Dartling Gunner (BTD6)

Dartling Gunner iterations: BTD4 • BTD5 • Battles • BMC • BTD6 • Battles 2

Dartling Gunner

Uses a dart-shooting machine-gun. Aims wherever you point on the screen.

Unlock method(s)	Gift Box (3,000,000 pops) Shop (Dartling Unlock Pack)
Category	Military
Cost	$725 — Easy $850 — Medium $920 — Hard $1,020 — Impoppable With Advanced Logistics: $685 — Easy $810 — Medium $870 — Hard $970 — Impoppable With Military Conscription: $485 — Easy $570 — Medium $615 — Hard $685 — Impoppable With Advanced Logistics and Military Conscription: $450 — Easy $525 — Medium $570 — Hard $630 — Impoppable
Hotkey	M
Introduced	Version 22.0

The Dartling Gunner is a Military tower in Bloons TD 6, introduced in version 22.0. It shoots darts from its Dartling Gun, which can be pointed in any direction using the cursor, rotating at a rate of 180°/s, and shots have a deviation angle of 23° from the centre. Each dart has 1 pierce and 1 damage, 2 radius, and enough projectile speed and lifespan to last across the entire map, but cannot see Camo Bloons without support or upgrades such as Advanced Targeting.

It can be upgraded to shoot lasers, missiles or independently targeting blasts of buckshot.

Upgrades

Path 1

Focused Firing

Tier 1 — 150 XP to unlock

Increases accuracy of the Dartling Gun.

$255 — Easy
$300 — Medium
$325 — Hard
$360 — Impoppable

This upgrade reduces the spread of the Dartling Gunner's shots by 60% and increases the lifespan of its projectiles by 40%. Crosspathing with Rocket Storm reduces the spread of the ability's rockets by 60%, but does not improve their lifespan.

Laser Shock

Tier 2 — 600 XP to unlock

Laser tipped shots shock Bloons into popping again 1 second after being struck.

$765 — Easy
$900 — Medium
$970 — Hard
$1,080 — Impoppable

Each of its projectiles now apply a damage-over-time shock effect that lasts for 1 second and deals 1 damage. Additionally, shocked Bloons take a bonus +1 damage from all other Dartling Gunners with any path 1 upgrades.

When crosspathed with Hydra Rocket Pods, the shock is only applied by missile contacts (not the explosions), and does not do bonus shock damage. Crosspathing with Buckshot, Bloon Area Denial System, and Bloon Exclusion Zone increases both shock and bonus damage to 2, 2, and 4, respectively.

Laser Cannon

Tier 3 — 2,600 XP to unlock

Rapidly fires much more powerful laser blasts that can pop Frozen Bloons, and deal increased MOAB damage.

$2,550 — Easy
$3,000 — Medium
$3,240 — Hard
$3,600 — Impoppable

Instead of darts, it fires lasers that deal 2 Energy-type damage (can pop Frozen Bloons but not Purple Bloons) with 6 pierce, faster projectile speed, and +2 MOAB damage. Additionally, shock duration is increased by 1 second. Powerful Darts grants +3 pierce instead of +2 (from 6 to 9).

Plasma Accelerator

Tier 4 — 12,500 XP to unlock

Concentrates a powerful beam of energy to a single point.

$9,990 — Easy
$11,750 — Medium
$12,690 — Hard
$14,100 — Impoppable

This upgrade replaces its lasers with a continuous beam that extends to the tower's target location. The beam continuously attacks every 0.2 seconds with 1 damage and 50 pierce. The tip of the beam is wider and deals 2 damage, with +10 MOAB damage. The shock debuff is applied to Bloons hit by any part of the beam and its duration is increased to 5 seconds. The damage type of all of its attacks are changed to Plasma type, letting it affect Lead Bloons.

Crosspathing with Powerful Darts increases the beam's pierce by 100 and its radius by 50%.

Ray of Doom

Tier 5 — 75,000 XP to unlock

Creates a solid line of annihilation. You can erase most Bloons at your leisure.

$63,750 — Easy
$75,000 — Medium
$81,000 — Hard
$90,000 — Impoppable

This upgrade constantly fires a larger constant laserbeam with 30 Normal-type damage (instead of 1 and +10 MOAB-class damage), +110 bonus damage to the first target, 999 pierce. The shock damage bonus and damage-over-time are both increased (20 instead of 1), and duration is increased from 5 to 30 seconds. The laserbeam no longer extends until the Dartling Gunner's target, instead continuing on indefinitely until it hits an obstacle or exits the map.

