Update history:Ice Monkey (BTD6)

This is a list of changes to the Ice Monkey in Bloons TD 6 post-release.

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Version 2.0

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-X Permafrost and further upgrades X-1-X Enhanced Freeze X-2-X Deep Freeze X-X-1 Larger Radius X-X-2 Re-Freeze	Pierce increased ― 30 → 40
3-X-X Ice Shards and further upgrades	Ice shard: Pierce and max pierce increased ― 1 → 3
X-3-X Arctic Wind X-4-X Snowstorm	Main attack: Pierce increased ― 20 → 100
X-4-X Snowstorm X-5-X Absolute Zero	Main attack: Freeze duration increased ― 2.2s → 3s  Ability: Now freezes White, Zebra, and MOAB-Class Bloons for half the normal duration
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Main attack: Pierce increased ― 20 → 300  Ability: Freeze duration increased ― 4s → 10s
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon and further upgrades	Cryo blast: Pierce increased ― 20 → 30
X-X-5 Icicle Impale	No longer hits Lead Bloons or DDTs without Metal Freeze

Version 4.0

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Arctic Wind	"Ice Monkey #/3/# Arctic Wind will no longer allow you to remove the water on #ouch while water towers are placed in it"
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon	Targeting now defaults to First instead of Close

Version 7.0

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Arctic Wind	Upgrade cost reduced ― $6,500 → $5,000
X-4-X Snowstorm	Range increased ― 20 → 30
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Upgrade cost reduced ― $32,000 → $26,000  Range increased ― 20 → 40  Zone: speed reduction increased ― 50% → 60%

Version 8.0

Tiers	Changes
All tiers	Can now pop Lead Bloons when buffed by Acidic Mixture Dip (bug fix)

Version 11.0

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Snowstorm	"Resolved some issues with Ice Platforms produced by x4x Ice Monkeys"

Version 12.0

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Arctic Wind	Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,000 → $3,200
X-4-X Snowstorm	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,800 → $3,000

Version 17.0

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Ice Shards and further upgrades	Range increased ― 20 → 25
4-X-X Embrittlement 5-X-X Super Brittle	Now has Camo detection  Now removes Camo and Regrow properties from Bloons it freezes
X-3-X Arctic Wind and further upgrades	"[R]esolved numerous specific crashes" (bug fix)  Arctic Wind: No longer sells towers twice if the ice platform is removed on maps with water in the middle (bug fix)
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Freeze layers increased ― 2 → 4  Ability: Now applies a temporary attack speed buff to all Ice Monkeys
1-5-0 Absolute Zero + Permafrost 2-5-0 Absolute Zero + Cold Snap 1-0-5 Icicle Impale + Permafrost 2-0-5 Icicle Impale + Cold Snap	Can now apply permafrost to MOAB-Class Bloons

Version 21.0

“

While Icicles is quite fun for midgame cleanup, we acknowledge points raised on Cryo Cannon trading off it’s freeze prowess too quickly when the smaller freeze area even with such a fast rate increase still overall makes it struggle to slow as effectively. To counter this a little we have doubled the freeze radius of Cryo Cannon, but also increased damage of both the Ice Balls & Icicles to highlight more the intention of this path swapping to a damage hybrid earlier. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Embrittlement	Embrittlement once again allows ‘Sharp’ damage to penetrate any Bloons frozen in the Embrittled state (bug fix)
X-3-X Arctic Wind	Placing an Arctic Wind on top of a flagship will no longer create an ice platform on top of the buccaneer (bug fix)  Arctic Wind no longer inconsistently slows one of two Zebra children after popping a rainbow (bug fix)
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon and further upgrades	Cryo blast: blast radius increased ― 10 → 20  Cryo ball: damage increased ― 1 → 2
X-X-4 Icicles X-X-5 Icicle Impale	Icicles: damage increased ― 1 → 2
X-X-5 Icicle Impale	Cryo ball: bonus to MOAB-class decreased ― +49 → +48 Note: Overall damage unchanged

