Dreadbloon (BTD6)

Dreadbloon
Armored Behemoth

NormalElite

Skulls	3 (normal) 7 (elite)
Theme	Primal One
Introduced	Version 34.0

Description

•Dreadbloon has Lead properties and reduces all incoming damage by 1.
• When each skull is reached, Dreadbloon grows a Ceramic Armor Shell and Dreadrock Bloons will begin spawning at the start of the track.
• When Dreadbloon appears, it is immune to Primary towers. At each skull, this immunity changes to a different tower type: Military, Magic, Support.
• Dreadrock Bloons and the Ceramic Armor Shell also have these immunities.
• Dreadrock Bloons have a Strong taunt, be careful what your towers are targeting!

Dreadbloon, titled Armored Behemoth, is a Boss Bloon in Bloons TD 6, introduced in version 34.0. It is the fourth boss introduced to the game.

Dreadbloon is the slowest Boss with its shell active, but it employs numerous methods to resist attacks. Its main body has the Lead property, and it also reduces the damage of all incoming attacks by a flat amount. Dreadbloon spawns with a Ceramic Armor Shell, which protects its main body and fully regrows at every skull, while slowing its movement. While its Shell is active, Dreadbloon summons Dreadrock Bloons, additional Bloons which are much faster than Dreadbloon and are targeted by all attacks with the Strong target priority over Dreadbloon itself. Dreadbloon is always immune to attacks from one entire tower category, beginning with Primary and cycling to Military, Magic, and Support immunities every time a skull is reached. The Ceramic Armor Shell and Dreadrock Bloons inherit this immunity.

Mechanics

Immunities

At the start of the encounter, Dreadbloon is immune to all Primary towers, and its immunity changes to a different category each time it reaches a skull — it is immune to Military after the first skull, Magic after the second, and Support after the third, then cycles back to Primary. Dreadbloon reflects projectiles from towers it is immune to instead of neutralizing them, and it cannot have effects applied to it by immune towers at all. For instance, Super Brittle cannot apply its damage debuff nor remove Dreadbloon's Lead property during the Primary immunity phase. Text that says "IMMUNE" pops up each time Dreadbloon is hit by an immune tower.

Normal Dreadbloon cycles through all four immunities once, and the Elite version cycles through them twice. Its current immunity is displayed under its health bar.

Ceramic Armor Shell

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Dreadbloon starts each encounter with a Ceramic Armor Shell that fully regenerates at each skull. The health of the shield is equal to 50% of its maximum health for the current tier (35% for Elite), including the extra health from Co-op (meaning it also gains 20% more health per additional player). While the shell is active, Normal Dreadbloon's speed is reduced by 70%, while Elite Dreadbloon's speed is reduced by 65%. The shell does not reduce damage and does not have Lead properties, but it does inherit Dreadbloon's category-based immunity. In addition to taking extra damage from sources that deal bonus MOAB-Class damage and boss damage, it also takes extra damage from some, but not all, sources that deal extra damage to Ceramic Bloons. For example, it takes extra damage from Juggernaut, but not Spiked Balls. (An exhaustive list of which towers' bonus Ceramic damage apply and which do not is not yet available.)

Lead property

After the Ceramic shell has been destroyed, towers will start dealing damage to Dreadbloon's HP until the next skull is reached. In this phase, Dreadbloon has Lead properties, such as immunity to sharp, cold, and energy damage. It takes extra Lead bonus damage from sources such as Heavy Shells, Lead to Gold and Ultra-Juggernaut; however, as with bonus Ceramic damage, there may be towers for which the bonus does not apply. Methods of granting lead popping capabilities, such as the Acidic Mixture Dip and Monkey Intelligence Bureau's buffs, work against Dreadbloon. Dreadbloon's lead property may also be temporarily removed by debuffs such as from Embrittlement and Glue Strike, provided that the current tower-class immunity doesn’t prevent them from applying.

Damage reduction

While in its Lead body phase, Dreadbloon reduces all damage taken by 1 — projectiles deal 1 less damage per hit and damage over time deals 1 less damage per tick. If Dreadbloon would have taken damage from something but its damage is reduced to zero, it displays text that says "RESIST". Most attacks which deal zero damage to Dreadbloon do not apply secondary effects, such as the damage and Lead-stripping debuffs from Embrittlement. One notable exception is the damage and Lead-stripping debuffs from Glue Strike and Glue Storm.

Tier 1 Normal Dreadbloon does not have a damage reduction effect. Elite Dreadbloon reduces damage by 2 at Tier 4 and by 3 at Tier 5.