With 5-0-2, the beam radius is increased from 6 to 9, and pierce increased from 999 to 1025.

Path 2

Advanced Targeting

Tier 1 — 130 XP to unlock

Allows Dartling Gunner to hit Camo Bloons.

$210 — Easy
$250 — Medium
$270 — Hard
$300 — Impoppable

This upgrade grants Camo detection, allowing its darts to pop Camo Bloons.

Faster Barrel Spin

Tier 2 — 700 XP to unlock

Makes gun fire much faster.

$810 — Easy
$950 — Medium
$1,025 — Hard
$1,140 — Impoppable

The Dartling Gunner's attack cooldown reduces by 33%, gaining roughly +51.52% attack speed. Without additional upgrades, it attacks every 0.132 seconds instead of 0.2 seconds.

Hydra Rocket Pods

Tier 3 — 2,700 XP to unlock

Shoots depleted bloontonium missiles that can damage all Bloon types and trigger multiple explosions.

$3,825 — Easy
$4,500 — Medium
$4,860 — Hard
$5,400 — Impoppable

Instead of darts, it fires missiles that produce multiple explosions that damage all Bloon types. Each missile does zero damage and consumes 2 pierce every time it hits a new target, creating an explosion that deals 2 damage, has 6 pierce (8 with 0-3-2), and 8 blast radius (12 with 0-3-2). The missile itself has 6 pierce, creating explosions up to 3 times, and can create an extra explosion if it has non-whole pierce. Both the missile and explosions can gain extra pierce, allowing missiles to explode more times.

When crosspathed with Laser Shock, the shock only is applied by the missile, and does not do extra shocked damage. Powerful Darts increases pierce of both missiles and explosions by +2, essentially adding an extra explosion plus an extra 2 pierce per explosion, plus increased blast radius.

Rocket Storm

Tier 4 — 14,000 XP to unlock

Rocket Storm ability: Launches a powerful storm of rockets in a wide cone.

$4,250 — Easy
$5,000 — Medium
$5,400 — Hard
$6,000 — Impoppable

In addition to +2 pierce to both its Hydra missiles and explosions, it gains the Rocket Storm ability, which creates persistent waves of purple missiles that move erratically and deal high damage but low pierce.

Focused Firing increases accuracy of all of its attacks by 60%. With Laser Shock, the shock only is applied by the main missile, and does not do extra shocked damage.

Powerful Darts increases pierce of both missiles and explosions by +2; the Hydra missile essentially gains an extra explosion plus an extra 2 pierce per explosion, blast radius increased from 8 to 12 for all main missiles, and the ability missiles gain +4 pierce.

M.A.D

Tier 5 — 60,000 XP to unlock

MOAB Assured Destroyer. Slower firing mega missiles deal extreme damage to MOAB-class Bloons.

$55,250 — Easy
$65,000 — Medium
$70,200 — Hard
$78,000 — Impoppable

The Dartling Gunner fires mega missiles that alternate between its left and right arms from a wide distance from its center, and has slightly higher elevation than Rocket Storm. M.A.D attacks 3× slower (from 0.132 to 0.396 seconds) but deals 3 damage with each explosion instead of 2, and deals a massive +450 damage to MOAB-Class Bloons hit directly by the missiles (the explosions have no bonus MOAB-class damage, only the missiles). The pierce of each missile increases from 8 to 20, allowing them to create up to ten explosions instead of four, but each explosion still has 8 pierce. Powerful Darts no longer increases missile pierce but will increase explosion pierce by +2 (10 pierce).

Additionally, its Rocket Storm ability is improved - pierce of each of these missile explosions increase from 8 to 18, and deals +5 Ceramic damage and +250 MOAB damage. The ability button for M.A.D is separated from other Rocket Storm abilities.

Despite visually being much larger, the main attack's rockets and explosions have exactly the same projectile size as the previous upgrade. Only its Rocket Storm rockets have a larger hitbox.

Path 3

Faster Swivel

Tier 1 — 110 XP to unlock

Barrel can swivel much faster.

