Spike-o-pult iterations: BTD3 • BTD4 • BTD5 • Battles • BMC • BTD6 • Battles 2 • BCS
Spike-o-pult
Hurls a huge spiked ball that pops everything it touches. Can upgrade range, speed, and multi-shot
Cost $460 — Easy
$550 — Medium
$585 — Hard

The Spike-o-pult is a tower in Bloons Tower Defense 3 and its ports. It attacks by launching spiked balls that have 6 pierce. Its attack speed is slow and it cannot pop Lead Bloons or frozen bloons. Its upgrades increase its range, pierce, projectile lifespan, attack speed, and the number of projectiles fired at a time.

Upgrades

Path 1

Longer Range

Longer Range
  Increases maximum range of Spike-o-pult.
$215 — Easy
$255 — Medium
$270 — Hard

Longer Range increases the Spike-o-pult's range from 110 units to 130 units.

Juggernaut

Juggernaut
  Spike-o-pult balls roll much further.
$700 — Easy
$840 — Medium
$890 — Hard

Juggernaut increases the Spike-o-pult's pierce from 6 to 20. In the Flash version, it also doubles its projectile lifespan, allowing its projectiles to travel twice as far before disappearing. In the ports, the Spike-o-pult's projectiles already cover infinite distance.

Path 2

Faster Reload

Faster Reload
  Can shoot faster than normal.
$215 — Easy
$255 — Medium
$270 — Hard

Faster Reload reduces the Spike-o-pult's attack cooldown. In the Flash version, it reduces it from 63 frames to 55 frames, effectively increasing its attack speed by ~14.5%. In the ports, it reduces it from 1.33875 seconds to 1.13875 seconds, effectively increasing its attack speed by ~17.6%.

Multi Shot

Multi Shot
  Shoots three spikey balls at once!
$490 — Easy
$585 — Medium
$620 — Hard

Multi Shot causes the Spike-o-pult to fire three projectiles at a time instead of one, with no deviation.

Stats

Cooldown: 63 frames (1.575s)
Range: 110 units
Pierce: 6
Projectile speed: 10 units per frame
Projectile lifespan: 20 frames (0.5s)
Projectile size: 100%

Costs and sell values

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