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==Strategy==
==Strategy==
Heavy Shells is a decent early-game tower, being able to pop all Bloon types except Camo, that generally sees the most use at the start of races with 2-3-0, its preferred crosspath. Target it on top of the best loop, and retarget it when needed to the most dangerous Bloon clump. In most cases, it is a stepping stone to its powerful Tier 4, [[Artillery Battery (BTD6)|Artillery Battery]]. [[Striker Jones (BTD6)|Striker Jones]] pairs well with Heavy Shells due to his buffs to Mortars and Concussive Shell triggering bonus stunned damage, both of which benefits its higher tiers as well.
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Heavy Shells is a decent early-game tower, being able to pop all Bloon types except Camo, that generally sees the most use at the start of [[Race Event]]s with 2-3-0, its preferred crosspath in almost all cases. Target it on top of the best loop, and retarget it when needed to the most dangerous Bloon clump. In most cases, it is a stepping stone to its powerful Tier 4, [[Artillery Battery (BTD6)|Artillery Battery]]. [[Striker Jones (BTD6)|Striker Jones]] pairs well with Heavy Shells due to his buffs to Mortars and Concussive Shell triggering bonus stunned damage, both of which benefits its higher tiers as well. 0-3-2 has okay residual damage, however the DoT is slower than the explosions and 2-3-0 is still more consistent with its higher pierce, damage, and radius per explosion.


==Update history==
==Update history==

Revision as of 15:14, 24 August 2025

Heavy Shells
Portrait of Heavy Shells
Icon of Heavy Shells
Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, and stunned Bloons. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons.
Tower Mortar Monkey — Path 2 — Tier 3
XP cost 2,300
Cash cost $765 — Easy
$900 — Medium
$970 — Hard
$1,080 — Impoppable

Heavy Shells is the Mortar Monkey's path 2 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It increases the attack speed by approximately 33% and grants normal damage type, thus allowing the tower to pop all types of Bloons. It also grants a +1 damage bonus to Leads (including DDTs), MOAB-Class Bloons, and Fortified Bloons, a +2 damage bonus to stunned Bloons and blimps, and a +3 damage bonus to Ceramics. These bonuses can stack.

With Burny Stuff, it deals 4 damage per tick instead of 1.

Stats

For a complete list of Mortar Monkey stats, see Stats:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
Tower
Display range30 units
Footprint radius11 units
Attack
Cooldown0.81s
Offset (X, Y, Z)
-4.08, 3, 27
Spread18
TargetingDepends on targeting option
Targeting range∞ units
Rotation speed∞ deg/s
Filters
  • Cannot target Camo
  • Ignores blockers
Explosion
Pierce25
Damage2
Damage to Lead or DDTs+1
Damage to Ceramic+3
Damage to MOAB-Class+1
Damage to Fortified+1
Damage to stunned+2
Damage typeNormal
Lifespan0.05s
Radius20 units
Filters
  • Cannot hit Camo

1-3-0

Attack
Explosion
Pierce25 → 45
Radius20 units → 28 units

2-3-0

Attack
Explosion
Damage2 → 3

0-3-1

Attack
Spread18 → 8

0-3-2

Attack
Explosion
Damage over time
Damage4
Damage typeNormal
Duration3.85s
Interval1.25s
Layers

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
0-3-0 $2,040 $2,400 $2,590 $2,880 $1,428 $1,680 $1,813 $2,016
1-3-0 $2,295 $2,700 $2,915 $3,240 $1,607 $1,890 $2,041 $2,268
2-3-0 $2,720 $3,200 $3,455 $3,840 $1,904 $2,240 $2,419 $2,688
0-3-1 $2,210 $2,600 $2,805 $3,120 $1,547 $1,820 $1,964 $2,184
0-3-2 $2,550 $3,000 $3,235 $3,600 $1,785 $2,100 $2,265 $2,520

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 49.3

Heavy Shells is a decent early-game tower, being able to pop all Bloon types except Camo, that generally sees the most use at the start of Race Events with 2-3-0, its preferred crosspath in almost all cases. Target it on top of the best loop, and retarget it when needed to the most dangerous Bloon clump. In most cases, it is a stepping stone to its powerful Tier 4, Artillery Battery. Striker Jones pairs well with Heavy Shells due to his buffs to Mortars and Concussive Shell triggering bonus stunned damage, both of which benefits its higher tiers as well. 0-3-2 has okay residual damage, however the DoT is slower than the explosions and 2-3-0 is still more consistent with its higher pierce, damage, and radius per explosion.