$130 — Easy
$150 — Medium
$160 — Hard
$180 — Impoppable

This upgrade increases the rotation of speed of the Dartling Gunner from 180° to 440° per second.

Powerful Darts

Tier 2 — 650 XP to unlock

Darts move faster, can pop frozen Bloons and can pop 3 Bloons each.

$1,020 — Easy
$1,200 — Medium
$1,295 — Hard
$1,440 — Impoppable

The Dartling Gunner gains +2 pierce, increases speed and radius of its projectiles, and, if it doesn't already pop Frozen Bloons, changes its damage type to Shatter. Powerful Darts also improves the pierce of higher-tier upgrades, and for Hydra Rocket Pods and above improves blast radius too.

Buckshot

Tier 3 — 3,000 XP to unlock

Shoots blasts of deadly buckshot instead of darts.

$2,550 — Easy
$3,000 — Medium
$3,240 — Hard
$3,600 — Impoppable

Instead of rapid-fire darts, it slowly shoots 6 buckshots per shot with more damage and pierce, faster projectile speed, and knockback on non-blimps, but much shorter projectile lifespan and increased projectile deviation.

Each buckshot does 3 damage, 4 pierce, roughly +10% projectile speed (470 to 520), but lasts for 0.25 seconds (0.35 seconds with 1-0-3) and all its projectile are randomly spread within 46° (18.6° with 1-0-3), plus a random 0.9×-1.1× projectile speed modifier. The knockback lasts for 0.2 seconds and applies 150% speed against Ceramics and damaged Leads, 300% speed against all other non-blimps. It attacks every 1.2 seconds (0.792 seconds with 0-2-3).

2-0-3 Buckshot does +2 shocked damage and applies shock damage-over-time that deals 2 damage every 0.95 seconds for 1 second.

Bloon Area Denial System

Tier 4 — 15,000 XP to unlock

4-barreled auto-cannon that can be set to attack automatically.

$10,200 — Easy
$12,000 — Medium
$12,960 — Hard
$14,400 — Impoppable

The Dartling Gunner fires from a four-barrelled turret, each barrel attacking from different heights (22.56, 16.52, 10.36, and 4.33), and alternating their attacks from top to bottom, effectively granting 4× attack speed (from 1.2 to 0.3 seconds). The increased height allows some barrels to pass over certain obstacles.

Additionally, this Dartling gains the "Target Independent" targeting option. When set to this targeting option, it no longer passively shoots, instead it has a large non-dummy range and independently targets bloons within the range in the order of First, Last, Close, Strong.

If crosspathed with Laser Shock, the bonus shocked damage and damage-over-time is increased from +1 to +2 (same as Buckshot).

Bloon Exclusion Zone

Tier 5 — 55,000 XP to unlock

Upgraded to 6 barrels and massively increased damage. Bloons are excluded from existence.

$49,300 — Easy
$58,000 — Medium
$62,640 — Hard
$69,600 — Impoppable

This upgrade grants the Dartling Gunner two extra turrets for the total of 6, effectively granting it 1.5× attack speed (from 0.3s to 0.2s) compared to Bloon Area Denial System. Additionally, the tower now has even more pierce (4 to 6), damage (3 to 6), and projectiles per shot (6 to 12). All barrels are even taller than the predecessor, the tallest at 42 z-units. The increased height allows some barrels to pass over certain obstacles. The "Target Independent" targeting option is modified to target First, Last, Close, Strong, First, Strong.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 20 units Footprint radius 7 units Targeting options Normal Locked

Attack
Cooldown 0.2s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 16, 7 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range ∞ units Rotation speed 180 deg/s Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Angle 23° Pierce 1 Damage 1 Damage type Sharp Speed 350 units/s Lifespan 1.1429s Radius 2 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

Related Monkey Knowledge

This list does not include Monkey Knowledge that affects all Military towers.