Dreadrock Bloons

Whenever Dreadbloon reaches a skull, Dreadrock Bloons start spawning from the entrances. It keeps spawning them at regular intervals as long as its Ceramic Armor Shell is active, and spawns a certain number of Dreadrock Bloons within the first five seconds of reaching a skull (so the time between spawns is 5 seconds divided by the amount). The two spawns happen at the same time. Dreadrock Bloons have the same category-based immunity as Dreadbloon and have the highest priority bracket for strong targeting, meaning all towers that target strong will target them before anything else. Dreadrock Bloons take extra MOAB damage and boss damage, but are not MOAB-Class Bloons. The health, spawning rate, and number of lives lost when they leak increases at higher tiers.

Boss Rush

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In Boss Rush, Dreadbloon's Ceramic Armor Shell starts at 70 health and its Dreadrock Bloons start at 40 health, both of which scale at the same rate as Dreadbloon's health. Each time the player pops Dreadbloon, it re-shields and spawns 6 Dreadrock Bloons. It does not have any damage resistance, though it still has damage type immunities. Dreadbloon's speed is reduced by 10% while shielded. Every 10 pops, Dreadbloon's tower category immunity switches (Primary, Military, Magic, Support).

Stats

Normal

Base health
Tier	1-player	2-player	3-player	4-player
1	7,500	9,000	10,500	12,000
2	25,000	30,000	35,000	40,000
3	120,000	144,000	168,000	192,000
4	260,000	312,000	364,000	416,000
5	1,000,000	1,200,000	1,400,000	1,600,000

Ceramic Armor Shell health
Tier	1-player	2-player	3-player	4-player
1	3,750	4,500	5,250	6,000
2	12,500	15,000	17,500	20,000
3	60,000	72,000	84,000	96,000
4	130,000	156,000	182,000	208,000
5	500,000	600,000	700,000	800,000

Speed
Tier	Base speed	Red Bloon speed
1	1.25	0.05×
2	1.3	0.052×
3	1.4	0.056×
4	1.5	0.06×
5	1.6	0.064×

Dreadrock Bloons

Base health
Tier	1-player	2-player	3-player	4-player
1	250	300	350	400
2	500	600	700	800
3	750	900	1,050	1,200
4	8,000	9,600	11,200	12,800
5	20,000	24,000	28,000	32,000

Spawning and lives lost
Tier	Extra # in first 5s	Spawn cooldown	Lives lost
1	5	4s	5
2	7	3s	10
3	10	3s	15
4	14	2.5s	20
5	19	2s	25

Elite

Base health
Tier	1-player	2-player	3-player	4-player
1	15,000	18,000	21,000	24,000
2	90,000	108,000	126,000	144,000
3	650,000	780,000	910,000	1,040,000
4	2,625,000	3,150,000	3,675,000	4,200,000
5	12,500,000	15,000,000	17,500,000	20,000,000

Ceramic Armor Shell health
Tier	1-player	2-player	3-player	4-player
1	5,250	6,300	7,350	8,400
2	31,500	37,800	44,100	50,400
3	227,500	273,000	318,500	364,000
4	918,750	1,102,500	1,286,250	1,470,000
5	4,375,000	5,250,000	6,125,000	7,000,000

Speed
Tier	Base speed	Red Bloon speed
1	1.25	0.05×
2	1.3	0.052×
3	1.4	0.056×
4	1.5	0.06×
5	1.6	0.064×

Dreadrock Bloons

Base health
Tier	1-player	2-player	3-player	4-player
1	500	600	700	800
2	2,200	2,640	3,080	3,520
3	8,000	9,600	11,200	12,800
4	19,500	23,400	27,300	31,200
5	40,000	48,000	56,000	64,000

Spawning and lives lost
Tier	Extra # in first 5s	Spawn cooldown	Lives lost
1	5	3s	20
2	7	2.5s	30
3	10	2s	50
4	14	1.5s	75
5	19	1s	100

Round changes

When facing Dreadbloon, many rounds are modified from the standard roundset. Notable changes include:

All normally spawned Lead and Ceramic Bloons become Fortified.
All Zebras are replaced with Leads.
All Rainbows are replaced with Ceramics.
After round 40, every other MOAB that spawns becomes Fortified.
After round 70, every MOAB is Fortified.

