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'''Great White''' is the [[Beast Handler (BTD6)|Beast Handler]]'s path 1 tier 3 [[upgrade]] in ''[[Bloons TD 6]]''. The Beast Handler now handles a great white instead of a barracuda. Its Beast Power is increased by +5, changing its Beast Power scale from 3–6 to 8–24. | '''Great White''' is the [[Beast Handler (BTD6)|Beast Handler]]'s path 1 tier 3 [[upgrade]] in ''[[Bloons TD 6]]''. The Beast Handler now handles a great white instead of a barracuda. Its Beast Power is increased by +5, changing its Beast Power scale from 3–6 to 8–24. | ||
The Great White jumps out of the water at set intervals, latches onto a Bloon or [[MOAB-Class Bloon]], including [[Lead Bloon (BTD6)|Lead Bloons]], and thrashes multiple times before returning to the water, as opposed to [[Barracuda]]'s rate-buffable, single-attack jumps. Thrashes are centered on the Great White. The thrash's damage (2 → 12), pierce (2 → 4), and radius (8 → 15) are all improved. Thrashes can be affected by all external buffs. | The Great White jumps out of the water at set intervals, latches onto a Bloon or [[MOAB-Class Bloon]], including [[Lead Bloon (BTD6)|Lead Bloons]], and thrashes multiple times before returning to the water, as opposed to [[Barracuda]]'s rate-buffable, single-attack jumps. Thrashes are centered on the Great White. The thrash's damage (2 → 12), pierce (2 → 4), and radius (8 → 15) are all improved. Thrashes can be affected by all external buffs. Merges increase the thrash's damage, pierce, radius, and knockback duration. | ||
If the target can be one-shot, the Great White drags it into the water; the target is immediately popped while the Great White moves at a constant speed<!--i.e. no acceleration--> towards the location it jumped from. If it cannot be one-shot, the Great White latches onto it for up to 3 seconds before disappearing. Thrashes are faster while dragging instead of latching. | If the target can be one-shot, the Great White drags it into the water; the target is immediately popped while the Great White moves at a constant speed<!--i.e. no acceleration--> towards the location it jumped from. If it cannot be one-shot, the Great White latches onto it for up to 3 seconds before disappearing. Thrashes are faster while dragging instead of latching. | ||
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Revision as of 02:49, 5 September 2025
Great White
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 The Great White will crush Bloons, including Lead Bloons in its jaws, dragging them back to the water if needed. At max Beast Power the Great White can drag down MOABs.
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| Tower | Beast Handler — Path 1 — Tier 3 | |
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| XP cost | 1,000 | |
| Cash cost | $1,710 — Easy $2,010 — Medium $2,170 — Hard $2,410 — Impoppable | |
Great White is the Beast Handler's path 1 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. The Beast Handler now handles a great white instead of a barracuda. Its Beast Power is increased by +5, changing its Beast Power scale from 3–6 to 8–24.
The Great White jumps out of the water at set intervals, latches onto a Bloon or MOAB-Class Bloon, including Lead Bloons, and thrashes multiple times before returning to the water, as opposed to Barracuda's rate-buffable, single-attack jumps. Thrashes are centered on the Great White. The thrash's damage (2 → 12), pierce (2 → 4), and radius (8 → 15) are all improved. Thrashes can be affected by all external buffs. Merges increase the thrash's damage, pierce, radius, and knockback duration.
If the target can be one-shot, the Great White drags it into the water; the target is immediately popped while the Great White moves at a constant speed towards the location it jumped from. If it cannot be one-shot, the Great White latches onto it for up to 3 seconds before disappearing. Thrashes are faster while dragging instead of latching.
Mechanics
Unlike previous tier, each attack now follows this order:
- Takes 0.4 seconds to jump to the target.
- Creates a splash that creates knockback effect when touching the target.
- If the target is a regular Bloon and has 1,000,000 RBE or less (ignores fortification), the shark will drag it to the water, or latches onto it for 3 seconds.
