Monkey Ace (BTD6)

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Monkey Ace

Flies above the ground shooting volleys of high-pierce darts.

Unlock method(s)	Choose at levels 7–12
Category	Military
Cost	$680 — Easy $800 — Medium $865 — Hard $960 — Impoppable With Advanced Logistics: $645 — Easy $760 — Medium $820 — Hard $910 — Impoppable With Military Conscription: $455 — Easy $535 — Medium $580 — Hard $645 — Impoppable With Advanced Logistics and Military Conscription: $420 — Easy $495 — Medium $535 — Hard $595 — Impoppable
Hotkey	V
Introduced	Launch

The Monkey Ace is a Military tower in Bloons TD 6. It flies over the track and periodically attacks by firing a burst of eight darts, each aimed at a fixed 45 degrees apart. Rather than having targeting options, the player can choose the path the plane flies around its landing strip: initially either a circle, a vertical figure of eight, or an infinity symbol (a horizontal figure of eight). Upgrades and Monkey Knowledge can offer additional flight paths. By default, the Monkey Ace cannot pop lead or frozen balloons, or detect camo. Rosalia can provide price discounts to Monkey Aces within her radius.

It can be upgraded to shoot many more darts and anti-MOAB-class Bloon missiles, drop small and huge bombs on the ground, or fire streams of darts and bombs directly at the Bloons.

Mechanics

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Movement

In BTD6, the camera is tilted 30 degrees from the vertical, resulting in the vertical dimension being squashed. All ace movement in this section will be in reference to an un-squashed coordinate system (i.e. the "Circle" path being an actual circle).

Takeoff

Upon placement of the monkey ace, the monkey ace initially travels horizontally by 30 units (the radius of the circle targeting is 80 units) as given by this expression:

$x(t)=30t^{2.5}$

where $t$ is measured in seconds.

On-path movement

While on the path, the ace moves at a speed of 1 unit per frame (with the exception of Fighter Plane, Dart Storm, and Sky Shredder, which moves at 1.25 units per frame). "frame" in this context refers to exactly 1/60th of a second, and not an in-game frame which may vary in length. As all 3 paths (Circle, Figure Eight, Figure Infinite) have a total path length of $160\pi$ units, this yields a period of $\frac{8\pi }{3}\approx 8.3776$ seconds

Off-path movement

When the ace is not on the path that its targeting is set to, it will attempt to chase the target point of the path. This is an imaginary point on the path that travels at the same speed as the ace when on the path. These target points start moving when the ace is placed and does not stop.

The ace has an off-path speed 1.2 times greater than its on-path speed. It also has a limited turning speed of $\frac{\pi }{30}$ radians per frame

When the ace is within 1 unit of the target point, regardless of direction, it will snap onto the path. This can cause sudden direction changes.

Upgrades

Path 1

Rapid Fire

Tier 1 — 160 XP to unlock

Shoots faster than normal.

$385 — Easy
$450 — Medium
$485 — Hard
$540 — Impoppable

This upgrade reduces the attack cooldown of all of Monkey Ace's attacks by 25%, for a ~33.33% increase in attack speed. Dart volleys are shot every 1.26 seconds instead of 1.68 seconds.

Lots More Darts

Tier 2 — 750 XP to unlock

Shoots 12 darts at a time.

$470 — Easy
$550 — Medium
$595 — Hard
$660 — Impoppable

This upgrade increases the number of darts shot per volley from 8 to 12.

Fighter Plane

Tier 3 — 2,700 XP to unlock

Flies fast and launches anti-MOAB missiles.

$850 — Easy
$1,000 — Medium
$1,080 — Hard
$1,200 — Impoppable

This upgrade increases the Monkey Ace's flight speed by 20% and adds a new attack, firing twin missiles that can only target and damage MOAB-Class Bloons. The missiles are shot out every 3 seconds and only while MOAB-Class Bloons are present on screen, locked on Strong, each dealing 18 damage with 4 pierce. They also home in towards their targets and can rapidly accelerate and turn during flight. The missiles cannot damage Black Bloons, and therefore cannot damage DDTs on their own.

