Jar of Pickles

Jar of Pickles

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Try these pickles on one of your Monkey Towers and it will hit harder, but shoot slower for a while.

Try these pickles on one of your Monkey Towers and it will hit harder, but shoot slower for a while. Now with increased damage to fortified Bloons!

Level unlocked				1	Starting stock				2
Max stock				4	Rounds to restock				4

Cost	$130 — Easy $150 — Medium $160 — Hard $180 — Impoppable

The Jar of Pickles, or Pickles, is a Geraldo's Shop item in Bloons TD 6. It applies a buff to towers which increases their damage by 1 but reduces their attack speed by 25% (1.33× attack cooldown) for 5 rounds. The buff also applies to sub-towers of the tower it is applied to – for example, it applies to all of Geraldo's sub-towers if used on Geraldo himself. At level 16, it is upgraded to also provide +1 Fortified damage to affected towers.

Jar of Pickles may not be applied to Banana Farms or Monkey Villages other than Primary Expertise. It can, however, be applied to Glue Gunner even without any damaging upgrades – this does not increase their glue's damage. An upgraded version of the buff may be applied to a tower with an inferior version, overriding it and resetting the duration.

Strategy

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Jar of Pickles' flat damage bonus at the cost of a minor speed reduction is most efficient on low damage towers (such as the Tack Zone or Sun Avatar). Any tower with 1 or 2 damage is overall buffed by the Jar of Pickles, those with 3 damage are overall neutral, and any tower with 4 or more is effectively nerfed. When Geraldo gets to level 16, it buffs 1 to 5 damage towers only against Fortified Bloons. If buffed by Alchemist or Bloons are affected by debuffs, treat the damage value higher (e.g. Berserker Brew = +1). Flat damage bonuses also drastically improve layer-skipping of Bloons for low-damage towers.

• Overdrive: When used for single-target without other buffs, or to handle Fortified more efficiently, Overdrive retains sizable DPS without much compromise to its reliability.
• Gerry's Fire: The fire spirit's flames have low damage and attack quickly, and allowing it to layer-skip spawns fewer Bloons during the mid-game. Only use this synergy on towers that already deal low damage.

Update history

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Version 31.1

•  Levels 11–15: now grants +1 damage to Fortified (bug fix)
•  Levels 16+: now grants +2 damage to Fortified (bug fix)

Version 32.0

•  Cost increased ― $50 → $100
•  Duration reduced ― 8 rounds → 5 rounds

Version 35.0

• All of Geraldo's temporary buff effects now display buff icons to their applied tower with stack count numbers representing their remaining round durations

Version 36.0

“

Geraldo has a lot of items that are still undervalued compared to others while Pickles appears to stand far above the rest as the downside for the power increase isn’t quite enough. We’re pulling more of these lower & higher items closer in to the middle
— Update notes

”

•  Cooldown penalty increased ― ×1.25 → ×1.33

Version 43.0

“

Geraldo has been far too powerful for a while and all-round nerfs are coming to many outstanding aspects [...]
— Update notes

”

•  Levels 11–15: No longer grants +1 damage to Fortified
•  Levels 16+: Bonus damage to Fortified reduced ― +2 → +1

Version 46.0

“

Geraldo is coming into line with himself, though as he still feels too far ahead of other heroes we are scaling up some of the shop prices to more justify the power level.
— Update notes

”

•  Cost increased ― $100 → $150

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In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	برطمان المخلل جرب هذه المخللات على أحد أبراج القرود الخاصة بك وسوف تضرب بقوة أكبر، لكن أطلق النار بشكل أبطأ لفترة من الوقت.	—
Danish	Syltede agurker Prøv agurkerne på et af dine abetårne og den vil ramme hårdere, men skyde langsommere i et stykke tid.	—
German	Gurkenglas Verwende eine Gurke auf einem deiner Affentürme, damit er härter zuschlägt, aber für einige Zeit langsamer schießt.	—
Spanish	Frasco de pepinillos Pruébalos con una de las torres moneriles para que dispare con más fuerza y menos velocidad durante un tiempo.	—
Spanish (LA)	Frasco de pepinillos Pruébalos con una de las torres moneriles para que dispare con más fuerza y menos velocidad durante un tiempo.	—
Finnish	Pikkelssipurnukka Kokeile näitä pikkelssejä jollekin apinatornillesi, niin hetken se iskee kovempaa, mutta ampuu hitaammin.	—
French	Bocal de cornichons Placez ces cornichons sur l'une de vos tours de singe et elle frappera plus fort, mais tirera plus lentement, pendant un moment.	—
Italian	Barattolo di cetriolini Prova questi cetriolini su una delle tue torri scimmiesche e la vedrai diventare più potente, ma più lenta, per un po' di tempo.	—
Japanese	ピクルスのビン モンキータワーの1つでこれらのピクルスを試してみると、より強く当たるけれど、しばらくの間ゆっくりと撃つようになる。	—
Korean	피클 항아리 원숭이 타워에 이 피클을 주면 한동안 공격이 더 강해지지만, 공격 속도가 낮아집니다.	—
Dutch	Pot augurken Als je een van je apentorens deze augurken geeft, doet deze toren tijdelijk meer schade, maar schiet langzamer.	—
Norwegian	Glass med sylteagurk Prøv disse sylteagurkene på ett av apetårnene dine, så vil de en stund treffe hardere, men skyte saktere.	—
Polish	Słój ogórków Wypróbuj te pikle na jednej ze swoich małpich wież, a uderzy mocniej, lecz przez chwilę będzie strzelać wolniej.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Pote de Picles Experimente esse picles em uma das suas torres de macaco e ela vai bater mais forte, mas atirar um pouco mais lentamente por um tempo.	—
Russian	Банка солений Дайте соленья какой-нибудь башне, и некоторое время она будет бить сильнее, но медленнее.	—
Swedish	Inlagd Gurkburk Prova de här gurkorna på ett av dina Aptorn, så kommer det att träffa hårdare men skjuta långsammare en stund.	—
Thai	ขวดแตงดอง ลองใช้ของดองเหล่านี้บนทาวเวอร์ลิงของคุณ แล้วมันจะโจมตีหนักขึ้น แต่อาจจะยิงช้าลงชั่วขณะหนึ่ง	—
Turkish	Turşu Kavanozu Bu turşuları Maymun Atıcılarından birinde denediğinde daha sert vuruş yapacaktır ama bir süre daha yavaş atış yap.	—
Chinese (simplified)	泡菜罐 在你的一座猴子塔上试试这些泡菜，它会更猛烈地射击，但射速会减慢一段时间。	—
Chinese (traditional)	罐裝腌菜 試著對你的猴子塔使用這些罐裝腌菜，它短時間內造成的傷害會增加，但射擊速度會變慢。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.3