Great White

Great White

The Great White will crush Bloons, including Lead Bloons in its jaws, dragging them back to the water if needed. At max Beast Power the Great White can drag down MOABs.

Tower	Beast Handler — Path 1 — Tier 3
XP cost	1,000
Cash cost	$1,710 — Easy $2,010 — Medium $2,170 — Hard $2,410 — Impoppable

← Barracuda

Orca →

Great White is the Beast Handler's path 1 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. The Beast Handler now handles a great white instead of a barracuda. Its Beast Power is increased by +5, changing its Beast Power scale from 3–6 to 8–24.

The Great White jumps out of the water at set intervals, latches onto a Bloon or MOAB-Class Bloon, including Lead Bloons, and thrashes multiple times before returning to the water, as opposed to Barracuda's rate-buffable, single-attack jumps. Thrashes are centered on the Great White. The thrash's damage (2–4 → 12–36), pierce (4–12 → 10–30), and radius (8 → 15) are all improved. Thrashes can be affected by all external buffs. Thrashes occur every 0.6 seconds and do not trigger immediately after grabbing. Merges increase the thrash's damage, pierce, attack cooldown, and knockback duration. The Great White itself has 40 range instead of 35.

If the target can be one-shot, the Great White drags it into the water; the target is immediately popped while the Great White moves at a constant speed towards the location it jumped from. If it cannot be one-shot, the Great White latches onto it for up to 3 seconds before disappearing.

Mechanics

Unlike previous tier, each attack now follows this order:

1. Takes 0.4 seconds to jump to the target.
2. Creates a splash that creates knockback effect when touching the target.
3. If the target is a regular Bloon and has 1,000,000 RBE or less (ignores fortification), the shark will drag it to the water, or latches onto it for 3 seconds.
   • The dragging time is based on the Bloon's leak damage ($\frac{\sqrt{\text{leakDamage}}+1}{4}$) and Lead Bloon takes an additional 0.5 seconds. However, there is a 1-second minimum dragging time for any type of Bloons.
   • While being latched, the target is slowed by 40%.

During dragging or latching, the shark creates splash that deals damage and knockbacks Bloons every 0.6 seconds. The splash has 15 radius and 10 base pierce. All merge benefits improve the pierce, attack speed, and damage of the splashes. Unlike the other beasts, sharks use the thrash cooldown to calculate the thrash rate (for further information, see this link).

There is also a 1.1-second delay after dragging or latching before the next jump, which is unaffected by merging or external buffs.

At max beast power, the shark can take 6 seconds to drag a MOAB instead of just latching onto it.

Stats

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For a complete list of Beast Handler stats, see Stats:Beast Handler (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 54.0

Tower
Display range 60 units Footprint radius 7 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Beast

Tower
Display range 40 units Footprint radius 2 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 1.1s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 40 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Explosion Pierce 10 Lifespan 0.1s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 15 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Knockback Multiplier ×-0.5 Multiplier for Lead ×-0.25 Multiplier for Ceramic ×-0.25 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×1 Duration 0.2s Thrash projectile Pierce 10 Damage 12 Damage type Normal Lifespan 0.1s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 15 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Knockback Multiplier ×-0.5 Multiplier for Lead ×-0.25 Multiplier for Ceramic ×-0.25 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×1 Duration 0.2s

Beast Power-dependent stats

Power	Scale	Attack	Explosion	Thrash projectile
		Thrash cooldown	Pierce	Pierce	Damage
8	0%	0.6s	10	10	12
9	6.25%	0.587s	11	11	13
10	12.5%	0.5741s	12	12	15
11	18.75%	0.5611s	13	13	16
12	25%	0.5482s	15	15	18
13	31.25%	0.5352s	16	16	19
14	37.5%	0.5223s	17	17	21
15	43.75%	0.5093s	18	18	22
16	50%	0.4964s	20	20	24
17	56.25%	0.4834s	21	21	25
18	62.5%	0.4705s	22	22	27
19	68.75%	0.4575s	23	23	28
20	75%	0.4445s	25	25	30
21	81.25%	0.4316s	26	26	31
22	87.5%	0.4186s	27	27	33
23	93.75%	0.4057s	28	28	34
24	100%	0.3927s	30	30	36

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
3-0-0	$2,745	$3,230	$3,485	$3,870	$1,922	$2,261	$2,440	$2,709
3-1-0	$2,895	$3,405	$3,675	$4,080	$2,027	$2,384	$2,573	$2,856
3-2-0	$3,600	$4,235	$4,570	$5,075	$2,520	$2,965	$3,199	$3,553
3-0-1	$2,905	$3,420	$3,690	$4,100	$2,034	$2,394	$2,583	$2,870
3-0-2	$3,635	$4,280	$4,620	$5,130	$2,545	$2,996	$3,234	$3,591

