Bomber Ace (BTD6)

For other uses, see Bomber Ace (disambiguation).

Bomber Ace

Drops a line of bombs when crossing the Bloon track.

Tower	Monkey Ace — Path 2 — Tier 3
XP cost	2,500
Cash cost	$765 — Easy $900 — Medium $970 — Hard $1,080 — Impoppable

← Spy Plane

Ground Zero →

Bomber Ace is the Monkey Ace's path 2 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. 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).

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

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, 18.2, -3.6 Targeting range 22 units
Ignores blockers Can fire without a target
Main projectile Count 8 Angle 360° Pierce 5 Damage 1 Damage to Camo +1 Damage type Sharp Speed 120 units/s Lifespan 1.4s Radius 3 units Ignores blockers

Bomb attack
Cooldown 1.6s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 18.2, -3.6 Targeting range ∞ units
Can fire without a target
Explosion Pierce 20 Damage 3 Damage to Camo +3 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Radius 35 units Ignores blockers

1-3-0

Attack
Cooldown 1.68s → 1.26s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 18.2, -3.6 ↓ 0, 16.8, -3.6

Bomb attack
Cooldown 1.6s → 1.2s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 18.2, -3.6 ↓ 0, 16.8, -3.6

2-3-0

Attack
Main projectile Count 8 → 12

0-3-1

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 18.2, -3.6 ↓ 0, 16.8, -3.6
Main projectile Pierce 5 → 8

Bomb attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 18.2, -3.6 ↓ 0, 16.8, -3.6
Explosion Pierce 20 → 32

0-3-2

Tower
Targeting options Centered Path

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
0-3-0	$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

Strategy

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Bomber Ace reliably pops groups and becomes more reliable against Leads. However, like most Aces, Bomber Ace requires micromanagement to manage timing of its bombs. Its main use case is Race Events and CT Time Attack, allowing it to maximize pierce, though its DPS is still inconsistent on its own and quite map-dependent. The extra Camo damage from Spy Plane improves its reliability at demolishing Camo Ceramics.

1-3-0 is the recommended crosspath, though 2-3-0's extra darts improves its reliability against Black Bloons. 0-3-1, despite its much greater pierce, usually outputs less DPS even in Race Event scenarios due to the bombs only landing on available track instead of spontaneously, and losing one bombing run per Ace flight cycle isn't worth it on most track layouts.

Update history

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

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Version 7.0

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $500 → $900 (undocumented)
•  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 10.0

•  Bombing run: Attack cooldown increased ― 1.5s → 1.7s (attack speed reduced by 11.76%)
•  Bombing run: Explosion damage reduced ― 4 → 3

1-3-0, 2-3-0

•  Bombing Run: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.7s → 1.02s (attack speed increased by 66.67%)
  • Note: Rapid Fire now increases attack speed

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.
— Update notes

”

•  Bombing run: Base pierce decreased ― 40 → 20
•  Pineapple: Base pierce decreased ― 40 → 20

0-3-1

•  Pineapple: Now gains +12 pierce from Sharper Darts
  • Note: Pineapple pierce decreased from 40 to 32
•  Bombing run: Now gains +12 pierce from Sharper Darts
  • Note: Bomb pierce decreased from 40 to 32

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.
— Update notes

”

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

0-3-1, 0-3-2

•  Pineapple: Attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s (attack speed increased by 50%)

1-3-0, 2-3-0

•  Pineapple: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.6s → 1.2s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)

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.
— Update notes

”

•  Reverse flight pattern added

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

”

•  All attacks: Spy Plane now deal +1 damage to Camo

Version 41.0

1-3-0, 2-3-0

•  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%)

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

”

•  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%)

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.
— Update notes

”

•  Bonus damage to Camo Bloons increased for all attacks ― +1 → ×2

Gallery

For more Monkey Ace images, see Gallery:Monkey Ace.

Screenshots

• 
  Bomber Ace with no crosspath
• 
  Bomber Ace with 130 crosspath
• 
  Bomber Ace with 230 crosspath
• 
  Bomber Ace with 031 crosspath
• 
  Bomber Ace with 032 crosspath
• 
  Bomber Ace bombing run

Assets

• 
  Portrait
• 
  Upgrade icon
• 
  Insta Monkey icon

Trivia

• In previous versions, its standalone cost was cheaper than the base Monkey Ace. Oddly, its price nerf in version 7.0 was undocumented in the patch notes.

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	طائرة قاذفة قنابل إسقاط مجموعة من القنابل عند عبور مسار البالونات.	—
Danish	Bombe-es Kaster en bane med bomber, når den overflyver bloon-vejen.	—
German	Bomberass Wirft Bomben ab, wenn es die Strecke mit den Bloons überquert.	—
Spanish	As bombardero Suelta una línea de bombas cuando cruza la pista de los bloons.	—
Spanish (LA)	As bombardero Suelta una línea de bombas cuando cruza la pista de los bloons.	—
Finnish	Pommiässä Pudottaa pommirivin ylittäessään bloonireitin.	—
French	Pilote de bombardier Largue une série de bombes en traversant le circuit Bloon.	—
Italian	Asso bombardiere Rilascia una serie di bombe quando attraversa il tracciato.	—
Japanese	爆撃エース ブルーンのトラック上を通過する際に一連の爆弾を投下する。	—
Korean	폭격기 에이스 풍선 트랙을 지날 때 일련의 폭탄을 투하합니다.	—
Dutch	Bommenwerperpiloot Laat een rij bommen vallen bij het oversteken van het Bloon-pad.	—
Norwegian	Bombe-ess Slipper en linje av bomber når den krysser bloon-banen.	—
Polish	Bombowy as Zrzuca szereg bomb, gdy przecina ścieżkę blonów.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Bombardeiro Ás Descarrega uma linha de bombas ao cruzar a pista de Bloons.	—
Russian	Бомбовый ас Сбрасывает ряд бомб при пересечении маршрута шаров.	—
Swedish	Bombaräss Släpper en bombmatta när den flyger över Bloonvägen.	—
Thai	เครื่องบินทิ้งระเบิด ทิ้งระเบิดเป็นแถวยาวเมื่อบินข้ามเส้นทางของบลูน	—
Turkish	Bombardıman Birliği Bloon parkurundan geçerken bir dizi bomba atar.	—
Chinese (simplified)	王牌轰炸机 飞越气球路径时会投掷一排炸弹。	—
Chinese (traditional)	王牌轟炸機 穿過氣球路徑時丟一行炸彈。	—
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