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This is a list of changes to the Glue Gunner in Bloons TD 6 post-release.

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Tiers Changes
X-X-3 MOAB Glue and further upgrades
  • Buff Now applies Stronger Glue's improved speed reduction to regular Bloons ― -50% → -75% (bug fix)
Tiers Changes
2-X-X Corrosive Glue
  • Buff Now lasts for the full duration on MOAB-Class Bloons unless crosspathed with MOAB Glue (bug fix)
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver and further upgrades
  • Buff Now lasts for the full duration on MOAB-Class Bloons instead of only lasting 9s (bug fix)
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Ability: Bloon speed modifier increased ― -50% → -75%
  • Buff Ability: Glue duration increased ― 11s → 22s
0-5-1 Glue Storm + Stickier Glue
0-5-2 Glue Storm + Stronger Glue
  • Buff Ability: Glue duration increased ― 24s → 48s
0-5-2 Glue Storm + Stronger Glue
  • Buff Ability: Bloon speed modifier increased ― -75% → -90%
0-2-5 Super Glue + Glue Splatter
  • Buff Super Glue no longer reduces Glue Splatter pierce from 6 to 5 (bug fix)
Tiers Changes
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $18,000 → $15,000
  • Buff Ability: Application duration increased ― 10s → 15s
X-X-3 MOAB Glue
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $2,500 → $3,200
Tiers Changes
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Buff DoT: Damage to Ceramics increased ― +1 → +2
  • Buff DoT: Damage to MOAB-Class increased ― +1 → +2
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Bloons glued by the ability now take +1 damage from all damage sources
X-X-5 Super Glue
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $40,000 → $35,000
  • Buff Now deals 50 damage to MOAB-Class Bloons on impact
  • Nerf Slow effect for MOAB-Class reduced ― 100% → 90%
Tiers Changes
0-2-5 Super Glue + Glue Splatter
  • Buff Should correctly stun all regular Bloons (bug fix)
Tiers Changes
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Nerf Ability: no longer glues MOAB-Class Bloons unless crosspathed with Corrosive Glue
X-X-5 Super Glue
  • Buff Pierce increased ― 1 → 6
  • Buff MOAB and DDT speed modifier increased ― -90% → -100%
  • Buff BFB speed modifier increased ― -90% → -95%
Tiers Changes
X-4-X Glue Strike
  • Buff Ability: Now causes Bloons to take +1 damage while glued (same as X-5-X)
Many people seem to agree 5xx Glue is ‘good’, but simply outclassed (mainly by 5xx mortar at a similar price). This won’t completely fix that, we hope to work on making the earlier stepping stone tiers a little easier to use and provide the 520 crosspath with a better niche by making Bloon Solver benefit from all pierce twice as much (which x2x provides).
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,300 → $2,700
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $7,000 → $6,500
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Buff Now fires 2 projectiles per attack
  • Nerf Pierce per projectile reduced ― 12 → 6
5-1-0 The Bloon Solver + Bigger Globs
  • Nerf Pierce per projectile reduced ― 13 → 7
5-2-0 The Bloon Solver + Glue Splatter
  • Nerf Pierce per projectile reduced ― 16 → 11
The Bloon Solver recently received a small functional rework buff, this follow-up buff will make the stepping stones to it a little easier on saving.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $6,500 → $5,500
Glue Strike currently allows for 240 crosspath to hit MOABs with 042 being more Ceramic focused but losing the Glue Soak from top path hurts against lower layers, so we’ve increased the base amount of layers glued by Strike & Storm so that it won’t expire on non-MOABs so quickly. Additional changes are a follow up reduction to The Bloon Solver’s price and a small increase to MOAB Glue’s price due to dominance in conjunction with MOAB Press.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $24,000 → $22,000
0-4-X Glue Strike
  • Buff Glue Strike ability: Layers glued increased ― 3 → 6
    • Note: Also affects debuff soak
0-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Glue Storm ability: Layers glued increased ― 3 → 9
    • Note: Also affects debuff soak
X-X-3 MOAB Glue
