Apache Prime
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The Apache Prime leaves most Bloons wishing they'd never been inflated.
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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
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| Display range | 22 units |
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| Movement speed | 50 units/s |
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| Targeting options | - Follow Touch
- Lock in Place
- Patrol Points
- Pursuit
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| Attack |
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| Copies of this attack | 2 |
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| Cooldown | 0.4275s |
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| 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) |
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| Targeting range | 42 units |
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| Missile array |
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| Cooldown | 1s |
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| 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) |
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| Targeting | First |
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| Targeting range | 84 units |
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| Projectile |
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| Count | 4 |
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| Pierce | 1 |
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| Max pierce | 1 |
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| Speed | 135 units/s |
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| Seeking distance | 375 units |
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| Seeking angle | 90° |
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| Seeking rotation speed | 250 °/s |
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| Lifespan | 1.5481s |
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| Radius | 3 units |
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- Ignores blockers
- Can fire without a target
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5-1-0
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| Movement speed | 50 units/s → 80 units/s |
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5-2-0
5-0-1
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| Projectile |
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| Speed | 260 units/s → 416 units/s |
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5-0-2
Costs and sell values
| Tiers
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Total cost
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Sell value
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| Easy
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Medium
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Hard
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Impoppable
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Easy
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Medium
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Hard
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Impoppable
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| 5-0-0
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$58,860 |
$69,250 |
$74,795 |
$83,100 |
$41,202 |
$48,475 |
$52,357 |
$58,170
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| 5-1-0
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$59,115 |
$69,550 |
$75,120 |
$83,460 |
$41,381 |
$48,685 |
$52,584 |
$58,422
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| 5-2-0
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$59,625 |
$70,150 |
$75,770 |
$84,180 |
$41,738 |
$49,105 |
$53,039 |
$58,926
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| 5-0-1
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$59,070 |
$69,500 |
$75,065 |
$83,400 |
$41,349 |
$48,650 |
$52,546 |
$58,380
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| 5-0-2
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$59,365 |
$69,850 |
$75,445 |
$83,820 |
$41,556 |
$48,895 |
$52,812 |
$58,674
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Strategy
Although easy to use on straightfoward maps, Apache Prime has a steep saveup from Apache Dartship and a steeper saveup from Razor Rotors. It is prone to chasing DDTs even with Monkey Intelligence Bureau, and falls off even harder on maps with multiple entrances and exits. Apache Prime is outclassed by T5s with a more effective saveup (e.g. Carrier Flagship) or by a T5 of similar cost with cheaper synergies (e.g. Bloon Exclusion Zone with Alchemist buffs). However, Apache Prime does pair very well with Rosalia's discount buff to minimize the saveup struggle in CHIMPS.
5-0-2 is preferred for optimal DPS as opposed to 5-2-0, whose flight speed boost is insufficient for multi-lane maps and Camo detection that is better bought elsewhere (outside of Least Tiers in Contested Territory, Odysseys, etc).
Update history
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Overall cost reduced by $5,000 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)- Laser: Pierce greatly increased ― ??? → 23
- Plasma machine gun: Pierce greatly increased ― ??? → 11
- Machine gun: damage increased by 1
- Machine gun: pierce increased by 1
- Machine gun: Damage increased ― 3 → 5
- Missile attack: Explosion damage increased ― 11 → 16
- Machine gun: Fire rate increased by 25%
Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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)
- Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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Pursuit Razor Rotors has underperformed due to distancing itself far too much, so we increased the range of this attack slightly.
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- Razor Rotors: area increased ― 33 → 35
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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.
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- Movement speed reduced ― 56.25 → 50
- 5-1-0
- Movement speed decreased ― 83.75 → 80
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Razor Rotors doesn’t synergize well with it’s own T2 and is kinda the dunce of T3 Helis
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- Razor Rotors blade: damage increased ― 1 → 2
- 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
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Heli’s Razor Rotors don’t scale with higher tiers so improvements have been made specifically to that attack for Dartship & Apache Prime.
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- Rotors: damage increased ― 2 → 8
- Rotors: pierce increased ― 10 → 40
- Heli 'patrol point' markers now visually update immediately after setting new points (bug fix)
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Even with the map-range advantage, rotors are weak compared to any other constant AoE circle like this.
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- Razor Rotors: attack cooldown reduced ― 0.75s → 0.5s
- 5-0-2
- Razor Rotors: now benefits from the faster firing crosspath ― 0.75s → 0.4s
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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.
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- Pursuit upgrades the Patrol Points flight pattern to a ‘Pursue Between Points’
- Razor Rotors rotors: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.5s → 0.45s
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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.
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- Missile: targeting range reduced ― 173 → 84
- Note: Reducing targeting range of missile will reduce opportunities to waste projectile lifespan on chasing Bloons.
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In other languages
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Name / Description
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| Arabic
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اباتشي برايم
يترك أباتشي برايم معظم بالونات وهي تتمنى ألم يتم نفخها أبدًا.
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| Danish
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Apache Prime
Apache Prime får de fleste bloons til at ønske, at de aldrig var blevet pustet op.
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| German
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Apache-Prime
Der Apache-Prime lässt sich die meisten Bloons wünschen, dass sie nie aufgeblasen worden wären.
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| Spanish
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Apache principal
El Apache principal hace que casi todos los bloons deseen que jamás los hubieran inflado.
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| Spanish (LA)
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Apache principal
El Apache principal hace que casi todos los bloons deseen que jamás los hubieran inflado.
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| Finnish
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Apache Prime
Apache Prime saa useimmat bloonit toivomaan, ettei niitä olisi koskaan täytetty.
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| French
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Chef apache
Le Chef apache fait regretter aux Bloons d'avoir jamais été gonflés.
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| Italian
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Apache Prime
Contro l'Apache Prime i bloon sono spacciati.
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| Japanese
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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。
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| Korean
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아파치 프라임
아파치 프라임은 대부분의 풍선이 태어난 걸 후회하게 만듭니다.
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| Dutch
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Apache-prime
De Apache-prime laat de meeste Bloons wensen dat ze nooit waren opgeblazen.
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| Norwegian
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Apache-prima
Apache-primaten gjør at bloons skulle ønske de aldri ble blåst opp.
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| Polish
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Najlepszy Apacz
Najlepszy Apacz sprawia, że większość blonów żałuje, że kiedykolwiek zostały napompowane.
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| Portuguese (Brazil)
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Apache Prime
O Apache Prime deixa a maioria dos Bloons desejando nunca terem sido cheios.
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| Russian
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Вождь апачей
Вождь апачей заставит большинство шаров пожалеть, что их когда-то надули.
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| Swedish
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Apache Prime
Apache Prime får de flesta Bloons att önska att de aldrig hade blivit uppblåsta.
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| Thai
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อาปาชี่ไพรม์
อาปาชี่ไพรม์ทำให้บลูนส่วนใหญ่ต้องเสียใจที่ถูกเติมลมให้เกิดมา
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| Turkish
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Apaçi Öncü Birliği
Apaçi Öncü Birliği birçok Bloon’u şiştiğine pişman eder.
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| Chinese (simplified)
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阿帕奇精英
阿帕奇精英会让气球后悔升空。
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| Chinese (traditional)
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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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| This list was last updated for: version 43.1
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Apache Prime using its attacks
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