Super Brittle (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Super Brittle (Battles 2).

Super Brittle

Bloons take huge damage while frozen, while Ice Shards rip through Ceramic Bloons like paper!

Tower	Ice Monkey — Path 1 — Tier 5
XP cost	25,000
Cash cost	$23,800 — Easy $28,000 — Medium $30,240 — Hard $33,600 — Impoppable

← Embrittlement

Herald of Everfrost →

Super Brittle is the Ice Monkey's path 1 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. Compared to Embrittlement, Super Brittle attacks twice as fast (attack cooldown reduced from 2.4 seconds to 1.2 seconds), does more damage with all its attacks, and its debuff causes affected Bloons to take +4 damage from all sources for 3 seconds (instead of +1 for 2 seconds) and temporarily removes Lead and Frozen immunities for 3 seconds instead of 2. The debuff does not stack with Embrittlement or Herald of Everfrost, and overrides Embrittlement. Like Embrittlement, it permanently removes Camo and Regrow properties, and its own debuffs can be refreshed.

The main attack is improved, dealing normal damage type (can hit all Bloon types), instead of glacier. It can apply a permafrost effect to MOAB-Class Bloons, permanently slowing them by 25%. Each blast does 5 damage and +5 to Ceramics, and affected Bloons spawn 6 ice shards when popped, each shard dealing 5 damage with a projectile range of 40.

All effects soak through 6 layers (7 with Deep Freeze), instead of 3.

Stats

For a complete list of Ice Monkey stats, see Stats:Ice Monkey (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 25 units Footprint radius 6 units Targeting options Close

Attack
Cooldown 1.2s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 0, 7 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 25 units
Projectile Pierce 40 Damage 5 Damage to Ceramic +5 Damage type Normal Lifespan 0.05s Radius 20 units Ignores blockers Removes Camo Removes Regrow Permafrost Multiplier ×0.5 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×0.75 Duration ∞s Duration for MOAB-Class 0s Layers 6 Remove immunities Duration 3s Layers 6 Freeze Multiplier ×0 Duration 1.5s Layers 6 Bonus damage Duration 3s Layers 6 Ice shard Count 6 Angle 360° Pierce 3 Max pierce 3 Damage 5 Damage type Shatter Speed 250 units/s Lifespan 0.16s Radius 2 units Removes Camo Removes Regrow

5-1-0

Attack
Cooldown 1.2s → 0.9s
Projectile Freeze Duration 1.5s → 1.75s

5-2-0

Attack
Projectile Pierce 40 → 45 Permafrost Layers 6 → 7 Remove immunities Layers 6 → 7 Freeze Duration 1.75s → 2.2s Layers 6 → 7 Bonus damage Layers 6 → 7

5-0-1

Tower
Display range 25 units → 32 units

Attack
Targeting range 25 units → 32 units
Projectile Radius 20 units → 27 units

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
5-0-0	$27,790	$32,700	$35,315	$39,240	$19,453	$22,890	$24,721	$27,468
5-1-0	$27,960	$32,900	$35,530	$39,480	$19,572	$23,030	$24,871	$27,636
5-2-0	$28,215	$33,200	$35,855	$39,840	$19,751	$23,240	$25,099	$27,888
5-0-1	$27,915	$32,850	$35,475	$39,420	$19,541	$22,995	$24,833	$27,594
5-0-2	$28,085	$33,050	$35,690	$39,660	$19,660	$23,135	$24,983	$27,762

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 53.0

Super Brittle is a stronger and more concentrated Embrittlement. The increased attack speed improves reliability of the de-camo, de-lead, and debuff capabilities, and the increased damage that Bloons take from it can dramatically increase the DPS of towers with multiple rapid projectiles that deal low damage (usually 1 or 2 damage). Towers such as Overdrive, Destroyer, Sun Avatar, Super Monkey Fan Club, The Tack Zone, and Grandmaster Ninja, benefit greatly from the extra damage boost.

Super Brittle is immensely powerful in Freeplay and Boss Events, thanks to its +4 damage debuff consistently applying onto BADs and Bosses and greatly amplifying the damage of other towers. In CHIMPS, Super Brittle is effective when placed around a chokehold but struggles on maps with multiple non-converging lanes, and its favored Hero is Silas. Compared to Glue Storm, which costs less and its debuffs can be timed manually, Super Brittle is only reliant on positioning.