№	Default				Modified
№	Bloon groups	Dur.	Base RBE	Base cash	Bloon groups	Dur.	Base RBE	Base cash
26	Pink^×23 Zebra^×4	14.51s	207	$207	Pink^×23 Lead^×4	14.51s	207	$207
28	Lead^×6	5.00s	138	$138	Fortified Lead^×6	5.00s	156	$138
30	Lead^×9	13.07s	207	$207	Fortified Lead^×9	13.07s	234	$207
31	Black^×8 White^×8 Zebra^×8 Regrow Zebra^×2	15.91s	406	$406	Black^×8 White^×8 Lead^×8 Regrow Lead^×2	15.91s	406	$406
34	Yellow^×160 Zebra^×6	36.00s	778	$778	Yellow^×160 Lead^×6	36.00s	778	$778
35	White^×25 Rainbow^×5 Pink^×35 Black^×30	33.76s	1,015	$1,015	White^×25 Ceramic^×5 Pink^×35 Black^×30	33.76s	1,300	$1,255
37	Black^×25 White^×25 Lead^×15 Zebra^×10 Camo White^×7	43.51s	1,202	$1,202	Black^×25 White^×25 Fortified Lead^×15 Lead^×10 Camo White^×7	43.51s	1,247	$1,202
38	White^×17 Pink^×42 Lead^×14 Zebra^×10 Ceramic^×2	29.06s	1,157	$1,139	White^×17 Pink^×42 Lead^×14 Lead^×10 Fortified Ceramic^×2	29.06s	1,177	$1,139
39	Black^×10 White^×10 Zebra^×20 Rainbow^×18 Regrow Rainbow^×2	37.93s	1,620	$1,620	Black^×10 White^×10 Lead^×20 Fortified Lead^×12 Ceramic^×6 Regrow Ceramic^×2	37.93s	1,824	$1,716
40	MOAB^×1	1.00s	616	$381	Fortified Lead^×10 Fortified Ceramic^×8	19.00s	1,172	$990
41	Black^×60 Zebra^×60	46.20s	2,040	$2,040	Black^×60 Lead^×60	46.20s	2,040	$2,040
42	Regrow Rainbow^×6 Camo Rainbow^×5	11.60s	517	$517	Regrow Ceramic^×6 Camo Ceramic^×5	11.60s	1,144	$1,045
43	Rainbow^×10 Ceramic^×7	9.26s	1,198	$1,135	Fortified Lead^×10 Fortified Ceramic^×7	9.26s	1,058	$895
44	Zebra^×10 Zebra^×10 Zebra^×10 Zebra^×10 Zebra^×10	23.67s	1,150	$1,150	Lead^×10 Lead^×10 Lead^×10 Lead^×10 Lead^×10	23.67s	1,150	$1,150
45	Rainbow^×25 Camo Purple^×10 Pink^×180 Fortified Lead^×4	53.10s	2,289	$2,277	Ceramic^×25 Camo Purple^×10 Pink^×180 Fortified Lead^×4	53.10s	3,714	$3,477
46	Fortified Ceramic^×6	7.00s	684	$570	Fortified MOAB^×1	0.10s	856	$381
47	Ceramic^×12 Camo Pink^×70	24.65s	1,598	$1,490	Fortified Ceramic^×12 Camo Pink^×70	24.65s	1,718	$1,490
48	Regrow Pink^×40 Camo Regrow Purple^×30 Rainbow^×40 Fortified Ceramic^×3	55.72s	2,752	$2,695	Regrow Pink^×40 Camo Regrow Purple^×30 Fortified Ceramic^×20	55.68s	2,810	$2,430
49	Green^×343 Rainbow^×10 Ceramic^×18 Zebra^×20 Rainbow^×10 Regrow Rainbow^×10	50.00s	4,771	$4,609	Green^×343 Fortified Regrow Lead^×10 Fortified Ceramic^×18 Lead^×20 Ceramic^×10 Regrow Ceramic^×10	50.00s	5,881	$5,329
50	MOAB^×1 Fortified Lead^×8 Red^×20 Ceramic^×20 MOAB^×1	28.98s	3,540	$2,866	MOAB^×1 Fortified Lead^×8 Red^×20 Fortified Ceramic^×20 Fortified MOAB^×1	28.98s	3,980	$2,866
51	Camo Ceramic^×15 Regrow Rainbow^×10	24.14s	2,030	$947.5	Fortified Camo Ceramic^×15 Regrow Ceramic^×10	24.14s	2,750	$1,187.5
52	Rainbow^×25 MOAB^×1 Ceramic^×5 MOAB^×1 Ceramic^×5	20.56s	3,447	$1,443.5	Ceramic^×25 MOAB^×1 Fortified Ceramic^×5 Fortified MOAB^×1 Fortified Ceramic^×5	20.56s	5,212	$2,043.5
