Pop and Awe (BTD6)

For other uses, see Pop and Awe (disambiguation).

Pop and Awe

Pop and Awe has permanent rapid attack speed and enhances the BAD and Boss damage of all Artillery Batteries. Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging Bloons and stunning them periodically.

Tower	Mortar Monkey — Path 2 — Tier 5
XP cost	32,000
Cash cost	$32,300 — Easy $38,000 — Medium $41,040 — Hard $45,600 — Impoppable

← Artillery Battery

Pop and Awe is the Mortar Monkey's path 2 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It replaces Artillery Battery's Bombardment ability with a new ability named Pop and Awe that stuns all Bloons and blimps (excluding BADs and Bosses, while allowing all others to inch forward), does 20 damage per second to everything on the screen and immediately to any newly spawned Bloon, has a cooldown of 60 seconds, and lasts for 8 seconds. With the 0-5-2 crosspath, the ability also applies Burny Stuff that deals 36 damage per tick of every 1.25 seconds for up to 7.5 seconds.

Pop and Awe also gains a permanent 4x attack speed compared to Artillery Battery (with the ability inactive). In addition, several damage bonuses of Artillery Battery are improved (+2 → +8 against stunned targets, +1 → +2 against BADs and Bosses), and the blast radius is increased from 20 to 23 (28 to 32.2 with 1/2-5-0). With the 0-5-2 crosspath, the Burny Stuff's damage per tick is increased from 6 to 20 and its duration is increased from 3.75 seconds to 7.5 seconds. Pop and Awe also increases the bonus damage of all Artillery Batteries against BADs and Bosses by an additional +1 (total of 2).

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 30 units Footprint radius 11 units

Attack
Cooldown 0.0675s Offset (X, Y, Z) 9.2, 5.8, 25 Spread 18 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range ∞ units Rotation speed ∞ deg/s Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Explosion Pierce 25 Damage 2 Damage to Lead or DDTs +1 Damage to Ceramic +3 Damage to MOAB-Class +1 Damage to Fortified +1 Damage to stunned +8 Damage type Normal Lifespan 0.05s Radius 23 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

Ability
Cooldown 60s
Attack Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting First Targeting range ∞ units Ignores blockers Can fire without a target Projectile Pierce 9,999,999 Damage 20 Damage type Normal Lifespan 8s Persists between rounds ∞ Radius ∞ units Rehit interval 1s Stun Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Layers ∞

Buff
Damage to BADs and bosses bonus +1 Filters Only affects: Mortar Monkey Only affects upgrade tiers: X-4+-X
Has global range

1-5-0

Attack
Explosion Pierce 25 → 45 Radius 23 units → 32.2 units

2-5-0

Attack
Explosion Damage 2 → 3

0-5-1

Attack
Spread 18 → 8

0-5-2

Attack
Explosion Damage over time Damage 20 Damage type Normal Duration 7.6s Interval 1.25s Layers ∞

Ability
Attack Projectile Damage over time Damage 36 Damage type Fire Duration 7.6s Interval 1.25s Layers ∞

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
0-5-0	$39,865	$46,900	$50,650	$56,280	$27,906	$32,830	$35,455	$39,396
1-5-0	$40,120	$47,200	$50,975	$56,640	$28,084	$33,040	$35,683	$39,648
2-5-0	$40,545	$47,700	$51,515	$57,240	$28,382	$33,390	$36,061	$40,068
0-5-1	$40,035	$47,100	$50,865	$56,520	$28,025	$32,970	$35,606	$39,564
0-5-2	$40,375	$47,500	$51,295	$57,000	$28,263	$33,250	$35,907	$39,900

Strategy

Pop and Awe is among the strongest Tier 5s for its cost, being one of the top options for CHIMPS. The 4x attack speed and extra damage bonuses greatly increase its damage output, allowing it to sweep through the late-game.

It is especially powerful on maps with optimal loops, such as Moon Landing and Dark Path. Generally, target the blast on the best loop, and if none is available, target it on the most frontal clump of Bloons/blimps. The 2-5-0 crosspath is optimal for increased damage, pierce, and blast radius. Towers that stun blimps, such as Relentless Glue, greatly aid Pop and Awe thanks to allowing it to utilize its extreme bonus damage to stunned Bloons/blimps. Striker Jones is the best hero for it, thanks to his plethora of buffs to Mortars and Concussive Shell stun granting bonus stunned damage. Use its ability when there are many large and dangerous clumps of Bloons/blimps or many DDTs on the screen. Towers that can clean up Bloons that leak, such as Perma-Spike, are recommended in combination with Pop and Awe. Despite its increased BAD and Boss damage, it does weak damage to those types. Use MOAB Eliminator or Spike Storm to help out against the round 100 BAD.

