Apache Prime (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Apache Prime (Battles 2).

Apache Prime

The Apache Prime leaves most Bloons wishing they'd never been inflated.

Tower	Heli Pilot — Path 1 — Tier 5
XP cost	55,000
Cash cost	$38,250 — Easy $45,000 — Medium $48,600 — Hard $54,000 — Impoppable

← Apache Dartship

Apache Prime is the Heli Pilot's path 1 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It significantly improves all of the attacks of the Apache Dartship, dealing significantly more damage and often more pierce. All of its darts are replaced by red and purple lasers.

• The quad darts are replaced with quad lasers. These lasers have increased damage from 1 to 6 and increased pierce from 3 to 23 compared to darts. They can damage Frozen Bloons but cannot damage Lead or Purple Bloons.
• The machine gun fires thin plasma lasers instead of darts. They increased damage from 1 to 5 and increased pierce from 7 to 11, and can damage all Bloon types except for Purple.
• Rockets deal +15 MOAB-Class damage.
• The razor rotor attack has its damage increased from 4 to 8 and its pierce from 20 to 40.

Stats

For a complete list of Heli Pilot stats, see Stats:Heli Pilot (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 22 units Footprint 27 × 27 units Movement speed 50 units/s Targeting options Follow Touch Lock in Place Patrol Points Pursuit

Attack
Copies of this attack 2 Cooldown 0.4275s Offset (X, Y, Z) 5.6, 20, 4 (primary 1) -5.6, 20, 4 (primary 2) 10, 12.82, 4 (secondary 1) -10, 12.82, 4 (secondary 2) Targeting range 42 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Projectile Count 2 Pierce 23 Damage 6 Damage type Energy Speed 260 units/s Lifespan 1s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Machine gun
Cooldown 0.05s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 20, 0.5 Targeting range 42 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Projectile Angle 8° Pierce 11 Damage 5 Damage type Plasma Speed 375 units/s Lifespan 0.224s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

Missile array
Cooldown 1s Offset (X, Y, Z) 14, 14, 4 (side 1) -14, 14, 4 (side 2) 5.6, 20, 4 (side 3) -5.6, 20, 4 (side 4) Targeting First Targeting range 84 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Projectile Count 4 Pierce 1 Max pierce 1 Speed 135 units/s Seeking distance 375 units Seeking angle 90° Seeking rotation speed 250 °/s Lifespan 1.5481s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Explosion Pierce 40 Damage 2 Damage to MOAB-Class +15 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.1s Radius 25 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Rotors
Cooldown 0.45s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting range ∞ units
Ignores blockers Can fire without a target
Projectile Pierce 40 Damage 8 Damage type Normal Lifespan 0.1s Radius 35 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

5-1-0

Tower
Movement speed 50 units/s → 80 units/s

5-2-0

Attack
Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Filters Can now hit Camo

Machine gun
Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Filters Can now hit Camo

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

Rotors
Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Filters Can now hit Camo

5-0-1

Attack
Targeting range 42 units → 54.6 units
Projectile Speed 260 units/s → 416 units/s

Machine gun
Targeting range 42 units → 54.6 units

5-0-2

Attack
Cooldown 0.4275s → 0.342s

Machine gun
Cooldown 0.05s → 0.04s

Missile array
Cooldown 1s → 0.8s

Rotors
Cooldown 0.45s → 0.36s

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	$58,865	$69,250	$74,790	$83,100	$41,206	$48,475	$52,353	$58,170
5-1-0	$59,120	$69,550	$75,115	$83,460	$41,384	$48,685	$52,581	$58,422
5-2-0	$59,630	$70,150	$75,765	$84,180	$41,741	$49,105	$53,036	$58,926
5-0-1	$59,075	$69,500	$75,060	$83,400	$41,353	$48,650	$52,542	$58,380
5-0-2	$59,375	$69,850	$75,440	$83,820	$41,563	$48,895	$52,808	$58,674

Update history

For a complete list of Heli Pilot changes, see Update history:Heli Pilot (BTD6).

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Version 4.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $5,000 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Main attacks: Pierce increased ― 3 → 23
•  Machine gun: Pierce increased ― 5 → 11

Version 6.0

•  Machine gun: Damage increased ― 2 → 3
•  Machine gun: Pierce increased ― 10 → 11

Version 8.0

•  Overall cost increased by $4,500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Machine gun: Damage increased ― 3 → 5
•  Missile attack: Explosion damage increased ― 11 → 16
•  Main attacks: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.57s → 0.4275s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)

Version 9.0

•  Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 11.0

•  Lock in Place and Patrol Points no longer immediately prompt to choose target positions and instead have default positions
•  After changing targeting off of Lock in Place or Patrol Points, changing back returns the target(s) to how it was previously
• "Heli Pilots should no longer cause save files to not load sometimes" (bug fix)

Version 17.0

•  Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 20.0

“

Pursuit Razor Rotors has underperformed due to distancing itself far too much, so we increased the range of this attack slightly.
— Update notes

”

•  Rotors: Radius increased ― 33 → 35

Version 21.0

“

Heli Pilot manages on pursuit far too easily without any need to consider Bigger Jets unless camo or downdraft is required. For more crosspath variety than just ‘camo’ we moved more of the base Heli speed out and back into Bigger Jets with an overall buff to Bigger Jets. This should allow Bigger Jets to scale a little better than other helis through early speed ramping.
— Update notes

