Bloons TD 6 Ways Towers/Upgrades Can Buff Other Towers

Guide Information

This guide is mostly for myself. If you happen to find anything I've missed in this guide, and are willing to share, I will add it to the guide after confirming.

Most exact percentages or numbers I give for buffs or upgrades are taken either from testing, or the Fandom wiki. I'd recommend going to the Fandom wiki, but I personally believe it's the worst site on the internet. Try using the new wiki [bloonswiki.com] . While unfinished, it will contain less advertisements, and will not sell your data as much.

in this guide, buffs are defined as anything that causes an icon to appear over a tower, granting them stronger attributes. Buffs can be both temporary or permanent, and some have important things to note.

I will not be including towers that debuff Bloons in this guide, such as Glue Strike (x-4-x Glue Gunner), Embrittlement (4-x-x Ice Monkey), or Cripple Moab (5-x-x). If there is a tower that both debuffs and buffs at the same time, I will make a note of it.

When a tower is listed as "x-x-x", an "x" refers to a specific path that monkey can take. For instance, a "4-0-2" Dart Monkey has upgraded the top path up to tier 4, and bottom path up to tier 2. When the prior example is listed as "4-x-x", it means that the crosspath does not matter.

Listed below is what text being bold, italic, or underlined means.

If it only buffs itself, or towers the same as itself, it will just be underlined.

If it can buff nearby towers, it will be both underlined and in italics.

Relevant information or notes about Hero abilities will be both underlined and bold.

Primary Monkeys

Dart Monkey: Only the middle path for this tower can buff other towers, and it only includes Dart Monkeys. When using the abilities from the middle path, it will transform 10 nearby Dart Monkeys into Super or Plasma Monkeys.

Boomerang Monkey: This tower can buff all Primary Monkeys, including Paragons, using Glaive Dominus (5-5-5).

Bomb Shooter: This tower cannot grant buffs.

Tack Shooter: This tower cannot grant buffs.

Ice Monkey: This tower may grant all Ice Monkeys greater attack speed using the Absolute Zero (x-5-x) ability.

Glue Gunner: This tower cannot grant buffs.

Military Monkeys

Sniper Monkey: This tower may buff other Sniper Monkeys with the middle path. Middle path grants all Sniper Monkeys greater reload speed (33%), and "Elite" targeting (Targets Strong until Bloons make it near the end of the track, then it will target First. It will also cause them to focus on Ceramics and Rainbows more than MOABs until they are far along the track).

Monkey Sub: This tower may buff other towers with top path, and Monkey Subs with bottom path. Top path may reduce ability cooldowns on nearby towers, and even grant extra Hero EXP with Energizer (5-x-x). Bottom path grants +4 pierce and doubles damage for all affected Monkey Subs. Sub Commander (x-x-5) may affect towers in its range, or map wide with Monkey Knowledge. This tower also has a Paragon, which while submerged grants faster ability cooldowns to other Paragons, 7x damage and 3x pierce for heroes (at the cost of attack speed), and nearby Monkey Subs gain the same buff, but without the slower attack speed.

Monkey Buccaneer: This tower may buff other towers with top path, other Monkey Buccaneers with bottom path, and also grants buffs with its Paragon. Top path will grant all water based towers and Monkey Aces an 18% attack speed boost globally. Bottom path grants up to 20 Merchantmen (x-x-3) 10$ additional income each, or Favored Trades (x-x-4) 20$ additional income each. Bottom path also grants each bottom path Buccaneer +1 damage, and an additional +1 damage to MOABs and Ceramics. The Paragon, Navarch of the Seas (5-5-5) will grant the same buffs as the previous two upgrades, but they can also affect other Paragons.

Monkey Ace: This tower cannot grant buffs.

Heli Pilot: This tower cannot grant buffs.

Mortar Monkey: This tower may grant buffs to other Mortar Monkeys with the middle path. With the bottom path, Pop and Awe (x-5-x) grants all Artillery Batteries (x-4-x) +1 BAD and Boss Bloon damage.

Dartling Gunner: This tower cannot grant buffs.

Magic Monkeys

Wizard Monkey: This tower may only grant buffs with the bottom path. With Prince of Darkness (x-x-5), all Necromancers (x-x-4) have increase Undead Bloon lifespan and damage.

Super Monkey: This tower may only grant buffs with the top path, however it grants the strongest buffs of any tower in the game. Sun Temple (4-x-x) with a maximum support buff, will grant a 20% discount, +2 damage, 23.5% attack speed, 3 pierce, 20% range bonus, and 50% more cash per pop to all affected towers. True Sun God (5-x-x) with a maximum support buff will grant an additional 20% discount, +2 damage, 23.5% attack speed, 3 pierce, 20% range bonus, and 50% more cash per pop to all affected towers. Sun Temple and True Sun God support bonuses can stack.