Update history

For a complete list of Mortar Monkey changes, see Update history:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).
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0-3-2
  • Buff Now applies burn to Black Bloons (bug fix)
  • Buff Now deals +1 damage to MOAB-Class
  • "Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"
  • "The mortar’s projectiles should no longer visually drop back down the barrel"
  • Buff Now deals +2 damage to stunned Bloons
  • Description changed (undocumented)
Before Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead and all Fortified Bloons. Can also pop Black Bloons.
After Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, all Fortified, and all stunned bloons. Can also pop Black bloons.
Mortar’s Faster Reload feels like a ‘required’ as a crosspath with Burny Stuff never scaling well on any path but it’s own. We like choices not requirements so to counter this we have made Burny Stuff scale with top-path damage & shifted a small amount of the speed from Faster Reload onto the base mortar and reduced base accuracy considerably.
— Update notes
  • Nerf Attack cooldown increased ― 1.078s → 1.08s (attack speed reduced by 0.19% due to changes to the attack cooldown modifiers of previous tiers)
  • Nerf Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30
    • Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)
We felt like we set up the math quite well with Mortar changes last update, but regardless of this missed shots due to inaccuracy vs. attack speed turned out to be unpopular and impacted the middle path too severely. Fortunately this change led to the community finding some critical bugs in the middle path upgrades there since Mortar’s release! That said, since low tier Mortars were never powerful we chose to leave the speed buff from last update but revert the accuracy nerf.
— Update notes
  • Buff Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18
Mortar consistency is lacking at x3x making it tough to spend on even though x4x is fairly good, so some of the T4 rate is shifting down to help out with this.
— Update notes
  • Buff Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.08s → 0.81s
    • Note: Artillery Battery buff reduced from 1/4 rate to 1/3 rate but attack speed remains at 0.27
  • Nerf Lead/MOAB/Fortified damage bonuses no longer stack (bug)
We’re looking to shakeup mortar in a couple small ways this update, along with Striker Jones changes noted further on for ‘multi-mortaring’ synergy. From the base level Mortar has far more pierce than should ever be necessary at low rounds but doesn’t hit beefy enough for the low fire rate, so we are trading up some base pierce for damage, instead moving this lost pierce up into crosspath.
— Update notes
  • Buff Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
  • Buff Explosion: Lead/Mortar/Fortified bonuses should all stack their bonuses on single targets (bug fix)
  • Nerf Explosion: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 25
    • Note: Bigger Blast and its subsequent upgrades unchanged
We’re feeling quite happy about the overall state of mortar compared to how it has fared in the past, however the Burny Stuff crosspath is still very hard to justify on middle mortar so along with other DoT attacks in this update we’re trying out a slight increase to damage over time across this path.
— Update notes
0-3-2
  • Buff Damage-over-time tick damage increased ― 1 → 2
Middle Mortar is seeing improvements mainly for damage over time crosspathing, and we’ve also added Burny Stuff to the Pop & Awe ability with crosspathing.
— Update notes
0-3-2
  • Buff Damage over time: damage per tick increased ― 2 → 3
0-3-2
  • Buff Can apply Burny Stuff to DDTs if it has Camo Detection (bug fix)
Improvements made for the underused damage over time crosspaths [...]
— Update notes
0-3-2
  • Buff DoT damage increased ― 3 → 4
  • Change Description changed ― Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, all Fortified, and all stunned Bloons. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons. → Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, stunned Bloons, and Bosses. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons.
    • Note: Description is incorrect, it does not do extra damage to Bosses.
  • Change Description changed ― Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, stunned Bloons, and Bosses. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons. → Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, and stunned Bloons. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons.
  • Buff Overall cost reduced by $150 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
  • Nerf Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
0-3-2
  • Buff Should be now able to inflict the Burny Stuff damage over time effect to Black Bloons (bug fix)
For more Mortar Monkey images, see Gallery:Mortar Monkey.

