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Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) →Strategy: some user said that I was wrong to have assumed that oc village interaction nerf is dubious https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/1nb4plm/comment/nd1lh7k/?context=3 though to be frank they're wrong when they said 4 brfs when it should be 5, bc you get +20% income in five instances across each of the BRFs (total of basically +100% BRF income, but split across 5 BRFs of course), versus +80% income from +4 crates of 5 crates per round on single BRF |
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Overclock is a great support tower when one's strategy depends on few strong towers rather than many weak towers. It provides an average ~44.44% DPS boost on tier 5 towers and has full uptime on tier 4 towers. Thus, it has significant value with high-DPS towers such as [[Dark Champion (BTD6)|Dark Champion]], or an [[Orca]] or [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] with max beast power. It is also effective at buffing DPS-centered heros such as [[Adora (BTD6)|Adora]] and [[Captain Churchill (BTD6)|Captain Churchill]], as well as heroes that are capable of blimp knockback such as [[Pat Fusty (BTD6)|Pat Fusty]] and [[Rosalia (BTD6)|Rosalia]]. | Overclock is a great support tower when one's strategy depends on few strong towers rather than many weak towers. It provides an average ~44.44% DPS boost on tier 5 towers and has full uptime on tier 4 towers. Thus, it has significant value with high-DPS towers such as [[Dark Champion (BTD6)|Dark Champion]], or an [[Orca]] or [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] with max beast power. It is also effective at buffing DPS-centered heros such as [[Adora (BTD6)|Adora]] and [[Captain Churchill (BTD6)|Captain Churchill]], as well as heroes that are capable of blimp knockback such as [[Pat Fusty (BTD6)|Pat Fusty]] and [[Rosalia (BTD6)|Rosalia]]. | ||
Overclock is also a key tower when farming, particularly for Boss events. Since [[Banana Research Facility (BTD6)|Banana Research Facility (BRF)]] and [[Banana Central (BTD6)|Banana Central]] generate 5 banana crates per round, when overclocked they generate 9 crates as <math>5*1.66=8.3</math>, which rounds up to 9. Therefore an Overclock constitutes an 80% buff to cash generation for these Farms, making Overclocked BRFs and Banana Central more efficient than BRFs and Banana Central alone. It is not recommended to use Overclock on [[Monkey Wall Street (BTD6)|Monkey Wall Street]] as it does not affect its end of round cash bonus. The table below shows the increase in production for different Banana Farms: | Overclock is also a key tower when farming, particularly for Boss events. Since [[Banana Research Facility (BTD6)|Banana Research Facility (BRF)]] and [[Banana Central (BTD6)|Banana Central]] generate 5 banana crates per round, when overclocked they generate 9 crates as <math>5*1.66=8.3</math>, which rounds up to 9. Therefore an Overclock constitutes an 80% buff to cash generation for these Farms, making Overclocked BRFs and Banana Central more efficient than BRFs and Banana Central alone. It is not recommended to use Overclock on [[Monkey Wall Street (BTD6)|Monkey Wall Street]] as it does not affect its end of round cash bonus. The table below shows the increase in production for different Banana Farms: | ||
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The range buff it provides Villages is useful on a [[Monkey City (BTD6)|Monkey City]] when building a [[Monkeyopolis (BTD6)|Monkeyopolis]], as the increased range will allow more farms to fit in range of the Village. If Overclocking would cover the range of at least 5 BRFs,<!--think of it... 1+0.2*5=2, and bonus crates is +4 from 5 which is 9 and 1.8--> applying the Monkey City buff would make more money than on a single BRF, assuming they're not income-buffed by other sources (e.g. [[Fertilizer]]), in addition to covering more range for the discounts of [[Monkey Commerce (BTD6)|Monkey Commerce]]. However, the range increase to Villages is rarely useful outside of these applications; it is usually cheaper to buy more Villages rather than an Overclock. | |||
As a supportive tower, Overclock is a very poor damage dealer by itself despite the fact that it gains pierce. It usually should not be crosspathed at all, since none of the crosspaths improve the ability. However, the Overclock's extra foam pierce does have niche use for more reliable decamo; it has better crosspathing value than its T3. | As a supportive tower, Overclock is a very poor damage dealer by itself despite the fact that it gains pierce. It usually should not be crosspathed at all, since none of the crosspaths improve the ability. However, the Overclock's extra foam pierce does have niche use for more reliable decamo; it has better crosspathing value than its T3. | ||
Revision as of 07:12, 14 September 2025
For other uses, see Overclock (disambiguation).