Monkey Knowledge	Cost	Prerequisites	Introduced
Emergency Unlock Activated ability: unlocks locked Dartling Gunners and boosts their swivel speed for a short time.	Free	—	Version 22.0
Gorgon Storm Hydra Rocket Storm stuns damaged Bloons for a short time.	Free	4 invested Emergency Unlock	Version 22.0
Cross the Streams Where Plasma or Doom beams cross on the track they create temporary plasma pools.	250	8 invested Gorgon Storm	Version 22.0

Rogue Legends

Starter parties with Dartling Gunners

Hero	Insta Monkey 1	Insta Monkey 2	Artifact
Captain Churchill	0-0-1 Dart Monkey	0-0-2 Dartling Gunner	Battlefield Commission Rare
Cyber Quincy	0-0-2 Dartling Gunner	1-0-0 Sniper Monkey	Cold Steel Legendary
Harlegwen	2-0-0 Heli Pilot	0-0-0 Dartling Gunner	Bouncing Projectiles Rare
ETn	0-0-2 Monkey Ace	2-0-0 Dartling Gunner	Wacky Wibbly Wavey Common (adds  1-1-0 Heli Pilot)

Related Artifacts

This list does not include Artifacts that affect all Military towers.

Artifact	Common effect	Rare effect	Legendary effect
Homing Projectiles	—	—	Grants homing projectiles for Dart Monkey, Bomb Shooter, Tack Shooter, Super Monkey, Druid, Engineer, Dartling Gunner and all Heroes

