MOAB Shove (BTD6)

For other uses, see MOAB Shove (disambiguation).

MOAB Shove

Can collide with and shove MOAB-class Bloons, reversing or slowing their movement. Shove is amplified by Bigger Jets and IFR upgrades.

Tower	Heli Pilot — Path 3 — Tier 3
XP cost	2,500
Cash cost	$2,890 — Easy $3,400 — Medium $3,670 — Hard $4,080 — Impoppable

← Faster Firing

Comanche Defense →

MOAB Shove is the Heli Pilot's path 3 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It grants Heli Pilot a new shove attack, which can slow or reverse the movement of MOAB-Class Bloons. This attack deals no damage, and has 1 pierce which cannot be buffed. Bigger Jets enhances the shove's strength.

This upgrade also grants Heli Pilot a new homing missile attack. This attack deals 2 damage with +2 Ceramic damage, +2 MOAB-Class damage, 10 pierce, and a 3 second attack cooldown. Missiles have infinite range, unlike Heli Pilot's other attacks. These missiles cannot damage Black Bloons.

This upgrade's description is misleading: the shove is not amplified by the IFR upgrade except that it gains Camo detection.

Mechanics

The shove attack slows or reverses MOAB-Class Bloons depending on their type, to a given percentage of their normal speed. BADs and Boss Bloons are never affected by shove. Bigger Jets lowers the speed of shoved Bloons by 11 percentage points.

Bloon Type	Speed while shoved	Speed while shoved, with Bigger Jets
MOAB	-30%	-41%
BFB	11%	0%
DDT and ZOMG	75%	64%

A negative speed means the Bloon moves backwards at that speed.

The shove attack has a range of 42 units and targets the closest available Bloon to the Heli Pilot. The same Bloon is not shoved more by multiple MOAB Shove towers.

Stats

For a complete list of Heli Pilot stats, see Stats:Heli Pilot (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 22 units Movement speed 40 units/s Targeting options Follow Touch Lock in Place Patrol Points

Attack
Cooldown 0.456s Offset (X, Y, Z) 9.2, 9.2, 4 (side 1) -9.2, 9.2, 4 (side 2) Targeting range 54.6 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Projectile Count 2 Pierce 3 Damage 1 Damage type Sharp Speed 416 units/s Lifespan 1s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Ballistic Missile
Cooldown 3s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 0 Targeting First Targeting range ∞ units Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Projectile Pierce 1 Max pierce 1 Speed 270 units/s Seeking distance ∞ units Seeking angle 180° Seeking rotation speed 360 °/s Lifespan 7.4074s Radius 4 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Explosion Pierce 10 Damage 2 Damage to Ceramic (excl. Ceramic Armor Shell) +2 Damage to MOAB-Class +5 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.1s Radius 18 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

MOAB Shove
Radius 42 units Multiplier for MOABs ×-0.3 Multiplier for BFBs ×0.11 Multiplier for ZOMGs ×0.75 Multiplier for DDTs ×0.75 Filters Cannot affect Camo

1-0-3

Attack
Copies of this attack 1 → 2 Offset (X, Y, Z) 9.2, 9.2, 4 (side 1) -9.2, 9.2, 4 (side 2) ↓ 9.2, 9.2, 4 (primary 1) -9.2, 9.2, 4 (primary 2) 4.5, 18, 4 (secondary 1) -4.5, 18, 4 (secondary 2)

2-0-3

Tower
Targeting options Pursuit

0-1-3

Tower
Movement speed 40 units/s → 70 units/s

MOAB Shove
Multiplier for MOABs ×-0.3 → ×-0.41 Multiplier for BFBs ×0.11 → ×0 Multiplier for ZOMGs ×0.75 → ×0.64 Multiplier for DDTs ×0.75 → ×0.64

0-2-3

Attack
Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Filters Can now hit Camo

Ballistic Missile
Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Filters Can now hit Camo Explosion Filters Can now hit Camo

