Total Transformation (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Total Transformation (Battles 2).

Total Transformation

Transforms five Monkeys nearby into crazy attack monsters for 20 seconds.

Tower	Alchemist — Path 2 — Tier 5
XP cost	28,000
Cash cost	$38,250 — Easy $45,000 — Medium $48,600 — Hard $54,000 — Impoppable

← Transforming Tonic

Total Transformation is the Alchemist's path 2 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It allows the Transforming Tonic ability to also transform the five closest eligible towers into miniature laser-firing monsters for 20 seconds. Other transformed towers do not inherit most upgrades, but do keep most types of buffs. This upgrade also reduces the ability cooldown of the Alchemist from 60 to 40 seconds. The Total Transformation ability cannot be used while the Alchemist is under transformation.

Like its preceding upgrade, Total Transformation's main monster can accept benefits from crosspaths, but the mini monsters do not benefit from them.

Mechanics

Transformation of other towers

Total Transformation's ability can only transform other towers that are tier 3 or lower, and can only transform the following tower types:

• Dart Monkey
• Boomerang Monkey
• Ice Monkey
• Glue Gunner
• Desperado
• Sniper Monkey
• Wizard Monkey
• Super Monkey
• Ninja Monkey
• Alchemist
• Druid
• Engineer Monkey
• Mermonkey

The other transformed towers temporarily become mini monsters that shoot lasers.

Mini monster

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Mini monsters, which are other towers transformed from the Total Transformation ability, behave differently from the main Total Transformation, which is unmodified. Mini monsters also do not receive crosspath benefits from the Total Transformation that transformed them. Visually, mini monsters are smaller and fluffier than the main monster, which is identical to the one created from Transforming Tonic.

Towers that are under transformation stop their regular attacks, and stop providing any buffs. They also lose their activated abilities. When activated, the transformation retains its current targeting priorities. A transformed Ice Monkey without Cryo Cannon will always default to Close, since these Ice Monkeys are always re-set to Close when not transformed.

Towers that are amphibious can be transformed on top of water. The Arctic Wind under transformation stops creating ice platforms, forcibly selling all land towers that relied on it to stand on water. Transformed towers cannot be upgraded, but can be sold.

Mini monsters gain an eye beam attack that deals 2 damage, has 10 pierce, and an attack cooldown of 0.03 seconds. Transformed towers' range becomes 72 units, and they gain the ability to see and shoot through line-of-sight blockers. The beams cannot damage Purple Bloons. Transformed towers that have an upgrade that grants Camo detection, such as Monkey Sense, can target Camo Bloons. However, transformed Ninja Monkeys cannot see Camo unless provided Camo detection from elsewhere. Transformed towers do not inherit other types of upgrades, such as upgrades that increase attack speed or pierce.

This article is in need of research. You can help out by editing this article or discussing your findings on the talk page. The editor who added this notice elaborates: Verify if: (also some others not listed) Desperadoes can benefit from Nomad passive speed+range buff (try ezili totem to auto-trigger life loss while transformed monsters are done) Cleansing Foam can benefit from start of round speed boost (these are "self-buffs") Sun Avatars can benefit from Blood Sacrifice Wizards can benefit from Sacrificial Totem primary monkeys can benefit from boomerang paragon speed buff, and top path village primary buffs perhaps

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Transformed towers maintain their tower type, meaning they can keep their buffs that are type-specific. The exception is that transformed Dart Monkeys cannot be affected by Super or Plasma Monkey Fan Club, and Dart Monkeys under a Fan Club transformation cannot be transformed by Total Transformation.

• Transformed Ninja Monkeys are affected by the Shinobi Tactics buff
• Transformed Druids are affected by Heart of Vengeance, Druid of Wrath, and Poplust buffs
• Transformed Desperadoes are affected by the ×2 damage from Marked Bloons (via Bounty Hunter and above), and retain marked prioritization
• Transformed Sniper Monkeys are affected by Elite Sniper's speed buff and retain Elite targeting
• Transformed Ice Monkeys are affected by the speed buff from Absolute Zero's ability.
• Transformed Mermonkeys are affected by Echosense Network buffs
• Transformed Primary Monkeys, such as Dart Monkeys, can be affected by Come On Everybody!.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 45 units Footprint radius 6 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 2s Offset (X, Y, Z) -0.8, 20.8, 15.3 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 45 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Splash Pierce 15 Damage 1 Damage to MOAB-Class +4 Damage to Fortified MOAB-Class +15 Damage type Acid Lifespan 0.05s Radius 14 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Removes Fortified Damage over time Damage 1 Damage type Acid Duration 4.55s Interval 1.5s Layers ∞