Ninja Monkey: This tower may only grant buffs with the middle path. Middle path can grant buffs with both Shinobi Tactics (x-3-x) and Grand Saboteur (x-5-x). Shinobi Tactics will grant each Ninja, including itself, within range an 8% pierce and attack speed buff, up to 20 times. Grand Saboteur will grant all x-3-x or higher Ninja Monkeys on the map +10 range and +2 damage to non-MOAB Bloons.

Alchemist: This tower may grant buffs with the top and middle paths. Top path has 4 upgrades that grant buffs, Acidic Mixture Dip, Berserker Brew, Stronger Stimulant, and Permanent Brew. Acidic Mixture Dip gives any affected tower +1 damage to Ceramics and MOABs, and allows them to pop leads. Berserker Brew grants any affected tower +1 damage, +10% range, 10% attack speed, and 2 pierce, wearing off after 25 attacks or 5 seconds. Stronger Stimulant overrides the previous buff, instead granting 15% range, 17.6% attack speed, 3 pierce, and 1 damage to all affected towers, lasting 40 shots or 12 seconds. Permanent Brew is the same as Stronger Stimulant, but will not wear off unless you sell the Alchemist granting the buff. Middle path allows 5 nearby monkeys to transform with Total Transformation (x-5-x).

Druid: This tower may only grant buffs to other towers with the middle path. Poplust (x-x-4) grants a 15% attack and pierce buff to all nearby Druids, up to 5 times.

Mermonkey: This tower may grant buffs with the top and bottom paths. In order of upgrades for top path, Abyss Dweller (3-x-x) grants 5% pierce to nearby towers, Abyssal Warrior (4-x-x) grants 15% pierce, and Lord of the Abyss (5-x-x) will grant 30% pierce. As for bottom path, The Final Harmonic (x-x-5) will grant nearby Heroes 15% range and reduced ability cooldowns, and Magic Monkeys 3 pierce.

Support Monkeys

Banana Farm: This tower may buff other towers only with the top path. With the top path's Banana Central (5-x-x), all Banana Research Facilities (4-x-x) gain 25% more money per crate.

Spike Factory: This tower cannot grant buffs.

Monkey Village: All 3 paths from this tower can grant buffs.

As for the top path, Jungle Drums grants an 18% attack speed buff. Primary Training grants Primary Monkeys 10% more range, 1 pierce, and 25% projectile speed. Primary Mentoring grants all Primary Monkeys in range 5% more range, 10% faster ability cooldowns, and free tier 1 upgrades. Primary Expertise grants all Primary Monkeys in range 3 pierce, free tier 1 and 2 upgrades, and 20% faster ability cooldowns.

As for the middle path, Radar Scanner (x-2-x) grants all towers in range camo detection. Monkey Intelligence Bureau (x-3-x) lets all towers in range pop all Bloon types. Call To Arms (x-4-x), when the ability is used, grants all towers on screen 50% more attack speed and pierce. Homeland Defense (x-5-x), when the ability is used, grants all towers on screen 100% more attack speed and pierce.

As for the bottom path, Monkey Business (x-x-1) grants a 10% discount on all tier 3 or lower upgrades within range, excluding Heroes. Monkey Commerce (x-x-2) grants an additional 5% discount, that can stack up to 3 times. Monkey Town (x-x-3) grants 50% more cash per pop. Monkey City (x-x-4) grants 20% more cash generation.

Engineer Monkey: This tower may only grant buffs with its middle path. When using the Overclock (x-4-x) ability, affected towers are given a 67% attack speed boost. When using the Ultraboost (x-5-x) ability, affected towers are given a 67% attack boost, with a permanent boost of 4.14% stacking up to 10 times. Both of these abilities can affect Banana Farms and Monkey Villages, granting 66.7% more bananas per round, or 2.5% more range.

Beast Handler: While this tower cannot grant buffs, it is important to note that merging Beast Handlers will make its upgrades stronger.

Heroes

Gwendolin: At Level 4, she starts granting the Heat It Up buff to nearby towers, allowing them to pop frozen and lead Bloons, and gain 1 pierce. At Level 5, she grants Ring of Fire (4-x-x Tack Shooter), Signal Flare (x-x-3 Mortar Monkey), and Dragon Breath (x-3-x Wizard Monkey) 11% attack speed, and 10% more range. At Level 17, Heat It Up will now allow affected towers to do +1 more damage, and an additional +2 against lead Bloons/DDTs. At Level 18, the three aforementioned towers now gain 20% more attack speed, and 20% more range.