- The dragging time is based on the Bloon's leak damage () and Lead Bloon takes an additional 0.5 seconds. However, there is a 1-second minimum dragging time for any type of Bloons.
- While being latched, the target is slowed by 40%.
During dragging, the shark creates splash that deals damage and knockbacks Bloons every 0.3 seconds. During latching, the same splash is created every 0.6 seconds. The splash has 15 radius and 10 base pierce. All merge benefits improve the pierce, attack speed, and damage of the splashes.
There is also a 1.1-second delay after dragging or latching before the next jump, which is unaffected by merging or external buffs.
At max beast power, the shark can take 6 seconds to drag a MOAB instead of just latching onto it.
Stats
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For a complete list of Beast Handler stats, see Stats:Beast Handler (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 54.0
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| Power | Scale | Attack | Explosion | Thrash projectile | |
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| 8 | 0% | 0.6s | 10 | 10 | 12 |
| 9 | 6.25% | 0.587s | 11 | 11 | 13 |
| 10 | 12.5% | 0.5741s | 12 | 12 | 15 |
| 11 | 18.75% | 0.5611s | 13 | 13 | 16 |
| 12 | 25% | 0.5482s | 15 | 15 | 18 |
| 13 | 31.25% | 0.5352s | 16 | 16 | 19 |
| 14 | 37.5% | 0.5223s | 17 | 17 | 21 |
| 15 | 43.75% | 0.5093s | 18 | 18 | 22 |
| 16 | 50% | 0.4964s | 20 | 20 | 24 |
| 17 | 56.25% | 0.4834s | 21 | 21 | 25 |
| 18 | 62.5% | 0.4705s | 22 | 22 | 27 |
| 19 | 68.75% | 0.4575s | 23 | 23 | 28 |
| 20 | 75% | 0.4445s | 25 | 25 | 30 |
| 21 | 81.25% | 0.4316s | 26 | 26 | 31 |
| 22 | 87.5% | 0.4186s | 27 | 27 | 33 |
| 23 | 93.75% | 0.4057s | 28 | 28 | 34 |
| 24 | 100% | 0.3927s | 30 | 30 | 36 |
Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
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| Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | |
| 3-0-0 | $2,745 | $3,230 | $3,485 | $3,870 | $1,922 | $2,261 | $2,440 | $2,709 |
| 3-1-0 | $2,895 | $3,405 | $3,675 | $4,080 | $2,027 | $2,384 | $2,573 | $2,856 |
| 3-2-0 | $3,600 | $4,235 | $4,570 | $5,075 | $2,520 | $2,965 | $3,199 | $3,553 |
| 3-0-1 | $2,905 | $3,420 | $3,690 | $4,100 | $2,034 | $2,394 | $2,583 | $2,870 |
| 3-0-2 | $3,635 | $4,280 | $4,620 | $5,130 | $2,545 | $2,996 | $3,234 | $3,591 |
Strategy
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Low-power Great White is good for Round 40, but is a downgrade compared to Power 6 Barracuda in many cases due to its downtime, remaining in water for 1.1 seconds after each jump compared to Barracuda's constant attacks. Power 24 Great White is powerful for the mid-game, dragging in blue MOABs while its thrash largely wipes out everything nearby in addition to breaking down higher-tier blimps well. However, its downtime means that it is still inconsistent, requiring another tower to clean up Bloons while it remains in the water.
Merging into the Great White is recommended, compensating its downtime with high grouped damage. Power 12 is enough to one-shot Ceramics, and Power 19 for Fortified Ceramics, however the main benefits for merges to Great White are increased attack speed and pierce. Power 24's blue MOAB one-shot is a major upgrade; the slower takedowns on blue MOABs allow the shark to splash for longer, in addition to eliminating individual blue MOABs. Merging with two Great Whites saves the most money.
Update history
For a complete list of Beast Handler changes, see Update history:Beast Handler (BTD6).