With Exploding Pineapple, missile pierce is increased from 4 to 6 and each missile explosion leaves behind an Exploding Pineapple.

Operation: Dart Storm

Tier 4 — 8,000 XP to unlock

Shoots 16 darts per volley, and twice as fast.

$2,805 — Easy
$3,300 — Medium
$3,565 — Hard
$3,960 — Impoppable

This upgrade doubles the attack speed of Monkey Ace's darts and MOAB missiles, increases the number of darts fired per volley from 12 to 16, and increases the damage of MOAB missiles from 18 to 24.

Sky Shredder

Tier 5 — 35,000 XP to unlock

The Bloons will wish they had never come.

$36,125 — Easy
$42,500 — Medium
$45,900 — Hard
$51,000 — Impoppable

Its dart volleys attack twice as fast and shoots 32 darts per volley instead of 16, both its darts and anti-MOAB homing missiles deal much more damage and have the Normal damage type, and gain more pierce.

• Dart: Each volley shoots 32 per shot instead of 16, damage increases from 1 to 3, and +2 Ceramic damage, base pierce increased from 5 to 8 (6 to 9 with Airforce Upgrades), and attack cooldown reduced from 0.63 seconds to 0.315 seconds. Darts also have 3× projectile speed (360 units/s) with the same lifespan of 1.4 seconds.
• Missile: Damage of each missile increased from 24 to 150, +2 to Ceramics, and base pierce increased from 4 to 5. It is shot every 1.5 seconds.

Its pineapples are identical to Fighter Plane except they also deal +2 Ceramic damage.

Path 2

Exploding Pineapple

Tier 1 — 120 XP to unlock

Drops pineapples to the ground that explode violently after a few seconds. Ace's explosive attacks are improved.

$170 — Easy
$200 — Medium
$215 — Hard
$240 — Impoppable

This upgrade adds an additional attack that drops a pineapple on the map at the Monkey Ace's location every 1.6 seconds (1.2 seconds with Rapid Fire). Pineapples explode after 2 seconds, dealing 1 Explosion-type damage with 20 pierce (32 with Sharper Darts) in a 35-unit radius. Visually, each pineapple displays a countdown that starts at 3 and counts down by 1 every two-thirds of a second, exploding when it would reach zero. With Targeted Pineapples, the Monkey Ace only drops pineapples while flying over the path. This upgrade has crosspathing benefits:

• With Fighter Plane and above, it increases the pierce and blast radius of their missiles, and causes them to drop pineapples after exploding.
• With Sky Shredder, the pineapples deal +2 damage to Ceramic Bloons.
• With Spectre, it increases the pierce of the bombs by 10 and blast radius by 3 units.
• With Flying Fortress, it increases the pierce of the bombs by 15 and blast radius by 3 units.

Spy Plane

Tier 2 — 600 XP to unlock

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

$300 — Easy
$350 — Medium
$380 — Hard
$420 — Impoppable

This upgrade 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.

Bomber Ace

Tier 3 — 2,500 XP to unlock

Drops a line of bombs when crossing the Bloon track.

$765 — Easy
$900 — Medium
$970 — Hard
$1,080 — Impoppable

This upgrade replaces each of Monkey Ace's pineapples with bombing runs. Bombing runs each drop 4 bombs in quick succession, and only occur when Monkey Ace is over a track. Bombs explode 2 seconds after being dropped, deal 3 damage, and have 20 pierce and 35 radius. Bombs inherit Spy Plane's double Camo damage. Bombs cannot damage Black Bloons. The bombing run has a cooldown of 1.6 seconds.

Sharper Darts grants +12 pierce to each of its bombs. Rapid Fire increases attack speed of the bombing run by 33.33% (attack cooldown decreased to 1.2 seconds).

