Icicles (BTD6)

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

Icicles

Does bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons. Frozen Bloons grow sharp icicles that can pop Bloons that touch them.

Tower	Ice Monkey — Path 3 — Tier 4
XP cost	9,000
Cash cost	$2,335 — Easy $2,750 — Medium $2,970 — Hard $3,300 — Impoppable

← Cryo Cannon

Icicle Impale →

Icicles is the Ice Monkey's path 3 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It gains -37.5% attack cooldown (or +60% attack speed) from the previous tier, +1 damage, can now target MOAB-Class Bloons (but not freeze them) and deals +8 damage to MOAB-Class, and 25% of hit Bloons (including MOAB-Class) grow 3 icicles (White and Zebra Bloons grow icicles even if not popped, but Lead Bloons don't grow icicles if the tower is unable to pop Lead). The icicles themselves cannot be affected by external pierce and damage changes. Bloons that are refrozen will have their icicles replaced with new icicles or nothing.

Icicles damage other Bloons when they pass over the Bloon that has the icicles, have sharp damage type (normal if crosspathed with Cold Snap), deal 6 damage, have 6 pierce and last for the same duration as the freeze duration.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 46 units Footprint radius 6 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 0.75s Offset (X, Y, Z) -4.7, 17.5, 10.5 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 46 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Ice bomb Pierce 1 Max pierce 1 Speed 300 units/s Lifespan 0.2s Radius 5 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Projectile Pierce 40 Damage 2 Damage to MOAB-Class +8 Damage type Cold Lifespan 0.05s Radius 20 units Filters Ignores Lead if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 1.5s Duration for MOAB-Class 0s Layers 3 Carry icicles Duration 1.5s Chance 25% Layers ∞ Icicle Pierce 6 Max pierce 6 Damage 6 Max damage 6 Damage type Shatter Lifespan ∞s Radius 0.2 units Rehit interval 0.2s Filters Ignores Lead or White if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit Camo Cannot hit Bloons with Frozen, Absolute Zero freeze Ignores blockers

1-0-4

Attack
Projectile Permafrost Multiplier ×0.5 Duration ∞s Duration for MOAB-Class 0s Layers 3

2-0-4

Attack
Filters Can now target Camo
Ice bomb Filters Can now hit Camo Projectile Damage type Cold → Glacier Filters Can now hit Camo Icicle Damage type Shatter → Normal Filters Can now hit Camo

0-1-4

Attack
Cooldown 0.75s → 0.5625s
Projectile Freeze Duration 1.5s → 1.75s Carry icicles Duration 1.5s → 1.75s

0-2-4

Attack
Projectile Pierce 40 → 45 Freeze Duration 1.75s → 2.2s Layers 3 → 4 Carry icicles Duration 1.75s → 2.2s

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
0-0-4	$4,585	$5,400	$5,825	$6,480	$3,210	$3,780	$4,078	$4,536
1-0-4	$4,710	$5,550	$5,985	$6,660	$3,297	$3,885	$4,190	$4,662
2-0-4	$5,005	$5,900	$6,365	$7,080	$3,504	$4,130	$4,456	$4,956
0-1-4	$4,755	$5,600	$6,040	$6,720	$3,329	$3,920	$4,228	$4,704
0-2-4	$5,010	$5,900	$6,365	$7,080	$3,507	$4,130	$4,456	$4,956

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 52.2

This strategy section is empty or incomplete. See the strategy guidelines for more information on how to write strategy sections. The editor who added this notice elaborates: More could be said about icicles as a strong Silas synergy, as well as for CHIMPS purposes

Icicles stands out in CHIMPS, as well as being strong in Race conditions, thanks to its capability to produce a large amount of icicles from hitting many Bloons, and relatively quick attack speed. Silas is its best Hero to synergize, partially compensating his White and early MOAB weaknesses and attacking fast enough to maximize Silas' Ice Fragments, in return Icicles offers consistent damage against dense rounds. Elsewhere, Icicles is a decent mid-game tower, being specialized for dense rounds while dealing alright damage to blimps but held back by its unreliability against pop White and Zebra Bloons without Silas. It's also a reasonable stepping stone for Icicle Impale.

For general gameplay and Races, 0-2-4 is the recommended crosspath for increased attack speed from Enhanced Freeze and extra pierce from Deep Freeze, while 2-0-4 is preferred versus Golden Bloons to act as a faster Cryo Cannon.

