Update history:Monkey Ace (BTD6)

This is a list of changes to the Monkey Ace in Bloons TD 6 post-release.

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Version 4.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Spectre (further upgrades unaffected)	Attack cooldown increased ― 0.05s → 0.06s (attack speed reduced by 16.67%)

Version 6.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.05s → 0.04s (attack speed increased by 25%)

Version 7.0

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Bomber Ace	Upgrade cost increased ― $500 → $900 (undocumented)
X-3-X Bomber Ace (and further upgrades)	Bombing run: Blast radius increased ― 25 → 35  Bombing run: Attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 1.5s (attack speed increased by 100%)  Bombing run: Damage increased ― 2 → 4

Version 8.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Sky Shredder	Main attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 3
X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting	Projectile speed increased ― 120 units/s → 180 units/s  Projectile lifespan increased ― 2.5s → 3.33333s  Projectile turn rate increased ― 108°/s → 180°/s
X-X-4 Spectre	Upgrade cost increased ― $18,000 → $24,000  Dart attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 2  Bomb attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 4
X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Dart attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 4  Bomb attack: Damage increased ― 3 → 5

Version 9.0

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Tsar Bomba	Correctly applies stun art (bug fix)

Version 10.0

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Bomber Ace	Bombing run: Explosion damage reduced ― 4 → 3
X-3-X Bomber Ace (and further upgrades)	Bombing run: Attack cooldown increased ― 1.5s → 1.7s (attack speed reduced by 11.76%)
1-3-0 Bomber Ace + Rapid Fire (and further upgrades)	Bombing Run: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.7s → 1.02s (attack speed increased by 66.67%) Note: Rapid Fire now increases attack speed

“

[N]o one really noticed that this gained +8 damage for 10 seconds after ability use. So, Bombs dropped by this tower now deal 10 damage permanently
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Ground Zero X-5-X Tsar Bomba	Bombing run: Explosion damage increased ― 4 → 10  Ability: No longer increases bomb explosion damage by 8 for 10 seconds after activation

Version 14.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting	"Global Range tracking no longer stutters unreasonably"

Version 16.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Sky Shredder	All attacks now deal +2 damage to Ceramics
5-2-0 Sky Shredder + Spy Plane	Sky Shredder now grants pineapples +2 damage to Ceramics

Version 17.0

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Fighter Plane	Missile attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 3s → 4s (attack speed reduced by 25%)  Missile explosion: Pierce increased ― 1 → 3
3-X-X Fighter Plane (and further upgrades)	Missile explosion: Damage reduced ― 25 → 18
4-X-X Operation: Dart Storm	Missile attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 1.5s → 2s (attack speed reduced by 25%)  Missile explosion: Pierce increased ― 1 → 4
5-X-X Sky Shredder	Missile attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 1.5s → 2s (attack speed reduced by 25%)  Missile explosion: Pierce increased ― 1 → 5  Missile explosion: No longer damages DDTs (bug)

Version 17.1

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Sky Shredder	Main attack: Can no longer hit Camo Bloons without Camo detection  Can damage visible DDTs again without buffs (bug fix)

Version 21.0

“

Tsar Bomba currently holds low value compared to multiple Ground Zero purchases aside from the stun, this greatly requested change should hopefully add more niche benefit .^[sic]
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Tsar Bomba	Ability: Cooldown reduced ― 45s → 40s  Bomb attack: Damage type changed ― Explosion → Normal
1-5-0 Tsar Bomba + Rapid Fire 0-5-1 Tsar Bomba + Sharper Darts	Now reduces ability cooldown by 5s (bug)  Overall cooldown reduced ― 45s → 35s (due to changes to the base cooldown)
2-5-0 Tsar Bomba + Lots More Darts 0-5-2 Tsar Bomba + Centered Path	Now reduces ability cooldown by 5s (bug)  Overall cooldown reduced ― 45s → 30s (due to changes to the base cooldown)

