Striker Jones shoots explosive shells from his bazooka, popping up to 10 Bloons in a small blast radius and inflicting pushback. At higher levels, he can buff Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys, plus additional benefits that improve efficiency of explosives, including extra pierce. He cannot target Camo Bloons without support.
Starting at level 5, he allows every explosive to have a 50% chance to ignore Black Bloon properties, increasing to 100% at level 19.
Starting at level 8, he improves the pierce and range of all nearby towers.
Concussive Shell (level 3) — Fires a homing missile that targets the strongest Bloon on screen (except BADs and Bosses), damaging and stunning it and nearby Bloons.
Target Focus (level 7) — For the duration, all Mortar Monkeys have increased accuracy and follow the location where the user last tapped or hovered.
Artillery Command (level 10) — Resets all ability cooldowns of Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys. At level 20, it also grants double damage and pierce to all Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys for a limited time.
Striker Jones shoots missiles from his bazooka. Each missile travels in a straight line, exploding on impact in a small radius. Damaged non-MOAB-Class Bloons are knocked back 5 units. Initially, his explosions deal 2 damage with 10 pierce, with 15 blast radius, and attacks every 1.2s. He starts with 55 range.
Striker Jones and his bazooka gain improvements as he levels up:
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Level
Effect
2
Explosion blast radius increased from 15 to 19
5
Affected by his own debuffs to Black Bloon properties (50% chance to pop Black Bloons)
6
Pierce increased from 10 to 20, blast radius increased to 28.5
7
Damage increased from 2 to 4
9
Attack cooldown reduced from 1.2s to 1s (+20% attack speed, ~0.8333x attack cooldown)
Starting at level 4, All Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys have 10% reduced attack cooldowns (~11% increased attack speed). This buff is global and is marked with an icon of Striker Jones' head.
At level 8, every tower in the range of Striker Jones gain 5% range and 25% pierce. Unlike most buffs, this specific buff lacks an icon.
At level 18, the global buff to Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys is improved; these towers now have a further 10% reduced attack cooldowns (~11% increased attack speed), for a total of 19% reduced attack cooldown (~23.46% increased attack speed).
Black Bloon debuff
Starting at level 5, all Black Bloons, Zebra Bloons, and DDTs have a 50% chance to have their immunity to explosion damage be ignored when hit, increasing to 100% at level 19. This chance is applied separately for each Bloon, so, for example, an explosion that hits two Black Bloons may damage one Black Bloon but not the other. This applies to all sources of explosion damage, not just Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys.
Abilities
Concussive Shell
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Concussive Shell is unlocked at level 3. It fires a seeking explosive projectile that targets and locks onto the strongest Bloon on-screen other than BADs and Bosses, and picks a new target if the current target is popped. On impact, the explosion deals 2 damage and stuns up to 36 Bloons (38 with More 'Splody) in a large radius for one second, with a duration penalty versus all MOAB-Class Bloons (MOABs and DDTs: -40%, BFBs: -55%, ZOMGs: -70%). It can damage any Bloon type, including Black Bloons, but it cannot target or hit Camo Bloons.
At level 9, its damage increases from 2 to 12, pierce increased from 36 to 48, and stun duration increase to 4 seconds. At level 1, its blast radius increases by 50% (27 → 40.5) and its stun duration improves again to 6 seconds.
It has a 16-second cooldown, which is reduced to 11 seconds at level 15.
Target Focus is unlocked at level 7. It temporarily changes the targeting of all Mortar Monkeys to Follow Touch and reduces the spread of their shots by 30% for 15 seconds. Mortar Monkeys cannot target Follow Touch otherwise and they revert to targeting their original targeting settings when the ability ends. Mortar Monkeys can also switch back to Set Target early by re-selecting a new location. It has a 45-second cooldown.
Striker Jones is a solid hero for counteracting the explosive immunity, and serves well in strategies that focus on Bombs and/or Mortars. Additionally, his bonus percentage pierce buff improves the damage output of Spike Factory. His main attack also does solid damage and Bloon knockback, though less important than his buffs.
Concussive Shell is a strong support ability, helping to stall Bloon waves such as on round 63. On later rounds, Concussive Shell may be spammed to help stall large groups of MOAB-Class Bloons. Since this ability is locked on Strong, focus on dealing with weak clumps with your other towers.
Target Focus assists Mortar-heavy defenses, allowing them to automatically target a specific location without needing to manually move each Mortar's targetings. Even with a single Mortar, Target Focus allows the player to shift focus on the screen. However, this ability's effects last for a limited time, so should be reserved for difficult rounds that would otherwise require heavy micro.
