Faster Reload (BTD6) (Mortar Monkey)

For the Bomb Shooter's upgrade, see Faster Reload (BTD6) (Bomb Shooter). For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Faster Reload (Battles 2) (Mortar Monkey). For other uses, see Faster Reload (disambiguation).

Faster Reload

	Increases the attack speed of the Mortar.

Tower		Path	Tier
Mortar Monkey		2	1

XP cost	150
Cash cost	$340 — Easy $400 — Medium $430 — Hard $480 — Impoppable

Rapid Reload →

Faster Reload is the Mortar Monkey's path 2 tier 1 upgrade in Bloons TD 6.It reduces the Mortar Monkey's attack's cooldown by 25%, increasing its attack speed by ~33%. It attacks every 1.5s instead of 2s.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 30 units Footprint radius 11 units

Attack
Cooldown 1.5s Offset (X, Y, Z) -4.03, 2.5, 20 Spread 18 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range ∞ units Rotation speed ∞ deg/s Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Explosion Pierce 25 Damage 2 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Radius 20 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

1-1-0

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) -4.03, 2.5, 20 ↓ -4.03, 2.5, 27
Explosion Pierce 25 → 45 Radius 20 units → 28 units

0-1-1

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) -4.03, 2.5, 20 ↓ -4.03, 2.5, 22.04 Spread 18 → 8

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
0-1-0	$850	$1,000	$1,080	$1,200	$595	$700	$756	$840
1-1-0	$1,105	$1,300	$1,405	$1,560	$774	$910	$984	$1,092
2-1-0	$1,530	$1,800	$1,945	$2,160	$1,071	$1,260	$1,362	$1,512
3-1-0	$2,230	$2,625	$2,835	$3,150	$1,561	$1,838	$1,985	$2,205
4-1-0	$8,180	$9,625	$10,395	$11,550	$5,726	$6,738	$7,277	$8,085
5-1-0	$38,780	$45,625	$49,275	$54,750	$27,146	$31,938	$34,493	$38,325
0-1-1	$1,020	$1,200	$1,295	$1,440	$714	$840	$907	$1,008
0-1-2	$1,360	$1,600	$1,725	$1,920	$952	$1,120	$1,208	$1,344
0-1-3	$2,295	$2,700	$2,915	$3,240	$1,607	$1,890	$2,041	$2,268
0-1-4	$10,370	$12,200	$13,175	$14,640	$7,259	$8,540	$9,223	$10,248
0-1-5	$44,370	$52,200	$56,375	$62,640	$31,059	$36,540	$39,463	$43,848

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 50.0

Faster Reload sees niche use in the early game of Race Events, or to more reliably catch Leads in 2MPC challenges. Otherwise, it is only recommended as a stepping stone or as a crosspath to Tier 3 and above Mortars, in which case, upgrading further to Rapid Reload is recommended. Faster Reload improves consistency for Shattering Shells on multi-lane maps for defortifying blimps, and, when purely used as a pure support tower, this is a notable case where stopping at Faster Reload is preferred.

Update history

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

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Version 14.0

• "Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"

Version 15.0

• "The mortar’s projectiles should no longer visually drop back down the barrel"

Version 21.0

“

Mortar’s Faster Reload feels like a ‘required’ as a crosspath with Burny Stuff never scaling well on any path but it’s own. We like choices not requirements so to counter this we have made Burny Stuff scale with top-path damage & shifted a small amount of the speed from Faster Reload onto the base mortar and reduced base accuracy considerably. — Update notes

”

•  Attack cooldown modifier reduced ― ×0.7 → ×0.75
  •  Overall attack cooldown reduced ― 1.54s → 1.5s (attack speed increased by 2.67% due to changes to the base attack cooldown)
•  Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30
  • Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)

Version 22.0

“

We felt like we set up the math quite well with Mortar changes last update, but regardless of this missed shots due to inaccuracy vs. attack speed turned out to be unpopular and impacted the middle path too severely. Fortunately this change led to the community finding some critical bugs in the middle path upgrades there since Mortar’s release! That said, since low tier Mortars were never powerful we chose to leave the speed buff from last update but revert the accuracy nerf. — Update notes

”

•  Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18

Version 39.0

“

We’re looking to shakeup mortar in a couple small ways this update, along with Striker Jones changes noted further on for ‘multi-mortaring’ synergy. From the base level Mortar has far more pierce than should ever be necessary at low rounds but doesn’t hit beefy enough for the low fire rate, so we are trading up some base pierce for damage, instead moving this lost pierce up into crosspath. — Update notes

”

•  Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
•  Explosion: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 25
  • Note: Bigger Blast and its subsequent upgrades unchanged

Version 50.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $150 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 51.0

“

No big shakeup for Mortar right now, but upon review of crosspaths we felt some low-end pricing wasn’t well balanced. These adjustments should improve early-game options without touching the core power of the tower. — Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $300 → $400

Gallery

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

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Assets

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  Insta Monkey icon

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	إعادة تحميل أسرع زيادة سرعة هجوم الهاون.	—
Danish	Hurtigere Ladning Forhøjer mortérens angrebshastighed.	—
German	Schnelleres Nachladen Erhöht die Angriffsgeschwindigkeit des Mörsers.	—
Spanish	Recarga acelerada Aumenta la velocidad de ataque del mortero.	—
Spanish (LA)	Recarga acelerada Aumenta la velocidad de ataque del mortero.	—
Finnish	Nopeampi lataus Lisää Mörssärin hyökkäysnopeutta.	—
French	Rechargement plus rapide Augmente la vitesse d’attaque du mortier.	—
Italian	Caricamento accelerato Aumenta la velocità di attacco del mortaio.	—
Japanese	迅速リロード 迫撃砲の攻撃速度を増加する。	—
Korean	재장전 속도 증가 박격포의 공격 속도가 증가합니다.	—
Dutch	Sneller herladen Verhoogt de aanvalssnelheid van de Mortier.	—
Norwegian	Raskere omlading Øker angrepshastigheten til morteren.	—
Polish	Szybsze przeładowanie Zwiększa prędkość ataku moździerza.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Recarga Mais Rápida Aumenta a velocidade de ataque do morteiro.	—
Russian	Ускоренная перезарядка Ускоряет атаку мортиры.	—
Swedish	Snabbare omladdning Ökar attackhastigheten för granatkastaren.	—
Thai	บรรจุกระสุนเร็วขึ้น เพิ่มความเร็วโจมตีของปืนครก	—
Turkish	Daha Hızlı Yükleme Havanın saldırı hızını artırır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	急速装填 提高迫击炮的攻击速度。	—
Chinese (traditional)	更快裝彈 提高迫擊砲的攻擊速度。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1