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. Flying Fortress has also been reduced in price because, while achievable, it doesn't match well with freeplay progress.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-1-0 Exploding Pineapple X-2-0 Spy Plane X-3-0 Bomber Ace (further upgrades unaffected)	Pineapple: Base pierce decreased ― 40 → 20
0-1-1 Exploding Pineapple + Sharper Darts 0-2-1 Spy Plane + Sharper Darts 0-3-1 Bomber Ace + Sharper Darts	Pineapple: Now gains +12 pierce from Sharper Darts Note: Pineapple pierce decreased from 40 to 32
0-3-1 Bomber Ace + Sharper Darts	Bombing run: Now gains +12 pierce from Sharper Darts Note: Bomb pierce decreased from 40 to 32
X-3-0 Bomber Ace (further upgrades unaffected)	Bombing run: Base pierce decreased ― 40 → 20
0-4-1 Ground Zero + Sharper Darts 0-5-1 Tsar Bomba + Sharper Darts	Bombing run: Now gains +12 pierce from Sharper Darts Note: Bomb pierce increased from 40 to 52
1-5-0 Tsar Bomba + Rapid Fire 0-5-1 Tsar Bomba + Sharper Darts	No longer reduces ability cooldown by 5s (bug fix)
2-5-0 Tsar Bomba + Lots More Darts 0-5-2 Tsar Bomba + Centered Path	No longer reduces ability cooldown by 5s (bug fix)  Stacks with a bug fix to the previous tier; overall ability cooldown increased by 10s to match the non-crosspathed cooldown
X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Upgrade cost reduced ― $120,000 → $105,000

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. In addition to this we are experimenting with adding a small amount of homing to the spectre upgrade as rapid fire missing is not the intended design.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-X Rapid Fire (and further upgrades) X-1-X Exploding Pineapple (and further upgrades) X-X-1 Sharper Darts X-X-2 Centered Path X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting (further upgrades unaffected)	Dart: Projectile size increased ― 2 → 3
0-0-0 base tower 0-1-X Exploding Pineapple (and further upgrades) 0-X-1 Sharper Darts 0-X-2 Centered Path 0-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting	Main attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 2.1s → 1.68s (attack speed increased by 25%)
1-X-X Rapid Fire	Main attack: Attack rate buff from Rapid Fire reduced ― 0.6× → 0.75× Note: Spectre unchanged as it was always 0.75×. Exploding Pineapple and bombs from path 2 crosspath unchanged at 0.6×  Attack cooldown remains at 1.26s
1-1-0 Rapid Fire + Exploding Pineapple (and further upgrades)	Pineapple: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.6s → 1.2s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)
X-1-X Exploding Pineapple 0-1-1 Exploding Pineapple + Sharper Darts (and further upgrades) X-2-X Spy Plane	Pineapple: Attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s (attack speed increased by 50%)
X-X-4 Spectre (and further upgrades)	Dart: Now has a slight seeking effect
X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Upgrade cost reduced ― $105,000 → $100,000

Version 24.0

“

Similar to Tack Shooter Maelstrom upgrades, we have targeted a nerf to Ground Zero for race conditions by amounts which are not relevant outside of those conditions. Additionally Tsar Bomba has received a much smaller version of this nerf along with a reduced cooldown to increase its relevance.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Ground Zero	Ability: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 1,000
X-5-X Tsar Bomba	Ability: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 5,000  Ability: Cooldown reduced ― 40s → 35s  Also reduces initial cooldown ― 10s → 5s

Version 26.0

“

As Dart Storm currently feels like a lossy stepping stone the damage has been increased.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Operation: Dart Storm (further upgrades unaffected)	Missile attack: Damage increased ― 18 → 24
X-1-X Exploding Pineapple	Exploding Pineapple should no longer display the wrong number on every 2nd Pineapple (bug fix)

Version 27.0

“

Now allows you to find your center. Very zen.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-2 Centered Path (and further upgrades)	Centered Path mode: Now allows the player to change the center point of the path