Overclock
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 Overclock Ability: Target another tower to supercharge its attack speed for a short time.
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| Tower | Engineer Monkey — Path 2 — Tier 4 | |
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| XP cost | 14,000 | |
| Cash cost | $11,475 — Easy $13,500 — Medium $14,580 — Hard $16,200 — Impoppable | |
Overclock is the Engineer Monkey's path 2 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It grants the Overclock Activated Ability, which allows the player to apply a temporary buff to a non-sentry tower of their choosing. For most towers, it reduces the attack cooldown of the target tower by 40%, increasing its attack speed by ~66.7%. Since the banana production of Banana Farms is considered an attack, it also increases the number of bananas (or packets of cash in the case of Monkey Banks and Marketplaces) they produce by 66.7%, rounded up to the nearest whole number. If used on a Monkey Village, it increases its range by 10%. The attack speed buff also works on Primary Expertise, but not Monkeyopolis. The duration of the buff depends on the target's current upgrade tier and does not change if the target upgrades while the buff is active.
- Tier 5: 30 seconds
- Tier 4: 45 seconds
- Tier 3 and below or heroes: 60 seconds
In addition, this upgrade increases the base pierce of the Engineer Monkey's main attack by 12 (increased to 15) and increases the pierce of its Cleansing Foam puddles by 4 (increased to 14). It also doubles the projectile speed of its nails, but halves their lifespan, so their maximum travel distance remains the same.
Stats
For a complete list of Engineer Monkey stats, see Stats:Engineer Monkey (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
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Strategy
This section was last updated for: version 49.3
Overclock is a great support tower when one's strategy depends on few strong towers rather than many weak towers. It provides an average ~44.44% DPS boost on tier 5 towers and has full uptime on tier 4 towers. Thus, it has significant value with high-DPS towers such as Dark Champion, or an Orca or Tyrannosaurus Rex with max beast power. It is also effective at buffing DPS-centered heros such as Adora and Captain Churchill, as well as heroes that are capable of blimp knockback such as Pat Fusty and Rosalia.
Overclock is also a key tower when farming, particularly for Boss events. Since Banana Research Facility (BRF) and Banana Central generate 5 banana crates per round, when overclocked they generate 9 crates as , which rounds up to 9. Therefore an Overclock constitutes an 80% buff to cash generation for these Farms, making Overclocked BRFs and Banana Central more efficient than BRFs and Banana Central alone. It is not recommended to use Overclock on Monkey Wall Street as it does not affect its end of round cash bonus. The table below shows the increase in production for different Banana Farms:
| Farm | 0-0-0
0-X-0 0-0-1 0-0-2 |
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1-X-0 1-0-1 1-0-2 |
2-0-0
2-X-0 2-0-1 2-0-2 |
3-X-X
0-0-3 0-0-4 0-0-5 |
4-X-X
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| Normal | 4 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 18 | 20 | |
| Overclock | 7 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 9 | 30 | 34 | |
The range buff it provides Villages is useful on a Monkey City when building a Monkeyopolis, as the increased range will allow more farms to fit in range of the Village. If Overclocking would cover the range of at least 5 BRFs, applying the Monkey City buff would make more money than on a single BRF, assuming they're not income-buffed by other sources (e.g. Fertilizer), in addition to covering more range for the discounts of Monkey Commerce. However, the range increase to Villages is rarely useful outside of these applications; it is usually cheaper to buy more Villages rather than an Overclock.
As a supportive tower, Overclock is a very poor damage dealer by itself despite the fact that it gains pierce. It usually should not be crosspathed at all, since none of the crosspaths improve the ability. However, the Overclock's extra foam pierce does have niche use for more reliable decamo; it has better crosspathing value than its T3.
As with its T3, Cleansing Foam, avoid placing Overclock too close to Lych, as its start-of-round speed boost may heal Lych.
Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
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| 0-4-0 | $13,045 | $15,350 | $16,580 | $18,420 | $9,132 | $10,745 | $11,606 | $12,894 |
| 1-4-0 | $13,470 | $15,850 | $17,120 | $19,020 | $9,429 | $11,095 | $11,984 | $13,314 |
| 2-4-0 | $13,810 | $16,250 | $17,550 | $19,500 | $9,667 | $11,375 | $12,285 | $13,650 |
| 0-4-1 | $13,425 | $15,800 | $17,065 | $18,960 | $9,398 | $11,060 | $11,946 | $13,272 |
| 0-4-2 | $13,610 | $16,020 | $17,300 | $19,225 | $9,527 | $11,214 | $12,110 | $13,458 |
Update history
For a complete list of Engineer Monkey changes, see Update history:Engineer Monkey (BTD6).