Artillery Command especially helps Pop and Awe and Artillery Battery, but it's not very reliable due to its slow cooldown. At level 20, it provides a very strong buff to all Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys, greatly helping against difficult rounds such as 98, 99, and 100.
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We were hopeful to get this in early last year, however it was delayed at the time in favour of other things. Finally though, along with the other Mortar changes in this update it feels like a good time for Jones to learn a new Lv7 QoL ability designed around managing large numbers of mortars more effectively. — Update notes
There’s very few places to obtain ‘percentage pierce’, and looking at it we feel like this is something that really does fit where Striker’s Explosives Expert could improve on for everyone, not just Bomb Shooters - especially given that this buff would be quite significant for Mortars and never previously applied for them, or maybe even encourage Striker in niche strategies that don’t need these towers. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
All
Placement cost reduced ― $750 → $700
8
+5% range buff to Bomb Shooters in range now applies to all towers in range
Lv8 buff to Bomb Shooters in range gain +25% pierce now applies to any towers in range
Note: Due to a bug the above changes only applied to level 8 and not to higher levels
Striker Jones Level 1 description changed ― Striker Jones shoots a powerful bazooka to explode the Bloons. → Striker Jones shoots a powerful bazooka to explode the Bloons and push them back on hit.
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Striker’s main attack has never contributed a great deal to his value, so we are increasing its damage across the board for cleanup purposes and giving it a slight Bloon pushback. At the same time, Concussive Shell’s stun duration is being lowered at higher levels. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
All
Bazooka shell: Explosion now knocks back non-blimp Bloons by 5 units
Jones has been a little too effective among the starter heroes, so we’re evening out his attack speed scaling to keep him strong without letting him scale quite as much into obscenity. — Update notes
Striker Jones’ Concussive Shell has been working as too much of a heavy carry for how quickly it recharges, it will now have a little less pierce & the reduced MOAB duration now applies from Lv3 instead of Lv9, and will have even less duration against higher tier MOAB-Classes. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
3−8
Concussive Shell: Pierce reduced ― 48 → 36
9+
Concussive Shell: Pierce reduced ― 58 → 48
3−8
Concussive Shell: Stun duration for MOABs and DDTs reduced ― 1s → 0.6s
جونز المهاجم هو قائد قوي يستخدم معرفته الفنية بالقتال بعيد المدى لتعزيز قوة المتفجرات إلى حد كبير.
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Danish
Angriber-Jones er en stærk leder, som bruger sin viden om langdistancekamp til at øge sprængstoffers sprængevne eksplosivt.
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German
Striker Jones ist ein starker Kommandant, der mit seinem Wissen über den Fernkampf die Kraft seiner Bomben deutlich erhöht.
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Spanish
Striker Jones es un comandante fuerte que usa su conocimiento en el combate de largo alcance para incrementar muchísimo el poder de los explosivos.
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Spanish (Latin America)
Striker Jones es un comandante fuerte que usa su conocimiento en el combate de largo alcance para incrementar muchísimo el poder de los explosivos.
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Finnish
Iskijä Jones on voimakas komentaja, joka käyttää tietämystään pitkän matkan taistelusta tehostaakseen räjähteiden voimaa merkittävästi.
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French
Striker Jones est un commandant solide qui utilise ses connaissances de combat longue portée pour améliorer grandement le pouvoir des explosifs.
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Italian
Striker Jones è un valoroso comandante che sfrutta la sua conoscenza delle tecniche di combattimento a lunga distanza per potenziare la capacità distruttiva degli esplosivi.
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Japanese
ストライカー・ジョーンズは長距離戦の知識を駆使し、爆破力に輪をかける力強い司令官。
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Korean
스트라이커 존스는 원거리 전투에 해박하며, 특히 폭발물을 제대로 활용하는 법을 압니다.
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Dutch
Striker Jones is een sterke commandant die zijn kennis van langeafstandsgevechten gebruikt om de kracht van explosieven sterk op te voeren.
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Norwegian
Striker Jones er en sterk kommandør som bruker sin kunnskap innen langdistansekamp for å øke kraften av eksplosiver.
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Polish
Striker Jones to silny dowódca, który wykorzystuje swoją wiedzę o walce z dystansu, by zwiększyć moc środków wybuchowych.
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Portuguese (Brazil)
Striker Jones é um poderoso comandante que usa seu conhecimento de combate de longo alcance para aumentar bastante o poder dos explosivos.
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Russian
Ударник Джонс — опытный командир. Он много знает о боях на дальней дистанции и делает взрывчатку куда мощнее.
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Swedish
Striker Jones är en stark kommendant som använder sin kunskap om långdistansstrid för att öka kraften hos sprängmedel betydligt.
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