Support Chinook (BTD6)

For other uses, see Support Chinook (disambiguation).

Support Chinook

Blows back many more Bloons and gains abilities: Drops lives and cash crates, and can pick up and redeploy most Monkey types.

Tower	Heli Pilot — Path 2 — Tier 4
XP cost	15,000
Cash cost	$8,075 — Easy $9,500 — Medium $10,260 — Hard $11,400 — Impoppable

← Downdraft

Special Poperations →

Support Chinook is the Heli Pilot's path 2 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It grants Heli Pilot two new abilities: Reposition, and Supply Crate. Reposition allows the Chinook to pick up a "non-heavy" tower to a new location. Supply Crate simultaneously drops two crates containing cash and lives.

Additionally, this upgrade increases the damage of Heli Pilot's darts from 1 to 2, dart projectile size from 3 to 6, reduces the attack cooldown of downdraft from 0.18s to 0.15s, increases downdraft's pierce from 2 to 4, minimum blowback distance from 32 to 64 units, and flight speed from 70 to 80 units per second.

Abilities

Reposition

When activated, this ability allows the player to select an eligible tower that they own, and move it elsewhere on the map. The following towers cannot be repositioned:

• Aircraft Carrier and Carrier Flagship
• Monkey Ace
• Heli Pilot
• Sun Temple and True Sun God
• Banana Farm
• Monkey Village
• Beast Handler
• Rosalia
• Paragons
• Sub-towers (excluding Special Poperation's Monkey Marine)
• Portable Lake
• Pontoon
• Map-exclusive towers (excluding Cave Monkey)

Land towers can be redeployed onto ice platforms from Arctic Wind, and water towers can be redeployed onto water platforms from Lord of the Abyss. While in transit, towers cannot attack and do not charge ability cooldowns. The Chinook is also not allowed to reactivate this ability until transit is completed.

This ability has a cooldown of 45 seconds and an initial cooldown of 15 seconds. It is allowed to be activated during the break between rounds.

Supply Crate

When this ability is activated, Heli Pilot drops two collectible crates: one which provides $1,550 (or $1,938 with Charged Chinooks), and one which provides 10 lives (or 12 with Charged Chinooks). Using this ability also activates all the player's other Supply Crate abilities that are currently usable. This ability has a cooldown of 90 seconds and initial cooldown of 90 seconds. This ability cannot be used more than 2 times in a single round, cannot be used between rounds, and it cannot be used more than 180 seconds into a round.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 22 units Movement speed 80 units/s Targeting options Follow Touch Lock in Place Patrol Points

Attack
Cooldown 0.57s Offset (X, Y, Z) 11, 15.83, 6.8 (side 1) -11, 15.83, 6.8 (side 2) Targeting range 42 units
Ignores blockers
Projectile Count 2 Pierce 3 Damage 2 Damage type Sharp Speed 260 units/s Lifespan 1s Radius 6 units Ignores blockers

Downdraft
Cooldown 0.15s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting range ∞ units
Ignores blockers Can fire without a target
Projectile Pierce 4 Ceramic pierce penalty +1 Lifespan 0.1s Radius 32 units Filters Cannot hit MOAB-Class Cannot hit Bloons with Blowback Ignores blockers Blowback Chance 100% Min distance 64 units Max distance 150 units

Redeploy
Cooldown 45s

Support Drop
Cooldown 90s Max uses per round 2
Cash crate Collection radius 50 units Cash value $1550 Lifespan 15s Rounds ∞ Life crate Collection radius 50 units Lifespan 15s Rounds ∞

1-4-0

Attack
Copies of this attack 1 → 2 Offset (X, Y, Z) 11, 15.83, 6.8 (side 1) -11, 15.83, 6.8 (side 2) ↓ 11, 15.83, 6.8 (primary 1) -11, 15.83, 6.8 (primary 2) 7.2, 22.33, 6.8 (secondary 1) -7.2, 22.33, 6.8 (secondary 2)

2-4-0

Tower
Targeting options Pursuit

0-4-1

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) 11, 15.83, 6.8 (side 1) -11, 15.83, 6.8 (side 2) ↓ 11, 16, 2 (side 1) -11, 16, 2 (side 2) Targeting range 42 units → 54.6 units
Projectile Speed 260 units/s → 416 units/s

