Monkey Lab

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Lab upgrades provide a boost in the battlefield every time you play! To fund your research, you need Tokens which you gain by beating tracks and Special Missions. The lab displays how many Tokens are required for the next upgrade. Tap each upgrade to learn its benefits.
— In game description

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The Monkey Lab is a feature in the mobile version of Bloons TD 5 and console version of Bloons TD 5. It allows the player to convert Tokens to obtain permanent stat bonuses. Each stat bonus can be upgraded up to 13 times total, with the first 8 being accessible at the start of the game and the last 5 upgrades requiring progressive unlocks of Mastery Mode up to the Extreme difficulty for the 13th upgrade.

These bonuses can be toggled on and off, but only if the player has reached the current limit of upgrade, which is dependant on what Mastery difficulties they have unlocked. For example, if a player has not unlocked any Mastery Mode maps, the cap is set to level 8 and the upgrade button is replaced with a toggle button until the player unlocks Beginner Mastery.

Categories

Icon	Text	Notes
	Popping Power Grants a <amount>% increase to the popping power of every offensive tower and agent you deploy.	Actually determines the chance for projectiles to have double pierce.
	Attack Speed Grants a <amount>% increase to the attack speed of every offensive tower and agent you deploy.	Actually reduces the attack cooldown by the specified amount. Has no effect on "fire delay", meaning it is less effective on towers with a lot of fire delay (e.g. Mortar Towers), unlike most attack speed buffs, which affect both cooldown and fire delay.
	Starting Cash Grants a bonus $<amount> starting cash in every regular game you play.	Does not apply in Deflation mode.
	Starting Lives Grants a bonus <amount> starting lives in every regular game you play.	Does not apply in Impoppable mode.
	Sell Price Increases the amount of cash redeemed by selling towers to <amount>% of amount spent.	—
	Big Bloon Sabotage Reduces by <amount>% the number of hit points of every MOAB, BFB, and ZOMG.	Due to an error, having any level of Big Bloon Sabotage disables the MOAB-Class Bloon health increase on Impoppable mode.
	Ability Cooldown Reduces by <amount>% the cool down time of your Activated Abilities.	—

List of Monkey Lab upgrades

It takes 2228 tokens total to max out the Monkey Lab.

Popping Power

Level	Chance to double pierce	Token Price
1	2%	2
2	4%	3
3	8%	4
4	10%	7
5	12%	8
6	15%	10
7	15%	16
8	20%	28
9	24%	35
10	28%	40
11	32%	45
12	36%	50
13	40%	60

Attack Speed

Level	Attack speed increase	Token Price
1	2%	2
2	3%	3
3	4%	4
4	5%	5
5	7%	10
6	9%	12
7	12%	18
8	15%	25
9	18%	32
10	20%	40
11	22%	45
12	24%	50
13	26%	60

Starting Cash

Level	Starting Cash increase	Token Price
1	$10	1
2	$20	2
3	$40	4
4	$60	6
5	$90	10
6	$120	12
7	$160	20
8	$200	25
9	$240	32
10	$280	40
11	$320	45
12	$360	50
13	$400	60

Starting Lives

Level	Starting Lives increase	Token Price
1	10	1
2	20	2
3	40	4
4	60	6
5	90	10
6	120	12
7	160	20
8	200	25
9	240	32
10	280	40
11	320	45
12	360	50
13	400	60

Sell Price

Level	Sell price increase	Token Price
1	2%	2
2	3%	2
3	5%	5
4	7%	6
5	9%	8
6	11%	12
7	13%	20
8	15%	25
9	16%	32
10	17%	40
11	18%	45
12	18.5%	50
13	19%	60

Big Bloon Sabotage

Level	MOAB Health penalty	Token Price
1	98%	2
2	96%	3
3	94%	4
4	92%	5
5	90%	7
6	88%	10
7	85%	17
8	80%	35
9	78%	40
10	76%	45
11	74%	50
12	72%	60
13	70%	70

Ability Cooldown

Level	Ability Cooldown time	Token Price
1	98%	1
2	96%	2
3	94%	3
4	92%	5
5	90%	7
6	88%	10
7	85%	17
8	80%	35
9	78%	40
10	76%	45
11	74%	50
12	72%	60
13	70%	70