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These are the upgrades that are needed to enable towers to pop certain type of bloons. There are some extras too.

Info (Before Reading)[]

  • P stands for Path and U stands for Upgrade (BTD5)
  • L stands for Level (BTD4)

Upgrades required to pop Lead Bloons[]

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Juggernaut, one of the upgrades a Dart Monkey needs to pop a Lead Bloon.


Upgrades required to pop Lead Bloons (BTD4)[]

Towers Upgrades
Dart Monkey Exploding Darts Premium Upgrade
Tack Shooter Ring of Fire L4
Boomerang Thrower Lightsabre Thrower L4

Bomb Tower

No upgrade needed
Ice Tower Snap Freeze L3
Mortar Tower No upgrade needed
Glue Gunner Corrosive Glue L3
Monkey Beacon Monkey Storm Beacon
Monkey Ace Pineapple Express L1 (Pineapples only)
Monkey Buccaneer Dreadnought Premium Upgrade
Monkey Apprentice Fireball L2 ( The Fireballs only)
Super Monkey Plasma Vision L3
Dartling Gun Laser Cannon L4
Spike Factory White Hot Spikes L3

Upgrades required to pop Lead Bloons (BTD5)[]

Towers Upgrades
Dart Monkey Juggernaut

(4|x) / Splodey Darts Premium Upgrade

Tack Shooter

Ring of Fire (4|x)

Sniper Monkey Full Metal Jacket

(1|x)
Semi-Automatic Rifle (x|3)

Boomerang Thrower Glaive Lord

(4|x) / Red Hot Rangs (x|2)

Ninja Monkey Flash Bomb

(x|3) (Flash Bomb only)

Bomb Tower No upgrade needed
Ice Tower Snap Freeze

(2|x)

Glue Gunner Corrosive Glue

(2|x)

Monkey Buccaneer Cannon Ship

(x|3) (Cannon only) / Dreadnought Premium Upgrade

Monkey Ace Spectre

(4|x) / Pineapple Present (x|1) (Pineapple only)

Super Monkey Plasma Blasts (2/x)/Robo Monkey (x/3)
Monkey Apprentice

No upgrade needed

Monkey Village Monkey Intelligence Bureau

(x|3) (for nearby towers) / High Energy Beacon (4|x)

Mortar Tower No upgrade needed
Dartling Gun Depleted Bloontonium Darts

(x|2) / Ray of Doom (4|x)

Spike Factory

White hot spikes (2|x)

Heli Pilot Razor Rotors (3|x) (Contact with rotors only)
Monkey Engineer Cleansing Foam

(3|x) (Cleansing Foam only)

Bloonchipper Heavy Duty Suction

(2|x)

Monkey Sub Bloontonium Reactor

(4|x) (only when submerged) / Ballistic Missile (x|3) (missile only)

Upgrades required to pop White Bloons or Zebra Bloons[]

Note: All towers other than the Ice Tower can pop White and Zebra Bloons un-upgraded.

Upgrades required to pop White Bloons or Zebra Bloons (BTD5)[]

Towers Upgrades
Ice Tower

Ice Shards (x|3) (if used on a nearby bloon)

Snap Freeze (2|x) Ice Specialty Tier 3 (Allows freezing of white and zebra bloons)

Upgrades required to pop Black Bloons or Zebra Bloons[]

Note: All towers other than the Bomb Tower, Mortar Tower and Ice Tower can pop Black and Zebra Bloons un-upgraded.

