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{{for|the upgrade in [[Bloons TD Battles 2]]|Elite Sniper (Battles 2)}} | {{for|the upgrade in [[Bloons TD Battles 2]]|Elite Sniper (Battles 2)}} | ||
{{BTD6 upgrade info | {{BTD6 upgrade info | ||
|id=Elite Sniper | | id = Elite Sniper | ||
| name = Elite Sniper | |||
|name | | icon = BTD6 SniperMonkey EliteSniperUpgradeIcon.png | ||
|icon | | image = BTD6 050-SniperMonkey.png | ||
|image | | description = Supply drop gives much more cash. Grants Elite targeting prio and faster reload to all snipers. | ||
|description | | description C = | ||
|description C= | | tower = Sniper Monkey | ||
| path = 2 | |||
|tower=Sniper Monkey | | tier = 5 | ||
|path =2 | | cost = 12000 | ||
|tier =5 | | cost C = | ||
| xp = 35000 | |||
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}} | }} | ||
'''Elite Sniper''' is the [[Sniper Monkey (BTD6)|Sniper Monkey]]'s path 2 tier 5 [[upgrade]] in ''[[Bloons TD 6]]''. It increases Sniper Monkey's attack speed (x0.4 attack cooldown or +150% more attack speed). Elite Sniper also grants a global attack speed buff to all other Sniper Monkeys (x0.75 attack cooldown or +33% more attack speed). | '''Elite Sniper''' is the [[Sniper Monkey (BTD6)|Sniper Monkey]]'s path 2 tier 5 [[upgrade]] in ''[[Bloons TD 6]]''. It increases Sniper Monkey's attack speed (x0.4 attack cooldown or +150% more attack speed). Elite Sniper also grants a global attack speed buff to all other Sniper Monkeys (x0.75 attack cooldown or +33% more attack speed). | ||
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==Elite targeting== | ==Elite targeting== | ||
{{research|elite targeting interactions with Frontier Bloons}} | |||
Elite targeting changes behavior depending on the state of the Bloons currently on the map. In order from highest priority to lowest priority: | Elite targeting changes behavior depending on the state of the Bloons currently on the map. In order from highest priority to lowest priority: | ||
#Targets First if there are any visible Bloons that are at least 75% of the way to reaching the exit. | #Targets First if there are any visible Bloons that are at least 75% of the way to reaching the exit. | ||
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==Strategy== | ==Strategy== | ||
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Elite Sniper is good for general gameplay, performing well throughout the mid-game while generating solid amounts of income. In [[CHIMPS]], it is significantly weakened, but it remains serviceable when used in a Sniper spam strategy. | Elite Sniper is good for general gameplay, performing well throughout the mid-game while generating solid amounts of income. In [[CHIMPS]], it is significantly weakened, but it remains serviceable when used in a Sniper spam strategy. | ||
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==Related [[List of achievements in BTD6|achievement]]== | ==Related [[List of achievements in BTD6|achievement]]== | ||
{{BTD6 achievement list | {{BTD6 achievement list|exclude others=y|include=Axis of Havoc}} | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
{{main gallery|Sniper Monkey}} | {{main gallery|Sniper Monkey}} | ||
===Screenshots=== | ===Screenshots=== | ||
<gallery> | |||
BTD6 Elite Sniper X5X.png|Elite Sniper for all upgrades | |||
BTD6 Elite Sniper Active Ability.gif|Elite Sniper ability | |||
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===Assets=== | ===Assets=== | ||
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BTD6 BuffIconSniperx5x.png|Buff icon | BTD6 BuffIconSniperx5x.png|Buff icon | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Trivia== | |||
*{{BTD6|Supply Drop}} and Elite Sniper fire a real-life [[wp:signal flare|signal flare]] upon ability activation. This is ironically more realistic than {{BTD6|Signal Flare}} itself. | |||
==In other languages== | ==In other languages== | ||
Latest revision as of 20:44, 23 January 2026
For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Elite Sniper (Battles 2).
Elite Sniper
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 Supply drop gives much more cash. Grants Elite targeting prio and faster reload to all snipers.
