Orca

Orca

The mighty Orca's huge mouth can grab and drag all but the very largest Bloons into the depths. At max Beast Power the Orca can drag down ZOMGs.

Tower	Beast Handler — Path 1 — Tier 4
XP cost	4,250
Cash cost	$10,625 — Easy $12,500 — Medium $13,500 — Hard $15,000 — Impoppable

← Great White

Megalodon →

Orca is the Beast Handler's path 1 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. The Beast Handler now handles an orca instead of a great white. Its Beast Power is increased by +8, changing its Beast Power scale from 8–24 to 16–64.

The Orca's thrash has increased radius (15 → 24), more damage (12 → 30) and pierce (10 → 20), and 50% increased knockback duration and strength against both Bloons and MOAB-Class Bloons. Additionally, Orca now drags all types of Bloons for only 1 second and can drag MOABs and BFBs for $\frac{\text{Remaining HP}}{120}$ seconds, with a minimum of 1 second and maximum of 6 seconds. The beast itself has its range increased from 40 to 50.

At max Beast Power, Orca can drag ZOMGs and visible DDTs.

Stats

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For a complete list of Beast Handler stats, see Stats:Beast Handler (BTD6).

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Tower
Display range 60 units Footprint radius 7 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Beast

Tower
Display range 50 units Footprint radius 2 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 1.1s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 50 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Explosion Pierce 20 Lifespan 0.1s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 24 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Knockback Multiplier ×-0.5 Multiplier for Lead ×-0.25 Multiplier for Ceramic ×-0.25 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×1 Duration 0.2s Thrash projectile Pierce 20 Damage 30 Damage type Normal Lifespan 0.1s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 24 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Knockback Multiplier ×-1 Multiplier for Lead ×-0.75 Multiplier for Ceramic ×-0.75 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×0.5 Duration 0.3s

Beast Power-dependent stats

Power	Scale	Attack	Explosion	Thrash projectile
		Thrash cooldown	Pierce	Pierce	Damage
16	0%	0.6s	20	20	30
17	2.083%	0.5957s	20	20	31
18	4.167%	0.5914s	21	21	32
19	6.25%	0.587s	22	22	33
20	8.333%	0.5827s	23	23	35
21	10.42%	0.5784s	24	24	36
22	12.5%	0.5741s	25	25	37
23	14.58%	0.5698s	25	25	38
24	16.67%	0.5655s	26	26	40
25	18.75%	0.5611s	27	27	41
26	20.83%	0.5568s	28	28	42
27	22.92%	0.5525s	29	29	43
28	25%	0.5482s	30	30	45
29	27.08%	0.5439s	30	30	46
30	29.17%	0.5395s	31	31	47
31	31.25%	0.5352s	32	32	48
32	33.33%	0.5309s	33	33	50
33	35.42%	0.5266s	34	34	51
34	37.5%	0.5223s	35	35	52
35	39.58%	0.518s	35	35	53
36	41.67%	0.5136s	36	36	55
37	43.75%	0.5093s	37	37	56
38	45.83%	0.505s	38	38	57
39	47.92%	0.5007s	39	39	58
40	50%	0.4964s	40	40	60
41	52.08%	0.492s	40	40	61
42	54.17%	0.4877s	41	41	62
43	56.25%	0.4834s	42	42	63
44	58.33%	0.4791s	43	43	65
45	60.42%	0.4748s	44	44	66
46	62.5%	0.4705s	45	45	67
47	64.58%	0.4661s	45	45	68
48	66.67%	0.4618s	46	46	70
49	68.75%	0.4575s	47	47	71
50	70.83%	0.4532s	48	48	72
51	72.92%	0.4489s	49	49	73
52	75%	0.4445s	50	50	75
53	77.08%	0.4402s	50	50	76
54	79.17%	0.4359s	51	51	77
55	81.25%	0.4316s	52	52	78
56	83.33%	0.4273s	53	53	80
57	85.42%	0.423s	54	54	81
58	87.5%	0.4186s	55	55	82
59	89.58%	0.4143s	55	55	83
60	91.67%	0.41s	56	56	85
61	93.75%	0.4057s	57	57	86
62	95.83%	0.4014s	58	58	87
63	97.92%	0.397s	59	59	88
64	100%	0.3927s	60	60	90

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
4-0-0	$13,370	$15,730	$16,985	$18,870	$9,359	$11,011	$11,890	$13,209
4-1-0	$13,520	$15,905	$17,175	$19,080	$9,464	$11,134	$12,023	$13,356
4-2-0	$14,225	$16,735	$18,070	$20,075	$9,958	$11,715	$12,649	$14,053
4-0-1	$13,530	$15,920	$17,190	$19,100	$9,471	$11,144	$12,033	$13,370
4-0-2	$14,260	$16,780	$18,120	$20,130	$9,982	$11,746	$12,684	$14,091

Strategy

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At Power 64, Orca is one of the strongest towers for its cost, dragging ZOMGs & DDTs and wiping out practically everything else surrounding it with its thrash. The Power 16 Orca can be used to one-shot bloons during midgame and slow MOABs in lategame, although not as cost efficient. The intermediate Power stages aren't very notable, though the increased damage and thrash rate do greatly help it against large groups of MOABs.

