Arctic Wind (BTD6)
For other uses, see Arctic Wind (disambiguation).
Arctic Wind
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 Gains a super cold aura that slows Bloons and freezes water nearby.
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| Tower | Ice Monkey — Path 2 — Tier 3 | |
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| XP cost | 2,500 | |
| Cash cost | $2,335 — Easy $2,750 — Medium $2,970 — Hard $3,300 — Impoppable | |
Arctic Wind is the Ice Monkey's path 2 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6.
On top of the main attack, which loses the ceramic 50% duration penalty, it also creates an aura around itself that slows all targetable bloons inside by 40% and allows land towers to be placed on nearby water. The slow effect can be buffed with range buffs, but not the water freezing radius (which can only be increased with the Larger Radius upgrade).
Frozen water interactions
The frozen water effect has the same range as the Arctic Wind slow aura (25 without Larger Radius, 32 with Larger Radius).
This effect does not disallow water towers to be placed on frozen water.
If the Arctic Wind is sold, moved away, or transformed by Total Transformation, all land towers that would end up floating above water get sold. If selling is not enabled, they get removed without giving money back. This effect does not happen when sacrificing Arctic Wind to a floating Sun Temple (or True Sun God), since they are allowed to be on water (and count as a water tower) and don't get sold.
Stats
For a complete list of Ice Monkey stats, see Stats:Ice Monkey (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
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Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
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| 0-3-0 | $3,100 | $3,650 | $3,940 | $4,380 | $2,170 | $2,555 | $2,758 | $3,066 |
| 1-3-0 | $3,225 | $3,800 | $4,100 | $4,560 | $2,258 | $2,660 | $2,870 | $3,192 |
| 2-3-0 | $3,520 | $4,150 | $4,480 | $4,980 | $2,464 | $2,905 | $3,136 | $3,486 |
| 0-3-1 | $3,225 | $3,800 | $4,100 | $4,560 | $2,258 | $2,660 | $2,870 | $3,192 |
| 0-3-2 | $3,395 | $4,000 | $4,315 | $4,800 | $2,377 | $2,800 | $3,021 | $3,360 |
Strategy
This section was last updated for: version 49.3
Arctic Wind's frozen water is a strong asset, as Sun Temples and True Sun Gods placed on water can gain the attack speed buffs from Carrier Flagship or Admiral Brickell, and more land space is opened for towers if needed. The extra land space is especially useful on Flooded Valley, where Arctic Wind is the only option in CHIMPS to place land towers on good spots that are not blocked by the dam.
When its frozen water effect is not needed, Arctic Wind can still be used to stall Super Ceramic Bloons, but faces the issues of small range and often insufficient pierce. 0-3-2 is generally the preferred crosspath, alleviating its range issues and allowing it to perma-stall Super Ceramics.
Update history
For a complete list of Ice Monkey changes, see Update history:Ice Monkey (BTD6).
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Main attack: Pierce increased ― 20 → 100
- "Ice Monkey #/3/# Arctic Wind will no longer allow you to remove the water on #ouch while water towers are placed in it"
- Upgrade cost reduced ― $6,500 → $5,000
- Can now pop Lead Bloons when buffed by Acidic Mixture Dip (bug fix)
- Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,000 → $3,200
- "[R]esolved numerous specific crashes" (bug fix)
Arctic Wind: No longer sells towers twice if the ice platform is removed on maps with water in the middle (bug fix)
- Placing an Arctic Wind on top of a flagship will no longer create an ice platform on top of the buccaneer (bug fix)
- Arctic Wind no longer inconsistently slows one of two Zebra children after popping a rainbow (bug fix)
| “ | Ice Monkey power is currently too bottom heavy and mid-to-higher tiers are neglected, so some tweaks to mid-tier upgrades have been made. — Update notes |
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,200 → $2,900
- Arctic Wind: No longer slows Lead Bloons unless crosspathed with Metal Freeze (undocumented) (bug fix)
- Note: Unconfirmed
Arctic Wind will no longer retain its frozen platforms after being transformed by an Alchemist as this could cause a crash upon ability expiration
| “ | Arctic Wind hardly gets used for its actual basic intended purpose, which would be cool to see used for more than just causing ice platform bug reports. — Update notes |
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- Arctic Wind aura slow amount increased ― 50% → 60%
- Note: Patch notes made an error thar states the old value was 40%
- Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,900 → $2,800
- Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