Version 22.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Icicles	Icicles now correctly inherits the radius of Cryo Cannon instead of shrinking (bug fix)

Version 23.0

“

Ice Monkey power is currently too bottom heavy and mid-to-higher tiers are neglected, so some tweaks to mid-tier upgrades have been made. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Embrittlement	Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,000 → $2,200
X-3-X Arctic Wind	Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,200 → $2,900
X-4-X Snowstorm	Snowstorm ability: cooldown reduced ― 60s → 30s
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Absolute Zero ability: initial cooldown increased ― 0s → 20s (undocumented)
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,000 → $1,750

Version 23.2

“

recent changes to x4x Snowstorm caused the T5 to have a longer cooldown than the T4 — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Absolute Zero: ability cooldown reduced ― 40s → 30s

Version 24.0

“

Small tweaks to the benefit of still under-utilized T5 Ice Monkey upgrades. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Super Brittle	Upgrade cost reduced ― $30,000 → $28,000
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Absolute Zero Ability: duration increased ― 10s → 15s

Version 25.0

“

By buffing Snowstorm to have the same cooldown as Absolute Zero we unintentionally ruined a certain style of player-made challenge based on Absolute Zero timing. We have reworked the buff from v24 in order to keep the same freeze uptime but allow this type of challenge to be possible once again. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Permafrost and further upgrades	Now applies the Permafrost effect to White and Zebra Bloons (bug) Note: Unconfirmed
3-X-X Ice Shards and further upgrades	Now applies the Razor Shards effect to White and Zebra Bloons (bug) Note: Unconfirmed  Ice Shards requires Re-Freeze to be able to damage Frozen Bloons, even under the influence of a X-3-X MIB Village (bug) Note: Unconfirmed
4-X-X Embrittlement and further upgrades	Frozen Bloons cannot be damaged by Sharp attacks (bug)
5-X-X Super Brittle	No longer applies debuffs to MOAB-Class Bloons (bug)
0-3-X Arctic Wind and further upgrades	Arctic Wind: No longer slows Lead Bloons unless crosspathed with Metal Freeze (undocumented) (bug fix) Note: Unconfirmed
0-4-X Snowstorm and further upgrades	Ability: No longer affects DDTs unless crosspathed with Metal Freeze (undocumented) (bug fix) Note: Unconfirmed
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Ability: Cooldown reduced ― 30s → 20s  Ability: Initial cooldown reduced ― 10s → 0s  Ability: Duration reduced ― 15s → 10s
X-X-4 Icicles and further upgrades	Icicles: Can no longer damage White or Zebra Bloons with its regular attack (but Icicles can still grow from them)
0-X-5 Icicle Impale	Main attack: No longer affects DDTs unless crosspathed with Metal Freeze (undocumented) (bug fix) Note: Unconfirmed

Version 26.0

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Arctic Wind	Arctic Wind will no longer retain its frozen platforms after being transformed by an Alchemist as this could cause a crash upon ability expiration

Version 27.0

“

Snowstorm’s duration has been improved to give it more bang for its buck as an alternate option to Ninja’s Bloon Sabotage, and Absolute Zero’s price has been reduced to bring it more within reach for a support upgrade. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Snowstorm	Ability: Duration increased ― 4s → 6s Note: Does not carry over to Absolute Zero
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Upgrade cost reduced ― $26,000 → $20,000

Version 28.0

“

Embrittlement being a ‘camo reveal’ has not been viable due to the price, so T2 Metal Freeze has been granted camo detection to allow this tower to somewhat hold off camos while it saves up to become a reveal. Additionally Embrittlement will now be able to target and debuff MOAB Bloons for the smaller damage bonus without needing to be upgraded to T5. Additionally some smaller price nerfs have been made along the lower tiers of bottom path as each of these upgrades has been standing out a little much. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Cold Snap	Upgrade cost increased ― $300 → $350  Name changed ― 'Metal Freeze' → 'Cold Snap'
2-X-X Cold Snap and all crosspaths 3-X-X Ice Shards	Can now target Camo bloons
4-X-X Embrittlement	Can now target and debuff MOAB-class but not slow them
X-X-1 Larger Radius	Upgrade cost increased ― $100 → $175
X-X-2 Re-Freeze	Upgrade cost increased ― $200 → $225
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,750 → $1,950

