Bloontonium Reactor (BMC)

For other uses, see Bloontonium Reactor (disambiguation).

Bloontonium Reactor

Multiplatform

When submerged, removes camo, pops bloons, and reduces water monkey cooldowns by 15%.

Tower	Monkey Sub — Path 1 — Tier 4
Cash cost	$2,500
Research
Requirements	City Level 18 Submarine Core Reactor built
Cost	30,000
Time	3 days
XP given	1,000

← Submerge and Support

Bloontonium Reactor is the Monkey Sub's path 1 tier 4 upgrade in the multiplatform version of Bloons Monkey City. Setting it to submerged mode now additionally grants the following benefits:

• Reduces the cooldown of the First Strike and Monkey Pirate ability by ~17.64%.
• Adds a shock Damage over time effect to Bloons within the radius of the sub that does 1 damage every 0.5 seconds.

Attack speed buffs including from Monkey Knowledge does not affect its damage-over-time effect.

Stats

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Costs and sell values

Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.

Tiers	Cost	Sell value
4-0	$4,150	$3,320
4-1	$4,600	$3,680
4-2	$5,350	$4,280

Strategy

Bloontonium Reactor struggles to see much improvement from Submerge and Support, being only really useful for the water cooldown buff. It doesn't improve its decamo rate, and the speed of the damage-over-time effect often doesn't fully pop Bloons stronger than a Pink Bloon on most tracks, and all speed buffs are useless on this attack. Much like the similar-costing Ring Of Fire, which is also overpriced, Reactor fails to break down Ceramic Bloons, but at least works as a solo against incoming Rainbow Bloons on the Percent track, where short-ranged towers will not work due to lack of land. However, many other towers and their combinations are cheaper and more efficient for damage; Reactor's guaranteed Lead damage (due to infinite pierce) is the only reason to invest for its damaging aura.

Because it's overpriced when not using the water cooldown buff, Reactor is difficult to justify using outside of Contested Territory and Bloonarius battles. In Monkey Teams, the full roster of available Monkey Teams that include Sub do have more cost-efficient Lead-popping, even Razor Rotors on Lock In Place.

Due to the ability cooldown stacking bug, it can be used in CT on maps with a lot of water to reduce the cooldown of some First Strike Capability subs to almost nothing, and deliver significant rates of damage. Due to the limited amount of Subs per city, a ratio of about 1:2 First Strikes and Reactors should maximize the rate of abilities.