Master Bomber (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Master Bomber (Battles 2).

Master Bomber

One Monkey MOAB demolition machine.

Tower	Ninja Monkey — Path 3 — Tier 5
XP cost	37,500
Cash cost	$34,000 — Easy $40,000 — Medium $43,200 — Hard $48,000 — Impoppable

← Sticky Bomb

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Master Bomber is the Ninja Monkey's path 3 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. This upgrade enhances its sticky bombs and flash bombs to stun MOAB-class Bloons (except BADs and Boss Bloons) and do more damage to all Bloons, and sticky bombs are thrown 2× as often with infinite range. Sticky bombs now stun the target for 1 second when attached, and their detonation damage is increased to 3000 to the target and 600 to other nearby Bloons. Flash bombs deal 10 damage and can stun MOAB-class for 0.325 seconds. Additionally, each shuriken deals +19 damage to stunned Bloons as well as +19 damage to Bloons with any tier of sticky bomb attached, and caltrop damage increases to 5 and deals +5 Ceramic damage.

Mechanics

The Master Bomber throws a black sticky bomb that is distinct from the T4 Ninja's, and different types of this mutator are allowed to stack. The sticky bomb attack has a 50% reduced attack cooldown (every 2.25 seconds), gains infinite range, and has its main target damage increased from 450 to 3000 and explosion damage to other targets increased from 100 to 600. Additionally, when attached onto a MOAB-Class Bloon it stuns the target for 1 second, unless it's a BAD or Boss Bloon. Like the T4's sticky bomb, the Master Bomber's sticky bomb lasts up to 3 seconds and takes 2.95 seconds before triggering the explosion effects.

This upgrade increases its bonus Stunned damage on shuriken from +4 to +19, and grants +19 instead of +4 bonus damage to Bloons that have a sticky bomb of any tier attached.

Additionally, its flash bombs stun MOAB-Class Bloons except for BADs and Boss Bloons for 0.325 seconds, and their damage is increased from 3 to 10.

This upgrade increases its caltrop damage from 1 to 5, with +5 Ceramic damage.

Stats

For a complete list of Ninja Monkey stats, see Stats:Ninja Monkey (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 47 units Footprint radius 6 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong Camo Prioritization

Attack
Cooldown 0.62s Offset (X, Y, Z) -1.99, 18.5, 7 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 47 units
Flash Bomb Pierce 1 Max pierce 1 Speed 300 units/s Lifespan 0.57s Radius 5 units Explosion Pierce 30 Damage 10 Damage type Normal Lifespan 0.1s Radius 40 units Ignores blockers Stun Multiplier ×0 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×0 Duration 1.3s Duration for MOAB-Class 0.325s Layers 1 Projectile Pierce 4 Damage 1 Damage to stunned +19 Damage to stickied +19 Damage type Sharp Speed 300 units/s Seeking distance ∞ units Seeking angle 144° Seeking rotation speed ∞ °/s Seeking time 3.48s Lifespan 0.62s Radius 3 units

Caltrops
Cooldown 3.9s Offset (X, Y, Z) -1.99, 18.5, 7 Targeting Normal (track) Targeting range 47 units
Projectile Pierce 6 Damage 5 Damage to Ceramic +5 Damage type Sharp Lifespan 35s Radius 4 units Rehit interval 0.001s Ignores blockers

Sticky Bomb
Cooldown 2.25s Offset (X, Y, Z) -1.99, 18.5, 7 Targeting First / Last / Close / Strong Targeting range ∞ units Filters Can only target MOAB-Class Cannot target Bloons with Master Sticky
Projectile Pierce 1 Max pierce 1 Speed 300 units/s Lifespan 1s Radius 0 units Filters Can only hit MOAB-Class Can only hit the target Cannot hit Bloons with Master Sticky Ignores blockers Damage to target Damage 3,000 Damage type Normal Duration 3s Interval 2.95s Layers 1 Stun Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Layers 1 Delay Duration 3s Interval 2.95s Layers 1 Explosion Pierce 10 Damage 600 Damage type Normal Lifespan 0.05s Radius 40 units Ignores blockers

1-0-5

Attack
Cooldown 0.62s → 0.434s

Caltrops
Cooldown 3.9s → 2.73s

Sticky Bomb
Cooldown 2.25s → 1.575s

2-0-5

Attack
Projectile Pierce 4 → 6

0-1-5

Attack
Explosion Blowback Chance 30% Min distance 100 units Max distance 150 units Projectile Blowback Chance 15% Min distance 100 units Max distance 150 units