Screenshots

Assets

In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 49.1
Name
Language Text Notes
Arabic قذائف ثقيلة
Danish Tunge Granater
German Schwere Granaten
Spanish Proyectiles pesados
Spanish (Latin America) Proyectiles pesados
Finnish Raskaat granaatit
French Obus lourds
Italian Granate pesanti
Japanese 重装備炸裂弾
Korean 중량 포탄
Dutch Zware projectielen
Norwegian Tunge patroner
Polish Ciężkie pociski
Portuguese (Brazil) Cápsulas Pesadas
Russian Тяжёлые снаряды
Swedish Tunga granater
Thai กระสุนหนัก
Turkish Ağır Mermiler
Chinese (simplified) 重型炮弹
Chinese (traditional) 重型炸彈
Description
Language Text Notes
Arabic تسبب القذائف الثقيلة أضرارًا أخرى على البالونات السيراميكية (الخزفية) والبالونات المصنوعة من الرصاص والبالونات المحصنة والموآب والبالونات المصعوقة والزعماء، بالإضافة إلى إمكانية الهجوم بسرعة أكبر وتفجير البالونات السوداء.
Danish Tunge granater gør ekstra skade mod keramiske bloons, bly-bloons, forstærkede bloons, Moab'er, lammede bloons og bosser. Angriber hurtigere og kan også springe sorte bloons.
German Schwere Granaten verursachen Extraschaden bei Keramik- und Blei-Bloons, allen Wehrbloons, MOABs, allen betäubten Bloons und Bossen. Greift schneller an und kann auch schwarze Bloons platzen lassen.
Spanish Los proyectiles pesados hacen más daño a los bloons cerámicos, emplomados, fortificados, MOAB, aturdidos y jefes. Ataca más rápido y también puede explotar bloons negros.
Spanish (Latin America) Los proyectiles pesados hacen más daño a los bloons cerámicos, emplomados, fortificados, MOAB, aturdidos y jefes. Ataca más rápido y también puede reventar bloons negros.
Finnish Raskaat kranaatit aiheuttavat lisävahinkoa keraamisille, lyijyisille, vahvistetuille, tainnutetuille blooneille, MOABeille ja pomoille. Hyökkää nopeammin ja voi poksauttaa myös mustia blooneja.
French Les obus lourds infligent davantage de dégâts aux Bloons en céramique, en plomb, fortifiés, MOAB et étourdis, et aux boss. Attaquent plus rapidement et peuvent aussi faire éclater les Bloons noirs.
Italian Le granate pesanti provocano danni extra ai bloon di ceramica, di piombo, fortificati, MOAB, immobilizzati e boss. Attacca più velocemente e può anche far scoppiare i bloon neri.
Japanese 頑丈な炸裂弾が陶器、鉛、強化ブルーン、MOAB、気絶ブルーン、そしてボスに追加ダメージを与える。攻撃速度が上がり、黒ブルーンを割ることもできる。
Korean 중량 포탄이 세라믹 풍선, 납 풍선, 강화 풍선, MOAB, 기절한 풍선, 보스에 추가 피해를 줍니다. 공격 속도가 빨라지며, 검은 풍선도 터트립니다.
Dutch Zware projectielen doen extra schade aan Keramische, Loden, Gepantserde en verlamde Bloons, MOAB's en bazen. Valt sneller aan en kan ook Zwarte Bloons laten knallen.
Norwegian Tunge patroner påfører ekstra skade på keramiske bloons, blybloons, forsterkede bloons, MOAB-er, lammede bloons og sjefer. Angriper kjappere og kan også poppe svarte bloons.
Polish Ciężkie pociski zadają dodatkowe obrażenia blonom ceramicznym, ołowianym, ufortyfikowanym, MOAB-om, ogłuszonym blonom i bossom. Atakują szybciej i mogą również przekłuwać czarne blony.
Portuguese (Brazil) Munição pesada causa dano extra a Bloons de Cerâmica, Chumbo, Fortificados, MOABs, Bloons atordoados e chefes. Ataca mais rápido e também pode estourar Bloons Pretos.
Russian Тяжелые снаряды наносят дополнительный урон керамическим, свинцовым, укрепленным, оглушенным шарам, MOAB и боссам. Атаки ускорены, а также способны пробивать черные шары.
Swedish Tunga projektiler åsamkar extra skada på Keramik-, Bly-, Bepansrade, MOAB:er, bedövade Bloons och Bossar. Attackerar snabbare och kan även smälla Svarta Bloons.
Thai กระสุนหนักสร้างความเสียหายเพิ่มเติมให้กับบลูนเซรามิก ตะกั่ว เสริมเกราะ MOAB มึนงงทั้งหมดและบอส โจมตีเร็วขึ้นและยังสามารถระเบิดบลูนสีดำได้อีกด้วย
Turkish Ağır mermiler Seramik, Kurşun, Güçlendirilmiş ve Sersemletilmiş Bloon'lara, MOAB'lara ve Patronlara ekstra hasar verir. Daha hızlı saldırır ve Siyah Bloon'ları da patlatabilir.
Chinese (simplified) 重炮弹对陶瓷气球、铅气球、强化气球、MOAB级气球、击晕气球和Boss造成额外伤害。攻击速度加快,并且也可以击破黑气球。
Chinese (traditional) 重型砲彈可對陶瓷氣球、鉛氣球、強化氣球、MOAB級氣球、被擊暈的氣球和頭目造成額外傷害。攻擊速度加快,還可擊破黑氣球。