Ballistic Missile (BTD6)

For other uses, see Ballistic Missile (disambiguation).

Ballistic Missile

Fires missiles at targets within range. Missiles fly over walls and deal extra damage to MOABs and Ceramics.

Tower	Monkey Sub — Path 2 — Tier 3
XP cost	3,000
Cash cost	$1,150 — Easy $1,350 — Medium $1,460 — Hard $1,620 — Impoppable

← Heat-tipped Darts

First Strike Capability →

Ballistic Missile is the Monkey Sub's path 2 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. NormalIn addition to increasing range of the Monkey Sub by +8 units, this upgrade grants Monkey Sub an additional missile attack that triggers when Bloons pass through its range, regardless of line of sight, or the range of all towers with Advanced Intel. Each missile does 3 Explosion damage with +3 Ceramic damage (or +4 with Breaking Ballistic), +3 MOAB-Class damage, 40 pierce, and an attack cooldown of 1 second. The missiles are shot upwards and land directly on their target ignoring line of sight blockers, similarly to Mortar Monkey's attacks except they also seek their targets. It takes 0.6 seconds for the missile to hit its target.

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 50 units Footprint radius 7 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 0.75s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 19.5, 8.1 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 50 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Pierce 5 Damage 1 Damage type Normal Speed 170 units/s Seeking distance ∞ units Seeking angle 180° Seeking rotation speed 360 °/s Lifespan 1.5s Radius 2 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

Ballistic Missile
Cooldown 1s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, -6.27, 11.2 Targeting First / Last / Close / Strong Targeting range 50 units Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Explosion Pierce 40 Damage 3 Damage to Ceramic (excl. Ceramic Armor Shell) +3 Damage to MOAB-Class +3 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.1s Persists between rounds 1 Radius 18 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

1-3-0

Tower
Display range 50 units → 60 units

Attack
Targeting range 50 units → 60 units

Ballistic Missile
Targeting range 50 units → 60 units

2-3-0

Attack
Can now target in range of other towers with shared range (including Camo)

Ballistic Missile
Can now target in range of other towers with shared range (including Camo)

0-3-1

Attack
Cooldown 0.75s → 0.375s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 19.5, 8.1 ↓ 2, 19.5, 8.5 (side 1) -2, 19.5, 8.5 (side 2)

Ballistic Missile
Cooldown 1s → 0.875s

0-3-2

Attack
Projectile Max pierce ∞ → 1 Airburst dart Count 3 Pierce 5 Damage 1 Damage type Normal Speed 340 units/s Lifespan 0.2794s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

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
0-3-0	$2,065	$2,425	$2,620	$2,910	$1,446	$1,698	$1,834	$2,037
1-3-0	$2,175	$2,555	$2,760	$3,065	$1,523	$1,789	$1,932	$2,146
2-3-0	$2,600	$3,055	$3,300	$3,665	$1,820	$2,139	$2,310	$2,566
0-3-1	$2,450	$2,875	$3,105	$3,450	$1,715	$2,013	$2,174	$2,415
0-3-2	$3,300	$3,875	$4,185	$4,650	$2,310	$2,713	$2,930	$3,255

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 54.3

Ballistic Missile is a good early-game to mid-game tower for clumped Bloons, thanks to its high pierce and damage. However, it is not recommended to use it as the only damage dealer, due to the missile's inability to damage Black and Zebra Bloons. Ballistic Missile spam with Sub Commander is usable for CHIMPS, but it has fallen behind alternatives (such as Bloon Exclusion Zone and Destroyers + Permanent Brew).

2-3-0 is the recommended crosspath when Advanced Intel is needed to reach all lanes, but 0-3-1 is recommended when the base range is sufficient for partially reaching all lanes. The Airburst Darts attack is strong enough on its own to warrant the full bottom crosspath, but since it doesn't improve the missiles, the airbursts themselves are identical to 0-2-2 Sub.

Update history

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

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Version 7.0

•  Pierce increased ― 4 → 5
  • Note: Does not affect X-X-2 Airburst Darts crosspath

Version 8.0

•  Ballistic Missile: Cooldown reduced ― 2s → 1.5s

Version 9.0

2-3-0

•  Advanced Intel no longer causes the missile attack to only target Bloons the main attack can target, instead of having global range (bug fix)

Version 18.0

•  Range increased ― 42 → 60
•  Missile attack: Range reduced ― ∞ → 60

1-3-0

•  Longer Range now applies to the missile attack
  •  Overall range of the attack with this crosspath is reduced ― ∞ → 70 (due to the attack no longer having infinite range by default)

2-3-0

•  Advanced Intel now grants the missile attack infinite range
  •  Overall range of the attack with this crosspath is unchanged (due to the attack no longer having infinite range by default)

0-3-1

•  Twin Guns now reduces the missile attack's cooldown by 15%

0-3-2

•  Airburst Darts now reduces the missile attack's cooldown by ~41%
  •  Overall reduces attack cooldown by 50% (due to changes to Twin Guns)

