Rapid Reload (BTD6)

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Rapid Reload
Portrait of Rapid Reload
Icon of Rapid ReloadEven faster reload.
Tower Mortar Monkey — Path 2 — Tier 2
XP cost 600
Cash cost $425 — Easy
$500 — Medium
$540 — Hard
$600 — Impoppable

Rapid Reload is the Mortar Monkey's path 2 tier 2 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It further reduces its attack cooldown by 28% compared to Faster Reload, in other words increasing the attack speed by approximately +38.89%. It attacks every 1.08s instead of 1.5s. The total attack speed bonus compared to base Mortar is approximately +85.18%.

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 range30 units
Footprint radius11 units
Attack
Cooldown1.08s
Offset (X, Y, Z)
-4.03, 2.5, 20
Spread18
TargetingDepends on targeting option
Targeting range∞ units
Rotation speed∞ deg/s
Filters
  • Cannot target Camo
  • Ignores blockers
Explosion
Pierce25
Damage2
Damage typeExplosion
Lifespan0.05s
Radius20 units
Filters
  • Cannot hit Camo

1-2-0

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z)
-4.03, 2.5, 20
-4.03, 2.5, 27
Explosion
Pierce25 → 45
Radius20 units → 28 units

2-2-0

Attack
Explosion
Damage2 → 3

0-2-1

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z)
-4.03, 2.5, 20
-4.03, 2.5, 27
Spread18 → 8

0-2-2

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z)
-4.03, 2.5, 27
-4.03, 2.5, 19.45
Explosion
Damage over time
Damage1
Damage typeFire
Duration3.85s
Interval1.25s
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
0-2-0 $1,275 $1,500 $1,620 $1,800 $893 $1,050 $1,134 $1,260
1-2-0 $1,530 $1,800 $1,945 $2,160 $1,071 $1,260 $1,362 $1,512
2-2-0 $1,955 $2,300 $2,485 $2,760 $1,369 $1,610 $1,740 $1,932
3-2-0 $2,655 $3,125 $3,375 $3,750 $1,859 $2,188 $2,363 $2,625
4-2-0 $8,605 $10,125 $10,935 $12,150 $6,024 $7,088 $7,655 $8,505
5-2-0 $39,205 $46,125 $49,815 $55,350 $27,444 $32,288 $34,871 $38,745
0-2-1 $1,445 $1,700 $1,835 $2,040 $1,012 $1,190 $1,285 $1,428
0-2-2 $1,785 $2,100 $2,265 $2,520 $1,250 $1,470 $1,586 $1,764
0-2-3 $2,720 $3,200 $3,455 $3,840 $1,904 $2,240 $2,419 $2,688
0-2-4 $10,795 $12,700 $13,715 $15,240 $7,557 $8,890 $9,601 $10,668
0-2-5 $44,795 $52,700 $56,915 $63,240 $31,357 $36,890 $39,841 $44,268

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 50.0

Rapid Reload is generally not used by itself, and is instead relegated to being a stepping stone to its succeeding upgrades or a crosspath. For lower-tiers, it's effective on Race Events for early-game Mortar. As a crosspath, it is optimal with Signal Flare, as the reliability coming from Rapid Reload's extra attack speed is key to Signal Flare. With other top and bottom path Mortars, Rapid Reload is generally recommended as a crosspath on maps with multiple simultaneous entrances and on very short maps, where reliability becomes more important, but less recommended for other maps.

Update history

For a complete list of Mortar Monkey changes, see Update history:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).
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  • "Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"
  • "The mortar’s projectiles should no longer visually drop back down the barrel"
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
  • Nerf Attack cooldown modifier reduced ― ×0.7 → ×0.72
    • Nerf Overall attack cooldown increased ― 1.078s → 1.08s (attack speed reduced by 0.19% due to changes to the attack cooldown of previous tiers)
  • Nerf Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30
    • Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)
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.
— Update notes
  • Buff Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18
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.
— Update notes
  • Buff Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
  • Nerf Explosion: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 25
    • Note: Bigger Blast and its subsequent upgrades unchanged
  • Buff Overall cost reduced by $150 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
  • Nerf Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
For more Mortar Monkey images, see Gallery:Mortar Monkey.

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Assets

In other languages

Language Name / Description Notes
Arabic إعادة تحميل سريع
إعادة تحميل أسرع.
Danish Hurtig Ladning
Endnu hurtigere ladning.
German Schnelles Nachladen
Noch schnelleres Nachladen.
Spanish Recarga rápida
Recarga aún más rápida.
Spanish (LA) Recarga rápida
Recarga aún más rápida.
Finnish Pikalataus
Vieläkin nopeampi lataus.
French Rechargement rapide
Rechargement encore plus rapide.
Italian Caricamento rapido
Caricamento super accelerato.
Japanese 高速リロード
リロードがもっと速くなる。
Korean 빠른 재장전
재장전 속도가 더욱 증가합니다.
Dutch Snel herladen
Nog sneller herladen.
Norwegian Rask lading
Enda raskere omladning.
Polish Błyskawiczne przeładowanie
Jeszcze szybsze przeładowanie.
Portuguese (Brazil) Recarga Rápida
Recarga ainda mais rápida.
Russian Быстрая перезарядка
Ещё более быстрая перезарядка.
Swedish Snabb Omladdning
Ännu snabbare omladdning.
Thai บรรจุกระสุนฉับไว
บรรจุกระสุนเร็วขึ้นอีก
Turkish Hızlı Yükleme
Çok daha hızlı yükleme.
Chinese (simplified) 快速装填
更快的装填速度。
Chinese (traditional) 快速重新加載
還要更快的裝彈
This list was last updated for: version 43.1