Caltrops
Projectile Blowback Chance 10% Min distance 100 units Max distance 150 units

Sticky Bomb
Explosion Blowback Chance 15% Min distance 100 units Max distance 150 units

0-2-5

Attack
Explosion Damage to Camo +4 Removes Camo Projectile Damage to Camo +2 Removes Camo

Caltrops
Projectile Damage to Camo +2 Removes Camo

Sticky Bomb
Projectile Removes Camo

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
0-0-5	$41,140	$48,400	$52,270	$58,080	$28,798	$33,880	$36,589	$40,656
1-0-5	$41,440	$48,750	$52,650	$58,500	$29,008	$34,125	$36,855	$40,950
2-0-5	$41,740	$49,100	$53,030	$58,920	$29,218	$34,370	$37,121	$41,244
0-1-5	$41,350	$48,650	$52,540	$58,380	$28,945	$34,055	$36,778	$40,866
0-2-5	$41,690	$49,050	$52,970	$58,860	$29,183	$34,335	$37,079	$41,202

Strategy

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This section was last updated for: version 55.2

When given lots of surrounding Shinobi Tactics, Master Bomber can deal plenty of damage to large groups of MOAB-class bloons while providing decent single-target damage and stun support. It's recommended to have decent coverage of its main range to take advantage of its flash bombs and improved shuriken.

Master Bomber is a good choice for consistent Boss damage (except against Blastapopoulos) without need for additional synergies. It is particularly efficient against Diamondback, because even without attack speed buffs its sticky bomb cooldown is shorter than the detonation delay, and Diamondback's segments uniquely allow the Master Bomber to attach multiple sticky bombs simultaneously to the Boss.

Path 1 crosspaths are preferred for a consistent DPS boost, and for handling groups 2-0-5 is worth it due to the much higher shuriken damage to stunned and stickied Bloons. Path 2 crosspaths are no better than with Flash Bomb, which already has inferior pierce for the support provided.

Update history

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Version 2.0

• "Shuriken seeking targets too far away has been fixed" (bug fix)

Version 3.0

•  Sticky bomb: If applied to a glued target, no longer disappears when the glue expires (bug fix)

Version 7.0

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $60,000 → $40,000

Version 8.0

•  Flash bomb: Explosion damage increased ― 1 → 5
•  Flash bomb: Now stuns MOAB-Class for 0.25s
•  Sticky bomb: Now stuns MOAB-Class for 1s on impact
•  Sticky bomb: Detonation timer reduced ― 4s → 3s
•  Sticky bomb: Can no longer be removed by Glue Gunner glue (bug fix)

Version 10.0

• Caltrops no longer add to the damage count of other towers when the Ninja Monkey is sold (bug fix)

Version 11.0

•  "[S]hould no longer be able to occasionally shoot with an infinite range in specific setups" (bug fix)

Version 12.0

•  Caltrop attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 2.2s → 4.4s (attack speed reduced by 50%)
•  Caltrop attack: Pierce increased ― 3 → 6

Version 21.0

“

While Sticky Bomb still has issues we are investigating, this damage buff allows Sticky Bombs to destroy all regular MOABs from round 81 to 100 in a single bomb in standard games whether they are fortified or not. In addition since this damage runs off a timed function, somewhat similar to Alchemist’s Unstable Concoction, we felt that adding a range increase to the Sticky attack similar to Concoction should give a better chance to actually explode before the target MOAB is destroyed by other towers.
— Update notes

”

•  Sticky Bomb attack: Range increased ― 40 units → 60 units
  •  With 1-X-X crosspath: 47 units → 70.5 units

Version 24.0

“

please tell us if not because we’ve spent so much time on this, but hopefully we won’t hear from anyone on this!
— Update notes

”

•  Sticky Bomb attack: Should work correctly now and not break with DoTs (bug fix)

Version 27.0

“

To try and allow more strategic use Ninja’s Sticky Bombs will now use the targeting of the main tower instead of always Strong. Additionally as they weren’t feeling good enough in general Sticky Bombs will now deal a smaller amount of damage in an AoE to anything surrounding the main target.
— Update notes

”

•  Sticky Bomb: Now follows the tower's current targeting instead of always targeting Strong
•  Sticky Bomb: Now generates an additional AoE on explosion that deals 300 damage

Version 28.0

“

As ninja is the ‘Camo Specialist’ and has been since inception, it is the only tower that will unlock Camo Prioritization on the base tower. Master Bomber’s main flash bomb has also been buffed in damage slightly leading into the new Ninja Paragon.
— Update notes

”

•  Flash Bomb attack: Damage increased ― 5 → 10
•  Camo Prioritization filter added