Ground Zero

Tier 4 — 15,000 XP to unlock

Bomb damage increased significantly. Ground Zero Ability: Drops a huge bomb that destroys most things on screen.

$13,600 — Easy
$16,000 — Medium
$17,280 — Hard
$19,200 — Impoppable

This upgrade grants Monkey Ace the Ground Zero ability, which when activated drops a bomb on the screen which deals 700 damage and has 2,000 pierce. This bomb has a full-screen blast radius, and can damage all Bloon types, affecting up to 2000 Bloons nearest the landing pad. This ability has a cooldown of 35 seconds and an initial cooldown of ~11.67 seconds. Once dropped, it has a delay of about 0.7 seconds.

This upgrade also increases the damage of Monkey Ace's bombs from 3 to 15, and increases their pierce from 20 to 40. Double damage to Camos via Spy Plane is inherited and affects both the bomb salvos and the ability bomb.

Tsar Bomba

Tier 5 — 30,000 XP to unlock

A very, very large bomb. Someone put a stop to this craziness!

$22,100 — Easy
$26,000 — Medium
$28,080 — Hard
$31,200 — Impoppable

This upgrade significantly improves the Bomber Ace's bombs, and replaces its Ground Zero ability with an improved version.

• Ability: Does 3,000 damage onto up to 5,000 Bloons on screen (prioritizing the closest to the landing pad), and applies an 8 second stun to all Bloons that survive the explosion. It deals double damage to Camos. It has a cooldown of 35 seconds.
• Bombing run: Base damage per bomb increased from 15 to 20, and Camo bonus damage from +15 to +20. Each bomb also gains +10 bonus Ceramic damage.

Path 3

Sharper Darts

Tier 1 — 160 XP to unlock

Darts can pop 8 Bloons each.

$425 — Easy
$500 — Medium
$540 — Hard
$600 — Impoppable

This upgrade increases the pierce of Monkey Ace's darts from 5 to 8.

If Exploding Pineapple is purchased, this upgrade increases the pierce of pineapples and bombs by +12, from 20 to 32, or 40 to 52 for Ground Zero and Tsar Bomba.

Centered Path

Tier 2 — 600 XP to unlock

New central flight path for maximum map coverage.

$470 — Easy
$550 — Medium
$595 — Hard
$660 — Impoppable

This upgrade grants Monkey Ace a new targeting option named "Centered Path". When this option is selected, Monkey Ace flies in a circle around a point that may be set anywhere on the map. Upon buying the upgrade, the Monkey Ace is automatically set to Centered Path, defaulting its point at the centre of the map.

This circle has a radius of 90 units, slightly larger than that of Circle targeting which is 80 units.

Neva-Miss Targeting

Tier 3 — 3,000 XP to unlock

Darts automatically seek out and pop Bloons by themselves.

$2,170 — Easy
$2,550 — Medium
$2,755 — Hard
$3,060 — Impoppable

With this upgrade, the Monkey Ace's darts will seek Bloons out, targeting them over any distance. It also increases the darts' projectile speed and lifespan from 1.4 seconds to ~3.3333 seconds, though in practice it's actually 1 second, as its lifespan switches to its homing lifespan.

Spectre

Tier 4 — 19,000 XP to unlock

Rapidly fires darts and bombs, dominating most Bloon types easily.

$19,890 — Easy
$23,400 — Medium
$25,270 — Hard
$28,080 — Impoppable

This upgrade grants Monkey Ace a new attack which rapidly fires darts and bombs directly at Bloons. This new attack has a cooldown of 0.06 seconds, and alternates between firing:

• Darts, which deal 6 damage, have 4 pierce, and have the Sharp damage type.
• Bombs, which deal 3 damage with +4 Ceramic damage, have 20 pierce, and have the Explosion damage type.

Both of these types of projectiles seek their target. This attack is always on First targeting.

This upgrade also increases the damage of Monkey Ace's main seeking darts from 1 to 3 and significantly improves their homing capability.

Flying Fortress

Tier 5 — 45,000 XP to unlock

This is a BIG plane.