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, in addition to this Spectre has been reworked to have less base pierce but a higher damage bonus to Ceramic Bloons in order to make the new option of a pierce crosspath more viable while also allowing it to carry on better into the endgame against Super Ceramics.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-0-X Fighter Plane	Missile attack: Pierce increased ― 3 → 4 Note: Operation Dart Storm unaffected  Overall pierce with the X-1-X crosspath increased ― 3 → 6 (due to changes to Exploding Pineapple)
3-1-0 Fighter Plane + Exploding Pineapple (and further upgrades)	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
X-X-4 Spectre	Main attack dart: Now deals +2 damage to Ceramic  Main attack dart: Pierce reduced ― 30 → 15  Main attack bomb: Now deals +2 damage to Ceramic  Main attack bomb: Pierce reduced ― 60 → 30
0-1-4 Spectre + Exploding Pineapple 0-2-4 Spectre + Spy Plane	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. As Ground Zero stands out in power, & enough so to make the upgrade to Tsar Bomba questionable, some upgrade cost has been moved out of Tsar Bomba into Ground Zero to make Ground Zero more expensive while not changing Tsar much other than a slight overall cost buff. While Flying Fortress has started to see use in Boss events this feels like more of a cash dump than actual value in the tower. As Spectre value already drops off the later any game gets, the saveup into a ‘better version’ also drops off in value, and so the price should reflect that better.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
All tiers	Reverse flight pattern added
X-4-X Ground Zero	Upgrade cost increased ― $14,000 → $18,000
X-5-X Tsar Bomba	Upgrade cost reduced ― $35,000 → $30,000  Overall cost reduced by $1,000 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Upgrade cost reduced ― $100,000 → $85,000

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

”

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Spy Plane (and further upgrades)	All attacks: Spy Plane now deal +1 damage to Camo

Version 32.0

“

Neva-Miss has been generally over performing for quite a cheap T3, increasing price here slightly but not carrying that increase up through higher tiers.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting	Upgrade cost increased ― $2,200 → $2,800
X-X-4 Spectre	Upgrade cost reduced ― $24,000 → $23,400  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-4 Spectre (further upgrades unaffected)	Main attack dart: Now deals +2 damage to Ceramics as intended (bug fix)

Version 33.0

“

To help you work towards the new Ace Paragon we have reduced Spectre’s lategame ceramic weakness with improved targeting for the bomb projectiles & a large increase to their bonus Ceramic damage to help out later on, to change focus on these projectiles we have also shifted damage around for the darts to deal single target with the bombs providing ceramic AoE cleanup. Flying Fortress’s value drops off by the lategame when you can realistically afford it, so following on with this dart single target focus change at T4 we have added a large MOAB damage bonus to Flying Fortress darts.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Spectre X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Darts & bombs now both have a weaker homing effect
X-X-4 Spectre (further upgrades unaffected)	Dart: damage increased ― 2 → 3  Bomb: Damage reduced ― 3 → 2  Bomb: Ceramic bonus increased ― 2 → 4
X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Dart: now deals +10 damage to MOAB-Class

Version 34.0

“

Sky Shredder has a higher skill ceiling than most towers so has evaded many nerfs, but is still too good for what it offers so is finally seeing a slight price increase. Same as mentioned above for the flagship, we are experimenting with new homing changes for the Spectre & Flying Fortress to improve their feeling. Users have noticed that Goliath Doomship's ability overall has far less pierce than the T4 ability, while this rarely matters at all the pierce value downgrading by that much was not an intended reduction, so we are bumping up each of those ability bombs to bring the total pierce up.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Sky Shredder	Upgrade cost increased ― $40,000 → $41,500
X-X-4 Spectre X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Spectre new homing style
5-5-5 Goliath Doomship	Carpet Bomb: Pierce increased ― 50 → 150

Version 35.0

“

While we wanted to initially ensure general farming achievability of the (still very high) price compared to how good we actually felt the Doomship was due to the target goal of giving it an intentional ability niche and the jump it would be as most expensive paragon, but after seeing the results of its power we're happy to take this up now
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-2 Centered Path	Ace ‘centered path' markers now visually update immediately after setting new points (bug fix)
X-X-2 Centered Path (and further upgrades) 5-5-5 Goliath Doomship	Resolved an issue where reversing flight path before purchasing Centered Path would prevent the centered path target from flying in the correct direction (bug fix) Note: Nerf to ace micro
5-5-5 Goliath Doomship	Paragon cost increased ― $800,000 → $900,000

