Piranha
Piranha
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 Command a small but feisty little fish to leap from the water at the Bloons. |
| Tower | Beast Handler — Path 1 — Tier 1 | |
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| XP cost | 250 | |
| Cash cost | $135 — Easy $160 — Medium $170 — Hard $190 — Impoppable | |
Piranha is the Beast Handler's path 1 tier 1 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. The Beast Handler no longer uses its short-range staff attack, instead handling a piranha that leaps and bites Bloons. This upgrade can only be purchased when there's water within 60 units of the tower, and range buffs do not allow the upgrade to be purchased when further from water.
The Piranha takes 0.4 seconds to jump to the target and creates a small radius that pops up to 1 Bloon.
Stats
For a complete list of Beast Handler stats, see Stats:Beast Handler (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 54.0
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Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
| Tiers | Total cost | Sell value | ||||||
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| Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | |
| 1-0-0 | $345 | $410 | $440 | $490 | $242 | $287 | $308 | $343 |
| 1-1-0 | $495 | $585 | $630 | $700 | $347 | $410 | $441 | $490 |
| 1-2-0 | $1,200 | $1,415 | $1,525 | $1,695 | $840 | $991 | $1,068 | $1,187 |
| 1-3-0 | $2,955 | $3,480 | $3,755 | $4,175 | $2,069 | $2,436 | $2,629 | $2,923 |
| 1-4-0 | $11,030 | $12,980 | $14,015 | $15,575 | $7,721 | $9,086 | $9,811 | $10,903 |
| 1-5-0 | $62,030 | $72,980 | $78,815 | $87,575 | $43,421 | $51,086 | $55,171 | $61,303 |
| 1-0-1 | $505 | $600 | $645 | $720 | $354 | $420 | $452 | $504 |
| 1-0-2 | $1,235 | $1,460 | $1,575 | $1,750 | $865 | $1,022 | $1,103 | $1,225 |
| 1-0-3 | $3,035 | $3,580 | $3,865 | $4,295 | $2,125 | $2,506 | $2,706 | $3,007 |
| 1-0-4 | $10,685 | $12,580 | $13,585 | $15,095 | $7,480 | $8,806 | $9,510 | $10,567 |
| 1-0-5 | $36,185 | $42,580 | $45,985 | $51,095 | $25,330 | $29,806 | $32,190 | $35,767 |
Strategy
Piranha is a good option to start games when purchased along with Microraptor. Due to its single pierce, the Piranha is generally put at the back for cleanup, where its frequent jumps make it excel at that role. Due to its small range, repositioning is sometimes needed to catch stray Bloons that get past its range.
Update history
For a complete list of Beast Handler changes, see Update history:Beast Handler (BTD6).
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| “ | As our newest tower to be added to BTD6, we went over feedback for every path and made a large number of adjustments addressing a variety of points. — Update notes |
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Top and Middle path Beast Handler paths can now be targeted by Overclock and Ultraboost
| “ | Beast Handler’s general repositioning feels far too free right now, the reposition cooldown is being increased to a more reasonably noticeable number so this feels like a meaningful cost. — Update notes |
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Beast: Reposition cooldown increased ― 0.5s → 5s
- Beast Handler reposition cooldown reduced ― 5s → 3s
| “ | When first creating Beast Handler we balanced the T1-3 upgrade costs with a goal of creating a decision point between spending free playable space to save on cash or spending more cash to save on playable space. However in practice though some people have come on board with spending their playable space as a resource for more power; actual interest is much more divided between maximizing cost efficiency of these merges or simply using different towers. Given that spam of lower tier handlers already comes with the advantage of allowing them to be repositioned over a larger area, we’re changing our approach with a full cost rebalance across most T1-3 upgrades for exactly equal cost per point of merged beast power, instead leaving the nuance around understanding higher value merges & footprint advantage to depend more on discounts. — Update notes |
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $160 → $170
| “ | In going over our large list of price changes for Beast Handler’s lower tiers in 42 this change was received very positively, however we did not realize that in making this change we killed off all chance of dual-beast handlers being used as a round 1 starting option for under $650 in hard modes – So we gotta do that math all over again and convert it for difficulty, painful 😀 All T1 beast prices changed to allow 110 & 101 beast handler combos to be placed for under $650 in hard mode, all T2 & T3 prices shifted around to keep these same cost ratios. [...] Similar to Sentries, Beast spawn placement will now scale closer to the track based on how much range the beast has. [...] We’re slightly reducing beast reposition cooldown as the tiny range leaves movement very tight, which is especially painful for Microraptor path given the low range. — Update notes |