Upgrades required to pop Black Bloons or Zebra Bloons (BTD4)[]

Tower Upgrade
Bomb Tower Frag Bombs Premium Upgrade (don't worry, this P.U. is Free unless you play the game on Kongregate)
Mortar Tower This Tower has no upgrades that can enable the tower to pop black bloons or zebras.
Ice Tower Snap Freeze L3

Upgrades required to pop Black Bloons or Zebra Bloons (BTD5)[]

Tower Upgrade
Bomb Tower Frag Bombs (The Fragments Only) (2|x)
(Note: If you upgrade it to Cluster Bombs (3|x), the tower will lose its Black or Zebra popping ability.)
Bloon Impact (4|x) regains the black-popping ability (the impact from this tower is so powerful that it can pop Black Bloons or Zebra Bloons).
Mortar Tower Burny Stuff (x|2) (The ones that has been affected by the Monkey Napalm only)
(Note: The tower cannot pop the Black Bloon but can burn the bloon with its burning napalm)
The Big One (4|x) (Not Bloon Buster (3|x) !!) (This tower uses bloontonium so it can pop Black and Zebra Bloons).

Upgrades required to detect Camo Bloons[]

Upgrades required to detect Camo Bloons (BTD4)[]

If any tower targets another bloon and the Camo Bloon gets in the way it will be popped by chance.

Tower
Upgrade
Mortar Tower No Upgrade Needed
Monkey Beacon Sonar Beacon L3 ( provides detection for towers within its range)
Monkey Ace Spy Plane L2 (Provides detection for towers near the plane)
Monkey Buccaneer Crow's Nest L2 (Provides detection for towers within its range too)
Monkey Apprentice Crystal Ball Premium Upgrade
Dartling Gun No Upgrade Needed
Spike Factory No Upgrade Needed

Upgrades required to detect Camo Bloons (BTD5)[]

Tower Upgrade
Dart Monkey Enhanced Eyesight

(2|x)

Sniper Monkey Night Vision Goggles

(x|2)

Boomerang Thrower Glaive Lord

(4|x), Turbo Charge (x|4) (Ability only) (Exclusive to Bloons TD Battles Mobile/Steam)

Ninja Monkey No upgrade needed
Bomb Tower MOAB Assassin (x|4) (Ability only)

Glue Gunner

Glue Striker

(x|4) (Ability only)

Monkey Buccaneer Crow's Nest

(x|2) / Pirate Cove specialty building L3

Monkey Ace

Spy Plane (x|2)

Super Monkey Temple of the Monkey God

(4|x) / Super Monkey Lair specialty building L3

Monkey Apprentice Monkey Sense

(x|2)

Monkey Village Radar Scanner

(gives detection to towers in village's range) (x|2), High Energy Beacon (4|2) pops Camo itself.

Mortar Tower Signal Flare

(allows mortar to detect camos and takes off camo status from camo bloons hit) (x|3)

Dartling Gun

No upgrade needed

Spike Factory No upgrade needed
Ice Tower Viral Frost

(4|x) freeze spreads to all Bloons that touch frozen Bloons, including Camo Bloons. (Only works if regular Bloons are around.) / Absolute Zero (x|4) (Ability only)

Heli Pilot Enhanced IFR Instruments

(x|2)

Monkey Engineer Cleansing Foam

(3|x) (Cleansing Foam or BMC Engineer Rank 3 only)

Bloonchipper Supa-Vac

(x|4) (Ability only)

Monkey Sub Submerge and Support

(3|x) (Only when submerged; only removes camo) / First Strike Capability (x|4) (Ability only)

Upgrades required to pop Camo Lead Bloons[]

Ceramic Bloon Destroyers[]

Ceramic Bloon Destroyers (BTD5)[]

Tower Upgrade Damage Amount of Bloons Ceramic Shell Indicator
Dart Monkey Juggernaut P1U4 5 damage 100 Shell Only
Sniper Monkey Deadly Precision P1U3 18 layers 1 Whole Bloon
Glue Gunner Bloon Liquefier or Bloon Dissolver P1U4/3 2/10 damage per second 1 / 6 with Splatter Whole Bloon
Super Monkey Plasma Blasts P1U2/Robo Monkey P2U3 2/4 with both (S.M. damage) 3/ 5 with both Whole Bloon
Mortar Tower The Big One P1U4 5 damage 100 Whole Bloon
Dartling Gun Ray of Doom P1U4 1 layer of Bloon per frame, 100 bloons per flash 100 Whole Bloon
Spike Factory Spiked Ball Factory P1U3 3 damage per spike 20 Shell Only

Ceramic Bloon Destroyers (BTD5D)[]

Bloonchipper only, others mentioned above.