Update history

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

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Version 2.0

•  Cryo blast: Pierce increased ― 20 → 30

Version 8.0

•  Can now pop Lead Bloons when buffed by Acidic Mixture Dip (bug fix)

Version 21.0

“

While Icicles is quite fun for midgame cleanup, we acknowledge points raised on Cryo Cannon trading off it’s freeze prowess too quickly when the smaller freeze area even with such a fast rate increase still overall makes it struggle to slow as effectively. To counter this a little we have doubled the freeze radius of Cryo Cannon, but also increased damage of both the Ice Balls & Icicles to highlight more the intention of this path swapping to a damage hybrid earlier.
— Update notes

”

•  Ice explosion: Blast radius increased ― 10 → 20
•  Ice explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
•  Icicle: Damage increased ― 1 → 2

Version 22.0

•  Icicles now correctly inherits the radius of Cryo Cannon instead of shrinking (bug fix)

Version 23.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $250 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 25.0

•  Icicles: Can no longer damage White or Zebra Bloons with its regular attack (but Icicles can still grow from them)

Version 28.0

•  Overall cost increased by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 30.0

“

Cryo Cannon has pulled far ahead of similar cheap Bloon control options, while leading into the also quite cheap Icicles which for most of the game offers more Bloon shredding support for cheaper than those other options.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $2,000 → $2,750

Version 32.0

•  Overall cost increased by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 34.0

“

Ice Monkey base pierce is too high, very easily countering large numbers of strong Bloons early, mid or late in the game for small investment, leading to very low tiers of ice monkey (below t3) being highly effective spam options over upgrading your ice. We are reworking some of this base pierce to require crosspath investment and buffing the damage Ice 3xx Ice Shards to compensate for some of its reduced pierce.
— Update notes

”

•  Can now target MOAB-Class Bloons
  • Note: Does not allow it to slow them
•  Pierce reduced ― 30 → 20
  • Note: Pierce with Deep Freeze is unchanged

Version 36.0

“

Arctic wind felt extremely overbuffed with the slowing field going from 40 to 50%, but we like seeing the use on it go up so we want to meet halfway on that & keep the higher slow at T5.
— Update notes

”

•  Pierce increased ― 20 → 30
  •  X-2-X crosspath: 30 → 40

Version 37.0

2-0-4

•  Cold Snap crosspath now grants camo prio

Version 38.0

“

Plenty of attention has been drawn to the high power of Ice, so we’re continuing to work on slowly dialing this back in fair ways.
— Update notes

”

•  Freeze duration decreased ― 1.5s → 1.2s
  • Note: also affects Icicles and Icicle Impale reducing their freeze durations by 20%

Version 39.0

“

We’re happier with more recent freeze changes succeeding in some of the intentions of older nerfs, given the base tower value in races being hit far more than intended we’re going back over the pierce for Ice Monkey base & middle crosspath.
— Update notes

”

•  Pierce increased ― 30 → 40

Version 40.0

•   Icicle projectile radius increased ― 4 → 5

Version 44.0

“

Adding a lesser MOAB-Benefit to Icicles, leading into the stronger T5 Anti-MOAB capability
— Update notes

”

•  Blast now deals +8 damage to MOAB-Class Bloons
  • Note: Icicle Impale is unchanged

Version 45.0

“

As similar choices are currently leveling out with higher power Cryo Cannon feels like it deserves to have some power brought back.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Freeze duration increased ― 1.2s → 1.5s
  • Note: Also affects Enhanced Freeze and Deep Freeze crosspaths

Version 47.0

“

Nudging bottom path Ice Monkey to keep up with similarly priced support options, and Icicles especially doesn't feel versatile enough, which limits chances to go down this path so it is gaining the attack rate increase from the T5.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Attack cooldown decreased ― 1s → 0.75s
  • Note: Stacks with Enhanced Freeze crosspath (0-1-4) ― 0.75s → 0.5625s. Icicle Impale unchanged

Version 48.0

“

Cryo Cannon’s damage has lowered to more effectively stall, while Icicles damage stays the same and increases for the Icicle projectiles to help it be a stronger damage focus upgrade.
— Update notes

”

•  Shard: Damage increased ― 2 → 3

Version 49.0

•  Can now be placed on water

Version 50.0

• Icicles mutator: Optimized performance

Version 52.2

1-0-4, 2-0-4, 0-1-4, 0-2-4

•  No longer fails to damage the round 40 MOAB in Easy mode (bug fix)

Version 54.0

“

Much player concern has been voiced on Icicles performance. Since this issue stems from the projectile count we’re experimenting with fewer icicles that pack a stronger punch, making each individual projectile much stronger.
— Update notes

”

•  Main attack: Now only has a 25% chance of applying Icicles to the Bloons
•  Icicles: Damage increased ― 3 → 6
•  Icicles: Pierce increased ― 3 → 6

Gallery

For more Ice Monkey images, see Gallery:Ice Monkey.

