Super Brittle (BTD6)

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Super Brittle
Portrait of Super Brittle
Icon of Super BrittleBloons take huge damage while frozen including MOAB-Class Bloons.
Tower Ice Monkey — Path 1 — Tier 5
XP cost 25,000
Cash cost $23,800 — Easy
$28,000 — Medium
$30,240 — Hard
$33,600 — Impoppable

Super Brittle is the Ice Monkey's path 1 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It behaves very similarly to its preceding tier, Embrittlement, but with more power:

  • (unchanged) Permanently removes camo and regrow properties (with the exception of DDTs spawning regrow, but not camo, ceramics)
  • Temporarily (for 3 seconds instead of 2, reapplied on each attack) makes affected bloons take damage from attacks that would not deal damage to lead or frozen (can be interpreted as making affected bloons temporarily lose lead and frozen properties). This also implies that now embrittlement can pop its own ice shards without Re-Freeze. This effect does not work on other immunities like black and white bloons (most importantly, does not make DDTs vulnerable to explosion damage).
  • Temporarily makes affected bloons take +4 damage from all sources (for 3 seconds as well). This can stack with the +1 debuff from embrittlment.
  • (new) It partially applies permafrost effect to MOAB class bloons, slowing them by 25% permanently.

On top of that, it also gains 33% attack speed, spawns 6 shards instead of 3, each dealing 5 damage instead of 2, and all effects soak through 6 layers (7 with Deep Freeze) (+3 increase from Embrittlement).

Its main attack can now deal damage to all types of bloons (including white and zebra bloons).

Stats

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Strategy

Super Brittle does everything Embrittlement does but better. Remarkably, the attack speed increase makes decamoing and debuffing more reliable, and the improved damage increase can dramatically increase the DPS of towers with projectiles that deal low damage. Towers such as Overdrive and Sun Avatar, which attack extremely fast and have projectiles that only deal 1 damage, benefit immensely from the +4 damage boost that Super Brittle gives. Other towers with very high fire rate and projectile count, such as The Tack Zone and Grandmaster Ninja which deal 2 damage per projectile, still benefit greatly from the extra damage boost.

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 $27,790 $32,700 $35,315 $39,240 $19,453 $22,890 $24,721 $27,468
5-1-0 $27,960 $32,900 $35,530 $39,480 $19,572 $23,030 $24,871 $27,636
5-2-0 $28,215 $33,200 $35,855 $39,840 $19,751 $23,240 $25,099 $27,888
5-0-1 $27,915 $32,850 $35,475 $39,420 $19,541 $22,995 $24,833 $27,594
5-0-2 $28,085 $33,050 $35,690 $39,660 $19,660 $23,135 $24,983 $27,762

Update history

For a complete list of Ice Monkey changes, see Update history:Ice Monkey (BTD6).
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  • Buff Ice shard: Pierce and max pierce increased ― 1 → 3
  • Buff Pierce increased ― 30 → 40
  • Buff Can now pop Lead Bloons when buffed by Acidic Mixture Dip (bug fix)
  • Buff Now has Camo detection
  • Buff Now removes Camo and Regrow properties from Bloons it freezes
  • Buff Range increased ― 20 → 25
  • Buff Overall cost reduced by $800 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
Small tweaks to the benefit of still under-utilized T5 Ice Monkey upgrades.
— Update notes
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $30,000 → $28,000
  • Buff Now applies the Permafrost effect to White and Zebra Bloons (bug)
    • Note: Unconfirmed
  • Buff Now applies the Razor Shards effect to White and Zebra Bloons (bug)
    • Note: Unconfirmed
  • Nerf Ice Shards requires Re-Freeze to be able to damage Frozen Bloons, even under the influence of a X-3-X MIB Village (bug)
    • Note: Unconfirmed
  • Nerf No longer allows frozen Bloons to take damage from Sharp attacks (bug)
  • Nerf No longer debuffs MOAB-Class Bloons (bug)
  • Nerf Overall cost increased by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
5-0-1, 5-0-2
  • Buff Larger Radius no longer prevents the Ice Monkey from stacking its debuffs (bug fix)
  • Buff Debuff: Duration corrected ― 2s → 3s (bug fix)
  • Nerf Should no longer slow & remove camo from White Bloons without being able to damage them (bug fix)
  • Buff Permafrost: slowdown to MOABs increased ― 25% → 50% (bug)
  • Nerf Overall cost increased by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
  • Nerf Permafrost: Now slows MOAB-class by the correct amount ― 50% → 25% (bug fix)
Ice Monkey base pierce is too high, very easily countering large numbers of strong Bloons early, mid or late in the game for small investment, leading to very low tiers of ice monkey (below t3) being highly effective spam options over upgrading your ice. We are reworking some of this base pierce to require crosspath investment and buffing the damage Ice 3xx Ice Shards to compensate for some of its reduced pierce.
— Update notes
  • Buff Shard: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
  • Nerf Pierce reduced ― 40 → 30 (extra pierce moved to Deep Freeze crosspath)
We’re happier with more recent freeze changes succeeding in some of the intentions of older nerfs, given the base tower value in races being hit far more than intended we’re going back over the pierce for Ice Monkey base & middle crosspath.
— Update notes
  • Buff Pierce increased ― 30 → 40
We want to try out allowing the Ice Shards sub-projectile to benefit from all sources of damage buff, as currently this path gets nice support use sometimes but can’t do much on its own in the base game - along with this the T5 Ice Shards are also generally being improved.
— Update notes
  • Buff Ice shard: damage increased ― 2 → 5
  • Buff Number of ice shards increased ― 3 → 6
  • Buff Ice shard: damage is no longer capped (allowing for buffs)
Embrittlement is cheap and balanced by its limited range and rate making it difficult to apply to very many targets with reliable frequency, however Super Brittle is far more expensive but still faces these same struggles. Feels fair for the cost to increase its attack rate further.
— Update notes
  • Buff Attack cooldown reduced ― 2.16s → 1.8s
  • Buff Can now be placed on water
Super Brittle’s never stood out on its own which was fine for a tower whose job was making other things better, but recently after the addition of Silas we've started to feel its value is really too niche even for a support piece, so we’re cranking the numbers so it can actually break a few things itself.
— Update notes
  • Buff Main attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.8s → 1.2s (attack speed increased by 50%)
  • Buff Main attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 5
  • Buff Main attack: Now deals +5 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons
  • Buff Ice shards: Damage increased ― 5 → 10
  • Description changed ― "Bloons take huge damage while frozen including MOAB-Class Bloons." → "Bloons take huge damage while frozen, while Ice Shards rip through Ceramic Bloons like paper!"
5-1-0, 5-2-0
  • Buff Main attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.35s → 0.9s (attack speed increased by 50%)
  • Buff Debuff no longer prevents other Ice Monkeys from damaging Bloons (bug fix)
Ice Monkey T5’s are very strong right now, Embrittlement in particular stands out as a problem with its high damage so this is being reduced, however the range of its shards is being increased to retain the higher cool factor of buying this upgrade. [...] Embrittlement debuffs will no longer be stackable - only the highest tier Embrittlement debuff will take priority
— Update notes
  • Nerf Embrittlement debuff: Different tiers no longer stack with each other
    • Note: Super Brittle overrides Embrittlement and both are removed by the Paragon
  • Nerf Embrittlement debuff: No longer works on BADs (bug)
    • Note: Paragon works normally
  • Buff Can now target and hit frozen Bloons without removing their frozen immunities first (undocumented)
  • Nerf Ice Shard: Damage reduced ― 10 → 5
  • Buff Ice Shard: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.08s → 0.16s
    • Note: Changes to projectile speed unchanged (250 units/s) which makes the projectile cover more distance (20 to 40 units)
  • Buff Embrittlement debuff: Solved an issue where it would not affect BADs and Bosses (bug fix)
For more Ice Monkey images, see Gallery:Ice Monkey.