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Resolved an issue where thrash rate was occurring too frequently if the beast was unable to consume the target ― 0s → 0.3s (bug fix)
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As our newest tower to be added to BTD6, we went over feedback for every path and made a large number of adjustments addressing a variety of points.
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Great White damage increased ― 4 → 8- Great White max extra damage from merge increased ― 8 → 16
- Note: Max power Great White damage increased from 12 to 24
- Great White max attack rate buff from merge increased ― 0.20634 → 0.38
- Note: Thrash rate is actually a lot more than intended due to a bug
- Great White extra thrash knockback duration from merge increased ― 0.1 → 0.2
- Great White projectiles can no longer hit bloons far out of range (bug fix)
- Great White’s slow applied to grabbed target now expires correctly (bug fix)
- Thrash rate benefits from speed buffs
- Top and Middle path Beast Handler paths can now be targeted by Overclock and Ultraboost
- Great White thrash rate reduced ― 0.6s → 1.1s (bug fix)
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Beast Handler’s general repositioning feels far too free right now, the reposition cooldown is being increased to a more reasonably noticeable number so this feels like a meaningful cost. [...] Great White lacks a lot of pierce for an upgrade with a slower widespread AoE design for the price range.
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- Great White: Pierce increased ― 6 → 10
- Great White max bonus pierce from merge increased ― 18 → 20
- Note: Max-power pierce increased from 24 to 30
- Beast: Reposition cooldown increased ― 0.5s → 5s
- Beast Handler reposition cooldown reduced ― 5s → 3s
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When first creating Beast Handler we balanced the T1-3 upgrade costs with a goal of creating a decision point between spending free playable space to save on cash or spending more cash to save on playable space. However in practice though some people have come on board with spending their playable space as a resource for more power; actual interest is much more divided between maximizing cost efficiency of these merges or simply using different towers. Given that spam of lower tier handlers already comes with the advantage of allowing them to be repositioned over a larger area, we’re changing our approach with a full cost rebalance across most T1-3 upgrades for exactly equal cost per point of merged beast power, instead leaving the nuance around understanding higher value merges & footprint advantage to depend more on discounts.
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,950 → $2,075
- Overall cost reduced by $890 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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In going over our large list of price changes for Beast Handler’s lower tiers in 42 this change was received very positively, however we did not realize that in making this change we killed off all chance of dual-beast handlers being used as a round 1 starting option for under $650 in hard modes – So we gotta do that math all over again and convert it for difficulty, painful 😀 All T1 beast prices changed to allow 110 & 101 beast handler combos to be placed for under $650 in hard mode, all T2 & T3 prices shifted around to keep these same cost ratios. [...] Orca is very strong currently but Great White doesn’t do so much outside of max merge MOAB Takedowns, so damage is increasing to improve these non-maxed situations. [...] We’re slightly reducing beast reposition cooldown as the tiny range leaves movement very tight, which is especially painful for Microraptor path given the low range.
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,075 → $2,010
- Overall cost reduced by $115 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Beast: Reposition cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s
- Great White: Damage increased ― 8 → 12
- Water beasts: Now spawns within 20% of their range to the track
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Base handler's beast range felt too high starting off when considering the tower is built around sharing range between multiple Handlers so this range is being reduced.
Top Handler is designed around huge inconsistent power, however Megalodon feels that it should be more reliable for the investment required so we are improving both thrash radius and reducing the cooldown. Fish RBE limit before being able to devour the target instantly is being increased to last further into freeplay.
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- Drag-down RBE cap increased ― 250,000 → 500,000
- Merging/Beast positioning range reduced ― 60 → 50
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Max power Great White drags in MOAB's too quickly which actually causes it to thrash less from this and overall perform worse, so a minimum drag time has been set.