53	Camo Pink^×80 MOAB^×1 MOAB^×1 MOAB^×1	35.00s	2,248	$771.5	Camo Pink^×80 MOAB^×1 Fortified MOAB^×1 MOAB^×1	35.00s	2,488	$771.5
54	Ceramic^×35 MOAB^×1 MOAB^×1	19.41s	4,872	$2,043.5	Fortified Ceramic^×35 Fortified MOAB^×1 MOAB^×1	19.41s	5,462	$2,043.5
55	Ceramic^×10 Ceramic^×10 Ceramic^×10 Ceramic^×15 MOAB^×1	29.78s	5,296	$2,328	Fortified Ceramic^×10 Fortified Ceramic^×10 Fortified Ceramic^×10 Fortified Ceramic^×15 Fortified MOAB^×1	29.78s	5,986	$2,328
56	Camo Rainbow^×40 MOAB^×1	16.18s	2,496	$1,130.5	Camo Ceramic^×40 MOAB^×1	16.18s	4,776	$2,090.5
57	MOAB^×2 Rainbow^×40 MOAB^×2	26.23s	4,344	$1,702	Fortified MOAB^×1 MOAB^×1 Ceramic^×40 Fortified MOAB^×1 MOAB^×1	26.23s	7,104	$2,662
58	MOAB^×5 Ceramic^×15 Fortified Ceramic^×10	43.98s	5,780	$2,140	Fortified MOAB^×3 Fortified Ceramic^×15 MOAB^×1 Fortified Ceramic^×10 MOAB^×1	43.98s	6,650	$2,140
59	Ceramic^×20 Camo Lead^×50 Regrow Ceramic^×10	26.16s	4,270	$2,000	Fortified Ceramic^×20 Fortified Camo Lead^×50 Fortified Regrow Ceramic^×10	26.16s	4,720	$2,000
60	BFB^×1	1.00s	3,164	$762.5	Fortified MOAB^×3 Fortified Lead^×20 Fortified Lead^×20	20.00s	3,608	$1,031.5
61	Regrow Zebra^×150 MOAB^×5	20.00s	6,530	$1,071	Regrow Lead^×150 MOAB^×3 Fortified MOAB^×1 Fortified MOAB^×1	20.00s	7,010	$1,071
62	Purple^×250 MOAB^×5 Fortified MOAB^×2 Camo Regrow Rainbow^×15	48.29s	8,247	$1,224.4	Purple^×250 Fortified MOAB^×3 MOAB^×1 MOAB^×1 Fortified MOAB^×2 Camo Regrow Ceramic^×15	48.29s	9,822	$1,368.4
63	Lead^×75 Ceramic^×40 Ceramic^×40 Ceramic^×42	42.25s	14,413	$2,663	Fortified Lead^×75 Fortified Ceramic^×40 Fortified Ceramic^×40 Fortified Ceramic^×42	42.25s	15,858	$2,663
64	MOAB^×6 Fortified MOAB^×3	9.53s	6,264	$685.8	Fortified MOAB^×3 MOAB^×3 Fortified MOAB^×3	9.53s	6,984	$685.8
65	Zebra^×100 Rainbow^×70 Ceramic^×50 MOAB^×3 BFB^×2	62.00s	18,966	$2,906.6	Lead^×100 Ceramic^×70 Fortified Ceramic^×50 MOAB^×2 Fortified MOAB^×1 BFB^×2	62.00s	23,696	$3,578.6
66	MOAB^×2 MOAB^×2 MOAB^×4 Fortified MOAB^×3	22.75s	7,496	$838.2	MOAB^×1 Fortified MOAB^×1 MOAB^×1 Fortified MOAB^×1 MOAB^×2 Fortified MOAB^×2 Fortified MOAB^×3	22.75s	8,456	$838.2
67	MOAB^×4 Fortified Camo Regrow Ceramic^×13 MOAB^×4	26.44s	6,410	$856.6	MOAB^×2 Fortified MOAB^×2 Fortified Camo Regrow Ceramic^×13 MOAB^×2 Fortified MOAB^×2	26.46s	7,370	$856.6
68	MOAB^×4 BFB^×1	8.44s	5,628	$609.8	MOAB^×2 Fortified MOAB^×2 BFB^×1	8.44s	6,108	$609.8
69	Fortified Lead^×40 Regrow Black^×40 Ceramic^×50	42.13s	6,680	$1,222	Fortified Lead^×40 Regrow Black^×40 Fortified Ceramic^×50	42.13s	7,180	$1,222
70	Rainbow^×200 Camo Regrow White^×120 MOAB^×4	41.14s	13,184	$2,448.8	Ceramic^×200 Camo Regrow White^×120 Fortified MOAB^×4	41.14s	25,544	$4,368.8
71	Ceramic^×30 MOAB^×10	16.55s	9,280	$1,332	Fortified Ceramic^×30 Fortified MOAB^×10	16.55s	11,980	$1,332
72	Regrow Ceramic^×38 BFB^×1 BFB^×1	21.70s	10,280	$1,332	Fortified Regrow Ceramic^×38 BFB^×1 BFB^×1	21.70s	10,660	$1,332