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $3,200 → $3,400
Adjustments to top-path upgrades to make each step more noticeable. Very small nerf to the slow amount on MOAB Glue as it has for a long time held a dominating spot in MOAB support, but this same amount has been returned to the previous value at Tier 4. We are still looking at future improvements here, including reworking the priority tree of glue stacks.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,700 → $2,600
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff Pierce increased ― 1 → 2
X-X-3 MOAB Glue
  • Nerf Slowdown amount reduced ― 0.625x → 0.75x
    • Note: Relentless Glue unchanged
More tweaks with the intent of viable stepping stones toward The Bloon Solver. Due to quirks with game state interactions temporarily preventing more nuanced changes, we have decided to leave MOAB Glue’s slow amount on MOABs as it was previously, coming back to Relentless later. However xx4 Relentless Glue will still layer over the top of it.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,600 → $2,500
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,500 → $5,000
4-1-0 Bloon Liquefier + Bigger Globs
  • Buff Pierce increased ― 2 → 3 (bug fix)
X-X-3 MOAB Glue
  • Buff Slowing effect for MOAB-class reverted ― ×0.75 → ×0.625
Super Glue currently fits a role of essentially a weaker Ice Impale that is also much more expensive (and, well, worse). For now the cost has been cut substantially to keep their function and value balanced.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-X-5 Super Glue
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $35,000 → $28,000
  • Neutral Super Glue can now re-target Bloons that is has already Glued after stun expired
Since glue gunners can’t work together as we all want them to and we could not bite that off for this update, for now have decided to do more for the top and middle paths themselves. Bloon Solver’s single target power feels like it ramps slowly on larger targets, and while it is mainly a grouped cleanup, we decided to give a nudge here with bonuses to large targets to help with higher round falloff.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff DoT: Now deals +1 damage to Ceramic
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Buff DoT: Damage to MOAB-class increased ― +2 → +3
Glue Strike doesn’t seem to hold up to any other option in a similar role, so we’ve doubled down on its support factor with a new role and are hoping for more synergy to emerge there.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-4-X Glue Strike
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Ability: Now causes glued Lead and frozen Bloons to lose their immunities
  • Buff Ability: Bonus damage taken while glued increased ― +1 → +2
Tiers Changes
X-X-5 Super Glue
  • Nerf Now re-applies to glue to "Slowdown Stuck" bloons (bug fix)
    • Note: This is considered a nerf; it clogs up pierce of the glue that could've went to affecting more bloons.
Tiers Changes
2-X-X Corrosive Glue and all crosspaths
  • Buff Corrosive Glue DoT: Tick cooldown decreased ― 2.3s → 2s
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver
  • Buff Bloon Dissolver DoT: Ceramic bonus increased ― +0 → +1
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Buff Bloon Solver DoT: MOAB-class bonus increased ― +3 → +5
We want to achieve an effect with Bloon Solver’s acid burning through the layers quickly but not instantly, though we haven’t so far achieved a good balance of this along with eliminating Super Ceramics in a timely manner, causing it to be disappointing or impractical on shorter maps. To solve this while retaining the vision we have boosted the ceramic bonus up significantly along with preventing this bonus from overflowing into the children layers.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Buff DoT Ceramic bonus damage increased ― +2 → +8
  • Nerf DoT increased Ceramic damage will not skip through extra children layers upon breaking the ceramic layer
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
  • Neutral Relentless Glue no longer targets BADs/Bosses (bug fix)
    • Note: 204 unchanged
1-0-4 Relentless Glue + Glue Soak
