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'''Super Maelstrom''' is the [[Tack Shooter (BTD6)|Tack Shooter]]'s path 2 tier 5 [[upgrade]] in ''[[Bloons TD 6]]''. It upgrades the [[Blade Maelstrom (BTD6)|Blade Maelstrom's]] ability to last 9 seconds instead of 3, shoot out 4 blades at a time instead of 2, gains +8 bonus [[ | '''Super Maelstrom''' is the [[Tack Shooter (BTD6)|Tack Shooter]]'s path 2 tier 5 [[upgrade]] in ''[[Bloons TD 6]]''. It upgrades the [[Blade Maelstrom (BTD6)|Blade Maelstrom's]] ability to last 9 seconds instead of 3, shoot out 4 blades at a time instead of 2, gains +8 bonus [[Ceramic damage]], and increases the pierce of the ability's blades from 100 to 300. Additionally, its regular attack gains +3 additional damage (5 total), +5 bonus Ceramic damage, and its damage type is changed to {{BTD6 dt|Normal}}. These changes do not apply to the ability. | ||
== Super Maelstrom Ability == | == Super Maelstrom Ability == | ||
[[File:BTD6 TackShooter SuperMaelstromUpgradeIconAA.png|right|100px]] | [[File:BTD6 TackShooter SuperMaelstromUpgradeIconAA.png|right|100px]] | ||
The Super Maelstrom ability has a cooldown of 20 seconds, with an initial cooldown of 6.67 seconds. When activated, it fires extra-strong blades in | The Super Maelstrom ability has a cooldown of 20 seconds, with an initial cooldown of 6.67 seconds. When activated, it fires out four extra-strong blades per shot in an 360° amgle at rapid rates, while spinning the ejection angles at 360° per second clockwise; this creates a spiral pattern with the ejected blades. The ability lasts for 9 seconds. Each blade deals 2 [[Damage#Shatter|Shatter]] damage (+8 bonus damage to [[Ceramic Bloon (BTD6)|ceramics]]), has 300 [[pierce]], and is fired with an attack cooldown of 0.045 seconds. It can be affected with all types of buffs (e.g. damage, attack speed, pierce). | ||
The ability also receives crosspathing benefits: | The ability also receives crosspathing benefits: | ||
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==Stats== | ==Stats== | ||
{{BTD6 stat list by tiers|Tack Shooter|050}} | {{BTD6 stat list by tiers|Tack Shooter|050}} | ||
==Costs and sell values== | |||
{{BTD6 cost list by upgrade|Tack Shooter|2|5}} | |||
==Strategy== | ==Strategy== | ||
{{BTD6 last updated| | {{BTD6 last updated|51.2|section=y}} | ||
With support for {{BTD6|Lead Bloon}}s and [[Camo Bloon (BTD6)|Camo]] detection, Super Maelstrom | With support for {{BTD6|Lead Bloon}}s and [[Camo Bloon (BTD6)|Camo]] detection, Super Maelstrom is a win condition in [[Race Event]]s. Super Maelstrom transitions smoothly from Blade Maelstrom as it extends the duration of Blade Maelstrom's ability when upgraded from it while the ability is active. 0-5-2 is the preferred crosspath in Race Events because of the longer duration. Super Maelstrom is also powerful against {{BTD6|Bloonarius}}'s spawns, especially in Timed settings. | ||
Elsewhere, Super Maelstrom is a below average DPS option that falls off on [[Expert]] maps, but fulfills a niche role in cleaning up Super Ceramics for cheaper than most T5s (e.g. [[The Bloon Solver (BTD6)|The Bloon Solver]]). In CHIMPS, 2-5-0 and 0-5-2 are equally favorable, with the former having stronger burst damage and the latter being more reliable. It benefits from [[Primary Mentoring (BTD6)|Primary Mentoring]]'s cooldown reduction; {{BTD6|Primary Expertise}} and {{BTD6|Energizer}} are far too expensive. | |||
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==Update history== | ==Update history== | ||
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BTD6 050-TackShooterInsta.png|[[Insta Monkey]] icon | BTD6 050-TackShooterInsta.png|[[Insta Monkey]] icon | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Trivia== | |||
*Its portrait resembles that of [[Blade Maelstrom (BTD5)|BTD5 Blade Maelstrom]]. This is ironically not the case with [[Blade Maelstrom (BTD6)|BTD6 Blade Maelstrom]]. | |||
==In other languages== | ==In other languages== | ||
Latest revision as of 14:27, 22 January 2026
For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Super Maelstrom (Battles 2).
Super Maelstrom
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 Even more powerful Maelstrom ability and lasts longer.
