Monarch of Storms

Monarch of Storms

Calls forth a relentless barrage of superstorms. Blasts all Bloon types for massive damage and blows them away from the exit.

Tower	Druid — Path 1 — Tier 5
XP cost	35,000
Cash cost	$51,000 — Easy $60,000 — Medium $64,800 — Hard $72,000 — Impoppable

← Ball Lightning

Root of all Nature →

Monarch of Storms (Superstorm prior to version 50.0) is the Druid's path 1 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. This upgrade allows the Druid to perform the superstorm attack and improves the Ball Lightning attack by increasing the damage of the Heart of Thunder lightning attacks from 3 to 30, and lightning produced by lightning balls from 3 to 10.

The superstorm is a slow moving projectile that does 100 damage and inflicts blowback on MOAB-Class Bloons, sending them back between 100 and 400 units (half the value if it's a ZOMG). The superstorm projectile also fires out a ball lightning projectile every 3 seconds; this ball lightning is fired in a randomized direction within 180° of the superstorm's fired direction. Superstorm projectiles ignore walls and can bounce off map borders, consume more pierce on blimps (MOAB: 3, BFB: 9, ZOMG: 33, DDT: 7), can target BADs but not Boss Bloons, have 200 pierce, can re-hit Bloons every second, and last up to 12.8571 seconds (17.1429 seconds with 5-0-1). It removes all glue and ice mutators and their effects, except Glue Strike and Glue Storm ability effects from BADs and Bosses. The attack triggers every 4 seconds, and can trigger on any target.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 35 units Footprint radius 7 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 1.1s Offset (X, Y, Z) -1.99, 8.17, 7 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 35 units
Projectile Count 5 Angle 25° Pierce 2 Damage 1 Damage type Normal Speed 340 units/s Lifespan 0.3s Radius 0 units

Ball Lightning
Cooldown 6s Offset (X, Y, Z) -1.99, 8.17, 7 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 35 units
Spawning projectile Pierce 9,999,999 Damage 0 Damage type Frigid Speed 24 units/s Lifespan 3.75s Radius 8 units Filters Ignores White or Purple if its damage type cannot damage it Ignores blockers Damage does not soak through layers Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 4.5s Layers 4 Lightning Pierce 5 Max pierce 5 Damage 10 Damage type Plasma Bounce distance 43 units Radius 0 units Ignores blockers

Superstorm
Cooldown 4s Offset (X, Y, Z) -1.99, 8.17, 7 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 35 units
Projectile Pierce 200 MOAB pierce penalty +2 BFB pierce penalty +8 ZOMG pierce penalty +32 DDT pierce penalty +6 Damage 100 Damage type Normal Speed 35 units/s Lifespan 12.8571s Radius 40 units Rehit interval 1s Filters Cannot hit bosses Ignores blockers Blowback Chance 100% Min distance 100 units Max distance 9999999 units Spawning projectile Angle 120° Pierce 9,999,999 Damage 0 Damage type Frigid Speed 24 units/s Lifespan 3.75s Radius 8 units Ignores blockers Damage does not soak through layers Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 4.5s Layers 4 Lightning Pierce 5 Max pierce 5 Damage 10 Damage type Plasma Bounce distance 43 units Radius 0 units Ignores blockers

Lightning
Cooldown 2.3s Offset (X, Y, Z) -3.52, 6.06, 7 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 35 units
Lightning Pierce 5 Max pierce 5 Damage 30 Damage type Plasma Bounce distance 86 units Radius 0 units Ignores blockers

Tornado
Cooldown 2.5s Offset (X, Y, Z) -1.99, 8.17, 7 Targeting First / Last / Close / Strong Targeting range 35 units Filters Cannot target MOAB-Class
Projectile Pierce 60 Damage 0 Damage type Frigid Speed 72 units/s Seeking distance ∞ units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 160 °/s Lifespan 1.0417s Radius 16 units Filters Ignores White or Purple if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot hit MOAB-Class Cannot hit DDTs Cannot hit Bloons with Blowback Blowback Chance 100% Min distance 150 units Max distance 250 units