MOAB Shove
Filters Can now affect Camo

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
0-0-3	$4,670	$5,500	$5,940	$6,600	$3,269	$3,850	$4,158	$4,620
1-0-3	$5,350	$6,300	$6,805	$7,560	$3,745	$4,410	$4,764	$5,292
2-0-3	$5,775	$6,800	$7,345	$8,160	$4,043	$4,760	$5,142	$5,712
0-1-3	$4,925	$5,800	$6,265	$6,960	$3,448	$4,060	$4,386	$4,872
0-2-3	$5,435	$6,400	$6,915	$7,680	$3,805	$4,480	$4,841	$5,376

Strategy

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This section was last updated for: version 51.1

MOAB Shove is a cheap and easy-to-use MOAB stall against a single blimp. It can be moved anywhere, allowing it to single out a MOAB or BFB for a very long stall. In the mid-game it assists defenses that have a MOAB weakness, while towards the late-game it shifts into an end-of-round staller, alongside a significant ZOMG slow. Unlike most towers, Shove doesn't fall off much on multilane maps, which often separate MOAB-class Bloons on different lanes, allowing Shove to focus on one at a time, making it easier to focus on an isolated blimp.

In CHIMPS, Shove's capability to stall the end of a round is important, long enough to cool off all activated abilities or maximize stockpiles, especially from Perma-Spike. For Boss Bloon Events, Shove can be used to stall out Resurrected Blimps from T1 Lych.

0-1-3 is preferred for its strong shove, and can also stop a single BFB. 0-2-3 can target DDTs innately, though this is outclassed by more reliable DDT slowdowns such as Bloon Sabotage, while top crosspaths are only beneficial if planning to further upgrade to Comanche Defense.

The extra missile attack actively goes against stalling and is too weak and slow to serve as main damage. Razor Rotors has more reliable lead-popping and general damage for less cost.

Update history

For a complete list of Heli Pilot changes, see Update history:Heli Pilot (BTD6).

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Version 5.1

• "MOAB Shove fixed" (bug fix)

Version 11.0

•  Lock in Place and Patrol Points no longer immediately prompt to choose target positions and instead have default positions
•  After changing targeting off of Lock in Place or Patrol Points, changing back returns the target(s) to how it was previously
• "Heli Pilots should no longer cause save files to not load sometimes" (bug fix)

Version 17.0

•  Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 21.0

“

Heli Pilot manages on pursuit far too easily without any need to consider Bigger Jets unless camo or downdraft is required. For more crosspath variety than just ‘camo’ we moved more of the base Heli speed out and back into Bigger Jets with an overall buff to Bigger Jets. This should allow Bigger Jets to scale a little better than other helis through early speed ramping. Due to overall comparisons between Downdraft’s blowback & MOAB Shove we have also slashed MOAB Shove’s price by 30% to give it & Comanche more of a kickstart
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,000 → $3,500
•  Movement speed reduced ― 45 → 40

Version 22.0

“

A little more buffing of underused crosspath
— Update notes

”

0-1-3, 0-2-3

•  Bigger Jets now allows MOAB Shove to push back faster
  • MOAB speed: -0.33 → -0.44
  • BFB speed: 0 → -0.11
  • ZOMG/DDT speed: 0.33 → 0.22

Version 28.0

“

MOAB Shove has had a missile attack similar to xx4’s mini comanches added to provide this path something extra for when the mini comanche are not active.
— Update notes

”

•  Missile attack added

Version 33.0

“

Downdraft has more general use throughout the game and scales better than the more expensive MOAB Shove upgrade though they both see use, so the price of these upgrades has been swapped around. Faster Darts xx1 upgrade will now increase the attack distance of Heli Dart attacks in order to assist with cluttering issues where large numbers of Helis will push each other away from nearby targets.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,500 → $3,000
•  Faster Darts now increases attack distance of dart attacks by +30%

Version 35.0

•  Heli 'patrol point' markers now visually update immediately after setting new points (bug fix)

Version 42.0

•  MOAB Shove no longer ignores the children of the target it is shoving (bug fix)