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| Tower | Tack Shooter — Path 2 — Tier 5 | |
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| XP cost | 28,000 | |
| Cash cost | $12,750 — Easy $15,000 — Medium $16,200 — Hard $18,000 — Impoppable | |
Super Maelstrom is the Tack Shooter's path 2 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It upgrades the Blade Maelstrom's ability to last 9 seconds instead of 3, shoot out 4 blades at a time instead of 2, gains +8 bonus Ceramic damage, and increases the pierce of the ability's blades from 100 to 300. Additionally, its regular attack gains +3 additional damage (5 total), +5 bonus Ceramic damage, and its damage type is changed to Normal. These changes do not apply to the ability.
Super Maelstrom Ability
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The Super Maelstrom ability has a cooldown of 20 seconds, with an initial cooldown of 6.67 seconds. When activated, it fires out four extra-strong blades per shot in an 360° amgle at rapid rates, while spinning the ejection angles at 360° per second clockwise; this creates a spiral pattern with the ejected blades. The ability lasts for 9 seconds. Each blade deals 2 Shatter damage (+8 bonus damage to ceramics), has 300 pierce, and is fired with an attack cooldown of 0.045 seconds. It can be affected with all types of buffs (e.g. damage, attack speed, pierce).
The ability also receives crosspathing benefits:
- Faster Shooting — ability gains ~17.6% increased attack speed (0.85x attack cooldown).
- Even Faster Shooting — ability gains ~38.4% increased attack speed total (0.85x attack cooldown on top, total of 0.7225x).
- More Tacks — ability gains +1.5s duration and spins counter-clockwise.
- Even More Tacks — ability gains +3s duration total.
Stats
[edit | edit source]For a complete list of Tack Shooter stats, see Stats:Tack Shooter (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
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Costs and sell values
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| Tiers | Total cost | Sell value | ||||||
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| Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | |
| 0-5-0 | $16,005 | $18,835 | $20,345 | $22,600 | $11,204 | $13,185 | $14,242 | $15,820 |
| 1-5-0 | $16,130 | $18,985 | $20,505 | $22,780 | $11,291 | $13,290 | $14,354 | $15,946 |
| 2-5-0 | $16,385 | $19,285 | $20,830 | $23,140 | $11,470 | $13,500 | $14,581 | $16,198 |
| 0-5-1 | $16,100 | $18,945 | $20,465 | $22,730 | $11,270 | $13,262 | $14,326 | $15,911 |
| 0-5-2 | $16,195 | $19,055 | $20,585 | $22,860 | $11,337 | $13,339 | $14,410 | $16,002 |
Strategy
[edit | edit source]This section was last updated for: version 51.2
With support for Lead Bloons and Camo detection, Super Maelstrom is a win condition in Race Events. Super Maelstrom transitions smoothly from Blade Maelstrom as it extends the duration of Blade Maelstrom's ability when upgraded from it while the ability is active. 0-5-2 is the preferred crosspath in Race Events because of the longer duration. Super Maelstrom is also powerful against Bloonarius's spawns, especially in Timed settings.
Elsewhere, Super Maelstrom is a below average DPS option that falls off on Expert maps, but fulfills a niche role in cleaning up Super Ceramics for cheaper than most T5s (e.g. The Bloon Solver). In CHIMPS, 2-5-0 and 0-5-2 are equally favorable, with the former having stronger burst damage and the latter being more reliable. It benefits from Primary Mentoring's cooldown reduction; Primary Expertise and Energizer are far too expensive.
Update history
[edit | edit source]For a complete list of Tack Shooter changes, see Update history:Tack Shooter (BTD6).