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $170 → $160
- Beast: Reposition cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s
- Water beasts: Now spawns within 20% of their range to the track
- Merging/Beast positioning range reduced ― 60 → 50
| “ | As a quality of life improvement, Beast Handler movement cooldowns have now been separated — Update notes |
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- Fish & Dino beast reposition cooldowns are now independent
- Can now move beasts onto ice and ink platforms. Beasts with only ice/ink platforms as valid placement will no longer randomly choose a location when attempting to place into ice/ink platforms. (undocumented)
- Merging/Beast positioning range increased ― 50 → 60
Solved a bug where Beast Handlers which were crosspathed on a specific order could fail to respawn their fish when reloading a game from a save and and use a Support Chinook to redeploy the Beast Handler. (bug fix)
| “ | Top Path Beast Handler relied heavily on grouping Bloons, which made it weak against Frozen Bloons which is a problem since Ice Towers are a nice way to set up those groups. To improve synergy, we’ve changed the Piranha’s damage type to properly motivate them at biting through ice like all Piranha do. — Update notes |
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Piranha: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Shatter
| “ | Beast Handler’s top path is smoothing out to +5 range per level improving early tiers. — Update notes |
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- Piranha: Range increased ― 20 → 25
- When the Piranha is placed automatically, it will now prefer positions where its range can cover at least 24% of the track length (was 20% before) (undocumented)
Gallery
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In other languages
| Language | Name / Description | Notes | |
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| Arabic | بيرانا اطلب من سمكة صغيرة ولكنها مشاكسة أن تقفز من الماء في البالونات. |
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| Danish | Piratfisk Befal en lille, men ivrig lille fisk om at springe ud af vandet og angribe bloons. |
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| German | Piranha Steure einen kleinen, aber munteren Fisch, der aus dem Wasser auf die Bloons springt. |
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| Spanish | Piraña Controla a un pez pequeño y feroz que salta contra los bloons desde el agua. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Piraña Controla a un pez pequeño y feroz que salta contra los bloons desde el agua. |
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| Finnish | Piraija Komenna pientä mutta pippurista pikkukalaa hyppäämään vedestä bloonien kimppuun. |
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| French | Piranha Commande à un poisson de petite taille mais agressif de sauter hors de l'eau sur les Bloons. |
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| Italian | Piranha Ordina a un pesce piccolo ma vivace di saltare dall'acqua contro i bloon. |
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| Japanese | ピラニア 小さくても元気な小さな魚に指令を与え、ブルーンに水から飛び降りさせます。 |
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| Korean | 피라냐 작지만 당돌한 물고기를 부려 물 위로 뛰어올라 풍선을 공격하게 합니다. |
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| Dutch | Piranha Voer het bevel over een klein maar pittig visje die uit het water springt en naar Bloons hapt. |
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| Norwegian | Piraja Kommander en liten, men aggressiv fisk til å hoppe opp av vannet og på bloonsene. |
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| Polish | Pirania Trenuj małą, lecz zadziorną rybkę, aby atakowała blony z wody. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Piranha Comande um pequeno, porém agitado peixinho que salta da água e ataca os Bloons. |
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| Russian | Пиранья Прикажите маленькой отважной рыбке выскочить из воды и броситься на шары. |
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| Swedish | Piraya Kommendera en liten men lättretlig fisk att hoppa upp från vattnet vid Bloonsen. |
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| Thai | ปิรันย่า บงการปลาตัวเล็กแต่ร้ายกาจให้กระโจนออกจากน้ำมาจู่โจมบลูน |
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| Turkish | Pirana Küçük ama yürekli bir minik balığı sudan çıkıp Bloon’lara doğru atlaması için yönet. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 食人鱼 命令一只身形小巧但精力充沛的小鱼从气球附近的水中跃出。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 食人魚 命令一隻身形小巧但精力充沛的小魚從氣球附近的水中躍出。 |
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| This list was last updated for: version 43.1 | |||
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