม สกิลพายุแรงขึ้นไปอีกและอยู่ได้นานขึ้น	—
Turkish	Süper Girdap Çok daha güçlü Girdap yeteneği ve daha uzun sürer.	—
Chinese (simplified)	超级漩涡 更强大的漩涡技能和更长的持续时间。	—
Chinese (traditional)	超級漩渦 更強大的漩渦技能，持續時間更長。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1