Super Brittle suffers from low range and pierce, preventing it from covering all lanes of every map and limiting its ability to debuff dense groups or perform cleanup. Its DDT de-lead is consistent on maps with short bends if it doesn't pierce-cap. Despite its much more efficient Super Ceramic Bloon popping, they may still slip through without other supports. Additional group-popping should be paired alongside it so itself can act as cleanup against Super Ceramics and proc its ice shards to damage other Bloons more efficiently. The shards deal enough damage to produce a chain effect at shredding Bloon groups.

5-2-0 is the recommended crosspath for CHIMPS, which improves its DPS and makes it more reliable for cleanup, but 5-0-1 is better for Bosses and Freeplay, as its debuff already has permanent uptime and reaching more parts of the track is preferred there. Re-Freeze does nothing, because it already can re-freeze all Frozen Bloons. Note that Super Brittle attacks fast enough to create shards by itself, even without middle crosspath.

Update history

For a complete list of Ice Monkey changes, see Update history:Ice Monkey (BTD6).

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Version 2.0

•  Ice shard: Pierce and max pierce increased ― 1 → 3
•  Pierce increased ― 30 → 40

Version 8.0

•  Can now pop Lead Bloons when buffed by Acidic Mixture Dip (bug fix)

Version 17.0

•  Now has Camo detection
•  Now removes Camo and Regrow properties from Bloons it freezes
•  Range increased ― 20 → 25

Version 23.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $800 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 24.0

“

Small tweaks to the benefit of still under-utilized T5 Ice Monkey upgrades.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $30,000 → $28,000

Version 25.0

•  Now applies the Permafrost effect to White and Zebra Bloons (bug)
  • Note: Unconfirmed
•  Now applies the Razor Shards effect to White and Zebra Bloons (bug)
  • Note: Unconfirmed
•  Ice Shards requires Re-Freeze to be able to damage Frozen Bloons, even under the influence of a X-3-X MIB Village (bug)
  • Note: Unconfirmed
•  No longer allows frozen Bloons to take damage from Sharp attacks (bug)
•  No longer debuffs MOAB-Class Bloons (bug)

Version 28.0

“

Embrittlement will now be able to target and debuff MOAB Bloons for the smaller damage bonus without needing to be upgraded to T5.
— Update notes

”

•  Overall cost increased by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 29.0

5-0-1, 5-0-2

•  Larger Radius no longer prevents the Ice Monkey from stacking its debuffs (bug fix)

Version 30.0

•  Debuff: Duration corrected ― 2s → 3s (bug fix)
•  Should no longer slow & remove camo from White Bloons without being able to damage them (bug fix)

Version 31.0

•  Permafrost: slowdown to MOABs increased ― 25% → 50% (bug)

Version 32.0

•  Overall cost increased by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 33.0

•  Permafrost: Now slows MOAB-class by the correct amount ― 50% → 25% (bug fix)

Version 34.0

“

Ice Monkey base pierce is too high, very easily countering large numbers of strong Bloons early, mid or late in the game for small investment, leading to very low tiers of ice monkey (below t3) being highly effective spam options over upgrading your ice. We are reworking some of this base pierce to require crosspath investment and buffing the damage Ice 3xx Ice Shards to compensate for some of its reduced pierce.
— Update notes

”

•  Shard damage increased ― 1 → 2
•  Pierce reduced ― 40 → 30
  • Note: Pierce with Deep Freeze is unchanged

Version 39.0

“

We’re happier with more recent freeze changes succeeding in some of the intentions of older nerfs, given the base tower value in races being hit far more than intended we’re going back over the pierce for Ice Monkey base & middle crosspath.
— Update notes

”

•  Pierce increased ― 30 → 40

Version 40.0

“

We want to try out allowing the Ice Shards sub-projectile to benefit from all sources of damage buff, as currently this path gets nice support use sometimes but can’t do much on its own in the base game - along with this the T5 Ice Shards are also generally being improved.
— Update notes

”

•  Ice shard: damage increased ― 2 → 5
•  Number of ice shards increased ― 3 → 6
•  Ice shard: damage is no longer capped (allowing for buffs)

Version 42.0

“

Embrittlement is cheap and balanced by its limited range and rate making it difficult to apply to very many targets with reliable frequency, however Super Brittle is far more expensive but still faces these same struggles. Feels fair for the cost to increase its attack rate further.
— Update notes

”

•  Attack cooldown reduced ― 2.16s → 1.8s

Version 49.0

•  Can now be placed on water

Version 51.0

“

Super Brittle’s never stood out on its own which was fine for a tower whose job was making other things better, but recently after the addition of Silas we've started to feel its value is really too niche even for a support piece, so we’re cranking the numbers so it can actually break a few things itself.
— Update notes

”

•  Main attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.8s → 1.2s (attack speed increased by 50%)
•  Main attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 5
•  Main attack: Now deals +5 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons
•  Ice shards: Damage increased ― 5 → 10
• Description changed ― "Bloons take huge damage while frozen including MOAB-Class Bloons." → "Bloons take huge damage while frozen, while Ice Shards rip through Ceramic Bloons like paper!"

