Bomb Blitz (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Bomb Blitz (Battles 2).

Bomb Blitz

Deals much more damage and gains the passive Bomb Storm Ability - when lives would be lost, the Bomb Storm automatically triggers, which destroys all but the biggest of Bloons.

Tower	Bomb Shooter — Path 3 — Tier 5
XP cost	25,000
Cash cost	$25,500 — Easy $30,000 — Medium $32,400 — Hard $36,000 — Impoppable

← Recursive Cluster

Ballistic Obliteration Missile Bunker →

Bomb Blitz is the Bomb Shooter's path 3 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It increases the damage of all attacks by +3 (5 damage, 6 with 2-0-5), increases the Bomb Shooter's attack speed by +66.67%, and allows the Bomb Shooter to always shoot recursive bombs, as opposed to only in every other shot. Additionally, it grants a passive ability that activates upon losing lives or leaking a Bloon, damaging all Bloons on screen.

Bomb Storm Ability

Bomb Storm is a passive ability, meaning it cannot be directly triggered by the player. Instead, it automatically triggers when any lives are lost or a Bloon is about to leak, if it is available (lives tanked by Mana Shield and Corvus' Soul Barrier count). This ability deals 2,000 damage to BFBs, ZOMGs, DDTs, BADs, or Boss Bloons on screen, then deals 9,999,999 damage to other Bloon types, including Camo Bloons. Both damages soaks through MOAB-Class layers. The leaked Bloon takes no lives if it can take enough damage to be popped by the Bomb Storm. Its damage cannot be buffed by external buffs. This ability has a 60 second cooldown and a 20 second initial cooldown.

Ezili's Totem also count as lives lost and will trigger the ability.

Stats

For a complete list of Bomb Shooter stats, see Stats:Bomb Shooter (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 56.3

Tower
Display range 54 units Footprint radius 7 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 0.9s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 10.63, 9.8 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 54 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Pierce 1 Max pierce 1 Speed 180 units/s Lifespan 0.6s Radius 4 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Cluster projectile Count 8 Angle 360° Pierce 1 Max pierce 1 Speed 130 units/s Min travel distance 20 units Max travel distance 30 units Radius 5 units Secondary cluster projectile Pierce 1 Max pierce 1 Lifespan 0.45s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 0 units Explosion Pierce 18 Damage 5 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 12 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Cluster explosion Pierce 8 Damage 5 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 15 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Secondary cluster explosion Pierce 24 Damage 5 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 34 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Ability
Cooldown 60s Damage to MOABs and below 9999999 Damage to BFBs and above 2000

1-0-5

Attack
Projectile Radius 4 units → 5 units Explosion Radius 12 units → 18 units Cluster explosion Pierce 8 → 14 Radius 15 units → 22.5 units Secondary cluster explosion Pierce 24 → 42 Radius 34 units → 37.75 units

2-0-5

Attack
Explosion Damage 5 → 6 Cluster explosion Pierce 14 → 24 Damage 5 → 6 Secondary cluster explosion Pierce 42 → 72 Damage 5 → 6

0-1-5

Attack
Cooldown 0.9s → 0.675s

0-2-5

Tower
Display range 54 units → 58 units

Attack
Cooldown 0.675s → 0.495s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 10.63, 9.8 ↓ 0, 18, 11.73 Targeting range 54 units → 58 units
Projectile Speed 180 units/s → 270 units/s Lifespan 0.6s → 0.4s Cluster projectile Speed 130 units/s → 220 units/s Min travel distance 20 units → 30 units Max travel distance 30 units → 45 units

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
0-0-5	$28,965	$34,075	$36,800	$40,890	$20,276	$23,853	$25,760	$28,623
1-0-5	$29,175	$34,325	$37,070	$41,190	$20,423	$24,028	$25,949	$28,833
2-0-5	$29,730	$34,975	$37,770	$41,970	$20,811	$24,483	$26,439	$29,379
0-1-5	$29,175	$34,325	$37,070	$41,190	$20,423	$24,028	$25,949	$28,833
0-2-5	$29,515	$34,725	$37,500	$41,670	$20,661	$24,308	$26,250	$29,169

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 52.0

Bomb Blitz's passive ability functions like an effective Tsar Bomba. Provided it does enough damage to completely destroy the leaking Bloons, it is able to avoid life loss after leaking, making it a valuable T5 in CHIMPS. Its infinite pierce allows it to become an outstanding method of destroying many Bloons at once, including in Race conditions, Bloonarius's minions, and Dreadbloon's Dreadrock Bloons on Boss Rush. However, its very long passive ability cooldown makes the Bomb Blitz passive challenging to optimize, preventing constant reliance and careless preparation.

