Heavy Shells (BTD6)
For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Heavy Shells (Battles 2).
Heavy Shells
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 Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, and stunned Bloons. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons.
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| Tower | Mortar Monkey — Path 2 — Tier 3 | |
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| XP cost | 2,300 | |
| Cash cost | $765 — Easy $900 — Medium $970 — Hard $1,080 — Impoppable | |
Heavy Shells is the Mortar Monkey's path 2 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. This upgrade increases its attack speed by approximately 33% and deals Normal damage type, allowing each shot to damage all visible Bloons. Shots also gain +1 damage to Leads (including visible DDTs), MOAB-Class Bloons, and Fortified Bloons, +2 damage to stunned Bloons and blimps, and +3 damage to Ceramics. These bonuses can stack.
With Burny Stuff, it deals 4 damage per tick instead of 1.
Stats
For a complete list of Mortar Monkey stats, see Stats:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
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Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
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| 0-3-0 | $2,040 | $2,400 | $2,590 | $2,880 | $1,428 | $1,680 | $1,813 | $2,016 |
| 1-3-0 | $2,295 | $2,700 | $2,915 | $3,240 | $1,607 | $1,890 | $2,041 | $2,268 |
| 2-3-0 | $2,720 | $3,200 | $3,455 | $3,840 | $1,904 | $2,240 | $2,419 | $2,688 |
| 0-3-1 | $2,210 | $2,600 | $2,805 | $3,120 | $1,547 | $1,820 | $1,964 | $2,184 |
| 0-3-2 | $2,550 | $3,000 | $3,235 | $3,600 | $1,785 | $2,100 | $2,265 | $2,520 |
Strategy
This section was last updated for: version 56.3
Heavy Shells is a decent early-game tower, being able to pop all Bloon types, including Camo with Increased Accuracy, that generally sees the most use at the start of Race Events with the Bloon Buster crosspath, yet for damage it prefers the massive damage over time with the Burny Stuff crosspath. Target it on top of the best loop, and retarget it when needed to the most dangerous Bloon clump. In most cases, it is a stepping stone to its powerful Tier 4, Artillery Battery, but thrives in its cost-efficient damage with Burny Stuff, making it exceptionally powerful for grouped Bloon damage in Least Cash scores. Compared to other variants of Burny Stuff, mainly 3-0-2 Shell Shock, Heavy Shells can innately affect Black Bloons but may sometimes struggle to pierce if crowds of Bloons interfere with hitting non-burning Bloons. Striker Jones pairs well with Heavy Shells due to his buffs to Mortars and Concussive Shell triggering bonus stunned damage, both of which benefits its higher tiers as well.
Crosspath to 0-3-2 to take full advantage of its Burny Stuff and gain innate Camo, or alternatively crosspath to 2-3-0 to gain more pierce and shell damage when using other sources of Burny Stuff damage from a higher tier Mortar.
Update history
For a complete list of Mortar Monkey changes, see Update history:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).
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- 0-3-2
Now applies burn to Black Bloons (bug fix)
- Now deals +1 damage to MOAB-Class
- "Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"
- "The mortar’s projectiles should no longer visually drop back down the barrel"
- Now deals +2 damage to stunned Bloons
- Description changed (undocumented)
Before Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead and all Fortified Bloons. Can also pop Black Bloons. After Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, all Fortified, and all stunned bloons. Can also pop Black bloons.
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Mortar’s Faster Reload feels like a ‘required’ as a crosspath with Burny Stuff never scaling well on any path but it’s own. We like choices not requirements so to counter this we have made Burny Stuff scale with top-path damage & shifted a small amount of the speed from Faster Reload onto the base mortar and reduced base accuracy considerably.
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Attack cooldown increased ― 1.078s → 1.08s (attack speed reduced by 0.19% due to changes to the attack cooldown modifiers of previous tiers)- Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30
- Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)
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We felt like we set up the math quite well with Mortar changes last update, but regardless of this missed shots due to inaccuracy vs. attack speed turned out to be unpopular and impacted the middle path too severely. Fortunately this change led to the community finding some critical bugs in the middle path upgrades there since Mortar’s release! That said, since low tier Mortars were never powerful we chose to leave the speed buff from last update but revert the accuracy nerf.