$76,500 — Easy
$90,000 — Medium
$97,200 — Hard
$108,000 — Impoppable

The Monkey Ace's Spectre attack now shoots 3 projectiles per shot from its attack instead of only 1. One of these projectiles targets First, one targets Last, and one targets Close (relative to the Monkey Ace, not its runway). This upgrade reduces the attack cooldown of the Spectre attack by 33.33%, increasing its attack speed by ~50%.

The darts from the Spectre barrage now deal +14 MOAB-Class damage, the barrage's bombs are improved (damage from 3 to 5, while keeping +4 Ceramic damage, and pierce from 20 to 30), and increases the damage of Monkey Ace's main homing darts from 3 to 6. All attacks now gain the Normal damage type.

Paragon

Goliath Doomship

Tier 6 — 1,000,000 XP to unlock

A flying shadow of darkness spells Bloon obliteration.

$765,000 — Easy
$900,000 — Medium
$972,000 — Hard
$1,080,000 — Impoppable

The Goliath Doomship gains access to multiple attacks and the Carpet Bomb ability:

• Volleys of 12 non-homing missiles, which pierce through multiple bloons, and explode once expired.
• Volleys of 8 homing missiles, seeking towards the strongest bloons and exploding on impact.
• Forward-facing rapid twin streams of darts. These darts only fire if the Goliath Doomship is facing bloons, and always aiming at the closest bloons.
• Activating the Carpet Bomb ability deploys a trio of aeroplanes, taking about 3-4 seconds before they drop 8 bombs in quick succession (0.35-0.45 second intervals) along a designated straightline path. By default, the straightline path is set along the primary diagonal. Exploded bombs stun surviving targets for 8 seconds.

The Goliath Doomship begins with Centered Path targeting when bought, and has all targeting options of the Centered Path upgrade.

Stats

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

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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, 11, -3.6 Targeting range 22 units
Ignores blockers Can fire without a target
Main projectile Count 8 Angle 360° Pierce 5 Damage 1 Damage type Sharp Speed 120 units/s Lifespan 1.4s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Related Monkey Knowledge

This list does not include Monkey Knowledge that affects all Military towers.

Monkey Knowledge	Cost	Prerequisites	Introduced
Airforce Upgrades Monkey Aces and Heli Pilots of Tier 3 or higher get +1 pierce per shot.	Free	—	Launch
Accelerated Aerodarts Darts from Monkey Aces fly faster.	Free	Airforce Upgrades	Launch
Targeted Pineapples Pineapples are only dropped near tracks.	Free	4 invested Accelerated Aerodarts	Launch
Gun Coolant Monkey Aces attack 10% faster.	250	8 invested Targeted Pineapples	Launch
Wingmonkey Advanced flight pathing that coordinates multiple Monkey Aces on staggered attack runs.	500	8 invested Aeronautic Subsidy	Version 15.0
Aeronautic Subsidy Monkey Ace tier 5 upgrades cost 10% less.	500	8 invested Gun Coolant	Launch

Rogue Legends

Starter parties with Monkey Aces

Hero	Insta Monkey 1	Insta Monkey 2	Artifact
Sauda	0-0-2 Monkey Ace	0-0-2 Glue Gunner	Sticky Situation Legendary
Sentai Churchill	1-0-0 Monkey Ace	1-0-0 Mortar Monkey	Squadron Together Strong Common
Benjammin DJ	0-0-2 Monkey Ace	0-2-0 Druid	Starting Strong Legendary
ETn	0-0-2 Monkey Ace	2-0-0 Dartling Gunner	Wacky Wibbly Wavey Common (adds  1-1-0 Heli Pilot)
Red Sauda	0-0-2 Monkey Ace	0-0-2 Glue Gunner	Sticky Situation Legendary

Related Artifacts

This list does not include Artifacts that affect all Military towers.

