Glue Strike (BTD6)

For other uses, see Glue Strike (disambiguation).

Glue Strike

Glue Strike Ability: Glues all Bloons on screen, causing them to take more damage from all sources while it lasts.

Tower	Glue Gunner — Path 2 — Tier 4
XP cost	8,500
Cash cost	$3,400 — Easy $4,000 — Medium $4,320 — Hard $4,800 — Impoppable

← Glue Hose

Glue Storm →

Glue Strike is the Glue Gunner's path 2 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It grants Glue Gunner the Glue Strike ability. When activated, this ability glues all Bloons (including MOAB-Class Bloons) on screen. This ability's glue effect applies a debuff, making affected Bloons take +2 damage from all damage sources, including damage-over-time effects. Lead and Frozen Bloons affected by this debuff may be popped by towers which normally cannot damage those Bloon types.

This ability has a 30 second cooldown and an initial cooldown of 10 seconds.

Special crosspath bonuses

• Glue Soak — debuff soaks through infinite non-blimp layers.

• Stickier Glue — glue from ability lasts for 24 seconds instead of 11.

Stats

For a complete list of Glue Gunner stats, see Stats:Glue Gunner (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 58 units Footprint radius 6 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 0.34s Offset (X, Y, Z) -1.1, 12.29, 8.82 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 58 units Filters Cannot target Camo Cannot target MOAB-Class Cannot target bosses Ignores Bloons with glue level: 1+
Projectile Pierce 4 Max pierce 1 Speed 300 units/s Lifespan 0.43s Radius 5 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Cannot hit MOAB-Class Cannot hit bosses Ignores Bloons with glue level: 1+ Glue Multiplier ×0.5 Duration 11s Duration for MOAB-Class 0s Layers 3 Glue level 1 Splat Pierce 4 Lifespan 0.1s Radius 13 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Cannot hit MOAB-Class Cannot hit bosses Ignores Bloons with glue level: 1+ Ignores blockers Glue Multiplier ×0.5 Duration 11s Duration for MOAB-Class 0s Layers 3 Glue level 1

Ability
Cooldown 40s Lifespan 0.05s
Attack Cooldown 2s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting range ∞ units Can fire without a target Projectile Pierce 9,999,999 Lifespan 0.05s Radius 999 units Ignores blockers Glue Multiplier ×0.5 Duration 11s Duration for MOAB-Class 0s Layers 5 Glue level 1 Bonus damage Duration 11s Layers 0 Remove immunities Duration 11s Layers 6

1-4-0

Attack
Projectile Glue Layers 3 → ∞ Splat Glue Layers 3 → ∞

Ability
Attack Targeting → First / Close / Last / Strong Projectile Glue Layers 5 → ∞

2-4-0

Attack
Filters Can now target MOAB-Class Cannot target bosses Can now target bosses Ignores Bloons with glue level: 1+ → 2+
Projectile Filters Can now hit MOAB-Class Can now hit bosses Ignores Bloons with glue level: 1+ → 2+ Glue Glue level 1 → 2 Damage over time Damage 1 Damage type Acid Duration 11s Interval 2s Layers ∞ Glue level 2 Splat Filters Can now hit MOAB-Class Can now hit bosses Ignores Bloons with glue level: 1+ → 2+ Glue Glue level 1 → 2 Damage over time Damage 1 Damage type Acid Duration 11s Interval 2s Layers ∞

Ability
Attack Projectile Damage over time Damage 1 Damage type Acid Duration 11s Interval 2s Layers ∞

0-4-1

Attack
Projectile Glue Duration 11s → 24s Splat Glue Duration 11s → 24s

Ability
Attack Targeting → First / Close / Last / Strong Projectile Glue Duration 11s → 24s Bonus damage Duration 11s → 24s Remove immunities Duration 11s → 24s

0-4-2

Attack
Projectile Glue Multiplier ×0.5 → ×0.25 Splat Glue Multiplier ×0.5 → ×0.25

Ability
Attack Projectile Glue Multiplier ×0.5 → ×0.25

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
0-4-0	$6,160	$7,245	$7,830	$8,695	$4,312	$5,072	$5,481	$6,087
1-4-0	$6,330	$7,445	$8,045	$8,935	$4,431	$5,212	$5,632	$6,255
2-4-0	$6,585	$7,745	$8,370	$9,295	$4,610	$5,422	$5,859	$6,507
0-4-1	$6,400	$7,525	$8,130	$9,030	$4,480	$5,268	$5,691	$6,321
0-4-2	$6,740	$7,925	$8,560	$9,510	$4,718	$5,548	$5,992	$6,657

Strategy

Glue Strike's +2 debuff is an excellent support for towers with low-damage projectiles, such as Overdrive and Bloonjitsu. The debuff greatly aids these towers against both hyperdense mid-game rounds and high-tier blimps in the late game, especially the BAD. Glue Strike's ability can also be used to slow down Super Ceramics, but its one-time glue per ability makes it unable to slow many of them at once. The de-Lead is also useful for both mid-game rounds (such as 63) and DDTs, but cannot affect all DDTs on Round 95 without meticulous stalling.