  • Will no longer sometimes apply green glue assets (bug fix)
Glue Gunner base level doesn’t fit in as a starter placement, while not really changing that at all we feel for now if it was cheaper than $250 you'd be able to start with 2 dart monkeys & a glue on medium for more casual variety. With an expensive tier 2 and the T3 breaking the $3k mark Glue Hose doesn’t feel justifiable a lot of the time so base cost is being shifted up to T4. Bloon Solver appears to be in a fair state now but with low value save up into it from Dissolver & Liquifier, slight improvements have been made here to assist them in cleaning up in some cases it feels they should.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
0-0-0 base tower
  • Buff Cost reduced ― $275 → $225
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver
  • Buff Pierce increased ― 1 → 2
  • Buff Tic rate increased ― 0.65s → 0.575s
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff DoT Ceramic bonus increased ― +1 → +2
X-3-X Glue Hose
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,250 → $2,900
X-4-X Glue Strike
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $3,500 → $3,850
We were unsure this rework would make it in at all until late and didnt want to mess around too much further before release, so we plan to make further refinements to the numbers in order to bring power properly in line with what we would like - however the long awaited mechanic rework for Relentless & Super Glue is here and we feel it is a promising start. Relentless Glue now brings some AoE stun on layer popping and glue track puddles has been reworked into a dps enhancement for the top path Bloon Solver instead of a hyper niche bottom path stalling bonus (the more ceramics the merrier!). Glue Gunner has also had a number of price changes aimed at improving the middle path / crosspathing while avoiding improving MOAB Glue. We’ve already found interesting uses for the top path change so keen to hear about your cool use cases.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Buff Upon destroying a Bloon, now drops puddles of acid on the track
    • 20 damage
    • 1 pierce
    • 5s duration
X-2-X Glue Splatter
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,800 → $1,650
X-3-X Glue Hose
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,900 → $2,500
X-4-X Glue Strike
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,850 → $3,450
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Ability duration increased ― 15s → 20s
X-X-1 Stickier Glue
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $120 → $280
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
  • Buff On any glued layer popping, stuns non-MOAB Bloons in the area with a small splat
    • 3 pierce
    • Radius 12
    • 0.5s duration
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
X-X-5 Super Glue
  • Nerf No longer drops any puddles on the track
X-X-5 Super Glue
  • Buff On any glued layer popping stuns all stunnable Bloons (including MOAB-class) in the area with a small splat
    • 3 pierce
    • Radius 12
    • 0.5s duration
Our Glue rework last update wasn't quite ready soon enough to go through in depth balancing of how the new mechanics felt before release, but we still wanted to just get them out and see what people thought anyway, so this is mostly just a bit of catch up on that with fixes to crosspathing value.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff Attack cooldown reduced ― 1s → 0.75s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Buff Glue puddle: Duration increased ― 5s → 7.7s
  • Buff Glue puddle: Pierce increased ― 1 → 3
  • Neutral Glue puddle: No longer filters out glued targets
5-1-0 The Bloon Solver + Bigger Globs
  • Buff Glue puddle: Pierce increased ― 3 → 4
5-0-1 The Bloon Solver + Stickier Glue
5-0-2 The Bloon Solver + Stronger Glue
  • Buff Glue puddle: Duration increased ― 5s → 16.8s
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
X-X-5 Super Glue
  • Buff Stun AoE: Pierce increased ― 3 → 6
  • Buff Stun AoE: Duration increased ― 0.5s → 1s
0-1-4 Relentless Glue + Bigger Globs
0-1-5 Super Glue + Bigger Globs
  • Buff Stun AoE: Pierce increased ― 3 → 7
0-2-4 Relentless Glue + Glue Splatter
