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Pop and Awe is among the strongest Tier 5 upgrades for its cost, with it being one of the top options for [[CHIMPS]], provided it can be micromanaged sufficiently. Maps with long loops are preferred, such as [[Moon Landing (BTD6)|Moon Landing]] and [[Dark Path]]. Towers that stun blimps, such as [[Relentless Glue (BTD6)|Relentless Glue]], are doubly helpful as Pop and Awe can take advantage of its bonus damage to stunned Bloons. [[Striker Jones (BTD6)|Striker Jones]] is the best hero for it, thanks to his plethora of buffs to Mortars and Concussive Shell stun granting bonus damage. Bloon cleanup towers like [[Perma-Spike (BTD6)|Perma-Spike]] are recommended in combination with Pop and Awe. Against the BAD, use [[MOAB Eliminator (BTD6)|MOAB Eliminator]] or [[Spike Storm (BTD6)|Spike Storm]]. | Pop and Awe is among the strongest Tier 5 upgrades for its cost, with it being one of the top options for [[CHIMPS]], provided it can be micromanaged sufficiently. Maps with long loops are preferred, such as [[Moon Landing (BTD6)|Moon Landing]] and [[Dark Path]]. Towers that stun blimps, such as [[Relentless Glue (BTD6)|Relentless Glue]], are doubly helpful as Pop and Awe can take advantage of its bonus damage to stunned Bloons. [[Striker Jones (BTD6)|Striker Jones]] is the best hero for it, thanks to his plethora of buffs to Mortars and Concussive Shell stun granting bonus damage. Bloon cleanup towers like [[Perma-Spike (BTD6)|Perma-Spike]] are recommended in combination with Pop and Awe. Against the BAD, use [[MOAB Eliminator (BTD6)|MOAB Eliminator]] or [[Spike Storm (BTD6)|Spike Storm]]. | ||
The 2-5-0 crosspath is preferred for its increased damage, pierce, and blast radius, allowing its main attack to reliably deal with dense groups of Bloons, especially while its ability is on cooldown. 0-5-2 gives Pop and Awe and its ability the Burny Stuff effect, but has inferior damage and consistency. | The 2-5-0 crosspath is preferred for its increased damage, pierce, and blast radius, allowing its main attack to reliably deal with dense groups of Bloons, especially while its ability is on cooldown. 0-5-2 gives Pop and Awe and its ability the Burny Stuff effect, but has much inferior damage and consistency. | ||
==Update history== | ==Update history== | ||
Revision as of 17:12, 7 December 2025
For other uses, see Pop and Awe (disambiguation).
Pop and Awe
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 Pop and Awe has permanent rapid attack speed. Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging Bloons and stunning them periodically.
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| Tower | Mortar Monkey — Path 2 — Tier 5 | |
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| XP cost | 32,000 | |
| Cash cost | $32,300 — Easy $38,000 — Medium $41,040 — Hard $45,600 — Impoppable | |
Pop and Awe is the Mortar Monkey's path 2 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It replaces Artillery Battery's Bombardment ability with a new ability named Pop and Awe that stuns all Bloons and blimps (excluding BADs and Bosses, while allowing all others to inch forward), does 20 damage per second to everything on the screen and immediately to any newly spawned Bloon, has a cooldown of 60 seconds, and lasts for 8 seconds. With the 0-5-2 crosspath, the ability also applies Burny Stuff that deals 36 damage per tick of every 1.25 seconds for up to 7.5 seconds.
Pop and Awe also gains a permanent 4× attack speed compared to Artillery Battery (with the ability inactive). In addition, bonus damage against stunned targets is increased (+2 → +8), and the blast radius is increased from 20 to 23 (28 to 32.2 with 1/2-5-0). With the 0-5-2 crosspath, the Burny Stuff's damage per tick is increased from 6 to 20 and its duration is increased from 3.75 seconds to 7.5 seconds. Pop and Awe also grants all Artillery Batteries +1 BAD/Boss damage but it does not give this buff to itself.