Unstable Concoction
Cooldown 6s Offset (X, Y, Z) 5.9, 9.1, 8 Targeting range 67.5 units Filters Cannot target Camo Can only target MOAB-Class Cannot target Bloons with Unstable Concoction
Ignores blockers
Splash Pierce 3 Damage 0 Damage type Normal Lifespan 0.05s Radius 14 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Can only hit MOAB-Class Ignores blockers Explosion Pierce 50 MOAB pierce penalty +1 BFB pierce penalty +1 ZOMG pierce penalty +3 DDT pierce penalty +3 BAD pierce penalty +9 Damage Depends on Bloon affected Damage type Normal Lifespan 0.05s Radius 40 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Ability
Cooldown 40s Lifespan 20s
Transformed attack Cooldown 0.03s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 8.9, 20.1 Targeting range 45 units Filters Cannot target Camo Ignores blockers Projectile Pierce 6 Damage 3 Damage type Plasma Speed 280 units/s Lifespan 0.6s Radius 6 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers
Range buff Range bonus +27 Lifespan 20s

Transformed Monkey

Tower
Display range 72 units Footprint radius 6 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 0.03s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 5.78, 15.81 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 72 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Projectile Pierce 10 Damage 2 Damage type Plasma Speed 280 units/s Lifespan 0.6s Radius 6 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

1-5-0

Attack
Splash Pierce 15 → 20 Radius 14 units → 21 units

Unstable Concoction
Offset (X, Y, Z) 5.9, 9.1, 8 ↓ 8.9, 10.4, 10.7
Splash Pierce 3 → 4 Radius 14 units → 21 units

Ability
Transformed attack Projectile Pierce 6 → 9

2-5-0

Acidic Mixture Dip
Cooldown 10s Offset (X, Y, Z) 8.9, 10.4, 10.7 Targeting range 45 units
Ignores blockers
Buff Damage to Fortified Lead bonus +1 Damage to Ceramic bonus +1 Damage to MOAB-Class bonus +1 Charges 12

0-5-1

Attack
Cooldown 2s → 1.6s

Unstable Concoction
Cooldown 6s → 4.8s

Ability
Transformed attack Cooldown 0.03s → 0.024s

0-5-2

Attack
Acid Pool Pierce 5 Damage 1 Damage to MOAB-Class +4 Damage to Fortified MOAB-Class +15 Damage type Acid Lifespan 6.95s Radius 7 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Removes Fortified Damage over time Damage 1 Damage type Acid Duration 4.55s Interval 1.5s Layers ∞

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	$45,285	$53,275	$57,540	$63,930	$31,700	$37,293	$40,278	$44,751
1-5-0	$45,495	$53,525	$57,810	$64,230	$31,847	$37,468	$40,467	$44,961
2-5-0	$45,790	$53,875	$58,190	$64,650	$32,053	$37,713	$40,733	$45,255
0-5-1	$45,835	$53,925	$58,240	$64,710	$32,085	$37,748	$40,768	$45,297
0-5-2	$46,215	$54,375	$58,725	$65,250	$32,351	$38,063	$41,108	$45,675

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 49.3

Total Transformation plays a very similar role to Plasma Monkey Fan Club; it transforms monkeys for a large burst of damage. It transforms fewer monkeys, but affects many more tower types, allowing transformed monkeys to inherit a wider variety of buffs. Transformed monkeys also ignore Line of Sight blockers which gives an edge on certain maps over the Fan Club.

Stalling is a key requirement for effective use because of the long cooldown. Towers that can provide massive burst stalling such as the Absolute Zero or towers which can intentionally stall a single bloon indefinitely like the MOAB Shove are as such useful.