The best way to obtain a Power 64 Orca is to get a Power 16 Orca and two Power 24 Great Whites (which are more efficient merges than additional Orcas). For a smooth saveup, max degree barracudas and/or great whites can fight alongside the Orca during midgame, and then merged into Orca on Round 80. The Orca itself can also be merged partway to help it out.

Orca's downtime makes it tend to leak fast bloons, MOABs, or DDTs, which can be solved in many ways. The player can use a heavy cleanup tower such as Perma-Spike or Prince of Darkness, employ a cleanup hero such as Adora, or use several cheaper supports such as Snowstorm or Symphonic Resonance. Overclock is also a great option due to having full uptime and being strong enough to take down almost everything with its thrash. Even with Overclock, the BAD requires extra damage; towers like Spike Storm or heroes with a large amount of round 100 damage like Geraldo are recommended.

Orca likes maps with water adjacent to the track, such as Lotus Island or Bloody Puddles, as they keep it thrashing on top of the bloons the whole time. It likes to be kept on Strong the most, but if a significant amount of bloons start getting through, First or Close can be employed. First covers leaking bloons easier, while Close lets Orca grab high HP targets easier.

Update history

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Version 36.1

•  Resolved an issue where thrash rate was occurring too frequently if the beast was unable to consume the target ― 0s → 0.3s (bug fix)

Version 37.0

“

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. — Update notes

”

•  Orca thrash damage increased ― 20 → 30
•   Orca thrash max extra damage from merge increased ― 40 → 60
•   Orca max attack rate buff from merge increased ― 0.37829 → 0.38
•  Orca thrash radius increased ― 20 → 24
•  Thrash rate benefits from speed buffs
•  Top and Middle path Beast Handler paths can now be targeted by Overclock and Ultraboost

Version 38.0

“

Compared to other T4 Beast Handlers and given the high cost of merging multiple beasts we agreed that the Orca & Megalodon’s total prices were too much more expensive for their somewhat random nature. — Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $16,000 → $12,500

Version 39.0

“

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. [...] Orca we feel has both min & max power use cases, though doesn’t grow enough ‘along the way’ from un-maxed merging. — Update notes

”

•  Orca: max bonus pierce from merge increased ― 24 → 40
  • Note: Max-power pierce increased from 44 to 60
•  Beast: Reposition cooldown increased ― 0.5s → 5s

Version 40.0

“

We feel Beast Handler balance is setting down nicely overall but it feels like the reposition cooldown increasing was far more impactful and unfun than intended, we still feel the initial delay was silly but are cutting it down again a little. Orca's knockback has the same duration as the T3 so although it does gain a little increased knockback amount already it's very random in what it hits much more expensive than the T3 so this knockback duration is being increased a little for base & merge. — Update notes

”

•  Beast Handler reposition cooldown reduced ― 5s → 3s
•  Knockback duration increased ― 0.2s → 0.3s
•  Knockback merge bonus increased ― 0.2s → 0.3s

Version 42.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $890 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 43.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $115 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Beast: Reposition cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s
•  Water beasts: Now spawns within 20% of their range to the track

Version 45.0

“

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. — Update notes

”

•  Drag-down RBE cap increased ― 250,000 → 500,000
•  Merging/Beast positioning range reduced ― 60 → 50

Version 47.0

“

As a quality of life improvement, Beast Handler movement cooldowns have now been separated
— Update notes

”

•  Fish & Dino beast reposition cooldowns are now independent

Version 48.0

•  Grab: Max RBE cap increased ― 500,000 → 1,000,000

Version 49.0

“

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 [...] — Update notes

”

•  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)

Version 50.0

•  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

Version 52.0

•  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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  Beast Handler with no crosspaths
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  Beast Handler with 4-1-0 crosspath
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  Beast Handler with 4-2-0 crosspath
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  Beast Handler with 4-0-1 crosspath
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  Beast Handler with 4-0-2 crosspath
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  Power 16 Orca dragging in a Bloon
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  Power 36 Orca dragging in a Bloon
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  Power 64 Orca dragging in a Bloon

Assets

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  Portrait
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  Upgrade icon
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  Insta Monkey icon