5-1-0

Attack
Projectile Count 5 → 8

5-2-0

Attack
Pierce per extra life +1% Max extra lives for pierce 100
Projectile Now removes Regrow

Ball Lightning
Lightning Now removes Regrow

Superstorm
Pierce per extra life +1% Max extra lives for pierce 100
Projectile Now removes Regrow Lightning Now removes Regrow

Lightning
Pierce per extra life +1% Max extra lives for pierce 100
Lightning Now removes Regrow

Tornado
Pierce per extra life +1% Max extra lives for pierce 100
Projectile Now removes Regrow

5-0-1

Tower
Display range 35 units → 45 units

Attack
Targeting range 35 units → 45 units
Projectile Lifespan 0.3s → 0.4s

Ball Lightning
Targeting range 35 units → 45 units
Spawning projectile Lifespan 3.75s → 5s

Superstorm
Targeting range 35 units → 45 units
Projectile Lifespan 12.8571s → 17.1429s Spawning projectile Lifespan 3.75s → 5s

Lightning
Targeting range 35 units → 45 units

Tornado
Targeting range 35 units → 45 units
Projectile Lifespan 1.0417s → 1.3889s

5-0-2

Attack
Speed per life lost +1% Speed per life lost base bonus +10% Max lives lost for attack speed 40

Ball Lightning
Speed per life lost +1% Speed per life lost base bonus +10% Max lives lost for attack speed 40

Superstorm
Speed per life lost +1% Speed per life lost base bonus +10% Max lives lost for attack speed 40

Lightning
Speed per life lost +1% Speed per life lost base bonus +10% Max lives lost for attack speed 40

Tornado
Speed per life lost +1% Speed per life lost base bonus +10% Max lives lost for attack speed 40

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
5-0-0	$57,635	$67,800	$73,225	$81,360	$40,345	$47,460	$51,258	$56,952
5-1-0	$57,845	$68,050	$73,495	$81,660	$40,492	$47,635	$51,447	$57,162
5-2-0	$58,145	$68,400	$73,875	$82,080	$40,702	$47,880	$51,713	$57,456
5-0-1	$57,720	$67,900	$73,335	$81,480	$40,404	$47,530	$51,335	$57,036
5-0-2	$57,975	$68,200	$73,660	$81,840	$40,583	$47,740	$51,562	$57,288

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 55.1

Monarch of Storms has a steep cost compared to cheaper options (such as Icicle Impale or Super Glue). For a similar price, Bloon Crush is generally more consistent for the stalling role unless Monarch of Storms gains enough speed buffs (e.g. Poplust) for the differences in damage and crowd control to matter. However, Monarch of Storms's single-target damage is not bad, due to the rehitting superstorms, but fails to be effective in Boss Events due to the lack of Boss damage on its superstorms, though in Boss Rush it has a niche for blowing back leaking MOABs and DDTs against especially Phayze. Monarch is not compatible with extreme Freeplay strategies due to the superstorms removing all of Herald of Everfrost's debuffs.

5-0-2 is the preferred crosspath, due to the increased attack speed and projectile lifespan. 5-2-0 is redundant as pierce is rarely an issue.

Update history

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Version 10.0

•  Tornado: damage increased ― 5 → 12
•  Ball Lightning lightning: damage increased ― 2 → 5
•  Heart of Thunder lightning: damage increased ― 1 → 3

Version 18.0

5-2-0

•  Heart of Oak now allows the lightning attack to remove Regrow (undocumented)
•  Heart of Oak now allows the tornado attack to remove Regrow (undocumented)
•  Heart of Oak now allows the lightning spawned by the ball lightning attack to remove Regrow (undocumented)

Version 22.0

“

Superstorm has been adjusted with a new feature to grant it a method of dealing continuous damage to the targets that it blows backwards. We know many of you will feel this needs much more work but please be patient as we will come back to it.
— Update notes

”

•  Superstorm attack: Now spawns lightning balls in a 180° arc in front of it every second until the storm expires