73	MOAB^×7 BFB^×2 MOAB^×1	26.95s	11,256	$1,219.6	Fortified MOAB^×7 BFB^×2 Fortified MOAB^×1	26.95s	13,176	$1,219.6
74	Ceramic^×50 Fortified Camo Regrow Ceramic^×25 BFB^×1 Fortified Ceramic^×60	82.38s	18,054	$2,870	Fortified Ceramic^×50 Fortified Camo Regrow Ceramic^×25 BFB^×1 Fortified Ceramic^×60	82.38s	18,554	$2,870
75	BFB^×1 Lead^×14 Fortified MOAB^×1 BFB^×3 Fortified Lead^×14 Fortified MOAB^×2 BFB^×3	22.59s	25,402	$2,492.4	BFB^×1 Fortified Lead^×14 Fortified MOAB^×1 BFB^×3 Fortified Lead^×14 Fortified MOAB^×2 BFB^×3	22.59s	25,444	$2,492.4
76	Regrow Ceramic^×60	1.78s	6,240	$1,140	Fortified Regrow Ceramic^×60	1.78s	6,840	$1,140
77	MOAB^×11 BFB^×5	58.92s	22,596	$2,363.2	Fortified MOAB^×11 BFB^×5	58.92s	25,236	$2,363.2
78	Rainbow^×150 Ceramic^×75 BFB^×1 Purple^×80 Camo Ceramic^×72	90.00s	26,382	$4,684	Ceramic^×150 Fortified Ceramic^×75 BFB^×1 Purple^×80 Fortified Camo Ceramic^×72	90.00s	36,402	$6,124
79	Regrow Rainbow^×500 BFB^×4 Fortified BFB^×2	60.00s	45,804	$6,530	Regrow Ceramic^×500 BFB^×4 Fortified BFB^×2	60.00s	74,304	$11,330
80	ZOMG^×1	2.00s	16,656	$1,220.2	BFB^×1 Fortified Lead^×14 Fortified MOAB^×1 BFB^×3 Fortified Lead^×14 Fortified MOAB^×2 BFB^×3	22.59s	25,444	$2,492.4
83	Ceramic^×40 Regrow Ceramic^×40 Fortified Ceramic^×40 MOAB^×30	60.20s	31,720	$4,566	Fortified Ceramic^×40 Fortified Regrow Ceramic^×40 Fortified Ceramic^×40 Fortified MOAB^×30	60.20s	40,080	$4,566
84	MOAB^×50 BFB^×10	25.00s	64,440	$6,860	Fortified MOAB^×50 BFB^×10	25.00s	77,240	$6,860
88	BFB^×8 MOAB^×18 ZOMG^×2	14.55s	75,408	$3,126	BFB^×8 Fortified MOAB^×18 ZOMG^×2	14.55s	80,304	$3,126
99	MOAB^×60 Fortified DDT^×9	12.00s	55,560	$2,628.9	Fortified MOAB^×60 Fortified DDT^×9	12.00s	74,520	$2,628.9
103	Fortified ZOMG^×10 MOAB^×100 Purple^×64 Fortified MOAB^×50 Purple^×66 Purple^×68	19.00s	511,538	$6,016.9	Fortified ZOMG^×10 Fortified MOAB^×100 Purple^×64 Fortified MOAB^×50 Purple^×66 Purple^×68	19.00s	546,538	$6,016.9
104	Fortified MOAB^×150 BFB^×10 Fortified Lead^×100 BFB^×8 Purple^×100 BFB^×7 Ceramic^×100 Fortified BFB^×5 Fortified Lead^×100 Fortified BFB^×4 Purple^×100 Fortified BFB^×5 Ceramic^×100 MOAB^×25	22.00s	405,336	$7,597.5	Fortified MOAB^×150 BFB^×10 Fortified Lead^×100 BFB^×8 Purple^×100 BFB^×7 Fortified Ceramic^×100 Fortified BFB^×5 Fortified Lead^×100 Fortified BFB^×4 Purple^×100 Fortified BFB^×5 Fortified Ceramic^×100 Fortified MOAB^×25	22.00s	416,336	$7,597.5
105	Ceramic^×100 Fortified Lead^×25 BFB^×30 Fortified Ceramic^×300	9.00s	169,420	$4,216.25	Fortified Ceramic^×100 Fortified Lead^×25 BFB^×30 Fortified Ceramic^×300	9.00s	170,420	$4,216.25
113	Fortified MOAB^×75 Fortified BFB^×15 Camo Ceramic^×42 Fortified Ceramic^×42	21.50s	224,466	$2,971.5	Fortified MOAB^×75 Fortified BFB^×15 Fortified Camo Ceramic^×42 Fortified Ceramic^×42	21.50s	224,886	$2,971.5