Strategy

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This section was last updated for: version 48.0

Low-power Great White is good for Round 40, but is a downgrade compared to Power 6 Barracuda in many cases due to its downtime, taking a long time after each jump compared to Barracuda's constant attacks. Power 24 Great White is powerful for the mid-game, dragging in blue MOABs while its thrash largely wipes out everything nearby in addition to breaking down higher-tier blimps well. However, its downtime means that it is still inconsistent, requiring another tower to clean up Bloons while it remains in the water.

Merging into the Great White is recommended, compensating its downtime with high grouped damage. Power 12 is enough to one-shot Ceramics, and Power 19 for Fortified Ceramics, however the main benefits for merges to Great White are increased attack speed and pierce. Power 24's blue MOAB one-shot is a major upgrade; the slower takedowns on blue MOABs allow the shark to splash for longer, in addition to eliminating individual blue MOABs. Merging with two Great Whites saves the most money.

Update history

For a complete list of Beast Handler changes, see Update history:Beast Handler (BTD6).

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Version 36.1

•  Resolved an issue where thrash rate was occurring too frequently if the beast was unable to consume the target ― 0s → 0.3s (bug fix)

Version 37.0

“

As our newest tower to be added to BTD6, we went over feedback for every path and made a large number of adjustments addressing a variety of points.
— Update notes

”

•  Great White damage increased ― 4 → 8
•  Great White max extra damage from merge increased ― 8 → 16
  • Note: Max power Great White damage increased from 12 to 24
•  Great White max attack rate buff from merge increased ― 0.20634 → 0.38
  • Note: Thrash rate is actually a lot more than intended due to a bug
•   Great White extra thrash knockback duration from merge increased ― 0.1 → 0.2
•  Great White projectiles can no longer hit bloons far out of range (bug fix)
•  Great White’s slow applied to grabbed target now expires correctly (bug fix)
•  Thrash rate benefits from speed buffs
•  Top and Middle path Beast Handler paths can now be targeted by Overclock and Ultraboost

Version 37.2

•  Great White thrash rate reduced ― 0.6s → 1.1s (bug fix)

Version 39.0

“

Beast Handler’s general repositioning feels far too free right now, the reposition cooldown is being increased to a more reasonably noticeable number so this feels like a meaningful cost. [...] Great White lacks a lot of pierce for an upgrade with a slower widespread AoE design for the price range.
— Update notes

”

•  Great White: Pierce increased ― 6 → 10
•  Great White max bonus pierce from merge increased ― 18 → 20
  • Note: Max-power pierce increased from 24 to 30
•  Beast: Reposition cooldown increased ― 0.5s → 5s

Version 40.0

•  Beast Handler reposition cooldown reduced ― 5s → 3s

Version 42.0

“

When first creating Beast Handler we balanced the T1-3 upgrade costs with a goal of creating a decision point between spending free playable space to save on cash or spending more cash to save on playable space. However in practice though some people have come on board with spending their playable space as a resource for more power; actual interest is much more divided between maximizing cost efficiency of these merges or simply using different towers. Given that spam of lower tier handlers already comes with the advantage of allowing them to be repositioned over a larger area, we’re changing our approach with a full cost rebalance across most T1-3 upgrades for exactly equal cost per point of merged beast power, instead leaving the nuance around understanding higher value merges & footprint advantage to depend more on discounts.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,950 → $2,075
  •  Overall cost reduced by $890 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 43.0

“

In going over our large list of price changes for Beast Handler’s lower tiers in 42 this change was received very positively, however we did not realize that in making this change we killed off all chance of dual-beast handlers being used as a round 1 starting option for under $650 in hard modes – So we gotta do that math all over again and convert it for difficulty, painful 😀 All T1 beast prices changed to allow 110 & 101 beast handler combos to be placed for under $650 in hard mode, all T2 & T3 prices shifted around to keep these same cost ratios. [...] Orca is very strong currently but Great White doesn’t do so much outside of max merge MOAB Takedowns, so damage is increasing to improve these non-maxed situations. [...] We’re slightly reducing beast reposition cooldown as the tiny range leaves movement very tight, which is especially painful for Microraptor path given the low range.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,075 → $2,010
  •  Overall cost reduced by $115 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
•  Beast: Reposition cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s
•  Great White: Damage increased ― 8 → 12
•  Water beasts: Now spawns within 20% of their range to the track