Striker Jones is a preferred Hero for simple gameplay, as he grants buffs and eliminates Bomb Blitz's Black Bloon weakness. Without its passive, Bomb Blitz remains valuable with Striker, being a far stronger Recursive Cluster. It deals very high damage to grouped Bloons and performs very well against rounds such as 98, wiping out blue MOABs and Super Ceramics with relative ease, but it is weak against ZOMGs, DDTs, and the BAD. Thus, MOAB Eliminator (which also synergizes with Striker) is recommended for breaking down high-tier blimps, and Bloon Sabotage and Relentless Glue are recommended for DDTs. Ezili is also useful on game modes with more than one life (i.e., excluding Impoppable and CHIMPS on normal rules) to manually trigger the passive.

0-2-5 is the best crosspath for Bomb Blitz, as the improved attack speed grants a far superior damage boost compared to 2-0-5, whose pierce and damage bonuses do not aid as much due to Bomb Blitz having high pierce and damage at base. Berserker Brew is recommended for Bomb Blitz as well.

Update history

For a complete list of Bomb Shooter changes, see Update history:Bomb Shooter (BTD6).

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Version 4.0

•  Secondary cluster: Rate increased ― Every 3rd shot → Every shot

Version 11.0

•  Bomb Storm: Now has an initial cooldown (undocumented)

Version 12.0

•  Overall cost increased by $400 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 16.0

•  Damage increased ― 1 → 5

Version 17.0

0-2-5

• Changed the main projectile visuals to a missile

Version 22.0

“

Some low tier Bomb pierce has been shifted further up into the 2xx Heavy Bombs upgrade to effectively nerf 130 Mauler meta in price, but the price of these upgrades and MOAB Damage of T4 Maulers have both been buffed to benefit other variations of bomb better.
— Update notes

”

•  Pierce reduced ― 18 → 14

Version 28.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $75 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 34.0

“

Cluster Bombs has far superior pierce over top path which is the actual pierce path while also providing better overall cleanup power, so for now we’d like to reign those in a little closer.
— Update notes

”

•  Cluster explosion: Pierce reduced ― 10 → 8
•  Secondary cluster explosion: Pierce reduced ― 60 → 48 (undocumented)

Version 35.0

“

Upon closer inspection, Recursive Cluster has been hitting pierce in the 100’s, far more than was really intended for it so we are pulling back on this but adding in some fortified bonus to cancel out this large weakness the upgrade has.
— Update notes

”

•  All attacks now deal +5 damage to Fortified
•  Recursive cluster: Pierce multiplier decreased ― x6 → x3
  • Note: Pierce reduced for all crosspaths. 004: 48 → 24, 104: 84 → 42, 204: 144 → 72

Version 38.0

“

Recursive Cluster is also having the pierce of the recursions increased a little again; while we felt it needed a nerf earlier, the amount cut from it last time was too high.
— Update notes

”

•  Secondary Cluster: Pierce multiplier increased ― ×3 → ×4

Version 40.0

“

A while ago Frag Bombs was reworked to give Bomb normal type damage however we were not happy with the results of that change in the end, we didn’t want to go back and remove that again without giving back something nice in return so it has taken a while but now we have decided to go ahead with changing that back
— Update notes

”

•  Damage of all explosions increased ― 5 → 6
•  Explosion: Damage type changed ― Normal → Explosion
  • Note: Bloon Crush and MOAB Eliminator are unchanged

Version 42.0

“

As a mainly AoE path Fortification will always be a powerful weakness unless the bonus was to be far more than double effectiveness, we feel in hindsight it was never a good idea to try and counter that weakness on this path, instead we’re going to lean more into the raw cheap AoE damage output that this path specializes in and players can deal with fortification on their own with the leftover cash from this price reduction.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $35,000 → $28,000
•  Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.5s → 1s (attack speed increased by 50%)
•  Damage reduced ― 6 → 3
•  No longer deals +5 damage to Fortified

Version 43.0

“

Bomb Blitz was recently refitted to a cheaper price range while proportionally keeping a similar power level for the cost, however seeing it now in this spot we feel keeping higher damage will give it the edge it needs to feel more impactful than spamming Recursives.
— Update notes

”