Version 29.0

0-1-5, 0-2-5

•  Caltrop attack: Gains 15% distraction chance (bug fix)
•  Flash bomb attack: Gains 15% distraction chance (bug fix)

Version 31.0

•  Resolved an issue with Master Bomber Stickies sometimes hitting regular Bloons instead of MOAB-class (bug fix)

Version 36.0

“

Ironing out Caltrop inconsistency & power a little on top and bottom T5s, but also as frequently unused caltrops clutter up the screen and cause extra lag we want to balance out their lifespan to reduce the number always on screen and make them no longer last longer than the base Spike Factory.
— Update notes

”

•  Caltrop: Damage increased ― 1 → 5
•  Caltrop: Now deals +5 damage to Ceramic
•  Caltrop: Lifespan reduced ― 70s → 35s

Version 38.0

“

We’re mindful that this has been in place since launch, but still think this change could lead to more balanced crosspath Ninja play for casual and for apex players. Ninja's 1xx feels like it does too much, granting both range and attack speed to all crosspaths, so these benefits are now being split apart. As Sticky feels like it’s doing a fair lot of work these days we’re somewhat reworking this path into a range path but taking away the free ‘bonus range’ that Sticky used to gain independent of the tower radius.
— Update notes

”

•  Range increased ― 40 units → 55 units
  • Ninja Discipline crosspath no longer increases range, but overall range is still larger ― 47 units → 55 units

Version 38.1

•  Multiple Sticky Bombs should no longer be able to stack the single target damage of their explosions when clustered together (bug fix)

Version 39.0

“

Flash Bomb’s long time between bombs, without improvements on the main attack leaves this as quite a bad stepping stone, for now due to this long downtime we want to try increasing the stun duration. The recent bug fix for xx4 Sticky Stacking ended up hurting Master Bomber’s viability as it was relying on that bug to have any real single target impact, now that it can be balanced with intended functionality we’re trying out much higher damage per explosion with slower attacks for single target performance as it has Shinobi synergy to bring this rate back up.
— Update notes

”

•  Flash Bomb: Stun duration increased ― 1s → 1.3s
•  Sticky Bomb: Attack cooldown increased ― 2s → 5s (attack speed reduced by 60%)
•  Sticky Bomb – Impact: Damage increased ― 1000 → 3000
•  Sticky Bomb – AoE: Damage increased ― 300 → 600

Version 40.0

“

For an early game Distraction improvement the consistency of blowbacks is being averaged out more with increased minimum distance but reduced maximum, in many cases there would not actually be 250 units of track length in front of defenses to be blown back across anyway so the overall average distance is slightly lower. More at the mid to endgame we are also weakening distraction distance against Ceramics specifically as by this point Ninja have stacked so much speed and projectiles the consistency doesn’t matter anymore. Finally, distraction values for secondary projectiles are being modified, as Distraction chance as it has existed was never balanced around more than the main attack
— Update notes

”

0-1-5, 0-2-5

•  Caltrop attack: Blowback distance changed ― 10–250 units → 100–150 units
•  Caltrop attack: Blowback distance is now reduced by 50% for Ceramics (50–75 units)
•  Caltrop attack: Blowback chance reduced ― 15% → 10%
•  Flash bomb attack: Blowback distance changed ― 10–250 units → 100–150 units
•  Flash bomb attack: Blowback distance is now reduced by 50% for Ceramics (50–75 units)
•  Flash bomb attack: Blowback chance increased ― 15% → 30%

Version 41.0

“

Flash Bomb has pierce too excessive for Shinobi Tactics to do anything for it [...] Master Bomber’s MOAB stun was not changed when Flashbomb stun duration was previously increased, so it is now increasing to match
— Update notes

”

•  Flash bomb: Stun duration for MOAB-class increased ― 0.25s → 0.325s
•  Flash bomb: Pierce reduced ― 60 → 30

Version 42.0

“

Bottom path Ninja never does anything with the main shuriken projectile past the xx1 upgrade leaving it inconsequential on higher tiers. Given that Flash Bombs can feel lacking without heavy support, we’re trying out a change that makes Flash Bomb Ninja scale better with attack speed and pierce as something of a combo-attacker. Overall, this feels pretty ‘right’ for ninjas and more importantly it’s cool and sometimes that’s what matters most.
— Update notes

”

•  Flash bomb: No longer fails to stun targets if given external damage buffs (bug fix)
•  Shuriken: Now deals +9 damage to stunned Bloons
•  Shuriken: Now deals +9 damage to stickied Bloons

