Update history:Bloons TD Battles 2/Version 4.9

Version 4.9

Steam	1 September 2025

◄◄ 4.8

◄ 4.8.1

Version 4.9 is the fifth major update to Bloons TD Battles 2 in 2025. It introduced Phayze Bloons and balance changes.

Additions

• Phayze Bloon

Cosmetic items

Item	Category
Ice Cream Monkey	Avatar Icon
Fast Food Bloons	Bloon Decal
Skelebloons	Bloon Decal
Fire At Will!	Emote
Pizza Time	Idle Animation
Pumpkin Patch	Match Up Animation
ZOM-B	MOAB Skin
Let's Roll Out!	Player Title
Spooky Scary Skeleton	Player Title
This game is haunted	Player Title
It's a G-G-GHOST!	Profile Banner
It's a G-G-GHOST! (Animated)	Profile Banner
Order Up!	Profile Banner
Order Up! (Animated)	Profile Banner
Bullets Border	Profile Border
Chain Border	Profile Border
Are you scared?	Text Emote
Zoinks!	Text Emote
Necromancy Trails	Trail Effect
Bone Wand	Weapon Skin
Copilot	Weapon Skin
Dark Magic	Weapon Skin

Changes

Tack Shooter

“

While the Tack Shooter is a popular and powerful early game tower, it’s[sic] top path tier 5 felt like it was lagging behind the other upgrades in terms of efficiency. We are reducing its cost to bring it in line with the other tier 5s. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Inferno Ring	Upgrade cost reduced ― $45,500 → $35,500

Monkey Ace

“

The changes we made in 4.8 to the Monkey Ace turned out to be too drastic, causing its playrate to plummet. We are lowering its base cost again and transferring that money to the bomber ace upgrade instead. Additionally, we are increasing the power of the Sky Shredder upgrade as this has long been the least popular of the Ace’s tier 5s. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $850 → $750
5-X-X Sky Shredder	Missile: damage increased ― 200 → 250  Missile: explosion radius increased ― 12 units → 22 units
X-3-X Bomber Ace	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,000 → $1,100

Dartling Gunner

“

The Dartling’s bottom path struggles to keep pace with the more powerful bloons in the later game. We are adding a knockback effect to its tier 4 and 5 to help it deal with these later rounds. In addition, we are allowing the bottom path tier 5 to hit lead so that it can be used to tackle DDTs. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Bloon Area Denial System	Knockback now affects MOABs and BFBs
X-X-5 Bloon Exclusion Zone	Knockback now affects MOABs, BFBs, ZOMGs, and DDTs  Damage type changed ― Shatter → Unstoppable

Benjamin

“

Benjamin’s bank hack was granting too much extra value to Banana Farms so we are lowering its effectiveness a small amount. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
5–8	Bank Hack: income modifier reduced ― +12% → +10%
9+	Bank Hack: income modifier reduced ― +18% → +15%

DJ Benjammin'

“

DJ Ben was proving too tricky to utilise which is hurting his playability. We are increasing his range to make it easier to gather monkeys around him to fuel his money making abilities. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
All	Range increased ― 25 units → 35 units

Agent Jericho

Levels	Changes
5+	Bloon Adjustment: can now apply the Phayze property (undocumented)

Highwayman Jericho

Levels	Changes
5+	Bloon Adjustment: can now apply the Phayze property (undocumented)

Star Captain Jericho

“

We are increasing the capacity of Star Captain’s ship to allow it to fit a single phayze BAD at level 20. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
5+	Bloon Adjustment: can now apply the Phayze property (undocumented)
20	Smuggler's Run: capacity increased ― $25,000 → $27,000

Fateweaver Adora

“

Sharp Sting of Fate felt underwhelming to use so we are increasing its pierce to make it more impactful. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
3+	Sharp Sting of Fate: pierce increased ― 7 x main attack pierce x projectile count → 8 x main attack pierce x projectile count

Seasons

• Season length increased from 28 days to 35 days

Bug fixes

• "Fixed bloon sends getting stuck in the queue when using the Destroy All Bloons button in the Bloon Lab"
• "Fixed the 203 Ninja Monkey not wearing a bandana"
• "Fixed Discord name displaying over Clan name in the profile screen on Tablet"

Gallery

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In-game description

Reality as we know it has shifted and revealed a brand new bloon modifier: Phayze Bloons! Phayze Bloons have a protective, reality altering shield which blocks all damage from the first hits they take. When the shield breaks, Phayze Bloons bend space for a final rush forward. Phayze shields can appear on any bloon type so no strategy is safe from this new threat.

External links

• Official update notes on Reddit