Version 19.0

•  Range reduced ― 60 → 50
•  Missile attack: Can no longer hit Camo Bloons without Camo detection (bug fix)

0-3-1

•  Twin Guns reduces the cooldown of the missile attack by less ― -15% → -12.5%

0-3-2

•  Airburst Darts reduces the cooldown of the missile attack by less ― -41% → -25%
  •  Overall cooldown modifier reduced ― -50% → -34.375% (due to changes to Twin Guns)

Version 22.0

“

Ballistic Missile previously had far too much attack speed added into the crosspath and was rebalanced for parity, but the overall performance loss from this was too much. Better balance will come from the base rate of Ballistic Missile itself.
— Update notes

”

•  Missile attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.5s → 1.3s (attack speed increased by 15.38%)
  • Stacks with X-X-1 Twin Guns crosspath ― 1.3125s → 1.1375s
  • Stacks with X-X-2 Airburst Darts crosspath ― 0.984375s → 0.853125s

Version 26.0

“

As Airburst Darts alone already gives a huge benefit to the tower regardless of not applying any crosspath buff, some of the attack speed benefit this upgrade gave to 032 Ballistic Missile has instead been moved into the base 030 Missile.
— Update notes

”

•  Missile attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.3s → 1.105s (attack speed increased by 17.65%)
  •  Stacks with X-X-1 Twin Guns crosspath ― 1.1375s → 0.9669s

0-3-2

•  Missile attack: Overall attack cooldown with X-X-2 Airburst Darts crosspath increased ― 0.853125s → 0.8702s (attack speed reduced by 1.96% due to changes to the attack's base stats)

0-3-2

•  Airburst Darts reduces the cooldown of the missile attack by less ― -25% → -10%

Version 27.0

“

Ballistic Missile’s 230 crosspath has been in a confusing spot for a while where it functioned different to Advanced Intel, so it has been converted to function with Advanced Intel in the same way that any other Sub upgrade would.
— Update notes

”

2-3-0

•  Ballistic Missile: Now benefits from Advanced Intel's targeting in the same way as the main attack
  •  Can now detect and hit Camo Bloons in range of towers that have Camo detection
  •  No longer has infinite range; can only target Bloons in range of other towers

Version 30.0

“

Previously the rate increase to Ballistic Missile from crosspath was reduced due to Airburst having enough value on it’s own. This reason still applies as Airburst provides a significant power boost just on it’s own, so all rate increase has been removed from Airburst and applied directly to the base Ballistic Missile to help crosspath diversity slightly.
— Update notes

”

•  Missile attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.105s → 0.9945s (attack speed increased by 11.11%)
  • With X-X-1 Twin Guns crosspath ― 0.9669s → 0.8702s

0-3-2

•  Airburst Darts no longer reduces the missile attack's cooldown by 10%
  •  Overall attack cooldown of this crosspath is unchanged (due to changes to the missile attack's base cooldown)

Version 41.0

“

Ballistic Missiles always had excessive pierce for what it is, so this is being cut back on.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,400 → $1,350
•  Missile attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.9945s → 1s (attack speed reduced by 0.55%)
  •  Stacks with Twin Guns crosspath ― 0.8702s → 0.875s
•  Missile attack: Pierce reduced ― 100 → 60

Version 45.0

“

Ballistic Missile struggles greatly against standard Bloons since almost all of its power is in the Ceramic/Moab bonus, so we’re also balancing this consistency out with greater damage to standard targets while retaining the same total MOAB-Class power at the cost of pierce.
— Update notes

”

•  Missile attack: Base damage increased ― 1 → 3
•  Missile attack: Damage to Ceramic reduced ― +5 → +3
•  Missile attack: Pierce reduced ― 60 → 40

Version 48.0

•  Missile attack: now lands in the place of its intended target instead of the center of the map or over itself when the target is destroyed while the missile is in mid-air (bug fix)

Version 49.0

•  Ballistic missile attack: No longer ignores line of sight blockers (bug fix)
  • Note: Does not affect First Strike or Pre-emptive Strike abilities

Version 49.3

“

Due to a misunderstanding in v49 this was fixed as a bug, but it is intended that Ballistic Missile can be fired over walls so this has been enabled again
— Update notes

”

•  Ballistic Missile attack: Ignores line of sight again

Version 50.0

• Description changed ― Missile seeks target within range and does extra MOAB and Ceramic damage. → Fires missiles at targets within range. Missiles fly over walls and deal extra damage to MOABs and Ceramics.

