Bloon Buster (BTD6)

For other uses, see Bloon Buster (disambiguation).

Bloon Buster

Smash through 3 layers of Bloons at once!

Tower	Mortar Monkey — Path 1 — Tier 2
XP cost	600
Cash cost	$425 — Easy $500 — Medium $540 — Hard $600 — Impoppable

← Bigger Blast

Shell Shock →

Bloon Buster is the Mortar Monkey's path 1 tier 2 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. This upgrade increases the damage of Mortar Monkey's shells from 2 to 3. Crosspaths also provide additional benefits for path 3, such as increasing the damage-over-time's tick damage:

• Shattering Shells: damage per tick increases from from 5 to 8, and the MOAB-Class Bloons damage per tick increases from 20 to 25.
• Blooncineration: damage per tick on MOAB-Class Bloons increases from 100 to 150, increases the damage of its walls of fire from 1 to 3.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 30 units Footprint radius 11 units

Attack
Cooldown 2s Offset (X, Y, Z) -4.03, 2.5, 27 Spread 18 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range ∞ units Rotation speed ∞ deg/s Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Explosion Pierce 45 Damage 3 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Radius 28 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

2-1-0

Attack
Cooldown 2s → 1.5s

2-2-0

Attack
Cooldown 1.5s → 1.08s

2-0-1

Attack
Spread 18 → 8

2-0-2

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) -4.03, 2.5, 27 ↓ -4.03, 2.5, 19.45
Explosion Damage over time Damage 1 Damage type Fire Duration 3.85s Interval 1.25s 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
2-0-0	$1,190	$1,400	$1,515	$1,680	$833	$980	$1,061	$1,176
2-1-0	$1,530	$1,800	$1,945	$2,160	$1,071	$1,260	$1,362	$1,512
2-2-0	$1,955	$2,300	$2,485	$2,760	$1,369	$1,610	$1,740	$1,932
2-3-0	$2,720	$3,200	$3,455	$3,840	$1,904	$2,240	$2,419	$2,688
2-4-0	$8,245	$9,700	$10,475	$11,640	$5,772	$6,790	$7,333	$8,148
2-5-0	$40,545	$47,700	$51,515	$57,240	$28,382	$33,390	$36,061	$40,068
2-0-1	$1,360	$1,600	$1,730	$1,920	$952	$1,120	$1,211	$1,344
2-0-2	$1,700	$2,000	$2,160	$2,400	$1,190	$1,400	$1,512	$1,680
2-0-3	$2,635	$3,100	$3,350	$3,720	$1,845	$2,170	$2,345	$2,604
2-0-4	$10,710	$12,600	$13,610	$15,120	$7,497	$8,820	$9,527	$10,584
2-0-5	$44,710	$52,600	$56,810	$63,120	$31,297	$36,820	$39,767	$44,184

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 52.2

Bloon Buster's increased damage improves its DPS and capability to skip more layers at once, and can bypass the explosion-immune layers of a Rainbow. This upgrade sees use in the early game of Race Events, though its use is otherwise relegated to crosspathing. It is the optimal crosspath for middle-path Mortar Monkeys, and is preferred for Blooncineration if the map has only one entrance per round.

Update history

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

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Version 8.0

•  "Blast radius increased slightly"

Version 9.0

2-0-5

•  Bigger Blast now grants +5 pierce to the wall of fire
•  Bigger Blast now increases the radius of the wall of fire by 40%
•  Bloon Buster now grants +1 damage to the wall of fire

Version 14.0

• "Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"

Version 15.0

• "The mortar’s projectiles should no longer visually drop back down the barrel"

Version 21.0

“

Mortar’s Faster Reload feels like a ‘required’ as a crosspath with Burny Stuff never scaling well on any path but it’s own. We like choices not requirements so to counter this we have made Burny Stuff scale with top-path damage & shifted a small amount of the speed from Faster Reload onto the base mortar and reduced base accuracy considerably.
— Update notes

”

•  Mortar base rate of fire increased ― 2.2s → 2s
•  Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30
  • Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)

Version 22.0

“

We felt like we set up the math quite well with Mortar changes last update, but regardless of this missed shots due to inaccuracy vs. attack speed turned out to be unpopular and impacted the middle path too severely. Fortunately this change led to the community finding some critical bugs in the middle path upgrades there since Mortar’s release! That said, since low tier Mortars were never powerful we chose to leave the speed buff from last update but revert the accuracy nerf.
— Update notes

”