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
0-0-0	$725	$850	$920	$1,020	$508	$595	$644	$714
1-0-0	$980	$1,150	$1,245	$1,380	$686	$805	$872	$966
1-1-0	$1,190	$1,400	$1,515	$1,680	$833	$980	$1,061	$1,176
1-0-1	$1,110	$1,300	$1,405	$1,560	$777	$910	$984	$1,092
0-1-0	$935	$1,100	$1,190	$1,320	$655	$770	$833	$924
0-1-1	$1,065	$1,250	$1,350	$1,500	$746	$875	$945	$1,050
0-0-1	$855	$1,000	$1,080	$1,200	$599	$700	$756	$840
2-0-0	$1,745	$2,050	$2,215	$2,460	$1,222	$1,435	$1,551	$1,722
2-1-0	$1,955	$2,300	$2,485	$2,760	$1,369	$1,610	$1,740	$1,932
2-2-0	$2,765	$3,250	$3,510	$3,900	$1,936	$2,275	$2,457	$2,730
2-0-1	$1,875	$2,200	$2,375	$2,640	$1,313	$1,540	$1,663	$1,848
2-0-2	$2,895	$3,400	$3,670	$4,080	$2,027	$2,380	$2,569	$2,856
0-2-0	$1,745	$2,050	$2,215	$2,460	$1,222	$1,435	$1,551	$1,722
1-2-0	$2,000	$2,350	$2,540	$2,820	$1,400	$1,645	$1,778	$1,974
0-2-1	$1,875	$2,200	$2,375	$2,640	$1,313	$1,540	$1,663	$1,848
0-2-2	$2,895	$3,400	$3,670	$4,080	$2,027	$2,380	$2,569	$2,856
0-0-2	$1,875	$2,200	$2,375	$2,640	$1,313	$1,540	$1,663	$1,848
1-0-2	$2,130	$2,500	$2,700	$3,000	$1,491	$1,750	$1,890	$2,100
0-1-2	$2,085	$2,450	$2,645	$2,940	$1,460	$1,715	$1,852	$2,058
3-0-0	$4,295	$5,050	$5,455	$6,060	$3,007	$3,535	$3,819	$4,242
3-1-0	$4,505	$5,300	$5,725	$6,360	$3,154	$3,710	$4,008	$4,452
3-2-0	$5,315	$6,250	$6,750	$7,500	$3,721	$4,375	$4,725	$5,250
3-0-1	$4,425	$5,200	$5,615	$6,240	$3,098	$3,640	$3,931	$4,368
3-0-2	$5,445	$6,400	$6,910	$7,680	$3,812	$4,480	$4,837	$5,376
0-3-0	$5,570	$6,550	$7,075	$7,860	$3,899	$4,585	$4,953	$5,502
1-3-0	$5,825	$6,850	$7,400	$8,220	$4,078	$4,795	$5,180	$5,754
2-3-0	$6,590	$7,750	$8,370	$9,300	$4,613	$5,425	$5,859	$6,510
0-3-1	$5,700	$6,700	$7,235	$8,040	$3,990	$4,690	$5,065	$5,628
0-3-2	$6,720	$7,900	$8,530	$9,480	$4,704	$5,530	$5,971	$6,636
0-0-3	$4,425	$5,200	$5,615	$6,240	$3,098	$3,640	$3,931	$4,368
1-0-3	$4,680	$5,500	$5,940	$6,600	$3,276	$3,850	$4,158	$4,620
2-0-3	$5,445	$6,400	$6,910	$7,680	$3,812	$4,480	$4,837	$5,376
0-1-3	$4,635	$5,450	$5,885	$6,540	$3,245	$3,815	$4,120	$4,578
0-2-3	$5,445	$6,400	$6,910	$7,680	$3,812	$4,480	$4,837	$5,376
4-0-0	$14,285	$16,800	$18,145	$20,160	$10,000	$11,760	$12,702	$14,112
4-1-0	$14,495	$17,050	$18,415	$20,460	$10,147	$11,935	$12,891	$14,322
4-2-0	$15,305	$18,000	$19,440	$21,600	$10,714	$12,600	$13,608	$15,120
4-0-1	$14,415	$16,950	$18,305	$20,340	$10,091	$11,865	$12,814	$14,238
4-0-2	$15,435	$18,150	$19,600	$21,780	$10,805	$12,705	$13,720	$15,246
0-4-0	$9,820	$11,550	$12,475	$13,860	$6,874	$8,085	$8,733	$9,702
1-4-0	$10,075	$11,850	$12,800	$14,220	$7,053	$8,295	$8,960	$9,954
2-4-0	$10,840	$12,750	$13,770	$15,300	$7,588	$8,925	$9,639	$10,710
0-4-1	$9,950	$11,700	$12,635	$14,040	$6,965	$8,190	$8,845	$9,828
0-4-2	$10,970	$12,900	$13,930	$15,480	$7,679	$9,030	$9,751	$10,836
0-0-4	$14,625	$17,200	$18,575	$20,640	$10,238	$12,040	$13,003	$14,448
1-0-4	$14,880	$17,500	$18,900	$21,000	$10,416	$12,250	$13,230	$14,700
2-0-4	$15,645	$18,400	$19,870	$22,080	$10,952	$12,880	$13,909	$15,456
0-1-4	$14,835	$17,450	$18,845	$20,940	$10,385	$12,215	$13,192	$14,658
0-2-4	$15,645	$18,400	$19,870	$22,080	$10,952	$12,880	$13,909	$15,456
5-0-0	$78,035	$91,800	$99,145	$110,160	$54,625	$64,260	$69,402	$77,112
5-1-0	$78,245	$92,050	$99,415	$110,460	$54,772	$64,435	$69,591	$77,322
5-2-0	$79,055	$93,000	$100,440	$111,600	$55,339	$65,100	$70,308	$78,120
5-0-1	$78,165	$91,950	$99,305	$110,340	$54,716	$64,365	$69,514	$77,238
5-0-2	$79,185	$93,150	$100,600	$111,780	$55,430	$65,205	$70,420	$78,246
0-5-0	$65,070	$76,550	$82,675	$91,860	$45,549	$53,585	$57,873	$64,302
1-5-0	$65,325	$76,850	$83,000	$92,220	$45,728	$53,795	$58,100	$64,554
2-5-0	$66,090	$77,750	$83,970	$93,300	$46,263	$54,425	$58,779	$65,310
0-5-1	$65,200	$76,700	$82,835	$92,040	$45,640	$53,690	$57,985	$64,428
0-5-2	$66,220	$77,900	$84,130	$93,480	$46,354	$54,530	$58,891	$65,436
0-0-5	$63,925	$75,200	$81,215	$90,240	$44,748	$52,640	$56,851	$63,168
1-0-5	$64,180	$75,500	$81,540	$90,600	$44,926	$52,850	$57,078	$63,420
2-0-5	$64,945	$76,400	$82,510	$91,680	$45,462	$53,480	$57,757	$64,176
0-1-5	$64,135	$75,450	$81,485	$90,540	$44,895	$52,815	$57,040	$63,378
0-2-5	$64,945	$76,400	$82,510	$91,680	$45,462	$53,480	$57,757	$64,176

Strategy

For more in-depth strategies, see Strategy:Dartling Gunner (BTD6).