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- Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18
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Mortar consistency is lacking at x3x making it tough to spend on even though x4x is fairly good, so some of the T4 rate is shifting down to help out with this.
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- Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.08s → 0.81s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)
- Lead/MOAB/Fortified damage bonuses no longer stack (bug)
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We’re looking to shakeup mortar in a couple small ways this update, along with Striker Jones changes noted further on for ‘multi-mortaring’ synergy. From the base level Mortar has far more pierce than should ever be necessary at low rounds but doesn’t hit beefy enough for the low fire rate, so we are trading up some base pierce for damage, instead moving this lost pierce up into crosspath.
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- Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
- Explosion: Lead/Mortar/Fortified bonuses should all stack their bonuses on single targets (bug fix)
- Explosion: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 25
- Note: Bigger Blast and its subsequent upgrades unchanged
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We’re feeling quite happy about the overall state of mortar compared to how it has fared in the past, however the Burny Stuff crosspath is still very hard to justify on middle mortar so along with other DoT attacks in this update we’re trying out a slight increase to damage over time across this path.
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- 0-3-2
- DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 2
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Middle Mortar is seeing improvements mainly for damage over time crosspathing, and we’ve also added Burny Stuff to the Pop & Awe ability with crosspathing.
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- 0-3-2
- Damage over time: Damage per tick increased ― 2 → 3
- 0-3-2
- Can apply Burny Stuff to DDTs if it has Camo Detection (bug fix)
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Improvements made for the underused damage over time crosspaths [...]
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- 0-3-2
- DoT damage increased ― 3 → 4
- Description changed ― Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, all Fortified, and all stunned Bloons. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons. → Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, stunned Bloons, and Bosses. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons.
- Note: Description is incorrect, it does not do extra damage to Bosses.
- Description changed ― Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, stunned Bloons, and Bosses. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons. → Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, and stunned Bloons. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons.
- Overall cost reduced by $150 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- 0-3-2
- Can now inflict damage over time on explosion-immune Bloons (bug fix)
Gallery
For more Mortar Monkey images, see Gallery:Mortar Monkey.
Screenshots
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Heavy Shells attacking
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In other languages
This section was last updated for: version 49.1
| Language | Text | Notes |
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| Arabic | قذائف ثقيلة | — |
| Danish | Tunge Granater | — |
| German | Schwere Granaten | — |
| Spanish | Proyectiles pesados | — |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Proyectiles pesados | — |
| Finnish | Raskaat granaatit | — |
| French | Obus lourds | — |
| Italian | Granate pesanti | — |
| Japanese | 重装備炸裂弾 | — |
| Korean | 중량 포탄 | — |
| Dutch | Zware projectielen | — |
| Norwegian | Tunge patroner | — |
