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For its price, the Pirate Lord is one of the most versatile and powerful towers. An 0-5-2 Pirate Lord (Crow's Nest) is able to hit every Bloon type unaided, and on the right maps in the right spots, is one of the towers capable of completing the challenge All For One and One For One, which requires a single tower to defeat the first 100 rounds alone. | For its price, the Pirate Lord is one of the most versatile and powerful towers. An 0-5-2 Pirate Lord (Crow's Nest) is able to hit every Bloon type unaided, and on the right maps in the right spots, is one of the towers capable of completing the challenge All For One and One For One, which requires a single tower to defeat the first 100 rounds alone. | ||
This potency comes from three sources -- the Grapes, the Bombs, and | This potency comes from three sources -- the Grapes, the Bombs, and MOAB Takedown. Between the Grapes and Bombs, the Pirate Lord's close-in damage is extremely potent, capable of reducing even high-end blimps to ribbons in moments. Effectively any spot next to water will work well for this; ideally, however, it prefers to have open space and tracks on either side of it, to make use of its ability to attack from both sides at once and the Grapes' tendency to fly much farther than the Lord's targeting range. When large numbers of Blimps threaten to overwhelm it, the Pirate Lord can fall back on its MOAB Takedown ability; not only is it able to pull in six MOABs at a time, or take down ZOMGs at the cost of three hooks each (meaning it can take as much as 16,000 health off the board with one ability), but importantly, provided the Pirate Lord can see camo either through Crow's Nest or through aid from other towers, it can target and take down DDTs. Removing up to six fast, extremely tough DDTs from a field can easily be the difference between a win or loss. Add in that it is overall cheaper than its counterpart Carrier Flagship, and the Pirate Lord has a lot of things to offer it. | ||
The downside, of course, is that Pirate Lord is | The downside, of course, is that Pirate Lord is ''much'' more dependent on positioning to be effective compared to Carrier Flagship. While both need to be placed on water, Aircraft Carrier and Carrier Flagship can still be highly effective even if that water is far from the track. Monkey Pirates and Pirate Lord can still make use of MOAB Takedown from anywhere on the map, but if they can't belly up to the firing line so that they can have good windows to get their guns on massed groups of Bloons, their damage potential drops off rapidly in comparison. Pirate Lord is also a selfish tower by comparison, offering none of the buffs to other towers that Carrier Flagship does. Both are excellent towers, but for different situations. | ||
==Update history== | ==Update history== | ||
Revision as of 09:38, 22 March 2025
For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Pirate Lord (Battles 2).
Pirate Lord
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 Greatly improved power and can shoot many grappling hooks at once, plundering extra cash from each MOAB-class Bloon taken down.
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| Tower | Monkey Buccaneer — Path 2 — Tier 5 | |
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| XP cost | 35,000 | |
| Cash cost | $22,950 — Easy $27,000 — Medium $29,160 — Hard $32,400 — Impoppable | |
Pirate Lord is the Monkey Buccaneer's path 2 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It decreases the attack cooldown of all attacks by 50%, doubling the Monkey Buccaneer's attack speed. It also improves several of the Monkey Buccaneer's attacks:
- Grapes damage increased from 5 to 8, and Ceramic damage increased from +2 to +8
- Grapes damage-over-time effect increased from 2 per tick to 9
- Cannonball MOAB-Class damage increased from +5 to +10
- Cannonball frags damage increased from 1 to 6, frags MOAB-Class damage increased from +0 to +4
This upgrade grants the MOAB Takedown ability 6 hooks in total, and the capability of hooking ZOMGs at the cost of 3 hooks each. The ability's cooldown is decreased from 45 seconds to 30 seconds (25 seconds with 
Faster Takedowns), and hooked Bloons grant +100% increased pop income.