Version 23.0

“

The most recent buff to Superstorm was great fun, but when spending pierce so quickly we wouldn’t see many extra Ball Lightnings. Since many find Superstorm lacking in pierce overall, the ‘extra’ pierce consumptions for hitting larger targets have been reduced to make it more effective and more lightningey.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Superstorm: pierce penalty to MOABs reduced ― +19 → +4
•  Superstorm: pierce penalty to BFBs reduced ― +49 → +19
•  Superstorm: pierce penalty to ZOMGs reduced ― +199 → +49
•  Superstorm: pierce penalty to DDTs reduced ― +49 → +9

Version 25.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $550 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 26.0

•  Tornado attack: Blowback should correctly remove ongoing glue damage effects from Bloons when the slow is removed (bug fix)

Version 28.0

“

As an underused crosspath on this tower, Druid’s Hard Thorns will now allow them to counter all of its weaknesses instead of just frozen targets. Druid of the Storm has been reworked to more consistently blow targets back due to being stationary and slower firing compared to other upgrades that do a similar task.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $90,000 → $80,000
•  Main attack: Damage type changed ― Shatter → Normal
•  Tornado attack: Blowback distance changed ― 33–300 → 100–200
•  Tornado attack: Projectile radius increased ― 13 → 16

Version 29.0

• Superstorm no longer behaves differently in sandbox and real games (bug fix)

Version 30.0

“

Top path has had a number of buffs to help with both price and consistency in control over regular bloons through higher tiers. Superstorm has had a rather big price buff, however to prevent it locking up games in a boring stall state the blowback distance against ZOMGs has been halved.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $80,000 → $65,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $15,825 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Tornado attack: Blowback distance increased ― 100–200 → 150–250
•  Tornado attack: Pierce increased ― 30 → 60
•  Lightning ball: Now has a 25% chance to freeze Bloons (same as the original effect of Cold Front)
•  Superstorm: Blowback distance is now halved against ZOMGs

5-1-0, 5-2-0, 5-0-1, 5-0-2

•  Crosspathing Superstorm with any upgrade now prevents lightning balls from freezing Bloons (bug)

Version 31.0

5-1-0, 5-2-0, 5-0-1, 5-0-2

•  Crosspathing Superstorm with any upgrade no longer prevents lightning balls from freezing Bloons (bug fix)

Version 33.0

“

Top path Heart of Thunder doesn’t scale well with tiers for an upgrade with such niche use & generally feels lacking, so it is seeing general power improvements across the board to upgrades that incorporate this attack.
— Update notes

”

•  Lightning attack: Damage increased ― 3 → 10
•  Lightning ball lightning ― Damage increased → 5 (10)

Version 37.0

“

While the tornado doesn't do anything to MOABs, it still spends itself on them which wastes a relatively long cooldown, so addressing this flaw.
— Update notes

”

•  Tornado attack: No longer targets MOAB-class Bloons

Version 38.0

“

Druid of the Storm is too inconsistent due to placement causing projectiles to intersect the path and spend very little time actually touching Bloons, it is gaining some homing to keep the nados running along the track over the top of Bloons to more consistently utilize their high pierce value. We love how this is working and hope you do, too.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $65,000 → $60,000
•  Tornado attack: Now seeks Bloons
•  Tornado attack: Max distance increased ― 80 → 100
•  Blowback no longer works on Bloons near the entrance (bug fix)

Version 39.0

•  Ball lightning main projectile: Freeze chance increased ― 25% → 100%

Version 44.0

“

T5 MOAB-Class pierce penalties are being reduced and damage increased to reduce how much it slows down the game when purchased.
— Update notes

”

•  Superstorm damage increased ― 12 → 120
•  Superstorm BFB pierce penalty reduced ― +19 → +14
•  Superstorm ZOMG pierce penalty reduced ― +49 → +44

Version 45.0

“

Now that Tornadoes are one of the more popular Bloon Stall choices we looked more into its upgrade progression, tornado projectile speed is being reduced as a benefit to Ball Lightning to prevent tornado outpacing the lightning ball so quickly, and to more suit it as a Cold/Magic themed upgrade plus differentiate from similar supports the weaknesses are changing. More directly to Ball Lightning we feel it needs a considerably higher freeze duration for the freeze to matter as it casts slowly.
— Update notes