| Polish | Ciężkie pociski | — |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Cápsulas Pesadas | — |
| Russian | Тяжёлые снаряды | — |
| Swedish | Tunga granater | — |
| Thai | กระสุนหนัก | — |
| Turkish | Ağır Mermiler | — |
| Chinese (simplified) | 重型炮弹 | — |
| Chinese (traditional) | 重型炸彈 | — |
| Language | Text | Notes |
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| Arabic | تسبب القذائف الثقيلة أضرارًا أخرى على البالونات السيراميكية (الخزفية) والبالونات المصنوعة من الرصاص والبالونات المحصنة والموآب والبالونات المصعوقة والزعماء، بالإضافة إلى إمكانية الهجوم بسرعة أكبر وتفجير البالونات السوداء. | — |
| Danish | Tunge granater gør ekstra skade mod keramiske bloons, bly-bloons, forstærkede bloons, Moab'er, lammede bloons og bosser. Angriber hurtigere og kan også springe sorte bloons. | — |
| German | Schwere Granaten verursachen Extraschaden bei Keramik- und Blei-Bloons, allen Wehrbloons, MOABs, allen betäubten Bloons und Bossen. Greift schneller an und kann auch schwarze Bloons platzen lassen. | — |
| Spanish | Los proyectiles pesados hacen más daño a los bloons cerámicos, emplomados, fortificados, MOAB, aturdidos y jefes. Ataca más rápido y también puede explotar bloons negros. | — |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Los proyectiles pesados hacen más daño a los bloons cerámicos, emplomados, fortificados, MOAB, aturdidos y jefes. Ataca más rápido y también puede reventar bloons negros. | — |
| Finnish | Raskaat kranaatit aiheuttavat lisävahinkoa keraamisille, lyijyisille, vahvistetuille, tainnutetuille blooneille, MOABeille ja pomoille. Hyökkää nopeammin ja voi poksauttaa myös mustia blooneja. | — |
| French | Les obus lourds infligent davantage de dégâts aux Bloons en céramique, en plomb, fortifiés, MOAB et étourdis, et aux boss. Attaquent plus rapidement et peuvent aussi faire éclater les Bloons noirs. | — |
| Italian | Le granate pesanti provocano danni extra ai bloon di ceramica, di piombo, fortificati, MOAB, immobilizzati e boss. Attacca più velocemente e può anche far scoppiare i bloon neri. | — |
| Japanese | 頑丈な炸裂弾が陶器、鉛、強化ブルーン、MOAB、気絶ブルーン、そしてボスに追加ダメージを与える。攻撃速度が上がり、黒ブルーンを割ることもできる。 | — |
| Korean | 중량 포탄이 세라믹 풍선, 납 풍선, 강화 풍선, MOAB, 기절한 풍선, 보스에 추가 피해를 줍니다. 공격 속도가 빨라지며, 검은 풍선도 터트립니다. | — |
| Dutch | Zware projectielen doen extra schade aan Keramische, Loden, Gepantserde en verlamde Bloons, MOAB's en bazen. Valt sneller aan en kan ook Zwarte Bloons laten knallen. | — |
| Norwegian | Tunge patroner påfører ekstra skade på keramiske bloons, blybloons, forsterkede bloons, MOAB-er, lammede bloons og sjefer. Angriper kjappere og kan også poppe svarte bloons. | — |
| Polish | Ciężkie pociski zadają dodatkowe obrażenia blonom ceramicznym, ołowianym, ufortyfikowanym, MOAB-om, ogłuszonym blonom i bossom. Atakują szybciej i mogą również przekłuwać czarne blony. | — |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Munição pesada causa dano extra a Bloons de Cerâmica, Chumbo, Fortificados, MOABs, Bloons atordoados e chefes. Ataca mais rápido e também pode estourar Bloons Pretos. | — |
| Russian | Тяжелые снаряды наносят дополнительный урон керамическим, свинцовым, укрепленным, оглушенным шарам, MOAB и боссам. Атаки ускорены, а также способны пробивать черные шары. | — |
| Swedish | Tunga projektiler åsamkar extra skada på Keramik-, Bly-, Bepansrade, MOAB:er, bedövade Bloons och Bossar. Attackerar snabbare och kan även smälla Svarta Bloons. | — |
| Thai | กระสุนหนักสร้างความเสียหายเพิ่มเติมให้กับบลูนเซรามิก ตะกั่ว เสริมเกราะ MOAB มึนงงทั้งหมดและบอส โจมตีเร็วขึ้นและยังสามารถระเบิดบลูนสีดำได้อีกด้วย | — |
| Turkish | Ağır mermiler Seramik, Kurşun, Güçlendirilmiş ve Sersemletilmiş Bloon'lara, MOAB'lara ve Patronlara ekstra hasar verir. Daha hızlı saldırır ve Siyah Bloon'ları da patlatabilir. | — |
| Chinese (simplified) | 重炮弹对陶瓷气球、铅气球、强化气球、MOAB级气球、击晕气球和Boss造成额外伤害。攻击速度加快，并且也可以击破黑气球。 | — |
| Chinese (traditional) | 重型砲彈可對陶瓷氣球、鉛氣球、強化氣球、MOAB級氣球、被擊暈的氣球和頭目造成額外傷害。攻擊速度加快，還可擊破黑氣球。 | — |
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