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| Tower | Sniper Monkey — Path 2 — Tier 5 | |
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| XP cost | 35,000 | |
| Cash cost | $10,200 — Easy $12,000 — Medium $12,960 — Hard $14,400 — Impoppable | |
Elite Sniper is the Sniper Monkey's path 2 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It increases Sniper Monkey's attack speed (x0.4 attack cooldown or +150% more attack speed). Elite Sniper also grants a global attack speed buff to all other Sniper Monkeys (x0.75 attack cooldown or +33% more attack speed).
Elite Sniper increases the amount of cash generated from its ability from $1,100 to $3,000, and upon purchase its ability's cooldown is reset to 90 seconds. Elite Sniper also grants a new "Elite" targeting option for itself and all other Sniper Monkeys.
Elite targeting
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Elite targeting changes behavior depending on the state of the Bloons currently on the map. In order from highest priority to lowest priority:
- Targets First if there are any visible Bloons that are at least 75% of the way to reaching the exit.
- Targets the strongest non-MOAB-Class Bloon that spawns multiple children when popped. After round 80, all non-MOAB-Class Bloons stop spawning multiple children, so this behavior no longer occurs. Before round 81, this order is:
- Targets Strong.
Stats
[edit | edit source]For a complete list of Sniper Monkey stats, see Stats:Sniper Monkey (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
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Costs and sell values
[edit | edit source]Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
| Tiers | Total cost | Sell value | ||||||
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| Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | |
| 0-5-0 | $19,335 | $22,750 | $24,575 | $27,300 | $13,535 | $15,925 | $17,203 | $19,110 |
| 1-5-0 | $19,630 | $23,100 | $24,955 | $27,720 | $13,741 | $16,170 | $17,469 | $19,404 |
| 2-5-0 | $20,735 | $24,400 | $26,360 | $29,280 | $14,515 | $17,080 | $18,452 | $20,496 |
| 0-5-1 | $19,715 | $23,200 | $25,060 | $27,840 | $13,801 | $16,240 | $17,542 | $19,488 |
| 0-5-2 | $20,095 | $23,650 | $25,545 | $28,380 | $14,067 | $16,555 | $17,882 | $19,866 |
Strategy
[edit | edit source]This section was last updated for: version 49.3
Elite Sniper is good for general gameplay, performing well throughout the mid-game while generating solid amounts of income. In CHIMPS, it is significantly weakened, but it remains serviceable when used in a Sniper spam strategy.
Elite Sniper on its own is a cleanup tower specializing against groups of Bloons, with its high attack speed and high pierce making it perform well in this role. Its cleanup capability falls off somewhat against Super Ceramic Bloons but remains decent. However, its weak single-target damage makes it generally not recommended for standalone use in CHIMPS. 0-5-2 is the recommended crosspath for Elite Sniper, solidifying its cleanup role due to increased attack speed enhancing its reliability and synergizing better with Berserker Brew, compared to 2-5-0 which is more self-sufficient but much less reliable on simultaneous-lane maps.
There are three Sniper spam strategies commonly used with Elite Sniper: 0-2-5 Elite Defender + Full Auto Rifles + Permanent Brew, Axis of Havoc, and 2-0-5 Elite Defender + Bouncing Bullets. Axis of Havoc can be used on all maps, the former is useful on maps with placements for the Sniper to shoot Bloons while they travel towards it (such as Infernal (right island) and Muddy Puddles (bottom-middle section)), while the latter is useful on maps without such placements.
Update history
[edit | edit source]For a complete list of Sniper Monkey changes, see Update history:Sniper Monkey (BTD6).