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Drag: MOAB minimum grab time increased ― 0s → 6s - Note: Although this is a nerf to one-shotting MOABs, the longer duration increases the amount of time to splash, improving the consistency of splashes
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As a quality of life improvement, Beast Handler movement cooldowns have now been separated
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- Fish & Dino beast reposition cooldowns are now independent
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As Great White still has problematic consistency the thrash radius is increasing.
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- Grab: Max RBE cap increased ― 500,000 → 1,000,000
- Splash: Radius increased ― 10 → 15
- Note: Does not affect 4xx
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Shark latch-on lifespan for targets that are not 1shot is being reduced so it has to let go and re-target more frequently as an overall range reduction [...]
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- Latch: Time that the beast keeps latched to targets that it can't drag down reduced ― 5s → 3s
- Note: This decreases overall single-target damage and reduces concentration of damage around the target
- Can now move beasts onto ice and ink platforms. Beasts with only ice/ink platforms as valid placement will no longer randomly choose a location when attempting to place into ice/ink platforms. (undocumented)
- Merging/Beast positioning range increased ― 50 → 60
- Solved a bug where Beast Handlers which were crosspathed on a specific order could fail to respawn their fish when reloading a game from a save and and use a Support Chinook to redeploy the Beast Handler. (bug fix)
- Thrash calculation is now calculated correctly (bug fix)
- Thrash calculation: divisor for "base attack cooldown" changed from the attack cooldown of the Piranha to Great White ― 0.6 → 1.1
- Thrash calculation: dividend for "base thrash cooldown" increased while latching ― 0.3 → 0.6 (undocumented)
- Note: Does not affect dragging
- Thrash cooldowns across all beast power increased while latching
- Min power: 0.55s → 0.6s
- Middle power: 0.455s → 0.49636363636s
- Max power: 0.36s → 0.39272727272s
- Thrash cooldowns across all beast power changed while dragging
- Min power: 0.55s → 0.3s
- Middle power: 0.455s → 0.248181818s
- Max power: 0.36s → 0.196363636s
- Thrash attack: Thrash interval increased while dragging into water ― 0.3s → 0.6s (bug fix)
Gallery
For more Beast Handler images, see Gallery:Beast Handler.
Screenshots
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Power 8 Great White dragging in a bloon -
Power 16 Great White dragging in a bloon -
Power 24 Great White dragging in a bloon
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In other languages
| Language | Name / Description | Notes | |
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| Arabic | القرش الابيض العظيم سيقوم القرش الأبيض الكبير بسحق البالونات، بما في ذلك البالونات المصنوعة من الرصاص بين فكيه، وسحبها مرة أخرى إلى الماء عند الضرورة. بفضل أقصى قوة للوحش، يمكن للقرش الأبيض الكبير أن يسحب البالونات من فئة منطاد "موآب" إلى أسفل. |
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| Danish | Hvidhaj Den store hvide haj knuser bloons - også bly-bloons - i sine kæber og trækker dem tilbage til vandet, hvis det er nødvendigt. Ved maks. dyrekraft kan den store hvide haj trække MOAB'er ned. |
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| German | Weißer Hai Der Weiße Hai zerquetscht Bloons und sogar Blei-Bloons zwischen seinen Zähnen und zerrt sie bei Bedarf ins Wasser zurück. Bei maximaler Bestienkraft kann der Weiße Hai sogar MOABs herunterziehen. |