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	حوت الأوركا يمكن لفم حوت الأوركا الضخم الإمساك بجميع البالونات وسحبها ما عدا تلك البالونات الأكبر حجمًا الموجودة في الأعماق. مع قوة الوحش القصوى، يمكن لحوت الأوركا سحب منطاد زومجينيتور.	—
Danish	Spækhugger Den mægtige spækhuggers enorme mund kan gribe og trække alle undtagen de allerstørste bloons ned i dybet. Ved maks. dyrekraft kan spækhuggeren trække ZOMG'er ned.	—
German	Orca Das riesige Maul des mächtigen Orca kann alle Bloons packen und in die Tiefe reißen. Nur die größten Bloons können ihm entkommen. Bei maximaler Bestienkraft kann der Orca sogar ZOMGs mit sich reißen.	—
Spanish	Orca La enorme boca de la poderosa orca puede atrapar y arrastrar a todos los bloons, excepto a los más grandes, a las profundidades. Con el máximo de poder de bestia, la orca puede arrastrar hacia abajo a los bloons clase ZOMG.	—
Spanish (LA)	Orca La enorme boca de la poderosa orca puede atrapar y arrastrar a todos los bloons, excepto a los más grandes, a las profundidades. Con el máximo de poder de bestia, la orca puede arrastrar hacia abajo a los bloons clase ZOMG.	—
Finnish	Miekkavalas Mahtava miekkavalas voi valtavalla kidallaan napata ja raahata syvyyksiin kaikki paitsi suurimmat bloonit. Maksimitehollaan miekkavalas voi vetää alas ZOMGeja.	—
French	Orque La bouche gigantesque de la puissante Orque lui permet d'attraper et d'entraîner avec elle dans les profondeurs tous les Bloons sauf les plus immenses. À Puissance de bête maximale, l'Orque peut entraîner avec elle des ZOMG.	—
Italian	Orca La bocca enorme della potente orca può afferrare e trascinare tutti bloon, a parte quelli più grandi, nelle profondità dell'oceano. A potenza bestiale massima, l'orca può trascinare via gli ZOMG.	—
Japanese	シャチ 強いシャチの巨大な口は、最も大きなブルーン以外をつかんで深みへと引きずり込むことができる。ビーストパワーが最大の時、シャチはZOMGも引き落とすことができる。	—
Korean	범고래 힘센 범고래의 커다란 아가리는 초대형 풍선을 제외한 나머지 풍선을 모두 잡고 물속 깊이 끌고 갈 수 있습니다. 최대 맹수 파워에서는 ZOMG 풍선도 끌어내릴 수 있습니다.	—
Dutch	Orka Met zijn enorme bek kan de machtige Orka alle Bloons behalve de allergrootste de diepte in sleuren. Op maximale kracht kan de Orka ZOMG's omlaag trekken.	—
Norwegian	Spekkhogger Den store munnen til den kolossale spekkhuggeren kan gripe tak i og dra alle – unntatt de aller største bloonsene – inn i dypet. Ved maks beistkraft kan spekkhuggeren dra ned ZOMG-er.	—
Polish	Orka Wielki pysk potężnej orki może chwytać i wciągać w głębinę wszystkie blony poza największymi. Przy maksymalnej mocy bestii orka może pokonywać ZOMG-i.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Orca A boca imensa da poderosa Orca pode agarrar e arrastar todos, menos os Bloons maiores, para as profundezas. Com o poder de fera máximo, a Orca pode arrastar ZOMGs para o fundo.	—
Russian	Косатка Огромная пасть косатки позволяет ей хватать и тащить на глубину любые шары, кроме самых больших. При максимальной силе способна унести ZOMG-шары.	—
Swedish	Späckhuggare Den mäktiga Späckhuggarens enorma gap kan greppa och dra ner alla Bloons utom de allra största i djupet. Med den högsta bestkraften kan Späckhuggaren dra ner ZOMG:er.	—
Thai	วาฬเพชฌฆาต ขนาดปากอันมหึมาของวาฬออร์ก้าสามารถจับและลากทุกสิ่งเข้าปากได้ ยกเว้นลูกโป่งขนาดใหญ่มาก พลังสูงสุดของสัตว์ร้ายอย่างวาฬออร์ก้านั้นสามารถล้ม ZOMG ได้	—
Turkish	Katil Balina Yüce Orkanın büyük ağzı, neredeyse en büyük Bloon’ları yakalayıp derinliklere sürükleyebilir. Orka, maksimum Canavar Gücündeyken ZOMG’ları alt edebilir.	—
Chinese (simplified)	逆戟鲸 强大的逆戟鲸长着一张血盆大口，可抓住所有大型气球并将它们拖入深渊。野兽之力达到最大时，大白鲨可以把ZOMG级气球拖下来。	—
Chinese (traditional)	逆戟鯨 強大的逆戟鯨長著一張血盆大口，可抓住所有大型氣球並將它們拖入深淵。野獸之力達到最大時，大白鯊可以把ZOMG級氣球拖下來。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1