Update history

For a complete list of Mortar Monkey changes, see Update history:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).

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Version 8.0

•  Now deals +1 damage to MOAB-Class

Version 11.0

•  Ability: damage per tick increased ― 2 → 10

Version 12.0

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $33,000 → $30,000
•  Ability: damage per tick increased by 10
•  Attack cooldown reduced by 33%

Version 14.0

• "Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"

Version 15.0

• "The mortar’s projectiles should no longer visually drop back down the barrel"

Version 17.0

•  Now deals +10 damage to stunned Bloons
• Description changed (undocumented)

Before	Pop and Awe Ability: Rains explosions over the whole screen, popping and immobilizing all Bloons for a few seconds.
After	Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging and immobilzing all bloons for a few seconds. Main attack gains additonal[sic] bonus damage to stunned Bloons.

Version 21.0

“

Mortar’s Faster Reload feels like a ‘required’ as a crosspath with Burny Stuff never scaling well on any path but it’s own. We like choices not requirements so to counter this we have made Burny Stuff scale with top-path damage & shifted a small amount of the speed from Faster Reload onto the base mortar and reduced base accuracy considerably.
— Update notes

”

•  Attack cooldown increased ― 0.2695s → 0.27s (attack speed reduced by 0.19% due to changes to the attack cooldown modifiers of previous tiers)
•  Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30
  • Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)

Version 22.0

“

We felt like we set up the math quite well with Mortar changes last update, but regardless of this missed shots due to inaccuracy vs. attack speed turned out to be unpopular and impacted the middle path too severely. Fortunately this change led to the community finding some critical bugs in the middle path upgrades there since Mortar’s release! That said, since low tier Mortars were never powerful we chose to leave the speed buff from last update but revert the accuracy nerf. Additionally mid-path T5 mortar has had all of its T3 damage bonuses increased to better reflect its position as a Tier 5.
— Update notes

”

•  Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18
•  Ceramic bonus increased ― +3 → +12
•  Lead bonus increased ― +1 → +4
•  Fortified bonus increased ― +1 → +4
•  MOAB-class bonus increased ― +1 → +4

Version 33.0

“

Artillery Battery’s special stun bonus is completely ineffective against targets which are impossible to stun, so it is receiving a small damage bonus to these targets to compensate.
— Update notes

”

•  Now deals +10 bonus damage to BADs & Bosses
•  Now grants all other Artillery Battery mortars +6 bonus damage to BADs & Bosses

Version 38.0

•  Lead/MOAB/Fortified damage bonuses no longer stack (bug)

Version 38.1

•  Resolved an issue with x4x and higher Mortar Monkeys not applying their damage bonuses at all (These bonuses will not stack still) (bug fix)

Version 39.0

“

We’re looking to shakeup mortar in a couple small ways this update, along with Striker Jones changes noted further on for ‘multi-mortaring’ synergy. From the base level Mortar has far more pierce than should ever be necessary at low rounds but doesn’t hit beefy enough for the low fire rate, so we are trading up some base pierce for damage, instead moving this lost pierce up into crosspath. To reduce the great feeling of loss that some players feel when upgrading to Pop and Awe & losing their Artillery Battery ability, this upgrade is seeing a stat rework that considers Artillery Battery as now always active at T5 instead of pumping up the damage numbers.
— Update notes

”

•  Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
•  Explosion: Lead/Mortar/Fortified bonuses should all stack their bonuses on single targets (bug fix)
•  Explosion: Main attack explosion radius increased ― 20 → 23
•  Explosion: attack cooldown delay reduced ― 0.27s → 0.0675s
•  Explosion: bonus Ceramic damage reduced ― +12 → +3
•  Explosion: bonus Lead damage reduced ― +4 → +1
•  Explosion: bonus Fortified damage reduced ― +4 → +1
•  Explosion: bonus MOAB damage reduced ― +4 → +1
•  Explosion: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 25
  • Note: Bigger Blast and its subsequent upgrades unchanged

Version 39.2

•  Upgrading Mortar to x5x with Artillery Battery active no longer grants further 4x attack speed boost (bug fix)

Version 40.0

“

We’re ecstatic for all the Mortar love after the recent rework, however the two bonuses we left unchanged with the rework in order to leave a buff are… Probably a biiit much now and this has been far too significant an improvement, easily slotting Pop and Awe into an extremely high tier position over the past update. We don’t want to take this away, but are nipping those bonuses back slightly so it doesn't feel broken for our entire holiday break.
— Update notes