Version 29.0

Tiers	Changes
4-0-1 Embrittlement + Larger Radius and further upgrades	401 & 501 Ice Monkeys should now be able to stack their debuffs correctly without the Larger Radius crosspath overwriting the effect (bug fix)
1-5-0 Absolute Zero + Permafrost 2-5-0 Absolute Zero + Cold Snap	Absolute Zero should no longer apply an inconsistently weaker Permafrost (bug fix)

Version 30.0

“

Cryo Cannon has pulled far ahead of similar cheap Bloon control options, while leading into the also quite cheap Icicles which for most of the game offers more Bloon shredding support for cheaper than those other options. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Embrittlement 5-X-X Super Brittle	Should no longer slow & remove camo from White Bloons without being able to damage them (bug fix)
5-X-X Super Brittle	Debuff: Duration corrected ― 2s → 3s (bug fix)
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Absolute Zero now has an ability icon for the buff it grants other Ice Monkey  Ability: Ice Monkey buff is now drained by Lych (bug fix)
X-X-4 Icicles	Upgrade cost increased ― $2,000 → $2,750

Version 31.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Super Brittle	Permafrost: slowdown to MOABs increased ― 25% → 50% (bug)
1-4-0 Snowstorm + Permafrost and further upgrades	Snowstorm Ability: Now applies 50% Permafrost to MOAB-Class bloons (bug)
1-5-0 Absolute Zero + Permafrost	Permafrost: slowdown to MOABs increased ― 25% → 50% (bug)

Version 31.2

Tiers	Changes
1-4-0 Snowstorm + Permafrost	Snowstorm ability: No longer applies 50% permafrost to MOABs (bug fix)
1-5-0 Absolute Zero + Permafrost	Snowstorm ability: Permafrost slow to MOABs increased ― 50% → 75% (bug) Note: Does not apply to base attack

Version 32.0

“

Ice monkey Enhanced Freeze is too good at low tiers, allowing full stunlock of ceramics for very cheap, as the fire rate increase alone of this Enhanced Freeze is a powerful addition most of the increased freeze duration has been moved up as it makes more sense to have duration with the currently less desirable T2 Deep Freeze. Permafrost was previously reduced to a lower price than we’d like to try increase desirability of this crosspath, but as the reworks to metal freeze have had more success there in pulling this path ahead we want to add a little back on here. Cryo Cannon has now been overperforming compared to any towers that perform similar roles with either of these crosspaths so is also seeing a general reduction. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Permafrost	Upgrade cost increased ― $100 → $150
X-1-X Enhanced Freeze and all crosspaths	Enhanced Freeze freeze duration reduced ― 2.2s → 1.75s Note: Deep Freeze unchanged
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,950 → $2,250  Attack delay increased ― 1s → 1.2s Note: Icicles unaffected

Version 32.1

Tiers	Changes
1-5-0 Absolute Zero + Permafrost	Absolute Zero ability no longer applies an excessively strong permafrost effect ― 75% → 25% (bug fix) Note: 250 unaffected and retain 75% slowdown

Version 33.0

“

Arctic Wind hardly gets used for its actual basic intended purpose, which would be cool to see used for more than just causing ice platform bug reports. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Super Brittle	Permafrost: Now slows MOAB-class by the correct amount ― 50% → 25% (bug fix)
X-3-X Arctic Wind X-4-X Snowstorm	Arctic Wind aura slow amount increased ― 50% → 60% Note: Patch notes made an error thar states the old value was 40%
2-5-0 Absolute Zero + Cold Snap	Permafrost: Now slows MOAB-class by the correct amount ― 75% → 25% (bug fix)