Striker Jones: At Level 4, all Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys attack 11% faster. Starting at Level 7, he gains access to an ability that allows Mortar Monkeys to have higher blast radius, and aim on their own. At Level 8, all nearby towers gain 5% more range and 25% more pierce. At Level 18, all Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys now attack 23.4% faster. At Level 20, Artillery Command (Level 10 ability) now causes all Bomb Shooters and Mortar Monkeys to do double damage and double pierce.

Obyn: At Level 2, all nearby Druids gain 1 pierce. At Level 5, all Druids of the Jungle (x-3-x) have 40% more range. At Level 9, all Druids of the Storm (3-x-x) have 20% bigger projectiles and 33.33% more attack speed. At Level 11, all nearby Magic Monkeys gain +5 range and 2 pierce. At Level 12, all Magic Monkey abilities have 5% faster cooldowns. At Level 18, all Druids of Wrath (x-x-3) have their maximum wrath buffs (200).

Rosalia: At Level 6, Monkey Aces and Heli Pilots have 10% cheaper upgrades. At Level 20, Anti-Bloon (x-5-x Super Monkey) has a 30% cost reduction.

Benjamin: At Level 3, gains the Biohack ability, which gives +1 damage to the nearest 4 monkeys for 6 seconds, though they are disabled for 2 seconds afterwards. At Level 5, grants 5% more cash for each Monkey Bank (x-3-x Banana Farm). At Level 9, the Monkey Bank buff is increased to 12%. At level 13, the Biohack bonus is increased to +2 damage, 6 monkeys, and 8 seconds. At Level 19, Biohack now grants a +3 damage bonus for 9 seconds.

Pat Fusty: At Level 3, gains the Rallying Roar ability, which grants nearby towers +1 damage for 8 seconds. At Level 14, Rallying Roar now grants +3 damage for 10 seconds.

Ezili: At Level 7, gains the Sacrificial Totem ability which at the cost of 10 lives, grants camo detection, 1 pierce, 20% range, 17.6% more attack speed, and 25% projectile speed for 30 seconds. At Level 11, grants all Necromancer (x-x-4 Wizard Monkey) Undead Bloons 50% more pierce. At Level 16, Sacrificial Totem now lasts 60 seconds, and only costs 1 life.

Etienne: At Level 7, grants all towers on the map camo detection.

Admiral Brickell: At Level 3, gains the Naval Tactics ability, granting nearby water towers a 100% attack speed buff for 9 seconds. At Level 5, Naval Tactics now gives 1 pierce and the ability to pop any Bloon type except camo. At Level 8, Naval Tactics now allows affected towers to hit camo, and gain 1 additional pierce. At Level 14, Naval Tactics now lasts 12 seconds. At Level 19, Naval Tactics now affects the entire map.

Geraldo: He can grant different buffs in many ways.

Jar of Pickles: Unlocked by default, grants +1 damage at the cost of 33% slower attack speed for 5 rounds. At Level 16, now gives an additional +1 damage against fortified Bloons.

See Invisibility Potion: Unlocked at Level 3, allows towers to see camo for 5 rounds. At Level 14, now gives 20% more range and lasts 10 rounds. At Level 19, grants +1 damage to camo Bloons.

Sharpening Stone: Unlocked at Level 5, grants 1 pierce to any tower with Sharp damage for 10 rounds. At Level 15, now grants 2 pierce.

Gerry's Fire: Unlocked at Level 8, spawns a little guy who shoots fire at nearby Bloons for 5 rounds, can have 3 on any given tower. At Level 16, now lasts for 10 rounds.

Fertilizer: Unlocked at Level 9, grants 20% increased value to Banana Farms for 4 rounds.

The following Heroes cannot grant buffs in any way:

Quincy

Captain Churchill

Adora

Sauda

Psi

Corvus

Powers

Monkey Boost: While this Power is active, all towers will attack 100% faster for 15 seconds (18 seconds with Monkey Knowledge).

Thrive: While this Power is active, all towers will gain 25% more money from all sources for the current and next rounds.

Time Stop: This Power may not buff towers, however it is unique in that it technically debuffs them. While this Power is active, all towers excluding Paragons will attack at only 30% of their normal speed.

Energizing Totem: For the first 5 rounds that this Power is placed, all nearby towers will attack 25% faster.

The following Powers cannot buff towers:

Super Monkey Storm

Cash Drop

Banana Farmer

Pontoon

Road Spikes

Glue Trap

MOAB Mine

Camo Trap

Portable Lake

Tech Bot

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Ways Towers/Upgrades Can Buff Other Towers