Damage type
Damage types are a game mechanic in the Bloons TD series and in Bloons Pop!. They are a property of damage that determines which types of Bloons the damage can or cannot be dealt to. This mechanic was introduced in the mobile versions of Bloons TD 5, Bloons TD Battles, and Bloons Monkey City as a way of standardising the immunity system used in the Flash versions of these games and in all prior games.
Bloons TD series
Bloons TD 5 (mobile / console) / Bloons TD Battles (mobile) / Bloons Monkey City (mobile)
Extra damage to Ceramic Bloons and extra damage to MOAB-Class Bloons use separate damage types that can only deal damage to those Bloons. For example, MOAB Mauler's explosion deals 1 Explosive damage and 9 MOABMauler damage, so it deals 1 damage to regular Bloons and 10 damage to MOAB-Class Bloons. Due to a bug, attacks with multiple damage types increase the tower's pop count multiple times.
In BTD5 and BMC (but not BTD Battles), MIB allows Juggernaut damage to apply to MOAB-Class Bloons and allows MOABMauler damage to apply to Ceramic Bloons. This does not apply to the Spike Factory in BMC.
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Ice
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Plasma
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Bloons TD 6 / Bloons TD Battles 2
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While the cold and glacier types are able to pop frozen Bloons by default, both the Ice Monkey and Cold Sentry are unable to target or damage frozen Bloons. The Ice Monkey can only target and pop frozen with Re-Freeze; it cannot be overridden with Monkey Intelligence Bureau or Acidic Mixture Dip.
Prior to version 25.0 of BTD6, the cold type could not pop frozen by default, and the glacier type could pop frozen but not Lead.
Bloons Adventure Time TD
Similar to older versions of BTD6, sources of damage in Bloons Adventure Time TD are able to have multiple damage types, though the mechanics of this are not fully understood: Princess Bubblegum is able to pop all Bloon types, despite her attack dealing sharp/energy damage, neither of which should be able to pop Lead Bloons.
While most characters and allies list the damage type of their main attack on their profile, some only display "N/A" due to a combination of technical limitations and bugs. This extends to all characters and allies with normal, cold, or multi-type damage.
Compared to BTD6, the cold type can pop Frozen Bloons, and the glacier type is omitted. Also of note is that, while the Acid type does exist in the game's programming, it is completely unused.
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Bloons Pop!
Bloons Pop! uses a simpler damage type model compared to Bloons TD 6. Since frozen Bloons do not gain any immunities in this game, there are no damage types that are only distinguished by their ability to pop frozen.
The names of most damage types are given in the bios of certain monkeys in their Bloonspedia bios, though the name of the normal type is not specified in-game and is only given in internal data.
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