Stats
For a complete list of Monkey Buccaneer stats, see Stats:Monkey Buccaneer (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.
| Tiers | Total cost | Sell value | ||||||
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| Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | |
| 0-5-0 | $28,260 | $33,250 | $35,905 | $39,900 | $19,782 | $23,275 | $25,134 | $27,930 |
| 1-5-0 | $28,495 | $33,525 | $36,200 | $40,230 | $19,947 | $23,468 | $25,340 | $28,161 |
| 2-5-0 | $28,855 | $33,950 | $36,660 | $40,740 | $20,199 | $23,765 | $25,662 | $28,518 |
| 0-5-1 | $28,430 | $33,450 | $36,120 | $40,140 | $19,901 | $23,415 | $25,284 | $28,098 |
| 0-5-2 | $28,725 | $33,800 | $36,500 | $40,560 | $20,108 | $23,660 | $25,550 | $28,392 |
Strategy
For its price, the Pirate Lord is one of the most versatile and powerful towers. An 0-5-2 Pirate Lord (Crow's Nest) is able to hit every Bloon type unaided, and on the right maps in the right spots, is one of the towers capable of completing the challenge All For One and One For One, which requires a single tower to defeat the first 100 rounds alone.
This potency comes from three sources -- the Grapes, the Bombs, and MOAB Takedown. Between the Grapes and Bombs, the Pirate Lord's close-in damage is extremely potent, capable of reducing even high-end blimps to ribbons in moments. Effectively any spot next to water will work well for this; ideally, however, it prefers to have open space and tracks on either side of it, to make use of its ability to attack from both sides at once and the Grapes' tendency to fly much farther than the Lord's targeting range. When large numbers of Blimps threaten to overwhelm it, the Pirate Lord can fall back on its MOAB Takedown ability; not only is it able to pull in six MOABs at a time, or take down ZOMGs at the cost of three hooks each (meaning it can take as much as 16,000 health off the board with one ability), but importantly, provided the Pirate Lord can see camo either through Crow's Nest or through aid from other towers, it can target and take down DDTs. Removing up to six fast, extremely tough DDTs from a field can easily be the difference between a win or loss. Add in that it is overall cheaper than its counterpart Carrier Flagship, and the Pirate Lord has a lot of things to offer it.
The downside, of course, is that Pirate Lord is much more dependent on positioning to be effective compared to Carrier Flagship. While both need to be placed on water, Aircraft Carrier and Carrier Flagship can still be highly effective even if that water is far from the track. Monkey Pirates and Pirate Lord can still make use of MOAB Takedown from anywhere on the map, but if they can't belly up to the firing line so that they can have good windows to get their guns on massed groups of Bloons, their damage potential drops off rapidly in comparison. Pirate Lord is also a selfish tower by comparison, offering none of the buffs to other towers that Carrier Flagship does. Both are excellent towers, but for different situations.
Update history
For a complete list of Monkey Buccaneer changes, see Update history:Monkey Buccaneer (BTD6).
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Bomb attack: explosion damage increased ― 1 → 2
- Bomb attack: Now fires three bombs at a time
- 2-5-0
- Grape Shot: Now fires 10 grapes at a time instead of 5 (11 instead of 6 with
Big Bunch)
- 0-5-2
Bomb attack: No longer hits Camo Bloons without external Camo detection (bug)
- 0-5-2
- Bomb attack: Can hit Camo Bloons again (bug fix)
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[...] we’ve piled on a bunch of bonus power to T5 Grape Shot to give it a boost against super ceramics.
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— Update notes
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- Grape Shot: Damage increased ― 1 → 5
- Grape Shot: Ceramic bonus added ― +0 → +5
Resolved a bug where the MOAB Takedown ability would pick the wrong targets (bug fix)
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Bottom crosspath feels behind compared to others here, so in addition to the new Camo Prioritization filter Longer Range on this path will now also grant bonus pierce.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- 0-5-1, 0-5-2
- Long Range now increases the pierce of Grape Shot by 1
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Monkey Pirates is great for the first couple MOABs but with the long ability cooldown it very quickly falls off after that point, we have pushed it and Pirate Lord’s base stats up to feel more competitive especially with possible Brickell synergy.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Overall cost increased by $400 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Grape: base damage increased ― 5 → 10
- Grape: Ceramic bonus increased ― +5 → +10
- Grape: Burn damage increased ― 1 → 9
- Cannonball — explosion: Base damage increased ― 2 → 5
- Cannonball — explosion: Now deals +10 damage to MOAB-Class
- Cannonball — fragment: Damage increased ― 1 → 10
- Cannonball — fragment: Now deals +5 damage to MOAB-Class
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Recent changes were very popular for Pirate Lord, so now it no longer feels like it needs to be such a cheap T5. While this isn’t enough of a change to curb its newfound power too much the price will be increasing.
