Sky Shredder (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Sky Shredder (Battles 2).

Sky Shredder

The Bloons will wish they had never come.

Tower	Monkey Ace — Path 1 — Tier 5
XP cost	35,000
Cash cost	$36,125 — Easy $42,500 — Medium $45,900 — Hard $51,000 — Impoppable With Aeronautic Subsidy: $32,510 — Easy $38,250 — Medium $41,310 — Hard $45,900 — Impoppable

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Sky Shredder is the Monkey Ace's path 1 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. Its dart volleys attack twice as fast and shoots 32 darts per volley instead of 16, both its darts and anti-MOAB homing missiles deal much more damage and have the Normal damage type, and gain more pierce.

• Dart: Each volley shoots 32 per shot instead of 16, damage increases from 1 to 3, and +2 Ceramic damage, base pierce increased from 5 to 8 (6 to 9 with Airforce Upgrades), and attack cooldown reduced from 0.63 seconds to 0.315 seconds. Darts also have 3× projectile speed (360 units/s) with the same lifespan of 1.4 seconds.
• Missile: Damage of each missile increased from 24 to 150, +2 to Ceramics, and base pierce increased from 4 to 5. It is shot every 1.5 seconds.

Its pineapples are identical to Fighter Plane except they also deal +2 Ceramic damage.

Stats

For a complete list of Monkey Ace stats, see Stats:Monkey Ace (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 22 units Footprint 28 × 18 units Movement speed 75 units/s Targeting options Circle Figure Infinite Figure Eight

Attack
Cooldown 0.315s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 6.5, 0.5 Targeting range 22 units
Ignores blockers Can fire without a target
Main projectile Count 32 Angle 360° Pierce 8 Damage 3 Damage to Ceramic +2 Damage type Normal Speed 360 units/s Lifespan 1.4s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Missile attack
Cooldown 1.5s Offset (X, Y, Z) 12, 5.2, -0.24 (side 1) -12, 5.2, -0.24 (side 2) Targeting Strong Targeting range ∞ units Filters Cannot target Camo Can only target MOAB-Class
Ignores blockers
Projectile Count 2 Pierce 1 Max pierce 1 Speed 25 units/s Max speed 400 units/s Acceleration 160 units/s2 Seeking distance ∞ units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 25 °/s Max seeking rotation speed 500 °/s Seeking rotation acceleration +150 °/s2 Lifespan 16.8s Radius 5 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Can only hit MOAB-Class Ignores blockers Explosion Pierce 5 Damage 150 Damage to Ceramic +2 Damage type Normal Lifespan 0.05s Radius 30 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Can only hit MOAB-Class

5-1-0

Bomb attack
Cooldown 1.2s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 6.5, 0.5 Targeting range ∞ units
Can fire without a target
Explosion Pierce 20 Damage 1 Damage to Ceramic +2 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Radius 35 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Missile attack
Explosion Pierce 5 → 7 Radius 30 units → 34.5 units

5-2-0

Attack
Filters Can now target Camo
Main projectile Damage to Camo +3 Filters Can now hit Camo

Bomb attack
Explosion Damage to Camo +1 Filters Can now hit Camo

Missile attack
Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Filters Can now hit Camo Explosion Filters Can now hit Camo

5-0-1

Attack
Main projectile Pierce 8 → 11

5-0-2

Tower
Targeting options Centered Path

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
5-0-0	$41,315	$48,600	$52,490	$58,320	$28,921	$34,020	$36,743	$40,824
5-1-0	$41,485	$48,800	$52,705	$58,560	$29,040	$34,160	$36,894	$40,992
5-2-0	$41,785	$49,150	$53,085	$58,980	$29,250	$34,405	$37,160	$41,286
5-0-1	$41,740	$49,100	$53,030	$58,920	$29,218	$34,370	$37,121	$41,244
5-0-2	$42,210	$49,650	$53,625	$59,580	$29,547	$34,755	$37,538	$41,706

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 52.2

Sky Shredder is a highly versatile global range tower that is suitable for all players, having a high skill ceiling but reasonable skill floor. Its decent damage becomes exceptional when proper Ace micro is executed. The missiles break down blimps, which the darts can mostly clean up, albeit with some leaks. It benefits from buffs such as Berserker Brew which take advantage of its many projectiles.

Towers and Heroes that can clean up its leaks, such as Adora and The Bloon Solver, are recommended to supplement it. Rosalia is also a strong Hero option due to her solid supplemental damage, knockback, and 10% discount to all nearby Aces.

Both crosspaths provide their own benefits. The 5-0-2 crosspath, with Sharper Darts and Centered Path, provides improved pierce to its darts and mobility respectively, which is especially useful for Ace micro. The 5-2-0 crosspath gives the ace innate camo detection and improves its missiles, as well as double damage to camo for its attacks which makes it useful against DDTs.

Update history

For a complete list of Monkey Ace changes, see Update history:Monkey Ace (BTD6).