| “ | Arctic wind felt extremely overbuffed with the slowing field going from 40 to 50%, but we like seeing the use on it go up so we want to meet halfway on that & keep the higher slow at T5. While we like the added pierce value on x2x crosspathing, the drop of pierce on xx3 feels too large now on a tower that already had quite good crosspath balance, so we want to try out removing the pierce downgrade entirely here. — Update notes |
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- Slowing aura: Slowing reduced ― -60% → -50%
- Note: Absolute Zero unaffected
| “ | Plenty of attention has been drawn to the high power of Ice, so we’re continuing to work on slowly dialing this back in fair ways. — Update notes |
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- Pierce reduced ― 100 → 40
- Note: Absolute Zero unaffected
| “ | 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 |
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- Pierce increased ― 40 → 45
| “ | Arctic Wind it feels was heavily underrated before it’s large slow aura increase, with so many players now working out how good it is and how much better an upgrade it leads into than any similar options we feel this aura needs to be reduced again although it will remain the same at T5. — Update notes |
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- Aura: slowdown reduced ― 50% → 40%
- Note: Absolute Zero aura slowdown unchanged
| “ | Arctic Wind’s price is shifting up into Snowstorm to allow for cheaper utility use. — Update notes |
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,800 → $2,500
| “ | Ice Monkey value is limited at low levels where quick & spaced Bloons are the main trouble, so the cost for many low tier upgrades is moving up to higher tiers instead. — Update notes |
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $2,500 → $2,750
- Overall cost reduced by $25 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Can now be placed on water
Gallery
For more Ice Monkey images, see Gallery:Ice Monkey.
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In other languages
| Language | Name / Description | Notes | |
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| Arabic | ريح قطبية شمالية يعمل على اكتساب هالة شديدة البرودة تعمل على إبطاء البالونات وتجميد المياه القريبة. |
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| Danish | Arktisk Vind Får en super-kold aura som sinker bloons og fryser al vand i nærheden. |
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| German | Arktischer Wind Erhält eine superkalte Aura, die Bloons verlangsamt und Wasser in der Nähe gefrieren lässt. |
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| Spanish | Viento ártico Consigue un aura superfría que ralentiza a los bloons y congela el agua cercana. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Viento ártico Consigue un aura superfría que ralentiza a los bloons y congela el agua cercana. |
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| Finnish | Arktinen tuuli Tuottaa superkylmän auran, joka hidastaa blooneja ja jäädyttää lähistöllä olevan veden. |
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| French | Vent arctique Confère une aura super froide qui ralentit les Bloons et gèle l'eau à proximité. |
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| Italian | Vento artico Ottiene un'aura super gelata che rallenta i bloon e congela l'acqua nelle vicinanze. |
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| Japanese | 北極風 ブルーンの動きを遅らせ近くの水を凍結させるとても冷たいオーラを得る。 |
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| Korean | 북극 풍 주변의 풍선을 느리게 만들고 물을 얼리는 엄청나게 추운 한기를 얻습니다. |
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| Dutch | Arctische wind Krijgt een superkoud aura dat Bloons vertraagt en water in de buurt bevriest. |
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| Norwegian | Arktisk vind Får en superkald aura som sakker ned bloons og fryser vann i nærheten. |
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| Polish | Arktyczny wiatr Zyskuje super zimną aurę, która spowalnia blony oraz zamraża pobliskie zbiorniki wodne. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Vento Ártico Ganha uma aura superfria que desacelera Bloons e congela águas próximas. |
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| Russian | Арктический ветер Получает сверххолодную ауру, замедляющую шары и замораживающую воду поблизости. |
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| Swedish | Arktisk Vind Får en superkall aura som saktar ner Bloons och fryser vatten i närheten. |
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| Thai | สายลมขั้วโลก ได้ออร่าเย็นซูเปอร์ที่ทำให้บลูนช้าลงและแช่แข็งน้ำที่อยู่ใกล้ |
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| Turkish | Arktik Rüzgâr Bloon’ları yavaşlatıp yakındaki suyu donduran bir süper soğuk aura kazanır. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 北极风 获得一个超冷光环，减慢气球速度并冻结附近的水。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 北極風 獲得超冷光環，可使靠近的氣球減速並凍結附近的水面。 |
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| This list was last updated for: version 43.1 | |||
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