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $21,000 → $26,000
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We’ve realized that the 130 crosspath just hasn’t even been working for cannons, so we wanted to correct this so that people get all that they pay for with that crosspath, however middle path buccaneer at higher tiers has been overperforming significantly so in addition to this attack speed buff we have also balanced back out that difference in the opposite direction with a damage reduction.
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— Update notes
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- Bomb attack: Damage decreased ― 5 → 3
- Bomb attack: Damage to MOAB-class reduced ― +10 → +6
- Bomb attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.3s → 0.65s (attack speed increased by 100%)
- Frag: Damage reduced ― +10 → +6
- Frag: Damage to MOAB-class reduced ― +5 → +4
- 1-5-0, 2-5-0
- Faster Shooting now reduces attack cooldown of the bomb attack by 25%
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Reworking Grape Shot crosspathing as it gains far too much crosspath value by T2 but then is lacking in purpose at higher tiers, double shot will only work as one extra grape however Destroyer will now apply its full attack rate buff to the grapes and Flagship will equip aspects of Grape Shot on the mini planes.
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- 2-5-0
- Grape Shot: projectiles reduced ― 10 → 6
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Small tweaks to Buccaneer’s Long Range upgrade to improve its additional pierce benefit for a number of attacks.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- 0-5-1, 0-5-2
- Cannonball: Pierce increased ― 28 → 35
- Frag: Pierce increased ― 1 → 2
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As noted earlier, Middle Path was identified as not having weakness to justify the power and is seeing changes related to that.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Grape attack: Damage reduced ― 10 → 8
- Grape attack: Bonus damage to Ceramic reduced ― +10 → +8
- Bomb explosion: Bonus damage to MOAB-class reduced ― +6 → +5
- MOAB Takedown: No longer detects Camo without Crow's Nest or external Camo detection
- Note: Required to hook in DDTs
- Frag: No longer hits the same Bloon as the initial bomb
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Middle path buccaneer continues to attack with its initial 1 damage projectile that never gets upgraded but the Cannons are very much intended to be a ‘replacement’ upgrade to this main attack, so we are finally disabling that dart along with improving the damage of grapes for the T3 & T4 on this path so the lower tiers can save into Pirate Lord better.
— Update notes
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- Main dart attack disabled
- Overall cost reduced by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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Middle Buccaneer has had mixed feedback with much disappointment that the focus of its balance changes haven’t been improvements for the ability, given this path has again lost considerable power we want to look more on both of those aspects this time.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Ability: now shoots 6 hooks at a time instead of 3
- Ability: number of hooks required for ZOMG increased ― 2 → 3
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MOAB damage stat buff for middle path's canons as a low portion of the total damage is dealt by these since the frags fix.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Cannon: explosion damage to MOAB-class increased ― +5 → +10
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We’re currently happy with Pirate Lord, but Monkey Pirates has been hit hard by changes so cost is being pushed out of it to encourage multi mid path building.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $26,000 → $27,000
- Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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Small nerf to Pirate Lord, as we do want it to be a strong T5 but it’s overperforming currently.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Cannon explosion: bonus MOAB-class damage decreased ― +10 → +8
- Fragment: bonus MOAB-class damage decreased ― +4 → +3
- Ability: can no longer target Dreadrock Bloons (bug fix)
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Pirate Lord is seeing a stat reduction as it deals area damage too effectively to many targets.