The best monkeys to pair with Total Transformation are Druids of Wrath paired with Poplusts and Obyn, or with Shinobis, due to their tower type dependent buffs, which carry over into the transformed monkeys. Bear in mind that transformed monkeys temporarily lose the buffs they provide to others; for instance with Shinobis, buy 5 more so they gain the max buffs when transformed.

0-5-1 is the preferred crosspath as the greater attack speed increase affecting the monster far outweighs the benefits extra pierce would provide. Crosspaths don't affect the transformed monkeys, but since they have high pierce already, the main monster wouldn't realistically have pierce issues.

Update history

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

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Version 2.0

•  Ability: Duration now pauses between rounds (bug fix)
• Ability: Now displays a visual effect when the transformation ends

Version 4.0

1-5-0, 2-5-0

•  Larger Potions now increases the radius of concoction splash by 7 units

0-5-2

•  Faster Throwing now reduces the cooldown of the concoction attack by 20%

Version 5.0

•  Concoction explosion: MOABs and BFBs now consume +1 pierce
•  Concoction explosion: ZOMGs and DDTs now consume +3 pierce
•  Concoction explosion: BADs now consume +9 pierce
•  Ability no longer changes the footprint of transformed towers (bug fix)

Version 7.0

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $50,000 → $45,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $5,500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 8.0

• Main potion: Damage counter now counts removed health from defortifying outer layers
•  Ability: Cooldown reduced ― 60s → 40s
  • Note: Also effectively reduces its initial cooldown from 20s to 0s

Version 9.0

•  Non-main offensive attacks: Can now be thrown over obstacles (bug fix)

Version 10.0

• "Total Transformation should no longer cause crashes when used in a number of situations" (bug fix)

Version 11.0

•  Dart Monkeys are no longer affected by Super Monkey Fan Club or Plasma Monkey Fan Club while transformed

Version 17.0

•  Concoction explosion: Damage scaling now caps at round 150

Version 18.0

•  Concoction explosion: No longer deals much more damage in a resumed game after granting the tower a damage buff in another game (e.g., Sun Temple support buffing it in Sandbox) (bug fix)

Version 22.0

“

While the middle path T5 gets some use, T4 Transforming Tonic does not perform well for the low pierce amount so pierce has been increased. — Update notes

”

•  Transformed Alchemist: Pierce increased ― 4 → 6

Version 27.0

•  Unstable Concoction: Explosion damage no longer scales with Freeplay or HP modifiers in the Challenge Editor (undocumented)
•  Unstable Concoction: Explosion damage for fortified blimps is the same as their unfortified counterparts (bug)

Version 28.0

•  Concoction explosion: Now deals double damage to Fortified Bloons (bug fix)

Version 31.2

•  Base potion attack: no longer has single-layer damage (undocumented)

Version 33.0

“

Transforming Tonic has always had a large struggle with pierce, rather than directly throwing onto the base pierce we have added crosspathing pierce & rate benefits for transformation enjoyers to now choose between.
— Update notes

”

1-5-0, 2-5-0

•  Monster:  pierce increased ― 6 → 9

0-5-1, 0-5-2

•  Monster: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.03s → 0.024s (attack speed increased by 25%)

Version 35.0

“

Transforming Tonic has been compared to being a worse but more expensive Turbo Charge, and that seems like a fair complaint. T5 has good niche uses, but T4 isn't worth the cost right now so we’re adding more juice to the tonic. — Update notes

”

•  Monster laser: damage increased ― 2 → 3
  • Note: Does not affect x-5-x mini monsters

Version 37.0

“

Alchemist Transforming Tonic is in a weird spot with the transformation unable to attack through walls when the base alchemist is able to. Also with this, including a QoL fix for the T5 that currently prevents transformed towers from functioning with target priority. — Update notes

”

•  Towers transformed by Total Transformation will keep their Target Priority
•  Transformed alchemist can now ignore line of sight

Version 37.1

•  Alchemist x4x/x5x no longer loses the ability to fire through obstacles when crosspathed (bug fix)

Version 39.0

“

Alchemist 220 stands out a little too effectively in the crosspath efficiency of Acidic Mixture Dip uptime combined with the reduced forced downtime at 320 and so is being reduced. Total Transformation alchemist when transformed have never been allowing damage to distribute to children layers of any targets, while this is an option we can use as an intended balance lever - we have instead decided to turn this blocker off as it isn't one we have used elsewhere and has made these upgrades perform far weaker against regular Bloons comparatively to Ceramic & MOAB-class due to damage buffs that have been given to transformed alchemists over time. — Update notes

