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{{Research|Confirm whether this is true outside of Bloons TD 6|section=Non-integer pierce}}

In the case where a projectile's pierce isn't whole number, it will be rounded down and the decimal value will stored and transferred to the next projectile. For example, if a projectile has 1.4 pierce, the first two attacks will have 1 pierce and the third will have 2 pierce with 0.2 piercing carrying over into the next attack. So the projectiles pierce will go through a cycle of 1, 1, 2, 1, and 2 pierce before repeating.  With towers that fire multiple projectiles in one attack, such as the [[Tack Shooter]], the carryover will occur in a single attack. (e.g. with 1.5 pierce, half the tacks in a volley will have 1 pierce and the other half 2)

===Pierce cap===

Starting in ''Bloons TD 5'', some projectiles have a limit to the amount of pierce they can gain from external pierce modifiers. This is usually done for projectiles that spawn other projectiles on contact with the first Bloon (such as bombs that spawn explosions), and is usually equal to the projectile's unmodified pierce.  

In some cases, for balance reasons, pierce limits are applied to certain or all projectiles from an attack that produces additional attacks. For example, in ''BTD6'', [[Bouncing Bullet (BTD6)|Bouncing Bullet]]'s shrapnel from the main shot and each bounce can benefit from pierce buffs, but not the bullet itself. In ''BTD6'' and ''Battles 2'', the shards from [[Ice Shards]] have a pierce limit, but not for the freeze wave that would create the shards.

In the mobile versions of ''[[Bloons TD 5 (mobile)|Bloons TD 5]]'' and ''[[Bloons Monkey City (mobile)|Bloons Monkey City]]'', most projectiles that spawn other projectiles do not have pierce caps, causing them to spawn projectiles more than once when given pierce buffs. For example, [[Hydra Rocket Pods (BTD5)|Hydra Rocket Pods]]'s missiles can spawn multiple explosions, and [[Glaive Ricochet (BTD5)|Glaive Ricochet]]'s glaives can spawn multiple ricocheting glaives. Most of these occurrences are fixed in the {{mobile version of|Bloons TD Battles}}, though the [[Temple Of The Monkey God (Battles)|Temple Of The Monkey God]]'s missile attack still has this issue. In the {{mobile version of|Bloons Monkey City}}, only [[Glaive Ricochet (BMC)|Glaive Ricochet]] has this issue fixed.

**[[Essence of Bloonarius]] (tier 3 and below only)

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