— Update notes
— Update notes
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- Grape attack: Bonus damage to Ceramics reduced ― +8 → +4
- Grape and bomb attacks: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.65s → 0.845s (attack speed reduced by 23.08%)
- Note: Stacks with 1-5-0 crosspath ― 0.4875s → 0.6338s
Gallery
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In other languages
| Language | Name / Description | Notes | |
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| Arabic | سيد القراصنة تم زيادة القوة بشكل كبير ويمكنها إطلاق الكثير من الخطافات الكُلاّبية في آن واحد، مما يؤدي إلى نهب الأموال الإضافية من كل بالون من فئة MOAB يتم إزالته. |
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| Danish | Pirathersker Kraftigt øget angrebshastighed for alle angreb og kan affyre mange entrehager på én gang og plyndre ekstra penge fra hver MOAB-klasse-bloon, der bringes ned med dem. |
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| German | Piratenfürst Stark erhöhte Angriffsgeschwindigkeit für alle Angriffsarten und kann viele Enterhaken gleichzeitig verschießen und Extrageld von jedem Bloon der MOAB-Klasse plündern, den er damit heruntergeholt hat. |
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| Spanish | Señor de los piratas Aumenta mucho la potencia y puede disparar muchos ganchos a la vez y saquear más dinero de cada bloon clase MOAB que derriba. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Señor de los piratas Aumenta mucho la potencia y puede disparar muchos ganchos a la vez y saquear más dinero de cada bloon clase MOAB que derriba. |
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| Finnish | Piraattiherra Huomattavasti tehokkaampi ja voi ampua monta heittokoukkua kerralla ryöstäen lisävaroja kultakin alas kiskotulta MOAB-luokan bloonilta. |
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| French | Seigneur des pirates Puissance considérablement augmentée et peut tirer de nombreux grappins à la fois, recevant de l'argent supplémentaire de chaque Bloon de classe MOAB abattu. |
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| Italian | Signore dei pirati Potenza considerevolmente maggiore, è in grado di lanciare tanti rampini alla volta e di ricavare contante extra da ogni bloon di classe MOAB abbattuto. |
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| Japanese | 海賊の王 パワーが大幅に改善して一度にたくさんの四爪錨を撃ち、MOAB級ブルーンを倒すと、それぞれから追加のキャッシュを略奪する。 |
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| Korean | 해적왕 모든 공격의 공격 속도가 상당히 증가하며, 한꺼번에 여러 개의 갈고리닻을 발사하고, 격추시킨 MOAB급 풍선에게서 각각 추가 캐시를 갈취할 수 있습니다. |
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| Dutch | Piratenleider Sterk verbeterde kracht en kan veel enterhaken tegelijk afschieten, waardoor extra geld wordt geplunderd van elke neergehaalde MOAB-klasse Bloon. |
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| Norwegian | Piratherre Betydelig økt kraft og kan skyte ut mange entrehaker samtidig. Plyndrer ekstra penger fra hver bloons av MOAB-klasse som tas knekken på. |
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| Polish | Lord piratów Znacznie zwiększa siłę wszystkich ataków i może strzelać wieloma hakami naraz, plądrując dodatkową gotówkę za każdego zdjętego blona klasy MOAB. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Lorde Pirata Aumenta muito o poder e pode atirar muitos ganchos de uma vez, saqueando dinheiro extra de cada Bloon Classe MOAB eliminado. |
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| Russian | Главарь пиратов Атакует намного быстрее и может выпускать помногу крюков за раз, отбирая больше денег у всех сбитых шаров класса MOAB. |
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| Swedish | Piratherre Betydligt förbättrad kraft och kan skjuta många änterhakar samtidigt vilket plundrar extra pengar från varje Bloon i MOAB-klassen som skjuts ner. |
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| Thai | เจ้าแห่งโจรสลัด เพิ่มพลังอย่างมาก และสามารถยิงตะขอเกี่ยวจำนวนมากออกมาในคราวเดียว ปล้นเงินเพิ่มเติมจากบลูนคลาส MOAB แต่ละตัวที่ถูกทำลาย |
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| Turkish | Korsan Lordu Son derece yüksek saldırı hızına sahiptir ve tek seferde birçok yakalayıcı kanca fırlatabilir, indirilen her bir MOAB Sınıfı Bloon’dan ekstra nakit yağar. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 海盗之王 大大提高了所有攻击的攻击速度，可一次发射多个爪钩，每次击落MOAB级气球可获得额外的现金。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 海盜王 大幅強化威力，一次可射出多個抓鉤，使用它們每擊落一個MOAB級氣球，便可掉落額外現金。 |
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