Tower Upgrade Damage Amount of Bloons Ceramic Shell Indicator
Bloonchipper No Upgrade Needed 1 damage around every half second; does not spit Ceramic Bloon out until all layers are popped Up to 10 at once, sucks them up one at a time Shell Only

Upgrades Effective Against MOAB Class Bloons[]

Upgrades in BTD4[]

Tower Damage Upgrade
Bomb Tower 10x MOAB Mauler (Upgrade 4)
Mortar Tower 2x Bloon Buster (Upgrade 3)

Upgrades in BTD5[]

Tower Damage Upgrade
Dart Monkey 3x (only if close enough) Triple Darts (P2U3)
Bomb Tower 10x,
Completely (750 to ZOMG's)
 
MOAB Mauler (P2U3),
MOAB Assassin (P2U4) (Ability Only)
Spike Factory

4x

MOAB SHREDR Spikes (P2U3)

Mortar Tower 2x,
5x
Bloon Buster (P1U3),
The Big One (P1U4)
Monkey Ace 350 Ground Zero (P2U4) (Ability Only)
Monkey Buccaneer Completely (doesn't spawn children) (doesn't work with ZOMG) Monkey Pirates (P2U4) (Ability Only)
Sniper Monkey

2x,
4x,
7x,
18x,

Stunning effect+ 18x

None,
Full Metal Jacket (P1U1),
Point Five Oh (P1U2),
Deadly Precision (P1U3),

Cripple MOAB (P1U4)

Super Monkey Completely (1000 to ZOMG)

Tech Terror (P2U4) (ability only)

Monkey Sub

Completly

First Strike Capability (ability only)

Upgrades in BTD5D[]

Tower Damage Upgrade
Bloonchipper 500x Super Wide Funnel (P1U4)

Omnipopping Towers[]

Towers that can pop all types of bloons.

BTD1[]

The Dart Tower, Tack Tower and Super Monkey can pop all non-frozen bloon types in BTD1 without any upgrades. However, the damage type they use is not to be confused with the Normal damage type, which enables an attack to not only pop the aforementioned bloons, but also frozen ones.

BTD2[]

There are no omnipopping towers. The only way is to combine Bomb Towers with other popping towers (Ice Tower does not count).

BTD3[]

There are a few omnipopping towers. The most efficient at omnipopping is the Super Monkey with Plasma Blasts, as it is more efficient at destroying MOABs.

Towers Upgrades
Boomerang Thrower Thermite, P2U2
Super Monkey Plasma Blasts, P2U2
Bomb Shooter Frag Bombs
Monkey Beacon Super Monkey Storm Beacon (Ability Only)

BTD5[]

Towers Upgrades
Dart Monkey Juggernaut, P1U4
Sniper Monkey Full Metal Jacket, P1U1 and Night Vision Goggles, P2U2, or Semi-Automatic Rifle ,P2U3
Ninja Monkey Flash Bomb, P2U3
Monkey buccaneer Cannon Ship, P2U3
Monkey Ace Spy Plane, P2U2
Super Monkey Temple of the Monkey God, P1U4
Monkey Apprentice Monkey Sense, P2U2
Monkey Village Grants Omnipopping with Monkey Intellegence Bereau, P2U2
Mortar Tower Signal Flare, P2U3
Dartling Gun Depleted Bloontonium Darts, P2U2
Spike Factory White Hot Spikes, P1U2

BTD6 generation and beyond[]

Towers will gain omnipopping as long as they both deal Normal damage and have Camo Detection, while not restricted by Target Bloon or Target Blimp. <describe some less conventional options, such as Alch buffs, targeting bosses, etc. >

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