Artifact	Common effect	Rare effect	Legendary effect
Pincushion Flyby	Monkey Ace pin Bloons for 1s on pop, and have 10% more pierce. Adds a 0-1-1 Monkey Ace to your Party	Monkey Ace pin Bloons for 1s on pop, and have 15% more pierce. Adds a 0-1-2 Monkey Ace to your Party	Monkey Ace pin Bloons for 1s on pop, and have 25% more pierce. Adds a 0-0-2 Monkey Ace to your Party

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
0-0-0	$680	$800	$865	$960	$476	$560	$606	$672
1-0-0	$1,065	$1,250	$1,350	$1,500	$746	$875	$945	$1,050
1-1-0	$1,235	$1,450	$1,565	$1,740	$865	$1,015	$1,096	$1,218
1-0-1	$1,490	$1,750	$1,890	$2,100	$1,043	$1,225	$1,323	$1,470
0-1-0	$850	$1,000	$1,080	$1,200	$595	$700	$756	$840
0-1-1	$1,275	$1,500	$1,620	$1,800	$893	$1,050	$1,134	$1,260
0-0-1	$1,105	$1,300	$1,405	$1,560	$774	$910	$984	$1,092
2-0-0	$1,535	$1,800	$1,945	$2,160	$1,075	$1,260	$1,362	$1,512
2-1-0	$1,705	$2,000	$2,160	$2,400	$1,194	$1,400	$1,512	$1,680
2-2-0	$2,005	$2,350	$2,540	$2,820	$1,404	$1,645	$1,778	$1,974
2-0-1	$1,960	$2,300	$2,485	$2,760	$1,372	$1,610	$1,740	$1,932
2-0-2	$2,430	$2,850	$3,080	$3,420	$1,701	$1,995	$2,156	$2,394
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
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
0-0-2	$1,575	$1,850	$2,000	$2,220	$1,103	$1,295	$1,400	$1,554
1-0-2	$1,960	$2,300	$2,485	$2,760	$1,372	$1,610	$1,740	$1,932
0-1-2	$1,745	$2,050	$2,215	$2,460	$1,222	$1,435	$1,551	$1,722
3-0-0	$2,385	$2,800	$3,025	$3,360	$1,670	$1,960	$2,118	$2,352
3-1-0	$2,555	$3,000	$3,240	$3,600	$1,789	$2,100	$2,268	$2,520
3-2-0	$2,855	$3,350	$3,620	$4,020	$1,999	$2,345	$2,534	$2,814
3-0-1	$2,810	$3,300	$3,565	$3,960	$1,967	$2,310	$2,496	$2,772
3-0-2	$3,280	$3,850	$4,160	$4,620	$2,296	$2,695	$2,912	$3,234
0-3-0	$1,915	$2,250	$2,430	$2,700	$1,341	$1,575	$1,701	$1,890
1-3-0	$2,300	$2,700	$2,915	$3,240	$1,610	$1,890	$2,041	$2,268
2-3-0	$2,770	$3,250	$3,510	$3,900	$1,939	$2,275	$2,457	$2,730
0-3-1	$2,340	$2,750	$2,970	$3,300	$1,638	$1,925	$2,079	$2,310
0-3-2	$2,810	$3,300	$3,565	$3,960	$1,967	$2,310	$2,496	$2,772
0-0-3	$3,745	$4,400	$4,755	$5,280	$2,622	$3,080	$3,329	$3,696
1-0-3	$4,130	$4,850	$5,240	$5,820	$2,891	$3,395	$3,668	$4,074
2-0-3	$4,600	$5,400	$5,835	$6,480	$3,220	$3,780	$4,085	$4,536
