Buddy Bloon is an Advanced Blooncard in Bloons Card Storm. It starts with 150 Shield and reduces the ATK of the opponent's Monkey with the highest ATK to zero when it is played. The ATK reduction persists until the Buddy Bloon or the affected Monkey is removed. If multiple Monkeys are tied for the highest ATK, it chooses the first placed Monkey. It affects secondary damage effects that are dependent on the target's ATK stat (e.g. Triple Shot's Splash Damage), but not card effects that deal a fixed amount of damage (e.g. Blade Maelstrom's On Turn End, Bouncing Bullet's bounces) or On Fire or Acid Pools caused by Monkeys.
Buddy Bloon is best used for countering high damage Monkeys in the early game. Targeting something like a Sniper Monkey, Super Monkey, Frag Bomb Shooter or Robo Monkey earlier on can harm opponent defenses by making strong, more expensive cards functionally useless for a while.
Freeing the neutralized Monkey via popping the Buddy Bloon is difficult without the support of Powers or other Monkeys. Unless it can surely be popped within 3 turns, focusing damage on it is useless.
Towers affected by Buddy Bloon can be affected by Bed Time. This combo is more expensive than Shrink and costs two cards to do, so it generally is not worth considering.
If the opponent tries to rely on a Defender to damage Bloons after their turn, Buddy Bloon can be used to negate it (provided it's the highest ATK Monkey), and also waste its ammo.
A simple but cheap way to pop Buddy Bloon is Overload, which is suitable for aggro mirrors.
This card existed in the data of Bloons Card Storm since the Firstlook test, and was originally named "Friendly Bloon", though it went unused until the full release. The full release changed its properties, and likely changed its name to avoid confusion (as "friendly Bloon" is also a term used in card text for any Bloon with the same owner).
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Name
Description
Rarity
Cost
Charges
Health
Delay
Beta builds
Friendly Bloon
When played: Random Enemy Monkey's Damage becomes 0
Uncommon
4
2
50
2
Version 1.0
Buddy Bloon
On Play: Reduce highest enemy Monkey's Attack Power to 0 while this is in play.
Advanced
Classic
4
Delay increased ― 2 → 3 
Health increased ― 50 → 75
Description now uses the abbreviation "ATK" instead of "Attack Power"
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Placeholder icon
Placeholder art
Screenshot (pre-v3.3)
Buddy Bloon without a shield (pre-v3.3)
Buddy Bloon's on play affects the Sun Temple.
Full Health Buddy + Dark Castle, with negated Burny Stuff Mortar direct damage only
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