•  Damage increased ― 3 → 5

Version 44.0

“

For a crosspathing trial we’re removing the limits on Frags buffability & also giving more of a range boost to Extra Range.
— Update notes

”

“

MOAB Eliminator has solidified itself quite a strong position so price is increasing here, however as it still appears lacking Bomb Blitz which still is swapping with that cheaper price point.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $28,000 → $25,500
  •  Overall cost reduced by $2,650 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Range bonus increased ― +7 → +12
  • Note: xx2 total range bonus increased from +9 to +14

Version 45.0

0-2-5

•  Missile Launcher's projectile speed modifier now applies to tertiary projectiles
  • Note: This increases area coverage, but reduces damage in the middle

Version 46.0

“

Players found the recent increased coverage of 024 recursive too much, but we like the functionality so we’ve tightened the spread for the base xx4 recursive to make 024 about the same as it was before but 004 even tighter. Bomb Blitz has been upgraded to double attack rate from the previous tier.
— Update notes

”

•  Main Attack: Cooldown reduced ― 1s → 0.75s
  • Note: Cooldown of 0-1-5 and 0-2-5 reduced in the same proportion: 0.5625s and 0.4125s respectively.
•  Recursive explosion: Minimum distance for the spread of the cluster projectile reduced ― 30 → 20
•  Recursive explosion: Maximum distance for the spread of the cluster projectile reduced ― 36 → 30

Version 47.0

“

Cutting down roughly 10% on all bottom path upgrade costs as especially on Bomb Blitz even after recent buffs there are many downsides that need to be covered to use this path effectively.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $25,500 → $23,000
  •  Overall cost reduced by $2,900 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 49.0

“

While we’ve had fun with Bomb Blitz recently, it has been pushed too far, and especially as more use has started coming out for its passive ability
— Update notes

”

•  Attack cooldown increased ― 0.75s → 0.9s
  •  0-1-5 attack cooldown increased ― 0.5625s → 0.675s
  •  0-2-5 attack cooldown increased ― 0.4125s → 0.495s
•  Bomb Storm ability: Cooldown increased ― 40s → 60s

Version 50.0

•  Bomb Storm: Passive no longer activates by tapping the Activate Selected Tower Ability 1 hotkey (bug fix)

Version 51.0

“

[...] Although, I guess we can mention early that Bomb Blitz itself has been balance changed so that it can now hit the leaking target that triggers it and can potentially prevent any life loss, [...]
— Update notes

”

“

Minor quality of life no one’s particularly fussed about outside of the multitude of requests
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: Passive activation can damage triggering Bloon and potentially prevent life loss if this damage is enough to completely destroy the target
•  Ability: First hit can now soak through MOAB-Class layers (undocumented)
•  Ability: First hit cannot affect MOABs or below (undocumented)

Version 52.0

“

Now that Bomb Blitz is much more reliable of a safety net we’re increasing its cooldown
— Update notes

”

•  Passive ability: Cooldown increased ― 60s → 75s
  • Note: Initial cooldown increased from 20s to 25s

Version 53.0

“

Previously increasing the Bomb Blitz cooldown once the passive became much more powerful felt like a mistake, instead we want to bring that back and push the price up to something more fitting again instead.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $23,000 → $30,000
•  Ability: Cooldown reduced ― 75s → 60s

Version 54.0

• Description changed

Before	Deals much more damage and gains the passive Bomb Storm Ability - when lives are lost, the Bomb Storm automatically triggers, which destroys all but the biggest of Bloons.
After	Deals much more damage and gains the passive Bomb Storm Ability - when lives would be lost, the Bomb Storm automatically triggers, which destroys all but the biggest of Bloons.

Gallery

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Assets

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Trivia

• Using a bug where passive abilities could be manually activated via a hotkey, it was possible to complete 2MPC with Bomb Blitz without it ever using its main attack.
  • This likely caused its buff in version 51.0 where its passive no longer required Bloons to leak to activate, instead simply when they are about to leak.
  • Elite Defender, and to a lesser extent the Legend of the Night were also affected by this bug.