”

•  Ball lightning: freeze duration increased ― 1.5s → 4.5s
•  Superstorm: DDT pierce penalty reduced ― +9 → +7
•  Tornado: projectile speed reduced ― 90 → 72
•  Tornado: damage type changed ― Normal → Frigid
  • Note: Does not affect the mini-tornadoes of Tiny Tornadoes
•  Tornado: can blow back Lead Bloons
•  Tornado: cannot blow back White and Purple Bloons
  • Note: Projectile will ignore White and Purple properties, which it cannot target anymore

Version 48.0

“

Druid projectile lifespans are being shifted from many base weapons into the xx1 range crosspath, this is a nerf to top path lifespan when not taking the crosspath and a buff to 031 druids
— Update notes

”

•  Ball lightning attack: Projectile distance reduced ― 120 units → 90 units
•  Main attack: Max projectile distance reduced ― 136 units → 102 units
•  Tornado attack: Projectile distance reduced ― 100 units → 75 units
•  Tornado attack: Projectile distance reduced ― 200 units → 150 units

5-0-1, 5-0-2

•  Druidic Reach now increases the max distance of the tornado attack by 33%
  •  Stacks with nerfs to the base tornado's max distance; overall max distance is unchanged
•  Druidic Reach now increases the lifespan of the ball lightning attack by 33%
  •  Stacks with nerfs to the base ball lightning's max distance; overall max distance is unchanged

Version 50.0

“

Superstorm gets a fresh coat of paint, including a new name! The Superstorm Tornadoes last far longer and rebound off of map borders, all while still spewing out additional Ball Lightning projectiles the entire time to fill the screen!
— Update notes

”

•  Superstorm attack: Projectile now bounces off map borders
•  Superstorm attack: Projectile now hits BADs to deal damage only
  • Note: Still can't hit Boss Bloons
•  Superstorm attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 4.2857s → 12.8571s
  • Note: Projectile distance increased from 150 to 450. 5-0-1 projectile distance increased from 200 to 600.
•  Lightning attack: Damage increased ― 10 → 30
• Name and description changed

Before	Superstorm
After	Monarch of Storms

Before	Superstorm blasts all Bloon types for massive damage and blows them away from the exit.
After	Calls forth a relentless barrage of superstorms. Blasts all Bloon types for massive damage and blows them away from the exit.

Version 54.0

“

Monarch’s superstorm now features re-hit capability so it can tear through strong targets faster, in particular round 100.
— Update notes

”

•  Ball Lightning main projectile: Projectile radius increased ― 0 units → 8 units
•  Ball Lightning main projectile: Damage type changed ― Cold → Frigid
•  Superstorm: Damage increased ― 120 → 150
•  Superstorm: Can now re-hit Bloons after 1s
•  Ball Lightnings from Superstorm: Spawning interval reduced ― 1s → 3s

Version 54.1

•  Ball Lightning: Projectile now ignore Bloons if its damage type cannot damage them

Version 55.0

“

The Monarch’s Superstorm re-hitting has felt like a success though it over-buffed single target performance while over-nerfing the blowback due to rapid pierce consumption, so we are scaling back the damage but reducing pierce penalties to balance this out.
— Update notes

”

•  Superstorm: Damage reduced ― 150 → 100
•  Superstorm: Pierce penalty for MOABs reduced ― +4 → +2
•  Superstorm: Pierce penalty for BFBs reduced ― +14 → +8
•  Superstorm: Pierce penalty for ZOMGs reduced ― +44 → +32
•  Superstorm: Pierce penalty for DDTs reduced ― +7 → +6
•  Main attack: Projectile spread can now be affected by accuracy buffs

Version 56.0

“

Monarch of Storms now has a maximum blowback cap to ensure ZOMG blowback penalty calculates correctly, alongside faster blowback speed to reduce map stalling.
— Update notes

”

•  Superstorm: Blowback speed multiplier increased ― 1× → 2×
•  Superstorm: Max blowback distance decreased ― ∞ units → 400 units

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In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 50.0