This section was last updated for: version 55.2

Dartling Gunner is decently expensive in the early-game but its infinite range, controllable shots, and fast firing makes it excel at carrying on open maps such as Muddy Puddles. Its lower-tier upgrades can be helpful in bridging the gap from early to mid game, while its stronger upgrades can serve as the win condition for a game.

• All Dartling Gunners come with a "Locked" targeting priority, causing the tower to stop moving and focusing fire on one spot. Use this targeting option if a good straightaway is available and/or player attention and micro is required elsewhere.
• Path 1 switches out the darts for energy based attacks. This path gains lots of MOAB damage and later exceptionally high pierce. Higher tiers have most of the damage locked behind a special condition, requiring the bloon to either be hit by the endpoint of the beam or be the first bloon hit by the beam depending on tier.
• Path 2 enables the Dartling to shoot deadly rocket pods that can pop any Bloon type. This makes it useful against Bloons rushes. Its final upgrade, the M.A.D, changes the tower's function - instead of being strong against rushes, it deals enormous damage to MOAB-Class Bloons.
• Path 3 switches out darts for Buckshot. These projectiles hit hard, but have much more limited range. Further upgrades enable the tower to shoot from multiple automatically-targeting barrels, making for great all-around defense.

Pre-release

Development

Concept art of the Dartling Gunner's original upgrades

While the Dartling Gunner released in version 22.0, assets for the tower, such as projectile textures and upgrade descriptions, existed in the game's data since launch. Early text and concept art for the tower indicates its upgrades were completely overhauled before the tower released; the original upgrade text and concept art indicates the tower was originally designed to be more similar to its iteration in Bloons TD 5 (though the rename from "Dartling Gun" to "Dartling Gunner" was already planned).

Tier	Pre-22.0	22.0	Notes
Base	Dartling Gunner Uses a dart-shooting machine-gun. Aims wherever you last tapped on the screen.	Dartling Gunner Uses a dart-shooting machine-gun. Aims wherever you point on the screen.	The description seems to have been altered to account for non-touchscreen players (i.e., keyboard and mouse).
Path 1
1	Focused Firing Increases accuracy of the Dartling Gun.
2	Faster Barrel Spin Makes gun fire much faster.	Laser Shock Laser tipped shots shock Bloons into popping again 1 second after being struck.	Faster Barrel Spin was moved to the middle path. Its original spot was replaced with a new upgrade, Laser Shock.
3	Laser Cannon Rapid fire laser blasts can pop Frozen Bloons.
4	Plasma Accelerator Concentrates a powerful beam of energy to a single point.
5	Ray of Doom Creates a solid line of Bloon annihilation. You can basically erase the Bloons at your leisure.	Ray of Doom Creates a solid line of annihilation. You can erase most Bloons at your leisure.	The description was reworded.
Path 2
1	Powerful Darts Darts move faster and can pop 3 Bloons each.	Advanced Targeting Allows Dartling Gunner to hit Camo Bloons.	Powerful Darts was moved to the bottom path. Its original spot was replaced with a new upgrade, Advanced Targeting.
2	Depleted Bloontonium Shots can damage any Bloon type.	Faster Barrel Spin Makes gun fire much faster.	This upgrade was omitted. The text for this upgrade still exists, unused, in the game's localization files.
3	Hydra Rocket Pods Shoots depleted bloontonium missiles instead of darts, which can pop black and lead Bloons.	Hydra Rocket Pods Shoots vicious little missiles instead of darts.	The description was reworded to account for the omission of Depleted Bloontonium.
4	Rocket Storm Rocket Storm ability: Sends a powerful storm of rockets in all directions.	Rocket Storm Rocket Storm ability: Launches a powerful storm of rockets in a wide cone	The description of the ability's firing angle was altered.
5	MAD (Moab Assured Destroyer) Each missile does extreme damage to MOAB-Class Bloons.	M.A.D Moab Assured Destroyer. Each missile does extreme damage to MOAB class bloons.	The name and description were reworded.
Path 3
1	Faster Swivel Barrel can swivel much faster.
2	Lock and Load Can lock Dartling in one aim direction.	Powerful Darts Darts move faster and can pop 3 Bloons each.	This upgrade was omitted. The ability to lock the Dartling Gunner in place became an inherent mechanic. The text for this upgrade was removed from the localization files.
3	Buckshot Shoots blasts of deadly buckshot instead of darts.
4	Bloon Area Denial System 4-barreled auto-cannon can set to attack automatically.	Bloon Area Denial System 4-barreled auto-cannon that can be set to attack automatically.	The description was very slightly reworded.
5	Bloon Exclusion Zone Increased damage and upgrade to 6 barrels. Bloons are excluded.	Bloon Exclusion Zone Upgraded to 6 barrels and massively increased damage. Bloons are excluded from existence.	The description was reworded.