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Version 8.0

•  Main attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 3

Version 16.0

•  All attacks now deal +2 damage to Ceramics

5-2-0

•  Sky Shredder now grants pineapples +2 damage to Ceramics

Version 17.0

•  Missile attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 1.5s → 2s (attack speed reduced by 25%)
•  Missile explosion: Pierce increased ― 1 → 5
•  Missile explosion: No longer damages DDTs (bug)
•  Missile explosion: Damage reduced ― 25 → 18

Version 17.1

•  Main attack: Can no longer hit Camo Bloons without Camo detection
•  Can damage visible DDTs again without buffs (bug fix)

Version 23.0

“

Monkey Ace was never intended to be a great starting tower and instead come into power at mid- and high-tier upgrades, but since the base tower feels lacking to new players (and some of us old timers) we decided to rework low tier power into the base tower.
— Update notes

”

•  Dart: Projectile size increased ― 2 → 3

5-1-0, 5-2-0

•  Pineapple: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.6s → 1.2s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)

Version 28.0

“

Monkey Ace has had an overall rework to a lot of different upgrades in order to highlight the x1x Exploding Pineapples upgrade as a buff to all explosives [...]
— Update notes

”

5-1-0, 5-2-0

•  Exploding Pineapple now grants +4.5 units to the radius of the missile attack's explosion ― 30 → 34.5
•  Exploding Pineapple now grants +2 pierce to the missile attack's explosion

Version 30.0

“

More of a straight quality of life, Ace has gained a new special toggle button to allow it to turn back and fly in reverse on any selected flight pattern.
— Update notes

”

•  Reverse flight pattern added

Version 34.0

“

Sky Shredder has a higher skill ceiling than most towers so has evaded many nerfs, but is still too good for what it offers so is finally seeing a slight price increase
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $40,000 → $41,500

Version 41.0

“

Sky Shredder somewhat justifies its power as one of the very best towers in the game, although everything at this level is a bit too cheap.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $41,500 → $42,500

5-1-0, 5-2-0

•  Pineapple: Attack rate buff from Rapid Fire reduced ― -40% → -25%
  •  Stacks with changes to the attack's base cooldown; overall attack cooldown increased ― 1.2s → 1.275s (attack speed reduced by 5.88%)

Version 45.0

“

Fighter Plane’s missiles often get stuck circling slower targets until they expire, since Ace can’t reasonably plan against this the missile turn acceleration has been tweaked to reduce chance of this happening.
— Update notes

”

•  Missile: Max turn speed increased ― 400 → 500
•  Missile: Turn acceleration reduced ― 160 → 150

Version 50.0

5-2-0

•  Bonus damage to Camo Bloons increased for all attacks, except Anti-MOAB missiles ― +1 → ×2

Version 53.0

•  Missile attack: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 24s → 16.8s
  • Note: Projectile speed remains the same, meaning that the distance traveled by the projectile is reduced from 600 units to 420 units.

5-1-0, 5-2-0

•  Missiles now drop an Exploding Pineapple on impact, with the same stats as the regular pineapple attack

Gallery

For more Monkey Ace images, see Gallery:Monkey Ace.

Screenshots

• 
  Sky Shredder for all upgrades
• 
  Sky Shredder runway

Assets

• 
  Portrait
• 
  Upgrade icon
• 
  Insta Monkey icon

Trivia

• Prior to version 17.1, it had inherent Camo detection. According to a Ninja Kiwi blog post, the reason for this change was because it "is so focused on making those sick turns that it doesn’t notice when a sneaki^[sic] camo gets through."
• Its portrait and upgrade icon correctly depict all 32 darts it fires per volley, but depict it as firing in an arc instead of in a circle like in-game.

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	مفرمة السماء سوف تتمنى البالونات لو أنهم لم يأتوا إلى هنا أبدًا.	—
Danish	Himlens Hersker Bloons'ene ville ønske, de aldrig var dukket op.	—
German	Himmelsschredder Die Bloons werden sich wünschen, nie gekommen zu sein.	—
Spanish	Trituracielos Los bloons desearán no haber salido.	—
Spanish (LA)	Trituracielos Los bloons desearán no haber salido.	—
Finnish	Taivassilppuri Bloonit toivovat etteivät olisi koskaan saapuneet.	—
French	Broyeur de ciel Les Bloons vont regretter d'être venus.	—
Italian	Trituratore volante I bloon rimpiangeranno di essere arrivati.	—
Japanese	スカイシュレッド ブルーンたちは、彼らが来なければ良いのにと願う。	—
Korean	하늘 파쇄기 풍선들이 여기 온 것을 후회하게 될 겁니다.	—
Dutch	Luchtscheurder De Bloons zullen wensen dat ze nooit waren gekomen.	—
Norwegian	Skykutter Bloons kommer til å ønske at de aldri kom.	—
Polish	Podniebny rozpruwacz Blony będą marzyć, że nigdy ich tu nie było.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Rasga Céus Os Bloons vão desejar nunca ter vindo.	—
Russian	Небесный шредер Шары пожалеют, что появились на свет.	—
Swedish	Himmelsförstörare Alla Bloons kommer att önska att de aldrig hade kommit.	—
Thai	สกายเชรดเดอร์ พวกบลูนต้องเสียใจแน่นอนที่คิดมาแหยมเรา	—
Turkish	Gök Parçalayıcı Bloon’lar geldiklerine pişman olurlar.	—
Chinese (simplified)	长空卫士 气球会为自己的莽撞进犯感到后悔。	—
Chinese (traditional)	天空撕烈機 氣球們會後悔來這。	—
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