Boss Battle (BCS)

For the event in Bloons Monkey City, see Boss Battle (BMC).

Dreadbloon's Boss Battle menu

Boss Battle is an event in Bloons Card Storm introduced in version 4.0 that unlocks at level 3. In each event, the player can play matches against an AI-controlled Boss Bloon, who functions like an opposing Hero with a predetermined deck that can also be targeted and attacked by the player's Monkeys to deal damage, in addition to taking damage from the player's Bloons leaking. The boss cannot play its own Monkeys, only Bloons and Powers, but has several passive effects in addition to its own abilities and gains more as its health lowers. The player earns points for damaging the boss, and if they defeat it, they earn more points based on the number of turns it took. The player's score determines their placement on a leaderboard and contributes to the Global Score to unlock Global Milestone rewards for all players. Each boss has multiple stages with different abilities and decks, which changes based on the Global Score.

Mechanics

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In Boss Battle mode, the opponent is a Boss Bloon that behaves similarly to an AI-controlled Hero. Monkeys can target the boss with their attacks like a Bloon to reduce its health directly, but they cannot apply additional effects to them on hit (such as On Fire or Stunned), and other effects (Hero abilities, Bloons, Powers, etc) do not treat them as Bloons. The boss has its own deck, which consists of only Bloon and Power cards (no Monkeys). Boss decks can have cards that are not available to players, such as Dreadbloon's Wrath of Dread.

The battle is split into multiple phases. When the player reduces the boss's health to zero, it enters the next phase, gains a new health pool, and triggers its Skull Event for that phase. Excess damage dealt by the finishing attack for the phase does not carry over to the next phase.

As a singleplayer mode, the player has unlimited time to wait in the lobby before starting the match, has unlimited time to mulligan their starting hand, and always goes first. The map is predetermined based on the boss and there is no Storm.

Match Effects

Match Effects are additional rules applied to Boss Battle matches. All Boss Battle events have the following rules:

• Monkeys can attack Boss Heroes directly
• Boss Heroes are not affected by ability bonuses or effects

Each stage also has one of the following rules, which changes with each event:

• All Bloons have +1 Delay
• Boss starts with 100 Shield
• Both players start with 2 Gold
• Both players start with an extra card

Skull Events

Skull Events are effects that activate when the boss changes to the next phase. Each event has a different set of Skull Events for each stage.

Icon	Description
	Drop a Rock Pile on a random enemy Bloon space
	Drop a Rock Pile on a random enemy Monkey space
	Drop a Rock Pile on two random enemy Bloon spaces
	Dreadbloon gains 5 Gold
	Dreadbloon gains 10 Gold
	Dreadbloon draws 2 cards +1 per Phase
	Enemy Hero loses all Bloontonium
	Enemy Hero takes 50 damage + 50 per Phase
	Remove all enemy Bloons
	Remove all enemy Monkeys
	Remove first enemy Bloon
	Remove highest cost opposing Monkey
	Return all enemy Monkeys to hand
	Stun all enemy Monkeys

Scoring

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Score is based on how fast Dreadbloon is killed at each stage

Rewards

Participation

Once per day, submitting any score more than 0 rewards  50 Monkey Money.

Global Milestones

Players will receive rewards from stages they have participated in.

Stage	Score required	Rewards
1	1,000,000	50  250  250
2	2,000,000	100  500  500
3	5,000,000	250  1,000  1,000

Leaderboards

Position	Rewards	Medal
1st	250  2,000  5,000
2nd	200  1,500  3,500
3rd	150  1,000  2,500
Top 20	100  500  2,000
Top 50	100  300  1,500
Top 100	75  250  1,000
Top 200	75  200  750
Top 25%	50  200  500
Top 50%	50  150  300
Top 75%	50  250
Top 100%	25  200

Update history

Version 4.1

•  "Bloons squished by a dropped Rock no longer disagree with the server and put Bloons willy-nilly on the track" (undocumented)
•  "Leaderboards" is no longer misspelled as "leaderboads" on the leaderboard and game over screens (undocumented) (bug fix)

Version 4.2

•  Now displays a reticle on the Boss Bloon's health icon when Monkeys can target it

Version 4.3

•  Implemented the Banned Cards feature

Gallery

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  Milestones
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  Event Leaderboard
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  Rewards (with Top 50 highlighted)
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  Boss Battle Lobby versus Dreadbloon
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  Event rules
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  Event rules with some banned cards
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  Deck selection menu, "Banned Cards" warning on multiple decks
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  Leaderboard with one user only
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  Red ribbon and the leaderboard placement visible on leaderboard