”

•  Movement speed reduced ― 56.25 → 50

5-1-0, 5-2-0

•  Movement speed reduced ― 83.75 → 80

Version 24.0

“

Razor Rotors doesn’t synergize well with it’s own T2 and is kinda the dunce of T3 Helis
— Update notes

”

•  Rotors: Damage increased ― 1 → 2

Version 25.0

•  Machine Gun: Damage type changed ― Corrupted damage type functionally identical to Normal → Energy (undocumented) (bug fix)
  • Note: Dart Gun reported to still be Normal or corrupted damage type

Version 33.0

“

Heli’s Razor Rotors don’t scale with higher tiers so improvements have been made specifically to that attack for Dartship & Apache Prime.
— Update notes

”

•  Rotors: Damage increased ― 2 → 8
•  Rotors: Pierce increased ― 10 → 40

Version 35.0

•  Heli 'patrol point' markers now visually update immediately after setting new points (bug fix)

Version 37.0

“

Even with the map-range advantage, rotors are weak compared to any other constant AoE circle like this.
— Update notes

”

•  Rotors: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.75s → 0.5s (attack speed increased by 50%)

5-0-2

•  Faster Firing now applies to the rotors attack
  •  Stacks with changes to the rotors's non-crosspathed attack cooldown; overall attack cooldown of this crosspath reduced ― 0.75s → 0.4s

Version 41.0

“

Pursuit will now interact with Patrol Points in a limited ‘pursuit between points’, with this now you will be able to make your pursuit heli stay on one side on multi-path maps without getting stuck in the middle. Razor Rotors is fairly good now, but it could still justify a little more power given the weaknesses of the expensive upgrades that it builds into.
— Update notes

”

•  Rotors: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.5s → 0.45s (attack speed increased by 11.11%)
  • Stacks with X-X-2 Faster Firing crosspath ― 0.4s → 0.36s
•  Patrol Points with Pursuit now acts as a range in which the Heli Pilot can pursue inside, instead of causing the Heli Pilot to move between points constantly

Version 45.0

“

Among technical players we’ve received feedback that the massive range of the Heli’s missiles causes problems with controlling what heli’s choose to attack & when so we’ve reduced the range of these missiles to a more reasonable number, this is still double the range of the Heli so the missiles will continue to fire first before other attacks but not quite from so far away.
— Update notes

”

•  Missile: Targeting range reduced ― 173 → 84
  • Note: Reducing targeting range of missile will reduce opportunities to waste projectile lifespan on chasing Bloons.

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	اباتشي برايم يترك أباتشي برايم معظم بالونات وهي تتمنى ألم يتم نفخها أبدًا.	—
Danish	Apache Prime Apache Prime får de fleste bloons til at ønske, at de aldrig var blevet pustet op.	—
German	Apache-Prime Der Apache-Prime lässt sich die meisten Bloons wünschen, dass sie nie aufgeblasen worden wären.	—
Spanish	Apache principal El Apache principal hace que casi todos los bloons deseen que jamás los hubieran inflado.	—
Spanish (LA)	Apache principal El Apache principal hace que casi todos los bloons deseen que jamás los hubieran inflado.	—
Finnish	Apache Prime Apache Prime saa useimmat bloonit toivomaan, ettei niitä olisi koskaan täytetty.	—
French	Chef apache Le Chef apache fait regretter aux Bloons d'avoir jamais été gonflés.	—
Italian	Apache Prime Contro l'Apache Prime i bloon sono spacciati.	—
Japanese	アパッチプライム アパッチプライムは、ほとんどのブルーンに膨らんだことを後悔させる。	—
Korean	아파치 프라임 아파치 프라임은 대부분의 풍선이 태어난 걸 후회하게 만듭니다.	—
Dutch	Apache-prime De Apache-prime laat de meeste Bloons wensen dat ze nooit waren opgeblazen.	—
Norwegian	Apache-prima Apache-primaten gjør at bloons skulle ønske de aldri ble blåst opp.	—
Polish	Najlepszy Apacz Najlepszy Apacz sprawia, że większość blonów żałuje, że kiedykolwiek zostały napompowane.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Apache Prime O Apache Prime deixa a maioria dos Bloons desejando nunca terem sido cheios.	—
Russian	Вождь апачей Вождь апачей заставит большинство шаров пожалеть, что их когда-то надули.	—
Swedish	Apache Prime Apache Prime får de flesta Bloons att önska att de aldrig hade blivit uppblåsta.	—
Thai	อาปาชี่ไพรม์ อาปาชี่ไพรม์ทำให้บลูนส่วนใหญ่ต้องเสียใจที่ถูกเติมลมให้เกิดมา	—
Turkish	Apaçi Öncü Birliği Apaçi Öncü Birliği birçok Bloon’u şiştiğine pişman eder.	—
Chinese (simplified)	阿帕奇精英 阿帕奇精英会让气球后悔升空。	—
Chinese (traditional)	阿帕奇主戰機 阿帕奇主戰機讓大多數氣球都希望自己從來沒吹起來過。	—
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