0-1-3	$3,915	$4,600	$4,970	$5,520	$2,741	$3,220	$3,479	$3,864
0-2-3	$4,215	$4,950	$5,350	$5,940	$2,951	$3,465	$3,745	$4,158
4-0-0	$5,190	$6,100	$6,590	$7,320	$3,633	$4,270	$4,613	$5,124
4-1-0	$5,360	$6,300	$6,805	$7,560	$3,752	$4,410	$4,764	$5,292
4-2-0	$5,660	$6,650	$7,185	$7,980	$3,962	$4,655	$5,030	$5,586
4-0-1	$5,615	$6,600	$7,130	$7,920	$3,931	$4,620	$4,991	$5,544
4-0-2	$6,085	$7,150	$7,725	$8,580	$4,260	$5,005	$5,408	$6,006
0-4-0	$15,515	$18,250	$19,710	$21,900	$10,861	$12,775	$13,797	$15,330
1-4-0	$15,900	$18,700	$20,195	$22,440	$11,130	$13,090	$14,137	$15,708
2-4-0	$16,370	$19,250	$20,790	$23,100	$11,459	$13,475	$14,553	$16,170
0-4-1	$15,940	$18,750	$20,250	$22,500	$11,158	$13,125	$14,175	$15,750
0-4-2	$16,410	$19,300	$20,845	$23,160	$11,487	$13,510	$14,592	$16,212
0-0-4	$23,635	$27,800	$30,025	$33,360	$16,545	$19,460	$21,018	$23,352
1-0-4	$24,020	$28,250	$30,510	$33,900	$16,814	$19,775	$21,357	$23,730
2-0-4	$24,490	$28,800	$31,105	$34,560	$17,143	$20,160	$21,774	$24,192
0-1-4	$23,805	$28,000	$30,240	$33,600	$16,664	$19,600	$21,168	$23,520
0-2-4	$24,105	$28,350	$30,620	$34,020	$16,874	$19,845	$21,434	$23,814
5-0-0	$41,315	$48,600	$52,490	$58,320	$28,921	$34,020	$36,743	$40,824
5-1-0	$41,485	$48,800	$52,705	$58,560	$29,040	$34,160	$36,894	$40,992
5-2-0	$41,785	$49,150	$53,085	$58,980	$29,250	$34,405	$37,160	$41,286
5-0-1	$41,740	$49,100	$53,030	$58,920	$29,218	$34,370	$37,121	$41,244
5-0-2	$42,210	$49,650	$53,625	$59,580	$29,547	$34,755	$37,538	$41,706
0-5-0	$37,615	$44,250	$47,790	$53,100	$26,331	$30,975	$33,453	$37,170
1-5-0	$38,000	$44,700	$48,275	$53,640	$26,600	$31,290	$33,793	$37,548
2-5-0	$38,470	$45,250	$48,870	$54,300	$26,929	$31,675	$34,209	$38,010
0-5-1	$38,040	$44,750	$48,330	$53,700	$26,628	$31,325	$33,831	$37,590
0-5-2	$38,510	$45,300	$48,925	$54,360	$26,957	$31,710	$34,248	$38,052
0-0-5	$100,135	$117,800	$127,225	$141,360	$70,095	$82,460	$89,058	$98,952
1-0-5	$100,520	$118,250	$127,710	$141,900	$70,364	$82,775	$89,397	$99,330
2-0-5	$100,990	$118,800	$128,305	$142,560	$70,693	$83,160	$89,814	$99,792
0-1-5	$100,305	$118,000	$127,440	$141,600	$70,214	$82,600	$89,208	$99,120
0-2-5	$100,605	$118,350	$127,820	$142,020	$70,424	$82,845	$89,474	$99,414