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	ملك العواصف	—
Danish	Stormenes monark	—
German	Herrscher der Stürme	—
Spanish	Monarca de las tormentas	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Monarca de tormentas	—
Finnish	Myrskyjen kuningas	—
French	Monarque des tempêtes	—
Italian	Monarca delle tempeste	—
Japanese	嵐の覇者	—
Korean	폭풍의 군주	—
Dutch	Koningsstorm	—
Norwegian	Storm-monark	—
Polish	Burzowy Monarcha	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Monarca das Tempestades	—
Russian	Штормовой монарх	—
Swedish	Stormarnas Monark	—
Thai	ราชาแห่งพายุ	—
Turkish	Fırtına Hükümdarı	—
Chinese (simplified)	风暴君主	—
Chinese (traditional)	風暴君王	—

Description

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	يستدعي وابلًا لا يتوقف من العواصف الخارقة. يقصف جميع أنواع البالونات مُلحِقًا بها أضرارًا هائلة ويدفعها بعيدًا عن المخرج.	—
Danish	Fremkalder en ubarmhjertig byge af superstorme. Raserer alle bloon-typer ved at tilføre enorm skade og blæser dem væk fra udgangen.	—
German	Ruft einen unablässigen Supersturm herbei. Fügt allen Bloon-Arten schweren Schaden zu und weht sie vom Ausgang weg.	—
Spanish	Genera una andanada implacable de supertormentas. Impacta en todos los tipos de bloon, hace un daño enorme y los aleja de la salida.	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Provoca una ráfaga implacable de supertormentas que impacta en todos los tipos de bloon, hace un daño enorme y los aleja de la salida.	—
Finnish	Kutsuu armottoman supermyrskyjen ryöpyn. Aiheuttaa kaikille bloonityypeille massiivista vahinkoa ja paiskaa ne pois uloskäynnistä.	—
French	Invoque un barrage de super tempêtes sans merci, qui touche tous les types de Bloons en leur infligeant des dégâts considérables et les fait reculer loin de la sortie.	—
Italian	Provoca una raffica inarrestabile di Super tempeste. Spara a tutti i tipi di bloon provocando danni gravi e li allontana dall'uscita.	—
Japanese	果てしない猛烈なスーパーストームを召喚し、全種類のブルーンに莫大なダメージを与え、出口から遠ざける。	—
Korean	어마어마한 슈퍼 폭풍 세례를 내립니다. 모든 유형의 풍선에게 어마어마한 피해를 주며 출구에서 멀리 날려보냅니다.	—
Dutch	Roept een onophoudelijk spervuur van superstormen op. Bestookt alle soorten Bloons voor enorme schade en blaast ze weg van de uitgang.	—
Norwegian	Tilkaller en nådeløs gruppe superstormer. Sprenger alle bloontyper for massiv skade og blåser dem vekk fra utgangen.	—
Polish	Superburza uderza, zadając duże obrażenia blonom wszystkich typów oraz odpycha je od wyjścia.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Invoca uma sequência implacável de supertempestades. Estoura todos os tipos de Bloon com dano massivo e os afasta da saída.	—
Russian	Призывает неудержимый залп суперштормов; поражает все типы шаров, наносит им огромный урон и сдувает их от выхода.	—
Swedish	Frammanar en obeveklig spärreld av superstormar. Spränger alla Bloontyper och åsamkar massiv skada och blåser bort dem från utgången.	—
Thai	เรียกซูเปอร์สตอร์มพัดอย่างไม่หยุดยั้ง พัดบลูนทุกประเภท ทำดาเมจมหาศาลและทำให้บลูนถอยในทิศตรงข้ามกับทางออก	—
Turkish	Aralıksız bir süper fırtına saldırısı başlatır. Tüm Bloon türlerini ağır hasar vererek patlatır ve onları çıkışın uzağına uçurur.	—
Chinese (simplified)	召唤出一连串猛烈的超级风暴。对所有类型的气球造成巨大伤害，并将它们从出口处吹开。	—
Chinese (traditional)	持續召喚多個超級風暴。對所有種類的氣球造成巨大傷害，並將它們吹離出口處。	—