Version 45.0

“

Base handler's beast range felt too high starting off when considering the tower is built around sharing range between multiple Handlers so this range is being reduced. Top Handler is designed around huge inconsistent power, however Megalodon feels that it should be more reliable for the investment required so we are improving both thrash radius and reducing the cooldown. Fish RBE limit before being able to devour the target instantly is being increased to last further into freeplay.
— Update notes

”

•  Drag-down RBE cap increased ― 250,000 → 500,000
•  Merging/Beast positioning range reduced ― 60 → 50

Version 46.0

“

Max power Great White drags in MOAB's too quickly which actually causes it to thrash less from this and overall perform worse, so a minimum drag time has been set.
— Update notes

”

•  Drag: MOAB minimum grab time increased ― 0s → 6s
  • Note: Although this is a nerf to one-shotting MOABs, the longer duration increases the amount of time to splash, improving the consistency of splashes

Version 47.0

“

As a quality of life improvement, Beast Handler movement cooldowns have now been separated
— Update notes

”

•  Fish & Dino beast reposition cooldowns are now independent

Version 48.0

“

As Great White still has problematic consistency the thrash radius is increasing.
— Update notes

”

•  Grab: Max RBE cap increased ― 500,000 → 1,000,000
•  Splash: Radius increased ― 10 → 15
  • Note: Does not affect 4xx

Version 49.0

“

Shark latch-on lifespan for targets that are not 1shot is being reduced so it has to let go and re-target more frequently as an overall range reduction [...]
— Update notes

”

•  Latch: Time that the beast keeps latched to targets that it can't drag down reduced ― 5s → 3s
  • Note: This decreases overall single-target damage and reduces concentration of damage around the target
•  Can now move beasts onto ice and ink platforms. Beasts with only ice/ink platforms as valid placement will no longer randomly choose a location when attempting to place into ice/ink platforms. (undocumented)
•  Merging/Beast positioning range increased ― 50 → 60
• Solved a bug where Beast Handlers which were crosspathed on a specific order could fail to respawn their fish when reloading a game from a save and and use a Support Chinook to redeploy the Beast Handler. (bug fix)

Version 50.0

•  Thrash calculation is now calculated correctly (bug fix)
  •  Thrash calculation: divisor for "base attack cooldown" changed from the attack cooldown of the Piranha to Great White ― 0.6 → 1.1
  •  Thrash calculation: dividend for "base thrash cooldown" increased while latching ― 0.3 → 0.6 (undocumented)
    • Note: Does not affect dragging
  • Thrash cooldowns across all beast power increased while latching
    • Min power: 0.55s → 0.6s
    • Middle power: 0.455s → 0.49636363636s
    • Max power: 0.36s → 0.39272727272s
  • Thrash cooldowns across all beast power changed while dragging
    • Min power: 0.55s → 0.3s
    • Middle power: 0.455s → 0.248181818s
    • Max power: 0.36s → 0.196363636s

Version 52.0

•  Thrash attack: Thrash interval increased while dragging into water ― 0.3s → 0.6s (bug fix)

Gallery

For more Beast Handler images, see Gallery:Beast Handler.

Screenshots

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  Great White with no crosspath
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  Great White with 310 crosspath
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  Great White with 320 crosspath
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  Great White with 301 crosspath
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  Great White with 302 crosspath
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  Power 8 Great White dragging in a bloon
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  Power 16 Great White dragging in a bloon
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  Power 24 Great White dragging in a bloon

Assets

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  Portrait
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  Upgrade icon
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  Insta Monkey icon

