Storm (BCS)

The Storm begins

The Storm is a game mechanic in Bloons Card Storm that attacks players at the end of some turns. It initially attacks a player by spawning Bloon cards on the opponent's side (giving the opponent extra Bloons right before their turn starts), while on later turns, it can also use the Stunned card to stun Monkeys on the player's side. It has a turn counter that indicates when it will attack next, and the cards it uses follows a consistent pattern depending on the counter; in Ranked mode, it has different patterns from the default pattern used in all other modes, and it does not appear at all in Boss Battles.

The Storm is represented by a counter that decrements by one at the end of the turn of the player that went second, or if it is at zero already (represented by the Storm icon displaying no number), it instead attacks the player that went first, either by spawning Bloons on the other player's side or by stunning one of their Monkeys, then attacks the other player with the same effect at the end of their next turn. This step occurs at the very end of each turn, right before the "<player name>'s Turn" message appears and the turn counter increments.

Storm effects

End of turn #		Effect
Player 2	Player 1
1	2	—
2	3	—
3	4	Yellow Bloon ×1
4	5	—
5	6	—
6	7	Ceramic Bloon ×1
7	8	—
8	9	MOAB ×1
9	10	—
10	11	—
11	12	BFB ×1
12	13	—
13	14	—
14	15	—
15	16	ZOMG ×1
16	17	—
17	18	ZOMG ×1
18	19	Ceramic Bloon ×2
19	20	—
20	21	Double Rainbow Bloon ×2
21	22	Stun random opposing Monkey
22	23	Pink Bloon ×2
23	24	Stun random opposing Monkey
24	25	ZOMG ×2
25	26	Stun random opposing Monkey
26	27	Double Yellow Bloon ×4
27	28	Stun random opposing Monkey
28	29	Pink Bloon ×4
29	30	Stun all opposing Monkeys
31+	32+	Double Ceramic Bloon ×4

Ranked seasons

Season 2

End of turn #		Effect
Player 2	Player 1
1	2	Red Bloon ×1
2	3	—
3	4	Blue Bloon ×1
4	5	—
5	6	Green Bloon ×1
6	7	—
7	8	Black Bloon ×1
8	9	Weakening Gas Bloon ×1
9	10	—
10	11	Growth Gas Bloon ×1
11	12	Toxic Bloon ×1
12	13	MOAB ×1
13	14	—
14	15	Stun Gas Bloon ×2
15	16	Ceramic Bloon ×2
16	17	—
17	18	BFB ×2
18	19	—
19	20	Ceramic Bloon ×2
20	21	Growth Gas Bloon ×2
21	22	—
22	23	Pink Bloon ×3
23	24	—
24	25	BFB ×2
25	26	Stun all opposing Monkeys
26	27	ZOMG ×2
27	28	—
28	29	Double Yellow Bloon ×4
29	30	Weakening Gas Bloon ×4
30	31	Double Ceramic Bloon ×4
31	32	Stun all opposing Monkeys
32+	33+	Pink Bloon ×4

Season 3

End of turn #		Effect
Player 2	Player 1
1	2	Red Bloon ×1
2	3	Blue Bloon ×1
3	4	Green Bloon ×1
4	5	—
5	6	—
6	7	Yellow Bloon ×1
7	8	Ceramic Bloon ×1
8	9	—
9	10	—
10	11	MOAB ×1
11	12	BFB ×1
12	13	—
13	14	—
14	15	Ceramic Bloon ×2
15	16	ZOMG ×1
16	17	—
17	18	—
18	19	Stun Gas Bloon ×2
19	20	Double Rainbow Bloon ×2
20	21	—
21	22	Stun all opposing Monkeys
22	23	Weakening Gas Bloon ×4
23	24	—
24	25	—
25	26	ZOMG ×2
26	27	Double Yellow Bloon ×4
27	28	Pink Bloon ×4
28	29	Double Ceramic Bloon ×4
29	30	Pink Bloon ×4
31+	32+	Double Ceramic Bloon ×4

Season 4

End of turn #		Effect
Player 2	Player 1
1	2	—
2	3	—
3	4	Yellow Bloon ×1
4	5	—
5	6	Lead Bloon ×1
6	7	Lead Bloon ×1
7	8	—
8	9	—
9	10	MOAB ×1
10	11	—
11	12	BFB ×1
12	13	—
13	14	Stun Gas Bloon ×2
14	15	—
15	16	ZOMG ×1
16	17	—
17	18	—
18	19	Lead Bloon ×4
19	20	ZOMG ×1
20	21	Double Rainbow Bloon ×2
21	22	Stun random opposing Monkey
22	23	Pink Bloon ×2
23	24	ZOMG ×2
24	25	Stun random opposing Monkey
25	26	Pink Bloon ×4
26	27	Stun all opposing Monkeys
28+	29+	Double Ceramic Bloon ×4