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Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.4s → 0.8s (attack speed increased by 75%)- Now applies an attack speed buff to all Sniper Monkeys
- Upgrade cost reduced ― $16,000 → $13,000
- Overall cost reduced by $4,100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
Ability: Now starts with its full cooldown
- Now deals +2 damage to Camo Bloons
- Shrapnel: Now emits on every Bloon shot instead of only if it fully pops the Bloon
- Shrapnel: Projectile count reduced ― 8 → 5
Shrapnel: Spread angle reduced ― 360° → 45°- Shrapnel: Emission angle is now relative to the Sniper Monkey's angle
- "Elite Targeting Priority should correctly prioritise again" (bug fix)
- Elite Targeting no longer counts off-screen sections of the path when determining which targeting mode to use (bug fix)
- 2-5-0
- Shrapnel: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
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This tower felt like it’s strength too heavily required the xx2 upgrade, and that this harmed crosspath choices. So we increased the base attack rate while nerfing the increase from these upgrades. This is a slight overall buff
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Fire rate increased ― 0.8s → 0.636s
- Note: 051 increased from 0.52s to 0.4452s and 052 increased from 0.312s to 0.3116s
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To retain value in more Lead-heavy situations including against DDTs, this upgrade that has always allowed Lead popping to main attack will now also grant this to the Shrapnel from any shrapnel shot snipers mixing in this upgrade
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- 1-5-0, 2-5-0
- Now changes the damage type of shrapnel to Normal
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Bouncing Bullet has also had its shrapnel pierce increased as it was the only T3 sniper that did not have 3 pierce shrapnel.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Shrapnel: pierce increased ― 2 → 3
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Small improvements for underloved sniper upgrades with respective path specialties intact. As bottom path sniper has proven superiority for group damage dealing in many situations and middle T4 on the group-damage path has only offered a farming option, the pierce of shrapnel has been doubled at this T4 to add offensive value as well..[sic]
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Shrapnel: Pierce increased ― 3 → 6
- Crate ability: no longer lands inside high terrain (bug fix)
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No wrist enjoys spamming cash drops, so sniper’s random cash drop has been standardized around a higher amount with slower cooldown for an overall buff. As middle path sniper has been feeling to be in a good spot with alchemist buffs, but other uses of sniper shrapnel weak due to lack of alchemist buff, we have decided to swap alchemist buffability over from the number of bounces to the power of the shrapnel itself.
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— Update notes
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- Ability: Cash value is no longer randomized and always gives the maximum amount ― $1,500–$3,000 → $3,000
- Shrapnel: Damage is no longer capped
- Camo Prioritization filter added
- Ability: Cooldown increased ― 60s → 90s
- Ability: Now stops recharging during a round if 3 minutes elapse after the start
- Number of bounces is no longer affected by pierce buffs
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Elite Sniper bouncing bullet jump distance has been reduced so that it can't quite bridge small track splits so easily, however to change up use this lost distance has been added back to crosspathing.
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— Update notes
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- Bounce distance reduced ― 50 → 40
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Sniper middle path is too strong for how easy to use it is, while having infinite range & cash production as well. We have removed the free +1 pierce increase shrapnel gains at T3 in addition to the added bounce.
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- Shrapnel: Pierce reduced ― 6 → 5
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After the lower tier nerfs Elite Sniper still remains just a bit too good even without considering its cash production.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $13,000 → $14,500
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Sniper farming gets a bit, er, very tedious in lategame when you reach large numbers of x4xs.
— Update notes
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- Ability: Now also triggers all other Supply Drop abilities
- Elite Sniper’s Elite Supply Drop no longer shares button space in the ability quickbar with other Supply Drop Abilities
- Overall cost reduced by $450 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Ability: Crates now remain collectable if the tower is sold (bug fix)
- Sniper abilities should no longer take up separate quickbar buttons
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Lower tier Shrapnel crosspathing balance doesn’t feel great currently, so the damage crosspath benefits at T1 & T2 are improving.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- 1-5-0
- Shrapnel: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
- 2-5-0
- Shrapnel: Damage increased ― 2 → 3
- Overall cost reduced by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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… and more on that now, the improved bounce distance crosspathing hasn’t ever been as useful as we hoped, so this benefit is being greatly improved.
— Update notes
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- 2-5-0
- Bounce distance increased ― 40 → 80
- Note: The intended bounce distance for this crosspath was 50, but it remained at 40 due to a bug
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Supply Drop is a weak stepping stone without considering the cash generation, but is also not a preferred cash generation option either so improvements are being made to higher tiers of this path. [...]
— Update notes
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- Bullet: Pierce increased ― 4 → 5
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Elite Sniper has fallen in use so price is being reduced.
— Update notes
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $14,000 → $12,000
Related achievement
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Axis of Havoc Have one of each T5 sniper in one game of CHIMPS Reward(s):  ×2,  ×2
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Gallery
[edit | edit source]For more Sniper Monkey images, see Gallery:Sniper Monkey.
