Airburst Darts (BTD6)

For other uses, see Airburst Darts (disambiguation).

Airburst Darts

Airburst darts split into 3 on impact for massive popping power.

Tower	Monkey Sub — Path 3 — Tier 2
XP cost	1,000
Cash cost	$850 — Easy $1,000 — Medium $1,080 — Hard $1,200 — Impoppable

← Twin Guns

Triple Guns →

Airburst Darts is the Monkey Sub's path 3 tier 2 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It reduces Monkey Sub's main darts to 1 unbuffable pierce each. However, they instantly split into 3 airburst projectiles (4 projectiles with Quad Burst) upon impact that each each deal 1 damage with 2 pierce (3 with Naval Upgrades). These airburst projectiles cannot damage Lead or Frozen Bloons unless the original dart could. The main darts will also automatically "burst" when they expire (this is easiest noticed at the end of rounds), though this (for the most part) doesn't affect gameplay.

With Barbed Darts, airburst darts gain +3 additional pierce.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 42 units Footprint radius 7 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 0.375s Offset (X, Y, Z) 2, 16, 8.5 (side 1) -2, 16, 8.5 (side 2) Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 42 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Pierce 2 Max pierce 1 Damage 1 Damage type Sharp Speed 170 units/s Seeking distance ∞ units Seeking angle 180° Seeking rotation speed 360 °/s Lifespan 1.5s Radius 2 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Airburst dart Count 3 Pierce 2 Damage 1 Damage type Sharp Speed 340 units/s Lifespan 0.2794s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

1-0-2

Tower
Display range 42 units → 52 units

Attack
Targeting range 42 units → 52 units

2-0-2

Attack
Can now target in range of other towers with shared range (including Camo)
Projectile Lifespan 1.5s → 2.9412s

0-1-2

Attack
Projectile Pierce 2 → 5 Airburst dart Pierce 2 → 5

0-2-2

Attack
Projectile Damage type Sharp → Normal Airburst dart Damage type Sharp → Normal

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
0-0-2	$1,505	$1,775	$1,915	$2,130	$1,054	$1,243	$1,341	$1,491
1-0-2	$1,615	$1,905	$2,055	$2,285	$1,131	$1,334	$1,439	$1,600
2-0-2	$2,040	$2,405	$2,595	$2,885	$1,428	$1,684	$1,817	$2,020
3-0-2	$2,635	$3,105	$3,350	$3,725	$1,845	$2,174	$2,345	$2,608
4-0-2	$4,675	$5,505	$5,940	$6,605	$3,273	$3,854	$4,158	$4,624
5-0-2	$28,475	$33,505	$36,180	$40,205	$19,933	$23,454	$25,326	$28,144
0-1-2	$1,885	$2,225	$2,400	$2,670	$1,320	$1,558	$1,680	$1,869
0-2-2	$2,140	$2,525	$2,725	$3,030	$1,498	$1,768	$1,908	$2,121
0-3-2	$3,285	$3,875	$4,185	$4,650	$2,300	$2,713	$2,930	$3,255
0-4-2	$14,335	$16,875	$18,225	$20,250	$10,035	$11,813	$12,758	$14,175
0-5-2	$38,985	$45,875	$49,545	$55,050	$27,290	$32,113	$34,682	$38,535

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 52.2

Airburst Darts is a versatile early-game option, being a strong choice on nearly all maps with water. Its early-game power is the most notable on maps with lanes that switch, such as Bloody Puddles and Muddy Puddles. Airburst Darts only struggles to be a carry on maps that go against straight lines, such as Quad.

Advanced Intel is recommended for Airburst Darts in nearly all cases, especially on multi-lane maps, as global reach generally outweighs the benefits of increased pierce and lead-popping.

When used as a crosspath, it is recommended for Ballistic Missile and its succeeding upgrades on maps where their base range partially covers all lanes. Airburst Darts is optional for Bloontonium Reactor and Energizer for extra single-target damage when unsubmerged, and it is not recommended for Submerge and Support.

Update history

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Version 12.0

•  Airburst dart: pierce reduced by 1

Version 18.0

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

•  Airburst Darts now reduces the pulse attack's cooldown by 25%
  •  Overall reduces attack cooldown by 36.25% (due to changes to Twin Guns)

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

•  Airburst Darts now reduces the missile attack's cooldown by 25%
  •  Overall reduces attack cooldown by 34.375% (due to changes to Twin Guns)

Version 19.0

0-3-2, 0-4-2

•  Ballistic Missile: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.75s → 0.984375s (attack speed reduced by 23.81%)

0-5-2

•  Ballistic Missile: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.25s → 0.328125s (attack speed reduced by 23.81%)

Version 22.0

“

Ballistic Missile previously had far too much attack speed added into the crosspath and was rebalanced for parity, but the overall performance loss from this was too much. Better balance will come from the base rate of Ballistic Missile itself. — Update notes

”

0-3-2, 0-4-2

•  Ballistic Missile: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.984375s → 0.853125s

Version 26.0

“

As Airburst Darts alone already gives a huge benefit to the tower regardless of not applying any crosspath buff, some of the attack speed benefit this upgrade gave to 032 Ballistic Missile has instead been moved into the base 030 Missile. — Update notes

”