Version 34.0

“

Ice Monkey base pierce is too high, very easily countering large numbers of strong Bloons early, mid or late in the game for small investment, leading to very low tiers of ice monkey (below t3) being highly effective spam options over upgrading your ice. We are reworking some of this base pierce to require crosspath investment and buffing the damage Ice 3xx Ice Shards to compensate for some of its reduced pierce. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-X Permafrost and further upgrades X-1-X Enhanced Freeze X-X-1 Larger Radius X-X-2 Re-Freeze	Pierce reduced ― 40 → 30 Note: Pierce with Deep Freeze is unchanged
3-X-X Ice Shards and further upgrades	Shard damage increased ― 1 → 2
X-2-X Deep Freeze	Upgrade cost increased ― $350 → $450  Now increases pierce by 10  Total pierce remains at 40 (due to changes to previous tiers)
X-3-X Arctic Wind	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,900 → $2,800
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon and further upgrades	Pierce reduced ― 30 → 20 Note: Pierce with Deep Freeze is unchanged
X-X-4 Icicles	Can now target MOAB-Class Bloons Note: Does not allow it to slow them

Version 36.0

“

Arctic wind felt extremely overbuffed with the slowing field going from 40 to 50%, but we like seeing the use on it go up so we want to meet halfway on that & keep the higher slow at T5. While we like the added pierce value on x2x crosspathing, the drop of pierce on xx3 feels too large now on a tower that already had quite good crosspath balance, so we want to try out removing the pierce downgrade entirely here. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Arctic Wind X-4-X Snowstorm	Arctic Wind slow aura reduced ― 60% → 50% Note: Absolute Zero unaffected
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon and further upgrades	Pierce increased ― 20 → 30 Note: Also affects x-2-x crosspath (30 → 40)

Version 37.0

“

Lowest tiers of ice monkey are far too effective for their cost against ceramics, with this scaling well all the way to round 100, we feel like ice duration against ceramics needs to be reduced to counter this but for now this reduction will only apply until T3. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-X Permafrost 2-X-X Cold Snap X-1-X Enhanced Freeze X-2-X Deep Freeze X-X-1 Larger Radius X-X-2 Re-Freeze	Freeze duration: reduced by 50% on ceramics Note: Tier 3s and above unaffected
X-X-2 Re-Freeze	Resolved a number of cases of the Refreeze crosspath not re-freezing bloons when dealing certain numbers of damage (bug fix)
2-0-3 Cryo Cannon + Cold Snap and further upgrades	Cold Snap crosspath now grants camo prio

Version 38.0

“

Plenty of attention has been drawn to the high power of Ice, so we’re continuing to work on slowly dialing this back in fair ways. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Arctic Wind X-4-X Snowstorm	Pierce reduced ― 100 → 40 Note: Absolute Zero unaffected
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon and further upgrades	Freeze duration decreased ― 1.5s → 1.2s Note: also affects Icicles and Icicle Impale reducing their freeze durations by 20%

Version 39.0

“

We’re happier with more recent freeze changes succeeding in some of the intentions of older nerfs, given the base tower value in races being hit far more than intended we’re going back over the pierce for Ice Monkey base & middle crosspath. Snowstorm continues to outshine any similar supportive options while being generally cheaper & more versatile. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-X Permafrost and further upgrades X-1-X Enhanced Freeze X-X-1 Larger Radius and further upgrades	Pierce increased ― 30 → 40
X-2-X Deep Freeze and all crosspaths X-3-X Arctic Wind X-4-X Snowstorm	Pierce increased ― 40 → 45
X-4-X Snowstorm	Upgrade cost increased ― $3,000 → $3,800
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Upgrade cost reduced ― $20,000 → $19,200

Version 40.0

“

We want to try out allowing the Ice Shards sub-projectile to benefit from all sources of damage buff, as currently this path gets nice support use sometimes but can’t do much on its own in the base game - along with this the T5 Ice Shards are also generally being improved. Arctic Wind it feels was heavily underrated before it’s large slow aura increase, with so many players now working out how good it is and how much better an upgrade it leads into than any similar options we feel this aura needs to be reduced again although it will remain the same at T5. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Ice Shards and further upgrades	Ice shard: damage is no longer capped (allowing for buffs)
5-X-X Super Brittle	Ice shard: damage increased ― 2 → 5  Number of ice shards increased ― 3 → 6
X-3-X Arctic Wind X-4-X Snowstorm	Aura: slowdown reduced ― 50% → 40% Note: Absolute Zero aura slowdown unchanged
X-X-4 Icicles	Icicle projectile radius increased ― 4 → 5