Version 43.0

“

While a great early game option, Ninja generally struggles with dominant crosspathing choices and also has relatively poor base tower value. Without going into every single change, T3s onward remain relatively unchanged with a lot of prices below T3 being moved around from less favorable crosspaths into better/higher tier upgrades.
— Update notes

”

•  Caltrop attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 4.4s → 3.9s (attack speed increased by 12.82%)
•  Main attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.7s → 0.62s (attack speed increased by 12.9%)
  • Note: Attack cooldown with Ninja Discipline is unchanged
•  Sticky Bomb attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 5s → 4.5s (attack speed increased by 11.11%)

1-0-5, 2-0-5

•  Caltrop attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 2.728s → 2.73s (attack speed reduced by 0.07%)
•  Sticky Bomb attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 3.1s → 3.15s (attack speed reduced by 1.59%)

Version 45.0

“

To allow Shinobi combos to scale more effectively with the Flash Bomb, the combo-attack pattern is being improved with more base Shuriken pierce & slightly larger bonuses to Stunned & Stickied targets – however the increased range at T4 is being removed.
— Update notes

”

•  Shuriken: Damage to stunned targets increased ― +9 → +19
•  Shuriken: damage to stickied targets increased ― +9 → +19
•  Shuriken: Pierce increased ― 2 → 4
  • Note: 203+ shuriken pierce increased from 4 to 6
•  No longer has +8 increased range ― 55 → 47

Version 47.0

“

Master Bomber is janky to build for given the high cost and the fuse time limits how much single target damage it can do as well, so we’ve given a massive rate boost to the sticky attack.
— Update notes

”

•  Sticky Bomb: Attack cooldown reduced ― 4.5s → 2.25s (attack speed increased by 100%)

1-0-5, 2-0-5

•  Sticky Bomb: Attack cooldown reduced ― 3.15s → 1.575s (attack speed increased by 100%)

0-2-5

•  Counter-Espionage now grants Caltrops +2 damage to Camo Bloons (undocumented)
•  Counter-Espionage now grants Flash Bomb +4 damage to Camo Bloons (undocumented)

Version 51.0

“

A few attacks had been missed on the Ninja’s last distraction change and have now had their distraction distance properly standardized.
— Update notes

”

0-1-5, 0-2-5

•  Sticky Bomb explosion: Blowback distance changed ― 10−300 units → 100−150 units
  • Note: All other attacks were already 100−150 units

Gallery

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Screenshots

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  Master Bomber for all upgrades except Sharp Shurikens
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  Master Bomber with 205 crosspath
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  Master Bomber sticky bomb attached on a Test MOAB

Assets

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  Portrait
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  Upgrade icon
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  Insta Monkey icon

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	سيد قاذفي القنابل آلة إزالة منطاد "موآب" بقرد واحد.	—
Danish	Mesterbombemand En abekattens MOAB-ødelæggelsesmaskine.	—
German	Meisterbomber Eine Affen-MOAB-Vernichtungsmaschine.	—
Spanish	Maestro bombardero Un mono que es una máquina de demolición de MOAB.	—
Spanish (LA)	Maestro bombardero Un mono que es una máquina de demolición de MOAB.	—
Finnish	Mestaripommittaja Yhden apinan MOAB-tuhokone.	—
French	Poseur de bombes expert Une véritable machine simiesque de démolition MOAB.	—
Italian	Bombardiere esperto Una scimmia capace da sola di demolire i bloon classe MOAB.	—
Japanese	爆破エキスパート モンキーMOAB破壊マシン。	—
Korean	폭격기 대가 MOAB 파괴 전담 원숭이입니다.	—
Dutch	Meester-bommenwerper Deze aap is een ware MOAB-sloopmachine.	—
Norwegian	Mesterbomber En-apes MOAB-ruineringsmaskin.	—
Polish	Mistrz bomby Maszyna niszcząca MOAB-y na jedną małpkę.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Bombardeiro Mestre Um Macaco máquina de destruição MOAB.	—
Russian	Мастер-бомбометатель Обезьяна-убийца MOAB.	—
Swedish	Mästarbombare En ap-MOAB-förstörelsemaskin.	—
Thai	มือระเบิดชั้นเซียน สุดยอดลิงผู้เป็นดั่งจักรกลทำลาย MOAB โดยเฉพาะ	—
Turkish	Usta Bombacı Bir MOAB imha makinesi Maymun.	—
Chinese (simplified)	主轰炸机 一台猴子MOAB拆卸机。	—
Chinese (traditional)	轟炸大師 猴子MOAB爆破機。	—
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