0-4-2

Attack
Cooldown 0.57s → 0.456s

Downdraft
Cooldown 0.15s → 0.12s

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
0-4-0	$13,090	$15,400	$16,635	$18,480	$9,163	$10,780	$11,645	$12,936
1-4-0	$13,770	$16,200	$17,500	$19,440	$9,639	$11,340	$12,250	$13,608
2-4-0	$14,195	$16,700	$18,040	$20,040	$9,937	$11,690	$12,628	$14,028
0-4-1	$13,300	$15,650	$16,905	$18,780	$9,310	$10,955	$11,834	$13,146
0-4-2	$13,595	$16,000	$17,285	$19,200	$9,517	$11,200	$12,100	$13,440

Strategy

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Support Chinook's ability to pick up towers, grant cash and lives, and offer stalling and bloon control make it an extremely flexible support tower, one of the best in the game.

The Chinook shines in Least Tiers boss events, where it can perform versatile functions such as stalling out rounds, defending early-game rounds, being the sole cash generation in a run, and moving around other powerful towers like Super Mines and Super Brittle. The tower also finds use in Least Cash bosses for the same reason of having multiple functions in one, for example defending early-game rounds cheaply with the previous upgrade Downdraft. The Chinook also builds into the next upgrade tier Special Poperations nicely.

Update history

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

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Version 8.0

•  Supply Crate: Now starts with its full cooldown

Version 9.0

• No longer reverts placement settings after being canceled (bug fix)

Version 11.0

• "Resolved a crash with support chinook redeploy"
•  Lock in Place and Patrol Points no longer immediately prompt to choose target positions and instead have default positions
•  After changing targeting off of Lock in Place or Patrol Points, changing back returns the target(s) to how it was previously
• "Heli Pilots should no longer cause save files to not load sometimes" (bug fix)

Version 17.0

•  Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Redeploy: Now allows Sniper Monkeys to attack while in transit (bug)

Version 17.1

•  Redeploy: No longer allows Sniper Monkeys to attack while in transit (bug fix)
  • Note: Does not affect Door Gunner
• Redeploy: Can no longer target Dark Knight (or a higher tier) while it is using Darkshift (bug fix)

Version 20.0

“

Pursuit Downdraft has felt like an overperformer for a very long time, but instead of outright nerfing it we increased crosspath potential for those who manually take control over their heli micro.
— Update notes

”

•  Downdraft: rate reduced ― 0.125s → 0.15s

0-4-2

•  Downdraft: rate increased ― 0.125s → 0.12s

Version 21.0

“

Heli Pilot manages on pursuit far too easily without any need to consider Bigger Jets unless camo or downdraft is required. For more crosspath variety than just ‘camo’ we moved more of the base Heli speed out and back into Bigger Jets with an overall buff to Bigger Jets. This should allow Bigger Jets to scale a little better than other helis through early speed ramping.
— Update notes

”

•  Movement speed increased ― 67.5 → 70

Version 27.0

“

As a small quality of life feature Chinook’s redeploy ability has been reworked to allow slight movements of towers in a single use, rather than having to move them away and then use another redeployment to move them back again.
— Update notes

”

•  Redeploy: Now ignores the footprint of the selected tower when choosing where to relocate it

Version 28.0

“

For similar reasons to Sniper, Chinook is a pretty annoying tower to farm with, so its ability has been standardized into a single producing both a life & a cash crate on a longer cooldown; the cash production of this has gone up while the life generation has been reduced as the power stood out too much compared to any other life generation method.
— Update notes

”

•  Support Drop: Now stops recharging during a round if 3 minutes elapse after the start
•  Support Drop: Now drops both life and cash crates instead of alternating
•  Support Drop: Cooldown increased ― 60s → 90s
•  Support Drop: Cash value is no longer randomized ― $1,000–$2,000 → $1,800
•  Support Drop: Life value is overall decreased and no longer randomized ― 50–75 → 10

Version 31.1

“

But really you should just never be trying this in the first place
— Update notes

”

•  Resolved an issue with chinook trying to move towers off of ice platforms (bug fix)

Version 33.0

“

Support Chinook use is too niche outside of farming for the high cost, so the upgrade cost along with that effective cash gain amount from ability usage has been lowered to retain the same farming while improving niche use.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $12,000 → $10,500
  •  Overall cost reduced by $1,000 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Crate: Cash reduced ― $1,800 → $1,650

Version 35.0

•  Heli 'patrol point' markers now visually update immediately after setting new points (bug fix)