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	القرش الابيض العظيم سيقوم القرش الأبيض الكبير بسحق البالونات، بما في ذلك البالونات المصنوعة من الرصاص بين فكيه، وسحبها مرة أخرى إلى الماء عند الضرورة. بفضل أقصى قوة للوحش، يمكن للقرش الأبيض الكبير أن يسحب البالونات من فئة منطاد "موآب" إلى أسفل.	—
Danish	Hvidhaj Den store hvide haj knuser bloons - også bly-bloons - i sine kæber og trækker dem tilbage til vandet, hvis det er nødvendigt. Ved maks. dyrekraft kan den store hvide haj trække MOAB'er ned.	—
German	Weißer Hai Der Weiße Hai zerquetscht Bloons und sogar Blei-Bloons zwischen seinen Zähnen und zerrt sie bei Bedarf ins Wasser zurück. Bei maximaler Bestienkraft kann der Weiße Hai sogar MOABs herunterziehen.	—
Spanish	Tiburón blanco El gran tiburón blanco aplastará bloons, incluidos bloons emplomados, en sus fauces, y los arrastrará de regreso al agua si es necesario. Con el máximo de poder de bestia, el gran tiburón blanco puede arrastrar hacia abajo a los bloons clase MOAB.	—
Spanish (LA)	Tiburón blanco El gran tiburón blanco aplastará bloons, incluidos bloons emplomados, en sus fauces, y los arrastrará de regreso al agua si es necesario. Con el máximo de poder de bestia, el gran tiburón blanco puede arrastrar hacia abajo a los bloons clase MOAB.	—
Finnish	Valkohai Valkohai murskaa leuoillaan blooneja, mukaan lukien lyijybloonit, ja raahaa ne tarvittaessa veteen. Suurimmalla petoteholla valkohai voi vetää alas MOABeja.	—
French	Grand requin blanc Le Grand requin blanc ne fera qu'une bouchée des Bloons, y compris des Bloons en plomb, avec ses immenses mâchoires, et les emportera avec lui sous la surface si c'est nécessaire. À Puissance de bête maximale, le Grand requin blanc peut emporter avec lui des MOAB.	—
Italian	Squalo bianco Lo squalo bianco distruggerà tra le sue zanne i bloon, compresi quelli di piombo, trascinandoli in acqua, se serve. A potenza bestiale massima, lo squalo bianco può trascinare via i MOAB.	—
Japanese	グレートホワイト グレートホワイトは鉛ブルーンを含むブルーンをそのあごでつぶし、必要であれば水中へど引きずり込む。最大ビーストパワーだと、グレートホワイトはMOABも引きずりおろせる。	—
Korean	백상아리 백상아리는 납 풍선을 포함해 풍선을 씹어버리는 턱 힘을 지녔으며, 필요하면 풍선을 물속으로 끌고 가기도 합니다. 최대 맹수 파워에서는 MOAB 풍선도 끌어내릴 수 있습니다.	—
Dutch	Witte haai De Witte haai verpulvert Bloons, inclusief Loden Bloons, in zijn kaken en trekt ze indien nodig onder water. Op maximale kracht kan de Witte haai MOAB's omlaag trekken.	—
Norwegian	Hvithai Hvithaien vil knuse bloons, inkludert bly-bloons, med kjevene sine og dra dem tilbake til vannet hvis nødvendig. På maks beistkraft kan hvithaien dra ned MOAB-er.	—
Polish	Żarłacz biały Żarłacz biały zmiażdży swoimi szczękami blony, w tym ołowiane, a jeśli trzeba, wciągnie je do wody. Przy maksymalnej mocy bestii żarłacz biały może pokonywać MOAB-y.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Tubarão-Branco O Tubarão-Branco esmagará Bloons, incluindo Bloons de Chumbo, com seu maxilar, arrastando-os de volta à água, se necessário. Com o poder de fera máximo, o Tubarão-Branco pode arrastar MOABs para o fundo.	—
Russian	Белая акула Большая белая акула хватает челюстями шары, включая свинцовые, и тащит их в воду при необходимости. При максимальной силе способна унести под воду шары класса MOAB.	—
Swedish	Vithaj Vithajen krossar Bloons, inklusive Blybloons, i sina käftar och drar ner dem i vattnet om det behövs. Med den högsta bestkraften kan Vithajen dra ner MOAB:er.	—
Thai	ฉลามขาว ฉลามขาวจะบดลูกโป่งด้วยกรามของมันให้เป็นเสี่ยงๆ รวมทั้งลูกโป่งตะกั่ว หากจำเป็นให้ลากพวกมันขึ้นมาจากน้ำ พลังสูงสุดของสัตว์ร้ายอย่างฉลามขาวนั้นสามารถล้ม MOAB ได้	—
Turkish	Beyaz Köpek Balığı Beyaz Köpek Balığı, Kurşun Bloon’lar dahil, Bloon’ları çenesiyle ezer, gerekirse onları suya geri sürükler. Beyaz Köpek Balığı, maksimum Canavar Gücündeyken MOAB’ları alt edebilir.	—
Chinese (simplified)	大白鲨 大白鲨会压碎气球，包括用它的下颚压碎铅气球，可在必要时把气球拖回水中。野兽之力达到最大时，大白鲨可以把MOAB级气球拖下来。	—
Chinese (traditional)	大白鯊 大白鯊會壓碎氣球，包括用它的下顎壓碎鉛氣球，可在必要時把氣球拖回水中。野獸之力達到最大時，大白鯊可以把MOAB級氣球拖下來。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1