0-2-5 Super Glue + Glue Splatter
  • Buff Stun AoE: Pierce increased ― 3 → 9
The Bloon Solver’s rework has been very popular, however, we’d like to have a better lead up into the new mechanics by introducing this earlier at the tier 4 now.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff Now creates puddles on the track
    • 1 damage
    • 7.7s duration
    • 3 pierce
This is not intended to be a significant nerf to the tower’s base game performance so we plan to keep an eye on the change; however the recent top path Glue Gunner changes where duplicating every high level glued Bloon into magnitudes more puddles due to the recurring children multiplication of pre-r80 Bloons. This caused performance issues and effectively broke the game in certain situations so we have limited these puddles to spawn from the first child of glued targets to keep the lategame performance unchanged but hopefully solve the root of this issue in the early game where the main attack is mostly enough to easily deal with all cleanup anyway. Also adding a little extra bonus for Relentless glue, allowing the stun splats to work on smaller MOABs & DDTs.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Nerf Puddle: Now only dropped from the first child from multi-child Bloons
  • Nerf Puddle: No longer hits Camo Bloons innately
4-2-0 Bloon Liquefier + Glue Splatter
  • Buff Fixed a bug with 420 glue gunner not spawning puddles from the splat (bug fix)
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
  • Buff On-pop stun wave: Now stuns DDTs & Blue MOABs for 0.25s
  • Buff Relentless Glue stun on pop stuns for 1s, also stuns BFBs and ZOMGs (bug)
Tiers Changes
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
  • Nerf On-pop stun wave: No longer stuns BFBs and ZOMGs (bug fix)
    • Note: Does not affect xx5 (1s)
  • Nerf On-pop stun wave: Now only stuns DDTs & Blue MOABs for 0.25s (bug fix)
    • Note: Does not affect xx5 (1s)
Glue Strike for the longest time has had crosspath that only technically grants separate intended use cases, this choice though felt too niche and janky so that crosspath requirement is being completely reworked to allow the ability to hit MOABs regardless of crosspath. Glue Strike will instead work around the standard glue crosspathing benefits of more layers or longer duration.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver
  • Buff DoT tick rate increased ― 0.575s → 0.5s
X-4-X Glue Strike
  • Nerf Ability: Layers glued decreased ― 6 → 3
    • Note: Does not affect debuff layer soak, which remains 6
X-4-X Glue Strike
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Ability: Now can now hit MOAB-Class Bloons without needing Corrosive Glue
1-4-0 Glue Strike + Glue Soak and further upgrades
  • Buff Ability: Layers glued increased ― 3 → Infinite
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Nerf Ability: Layers glued decreased ― 9 → 3
    • Note: Does not affect debuff layer soak, which remains 6 (all with 1+-5-0)
  • Buff Ability: "Storm" attack cooldown reduced ― 2s → 1s
Bloon Liquifier is not a great save-up into Bloon Solver, so buffing its puddles. Glue Storm is fantastic now however buildup tiers into it feel they serve little point at all, we're shifting price out of Glue Soak into MOAB Glue and from Glue Hose into Glue Strike so these weaker upgrades can come by sooner. Super Glue isn’t a big upgrade to Relentless Glue for the high cost so we're setting it at a different price point to other similar role towers, but also hitting it with a larger full rework of number shuffling, with more of the damage it deals coming from the DoT rather than the initial impact making it easier for DoT to self-trigger glue explosions and act as a buff to the 205 crosspath along with the base pierce of the glue explosions being higher.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff Puddle: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
X-2-X Glue Splatter
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,650 → $1,450
X-3-X Glue Hose
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,500 → $2,100
X-4-X Glue Strike
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $3,450 → $3,850
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $15,000 → $16,000