Version 42.0

“

Embrittlement is cheap and balanced by its limited range and rate making it difficult to apply to very many targets with reliable frequency, however Super Brittle is far more expensive but still faces these same struggles. Feels fair for the cost to increase its attack rate further. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Super Brittle	Attack cooldown reduced ― 2.16s → 1.8s

Version 44.0

“

Adding a lesser MOAB-Benefit to Icicles, leading into the stronger T5 Anti-MOAB capability — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Icicles	Blast now deals +8 damage to MOAB-Class Bloons Note: Icicle Impale is unchanged

Version 45.0

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Ice Shards	Description changed ― "Razor sharp shards fly out when Frozen Bloons pop." → "Removes Camo and Regrow properties when damaging Bloons. Razor sharp shards fly out when Frozen Bloons pop."
4-X-X Embrittlement	Description changed ― "Can hit MOAB-class Bloons. All hit Bloons become brittle, take extra damage while frozen, and lose Camo properties." → "Can hit MOAB-class Bloons. All hit Bloons become brittle, taking extra damage while frozen, and losing Lead immunity for a short time."

“

Embrittlement had too much going on at T4 without much reason to use T3, as Ice Shards alone is already similarly priced to other Camo removal options and with the Primary category lacking in Camo detection, we have split Embrittlement up and introduced Camo removal at T3 so we can leave Embrittlement to focus entirely on being a damage support upgrade. While we’re still considering future plans here, increasing layers frozen from 5 > 8 at least means that Absolute Zero’s freeze can now last through all standard Bloon layers from a single application. As similar choices are currently leveling out with higher power Cryo Cannon feels like it deserves to have some power brought back. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Ice Shards	Freeze: now removes Camo and Regrow from targets Note: Unlike Embrittlement, shards do not have this effect
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Main attack: layers frozen increased ― 5 → 8
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,250 → $1,950
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon and further upgrades	Freeze duration increased ― 1.2s → 1.5s Note: Also affects Enhanced Freeze and Deep Freeze crosspaths

Version 45.1

•  105 Icicle Impale should apply icicles correctly again (bug fix)
•  220 Mermonkey should no longer target Camo Bloons (bug fix)

Version 47.0

“

A long time coming - Absolute Zero will finally be able to slow MOAB-Class Bloons within its radius, and additionally the main attack while it can’t initiate attacks without Bloons in radius will freeze non MOAB-Class Bloons over the entire screen for a short time! Nudging bottom path Ice Monkey to keep up with similarly priced support options, and Icicles especially doesn't feel versatile enough, which limits chances to go down this path so it is gaining the attack rate increase from the T5. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Arctic Wind: Slows visible MOAB-class bloons in radius by 20%  Arctic Wind: No longer slows targetable non-MOAB-class bloons when crosspathed (bug)  Absolute Zero’s attack gains a second radius freezing one layer of non-MOAB Class Bloons anywhere on the map for 0.75s
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon	Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,950 → $1,750
X-X-4 Icicles	Attack cooldown decreased ― 1s → 0.75s Note: Stacks with Enhanced Freeze crosspath (0-1-4) ― 0.75s → 0.5625s. Icicle Impale unchanged

Version 48.0

“

Cryo Cannon’s damage has lowered to more effectively stall, while Icicles damage stays the same and increases for the Icicle projectiles to help it be a stronger damage focus upgrade. Arctic Wind’s price is shifting up into Snowstorm to allow for cheaper utility use. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Arctic Wind	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,800 → $2,500
X-4-X Snowstorm	Upgrade cost increased ― $3,800 → $4,000
0-4-X Snowstorm 1-4-0 Snowstorm + Permafrost	Damage type ― Shatter → Sharp (undocumented) Note: Causes snowstorm ability to only have 1 pierce and unable to damage bloons
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Aura: MOAB-class slow increased ― 20% → 30%
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon	Blast: damage decreased ― 2 → 1 Note: Nerf to mid-game damage, but a buff to stalling potential. Does not affect xx4.
X-X-4 Icicles X-X-5 Icicle Impale	Shard: Damage increased ― 2 → 3