Screenshots
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Elite Sniper for all upgrades -
Elite Sniper ability
Assets
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Portrait -
Upgrade icon -
Insta Monkey icon -
Buff icon
Trivia
[edit | edit source]- Supply Drop and Elite Sniper fire a real-life signal flare upon ability activation. This is ironically more realistic than Signal Flare itself.
In other languages
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| Arabic | قناص النخبة إسقاط المؤن والإمدادات يؤدي إلى منح المزيد من النقود. منح جميع نخبة القناصين أولوية في القنص وإعادة تحميل أسرع. |
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| Danish | Elite-snigskytte Forsyningsnedkastning giver flere penge. Giver alle snigskytter Elite-målsøgningsprioritet og hurtigere genopladning. |
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| German | Elite-Scharfschütze Nachschub-Abwurf bringt viel mehr Geld. Ergibt Elite-Zielpriorität und schnelleres Nachladen für alle Scharfschützen. |
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| Spanish | Francotirador de élite La Entrega de Provisiones da mucho más dinero. Otorga prioridad de objetivo Élite y recarga más rápida a todos los francotiradores. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Francotirador de élite La Entrega de Provisiones da mucho más dinero. Otorga prioridad de objetivo Élite y recarga más rápida a todos los francotiradores. |
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| Finnish | Eliittisala-ampuja Tarvikepudotus antaa paljon enemmän käteistä. Antaa eliittikohdeprioriteetin ja nopeamman latauksen kaikille tarkka-ampujille. |
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| French | Sniper d'élite Les caisses de ravitaillement fournissent davantage d'argent. Accorde une priorité de ciblage d'élite et un rechargement plus rapide à tous les snipers. |
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| Italian | Cecchino élite Il Lancio scorte fornisce molto più contante. Conferisce mira prioritaria élite e caricamento accelerato a tutti i cecchini. |
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| Japanese | エリートスナイパー 供給品ドロップで投下されるキャッシュが増える。全てのスナイパーに、エリート照準プリオとより速いリロードを与えてくれる。 |
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| Korean | 엘리트 저격수 보급품 투하로 받는 캐시의 양이 상당히 증가합니다. 모든 저격수가 엘리트 표적우선순위와 빠른 재장전 속도를 갖게 됩니다. |
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| Dutch | Elite sluipschutter Voorraaddropping geeft veel meer geld. Geeft alle scherpschutters Elite-richtprioriteit en sneller herladen. |
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| Norwegian | Elite-snikskytter Forsyningsslipp gir mye mer penger. Gir elite-målprioritet og raskere omlading til alle snikskyttere. |
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| Polish | Strzelec wyborowy Zrzut zaopatrzenia daje o wiele więcej gotówki. Zapewnia wszystkim snajperom elitarne priorytety celowania i szybsze przeładowanie. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Atirador de Elite A Descarga de Suprimentos dá muito mais dinheiro. Concede mira de elite e recarga mais rápida para todos os atiradores. |
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| Russian | Элитный снайпер Выброска припасов дает больше денег. Также дает элитным снайперам бонус к меткости и скорости перезарядки. |
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| Swedish | Elitprickskytt Släpp av förnödenheter ger mycket mera pengar. Ger elitsiktesprioritet och snabbare omladdning till alla prickskyttar. |
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| Thai | นักซุ่มยิงยอดฝีมือ เสบียงทางอากาศให้เงินสดเยอะขึ้นมาก ให้ความสำคัญกับการเล็งลูกโป่งระดับสูงก่อน และทำให้พลซุ่มยิงทุกคนบรรจุกระสุนเร็วขึ้น |
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| Turkish | Elit Nişancı İkmal malzemesi düşürme çok daha fazla nakit kazandırır. Tüm keskin nişancılara Elit hedefleme önceliği ve daha hızlı yükleme sağlar. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 精英狙击手 空投补给带来了更多的现金。为所有狙击手授予精英目标神谕，并加快他们的装弹速度。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 精英狙擊手 空投補給帶來了更多的現金。為所有狙擊手賦予精英目標神諭及快速裝填屬性。 |
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| This list was last updated for: version 43.1 | |||
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