”

•  BAD/Boss damage bonus reduced ― +10 → +6
•  Stunned damage bonus reduced ― +10 → +8

Version 41.0

“

BAD/Boss damage was used to help prevent middle path falling flat against strong single targets - but the more recent rework did farr better at bringing great power to this path so we’re cutting back on those bonuses again now.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $30,000 → $32,000
•  Pop and Awe buff to other mortars BAD damage reduced ― +6 → +1
•   Pop and Awe bonus damage to BADs reduced ― +6 → +2

Version 42.0

“

We’re feeling quite happy about the overall state of mortar compared to how it has fared in the past, however the Burny Stuff crosspath is still very hard to justify on middle mortar so along with other DoT attacks in this update we’re trying out a slight increase to damage over time across this path.
— Update notes

”

0-5-2

•  Damage-over-time tick damage increased ― 1 → 5

Version 43.0

•  Overall cost increased by $400 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 44.0

“

We’ve been happily taking our time on this since it's about time Mortar gets some spotlight, but the middle path has been overperforming far too much for a while now so it is about time to start pushing it up to a more reasonable price range for the power it brings.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $32,000 → $38,000
  •  Overall cost increased by $6,600 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 45.0

“

Middle Mortar is seeing improvements mainly for damage over time crosspathing, and we’ve also added Burny Stuff to the Pop & Awe ability with crosspathing.
— Update notes

”

0-5-2

•  Damage over time: damage per tick increased ― 5 → 18
•  Damage over time: duration increased ― 3.75s → 7.5s
•  Ability now applies damage over time for 36 damage per tick

Version 47.0

“

Improvements made for the underused damage over time crosspaths [...]
— Update notes

”

0-5-2

•  Main DoT damage increased ― 18 → 20 (undocumented)

Version 49.0

“

Mortar BAD/Boss bonus was introduced to help with some concerns that have been more effectively solved through other means, so as a simplification to understanding these upgrades we are removing the bonuses
— Update notes

”

•  Bonus damage against BADs and Boss Bloons removed ― +2 → +0
  • Note: Does not include Artillery Battery buff

Version 49.1

• Description changed ― Pop and Awe has permanent rapid attack speed and enhances the BAD and Boss damage of all Artillery Batteries. Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging Bloons and stunning them periodically. → Pop and Awe has permanent rapid attack speed. Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging Bloons and stunning them periodically.

Version 50.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $150 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 51.0

•  Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 53.0

0-5-2

•  Can now inflict damage over time on explosion-immune Bloons (bug fix)