Stats
For a complete list of Mortar Monkey stats, see Stats:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
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Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
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| 0-5-0 | $39,865 | $46,900 | $50,650 | $56,280 | $27,906 | $32,830 | $35,455 | $39,396 |
| 1-5-0 | $40,120 | $47,200 | $50,975 | $56,640 | $28,084 | $33,040 | $35,683 | $39,648 |
| 2-5-0 | $40,545 | $47,700 | $51,515 | $57,240 | $28,382 | $33,390 | $36,061 | $40,068 |
| 0-5-1 | $40,035 | $47,100 | $50,865 | $56,520 | $28,025 | $32,970 | $35,606 | $39,564 |
| 0-5-2 | $40,375 | $47,500 | $51,295 | $57,000 | $28,263 | $33,250 | $35,907 | $39,900 |
Strategy
This section was last updated for: version 52.1
Pop and Awe is among the strongest Tier 5 upgrades for its cost, with it being one of the top options for CHIMPS, provided it can be micromanaged sufficiently. Maps with long loops are preferred, such as Moon Landing and Dark Path. Towers that stun blimps, such as Relentless Glue, are doubly helpful as Pop and Awe can take advantage of its bonus damage to stunned Bloons. Striker Jones is the best hero for it, thanks to his plethora of buffs to Mortars and Concussive Shell stun granting bonus damage. Bloon cleanup towers like Perma-Spike are recommended in combination with Pop and Awe. Against the BAD, use MOAB Eliminator or Spike Storm.
The 2-5-0 crosspath is preferred for its increased damage, pierce, and blast radius, allowing its main attack to reliably deal with dense groups of Bloons, especially while its ability is on cooldown. 0-5-2 gives Pop and Awe and its ability the Burny Stuff effect, but has much inferior damage and consistency.
Update history
For a complete list of Mortar Monkey changes, see Update history:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).
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Now deals +1 damage to MOAB-Class
- Ability: damage per tick increased ― 2 → 10
- Upgrade cost reduced ― $33,000 → $30,000
- Ability: damage per tick increased by 10
- Attack cooldown reduced by 33%
- "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"
- Now deals +10 damage to stunned Bloons
- Description changed (undocumented)
Before Pop and Awe Ability: Rains explosions over the whole screen, popping and immobilizing all Bloons for a few seconds. After Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging and immobilzing all bloons for a few seconds. Main attack gains additonal[sic] bonus damage to stunned Bloons.
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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.
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Attack cooldown increased ― 0.2695s → 0.27s (attack speed reduced by 0.19% due to changes to the attack cooldown modifiers of previous tiers)- Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30
- Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)
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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. Additionally mid-path T5 mortar has had all of its T3 damage bonuses increased to better reflect its position as a Tier 5.
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- Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18
- Ceramic bonus increased ― +3 → +12
- Lead bonus increased ― +1 → +4
- Fortified bonus increased ― +1 → +4
- MOAB-class bonus increased ― +1 → +4
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Artillery Battery’s special stun bonus is completely ineffective against targets which are impossible to stun, so it is receiving a small damage bonus to these targets to compensate.
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- Now deals +10 bonus damage to BADs & Bosses
- Now grants all other Artillery Battery mortars +6 bonus damage to BADs & Bosses
- Lead/MOAB/Fortified damage bonuses no longer stack (bug)
- Resolved an issue with x4x and higher Mortar Monkeys not applying their damage bonuses at all (These bonuses will not stack still) (bug fix)
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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. To reduce the great feeling of loss that some players feel when upgrading to Pop and Awe & losing their Artillery Battery ability, this upgrade is seeing a stat rework that considers Artillery Battery as now always active at T5 instead of pumping up the damage numbers.
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- Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
- Explosion: Lead/Mortar/Fortified bonuses should all stack their bonuses on single targets (bug fix)
- Explosion: Main attack explosion radius increased ― 20 → 23
- Explosion: attack cooldown delay reduced ― 0.27s → 0.0675s
- Explosion: bonus Ceramic damage reduced ― +12 → +3
- Explosion: bonus Lead damage reduced ― +4 → +1
- Explosion: bonus Fortified damage reduced ― +4 → +1
- Explosion: bonus MOAB damage reduced ― +4 → +1
- Explosion: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 25
- Note: Bigger Blast and its subsequent upgrades unchanged
- Upgrading Mortar to x5x with Artillery Battery active no longer grants further 4x attack speed boost (bug fix)
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We’re ecstatic for all the Mortar love after the recent rework, however the two bonuses we left unchanged with the rework in order to leave a buff are… Probably a biiit much now and this has been far too significant an improvement, easily slotting Pop and Awe into an extremely high tier position over the past update. We don’t want to take this away, but are nipping those bonuses back slightly so it doesn't feel broken for our entire holiday break.
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- BAD/Boss damage bonus reduced ― +10 → +6
- Stunned damage bonus reduced ― +10 → +8
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BAD/Boss damage was used to help prevent middle path falling flat against strong single targets - but the more recent rework did farr better at bringing great power to this path so we’re cutting back on those bonuses again now.