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

•  rate buff to Ballistic Missile reduced from 0.75x to 0.9x

0-3-2, 0-4-2

•  Ballistic Missile: attack cooldown reduced ― 0.853125s → 0.8702s

0-5-2

•  Ballistic Missile: attack cooldown reduced ― 0.328125s → 0.39375s

Version 30.0

“

Previously the rate increase to Ballistic Missile from crosspath was reduced due to Airburst having enough value on it’s own. This reason still applies as Airburst provides a significant power boost just on it’s own, so all rate increase has been removed from Airburst and applied directly to the base Ballistic Missile to help crosspath diversity slightly. — Update notes

”

0-3-2, 0-4-2

•  Airburst Darts no longer reduces the missile attack's cooldown by 10%
  •  Overall attack cooldown of this crosspath is unchanged (due to changes to the missile attack's base cooldown)

0-5-2

•  Missile attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.39375s → 0.4375s (attack speed reduced by 10%)

Version 41.0

“

We have come back a number of times to add, fix & balance sub crosspathing, over years of learning though it currently feels messy and we’d like simplification. Heat-Tipped Darts doesn’t increase base sub pierce, so it feels silly to require it for maximum pierce on Submerged subs. Likewise Airburst shouldn’t be required to maximize the rate of submerged subs, instead we’d rather give people an easier way to work with the Airburst attack if they desire to upgrade to it so ‘Submerge’ is moving to a new Tower Special rather than target priority. — Update notes

”

3-0-2

•  Airburst Darts no longer reduces the attack cooldown of the decamo pulse
  •  Overall attack cooldown increased ― 0.95625s → 1.05s (due to changes to the previous tier)

4-0-2, 5-0-2

•  Airburst Darts no longer reduces the attack cooldown of the damage pulse
  •  Overall attack cooldown increased ― 0.19125s → 0.21s (due to changes to the previous tier)

Version 42.0

“

As currently nothing else ever happens with the main attack beyond T2 on the top path we want to give Energizer a little more power here to promote reason to un-submerge, although knowing how well this attack scales in terms of buffability we’re starting off with a careful amount to not take this too far. — Update notes

”

5-0-2

•  Airburst dart: damage increased ― 1 → 5

Version 43.0

“

Bloontonium Reactor’s unsubmerged damage is increasing to encourage unsubmerged possibilities. — Update notes

”

4-0-2

•  Airburst dart: Damage increased ― 1 → 2

Version 45.0

“

We’re improving Reactor’s attack cooldown to improve general consistency. — Update notes

”

•  No longer displays a Paragon pip without all tier 5 upgrades unlocked (bug fix)

4-0-2, 5-0-2

•  Pulse: cooldown reduced ― 0.21s → 0.196s

Version 53.0

3-0-2

•  Pulse (decamo): Cooldown reduced ― 1.05s → 0.945s
  • Note: 4-0-1+ Bloontonium Reactor unchanged (0.196s)

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In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	سهام أيربيرست تنقسم السهام المتفجرة إلى 3 عند الاصطدام للحصول على قوة فرقعة هائلة.	—
Danish	Luftsprængningspile Luftsprængningspile deler sig i 3 ved træfning og yder ekstrem springkraft.	—
German	Luftdetonationspfeile Luftdetonationspfeile teilen sich beim Aufprall in 3 Pfeile und erhöhen so die Kraft zum Platzen lassen.	—
Spanish	Dardos de detonación aérea Los dardos de detonación aérea se parten en 3 al impactar, creando un enorme poder para explotar.	—
Spanish (LA)	Dardos de detonación aérea Los dardos se dividen en 3 cuando impactan y generan más potencia reventadora.	—
Finnish	Ilmaräjähdetikat Ilmaräjähdetikat jakautuvat törmäyksestä kolmeksi, mikä lisää poksautusvoimaa.	—
French	Fléchettes à air Les fléchettes à air se divisent en 3 à l’impact pour une augmentation massive de la puissance d’éclatement.	—
Italian	Frec. esplosive Una volta colpito il bersaglio, le freccette esplosive si dividono in 3 per aumentare la potenza distruttiva.	—
Japanese	エアバースト・ダーツ エアバースト・ダーツは当たると3つに分裂し、巨大な割るパワーを発する。	—
Korean	공중 폭발 다트 공중 폭발 다트가 풍선과 접촉하면 3개로 쪼개져 엄청난 터트리는 힘을 발휘합니다.	—
Dutch	Luchtstootpijltjes Luchtstootpijltjes splitsen zich bij impact in drieën voor enorme knalkracht.	—
Norwegian	Trippelangrep Deler dartpiler inn i 3 ved kontakt for enormt større poppekraft.	—
Polish	Wybuchowe rzutki Wybuchowe rzutki dzielą się przy uderzeniu na 3, by zwiększyć moc przekłucia.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Dardos de Ar Dardos de Ar se dividem em três no impacto para maior poder de estouro.	—
Russian	Взрывчатые дротики Взрывчатые дротики разделяются натрое при попадании и наносят большой урон.	—
Swedish	Luftexploderande pilar Luftexploderande pilar delas i 3 när de träffar för massiv smällkraft.	—
Thai	ลูกดอกแอร์เบิสต์ ลูกดอกแอร์เบิสต์แบ่งตัวออกเป็น 3 นัดเมื่อกระทบเป้าหมาย เพื่อพลังการเจาะมากขึ้น	—
Turkish	havada Patlayan Oklar Havada patlayan oklar büyük oranda arttırılmış patlatma gücü için 3 parçaya ayrılır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	空炸飞镖 空爆飞镖可在命中时分裂成3个，大幅增加击破力。	—
Chinese (traditional)	空爆飛鏢 空爆飛鏢在擊中目標時會分成3根，擊破力大增。	—
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