114	DDT^×9 Fortified MOAB^×36 Fortified DDT^×6 MOAB^×24 BFB^×12 Fortified BFB^×8 ZOMG^×5 Fortified ZOMG^×3	30.00s	499,768	$5,394.15	DDT^×9 Fortified MOAB^×36 Fortified DDT^×6 Fortified MOAB^×24 BFB^×12 Fortified BFB^×8 ZOMG^×5 Fortified ZOMG^×3	30.00s	510,808	$5,394.15
115	DDT^×9 Fortified ZOMG^×3 Fortified DDT^×6 Fortified BFB^×8 ZOMG^×5 BFB^×12 MOAB^×24 Fortified MOAB^×36	30.00s	508,748	$5,394.15	DDT^×9 Fortified ZOMG^×3 Fortified DDT^×6 Fortified BFB^×8 ZOMG^×5 BFB^×12 Fortified MOAB^×24 Fortified MOAB^×36	30.00s	520,028	$5,394.15
117	Lead^×250 DDT^×27 Fortified DDT^×18	14.00s	81,890	$1,144.75	Fortified Lead^×250 DDT^×27 Fortified DDT^×18	14.00s	82,640	$1,144.75
123	Fortified ZOMG^×8 MOAB^×200	40.00s	651,568	$5,000.32	Fortified ZOMG^×8 Fortified MOAB^×200	40.00s	761,568	$5,000.32
125	ZOMG^×6 ZOMG^×5 BFB^×12 BFB^×10 ZOMG^×4 BFB^×8 MOAB^×18 ZOMG^×3 BFB^×6 MOAB^×15 ZOMG^×2 BFB^×4 MOAB^×12 ZOMG^×1 BFB^×2 MOAB^×9 MOAB^×6 MOAB^×3	40.00s	1,021,272	$8,646.96	ZOMG^×6 ZOMG^×5 BFB^×12 BFB^×10 ZOMG^×4 BFB^×8 Fortified MOAB^×18 ZOMG^×3 BFB^×6 Fortified MOAB^×15 ZOMG^×2 BFB^×4 Fortified MOAB^×12 ZOMG^×1 BFB^×2 Fortified MOAB^×9 Fortified MOAB^×6 Fortified MOAB^×3	40.00s	1,058,442	$8,646.96
127	MOAB^×48 BFB^×24	14.00s	198,984	$2,195.52	Fortified MOAB^×48 BFB^×24	14.00s	230,184	$2,195.52
129	Fortified ZOMG^×7 Fortified Camo Lead^×77 Camo Purple^×77 Camo Ceramic^×77 ZOMG^×7 DDT^×9 DDT^×3 DDT^×3 DDT^×3	28.00s	843,629	$4,088.2	Fortified ZOMG^×7 Fortified Camo Lead^×77 Camo Purple^×77 Fortified Camo Ceramic^×77 ZOMG^×7 DDT^×9 DDT^×3 DDT^×3 DDT^×3	28.00s	844,399	$4,088.2
130	MOAB^×12 DDT^×27 Fortified MOAB^×9 MOAB^×12 Fortified MOAB^×9 MOAB^×12 DDT^×9 MOAB^×48 Fortified DDT^×3 DDT^×6 Fortified DDT^×3 DDT^×6 Fortified MOAB^×48	40.00s	322,944	$3,108.96	Fortified MOAB^×12 DDT^×27 Fortified MOAB^×9 Fortified MOAB^×12 Fortified MOAB^×9 Fortified MOAB^×12 DDT^×9 Fortified MOAB^×48 Fortified DDT^×3 DDT^×6 Fortified DDT^×3 DDT^×6 Fortified MOAB^×48	40.00s	385,104	$3,108.96
133	Fortified MOAB^×6 Fortified BFB^×6 Fortified ZOMG^×2 Fortified MOAB^×6 Fortified BFB^×6 Fortified ZOMG^×2 MOAB^×9 BFB^×9 ZOMG^×3 MOAB^×9 BFB^×9 ZOMG^×3 MOAB^×9 BFB^×9 ZOMG^×3	43.00s	1,186,573	$6,145.88	Fortified MOAB^×6 Fortified BFB^×6 Fortified ZOMG^×2 Fortified MOAB^×6 Fortified BFB^×6 Fortified ZOMG^×2 Fortified MOAB^×9 BFB^×9 ZOMG^×3 Fortified MOAB^×9 BFB^×9 ZOMG^×3 Fortified MOAB^×9 BFB^×9 ZOMG^×3	43.00s	1,208,983	$6,145.88
137	ZOMG^×18 BFB^×24 MOAB^×48	8.10s	1,206,192	$6,588.24	ZOMG^×18 BFB^×24 Fortified MOAB^×48	8.10s	1,251,792	$6,588.24
139	MOAB^×109 MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18 MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18 MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18 MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18	45.00s	423,378	$3,855.72	Fortified MOAB^×109 Fortified MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18 Fortified MOAB^×18	45.00s	606,188	$3,855.72