Version 44.0

0-1-3

•  "Should again correctly increase pushback amount" (bug fix)

Version 45.0

“

As MOAB Shove introduced a supportive mechanic at T3 but never expanded on this again we want to start playing around with this some more, it’s quite strong for a T3 so the slow amount was reduced but we’ve made the T4 now better than the T3 was before.
— Update notes

”

•  Shove: BFB speed while being shoved is higher ― 0× → 0.1×
  • Note: Also affects 0-1-3 crosspath ― 0.1× → -0.01×. Shoving speed for Comanche Defense and above remains the same
•  Shove: MOAB speed while being shoved is higher ― -0.33× → -0.3×
  • Note: Also affects 0-1-X crosspath ― -0.44× → 0.41×.

Version 48.0

“

Some price is moving out from base Heli into the T3s to make progression up through low heli tiers easier, however Downdraft is retaining the current price as a small buff.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $3,000 → $3,100
  •  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 49.0

“

As its utility is impressive throughout the entire game for the relatively low cost MOAB Shove’s price is increasing
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $3,100 → $3,400

Version 51.0

“

MOAB Shove’s stalling potential was far too strong for how early and cheaply it becomes available, so we’re dialing back the ZOMG slow amount to keep its late-game impact more balanced.
— Update notes

”

•  Homing missile: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
  • Note: X-X-4 Comanche Defense unchanged (3)
•  MOAB Shove: Multiplier for ZOMGs/DDTs increased ― ×0.33 → ×0.61
  • Note: This means ZOMGs/DDTs move less slow while being shoved. X-X-4 Comanche Defense multiplier is 0.2

0-1-3, 0-2-3

•  MOAB Shove: Multiplier for ZOMGs/DDTs increased ― ×0.22 → ×0.5

Version 52.0

“

MOAB Shove heli’s still stall ZOMGs incredibly efficiently for such a cheap tower, so we are furthering the previous nerf to ZOMG slow amount, still leaving Comanche Defense unchanged
— Update notes

”

•  MOAB Shove: Speed multiplier for BFBs increased ― 0.1× → 0.11×
•  MOAB Shove: Speed multiplier for ZOMGs and DDTs increased ― 0.61× → 0.75×
  • Note: X-X-4 Comanche Defense unchanged (0× and 0.2× respectively). The previous value listed for the ZOMG multiplier in the patch notes has the Bigger Jets upgrades applied.

0-1-3

•  MOAB Shove: Speed multiplier for BFBs increased ― −0.01× → 0×
•  MOAB Shove: Speed multiplier for ZOMGs and DDTs increased ― 0.5× → 0.64×
  • Note: 0-1-4 Comanche Defense unchanged (−0.11× and 0.09× respectively).

Version 54.0

“

MOAB Shove’s flexible stalling still stands out as particularly powerful through the whole game, we still want to take our time slowly nerfing this but to reduce single-target lockout we’re increasing the missile damage.
— Update notes

”

•  Missile attack: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +2 → +5

Gallery

For more Heli Pilot images, see Gallery:Heli Pilot.

Screenshots

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  MOAB Shove with no crosspath
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  MOAB Shove with 013 crosspath
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  MOAB Shove with 023 crosspath
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  MOAB Shove with 103 crosspath
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  MOAB Shove with 203 crosspath
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  MOAB Shove reversing the movement of a MOAB