Screenshots

• 
  Icicles with no crosspath
• 
  Icicles with 014 crosspath
• 
  Icicles with 024 crosspath
• 
  Icicles with 104 crosspath
• 
  Icicles with 204 crosspath
• 
  A bloon that grew icicles

Assets

• 
  Portrait
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  Upgrade icon
• 
  Insta Monkey icon

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	تجميد جليدي هل هناك ضرر إضافي على البالونات من فئة MOAB، حيث تعمل البالونات المتجمدة على إنشاء رقاقات ثلجية حادة تتميز بقدرتها على فرقعة البالونات التي تلمسها.	—
Danish	Istapper Giver bonusskade på bloons i MOAB-klasse. Frosne bloons får skarpe istapper, som springer bloons, de kommer i kontakt med.	—
German	Eiszapfen Fügt Bloons der MOAB-Klasse Zusatzschaden zu. Eis-Bloons wachsen scharfe Eiszapfen, die Bloons platzen lassen, welche sie berühren.	—
Spanish	Estalactitas Hace daño adicional a los bloons clase MOAB. A los bloons congelados les salen carámbanos que hacen explotar a los bloons que los tocan.	—
Spanish (LA)	Estalactitas Hace daño adicional a los bloons clase MOAB. A los bloons congelados les salen carámbanos que revientan a los que los tocan.	—
Finnish	Jääpuikot Tekee lisävahinkoa MOAB-luokan blooneille. Jäätyneet bloonit kasvattavat teräviä jääpuikkoja, jotka voivat poksauttaa niihin koskevia blooneja.	—
French	Stalactites Inflige un bonus de dégâts aux Bloons de classe MOAB. Les Bloons gelés développent des stalactites tranchantes qui peuvent faire éclater les Bloons qui les touchent.	—
Italian	Ghiaccioli Danneggia ulteriormente i bloon di classe MOAB. Sui bloon congelati crescono dei ghiaccioli affilati che fanno scoppiare i bloon che li toccano.	—
Japanese	つらら MOAB級ブルーンに対しボーナスダメージを与える。凍結ブルーンは鋭いつららを作り、触れたブルーンを割る。	—
Korean	고드름 MOAB급 풍선에 추가 피해를 줍니다. 얼린 풍선은 다른 풍선이 건드리면 터트리는 뾰족한 고드름이 생깁니다.	—
Dutch	IJspegels Doet extra schade tegen MOAB-klasse Bloons. Bevroren Bloons krijgen scherpe ijspegels die Bloons kunnen laten knallen wanneer ze die aanraken.	—
Norwegian	Istapper Påfører bonusskade på bloons i MOAB-klasse. Frosne bloons får store istagger som kan poppe bloons som kommer borti dem.	—
Polish	Sople Zadaje dodatkowe obrażenia blonom klasy MOAB. Z zamrożonych blonów wyrastają sople, które mogą przekłuć blony ich dotykające.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Espinhos de Gelo Causa dano bônus em Bloons Classe MOAB. Bloons congelados criam fragmentos de gelo que podem estourar Bloons que tocam neles.	—
Russian	Сосульки Наносит дополнительный урон шарам класса MOAB. На замороженных шарах отрастают острые сосульки, которые способны пробить другие приблизившиеся шары.	—
Swedish	Istappar Åsamkar bonusskada på Bloons i MOAB-klassen. Frusna Bloons får vassa istappar som kan smälla Bloons som vidrör dem.	—
Thai	น้ำแข็งย้อย ทำดาเมจเพิ่มเติมต่อบลูนคลาส MOAB บลูนแช่แข็งจะงอกน้ำแข็งย้อยอันแหลมคมที่สามารถทำลายบลูนที่สัมผัสได้	—
Turkish	Sarkıtlar MOAB Sınıfı Bloon’lara bonus hasar verir. Donmuş Bloon’lar onlara dokunan Bloon’ları patlatabilen keskin sarkıtlar oluşturur.	—
Chinese (simplified)	冰柱 可对MOAB级气球造成额外伤害。冻结的气球生长尖锐的冰柱，可以击破接触它们的气球。	—
Chinese (traditional)	冰柱 可對MOAB級氣球造成額外傷害。被凍結的氣球會長出尖銳冰柱，可擊破接觸到的氣球。	—
This list was last updated for: version 44.1