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	قنبلة مداهمات إحداث مزيد من الضرر واكتساب قدرة عاصفة القنبلة السلبية - عند فقدان الحياة، تنطلق عاصفة القنبلة تلقائيًا، والتي تدمر جميع البالونات باستثناء أكبر بالون.	—
Danish	Bombe-blitz Gør meget mere skade og giver passiv Bombe-storm evne - når liv bliver mistet udløses bombe-stormen automatisk, hvilket destruerer alt undtagen de største bloons.	—
German	Bombenblitz Fügt viel mehr Schaden zu und erhält passive Bombensturmfähigkeit – gehen Leben verloren, wird automatisch der Bombensturm ausgelöst, der alle Bloons, außer den größten, zerstört.	—
Spanish	Bombardeo Hace mucho más daño y adquiere la habilidad pasiva Tormenta de bombas, que se activa de forma automática cuando se pierden vidas y destruye a todos los bloons menos el más grande.	—
Spanish (LA)	Bombardeo Hace mucho más daño y adquiere la habilidad pasiva Tormenta de bombas, que se activa de forma automática cuando se pierden vidas y destruye a todos los bloons menos el más grande.	—
Finnish	Pommituskampanja Tekee paljon enemmän vahinkoa ja saa passiivisen Pommimyrsky-kyvyn – kun elämiä menetetään, pommimyrsky aktivoituu automaattisesti ja tuhoaa kaikki paitsi suurimmat bloonit.	—
French	Bombardement Inflige beaucoup plus de dégâts et obtient l'aptitude passive Tempête de bombes ; lorsque des vies sont perdues, la Tempête de bombes se déclenche automatiquement et détruit tous les Bloons sauf les plus gros.	—
Italian	Incursione dinamitarda Infligge molti più danni e guadagna l'abilità passiva Tempesta di bombe: quando si perdono delle vite, la Tempesta di bombe si attiva automaticamente, distruggendo tutti i bloon tranne il più grande.	—
Japanese	爆弾ブリッツ より大きなダメージを与え、受け身の爆弾の嵐の能力を得る。殺された場合には、最大のブルーン以外の全部を破壊する爆弾の嵐が自動的にトリガーされる。	—
Korean	폭탄 블리츠 더 많은 피해를 주며, 패시브 폭탄 폭풍 능력을 얻습니다. 목숨이 깎이면 폭탄 폭풍이 자동으로 발생해 가장 큰 풍선만 남기고 모든 풍선을 파괴합니다.	—
Dutch	Bomblitz Veroorzaakt veel meer schade en krijgt de passieve Bommenstorm-vaardigheid - als er levens verloren gaan, treedt automatisch de Bommenstorm-vaardigheid in werking, die alle Bloons behalve de grootste vernietigt.	—
Norwegian	Bombeblitz Påfører mye mer skade og får den passive evnen Bombestorm –når liv går tapt, utløses Bombestorm automatisk, som ødelegger alle bortsett fra de største bloonsene.	—
Polish	Bombowa szarża Zadaje znacznie większe obrażenia i zyskuje pasywną zdolność burzy bomb – przy utracie żyć burza bomb uruchamia się automatycznie, niszcząc wszystkie blony prócz największych.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Blitz de Bombas Causa muito mais dano e ganha a habilidade passiva Tempestade de Bombas - quando vidas são perdidas, a Tempestade de Bombas ativa automaticamente, destruindo todos exceto os maiores Bloons.	—
Russian	Блиц-бомба Наносит намного больше урона и получает пассивную способность «Бомбошторм»: она срабатывает сама при потере жизней и уничтожает все шары, кроме самых больших.	—
Swedish	Bomb Blitz Åsamkar mycket större skada och förvärvar den passiva bombstormförmågan - när liv förloras, aktiveras bombstormen automatiskt, vilket förstör alla utom de allra största Bloonsen.	—
Thai	ถล่มระเบิดฉับไว ทำดาเมจแรงขึ้นมาก และได้รับสกิลติดตัว "พายุระเบิด" เมื่อสูญเสียแต้มชีวิต พายุระเบิดจะทำงานโดยอัตโนมัติ สกิลนี้จะทำลายลูกโป่งทั้งหมดยกเว้นลูกโป่งขนาดใหญ่สุด	—
Turkish	Bomba Baskını Çok daha fazla hasar verir ve pasif Bomba Fırtınası Yeteneği kazanır; canlar kaybedildiğinde, Bomba Fırtınası otomatik olarak tetiklenerek Bloon’ların neredeyse en büyük olanını yok eder.	—
Chinese (simplified)	炸弹突击 造成更多的伤害，并获得被动的炸弹风暴技能 – 当生命损失时，炸弹风暴会自动触发，除了最大的气球外，会摧毁所有的气球。	—
Chinese (traditional)	炸彈閃電戰 造成更多傷害，並獲得炸彈風暴被動技能 – 炸彈風暴在失去生命時自動觸發，摧毀除最大氣球外的所有氣球。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1