Spy Plane (BTD6)

For other uses, see Spy Plane (disambiguation).

Spy Plane

Allows Monkey Ace to hit Camo Bloons and do more damage to them.

Tower	Monkey Ace — Path 2 — Tier 2
XP cost	600
Cash cost	$300 — Easy $350 — Medium $380 — Hard $420 — Impoppable

← Exploding Pineapple

Bomber Ace →

Spy Plane is the Monkey Ace's path 2 tier 2 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It grants Camo detection to all of Monkey Ace's attacks, and increases the Camo damage of all attacks by 2× except for the MOAB Missiles of Fighter Plane and subsequent upgrades.

Stats

For a complete list of Monkey Ace stats, see Stats:Monkey Ace (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 22 units Footprint 28 × 18 units Movement speed 60 units/s Targeting options Circle Figure Infinite Figure Eight

Attack
Cooldown 1.68s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 13.45, -3.6 Targeting range 22 units
Ignores blockers Can fire without a target
Main projectile Count 8 Angle 360° Pierce 5 Damage 1 Damage to Camo +1 Damage type Sharp Speed 120 units/s Lifespan 1.4s Radius 3 units Ignores blockers

Bomb attack
Cooldown 1.6s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 13.45, -3.6 Targeting range ∞ units
Can fire without a target
Explosion Pierce 20 Damage 1 Damage to Camo +1 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Radius 35 units Ignores blockers

1-2-0

Attack
Cooldown 1.68s → 1.26s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 13.45, -3.6 ↓ 0, 13.1, -3.6

Bomb attack
Cooldown 1.6s → 1.2s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 13.45, -3.6 ↓ 0, 13.1, -3.6

2-2-0

Attack
Main projectile Count 8 → 12

0-2-1

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 13.45, -3.6 ↓ 0, 13.1, -3.6
Main projectile Pierce 5 → 8

Bomb attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 13.45, -3.6 ↓ 0, 13.1, -3.6
Explosion Pierce 20 → 32

0-2-2

Tower
Targeting options Centered Path

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	$1,150	$1,350	$1,460	$1,620	$805	$945	$1,022	$1,134
1-2-0	$1,535	$1,800	$1,945	$2,160	$1,075	$1,260	$1,362	$1,512
2-2-0	$2,005	$2,350	$2,540	$2,820	$1,404	$1,645	$1,778	$1,974
3-2-0	$2,855	$3,350	$3,620	$4,020	$1,999	$2,345	$2,534	$2,814
4-2-0	$5,660	$6,650	$7,185	$7,980	$3,962	$4,655	$5,030	$5,586
5-2-0	$41,785	$49,150	$53,085	$58,980	$29,250	$34,405	$37,160	$41,286
0-2-1	$1,575	$1,850	$2,000	$2,220	$1,103	$1,295	$1,400	$1,554
0-2-2	$2,045	$2,400	$2,595	$2,880	$1,432	$1,680	$1,817	$2,016
0-2-3	$4,215	$4,950	$5,350	$5,940	$2,951	$3,465	$3,745	$4,158
0-2-4	$24,105	$28,350	$30,620	$34,020	$16,874	$19,845	$21,434	$23,814
0-2-5	$100,605	$118,350	$127,820	$142,020	$70,424	$82,845	$89,474	$99,414

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 52.2

Spy Plane offers much potential for high-skill early Camo popping, particularly against early stages of Phayze on Boss Rush. The amplifying Camo bonus scales best with higher base damage, specifically from Sky Shredder, Spectre, and higher-tier middle path. Double Camo damage is mainly impactful versus DDTs and Phayze, but can be a carry for early Camos.

When used as a crosspath, it's mainly used where external Camo detection is unavailable or when fighting against Phayze. It's poor on Neva-Miss Targeting, preferring Lots More Darts even versus Camos. Fighter Plane and above aren't affected much, but does improve DPS specifically versus Camo for the darts of Operation: Dart Storm and Sky Shredder, but favor Sharper Darts elsewhere.

Update history

For a complete list of Monkey Ace changes, see Update history:Monkey Ace (BTD6).

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Version 16.0

5-2-0

•  Sky Shredder now grants pineapples +2 damage to Ceramics

Version 22.0

“

While Pineapples are never the star of the show, the amount of pierce they have is completely unnecessary for their usage window and has only led to balance problems for Bombing Run, specifically in races. This high amount of pierce has been more evenly spread through higher tiers & crosspath.
— Update notes

”

•  Pineapple: Base pierce decreased ― 40 → 20

0-2-1

•  Pineapple: Now gains +12 pierce from Sharper Darts
  • Note: Pineapple pierce decreased from 40 to 32

Version 23.0

“

Monkey Ace was never intended to be a great starting tower and instead come into power at mid- and high-tier upgrades, but since the base tower feels lacking to new players (and some of us old timers) we decided to rework low tier power into the base tower.
— Update notes

”

•  Dart: Projectile size increased ― 2 → 3
•  Main attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 2.1s → 1.68s (attack speed increased by 25%)
•  Pineapple: Attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s (attack speed increased by 50%)

0-2-1, 0-2-2, 0-2-3, 0-2-4, 0-2-5

•  Pineapple: Attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s (attack speed increased by 50%)

1-2-0, 2-2-0, 3-2-0, 4-2-0, 5-2-0

•  Pineapple: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.6s → 1.2s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)

Version 28.0

“

Monkey Ace has had an overall rework to a lot of different upgrades in order to highlight the x1x Exploding Pineapples upgrade as a buff to all explosives [...]
— Update notes

”