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Ability: Duration increased ― ??? → 6s- Ability: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
- Main blade: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
- Ability: duration increased ― 6s → 9s
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Maelstrom upgrades are in a good spot overall, but specifically for the low cost of this tower with such a rapid cooldown it was able to hit too many targets under race conditions. This targeted nerf is to the value of it under those race conditions and should be negligible in other game areas.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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Ability: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 500
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Blade Shooter has always struggled to find much value without MK or as a step to Maelstrom, so to give it build value on its own we feel like this should be a part of the base value on the upgrade.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Blade pierce increased ― 6 → 8
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Maelstrom crosspathing? Why not, feels that this could be cool to try out, and more consistency on bottom crosspath may be able to make it the preferred ability crosspath while top path which already improves the base tower more will give back the massive pierce amount for times where the greater punch per use is required.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Ability: Pierce reduced ― 500 → 300
- 0-5-1, 0-5-2
Ability: Now rotates counter-clockwise with this crosspath
- 1-5-0
- Ability: Pierce reduced ― 500 → 400
- Note: 250 unchanged
- 0-5-1
- Ability: Duration increased ― 9s → 10.5s
- 0-5-2
- Ability: Duration increased ― 9s → 12s
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The recent ability crosspathing for Tack Shooter was fun but feels too lopsided as pierce concerns are very niche on Maelstrom, instead we want to shift this entire focus around for top path to be the rate crosspath for more damage in a shorter amount of time and leaving bottom mainly about greater overall uptime.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Ability: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.03s → 0.045s (attack speed reduced by 33.33%)
- Ability: Damage type changed ― Normal → Shatter
- Ability: Pierce increased ― 300 → 500
- 1-5-0
- Ability: Faster Shooting no longer increases pierce
- Overall pierce is unchanged (due to changes to the base pierce)
- Ability: Faster Shooting now reduces attack cooldown by 15%
- Overall attack cooldown with this crosspath increased ― 0.03s → 0.03825s (due to changes to the base attack cooldown)
- 2-5-0
- Ability: Even Faster Shooting no longer increases pierce
- Overall pierce is unchanged (due to changes to the base pierce)
- Ability: Even Faster Shooting now decreases attack cooldown by 15%
- Reduces overall attack cooldown by 27.75% (due to changes to the previous tier)
- Overall attack cooldown with this crosspath increased ― 0.03s → 0.0325125s (due to changes to the base attack cooldown)
- Overall cost reduced by $20 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Ability blade: Pierce reduced ― 500 → 300
- Ability blade: Damage increased ― 2 → 3 (bug)
- Super Maelstrom deals the correct amount of damage again ― 3 → 2 (bug fix)
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Blade Shooter has always visually increased the projectile size considerably but not actually changed this value at all, Blades will now actually be bigger.
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— Update notes
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- Blade Maelstrom ability: Projectile radius increased ― 2 → 4
- Reload rate reduced ― 1.19s → 1.12s
- Note: Stacks with top crosspath: 1-X-0 ― 0.8925s → 0.84s. 2-X-0 ― 0.6694s → 0.63s
- Main attack: Projectile radius increased ― 0 → 4
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Range fits well for this path, so we’re working this more into the main attack of middle path
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— Update notes
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- Acquisition range increased ― 31 → 46
- Blade: Projectile range increased ― 49.24 → 64
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Middle Tack has always been ability heavy, so the base tower damage is improving with higher tiers to get more than just the ability.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Main blade: Damage increased ― 2 → 5
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As it is primarily a small Bloon cleanup tower path, Super Maelstrom has struggled to keep up in the lategame, mostly because Super Ceramics don’t care how fast you’re spinning if you can’t break them so we’ve added a Ceramic bonus to the attack and ability.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Main attack: Now deals +5 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons
- Ability: Now deals +8 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons
Gallery
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Screenshots
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Activation of the 052 ability
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Assets
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Portrait -
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Ability icon -
Insta Monkey icon
Trivia
[edit | edit source]- Its portrait resembles that of BTD5 Blade Maelstrom. This is ironically not the case with BTD6 Blade Maelstrom.
In other languages
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| Arabic | الدوامة الفائقة قدرة أكبر على عمل دوامة قوية والاستمرار لفترة أطول. |
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| Danish | Super malstrøm Endnu kraftigere malstrøm-evne, som varer længere. |
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| German | Super-Inferno Noch stärkere Infernofähigkeit, die noch länger dauert. |
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| Spanish | Supervorágine La habilidad vorágine es aún más poderosa y dura más tiempo. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Supervorágine La habilidad vorágine es aún más poderosa y dura más tiempo. |
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| Finnish | Supermyrsky Vieläkin tehokkaampi ja pidempikestoinen myrskykyky. |
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| French | Super maelström Aptitude Maelström encore plus puissante, et durée plus longue. |
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| Italian | Super vortice Abilità Vortice ancora più potente e di durata maggiore. |
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| Japanese | スーパー大混乱 もっとパワフルな大混乱能力で、持続時間も長い。 |
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| Korean | 슈퍼 소용돌이 소용돌이 능력이 더욱 강력해지며 지속 시간도 길어집니다. |
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| Dutch | Superkolk Nog krachtigere kolkvaardigheid en duurt langer. |
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| Norwegian | Super malstrøm Enda kraftigere malstrøm-evne som varer lengre. |
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| Polish | Super wir Jeszcze potężniejsza i dłużej działająca umiejętność wir. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Supertempestade Habilidade Tempestade ainda mais poderosa e mais duradoura. |
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| Russian | Суперводоворот Водоворот мощнее и длится дольше. |
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| Swedish | Supermalström Ännu mera kraftfull Malströmförmåga och varar längre. |
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| Thai | ซูเปอร์เมลสตรอม สกิลพายุแรงขึ้นไปอีกและอยู่ได้นานขึ้น |
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| Turkish | Süper Girdap Çok daha güçlü Girdap yeteneği ve daha uzun sürer. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 超级漩涡 更强大的漩涡技能和更长的持续时间。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 超級漩渦 更強大的漩渦技能，持續時間更長。 |
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| This list was last updated for: version 43.1 | |||
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