X-X-3 MOAB Glue
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $3,400 → $3,600
0-2-4 Relentless Glue + Glue Splatter
  • Buff Pop splat: Pierce increased ― 9 → 10
X-X-5 Super Glue
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $28,000 → $24,000
  • Buff DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 20
  • Nerf Main attack: Damage to MOAB-Class reduced ― +50 → +30
0-0-5 Super Glue
  • Buff Pop splat: No longer locked to Relentless Glue stats when not crosspathed
  • Buff Pop splat: Pierce increased ― 6 → 11
2-0-5 Super Glue + Corrosive Glue
  • Buff DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 21
  • Buff DoT: Damage interval reduced ― 2s → 1.8s
0-1-5 Super Glue + Bigger Globs
  • Buff Pop splat: Pierce increased ― 6 → 12
0-2-5 Super Glue + Glue Splatter
  • Buff Pop splat: Pierce increased ― 6 → 15
Increased duration has limited use on upgrades that completely destroy targets anyway, so a better crosspath benefit is being added onto 401 glue puddles. Bloon Solver’s pierce is being reduced as it is over-overkill for how many Bloons you realistically see at once, but this reduction should not be noticed for most players. Glue Splatter stands out as weirdly expensive for T2, and is rarely even needed so we’re significantly cutting its price to bring it down to a more affordable range with less pierce, we hope this should make it more worth considering for splatter coverage over piercing. Now that Glue Storm is extremely good for damage type & debuff support we’re removing the bonus speed reduction that should otherwise require xx2 crosspath and lowering the duration of the Glue Storm. New Relentless Glue finally offers something quite powerful so cost is slightly increasing.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
4-0-1 Bloon Liquefier + Stickier Glue
5-0-1 The Bloon Solver + Stickier Glue
  • Buff Stickier Glue crosspath allows track puddles to last +1 round
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Nerf Splatter: Pierce reduced ― 5 → 4
    • Note: Total pierce reduced from 6 to 5; the initial impact can glue exactly 1 bloon
X-2-X Glue Splatter
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,450 → $970
X-2-X Glue Splatter and all crosspaths
X-3-X Glue Hose and further upgrades
  • Nerf Splatter: Pierce bonus reduced ― +4 → +3
    • Note: Total pierce reduced from 6 to 5; the initial impact can glue exactly 1 bloon, and the old pierce from x-1-x is treated as 2 to the splatter
X-4-X Glue Strike
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Nerf Ability: Can no longer debuff Dreadbloon in Primary Immune phase (bug fix)
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Nerf Ability: Duration of "Storm" reduced ― 20s → 15s
  • Nerf Ability glue slow ― 75% → 50%
0-5-2 Glue Storm + Stronger Glue
  • Nerf Stronger Glue crosspath ability glue slowdown reduced ― 90% → 75%
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $3,000 → $3,400
0-2-4 Relentless Glue + Glue Splatter
  • Nerf On-pop stun blast: Pierce reduced ― 10 → 9 (undocumented)
0-2-5 Super Glue + Glue Splatter
  • Nerf On-pop stun blast: Pierce reduced ― 15 → 14 (undocumented)
Majority of Glue Gunner projectile eject points have been moved around to improve accuracy of their attacks. As the 20s active window for Glue Storm was a very important breakpoint for it to hit in the higher rounds; we've restored this duration but instead increased the ability cooldown by a larger amount as more gameplay strategy and synergies can be used to counter long durations. Small price increase for Relentless Glue as it’s just actually good now lol.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
All tiers
  • Neutral Eject points moved for most upgrade combinations
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Ability: duration increased ― 15s → 20s
  • Nerf Ability: cooldown increased ― 30s → 40s
    • Note: This also means purchasing Glue Storm adds 10 seconds to the current cooldown of Glue Strike's ability when purchased
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $3,400 → $4,000
Tiers Changes
X-3-X Glue Hose
  • Description changed ― "Shoots glue 3x as fast!" → "Shoots glue 3x as fast and in a wider area!"