3-2-0, 4-2-0, 5-2-0

•  Exploding Pineapple now grants +4.5 units to the radius of the missile attack's explosion ― 30 → 34.5
•  Exploding Pineapple now grants +2 pierce to the missile attack's explosion

0-2-4

•  Exploding Pineapple now grants +15 pierce to the main attack's bombs
  •  Overall pierce reduced ― 60 → 45 (due to changes to the projectile's base pierce)
•  Exploding Pineapple now grants +3 units to the radius of the main attack's bombs ― 20 → 23

Version 30.0

“

More of a straight quality of life, Ace has gained a new special toggle button to allow it to turn back and fly in reverse on any selected flight pattern.
— Update notes

”

•  Reverse flight pattern added

Version 31.0

“

Spy Plane is always a lesser crosspath aside from specific challenges that call for camo detection. It has a similar vibe to Night Vision sniper so we have given it a similar buff.
— Update notes

”

•  All attacks: Spy Plane now deal +1 damage to Camo

Version 41.0

“

Exploding pineapples gained a larger rate bonus from crosspathing than the main attack did to make up for its base rate being so poor, so we’re fixing that poor base rate while keeping the crosspath bonus the same.
— Update notes

”

•  Pineapple attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 2s → 1.7s (attack speed increased by 17.65%)

1-2-0, 2-2-0, 3-2-0, 4-2-0, 5-2-0

•  Pineapple: Attack rate buff from Rapid Fire reduced ― -40% → -25%
  •  Stacks with changes to the attack's base cooldown; overall attack cooldown increased ― 1.2s → 1.275s (attack speed reduced by 5.88%)

Version 43.0

“

Minor catchup changes to some parts have fallen out of line slightly due to balance changes for other parts of the Ace.
— Update notes

”

•  Pineapple: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.7s → 1.6s (attack speed increased by 6.25%)
  •  Overall attack cooldown with Rapid Fire reduced ― 1.275s → 1.2s (attack speed increased by 6.25%)

Version 50.0

“

As Spy Plane crosspath doesn’t see much love we’ve gone all-in on the Camo crosspath making it a double damage bonus, which is especially good news for Ground Zero vs. Fortified DDTs.
— Update notes

”

•  Bonus damage to Camo Bloons increased for all attacks ― +1 → ×2

3-2-0, 4-2-0, 5-2-0

•  Bonus damage to Camo Bloons increased for all attacks, except Anti-MOAB missiles ― +1 → ×2

Version 53.0

3-2-0, 4-2-0, 5-2-0

•  Missiles now drop an Exploding Pineapple on impact, with the same stats as the regular pineapple attack

Version 54.0

“

Pineapple radius is scaling up to match x3x Bomber Ace’s explosion size, since there are virtually no recorded instances of these actually hitting a Bloon yet (Fingers crossed!)
— Update notes

”

•  Exploding Pineapples: Explosion radius increased ― 25 units → 35 units

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In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	طائرة تجسس السماح للقرد الطيار ضرب البالونات المموهة وإلحاق المزيد من الضرر بهم.	—
Danish	Spionfly Giver pilot-abe evnen til at ramme camo-bloons og gøre mere skade på dem.	—
German	Spionageflugzeug Ermöglicht es dem Affenfliegerass, Tarn-Bloons zu treffen und ihnen mehr Schaden zuzufügen.	—
Spanish	Avión espía Permite que el mono as ataque a los camufloons y les haga más daño.	—
Spanish (LA)	Avión espía Permite que el mono as ataque a los camufloons y les haga más daño.	—
Finnish	Vakoilukone Lentäjä-ässä voi osua maastokuvioituihin blooneihin ja tekee niille enemmän vahinkoa.	—
French	Avion espion Permet au singe pilote d’élite de toucher les Bloons camouflés et de leur infliger plus de dégâts.	—
Italian	Aereo spia Consente alla scimmia asso di colpire i bloon mimetizzati e infliggere loro più danni.	—
Japanese	スパイ航空機 モンキーエースがカモフラージュブルーンを撃ち、もっとたくさんのダメージを与えられるようになる。	—
Korean	스파이 비행기 에이스 원숭이가 캐모 풍선을 맞힐 수 있으며, 더 많은 피해를 줄 수 있습니다.	—
Dutch	Spionagevliegtuig Hiermee kan de Apenpiloot Gecamoufleerde Bloons raken en meer schade doen.	—
Norwegian	Spionfly Gjør det mulig for Ape-ess å treffe kamuflasjebloons og påføre dem mer skade.	—
Polish	Samolot zwiadowczy Pozwala małpce pilotowi uderzać w kamuflażowe blony i zadawać im większe obrażenia.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Avião Espião Permite que o Macaco Ás acerte Bloons Camuflados e cause mais dano neles.	—
Russian	Самолет-разведчик Позволяет асу бить по камуфлированным шарам и наносить им больше урона.	—
Swedish	Spionplan Gör det möjligt för Apesset att träffa Kamobloons och åsamka dem mer skada.	—
Thai	เครื่องบินสอดแนม ทำให้ลิงเครื่องบินโจมตีบลูนพรางตัวได้ และทำดาเมจกับพวกมันแรงขึ้น	—
Turkish	Casus Uçak Pilot Maymunun Kamuflajlı Bloon’ları vurmasını sağlar ve onlara daha fazla hasar verir.	—
Chinese (simplified)	间谍飞机 允许皇家飞行员击中迷彩气球并对它们造成更高伤害。	—
Chinese (traditional)	間諜飛機 使王牌猴子能夠擊中偽裝氣球，並對它們造成更高傷害。	—
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