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In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	الفرقعة والروعة تتميز "قدرة الفرقعة والرعب" بسرعة هجوم أكبر ودائمة بالإضافة إلى تعزيز الضرر منطاد BAD والبالون الزعيم لجميع بطاريات المدفعية. "قدرة الفرقعة والرعب":تعمل على إمطار انفجارات على الشاشة بأكملها، مما يؤدي إلى إتلاف البالونات وصعقهم بشكل دوري.	—
Danish	Spring og bring Spring og bring har permanent hurtig angrebshastighed og forbedrer BAD- og Boss-skaden på alle artilleribatterier. Spring og bring-evne: Det regner med eksplosioner over hele skærmen, hvilket ødelægger bloons og bedøver dem periodisk.	—
German	Platz-Methode Platz-Methode hat permanent eine Schnellangriffs-Geschwindigkeit und verstärkt den BAD- und Boss-Schaden aller Artillerie-Batterien. Platz-Methode-Fähigkeit: Lässt Explosionen über den ganzen Bildschirm niederprasseln, beschädigt Bloons und betäubt sie regelmäßig.	—
Spanish	Dominio total Dominio total tiene una velocidad de ataque rápida permanente y mejora el daño a los BAD y jefes de todas las piezas de artillería. Habilidad Dominio total: hace llover explosiones por toda la pantalla, que dañan a los bloons y los aturden periódicamente.	—
Spanish (LA)	Dominio total Dominio total tiene velocidad de ataque rápida permanente y mejora el daño a BAD y jefes de todas las piezas de artillería. Habilidad Dominio total: genera explosiones en toda la pantalla, daña a los bloons y los aturde de forma periódica.	—
Finnish	Poksulamaannutus Poksulamaannutus on pysyvä nopea hyökkäysnopeus ja parantaa kaikkien tykistöpattereiden BAD- ja pomovahinkoa. Poksulamaannutus-kyky: räjähdyksiä sataa koko ruudulle, mikä vahingoittaa blooneja ja tainnuttaa ne ajoittain.	—
French	Stupeur d'éclatement Stupeur d’éclatement possède une vitesse d’attaque rapide permanente et augmente les dégâts infligés aux Bloons BAD et Boss par tous les Déluges d’artillerie. Aptitude Stupeur d’éclatement : fait pleuvoir des explosions sur tout l’écran, infligeant des dégâts aux Bloons et les assommant de temps en temps.	—
Italian	Scoppia e terrorizza Scoppia e terrorizza ha una velocità d'attacco rapido permanente e potenzia i danni BAD e boss di tutte le batterie d'artiglieria. Abilità Scoppia e terrorizza: le esplosioni piovono sull'intera schermata danneggiando e stordendo periodicamente i bloon.	—
Japanese	割ってびっくり 割ってびっくりの攻撃速度が永久に速くなり、全ての集中砲火のBADとボスダメージが強化される。割ってびっくりのアビリティ：画面全体に爆発の雨を降らせてブルーンにダメージを与え、定期的にマヒさせる。	—
Korean	터지고 멍하니 터지고 멍하니는 영구히 높은 공격 속도를 지니며, 모든 포병대가 BAD와 보스 풍선에 주는 피해를 향상합니다. 터지고 멍하니 능력: 화면 전체에 폭발을 내려 풍선에 지속피해를 주고 주기적으로 기절시킵니다.	—
Dutch	Verbijsterende knalkracht Verbijsterende knalkracht biedt permanent een hogere aanvalssnelheid en alle Artilleriebatterijen doen meer schade aan BAD- en Baas-Bloons. Verbijsterende knalkracht-vaardigheid: laat het explosies over het hele scherm regenen, waardoor alle Bloons geregeld beschadigd en verlamd worden.	—
Norwegian	Popp og ærefrykt Popp og ærefrykt har permanent kjapp angrepshastighet og forsterker skaden på BAD og sjefer for alle artilleribatterier. Popp og ærefrykt-evne: det regner eksplosjoner over hele skjermen som skader bloons og lamslår dem periodevis.	—
Polish	Przekłucie i przerażenie Przekłucie i przerażenie ma stałą dużą prędkość ataku i zwiększa obrażenia wobec WSZ-y i blonów-bossów od wszystkich baterii artyleryjskich. Umiejętność przekłucie i przerażenie: spuszcza deszcz eksplozji na całym ekranie, uszkadzając blony i okresowo je ogłuszając.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Estouro Fascinante Estouro Fascinante tem velocidade de ataque permanentemente rápida e aumenta o dano de todas as Baterias de Artilharia em BAD e chefes. Habilidade Estouro Fascinante: faz chover explosões sobre toda tela, causando dano em Bloons e atordoando-os periodicamente.	—
Russian	Взрыв и трепет У способности «Взрыв и трепет» навсегда ускоряется атака, а все артиллерийские залпы наносят больше урона шарам BAD и боссам. Способность «Взрыв и трепет»: засыпает весь экран взрывчаткой, нанося урон шарам и периодически оглушая их.	—
Swedish	Smäll och beundra Smäll och förundras har permanent snabb attackhastighet och förvärrar skadan på BAD och bossar för alla artilleribatterier. Smäll och förundras-förmåga: regnar explosioner över hela skärmen, skadar Bloons och bedövar dem regelbundet.	—
Thai	สะท้านสะเทือน สะท้านสะเทือนมีความเร็วในการโจมตีรวดเร็วแบบถาวร และยังเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพการโจมตีด้วยปืนใหญ่ทั้งหมดให้กับแบดกับบอส สกิลสะท้านสะเทือน: หว่านระเบิดทั่วทั้งหน้าจอ ทำลายบลูนและทำให้พวกมันตะลึงงันชั่วครู่	—
Turkish	Korkut Patlat Korkut Patlat, kalıcı seri saldırı hızına ulaşır ve tüm Topçu Bataryasının BAD ve Patron hasarını artırır. Korkut Patlat Yeteneği: Tüm ekrana patlamalar yağdırır, tüm Bloon’lara hasar verir ve onları belirli aralıklarla sersemletir.	—
Chinese (simplified)	击破震慑 击破震慑具备永久性的快速攻击速度，并可提升所有炮台的BAD和Boss伤害。击破震慑技能：全屏爆炸，可对气球造成伤害并周期性造成眩晕。	—
Chinese (traditional)	震撼爆破 震撼爆破技能攻擊速度永久增加，並且能提高所有火砲臺對BAD級和頭目級氣球造成的傷害。震撼爆破技能：爆炸如雨點覆蓋整個螢幕，對氣球造成傷害並定期擊暈它們。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1