Top path glue struggles with large numbers of targets until T5 where it suddenly has no trouble at all, to improve earlier tier cleanup we’re taking a small amount of power out of the T5 glue puddles but improving T4 puddles and increasing attack rate across lower tiers. As it only increases attack speed and Glue Splatter already hits the majority of targets with no trouble this leaves Glue Hose not feeling that compelling, as this path becomes the full map glue anyway we felt we could improve tower range along this path as well.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,500 → $2,000
  • Buff Main attack: cooldown reduced ― 1s → 0.5s
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff Main attack: cooldown reduced ― 0.75s → 0.5s
    • Note: The Bloon Solver's cooldown remains the same
  • Buff Puddle: damage increased ― 2 → 4
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $22,000 → $22,500
  • Nerf Puddle: damage reduced ― 20 → 15
  • Buff Can now take buffs without being crosspathed (bug fix)
X-3-X Glue Hose (and further upgrades)
  • Buff Range increased ― 46 → 58
Improved Ceramic Damage scaling up Bloon Dissolver compared to other support options, and a small price shuffling to make Glue Hose more favourable on the journey up to Glue Strike.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver
  • Buff DoT bonus Ceramic damage increased ― +1 → +2
    • Note: Bloon Liquifier unchanged
X-3-X Glue Hose
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,100 → $1,950
X-4-X Glue Strike
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $3,850 → $4,000
Bloon Solver performs a little too strong still so the MOAB Bonus is being reduced. There’s currently little reason to take top crosspath for middle glue gunners due to Stickier Glue working for the debuffing effects on this path, so Corrosive Glue will now increase the damage taken debuff for a shorter but more powerful burst of damage. We’re trying out a funny crosspathing change for 205 glue to give greater potential for chain reactions to quickly wipe out lower layers.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Nerf DoT: bonus MOAB-class damage reduced ― +5 → +4
2-4-0 Glue Strike + Corrosive Glue
2-5-0 Glue Storm + Corrosive Glue
  • Buff Ability debuff: bonus damage debuff increased ― +2 → +3
    • Note: Also affects the DoT on glued bloons
0-X-5 Super Glue
0-1-5 Super Glue + Bigger Globs
  • Buff DoT: Decreased tick cooldown ― 2.3s → 2.0s
2-0-5 Super Glue + Corrosive Glue
  • Nerf DoT: No longer has reduced DoT tick cooldown ― 1.8s → 2.0s
  • Buff On-pop splat: Now additionally deals 1 damage to affected bloons
    • Note: This assists mid-game chain reactions with on-pop splats
  • Buff On-pop splat: Damage is no longer capped at 0 (undocumented)
Our previous crosspath buff tipped favour too much in the opposite direction, so Glue Storm’s storm duration and glue duration are being tweaked to keep 052’s total glue uptime the same as before while reducing 250 duration. MOAB Glue’s duration on MOAB-Class Bloons is being reduced as for such a powerful slow it is so easy to keep a high number of targets glued that the Glue Splatter crosspath still doesn’t feel necessary much of the time
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Nerf Glue Storm ability: x-5-0 effect duration decreased ― 22s → 11s
  • Nerf Glue Storm ability: 0-5-1 effect duration decreased ― 48s → 24s
    • Note: Ninja Kiwi incorrectly stated that it remained 22s duration.
  • Nerf Glue Storm ability: x-5-0 "storm" ability duration decreased ― 20s → 10s
    • Note: 0-5-1 remains at 20s
  • Description changed ― Glue Storm Ability: Pelts the whole screen with glue for 20 seconds. → Glue Storm Ability: Pelts the whole screen with glue for 10 seconds.