Strategy

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Dreadbloon is a boss that forces the players to diversify their defensive setups to handle not only it and its immunities, but also the Rock Bloons that are constantly traveling across the map.

Strategies in the early game rely on having a primary source of damage that will quickly defeat the boss plus a secondary defense to handle the immunity phase of your main source of damage, options from all categories include:

Primary: MOAB Assassin / MOAB Eliminator, Overdrive / The Tack Zone with a support tower that can increase the damage during the Lead phase (Embrittlement and/or Berserker Brew).
Military: Elite Defender, Artillery Battery / Pop and Awe, The Big One / The Biggest One, Plasma Accelerator, M.A.D.
Magic: Sun Avatar, Sticky Bomb / Master Bomber, Avatar of Wrath + Poplust.
Support: MOAB SHREDR and its upgrades.

Selling the defenses to switch to a different category during the immunity phases is also a common strategy.

Going into Tier 3, the usual strategy is preparing a Paragon, specially one from the Primary category. In this case the player may conserve the Tier 2 defense to remove the Primary immunity and sell the towers to quickly purchase an Apex Plasma Master or Glaive Dominus that will defeat the boss pretty quickly. For the final Tiers, having Paragons of different categories will be enough to defeat Dreadbloon.

Primary Towers are the best option to defend the Rock Bloons in Boss Events and Boss Challenge mode outside of Elite version. Common option on the early tiers include a few MOAB Maulers / MOAB Assassin, Turbo Charge while using its ability or Overdrives with all of them also being useful against Dreadbloon itself. Their upgraded versions an The Bloon Solver also become viable options for Tier 2. After Tier 3 they will require support from other towers but is recommended to set-up a primary Paragon at that point. A degree 20 Paragon will handle the Rock Bloons for the rest of the game.

Be extremely careful with the targeting option of your towers; they will prioritize hitting Rock Bloons over Dreadbloon if given the chance.

In Boss Rush, early Dreadbloon can be damaged quickly with towers like Sauda, 2-2-0 Monkey Aces, MOAB SHREDR, Spiked Balls, Dragon's Breath, Cannon Ship or Destroyer. Once the immunity switches to Military, the boss itself and the Rock Bloons can be handled with Turbo Charge, M.O.A.R Glaives, Overdrive + Embrittlement / Berserker Brew. During the mid-game the defense transitions into the upgrades of the mentioned towers. Heading into the late game, the best moment to get a Paragon is just after the immunity phase for that type of tower is passed (for example, a common time to place a Primary Paragon is at 90 pops, right after the third primary immunity phase). Make sure to sell the towers that are not damaging the boss for other defenses.

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Version 35.0

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The forced slowdown of Dreadbloon during the ceramic shielded phase has caused a lot more games to end due to running out of time, with average players seeing this as a rest period. We are reducing the amount of slowdown at all tiers to raise up the threat level more in this phase.
— Update notes

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Normal: Speed multiplier when shielded increased ― ×0.2 → ×0.3
Elite: Speed multiplier when shielded increased ― ×0.2 → ×0.35
Dreadbloon will no longer spawn primary immune Rock Bloons when loading a freshly spawned boss save (bug fix)
Dreadbloon Ceramic Shield now correctly scales with playercount (bug fix)
Dreadbloon no longer moves at full speed after loading into a save with an active armored state (bug fix)
Reloading a Dreadbloon save should no longer show ceramic armor visually when the boss is not actually armored (bug fix)

Version 35.1

Resolved an issue that could count Dreadbloon’s timer incorrectly after boss death (bug fix)

Version 37.0

Bosses on spawn will now clear the map of all existing projectiles

Version 38.0

Dealing damage to Dreadbloons armor now counts correctly towards tower damage (bug fix)
Cripple MOAB can no longer debuff Dreadbloon during Military Immune Phase (bug fix)

Version 39.0

Resolved an issue where subtowers did not correctly track damage done to Dreadbloon/Phayze shields (bug fix)

Version 43.0

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Rock Bloons in the higher tiers of Normal Dreadbloon are very outscaled, and so their health values are being increased.
— Update notes

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Normal tier 4: Dreadrock Bloon health increased ― 5000 → 9000
Normal Tier 5: Dreadrock Bloon health increased ― 12000 → 22500

Version 45.0

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Previously we scaled Rock Bloon HP in Boss Rush faster than Dreadbloon in order to keep them relevant from start to finish within a rough 100 tier expectation. Players pushing beyond this expected range were finding obvious annoyance with this as the Rock Bloons would eventually outscale the Boss, so we’re reducing their scale to match in line with Dreadbloon but increasing the number of Rock Bloons that spawn.
— Update notes

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Dreadrock Bloon (Boss Rush): Health scaling reduced ― ×1.07 → ×1.055
Dreadrock Bloon (Boss Rush): Dreadrock Bloons per spawn increased ― 3 → 6