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| Spanish | Tiburón blanco El gran tiburón blanco aplastará bloons, incluidos bloons emplomados, en sus fauces, y los arrastrará de regreso al agua si es necesario. Con el máximo de poder de bestia, el gran tiburón blanco puede arrastrar hacia abajo a los bloons clase MOAB. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Tiburón blanco El gran tiburón blanco aplastará bloons, incluidos bloons emplomados, en sus fauces, y los arrastrará de regreso al agua si es necesario. Con el máximo de poder de bestia, el gran tiburón blanco puede arrastrar hacia abajo a los bloons clase MOAB. |
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| Finnish | Valkohai Valkohai murskaa leuoillaan blooneja, mukaan lukien lyijybloonit, ja raahaa ne tarvittaessa veteen. Suurimmalla petoteholla valkohai voi vetää alas MOABeja. |
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| French | Grand requin blanc Le Grand requin blanc ne fera qu'une bouchée des Bloons, y compris des Bloons en plomb, avec ses immenses mâchoires, et les emportera avec lui sous la surface si c'est nécessaire. À Puissance de bête maximale, le Grand requin blanc peut emporter avec lui des MOAB. |
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| Italian | Squalo bianco Lo squalo bianco distruggerà tra le sue zanne i bloon, compresi quelli di piombo, trascinandoli in acqua, se serve. A potenza bestiale massima, lo squalo bianco può trascinare via i MOAB. |
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| Japanese | グレートホワイト グレートホワイトは鉛ブルーンを含むブルーンをそのあごでつぶし、必要であれば水中へど引きずり込む。最大ビーストパワーだと、グレートホワイトはMOABも引きずりおろせる。 |
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| Korean | 백상아리 백상아리는 납 풍선을 포함해 풍선을 씹어버리는 턱 힘을 지녔으며, 필요하면 풍선을 물속으로 끌고 가기도 합니다. 최대 맹수 파워에서는 MOAB 풍선도 끌어내릴 수 있습니다. |
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| Dutch | Witte haai De Witte haai verpulvert Bloons, inclusief Loden Bloons, in zijn kaken en trekt ze indien nodig onder water. Op maximale kracht kan de Witte haai MOAB's omlaag trekken. |
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| Norwegian | Hvithai Hvithaien vil knuse bloons, inkludert bly-bloons, med kjevene sine og dra dem tilbake til vannet hvis nødvendig. På maks beistkraft kan hvithaien dra ned MOAB-er. |
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| Polish | Żarłacz biały Żarłacz biały zmiażdży swoimi szczękami blony, w tym ołowiane, a jeśli trzeba, wciągnie je do wody. Przy maksymalnej mocy bestii żarłacz biały może pokonywać MOAB-y. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Tubarão-Branco O Tubarão-Branco esmagará Bloons, incluindo Bloons de Chumbo, com seu maxilar, arrastando-os de volta à água, se necessário. Com o poder de fera máximo, o Tubarão-Branco pode arrastar MOABs para o fundo. |
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| Russian | Белая акула Большая белая акула хватает челюстями шары, включая свинцовые, и тащит их в воду при необходимости. При максимальной силе способна унести под воду шары класса MOAB. |
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| Swedish | Vithaj Vithajen krossar Bloons, inklusive Blybloons, i sina käftar och drar ner dem i vattnet om det behövs. Med den högsta bestkraften kan Vithajen dra ner MOAB:er. |
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| Thai | ฉลามขาว ฉลามขาวจะบดลูกโป่งด้วยกรามของมันให้เป็นเสี่ยงๆ รวมทั้งลูกโป่งตะกั่ว หากจำเป็นให้ลากพวกมันขึ้นมาจากน้ำ พลังสูงสุดของสัตว์ร้ายอย่างฉลามขาวนั้นสามารถล้ม MOAB ได้ |
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| Turkish | Beyaz Köpek Balığı Beyaz Köpek Balığı, Kurşun Bloon’lar dahil, Bloon’ları çenesiyle ezer, gerekirse onları suya geri sürükler. Beyaz Köpek Balığı, maksimum Canavar Gücündeyken MOAB’ları alt edebilir. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 大白鲨 大白鲨会压碎气球，包括用它的下颚压碎铅气球，可在必要时把气球拖回水中。野兽之力达到最大时，大白鲨可以把MOAB级气球拖下来。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 大白鯊 大白鯊會壓碎氣球，包括用它的下顎壓碎鉛氣球，可在必要時把氣球拖回水中。野獸之力達到最大時，大白鯊可以把MOAB級氣球拖下來。 |
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