X-X-3 MOAB Glue and further upgrades
  • Nerf Glue duration on MOAB-Class Bloons decreased ― 24s → 12s
MOAB Glue’s always been a bit too clingy & its slow duration against MOABs has been further reduced while lasting longer at higher tiers to keep the base tower in check and give Glue Splatter & higher tiers more purpose in life. Meanwhile, Corrosive Glue now gains bonus MOAB damage so it can now try to serve as an alternate DPS hybrid. Super Glue’s baseline DoT is being replaced with a simple initial hit damage so it also requires the new 205 Crosspath to act as a DPS Hybrid
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-X-3 MOAB Glue
  • Nerf Glue duration for MOAB-Class Bloons reduced ― 12s → 9s
    • Note: X-X-4 Relentless Glue remains 12s
2-0-3 MOAB Glue + Corrosive Glue
  • Buff Now deals +4 bonus damage per tick to MOAB-Class Bloons
2-0-4 Relentless Glue + Corrosive Glue
  • Buff Now deals +9 bonus damage per tick to MOAB-Class Bloons
X-X-5 Super Glue
  • Buff Glue duration for MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― 12s → 18s
0-X-5 Super Glue and further upgrades
1-0-5 Super Glue + Glue Soak
  • Neutral No longer deals damage over time and instead deals 1 Normal-type damage when the glue is applied
2-0-5 Super Glue + Corrosive Glue
  • Buff Now deals +19 bonus damage per tick to MOAB-Class Bloons
Tiers Changes
All tiers up to:
1-X-X Glue Soak
0-5-X Glue Storm
0-X-4 Relentless Glue
  • Neutral Can no longer target or hit Boss Bloons with the main attack unless upgraded to 2-X-X Corrosive Glue (undocumented)
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
5-X-X The Bloon Solver
  • Nerf Acid puddle: Can no longer damage Boss Bloons (undocumented)
0-2-X Glue Splatter (and further upgrades)
  • Neutral Glue splat: Can no longer collide with Boss Bloons unless crosspathed with 2-X-X Corrosive Glue (undocumented)
Glue Gunner's 240 crosspath has merely shifted the crosspath balance problem instead of truly solving it. To make things more intuitive, Glue Soak crosspath will now grant this ability the much requested persistence through MOAB layers. Additionally, we're doubling the potency of MOAB Glue’s acid crosspath to provide more niche value on less dense track lanes.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
X-2-X Glue Splatter
  • Description changed
    • Note: This change was implemented since version 43.0, but description was not updated.
Before Splatters glue across up to 6 Bloons per shot.
After Splatters glue across up to 5 Bloons per shot.
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Ability: Glue application duration increased ― 10s → 20s
    • Note: 0-5-1 unchanged (20s)
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
  • Nerf Stun AoE: Duration for DDTs reduced ― 0.25s → 0.2s
Tiers Changes
2-4-0 Glue Strike + Corrosive Glue
2-5-0 Glue Storm + Corrosive Glue
  • Buff Ability: Glue now soaks through MOAB-Class layers
  • Nerf Ability: Bonus damage debuff reduced ― +3 → +2
2-0-3 MOAB Glue + Corrosive Glue
  • Buff Damage over time: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +4 → +9
  • Buff It should now be able to re-apply its glue on MOAB-Class Bloons (bug fix)
2-0-4 Relentless Glue + Corrosive Glue
  • Buff Damage over time: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +9 → +19
2-0-5 Super Glue + Corrosive Glue
  • Buff Damage over time: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +19 → +39
Tiers Changes
X-4-X Glue Strike (and further upgrades)
  • Buff Ability: Damage debuff now soaks through all layers (bug)
    • Note: This change was intended to only apply to the 1-X-X Glue Soak crosspath, but it affects all of them
With the 240 crosspath now providing MOAB Layer soaking, Glue Strike’s base ability will last through more layers before wearing off, but with a slower cooldown to match the T5 which already sits at a 40s cooldown.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
0-4-X Glue Strike
0-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Ability: Number of Bloon layers affected by glue slowdown increased ― 3 → 5
    • Note: Other effects of the ability glue unchanged (damage debuff is ∞ layers and immunity debuff is 6 layers). 1-4-0 crosspath and further upgrades unchanged (∞ layers)
X-4-X Glue Strike (further upgrades unaffected)
  • Nerf Ability: Cooldown increased ― 30s → 40s
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Buff Ability: Initial cooldown after upgrading from Glue Strike decreased ― 23.3333s → 13.3333s (due to the nerf to Glue Strike's own cooldown)
X-X-4 Relentless Glue
  • Description changed
Before Popped Bloons that were glued stun nearby Bloons.
After When a glued Bloon is popped, nearby Bloons are stunned.
Tiers Changes
X-5-X Glue Storm
  • Description changed:
    • Note: This change was implemented in version 54.0 but the text was not updated
Before Glue Storm Ability: Pelts the whole screen with glue for 10 seconds.
After Glue Storm Ability: Pelts the whole screen with glue for 20 seconds.
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