Version 37.0

“

Spectre is shifting a little of the ceramic bonus around into basic all damage at the cost of reduced pierce, which should make up for lack of single target damage while also making the pierce crosspath more necessary when being used for cleanup focus.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-2 Centered Path	Upgrading to Centered Path no longer refreshes the cooldown on the special toggle (bug fix)
X-X-4 Spectre	Main attack dart: Damage increased ― 3 → 4  Main attack dart: Damage to Ceramics reduced ― +2 → +1  Main attack dart: Pierce reduced ― 15 → 10  Main attack bomb: Damage increased ― 2 → 3  Main attack bomb: Damage to Ceramics reduced ― +4 → +3  Main attack bomb: Pierce reduced ― 30 → 20

Version 38.0

“

As the price of Ground Zero has been considerably increased in the base game since then, the nerf to 1000 pierce set for races a long time ago now feels restrictive for the price.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Ground Zero	Ability: Pierce increased ― 1,000 → 2,000

Version 39.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Spectre X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Spectre and Flying Fortress can no longer ignore Phayze’s camo immunity when under Radar Scanner (bug fix)

“

Limiting many changes to Ace for now, we feel that it wasn’t nerfed that badly from the bug fix and we also currently want it to stay one of the much higher level price tags. It has been performing incredibly well even as the most expensive paragon, however given it is very cooldown dependent and scaling that cooldown via degrees is going to be much harder now we want to wait and see the impact of the rest of that rework before anything more significant to it.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-5-5 Goliath Doomship	Cost per power increased ― $25 → $38.25/$45/$48.6/$54  Carpet Bomb: Base cooldown increased ― 40s → 45s  Has less Boss damage, especially on Elite and at higher Degrees

Version 40.0

“

The homing for Neva-miss darts can cause darts to expire just before they are able to loop around and hit their target, which is unsatisfying to see – we like the pattern this attacks with though so allowing a little extra distance before expiration should mostly solve this.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting (further upgrades unaffected)	Projectile distance increased ― 450 → 600

Version 41.0

“

Sky Shredder somewhat justifies its power as one of the very best towers in the game, although everything at this level is a bit too cheap. 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. Centered Path these days adds a lot more potential power to Ace than before and we are moving price down into it from Neva-Miss. Neva-Miss itself is too fun and cool to be lost completely on the very next upgrade so it’s coming back to Spectre as an additional attack, as this main attack is back again 204 no longer needs to give an additional conflicting crosspath benefit. Finally, the Doomship continues to outperform all other paragon significantly enough even for the much higher price that we feel the need to slightly increase the ability cooldown - although the new buff from sub paragon lowers this back down to exactly 45 again anyway.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-1-0 Rapid Fire + Exploding Pineapple 1-2-0 Spy Plane + Rapid Fire 2-1-0 Lots More Darts + Exploding Pineapple 2-2-0 Lots More Darts + Spy Plane 3-1-0 Fighter Plane + Exploding Pineapple (and further upgrades)	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%)
5-X-X Sky Shredder	Upgrade cost increased ― $41,500 → $42,500
0-1-X Exploding Pineapple 0-2-X Spy Plane (further upgrades unaffected)	Pineapple attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 2s → 1.7s (attack speed increased by 17.65%)
1-3-0 Bomber Ace + Rapid Fire (and further upgrades)	Bombing run: Attack rate buff from Rapid Fire reduced ― -40% → -25% (undocumented)  Overall attack cooldown increased ― 1.02s → 1.275s (attack speed reduced by 20%)
X-X-2 Centered Path	Upgrade cost increased ― $300 → $550
X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,800 → $2,550  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-4 Spectre X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Now retains the radial seeking dart attack from Neva-Miss Targeting, with 3 damage instead of 1
2-0-4 Spectre + Lots More Darts 2-0-5 Flying Fortress + Lots More Darts	Lots More Darts no longer grants +25% pierce to the dart attacks
5-5-5 Goliath Doomship	Carpet Bomb: Ability cooldown increased ― 45s → 50s