Glue Strike's debuff also makes it shine against Boss Bloons, greatly benefitting Overdrive and other towers with low-damage projectiles. Its ability to glue all Bloons on the screen makes it excel in Race Events as well. 0-4-2 is the better crosspath in most situations, as longer glue duration (leading to higher uptime against Bosses and the BAD) and superior utility against Super Ceramics are generally preferred. 2-4-0's niche is in Race Events, where its damage-over-time quickly performs tremendous damage and makes much-needed money.

Update history

For a complete list of Glue Gunner changes, see Update history:Glue Gunner (BTD6).

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Version 17.0

•  Ability: Now causes Bloons to take +1 damage while glued (same as X-5-X)

Version 22.0

“

Glue Strike currently allows for 240 crosspath to hit MOABs with 042 being more Ceramic focused but losing the Glue Soak from top path hurts against lower layers, so we’ve increased the base amount of layers glued by Strike & Storm so that it won’t expire on non-MOABs so quickly.
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: Layers glued/debuffed increased ― 3 → 6

Version 29.0

“

Since glue gunners can’t work together as we all want them to and we could not bite that off for this update, for now have decided to do more for the top and middle paths themselves. Glue Strike doesn’t seem to hold up to any other option in a similar role, so we’ve doubled down on its support factor with a new role and are hoping for more synergy to emerge there.
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: Now causes glued Lead and frozen Bloons to lose their immunities
•  Ability: Bonus damage taken while glued increased ― +1 → +2

Version 34.0

“

With an expensive tier 2 and the T3 breaking the $3k mark Glue Hose doesn’t feel justifiable a lot of the time so base cost is being shifted up to T4.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $3,500 → $3,850
  •  Overall cost reduced by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 35.0

“

Glue Gunner has also had a number of price changes aimed at improving the middle path / crosspathing while avoiding improving MOAB Glue. We’ve already found interesting uses for the top path change so keen to hear about your cool use cases.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,850 → $3,450
  •  Overall cost reduced by $950 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 39.0

“

Glue Strike for the longest time has had crosspath that only technically grants separate intended use cases, this choice though felt too niche and janky so that crosspath requirement is being completely reworked to allow the ability to hit MOABs regardless of crosspath. Glue Strike will instead work around the standard glue crosspathing benefits of more layers or longer duration.
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: Now can now hit MOAB-Class Bloons without needing Corrosive Glue
•  Ability: Layers glued decreased ― 6 → 3
  • Note: Does not affect debuff layer soak, which remains 6

1-4-0, 2-4-0

•  Ability: Layers glued increased ― 3 → Infinite

Version 41.0

“

Glue Storm is fantastic now however buildup tiers into it feel they serve little point at all, we're shifting price out of Glue Soak into MOAB Glue and from Glue Hose into Glue Strike so these weaker upgrades can come by sooner.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $3,450 → $3,850
  •  Overall cost reduced by $200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 43.0

“

Glue Splatter stands out as weirdly expensive for T2, and is rarely even needed so we’re significantly cutting its price to bring it down to a more affordable range with less pierce, we hope this should make it more worth considering for splatter coverage over piercing.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost reduced by $480 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Ability: Can no longer debuff Dreadbloon in Primary Immune phase (bug fix)
•  Splatter: Pierce bonus reduced ― +4 → +3
  • Note: Total pierce reduced from 6 to 5; the initial impact can glue exactly 1 bloon, and the old pierce from x-1-x is treated as 2 to the splatter

Version 44.0

•  Eject points moved for most upgrade combinations

Version 45.0

“

As it only increases attack speed and Glue Splatter already hits the majority of targets with no trouble this leaves Glue Hose not feeling that compelling, as this path becomes the full map glue anyway we felt we could improve tower range along this path as well.
— Update notes

”

•  Range increased ― 46 → 58

Version 47.0

“

a small price shuffling to make Glue Hose more favourable on the journey up to Glue Strike.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $3,850 → $4,000
  •  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 48.0

“

[...] There’s currently little reason to take top crosspath for middle glue gunners due to Stickier Glue working for the debuffing effects on this path, so Corrosive Glue will now increase the damage taken debuff for a shorter but more powerful burst of damage. [...]
— Update notes

”

2-4-0

•  Ability debuff: bonus damage debuff increased ― +2 → +3
  • Note: Also affects the DoT on glued bloons

Version 53.0

•  Glue splat: Can no longer collide with Boss Bloons unless crosspathed with 2-X-X Corrosive Glue (undocumented)
•  Can no longer target or hit Boss Bloons with the main attack unless upgraded to 2-X-X Corrosive Glue (undocumented)

Version 54.0

“

Glue Gunner's 240 crosspath has merely shifted the crosspath balance problem instead of truly solving it. To make things more intuitive, Glue Soak crosspath will now grant this ability the much requested persistence through MOAB layers.
— Update notes