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— Update notes
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $30,000 → $32,000
- Pop and Awe buff to other mortars BAD damage reduced ― +6 → +1
- Pop and Awe bonus damage to BADs reduced ― +6 → +2
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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.
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- 0-5-2
- Damage-over-time tick damage increased ― 1 → 5
- Overall cost increased by $400 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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We’ve been happily taking our time on this since it's about time Mortar gets some spotlight, but the middle path has been overperforming far too much for a while now so it is about time to start pushing it up to a more reasonable price range for the power it brings.
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— Update notes
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $32,000 → $38,000
- Overall cost increased by $6,600 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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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
— Update notes
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- 0-5-2
- Damage over time: damage per tick increased ― 5 → 18
- Damage over time: duration increased ― 3.75s → 7.5s
- Ability now applies damage over time for 36 damage per tick
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Improvements made for the underused damage over time crosspaths [...]
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- 0-5-2
- Main DoT damage increased ― 18 → 20 (undocumented)
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Mortar BAD/Boss bonus was introduced to help with some concerns that have been more effectively solved through other means, so as a simplification to understanding these upgrades we are removing the bonuses
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Bonus damage against BADs and Boss Bloons removed ― +2 → +0
- Note: Does not include Artillery Battery buff
- Description changed ― Pop and Awe has permanent rapid attack speed and enhances the BAD and Boss damage of all Artillery Batteries. Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging Bloons and stunning them periodically. → Pop and Awe has permanent rapid attack speed. Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging Bloons and stunning them periodically.
- Overall cost reduced by $150 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- 0-5-2
- Can now inflict damage over time on explosion-immune Bloons (bug fix)
Gallery
For more Mortar Monkey images, see Gallery:Mortar Monkey.
Screenshots
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Pop and Awe for all upgrades
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In other languages
This section was last updated for: version 49.1
| Language | Text | Notes |
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| Arabic | الفرقعة والروعة | — |
| Danish | Spring og bring | — |
| German | Platz-Methode | — |
| Spanish | Dominio total | — |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Dominio total | — |
| Finnish | Poksulamaannutus | — |
| French | Stupeur d'éclatement | — |
| Italian | Scoppia e terrorizza | — |
| Japanese | 割ってびっくり | — |
| Korean | 터지고 멍하니 | — |
| Dutch | Verbijsterende knalkracht | — |
| Norwegian | Popp og ærefrykt | — |
| Polish | Przekłucie i przerażenie | — |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Estouro Fascinante | — |
| Russian | Взрыв и трепет | — |
| Swedish | Smäll och beundra | — |
| Thai | สะท้านสะเทือน | — |
| Turkish | Korkut Patlat | — |
| Chinese (simplified) | 击破震慑 | — |
| Chinese (traditional) | 震撼爆破 | — |
| Language | Text | Notes |
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| Arabic | تتميز "قدرة الفرقعة والرعب" بسرعة هجوم أكبر ودائمة بالإضافة إلى تعزيز الضرر منطاد BAD والبالون الزعيم لجميع بطاريات المدفعية. "قدرة الفرقعة والرعب":تعمل على إمطار انفجارات على الشاشة بأكملها، مما يؤدي إلى إتلاف البالونات وصعقهم بشكل دوري. | — |
| Danish | Spring og bring har permanent hurtig angrebshastighed og forbedrer BAD- og Boss-skaden på alle artilleribatterier. Spring og bring-evne: Det regner med eksplosioner over hele skærmen, hvilket ødelægger bloons og bedøver dem periodisk. | — |