Version 48.1

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Snowstorm	Snowstorm ability: Should no longer pierce cap on a single Bloon (bug fix)

Version 49.0

“

Someone’s been teaching the Ice Monkey some new tricks because now they can be placed on either Land or Water! However you’ll still need Arctic Wind to support other towers on water. Ice Monkey value is limited at low levels where quick & spaced Bloons are the main trouble, so the cost for many low tier upgrades is moving up to higher tiers instead. Absolute Zero is also reducing in price as we are enjoying its current functionality but it's still a large investment for a heavily support focus upgrade — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
All tiers	Can now be placed on water
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $500 → $400  Description changed ― Pops and freezes nearby Bloons for a short time. Frozen Bloons are immune to sharp damage. Can't freeze White, Zebra or Lead Bloons. → Pops and freezes nearby Bloons for a short time. Frozen Bloons are immune to sharp damage. Can't freeze White, Zebra or Lead Bloons. Can be placed on land and water.
4-X-X Embrittlement	Upgrade cost increased ― $2,200 → $2,300
X-1-X Enhanced Freeze	Upgrade cost reduced ― $225 → $200
X-2-X Deep Freeze	Upgrade cost reduced ― $450 → $300
X-3-X Arctic Wind	Upgrade cost increased ― $2,500 → $2,750
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Upgrade cost reduced ― $19,200 → $16,000
X-X-1 Larger Radius	Upgrade cost reduced ― $175 → $150
X-X-2 Re-Freeze	Upgrade cost reduced ― $225 → $200
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,750 → $1,900

Version 50.0

“

Well it seems we made Absolute Zero kinda good finally… With the powerful synergies that have now come out here, along with Silas arriving this update bringing even more Ice Monkey synergies, we are reducing some of the constancy here. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Ability cooldown increased ― 20s → 25s  Initial ability cooldown increased ― 0s → 5s (undocumented)  Main attack global freeze: duration reduced ― 0.75s → 0.6s Description changed ― Ability is so cold it freezes all regular Bloons for longer, including White, Zebra, and Camo, slows MOAB-class longer, and greatly increases the attack speed of all Ice Monkeys for the duration. → Each attack freezes all Bloons everywhere for a short time. Snowstorm freezes all Bloon types for even longer while greatly increasing attack speed of all Ice Monkeys for the duration.
X-X-4 Icicles and further upgrades	Icicle mutator: Optimized performance

Version 51.0

“

Super Brittle’s never stood out on its own which was fine for a tower whose job was making other things better, but recently after the addition of Silas we've started to feel its value is really too niche even for a support piece, so we’re cranking the numbers so it can actually break a few things itself. Absolute Zero on the other hand has enjoyed being busted lately, and thanks to a crosspathing bug fix also included this update will be getting even better, since it’s currently freezing everything imaginable we’re counter-balancing that with a nerf of increased damage and higher cost. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Super Brittle	Main attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 5  Main attack: Now deals +5 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons  Ice shards: Damage increased ― 5 → 10 Description changed ― "Bloons take huge damage while frozen including MOAB-Class Bloons." → "Bloons take huge damage while frozen, while Ice Shards rip through Ceramic Bloons like paper!"
5-0-X Super Brittle and further upgrades	Main attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.8s → 1.2s (attack speed increased by 50%)
5-1-0 Super Brittle + Enhanced Freeze and further upgrades	Main attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.35s → 0.9s (attack speed increased by 50%)
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Upgrade cost increased ― $16,000 → $19,000  Global attack: No longer freezes Camo, Lead, White, or Zebra Bloons if it cannot damage them  Global attack: Now deals 1 Cold-type base damage  Global attack: Now deals +3 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons  Ability: Now deals +4 bonus damage to Frozen Bloons
1-5-0 Absolute Zero + Permafrost and further upgrades 0-5-1 Absolute Zero + Larger Radius and further upgrades	Arctic Wind: Can slow down small Bloons when crosspathed again (bug fix)