”

2-4-0

•  Ability: Glue now soaks through MOAB-Class layers
•  Ability: Bonus damage debuff reduced ― +3 → +2

Version 54.2

•  Ability: Damage debuff now soaks through all layers (bug)
  • Note: This change was intended to only apply to the 1-X-X Glue Soak crosspath, but it affects all of them

Version 55.0

“

With the 240 crosspath now providing MOAB Layer soaking, Glue Strike’s base ability will last through more layers before wearing off, but with a slower cooldown to match the T5 which already sits at a 40s cooldown.
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: Number of Bloon layers affected by glue slowdown increased ― 3 → 5
  • Note: Other effects of the ability glue unchanged (damage debuff is ∞ layers and immunity debuff is 6 layers). 1-4-0 crosspath and further upgrades unchanged (∞ layers)
•  Ability: Cooldown increased ― 30s → 40s

Version 56.0

• Description changed

Before	Glue Strike Ability: Glues all Bloons on screen, causing them to take more damage from all sources while it lasts.
After	Glue Strike Ability: Glues all Bloons on screen, removing Lead immunity, and causing them to take more damage from all sources while it lasts.

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In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	ضربة غراء القدرة على ضرب الغراء: لصق جميع البالونات على الشاشة، مما يتسبب في إحداث المزيد من الضرر من جميع المصادر أثناء استمرارها.	—
Danish	Limangreb Limangrebsevne: limer alle bloons på skærmen, hvilket gør dem mere modtagelige overfor skade under varighedstiden.	—
German	Klebstoffangriff Klebstoffangriff-Fähigkeit: Verklebt alle Bloons auf dem Bildschirm, die dadurch während der Wirkungsdauer mehr Schaden durch alle Quellen erleiden.	—
Spanish	Ataque pegajoso Habilidad Ataque pegajoso: pega a todos los bloons en pantalla y hace que reciban más daño de todos los ataques mientras dura.	—
Spanish (LA)	Ataque pegajoso Habilidad Ataque pegajoso: pega a todos los bloons en pantalla y hace que reciban más daño de todos los ataques mientras dura.	—
Finnish	Liimaisku Liimaisku-kyky: Liimaa kaikki bloonit näytölle, minkä aikana ne ottavat enemmän vahinkoa kaikista lähteistä.	—
French	Frappe de colle Aptitude Frappe de colle : colle tous les Bloons à l'écran, ce qui les fait subir plus de dégâts de toutes les sources pendant la durée de l'aptitude.	—
Italian	Spargi colla Abilità Spargi colla: cosparge di colla tutti i bloon sullo schermo, facendogli subire più danni da tutte le fonti mentre l'abilità è attiva.	—
Japanese	グルー攻撃 グルー攻撃能力：画面の全てのブルーンをのり付けして、より多くの全てのダメージを受けるようにする。	—
Korean	글루 스트라이크 글루 스트라이크 능력: 화면의 모든 풍선에 글루를 묻혀 지속 시간 동안 받는 모든 피해를 증가합니다.	—
Dutch	Lijmslag Lijmslag-vaardigheid: lijmt alle Bloons op het scherm, waardoor ze meer schade oplopen van alle bronnen zolang het duurt.	—
Norwegian	Limangrep Limangrep-evne: Limer alle bloons på skjermen, som får dem til å påføres mer skade fra alle kilder, så lenge den varer.	—
Polish	Kleiste uderzenie Umiejętność kleiste uderzenie: skleja wszystkie blony na ekranie, powodując na czas trwania większe obrażenia ze wszystkich źródeł.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Ataque Colante Habilidade Ataque Colante: Gruda todos os Bloons na tela, fazendo com que eles recebam mais dano de todas as fontes enquanto durar.	—
Russian	Налёт клея Налёт клея: приклеивает все шары на экране, отчего они получают больше урона от всего, пока действует способность.	—
Swedish	Klisterattack Limattackförmåga: Täcker alla Bloons på skärmen med lim och orsakar att de tar mer skada från alla attacker så länge det varar.	—
Thai	กลูสไตรก์ สกิลกลูสไตรก์: เคลือบกาวใส่ลูกโป่งทุกลูกบนจอ ทำให้ลูกโป่งทุกลูกโดนดาเมจทุกชนิดแรงขึ้นขณะที่เปื้อนกาว	—
Turkish	Yapışkanlı Saldırı Yapışkanlı Vuruş Yeteneği: Ekrandaki tüm Bloon’lara yapışır, bu da Bloon’ların tüm kaynaklardan daha fazla hasar almalarına neden olur ve bu bir süre devam eder.	—
Chinese (simplified)	胶水打击 胶水打击技能：粘住屏幕上的所有气球，效果持续期间放大其受到的所有伤害。	—
Chinese (traditional)	黏膠打擊 黏膠打擊技能：短時間內凍結螢幕上所有氣球，並使它們在效果持續時間內受到的所有傷害增加。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1