Gallery

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

Screenshots

• 
  Ballistic Missile with no crosspath
• 
  Ballistic Missile with 130 crosspath
• 
  Ballistic Missile with 230 crosspath
• 
  Ballistic Missile with 031 crosspath
• 
  Ballistic Missile with 032 crosspath
• 
  Ballistic Missile attacking a bloon

Assets

• 
  Portrait
• 
  Upgrade icon
• 
  Insta Monkey icon

Trivia

• It much closely resembles real-life ballistic missles compared to its BTD5 counterpart. Ballistic missiles are only guided when launched, then rely solely on gravity and air resistance. Meanwhile, the BTD5 version resembles a cruise missile, which is guided and propelled the entire way.
• Oddly, its upgrade icon depicts the missile moving in a zigzag trajectory.
• The first nation to successfully launch a ballistic missile from a submarine was the Soviet Union. This is likely why the Ballistic Missile and its upgrades have a stereotypical Russian look.

In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 50.0

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	صاروخ باليستي	—
Danish	Ballistisk Missil	—
German	Ballistische Rakete	—
Spanish	Misil balístico	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Misil balístico	—
Finnish	Ballistinen ohjus	—
French	Missile balistique	—
Italian	Missile balistico	—
Japanese	弾道ミサイル	—
Korean	탄도 미사일	—
Dutch	Ballistische raket	—
Norwegian	Ballistisk missil	—
Polish	Rakieta balistyczna	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Míssil Balístico	—
Russian	Баллистическая ракета	—
Swedish	Ballistisk missil	—
Thai	มิสไซล์วิถีโค้ง	—
Turkish	Balistik Füze	—
Chinese (simplified)	弹道式导弹	—
Chinese (traditional)	彈道飛彈	—

Description

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	يطلق صواريخ على الأهداف ضمن نطاقه. تحلّق الصواريخ فوق الجدران وتلحق أضراراً إضافية بكل من بالونات موآب والبالونات الخزفية.	—
Danish	Affyrer missiler mod mål inden for rækkevidde. Missiler flyver over mure og forårsager ekstra skade på MOAB'er og keramiske bloons.	—
German	Feuert Raketen auf Ziele in der Reichweite. Raketen fliegen über Mauern und fügen MOABs und Keramik-Bloons zusätzlichen Schaden zu.	—
Spanish	Dispara misiles a los objetivos dentro de su alcance. Los misiles vuelan por encima de las paredes y causan daño extra a los bloons clase MOAB y a los bloons cerámicos.	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Dispara misiles a objetivos dentro del alcance. Los misiles vuelan por encima de los muros e infligen daño adicional a los MOAB y cerámicos.	—
Finnish	Ampuu ohjuksia kantamalla oleviin kohteisiin. Ohjukset lentävät seinien yli ja tekevät ylimääräistä vahinkoa MOABeille ja keraamisille blooneille.	—
French	Tire des missiles sur les cibles à portée. Les missiles survolent les murs, tout en infligeant des dégâts supplémentaires aux Bloons MOAB et en céramique.	—
Italian	Lancia missili contro i bersagli entro portata. I missili sorvolano le mura e infliggono danni extra ai MOAB e ai bloon di ceramica.	—
Japanese	射程距離内の標的にミサイルを発射する。ミサイルは壁を越え、MOABと陶器に追加ダメージを与える。	—
Korean	사정거리 내의 표적에게 미사일을 발사합니다. 미사일은 벽을 넘으며, MOAB과 세라믹 풍선에 추가 피해를 줍니다.	—
Dutch	Vuurt raketten af op doelwitten binnen bereik. Raketten vliegen over muren en doen extra schade aan MOAB's en Keramische Bloons.	—
Norwegian	Skyter missiler på mål innenfor rekkevidde. Missiler flyr over vegger og påfører ekstra skade på MOAB-er og keramiske bloons.	—
Polish	Wystrzeliwuje rakiety w cele w zasięgu. Rakiety lecą ponad murami i zadają dodatkowe obrażenia MOAB-om i blonom ceramicznym.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Dispara mísseis contra alvos no alcance. Os mísseis voam por sobre muros e causam dano extra a MOABs e Cerâmica.	—
Russian	Пускает снаряды по целям в зоне поражения. Снаряды перелетают через стены и наносят доп. урон MOAB и керамике.	—
Swedish	Avfyrar missiler mot mål inom räckvidden. Missiler flyger över väggar och åsamkar extra skada på MOAB:er och Keramikbloons.	—
Thai	ยิงมิสไซล์ที่เป้าหมายในระยะ มิสไซล์จะบินข้ามกำแพงและสร้างดาเมจเพิ่มเติมกับ MOAB และเซรามิก	—
Turkish	Menzil içindeki hedeflere füze fırlatır. Füzeler duvarların üzerinden geçerek MOAB'lara ve Seramiklere ekstra hasar verir.	—
Chinese (simplified)	向射程内的目标发射导弹。导弹可飞越围墙，并对MOAB级气球和陶瓷气球造成额外伤害。	—
Chinese (traditional)	向範圍內的目標發射飛彈。飛彈可越過牆壁，並對MOAB級氣球和陶瓷氣球造成額外傷害。	—