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	موآب شوف إمكانية الاصطدام مع البالونات فئة منطاد "موآب" ودفعها، مما يؤدي إلى عكس اتجاه حركتها أو إبطائها. تضخيم الارتداد من خلال طائرات نفاثة أكبر وترقيات أي إف آر.	—
Danish	MOAB-maser Kan kollidere med og skubbe MOAB-klasse-bloons, og hindre deres bevægelse. MOAB-maser forstærkes med kraftigere motorer og IFR opgraderinger.	—
German	MOAB-Schub Kann mit Bloons der MOAB-Klasse kollidieren und sie wegstoßen, zur Umkehr bringen oder verlangsamen. Das Wegstoßen wird durch größere Jets und IFR-Upgrades noch kräftiger.	—
Spanish	Empujón de MOAB Puede chocar con los bloons clase MOAB, empujarlos y revertirles el movimiento o desacelerarlos. El empujón gana potencia con Turbinas mayores y mejoras de IFR.	—
Spanish (LA)	Empujón de MOAB Puede chocar con los bloons clase MOAB, empujarlos y revertirles el movimiento o desacelerarlos. El empujón gana potencia con Turbinas mayores y mejoras de IFR.	—
Finnish	MOAB-työntö Voi törmätä MOAB-luokan blooneihin ja hidastaa tai jopa työntää niitä taaksepäin. Työntöä vahvistavat isommat moottorit ja infrapunatutkapäivitykset.	—
French	Bousculade de MOAB Peut percuter et bousculer les Bloons de classe MOAB, inversant ou ralentissant leurs mouvements. Bousculade est amplifiée par les améliorations Plus gros réacteurs et IFR.	—
Italian	Spingi MOAB Scontrandosi spintona i bloon di classe MOAB, invertendo o rallentando il loro movimento. La spinta è amplificata da Propulsori maxi e potenziamenti infrarosso.	—
Japanese	MOAB押しつけ MOAB級ブルーンと追突し押しのけ、その動きを逆にしたり遅くしたりする。押しのけパワーは、大型ジェットとIFRアップグレードで増幅する。	—
Korean	MOAB 밀치기 MOAB급 풍선과 충돌하여 밀쳐내서 뒤로 가게 하거나 느리게 만듭니다. 더 큰 제트기나 IFR 업그레이드 시 밀쳐내는 강도가 증폭됩니다.	—
Dutch	MOAB-duwer Kan tegen MOAB-klasse Bloons botsen en ze duwen, en hun beweging omkeren of vertragen. Duwer wordt versterkt door grotere jets en IFR-upgrades.	—
Norwegian	MOAB-dytt Kan kollidere med og dytte bloons av MOAB-klasse, som reverserer eller sakker ned bevegelsen deres. Dytt forsterkes av større dyser og IFR-oppgraderinger.	—
Polish	Spychacz MOAB-ów Może zderzać się i popychać blony klasy MOAB, odwracając lub spowalniając ich ruchy. Spychacz wzmacniają ulepszenia większe silniki i IFR.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Sucção MOAB Pode se colidir contra e empurrar Bloons classe MOAB, revertendo ou retardando seu movimento. Sucção é amplificada pelas melhorias Jatos Maiores e Relatório de Voo.	—
Russian	Толчок MOAB Может врезаться в шары MOAB и толкать их, замедляя или разворачивая их. Толчки усиливаются улучшением большого аппарата и ИК-инструментов.	—
Swedish	MOAB-knuff Kan kollidera med och knuffa bort MOAB-klass-Bloons och vända eller sakta ner deras rörelser. Bortknuffning förstärks av uppgraderingarna Större Jetstrålar och IFR.	—
Thai	พุ่งผลัก MOAB สามารถพุ่งชนและผลักบลูนคลาส MOAB ได้ ทำให้กระเด็นถอยหลังหรือลดความเร็วการเคลื่อนที่ของพวกมัน การผลักรุนแรงขึ้นด้วยเครื่องยนต์เจ็ตขนาดใหญ่ขึ้นและการอัปเกรด IFR	—
Turkish	MOAB İtme MOAB Sınıfı Bloon’lara çarpıp iterek hareketlerini tersine çevirir veya yavaşlatır. Daha Büyük Jetler ve IFR yükseltmeleri ile İtme artırılır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	MOAB撞击 可以碰撞并推动MOAB级气球，减缓它们的移动甚至将其推回老家。升级大型喷气机和 IFR 可提高推撞力。	—
Chinese (traditional)	MOAB猛撞 可撞擊MOAB級氣球，阻礙或減緩它們的移動。大型噴射機和IFR升級可增強撞擊效果。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1