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Ability: attack speed buff reduced ― +100% → +66.7% (does not affect Farms or Village range)
Ability: now affects submerged Monkey Subs
Ability: can no longer target Phoenixes (which does nothing)
- Overclock: can now be targeted by Techbot
- Ability: No longer causes Pat Fusty's Big Squeeze to activate more than once (bug fix)
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Continuing our efforts to make crosspaths meaningful and fit the style of each path more solidly, a number of crosspath and base level balance shifts were made.
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- Ability: active buff state is now included in save files
- 1-4-0, 2-4-0
- Larger Service Area crosspath now increases Sentry range by +4
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Engineer is quite poor in terms of crosspathing, so we’ve added crosspath benefits to Cleansing Foam [...] We’ve been somewhat unhappy with how Overclock sits in the game for a while and especially how the interaction with tower cost causes levelling heroes naturally to be far advantageous over purchasing upgrades when this is already underused. We have made an attempt to rework these issues by moving it to a tier-based system rather than price.
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- Overall cost reduced by $150 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Ability: Duration now depends on the target's highest upgrade tier instead of total cost
- 105s for tier 0 (new)
- 90s for tier 1 (new)
- 75s for tier 2 (new)
- 60s for tier 3 (instead of $0–$15,000 cost)
- 45s for tier 4 (instead of $15,001–$40,000 cost)
- 30s for tier 5 (instead of $40,001+ cost)
- Hero tiers count as their current level divided by 4, rounded down
- 0-4-1, 0-4-2
- Foam attack: Pierce with Oversized Nails increased ― 10 → 15
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We’ve added a pierce & speed boost to Overclock’s base upgrade
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- Pierce increased ― 3 → 15
- Projectile speed increased ― 375 → 750
- 1-4-0, 2-4-0
- Deconstruction: now grants all Sentries +1 damage to Fortified & MOAB
- Ability: No longer causes framerate issues if linked to a Tech Bot without a target assigned (bug fix)
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we have also re-envisioned the ‘Larger Service’ crosspath as giving smarter service as well in the form for targeting for Bloontrap & Cleansing Foam
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- Overall cost reduced by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Foam attack: Manual targeting option added
- Foam attack: Now counts damage when popping Lead Bloons (bug fix)
- Overall cost increased by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- 0-4-2
- Pin crosspath allows Cleansing Foam to slow Bloons by 50% for 2 seconds
- Pin crosspath allows Cleansing Foam to slow all MOAB-class (including BADs) by 50% for 2 seconds (bug)
- 1-4-0, 2-4-0
- Foam makes Sentries shoot Foamy nails that strip properties
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032 Engineer Cleansing Foam now works correctly on all MOAB Class targets - hope you enjoyed that temporary treat
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- 0-4-2
- Cleansing Foam: no longer slows MOAB-class bloons (including BADs) with Pin crosspath (bug fix)
- 0-4-2
- Cleansing Foam slow stacks on a single target (bug)
- 0-4-2
- Foam slow effect no longer stacks on a single target (bug fix)
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The MOAB offense of top path lacks for a mainly dps tower that is quite complex to use [...] the 320 crosspath will now be able to double dip on the Fortified & MOAB damage bonuses that it gains. Cleansing Foam is only seeing a slight tweak to help it be more viable if you want to attempt it as 'main camo detection’, and this mainly fixes some issues in ABR games allowing it to catch quick initial camo spawns.
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- All attacks: Now gains 1s of 4x rate on round start
- 1-4-0, 2-4-0
- Sentry: Deconstruction's bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons and Fortified Bloons are no longer mutually exclusive
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Overclock's considerable longer duration benefit on lower tiers currently serves little purpose and only leads to weirdness in upgrading boosted towers, so for now we’d rather minimize this on the early cases that don’t serve much purpose .
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- Ability: no longer has a 1.75× duration bonus for tier 0 towers
- Ability: no longer has a 1.5× duration bonus for tier 1 towers
- Ability: no longer has a 1.25× duration bonus for tier 2 towers
- Ability: Lasts 60s on heroes regardless of level (undocumented)
- Foam: Pierce increased ― 10 → 15
- Note: Ultraboost foam pierce unchanged (30)
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This was becoming annoying screen clutter with large numbers of sentries, and feels unnecessary when you can overclock the engineer itself to create more sentries instead.
