Diamond Bloon

Diamond Bloon
Health 80 RBE 194 (normal) 208 (rounds 81+) Layers 10 Strong priority rank 11 Speed 30 units per second (×1.2 Red Bloon speed) Radius 8 units Immunity Slow, blowback, knockback Parent of Fortified Ceramic Bloon ×1 Child of None

The Diamond Bloon is a type of Bloon in the Frontier Legends DLC for Bloons TD 6. They have 80 health and fix the damage of all attacks taken to 1, meaning they always take 80 hits to pop. In addition, any projectile that hits a Diamond Bloon will have its pierce reduced by 5, and, just like Retribution Bloon and BAD, they are immune to all forms of movement impairment, such as slow and stun effects. Popping a Diamond Bloon releases 1 Fortified Ceramic Bloon. Diamond Bloons have the same Strong targeting priority as BFBs.

Diamondback's skull ability spawns Diamond Bloons (except at tier 1 in Normal mode). These Diamond Bloons have different amounts of health depending on the boss' tier, move at two-thirds the usual speed in Normal mode, and have some properties of Boss Bloons, such as being immune to instant kills and being subject to Boss Health or Boss Speed modifiers.

Round appearances

Type 1

№	Bloon groups	Dur.	Base RBE	Base cash
100	Fortified BAD×1 Ringleader×9 Aura×9 Retribution×9 Glass×24 Dynamite×24 Diamond×24	60.00s	145,682	$307.96 + $200

Type 2

№	Bloon groups	Dur.	Base RBE	Base cash
95	Fortified BAD×1 Ringleader×9 Aura×9 Retribution×9 Glass×24 Dynamite×24 Diamond×24	60.00s	137,442	$307.96 + $195

Type 3

№	Bloon groups	Dur.	Base RBE	Base cash
90	Fortified BAD×1 Ringleader×9 Aura×9 Retribution×9 Glass×24 Dynamite×24 Diamond×24	90.00s	129,202	$307.96 + $190

Tips

This section was last updated for: version 54.0

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• The best solution for dealing with Diamond Bloons are fast attacking towers and/or towers that fire a lot of projectiles, such as an Overdrive, Bloonjitsu, or a Super Monkey Fan Club with multiple fans, as well as fast-ticking DoT towers like Bloon Liquefier. Due to their immunity to movement impairment, damage negation, and additional pierce consumption, avoid relying on Spike Factory, Sniper Monkey, and Desperado.
• Heroes, such as a higher-level Quincy or Sauda, or Captain Churchill at level 5 or higher for his Machine Gun, also work well. In Frontier Legends, however, they're rather expensive, due to needing to buy every individual level.
• In Boss Events, lower-tier Diamondback is generally harder, being harder to afford both high Boss damage and consistent fast high-projectile attackers that deal with Diamond Bloons.

Update history

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Version 54.0

•  4-X-X Glue Gunners can now attack this Bloon (bug fix)
•  Frontier Bloons' health is now affected by freeplay scaling and challenge rules

Version 54.1

•  Base health reduced ― 100 → 80
• Players can now send the different types of Diamond Bloons that Diamondback can spawn in Sandbox mode (bug)

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  All variants of Diamond Bloons in Sandbox mode in version 54.1
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  Undamaged
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  Damage phase 1
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  Damage phase 2
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  Damage phase 3
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  Damage phase 4

Quotes

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Diamond Bloons: So shiny those high damage attacks lose their luster
— Version 52.0 patch notes

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Diamond Bloons only take 1 damage from any projectile, and they reduce the pierce of projectiles hitting the Bloon by 5. They are immune to all movement impairment. When popped releases 1 Fortified Ceramic Bloon.
— Text upon encountering a Diamond Bloon for the first time.

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Unused content

• There is a version of the Diamond Bloon that has 20 health and 20 speed. It was intended for the Normal tier 1 version of Diamondback, but that version of Diamondback does not spawn Diamond Bloons starting in version 54.1. Along with the other Diamond Bloon versions, it was possible to spawn in Sandbox mode in version 54.1, but version 54.2 removed it, making it completely inaccessible.