Version 36.0

“

For how powerful downdraft is in comparison to other blowback effects, it didn’t feel right that it wasn’t blowing off status effects as should be normal there. Redeploy feels like it has no business having so long a cooldown, maybe it could see more realistic use cases for this main mechanic if it was able to be utilized more frequently.
— Update notes

”

•  Redeploy: Cooldown reduced ― 60s → 45s
•  Downdraft: Now removes ice and glue mutators from affected Bloons

Version 37.0

“

Chinook feels like it’s near a place we are happy with now, however we want another tiny nudge on cost while keeping cash generation value the same.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $10,500 → $9,500
•  Supply Crate: cash generated reduced ― $1650 → $1550
•  Supply Crate: Max uses per round reduced ― 3 → 2

Version 38.0

“

Given Downdraft has competed as one of the most debated best towers in the game basically for its entire life for both early and late game we are reducing some of the extreme effectiveness against late game Super Ceramics by reworking it to have an overall increased effect of blowing back multiple smaller children at a time but now requiring 2 pierce to blow back ceramics. At the same time, the T4 Support Chinook is also having a large increase to make it now a more powerful real end-game choice for a lategame version of Downdraft that can quickly deal with large groups of Super Ceramics.
— Update notes

”

•  Downdraft: Pierce increased ― 1 → 4
•  Downdraft: Maximum blowback distance decreased ― 300 → 150
•  Downdraft: Gains +1 pierce penalty to all bloons when crosspathed (undocumented) (bug)
•  Downdraft: Ceramics now consume +1 pierce
•  Blowback no longer works on Bloons near the entrance (bug fix)

Version 39.0

“

Support Chinook struggles to do anything with its main attack due to the projectile spawn offset changing at this tier, so we’re slightly tweaking the main attack to assist it here.
— Update notes

”

•  Dart: Projectile size increased ― 3 → 6
•  Dart: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
• Note: These buffs are considered nerfs to stalling

Version 44.0

“

Players have noticed the life crate has more collection radius than the cash crate, and that this causes problems for some strategies / challenges as you don’t always want to increase lives, so these radius have been matched.
— Update notes

”

•  Lives crate collection radius reduced ― 100 → 50

Version 48.0

“

Support Chinook is receiving improvement to utility to increase value for people generally wanting this upgrade for other reasons.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Flight speed increased ― 70 → 80

Version 49.0

“

For improved quality of life Support Chinook has been enabled for use between rounds, we have concerns with this but will give it some time to see how things settle.
— Update notes

”

“

In order to improve potential synergies, we have finally decided to do away with the pierce cap on Downdraft. This means that, yes, you can now properly Alch buff your Downdraft support
— Update notes

”

•  Downdraft: Pierce cap removed ― 2 → ∞
  • Note: This does not affect its regular pierce, but now allows it to receive pierce buffs.
•  Reposition ability: Can now be used between rounds
•  Reposition ability: Can now move towers on to ice and ink platforms (undocumented)
•  Downdraft: Crosspaths no longer grant +1 pierce penalty to all Bloons (bug fix)

Version 50.0

“

For quality of life the ‘Drag to Redeploy' textbox now disappears earlier during tower redeployment.
— Update notes

”

•  Redeploy ability: "Drag to Redeploy" textbox now hides once a tower is selected to be moved, instead of after confirming placement
  • Note: This improves visibility with towers placed at the top of the screen

Version 51.0

•  Should no longer be able to stack towers (bug fix)
  • Note: This attempts to fix an exploit where two separate Chinook abilities would be able to stack towers on top within a brief window between activating placements of different towers

Version 51.1

• Redeploy Ability: Can again reposition towers on top of themselves

Version 54.0

“

[...] while Support Chinook’s fire rate remains unchanged, to save you some clicks the cash and life generation will now trigger all instances at once. I just love pasta. Since players have noted the irony of a Marine being in the Chinook path but unmovable and awkward to place, so the Marine is now fully redeployable, enjoy!
— Update notes

”

•  Supply Drop ability: Activating the ability will now trigger it for all available towers
•  Redeployment ability: It can now be used on the Monkey Marine

Gallery

For more Heli Pilot images, see Gallery:Heli Pilot.

Screenshots

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  Support Chinook with no crosspath
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  Support Chinook with 140 crosspath
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  Support Chinook with 240 crosspath
• 
  Support Chinook with 041 crosspath
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  Support Chinook with 042 crosspath
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  Support Chinook helipad
• 
  Support Chinook crate ability
• 
  Support Chinook redeploy ability

Assets

• 
  Portrait
• 
  Upgrade icon
• 
  Insta Monkey icon
• 
  Ability icon

Trivia

The Support Chinook is based off the real-world Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter, which serves cargo and passenger transport roles.