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- Overclock and Ultraboost abilities no longer target Engineer sentries
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Really only one major change here; a rebalancing to how the 2xx Crosspath applies across various engineer upgrades, and some base stats being changed to accommodate fitting this.
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- Foam: Pierce decreased ― 15 → 14
- 0-4-1, 0-4-2
- Foam: Pierce increased ― 20 → 21
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Overclock’s Village range bonus always felt like an odd special case, and now that there is a proper dedicated range bonus ability the combined range this grants for villages ended up being overpowered, after consideration we didn’t want to jump straight to deleting the ultraboost stacking tech here but have lowered the range bonuses from Overclock.
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- Overclock buff: Range bonus on Monkey Villages decreased ― +25% → +10%
- Note: Also affects the temporary Ultraboost effect. Does not affect Paragon's Power Glove (+25%)
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Overclock’s duration on level 20 heroes has been excessive; we’re cutting the jank and standardizing to a consistent 30s duration for heroes, with Ultraboost still providing the full 60s.
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- Overclock: Buff duration on Heroes decreased at all levels ― 60s → 30s
- Note: Ultraboost temporary buff unaffected (60s)
Gallery
For more Engineer Monkey images, see Gallery:Engineer Monkey.
Screenshots
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Overclock ability affecting a Dart Monkey
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In other languages
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| Arabic | زيادة سرعة الهجوم القدرة على تخطي حاجز الزمن: استهدف برجًا آخر لزيادة سرعة هجومه لفترة قصيرة. |
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| Danish | Tuning Tuning-evne: Udpeg et andet tårn til at få super-styrke i et kort stykke tid. |
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| German | Übertakten Übertakt-Fähigkeit: Zielt auf einen anderen Turm, um dessen Angriffsgeschwindigkeit für kurze Zeit extrem zu erhöhen. |
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| Spanish | Sobreaceleración Habilidad Sobreaceleración: ataca a otra torre para aumentar la velocidad de ataque durante un tiempo corto. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Sobreaceleración Habilidad Sobreaceleración: ataca a otra torre para aumentar la velocidad de ataque durante un tiempo corto. |
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| Finnish | Ylikellotus Ylikellotus-kyky: Valitse toinen torni ylikellottaaksesi sen hyökkäysnopeuden hetkeksi. |
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| French | Surpuissance Aptitude surpuissance : cible une autre tour pour surcharger sa vitesse d'attaque pour un bref laps de temps. |
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| Italian | Sovraccarico Abilità sovraccarico: bersaglia un'altra torre per sovralimentare la sua velocità d'attacco per un breve lasso di tempo. |
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| Japanese | オーバー時計 オーバー時計能力：攻撃速度を短時間スーパーチャージする別のタワーを狙う。 |
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| Korean | 오버클록 오버클록 능력: 대상 타워의 공격 속도를 잠시 동안 어마어마하게 향상합니다. |
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| Dutch | Overklokken Overklokken-vaardigheid: richt op een andere toren om zijn aanvalssnelheid voor een korte tijd te verhogen. |
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| Norwegian | Overklokking Overklokke-evne: Sikter på et annet tårn for å superlade angrepshastigheten dets i kort tid. |
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| Polish | Podkręcenie Umiejętność podkręcenie: namierza inną wieżę, by superdoładować jej prędkość ataku przez krótki czas. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Overclock Habilidade Overclock: Mire em outra torre para supercarregar sua velocidade de ataque por um tempo curto. |
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| Russian | Разгон Разгон: целится в другую башню и ненадолго ускоряет её атаку. |
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| Swedish | Långtidsläge Överklockningsförmåga: Väljer ett annat torn för att superladda dess attackhastighet under en kort stund. |
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| Thai | โอเวอร์คล็อก สกิลโอเวอร์คล็อก: เล็งทาวเวอร์อีกแห่งเพื่อมอบซูเปอร์ชาร์จ เพิ่มความเร็วโจมตีเป็นระยะเวลาสั้นๆ |
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| Turkish | Hız Aşırtma Hız Aşırtma Yeteneği: Kısa süre için saldırı hızını süper yüklü hale getirmek için başka bir atıcıyı hedef alır. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 超频 超频技能：锁定另一座塔，短时间内提升其攻击速度。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 超頻 超頻技能：使另一座塔的攻擊速度在短時間內大幅加快。 |
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