Version 52.1

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Super Brittle	Debuff no longer prevents other Ice Monkeys from damaging Bloons (bug fix)

Version 52.2

Tiers	Changes
1-0-4 Icicles + Permafrost 2-0-4 Icicles + Cold Snap 0-1-4 Icicles + Enhanced Freeze 0-2-4 Icicles + Deep Freeze	No longer fails to damage the round 40 MOAB in Easy mode (bug fix)

Version 53.0

“

Ice Monkey T5’s are very strong right now, Embrittlement in particular stands out as a problem with its high damage so this is being reduced, however the range of its shards is being increased to retain the higher cool factor of buying this upgrade. Absolute Zero is also seeing a price increase as another very powerful Ice right now. We’re also increasing the soluopopatsalB counter potential here on middle and bottom paths. Ice Monkey’s paragon has caused a big stir with the powerful mechanics it brings to the table; uptime of its passive debuffs is being lowered as currently it maxes uptime too easily without degree investment and Embrittlement debuffs will no longer be stackable - only the highest tier Embrittlement debuff will take priority. Finally players responded with a lot of love for what Ice Paragon brings but also big annoyances with timing; for QoL we have changed the skull freeze from a debuff that has to be applied to a boss to be a simple active duration, this means is instead timing 1 exact frame for the debuff to be applied the effect will just be active for a duration and should work so long as a boss skull is triggered any time within that active duration. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Embrittlement 5-X-X Super Brittle	Embrittlement debuff: Different tiers no longer stack with each other Note: Super Brittle overrides Embrittlement and both are removed by the Paragon  Embrittlement debuff: No longer works on BADs (bug) Note: Paragon works normally
5-X-X Super Brittle	Ice Shard: Damage reduced ― 10 → 5  Ice Shard: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.08s → 0.16s Note: Changes to projectile speed unchanged (250 units/s) which makes the projectile cover more distance (20 to 40 units)
X-4-X Snowstorm	Ability: Freeze effect will now be applied after damage rather than before (undocumented)
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Upgrade cost increased ― $19,000 → $21,000  Other Ice Monkeys should no longer be prevented from attacking Bloons frozen by Absolute Zero (bug fix)
Paragon	Main attacks: Cooldown increased ― 3s → 4s  Ice Lance Beam: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 500  Snowstorm Roar: Now used every 5th attack instead of every 4th  Embrittlement debuff: Damage bonus reduced ― +10 → +8  Embrittlement debuff: No longer stacks Embrittlement and Super Brittle and will override them instead  Embrittlement debuff: No longer applies to the Shatter damage type  Eclipse of Fimbulwinter: The time window to perform a skull skip on a Boss Bloon is increased ― 5s → 20s Note: This window begins 5s seconds after the ability is activated (when the skulls in the health bar are frozen) and will last until the end of the ability (when the lighting returns to normal)

Version 53.1

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Embrittlement 5-X-X Super Brittle	Embrittlement debuff: Solved an issue where it would not affect BADs and Bosses (bug fix)

Version 54.0

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Much player concern has been voiced on Icicles performance. Since this issue stems from the projectile count we’re experimenting with fewer icicles that pack a stronger punch, making each individual projectile much stronger. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Ice platforms: Should no longer delete all towers supported by it when upgraded into the Paragon
X-X-4 Icicles and further upgrades	Main attack: Now only has a 25% chance of applying Icicles to the Bloons  Icicles: Damage increased ― 3 → 6  Icicles: Pierce increased ― 3 → 6

Version 54.1

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Ice Paragon should now correctly deal increased damage to MOAB-Class Bloons — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
Paragon	Icicles & Shards: Bonus damage to MOABs corrected to bonus damage to all MOAB-class (bug fix)