Season 5

End of turn #		Effect
Player 2	Player 1
1	2	—
2	3	—
3	4	Yellow Bloon ×1
4	5	—
5	6	—
6	7	Ceramic Bloon ×1
7	8	—
8	9	Yellow Bloon ×1
9	10	Yellow Bloon ×1
10	11	Yellow Bloon ×1
11	12	BFB ×1
12	13	—
13	14	Pink Bloon ×2
14	15	—
15	16	Ceramic Bloon ×2
16	17	—
17	18	ZOMG ×1
18	19	Ceramic Bloon ×2
19	20	—
20	21	Double Rainbow Bloon ×2
21	22	Pink Bloon ×2
22	23	Pink Bloon ×2
23	24	Double Rainbow Bloon ×2
24	25	ZOMG ×2
25	26	Pink Bloon ×2
26	27	Double Yellow Bloon ×4
27	28	—
28	29	Pink Bloon ×4
29	30	Stun all opposing Monkeys
31+	32+	Double Ceramic Bloon ×4

Season 6

End of turn #		Effect
Player 2	Player 1
1	2	Red Bloon ×1
2	3	Blue Bloon ×1
3	4	—
4	5	Green Bloon ×1
5	6	—
6	7	Yellow Bloon ×1
7	8	—
8	9	Lead Bloon ×1
9	10	Ceramic Bloon ×1
10	11	—
11	12	MOAB ×1
12	13	—
13	14	Ceramic Bloon ×2
14	15	—
15	16	ZOMG ×1
16	17	—
17	18	Lead Bloon ×4
18	19	—
19	20	Growth Gas Bloon ×2
20	21	—
21	22	Pink Bloon ×4
22	23	—
23	24	Double Ceramic Bloon ×4
24	25	ZOMG ×2
25	26	Stun all opposing Monkeys
27+	28+	Pink Bloon ×4

Season 7

End of turn #		Effect
Player 2	Player 1
1	2	—
2	3	Green Bloon ×1
3	4	—
4	5	Yellow Bloon ×1
5	6	Yellow Bloon ×1
6	7	Green Bloon ×1
7	8	Yellow Bloon ×1
8	9	—
9	10	MOAB ×1
10	11	Lead Bloon ×1
11	12	Ceramic Bloon ×1
12	13	—
13	14	BFB ×1
14	15	Stun Gas Bloon ×2
15	16	Weakening Gas Bloon ×2
16	17	—
17	18	ZOMG ×1
18	19	Growth Gas Bloon ×2
19	20	Pink Bloon ×2
20	21	—
21	22	Stun all opposing Monkeys
22	23	Double Ceramic Bloon ×4
23	24	ZOMG ×2
25+	26+	Pink Bloon ×2

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 5.1

The Storm can be an advantage or a disadvantage depending on how each player handles it. On one hand, this allows the offensive player to keep piling up pressure, while on the other hand it harms the ability to hold off the bloons. Memorizing the rounds for the Storm will ensure you'll tactically better take advantage of the Storm.

Know if you're Player 1 or 2; Player 2 always receives the Storm Bloons first, and Player 1 is always the first to have their Monkey(s) stunned. Naturally, Player 1 should be more aggressive.

Tips

• The natural pinks, especially the turn 29-30 pinks, are a good opportunity to pile up 0 delay bloons, removal (if the opponent has defenders), or bloon buffs for finishing the opponent off.
• The naturally spawning bloons will take up space; sometimes, this harms the ability to pile up bloons for chaining hero abilities or using bloons for a different purpose.
• Quick Ready and Hastening Bloon can be used to speed up the natural Double Rainbows and Double Ceramics later on without needing them in a deck.
• After the four double yellows spawn for the opponent, Glue Storm, Powerful Slowing Totem, or ARBITR can be used for clogging up the opponent's board on Round 27-28 so that only some of the round 29-30 pinks spawn. Note that if only one use of glue storm or slowing totem is used, then the double yellows will still attack the player.

Update history

Version 2.0

•  Storm stun is now permanent (bug)

Version 2.1

•  Storm stun is no longer permanent (bug fix)

Version 2.2

•  The Storm tooltip text is now phrased "<Bloon> will be summoned!" instead of "<Bloon> will spawn!" for Bloons

Gallery

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  Storm icon
• 
  Basic / Advanced Bloon icon
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  Large Bloon icon
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  Stunned icon
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  A game in BCS at turn 32, where 4 Double Ceramics spawned on both sides.

Pre-release

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  Storm icon
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  Basic / Advanced Bloon icon
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  Stunned icon

References

• Storm round data sourced from the BCS Info Sheet