Strategy

For more in-depth strategies, see Strategy:Monkey Ace (BTD6).

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The Monkey Ace has very high potential damage, but usually wastes most of its shots away from Bloons, and outside of Neva-Miss Targeting and above, has no way to chase and pop leaking bloons. However, the Ace's position can be microed to spend more time near bloons and on the track, improving its damage. This uses the path tracking mechanics of the Ace to the player's advantage, as the target points for each path update at the same rate. Each Ace flight path has its own target point updating simultaneously, so a player can change the Ace's flight path to one that puts the targeting point closer to the track, cycling through flight paths to keep the Ace near the track for as long as possible. Because this is done based on the tracking points in the flight paths, this is done at a rhythm matching how long it takes the Ace to complete one rotation. Despite this, Ace Micro is widely ignored in casual play as it requires precise timing and being too hands on, mainly preferring to use Wingmonkey as an alternative.

Due to ignoring obstacles, Monkey Aces can be useful in all maps. Top path's Dart Storm and Sky Shredder deal high MOAB-class damage and is receptive to buffs for their darts. Bomber Aces and above are very strong in Race Events due to their high pierce and damage output when properly controlled. Neva-Miss Targeting and Spectre are generally friendly to casual players, however they are typically not cost-efficient compared to similarly priced options, though Flying Fortress is always a strong late-game option and does a lot of Boss damage on all map formats.

Update history

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

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Version 23.0

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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

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

Version 30.0

•  Reverse flight pattern added

Cosmetic items

Item	Category	Unlock method(s)	Introduced
Monkey Ace Bone Darts	Monkeys — Projectiles	Trophy Store —  25, Prime Gaming drop 9	Version 21.0
Monkey Ace Dragonfly Pet	Monkeys — Pets	Trophy Store —  120	Version 33.0

Gallery

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Assets

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  Portrait
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  Insta Monkey icon
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  Monkey Ace projectile

In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 49.2

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	القرد الطيار	—
Danish	Pilot-abe	—
German	Affenfliegerass	—
Spanish	Mono as	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Mono as	—
Finnish	Lentäjä-ässä	—
French	Singe pilote d’élite	—
Italian	Scimmia asso	—
Japanese	エースモンキー	—
Korean	에이스 원숭이	—
Dutch	Apenpiloot	—
Norwegian	Ape-ess	—
Polish	Małpka pilot	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Macaco Ás	—
Russian	Обезьяна-ас	—
Swedish	Pilotapa	—
Thai	ลิงเครื่องบิน	—
Turkish	Pilot Maymun	—
Chinese (simplified)	皇家飞行员	—
Chinese (traditional)	王牌猴子	—

Description

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	يقوم بالتحليق فوق الأرض وإطلاق وابل من السهام الخارقة عالية الثقب.	—
Danish	Flyver over jorden og affyrer byger af dartpile med høj gennemslagskraft.	—
German	Fliegt über dem Boden und verschießt Salven von Pfeilen mit hoher Durchschlagskraft.	—
Spanish	Vuela mientras dispara voleas de dardos muy perforantes.	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Vuela mientras dispara voleas de dardos muy perforantes.	—
Finnish	Lentää ilmojen halki ampuen tehokkaasti lävistävien tikkojen ryöppyjä.	—
French	Vole au-dessus du sol en lançant des salves de fléchettes à haut pouvoir perforant.	—
Italian	Vola sopra al terreno sparando scariche di freccette molto appuntite.	—
Japanese	地面の上を飛びながら、貫通度の高いダーツを一斉発射する。	—
Korean	지상 위를 날며 관통력이 높은 다트를 한꺼번에 여럿씩 발사합니다.	—
Dutch	Vliegt boven de grond en schiet salvo's pijltjes met veel doorboring af.	—
Norwegian	Flyr over bakken og skyter skuddsalver med dartpiler med god gjennomtrengning.	—
Polish	Lata nad ziemią i strzela seriami rzutek o dobrym przebiciu.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Voa sobre o chão disparando rajadas de dardos altamente perfurantes.	—
Russian	Летает над землёй, стреляя дротиками с высокой пробивной способностью.	—
Swedish	Flyger över marken och skjuter pilsalvor med högt genomslag.	—
Thai	บินเหนือพื้นดินและยิงลูกดอกที่โจมตีศัตรูได้หลายตัว	—
Turkish	Yerden yüksekte uçarak yüksek delici ok yağmuruna tutar.	—
Chinese (simplified)	在上空盘旋发射高穿透飞镖。	—
Chinese (traditional)	高於地面飛行，射出一排高穿透力飛鏢。	—