Hastening Bloon

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Hastening Bloon
Card art of Hastening Bloon
On Play: Reduce the delay of a random friendly Bloon by 1
We like to move it, move it.
Class Advanced
Card Pack Classic
Rarity Rare
Keywords On Play
Introduced Full Playable test
Stats
Cost Gold 6 Health 150
Charges 1 Delay 2

Hastening Bloon is an Advanced Bloon card in Bloons Card Storm. When played, it reduces the delay of a random other Bloon on the player's side by 1, to a minimum of 0. The affected Bloon moves towards the queue in order of recentness (i.e. oldest go first). It cannot target Bloons that are already at 0 delay, and if there are no Bloons it can target, it does nothing. It cannot target Immobile Bloons.

The card artwork depicts a Hastening Bloon creating a whirlwind near a green-colored Bloon at a desert. According to the development sheets from Aimee Cairn's NZGDC presentation of BCS, the Hastening Bloon was based on the Yellow Bloon.

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This section was last updated for: version 5.1
  • Like Quick Ready, Hastening Bloon can reduce a bloon's delay to 0, but costs 1 less Gold. The tradeoff is that the bloon targeted is random, while leaving behind a bloon that generates 6 bloontonium, so this Bloon should preferably be used when it can guarantee a win no matter what bloon is affected.
    • If there's exactly one possible candidate, Hastening Bloon will guarantee to reduce delay of that Bloon.
    • Some players may use tactics specific to the consistency of Hastening Bloon. For disruption, the opponent may leave a few of your bloons at low HP (e.g. Reds from Red Bloon Apopalypse). On the contrary, you can use a Bloon Melter to remove some unwanted targets.
  • If looking for reducing the delay of a bloon with two delay to zero, such as any 1 delay bloon with Improved Fortification, or Double Ceramic Bloon, it is recommended that only one Hastening Bloon is relied on before using Quick Ready, as playing more than one Hastening Bloon may end up reducing the delay of the first Hastening Bloon instead of the desired bloon.
  • The Hastening Bloon itself is hardly a threat, and using multiple Hastenings for pressure can be unreliable.

Update history

  •   Description changed ― "On Play: Reduce the delay of a random friendly Bloon by 1" → "On Play: Reduce the delay of a random other friendly Bloon by 1"
  •   On Play effect now ignores Immobile Bloons
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The reason why the delay reduction happened is because it makes running multiple Hastenings in a deck easier. A thing that would happen with Hastening is if you ran multiple, you'd have to play one and then, if you wanted to play another one, you'd have to wait two turns before you could actually do that because there would be a chance that the Hastening could hit the 1-delay Hastening Bloon. Now, with 1 delay, it means that you can play a Hastening Bloon, [...] pass one turn, and then it's on zero delay, meaning that your second Hastening can no longer hit that Hastening Bloon. Just makes it overall a little easier to use Hastening alongside itself. It makes it less of a chore to run multiple copies of Hastening.
— u/No-Appearance1780's commentary, 19:23–19:59 (with most disfluencies removed)
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  •   Health decreased ― 150 → 120
  •   Delay decreased ― 2 → 1

In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 3.2
Name
Language Text Notes
Danish Forhastet bloon —
German Eilender Bloon —
Spanish (Latin America) Bloon acelerador —
French Bloon accélérant —
Italian Bloon accelerante —
Japanese 疾駆ブルーン —
Korean 신속화 풍선 —
Norwegian Ilende bloon —
Polish Przyspieszający blon —
Portuguese (Brazil) Bloon Acelerante —
Russian Ускоряющий шар —
Swedish Hastande Bloon —
Chinese (traditional) 加速氣球 —
Flavor
Language Text Notes
Danish Vi kan godt lide at flytte det, flytte det. —
German Vorwärts, Marsch! —
Spanish (Latin America) Te hará mover el bote. —
French Allez, allez, on se dépêche ! —
Italian Ci piace se ti muovi! Muoviti! —
Japanese とにかく動きたくて仕方がない。 —
Korean 빨리빨리가 대세입니다. —
Norwegian Vi blir fort rastløse. —
Polish Ruchy, ruchy! —
Portuguese (Brazil) Eu me remexo muito! —
Russian Бегом-бегом! —
Swedish We like to move it, move it. —
Chinese (traditional) 我們喜歡搖擺,搖擺。 —