Hastening Bloon

Hastening Bloon

On Play: Reduce the delay of a random other friendly Bloon by 1

We like to move it, move it.

Class	Advanced
Card Pack	Classic
Rarity	Rare
Keywords	On Play
Introduced	Full Playable test

Stats
Cost			6		Health			120
Charges			1		Delay			2

Hastening Bloon is an Advanced Bloon card in Bloons Card Storm. When played, it reduces the delay of a random other Bloon on the player's side by 1, to a minimum of 0. The affected Bloon moves towards the queue in order of recentness (i.e. oldest go first). It cannot target Bloons that are already at 0 delay, cannot target Immobile Bloons, and if there are no Bloons it can target, the effect doesn't play.

The card artwork depicts a Hastening Bloon creating a whirlwind near a green-colored Bloon at a desert. According to the development sheets from Aimee Cairn's NZGDC presentation of BCS, the Hastening Bloon was based on the Yellow Bloon.

Tips

This article or section is outdated and needs to be updated to reflect recent updates or newly available information. You can help out by editing this article. The editor who added this notice elaborates: v6.4 possibly much different in how to play, now that multi-hastening is less annoying to pull off

This section was last updated for: version 6.4

• Like Quick Ready, Hastening Bloon can reduce a bloon's delay to 0, but costs 1 less Gold. It being a Bloon means it also generates 6 Bloontonium and leaves behind a 150 health threat on the field. The downside of it compared to Quick Ready is that it affects a random Bloon, so it is best used in strategies that either don’t care about what Hastening hits or when it’s guaranteed to target one specific Bloon.
  • If there's exactly one possible candidate, Hastening Bloon will guarantee to reduce delay of that Bloon.
  • Storm Bloons can disrupt Hastening Bloon’s targeting on your own Bloons. Be wary of the storm when planning to use Hastening Bloon.
• If looking for reducing the delay of a bloon with two delay to zero, such as any 1 delay bloon with Improved Fortification, or Triple Threat Bloon, it is recommended that only one Hastening Bloon is relied on before using Quick Ready, as playing more than one Hastening Bloon may end up reducing the delay of the first Hastening Bloon instead of the desired bloon.
• The Hastening Bloon itself is hardly a threat, and using multiple Hastenings for pressure can be unreliable. It still does put stats on the field which can be used for small amounts of pressure in Tempo strategies.
  • At 120 Health at base, it has just enough Health to be stolen by Bloon Redirect.
• Hastening Bloon cannot use its effect on 0 delay or Immobile Bloons, which helps improve the odds of Hastening hitting what you want it to.

Update history

Version 1.2

•  Description changed ― "On Play: Reduce the delay of a random friendly Bloon by 1" → "On Play: Reduce the delay of a random other friendly Bloon by 1"

Version 6.2

•  On Play effect now ignores Immobile Bloons

Version 6.4

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The reason why the delay reduction happened is because it makes running multiple Hastenings in a deck easier. A thing that would happen with Hastening is if you ran multiple, you'd have to play one and then, if you wanted to play another one, you'd have to wait two turns before you could actually do that because there would be a chance that the Hastening could hit the 1-delay Hastening Bloon. Now, with 1 delay, it means that you can play a Hastening Bloon, [...] pass one turn, and then it's on zero delay, meaning that your second Hastening can no longer hit that Hastening Bloon. Just makes it overall a little easier to use Hastening alongside itself. It makes it less of a chore to run multiple copies of Hastening.
— u/No-Appearance1780's commentary, 19:23–19:59 (with most disfluencies removed)

”

•  Health decreased ― 150 → 120
•  Delay decreased ― 2 → 1

Development

The Version 6.2 buffs to Hastening Bloon were not tested in the Version 6.2 playtest.

Version 6.4 rework for Hastening Bloon makes it more consistent for its role as a delay reducer but as a Bloon. More specifically, OdysseyTOS has stated that this rework removes an inconsistency where stacking Hastening Bloons would keep targeting Hastening Bloons, even after ending a turn to follow up one Hastening Bloon with more of that card. Having 1 delay makes multi-Hastening tactics more viable. As implied by 1 delay Bloons being so powerful in aggro, Hastening Bloon was nerfed in Health to not become a dominant pick in aggro to the point where it is always better than Quick Ready, despite OdysseyTOS's tester commentary not mentioning explicitly why not having the Health nerf would make Hastening too good.

Gallery

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  Placeholder art
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  Hastening Bloon in-game
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  Hastening Bloon reducing the delay of a bloon
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  Hastening Bloon targeting an Immobile Bloon (pre-6.2)

In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 3.2

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Danish	Forhastet bloon	—
German	Eilender Bloon	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Bloon acelerador	—
French	Bloon accélérant	—
Italian	Bloon accelerante	—
Japanese	疾駆ブルーン	—
Korean	신속화 풍선	—
Norwegian	Ilende bloon	—
Polish	Przyspieszający blon	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Bloon Acelerante	—
Russian	Ускоряющий шар	—
Swedish	Hastande Bloon	—
Chinese (traditional)	加速氣球	—

Flavor

Language	Text	Notes
Danish	Vi kan godt lide at flytte det, flytte det.	—
German	Vorwärts, Marsch!	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Te hará mover el bote.	—
French	Allez, allez, on se dépêche !	—
Italian	Ci piace se ti muovi! Muoviti!	—
Japanese	とにかく動きたくて仕方がない。	—
Korean	빨리빨리가 대세입니다.	—
Norwegian	Vi blir fort rastløse.	—
Polish	Ruchy, ruchy!	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Eu me remexo muito!	—
Russian	Бегом-бегом!	—
Swedish	We like to move it, move it.	—
Chinese (traditional)	我們喜歡搖擺，搖擺。	—