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

”

Tiers	Changes
X-1-X Exploding Pineapple X-2-X Spy Plane	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%)
0-3-X Bomber Ace (and further upgrades)	Bombing run: 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%)
X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Radial dart attack: Damage increased ― 3 → 6

“

A lot of stats shuffled around here; this should keep the power level roughly similar overall but with proportionally more of that power coming from the seeking attacks, and less from micro aiming the faster firing frontal gun.
— Update notes

”

Tiers

Changes

5-5-5 Goliath Doomship

Seeking Radials: Projectile count increased ― 4 → 8  Seeking radials: Base damage increased ― 200 → 300  Seeking radials: Boss damage bonus increased ― +200 → +300  Non-seeking radials: Projectile count reduced ― 16 → 12  Non-seeking radials: Base damage increased ― 200 → 300  Non-seeking radials: Boss damage bonus increased ― +200 → +300  Frontal gun: Base damage reduced ― 300 → 150  Frontal gun: Boss damage bonus reduced ― +300 → +150

Version 44.0

“

Even with the higher cost Goliath Doomship continues to pull too far ahead of other paragons, given that this is mostly an ability based paragon we’ve decided to nerf this ability greatly but also somewhat counterbalance this change for standard freeplay by converting all of the boss bonus on the ability into basic damage similar to our changes for the Sub Paragon.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-5-5 Goliath Doomship	Carpet Bomb: Cooldown increased ― 50s → 60s  Carpet Bomb: Explosion base damage increased ― 20000 → 30000  Carpet Bomb: Explosions no longer deal +20,000 Boss damage Note: Total D1 Goliath Doomship damage to Bosses is reduced from 40,000 to 30,000

Version 45.0

“

Fighter Plane’s missiles often get stuck circling slower targets until they expire, since Ace can’t reasonably plan against this the missile turn acceleration has been tweaked to reduce chance of this happening. Tsar Bomba is a powerful ability that sees a decent lot of use for an ability heavy upgrade, but as it doesn’t really add to the tower outside of that ability we’ve decided to give the base bombs a boost so that well placed Bombing Runs can shred through Super Ceramics.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Fighter Plane (and further upgrades)	Missile: Max turn speed increased ― 400 → 500  Missile: Turn acceleration reduced ― 160 → 150
X-5-X Tsar Bomba	Bomb attack: Damage increased ― 10 → 15  Bomb attack: Now deals +8 damage to Ceramics

Version 46.0

“

As efforts to improve the feeling of top path Buccaneer have gone relatively well, projectile seeking has now been greatly improved for the Bottom path Ace as well.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting (and further upgrades)	Radial darts: now use Adora's seeking mechanics, allowing them to decelerate to take much tighter turns towards targets and accelerate when targets are directly in front  Radial darts: lifespan reduced ― 3.33s → 1.5s (undocumented)
X-X-4 Spectre X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Spectre dart: seeking turn rate is no longer capped at 180°/s  Spectre dart: seeking targeting angle is no longer capped at 30°

Version 46.1

Tiers	Changes
X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting (and further upgrades)	Radial dart: projectile lifespan reduced ― 1.5s → 1s

Version 47.0

“

Upgrades to the basic Bombing run are never why you move up this path, so we’re improving these across the board while also reducing the cooldown of Ground Zero to match the T5.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Ground Zero	Ability cooldown reduced ― 45s → 35s  Bombing run: Damage increased ― 10 → 15
X-5-X Tsar Bomba	Bombing run: Damage increased ― 15 → 30  Ability initial cooldown increased ― 5s → 11.6667s (undocumented)