| German | Platz-Methode hat permanent eine Schnellangriffs-Geschwindigkeit und verstärkt den BAD- und Boss-Schaden aller Artillerie-Batterien. Platz-Methode-Fähigkeit: Lässt Explosionen über den ganzen Bildschirm niederprasseln, beschädigt Bloons und betäubt sie regelmäßig. | — |
| Spanish | Dominio total tiene una velocidad de ataque rápida permanente y mejora el daño a los BAD y jefes de todas las piezas de artillería. Habilidad Dominio total: hace llover explosiones por toda la pantalla, que dañan a los bloons y los aturden periódicamente. | — |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Dominio total tiene velocidad de ataque rápida permanente y mejora el daño a BAD y jefes de todas las piezas de artillería. Habilidad Dominio total: genera explosiones en toda la pantalla, daña a los bloons y los aturde de forma periódica. | — |
| Finnish | Poksulamaannutus on pysyvä nopea hyökkäysnopeus ja parantaa kaikkien tykistöpattereiden BAD- ja pomovahinkoa. Poksulamaannutus-kyky: räjähdyksiä sataa koko ruudulle, mikä vahingoittaa blooneja ja tainnuttaa ne ajoittain. | — |
| French | Stupeur d’éclatement possède une vitesse d’attaque rapide permanente et augmente les dégâts infligés aux Bloons BAD et Boss par tous les Déluges d’artillerie. Aptitude Stupeur d’éclatement : fait pleuvoir des explosions sur tout l’écran, infligeant des dégâts aux Bloons et les assommant de temps en temps. | — |
| Italian | Scoppia e terrorizza ha una velocità d'attacco rapido permanente e potenzia i danni BAD e boss di tutte le batterie d'artiglieria. Abilità Scoppia e terrorizza: le esplosioni piovono sull'intera schermata danneggiando e stordendo periodicamente i bloon. | — |
| Japanese | 割ってびっくりの攻撃速度が永久に速くなり、全ての集中砲火のBADとボスダメージが強化される。割ってびっくりのアビリティ：画面全体に爆発の雨を降らせてブルーンにダメージを与え、定期的にマヒさせる。 | — |
| Korean | 터지고 멍하니는 영구히 높은 공격 속도를 지니며, 모든 포병대가 BAD와 보스 풍선에 주는 피해를 향상합니다. 터지고 멍하니 능력: 화면 전체에 폭발을 내려 풍선에 지속피해를 주고 주기적으로 기절시킵니다. | — |
| Dutch | Verbijsterende knalkracht biedt permanent een hogere aanvalssnelheid en alle Artilleriebatterijen doen meer schade aan BAD- en Baas-Bloons. Verbijsterende knalkracht-vaardigheid: laat het explosies over het hele scherm regenen, waardoor alle Bloons geregeld beschadigd en verlamd worden. | — |
| Norwegian | Popp og ærefrykt har permanent kjapp angrepshastighet og forsterker skaden på BAD og sjefer for alle artilleribatterier. Popp og ærefrykt-evne: det regner eksplosjoner over hele skjermen som skader bloons og lamslår dem periodevis. | — |
| Polish | Przekłucie i przerażenie ma stałą dużą prędkość ataku i zwiększa obrażenia wobec WSZ-y i blonów-bossów od wszystkich baterii artyleryjskich. Umiejętność przekłucie i przerażenie: spuszcza deszcz eksplozji na całym ekranie, uszkadzając blony i okresowo je ogłuszając. | — |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Estouro Fascinante tem velocidade de ataque permanentemente rápida e aumenta o dano de todas as Baterias de Artilharia em BAD e chefes. Habilidade Estouro Fascinante: faz chover explosões sobre toda tela, causando dano em Bloons e atordoando-os periodicamente. | — |
| Russian | У способности «Взрыв и трепет» навсегда ускоряется атака, а все артиллерийские залпы наносят больше урона шарам BAD и боссам. Способность «Взрыв и трепет»: засыпает весь экран взрывчаткой, нанося урон шарам и периодически оглушая их. | — |
| Swedish | Smäll och förundras har permanent snabb attackhastighet och förvärrar skadan på BAD och bossar för alla artilleribatterier. Smäll och förundras-förmåga: regnar explosioner över hela skärmen, skadar Bloons och bedövar dem regelbundet. | — |
| Thai | สะท้านสะเทือนมีความเร็วในการโจมตีรวดเร็วแบบถาวร และยังเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพการโจมตีด้วยปืนใหญ่ทั้งหมดให้กับแบดกับบอส สกิลสะท้านสะเทือน: หว่านระเบิดทั่วทั้งหน้าจอ ทำลายบลูนและทำให้พวกมันตะลึงงันชั่วครู่ | — |
| Turkish | Korkut Patlat, kalıcı seri saldırı hızına ulaşır ve tüm Topçu Bataryasının BAD ve Patron hasarını artırır. Korkut Patlat Yeteneği: Tüm ekrana patlamalar yağdırır, tüm Bloon’lara hasar verir ve onları belirli aralıklarla sersemletir. | — |
| Chinese (simplified) | 击破震慑具备永久性的快速攻击速度，并可提升所有炮台的BAD和Boss伤害。击破震慑技能：全屏爆炸，可对气球造成伤害并周期性造成眩晕。 | — |
| Chinese (traditional) | 震撼爆破技能攻擊速度永久增加，並且能提高所有火砲臺對BAD級和頭目級氣球造成的傷害。震撼爆破技能：爆炸如雨點覆蓋整個螢幕，對氣球造成傷害並定期擊暈它們。 | — |
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