Version 47.0

Dreadrock Bloon (Elite tier 3): Health reduced ― 10,000 → 9,000
Dreadrock Bloon: Health now scales with boss health/speed modifiers

Version 49.0

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Dreadbloon’s difficulty has been due too much to the Rock Bloons, so their strength is being reduced in favour of a more linear speed increase on the boss itself. Also Tier 1 Normal Dreadbloon’s damage reduction is being removed as we felt this hitting immediately was far too limiting to starting strategies, particularly in Rush game modes
— Update notes

”

Dreadrock Bloon speed decreased ― 22 units/s → 18 units/s
Normal Dreadrock Bloon health decreased at all tiers
- Tier 1 ― 300 → 250
- Tier 2 ― 600 → 500
- Tier 3 ― 900 → 750
- Tier 4 ― 9,000 → 8,000
- Tier 5 ― 22,500 → 20,000
Elite Dreadrock Bloon health decreased at all tiers
- Tier 1 ― 600 → 500
- Tier 2 ― 2,500 → 2,200
- Tier 3 ― 9,000 → 8,000
- Tier 4 ― 22,000 → 19,500
- Tier 5 ― 45,000 → 40,000
Blimp instakills (XXXL Trap, Monkey Pirates, Pirate Lord) no longer target Rock Bloons (undocumented)
- Note: This fixed a bug in Rogue Legends with the Discord Artifact when interacting with x4x and x5x Buccaneer

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Dreadbloon’s difficulty has been due too much to the Rock Bloons, so their strength is being reduced in favour of a more linear speed increase on the boss itself. Also Tier 1 Normal Dreadbloon’s damage reduction is being removed as we felt this hitting immediately was far too limiting to starting strategies, particularly in Rush game modes
— Update notes

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Tier 1 Normal Dreadbloon no longer has damage reduction ― -1 damage → 0
Normal boss speed increased at Tier 2 and above
- Tier 1 remains 1.25 units/s
- Tier 2 ― 1.25 units/s → 1.3 units/s
- Tier 3 ― 1.25 units/s → 1.4 units/s
- Tier 4 remains 1.5 units/s
- Tier 5 ― 1.25 units/s → 1.6 units/s
Elite boss speed increased at all tiers except Tier 1 and 2
- Tier 1 ― 1.3 units/s → 1.25 units/s
- Tier 2 remains 1.3 units/s
- Tier 3 ― 1.3 units/s → 1.4 units/s
- Tier 4 ― 1.5 units/s → 1.5 units/s
- Tier 5 ― 1.5 units/s → 1.6 units/s
Spikes from a sold Mega Massive Munitions Factory will no longer ignore Dreadbloon's Support immunity (bug fix)

Version 51.0

Dreadrock Bloon: Should now be correctly affected by Boss Challenge rule modifiers (bug fix)

Version 53.0

Eclipse of Fimbulwinter ability from Herald of Everfrost can now skip the first skull (undocumented)

Version 54.0

Elite: Number of skulls increased ― 3 → 7
- Note: It will now cycle through all immunities twice
Elite: Health of Ceramic Armor Shield reduced ― 50% → 35% of current Tier HP
- Tier 1 ― 7,500 → 5,250
- Tier 2 ― 45,000 → 31,500
- Tier 3 ― 325,000 → 227,500
- Tier 4 ― 1,312,000 → 918,750
- Tier 5 ― 6,250,000 → 4,375,000
Eclipse of Fimbulwinter ability from Herald of Everfrost should no longer skip Dreadbloon's Skulls while in Primary immunity

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Normal Dreadbloon in the boss menu
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Bloons in Bloons TD 6

Regular	Red Bloon • Blue Bloon • Green Bloon • Yellow Bloon • Pink Bloon • Black Bloon • White Bloon • Purple Bloon • Lead Bloon • Zebra Bloon • Rainbow Bloon • Ceramic Bloon
MOAB-Class	MOAB • BFB • ZOMG • DDT • BAD
Boss	Bloonarius • Lych (Lych-soul • Bloon Tomb) • Vortex • Dreadbloon (Dreadrock Bloon) • Phayze • Blastapopoulos • Diamondback
Properties	Regrow Bloon • Camo Bloon • Fortified Bloon
Frontier Legends	Aura Bloon • Diamond Bloon • Dynamite Bloon • Glass Bloon • Retribution Bloon • Ringleader Bloon
Other	Test Bloon • MOAB Test Bloon • Golden Bloon

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Dreadbloon

Gameplay iterations	BTD5 • BSM2 • BMC • BTD6 • BCS
Bloons Card Storm cards	Armored • Dread Shield • Echoes of Avalanche • Fearful Aura • Immunity • Repercussions • Wrath of Dread
Related Bloons	Dreadrock Bloon (BCS)

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Dreadbloon (BTD6)

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