Version 48.0

“

Tsar Bomba’s last bomb change appeared to be an over-buff and is being reeled back on. Neva-Miss darts max speed and homing acceleration is being increased so the projectiles are less likely to expire before meeting their target unless placement is terrible.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Tsar Bomba	Bombing run: Damage per bomb reduced ― 30 → 25
X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting (and further upgrades)	Homing dart: Max projectile speed increased ― 180 → 350  Homing dart: Projectile acceleration increased ― 20 → 50  Homing dart: Projectile lifespan increased ― 1s → 3.3333s (undocumented) Note: Only affects the projectile while not homing; the lifespan while homing switches to Adora homing stats, which remain unchanged at 1s

Version 49.0

“

We have shifted up top upgrade costs into Operation Dart Storm to improve the early game upgrade flow for Monkey Ace. Long ago Tsar Bomba was given normal damage type to allow for more interesting 2TC combos at the time, however this no longer feels needed with its current power level so instead we have lowered the upgrade cost and shifted some base bombing run damage into Ceramic bonus
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Rapid Fire	Upgrade cost reduced ― $650 → $450
2-X-X Lots More Darts	Upgrade cost reduced ― $650 → $550  Overall cost reduced by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
4-X-X Operation: Dart Storm	Upgrade cost increased ― $3,000 → $3,300  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-5-X Tsar Bomba	Upgrade cost reduced ― $30,000 → $26,000  Bombing run: Damage per bomb reduced ― 25 → 20  Bombing run: Bonus damage against Ceramic Bloons per bomb increased ― +8 → +10  Bombing run: Bomb damage type changed ― Normal → Explosion

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. Since Spectre works best at the edge of the map far from the entrance the radial attack can expire too early, so projectile distance has been increased.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-2-0 Fighter Plane + Spy Plane (and further upgrades)	Bonus damage to Camo Bloons increased for all attacks, except Anti-MOAB missiles ― +1 → ×2
X-2-X Spy Plane (and further upgrades)	Bonus damage to Camo Bloons increased for all attacks ― +1 → ×2
X-X-4 Spectre (and further upgrades)	Radial dart: Lifespan increased ― 3.3333s → 5.0s Note: Projectile distance increased from 600 units to 900 units

Version 51.0

“

Spectre is trying a new approach: darts are trading in pierce for higher single-target damage, while bombs lean more into AoE Ceramic cleanup to improve overall efficiency. These changes are mirrored on the Flying Fortress to keep the behavior consistent.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Spectre	Frontal dart: Pierce reduced ― 10 → 4  Frontal dart: Damage increased ― 4 → 8  Frontal dart: No longer does +1 Ceramic damage  Frontal bomb: Bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons increased ― +3 → +5
X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Frontal dart: Pierce reduced ― 15 → 4  Frontal dart: Damage increased ― 4 → 8  Frontal dart: No longer does +2 Ceramic damage  Frontal dart: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +10 → +14  Radial dart: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Normal

Version 53.0

Tiers	Changes
3-1-0 Fighter Plane + Exploding Pineapple (and further upgrades)	Missiles now drop an Exploding Pineapple on impact, with the same stats as the regular pineapple attack

“

The suggestion sounded cool? & Pineapple crosspath has always been really boring so some cool would be nice. Ground Zero feels like a good tower, but has had a hard time fitting anywhere being power creeped by other meta options.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Fighter Plane (and further upgrades)	Missile attack: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 24s → 16.8s Note: Projectile speed remains the same, meaning that the distance traveled by the projectile is reduced from 600 units to 420 units.
X-4-X Ground Zero	Upgrade cost reduced ― $18,000 → $16,000

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

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Tiers	Changes
X-1-X Exploding Pineapple X-2-X Spy Plane	Exploding Pineapples: Explosion radius increased ― 25 units → 35 units

Version 55.0

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Spectre was making the save-up into into a Flying Fortress too effortless so it’s single target power has been lowered with a raised upgrade cost, enough to make this not quite so easy
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Spectre	Frontal darts: Damage reduced ― 8 → 6  Frontal bombs: Bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons reduced ― +5 → +4 Note: Flying Fortress frontal bombs already had +4 Ceramic damage
X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Upgrade cost increased ― $85,000 → $90,000  Frontal darts: Damage reduced ― 8 → 6  Side darts: Damage reduced ― 8 → 6 (undocumented)

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