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Artwork and icons

In other languages

Language Name / Description Notes
Arabic سوبر بريتل
تتعرض البالونات لأضرار جسيمة أثناء تجميدها بما في ذلك البالونات من فئة منطاد "موآب".
Danish Super Skrøbelig
Bloons - også MOAB-klasse-bloons - tager enormt mere skade, når de er frosne.
German Superbröckeln
Bloons (inklusive Bloons der MOAB-Klasse) erleiden großen Schaden, während sie gefroren sind.
Spanish Superquebradizo
Los bloons reciben un daño enorme mientras están congelados, incluidos los clase MOAB.
Spanish (LA) Superquebradizo
Los bloons reciben un daño enorme mientras están congelados, incluidos los clase MOAB.
Finnish Superhaurastus
Jäädytetyt bloonit kärsivät valtavia vahinkoja, mukaan lukien MOAB-luokan bloonit.
French Méga effritement
Les Bloons, y compris les Bloons de classe MOAB, subissent des dégâts considérables lorsque gelés.
Italian Super fragile
Quando vengono congelati i bloon subiscono considerevoli danni, inclusi quelli classe MOAB.
Japanese 超脆化
MOAB級ブルーンを含めたブルーンが、凍結中に巨大ダメージを与える。
Korean 슈퍼 유리멘탈
MOAB급 풍선을 포함하여 얼린 풍선이 받는 피해가 어마어마하게 증가합니다.
Dutch Superbroos
Bloons lopen enorme schade op als ze bevroren zijn, ook MOAB-klasse Bloons.
Norwegian Superskjør
Bloons får store skader når de er frosne, inkludert bloons av MOAB-klasse.
Polish Super krucho
Blony otrzymują ogromne obrażenia, gdy są zamrożone, w tym blony klasy MOAB.
Portuguese (Brazil) Fragilização Superior
Bloons tomam imenso dano enquanto estiverem congelados, inclusive os Classe MOAB.
Russian Суперхрупкость
Замороженные шары, включая MOAB, получают огромный урон.
Swedish Superspröd
Bloons tar stor skada när de frusna, även MOAB-klass-Bloons.
Thai เปราะบางสุดขีด
ลูกโป่งได้รับดาเมจรุนแรงขณะถูกแช่แข็ง รวมถึงลูกโป่งคลาส MOAB ด้วย
Turkish Süper Kırılgan
MOAB Sınıfı Bloon’lar dahil donmuş Bloon’lar ağır hasar alır.
Chinese (simplified) 超级脆弱
包括MOAB级气球在内的气球在冻结时受到巨大伤害。
Chinese (traditional) 超級脆弱
氣球被凍結後會受到巨大傷害,對MOAB級氣球有效。
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