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	دعم شينوك الإطاحة بمزيد من البالونات واكتساب قدرات: على إسقاط الأرواح وصناديق النقود، وإمكانية التقاط معظم أنواع القرود وإعادة نشرهم.	—
Danish	Støttehelikopter Sprænger mange flere bloons i stykker og giver evner: Nedkaster liv og pengekasser og kan opsamle og omplacere de fleste abetyper.	—
German	Support-Chinook Treibt noch viel mehr Bloons zurück und erhält Fähigkeiten: Lässt Leben und Geldkisten fallen und kann die meisten Affentypen aufheben und neu einsetzen.	—
Spanish	Chinook de apoyo Aleja muchos más bloons y consigue habilidades: suelta vidas y cajas de dinero, y puede recoger y redesplegar a casi todos los tipos de monos.	—
Spanish (LA)	Chinook de apoyo Hace retroceder a muchos más bloons y gana habilidades: suelta vidas y cajas de dinero o puede recoger y redesplegar a casi todos los tipos de monos.	—
Finnish	Tuki-Chinook Työntää takaisin paljon enemmän blooneja ja saa kykyjä: Pudottaa elämiä ja käteislaatikoita, ja voi poimia ja sijoittaa uudelleen useimmat apinatyypit.	—
French	Chinook de soutien Fait reculer beaucoup plus de Bloons et confère des aptitudes : largue des vies et des caisses d'argent, ou peut récupérer et redéployer la plupart des types de singes.	—
Italian	Supporto Chinook Respinge molti più bloon e ottiene abilità: rilascia vite e casse contenenti contante, poi può raccogliere e riposizionare scimmie di quasi tutti i tipi.	—
Japanese	チヌーク補佐 もっと多くのブルーンを吹き戻してアビリティを得よう：ライフとキャッシュクレートを落下させ、ほとんどの種類のモンキーをピックアップして再展開できる。	—
Korean	치누크 지원 더 많은 풍선을 뒤로 밀어내며, 능력(목숨과 캐시 상자를 투하하거나 대부분의 원숭이 유형을 태우고 재배치할 수 있습니다)을 얻습니다.	—
Dutch	Steun-chinook Blaast veel meer Bloons weg en krijgt vaardigheden: laat levens en geldkisten vallen, en kan de meeste soorten Apen oppakken en opnieuw inzetten.	—
Norwegian	Støtte-Chinook Sprenger tilbake mange flere bloons og får evner. Slipper liv og pengekasser, og kan plukke opp og omplassere de fleste apetyper.	—
Polish	Chinook wspierający Zdmuchuje o wiele więcej blonów i zyskuje umiejętności: zrzuca życia i skrzynie z gotówką albo może podnosić i umieszczać w innym miejscu większość rodzajów małpek.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Helicóptero de Suporte Afasta muito mais Bloons e ganha habilidades: lança vidas e caixas de dinheiro, e pode carregar e reposicionar a maioria dos macacos.	—
Russian	Вертолет поддержки Отталкивает намного больше шаров и получает способности: сбрасывает жизни и ящики денег, а также может подбирать и заново высаживать большинство типов обезьян.	—
Swedish	Hjälp-Chinook Blåser tillbaka många fler Bloons och förvärvar förmågor: Släpper liv och pengalådor och kan plocka upp och återinsätta de flesta aptyper.	—
Thai	ชินุกสนับสนุน ยิงบลูนได้มากขึ้นและได้สกิล: ดร็อปลังใส่แต้มชีวิตและเงินสด และสามารถวางลิงใหม่ได้เกือบทุกชนิด	—
Turkish	Çinok Desteği Çok daha fazla Bloon’u patlatır ve yetenekler kazanır: Can ve nakit sandıkları düşürür ve birçok Maymun türünü toplayıp yeniden görevlendirebilir.	—
Chinese (simplified)	支持切努克 将更多气球往回吹并获得技能：空投生命和现金箱，或者可以搭载并重新部署大部分类型的猴子。	—
Chinese (traditional)	支援奇努克 吹回更多的氣球並獲得技能：空投生命和現金寶箱，並且可以拿起和重新部署大多數類型的猴子。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1