5-1-0, 5-2-0

•  Main attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.35s → 0.9s (attack speed increased by 50%)

Version 52.1

•  Debuff no longer prevents other Ice Monkeys from damaging Bloons (bug fix)

Version 53.0

“

Ice Monkey T5’s are very strong right now, Embrittlement in particular stands out as a problem with its high damage so this is being reduced, however the range of its shards is being increased to retain the higher cool factor of buying this upgrade. [...] Embrittlement debuffs will no longer be stackable - only the highest tier Embrittlement debuff will take priority
— Update notes

”

•  Embrittlement debuff: Different tiers no longer stack with each other
  • Note: Super Brittle overrides Embrittlement and both are removed by the Paragon
•  Embrittlement debuff: No longer works on BADs (bug)
  • Note: Paragon works normally
•  Can now target and hit frozen Bloons without removing their frozen immunities first (undocumented)
•  Ice Shard: Damage reduced ― 10 → 5
•  Ice Shard: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.08s → 0.16s
  • Note: Changes to projectile speed unchanged (250 units/s) which makes the projectile cover more distance (20 to 40 units)

Version 53.1

•  Embrittlement debuff: Solved an issue where it would not affect BADs and Bosses (bug fix)

Gallery

For more Ice Monkey images, see Gallery:Ice Monkey.

Screenshots

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  Super Brittle for all upgrades

Assets

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  Portrait
• 
  Upgrade icon
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  Insta Monkey icon

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	سوبر بريتل تتعرض البالونات لأضرار جسيمة أثناء تجميدها بما في ذلك البالونات من فئة منطاد "موآب".	—
Danish	Super Skrøbelig Bloons - også MOAB-klasse-bloons - tager enormt mere skade, når de er frosne.	—
German	Superbröckeln Bloons (inklusive Bloons der MOAB-Klasse) erleiden großen Schaden, während sie gefroren sind.	—
Spanish	Superquebradizo Los bloons reciben un daño enorme mientras están congelados, incluidos los clase MOAB.	—
Spanish (LA)	Superquebradizo Los bloons reciben un daño enorme mientras están congelados, incluidos los clase MOAB.	—
Finnish	Superhaurastus Jäädytetyt bloonit kärsivät valtavia vahinkoja, mukaan lukien MOAB-luokan bloonit.	—
French	Méga effritement Les Bloons, y compris les Bloons de classe MOAB, subissent des dégâts considérables lorsque gelés.	—
Italian	Super fragile Quando vengono congelati i bloon subiscono considerevoli danni, inclusi quelli classe MOAB.	—
Japanese	超脆化 MOAB級ブルーンを含めたブルーンが、凍結中に巨大ダメージを与える。	—
Korean	슈퍼 유리멘탈 MOAB급 풍선을 포함하여 얼린 풍선이 받는 피해가 어마어마하게 증가합니다.	—
Dutch	Superbroos Bloons lopen enorme schade op als ze bevroren zijn, ook MOAB-klasse Bloons.	—
Norwegian	Superskjør Bloons får store skader når de er frosne, inkludert bloons av MOAB-klasse.	—
Polish	Super krucho Blony otrzymują ogromne obrażenia, gdy są zamrożone, w tym blony klasy MOAB.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Fragilização Superior Bloons tomam imenso dano enquanto estiverem congelados, inclusive os Classe MOAB.	—
Russian	Суперхрупкость Замороженные шары, включая MOAB, получают огромный урон.	—
Swedish	Superspröd Bloons tar stor skada när de frusna, även MOAB-klass-Bloons.	—
Thai	เปราะบางสุดขีด ลูกโป่งได้รับดาเมจรุนแรงขณะถูกแช่แข็ง รวมถึงลูกโป่งคลาส MOAB ด้วย	—
Turkish	Süper Kırılgan MOAB Sınıfı Bloon’lar dahil donmuş Bloon’lar ağır hasar alır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	超级脆弱 包括MOAB级气球在内的气球在冻结时受到巨大伤害。	—
Chinese (traditional)	超級脆弱 氣球被凍結後會受到巨大傷害，對MOAB級氣球有效。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1