•  Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18

Version 29.0

2-0-3, 2-0-4, 2-0-5

•  Decamo explosion: Pierce increased ― 80 → 85 (bug fix)
•  Decamo explosion: Radius increased ― 50 → 70 (bug fix)

Version 30.0

“

Mortar top path feels too weak for the lead up to the Tier 5, so it along with the T5 have had some general number increases.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $650 → $500

Version 34.0

“

205 Mortar is not often used as base damage isn't relevant for Blooncineration compared to attack speed, following along with the idea of Top Path improving burny stuff damage in addition to base hit damage both of these paths will now benefit from increase burn DoT in such a way.
— Update notes

”

2-0-4, 2-0-5

•  DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 5 → 8

2-0-5

•  MOAB-class DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 100 → 150

Version 37.0

“

As the camo property has grown quite weak and currently Signal Flare is considered the best decamo tool, we want to push back slightly on its cost and by reducing the blast radius of the decamo area while emphasizing crosspathing for effectiveness there.
— Update notes

”

2-0-3, 2-0-4, 2-0-5

•  Bigger Blast grants the decamo AoE more pierce ― +5 → +10

Version 39.0

“

We’re looking to shakeup mortar in a couple small ways this update, along with Striker Jones changes noted further on for ‘multi-mortaring’ synergy. From the base level Mortar has far more pierce than should ever be necessary at low rounds but doesn’t hit beefy enough for the low fire rate, so we are trading up some base pierce for damage, instead moving this lost pierce up into crosspath.
— Update notes

”

•  Explosion: Damage increased ― 2 → 3
  • Note: Shockwaves from Shell Shock and above unchanged, and The Big One and above unchanged

Version 41.0

2-0-4

•  Bloon Buster now grants +5 damage per tick to the MOAB-class DoT
  •  Stacks with changes to the DoT's non-crosspathed damage; overall damage per tick with this crosspath increased ― 5 → 15

Version 43.0

“

Blooncineration’s 025 crosspath currently works so much better with external buffs so we're tweaking the 205 crosspath to feel better in some situations.
— Update notes

”

2-0-5

•  Wall of Fire: Damage per tick with Bloon Buster increased ― 2 → 3

Version 47.1

2-0-4

•  Resolved an issue where 204 Mortar crosspath would reduce MOAB DoT ― +15 → +25 (bug fix)

Version 50.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $150 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 51.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Gallery

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Assets

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  Portrait
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  Upgrade icon
• 
  Insta Monkey icon

Trivia

• It is the only BTD5 upgrade to be downgraded from Tier 3 to Tier 2 in BTD6.
• Its upgrade icon depicts a Yellow Bloon being popped into a Red, which is 3 layers. Prior to version 39.0, where base Mortar got a damage buff, this was impossible as Bloon Buster only had 2 base damage.

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	محطم البالونات تحطيم 3 طبقات من البالونات في وقت واحد!	—
Danish	Bloon-knuser Knus 3 bloons-lag på én gang!	—
German	Bloon-Meister Zerschmettert mit einem Schlag 3 Bloonschichten!	—
Spanish	Destructor de bloons Explota 3 capas de bloons a la vez.	—
Spanish (LA)	Destructor de bloons Explota 3 capas de bloons a la vez.	—
Finnish	Blooninmurtaja Iskee kerralla 3 kerrosta pois blooneista!	—
French	Dégommeur de Bloons Traverse 3 couches de Bloons d’un coup !	—
Italian	Sterminatore di bloon Passa attraverso 3 strati di bloon alla volta!	—
Japanese	ブルーンバスター 一度に3層のブルーンを砕く！	—
Korean	풍선 격퇴기 한꺼번에 풍선 3겹을 뚫고 돌파합니다!	—
Dutch	Bloon-buster Breek door 3 lagen Bloons tegelijk!	—
Norwegian	Bloon-buster Slår gjennom 3 lag av bloons på én gang!	—
Polish	Pogromca blonów Przebija się przez 3 warstwy blonów naraz!	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Detona Bloons Estoura 3 camadas de Bloons de uma vez!	—
Russian	Шаросбиватель Пробивает 3 слоя шаров сразу!	—
Swedish	Bloondödare Tränger igenom 3 Bloonlager samtidigt!	—
Thai	นักถล่มลูกโป่ง ทำลายบลูน 3 ชั้นในคราวเดียว!	—
Turkish	Bloon Avcısı Tek seferde Bloon’ların 3 katmanını parçalar!	—
Chinese (simplified)	气球粉碎机 一口气粉碎3层气球！	—
Chinese (traditional)	氣球巴斯特 一次擊破3層氣球！	—
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