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Update history

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

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Version 24.0

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Base Dartling performance doesn’t quite offset the handholding necessary to use it well, so base price has been reduced to make those first couple upgrades come a little faster.
— Update notes

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•  Cost reduced ― $1,000 → $850

Cosmetic items

Item	Category	Unlock method(s)	Introduced
Dartling Easter Egg Pellets	Monkeys — Projectiles	Trophy Store —  25	Version 24.0

Related achievement

1M	Regifted Pop 1,000,000 Bloons with Dartling Gunners Reward(s):  200 Monkey Money,  3-0-0 Dartling Gunner Insta,  0-3-0 Dartling Gunner Insta,  0-0-3 Dartling Gunner Insta

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In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 49.2

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	مدفع رشاش	—
Danish	Dartling-skytte	—
German	Pfeilschussschütze	—
Spanish	Disparador de dardos	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Disparador de dardos	—
Finnish	Konetikka-ase	—
French	Mitrailleur de fléchettes	—
Italian	Torre spara freccette	—
Japanese	ダートリング砲手	—
Korean	다트포 사수	—
Dutch	Pijltjesschutter	—
Norwegian	Dartpistol-ape	—
Polish	Strzelec rzutkowy	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Arma de Dardos	—
Russian	Дротикомёт	—
Swedish	Pilspruteskytt	—
Thai	ลิงดาร์ทลิ่ง	—
Turkish	Ok Nişancısı	—
Chinese (simplified)	机枪猴	"Machine Gun Monkey"
Chinese (traditional)	飛鏢槍手	—

Description

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	يقوم باستخدام مدفع رشاش لإطلاق السهام. والتصويب في أي مكان تشير إليه على الشاشة.	—
Danish	Bruger et dartpil-skydende maskingevær. Skyder imod, hvor du trykker på skærmen.	—
German	Verwendet ein Pfeile schießendes Maschinengewehr. Zielt, wohin du auf dem Bildschirm zeigst.	—
Spanish	Usa una ametralladora de dardos. Apunta hacia donde quieras en la pantalla.	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Usa una ametralladora de dardos. Apunta hacia donde quieras en la pantalla.	—
Finnish	Käyttää tikkoja ampuvaa konekivääriä. Tähtää siihen, mihin osoitat näytöllä.	—
French	Utilise une mitrailleuse à fléchettes. Cible l'endroit que tu désignes à l'écran.	—
Italian	Usa una mitragliatrice spara freccette. Mira ovunque punti sullo schermo.	—
Japanese	ダーツを撃つマシンガンを使う。どこでも画面上のタップした場所を狙う。	—
Korean	다트를 쏘는 기관총을 사용합니다. 화면에서 터치하는 부분을 겨냥합니다.	—
Dutch	Gebruikt een pijltjesschietend machinegeweer. Richt waar je naar wijst op het scherm.	—
Norwegian	Bruker et dartskytende maskingevær. Sikter der du peker på skjermen.	—
Polish	Używa karabinu maszynowego na rzutki. Celuje we wskazane przez ciebie miejsce na ekranie.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Usa uma metralhadora de dardos. Mira onde você apontar na tela.	—
Russian	Использует пулемёт с дротиками, целится в указанную точку на экране.	—
Swedish	Använder ett pilskjutande maskingevär. Siktar dit du pekar på skärmen.	—
Thai	ใช้ปืนกลยิงลูกดอก โจมตีตามตำแหน่งที่คุณชี้บนหน้าจอ	—
Turkish	Ok fırlatan bir makineli tüfek kullanır. Ekranda dokunduğun yeri hedefler.	—
Chinese (simplified)	使用发射飞镖的机枪。屏幕之上，指哪打哪。	—
Chinese (traditional)	使用發射飛鏢的機槍。瞄向你上次在屏幕上指向的地方。	—