”

•  Ability: Damage now soaks through layers
•  Solved Quantum Entanglement (bug fix)
  • Note: Bug that allowed you to entangle towers together allowing you to do some really crazy things

2-5-0

•  Acidic Mixture Dip: Crosspath bonus to Acidic Mixture Dip buff reduced ― +3 → +2
  • Note: Shot amount reduced from 13 to 12

Version 40.0

“

Currently 031 is the only crosspath that realistically does anything for Unstable Concoction. — Update notes

”

1-5-0, 2-5-0

•  Larger potions grants +1 pierce to Concoction ― 3 → 4

Version 45.0

“

As this was an oversight Total Transformation is now being enabled to transform mermonkey. — Update notes

”

•  Can now transform Mermonkeys

Version 47.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 51.0

“

Total Transformation can now transform Desperado, simple enough, & don’t worry transformed Desperado still gets all their usual damage bonuses against Marked Bloons, so we’re interested to see what people can do with that. — Update notes

”

•  Ability: Can now transform Desperados

Version 55.0

•  Ability: Resolved an issue were some transformed towers lost Camo detection (bug fix)

Gallery

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Screenshots

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  An Ice Monkey (top) and a Mermonkey (bottom) being transformed on top of the water on Flooded Valley.

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

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	التحول الكلي تحويل خمسة قرود قريبة إلى وحوش هجومية مجنونة لمدة 20 ثانية.	—
Danish	Total Transformation Forvandler 5 aber til rasende angrebs-monstre i 20 sekunder.	—
German	Transformationen insgesamt Verwandelt fünf Affen in der Nähe 20 Sekunden lang in verrückte Angriffsmonster.	—
Spanish	Transformación total Transforma a cinco monos cercanos en monstruos agresivos desquiciados durante 20 segundos.	—
Spanish (LA)	Transformación total Transforma a cinco monos cercanos en monstruos agresivos desquiciados durante 20 segundos.	—
Finnish	Täydellinen muunnos Muuntaa viisi lähellä olevaa apinaa hulluiksi hyökkäyshirviöiksi 20 sekunnin ajaksi.	—
French	Transformation totale Transforme cinq singes à proximité en monstres d'attaque déchaînés pendant 20 secondes.	—
Italian	Trasformazione totale Trasforma per 20 secondi 5 scimmie vicine in mostri aggressivi.	—
Japanese	完全変身 近くの5匹のモンキーを20秒間、狂気の攻撃モンスターに変身させる。	—
Korean	환골탈태 주변 원숭이 다섯 마리를 20초 동안 공격에 미친 몬스터로 변신시킵니다.	—
Dutch	Totale transformatie Verandert vijf Apen in de buurt in gestoorde aanvalsmonsters gedurende 20 seconden.	—
Norwegian	Total transformasjon Transformerer fem aper i nærheten om til ville angrepsmonster i 20 sekunder.	—
Polish	Totalna transformacja Transformuje 5 pobliskich małpek w szalone atakujące potwory na 20 sekund.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Transformação Total Transforma cinco Macacos próximos em monstros loucos de ataque por 20 segundos.	—
Russian	Полное превращение На 20 сек. превращает 5 обезьян поблизости в безумных атакующих монстров.	—
Swedish	Total förvandling Förvandlar fem apor i närheten till galna attackmonster i 20 sekunder.	—
Thai	แปลงร่างสมบูรณ์แบบ เปลี่ยนลิง 5 ตัว\n ที่อยู่ใกล้เคียงให้เป็นมอนสเตอร์ที่มีพลังโจมตีรุนแรง\n 20 วินาที	—
Turkish	Komple Dönüşüm Yakındaki beş Maymunu 20 saniye boyunca çılgın saldırı canavarına dönüştürür.	—
Chinese (simplified)	变身总次数 在屏幕上将数十只猴子变成疯狂攻击怪兽，持续20秒。	—
Chinese (traditional)	變形總計 將附近的五隻猴子變成攻擊狂獸，持續20秒。	—
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