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However, once gamers get serious about Bloons TD 6, there is a clear divide between powerful towers and others that are lacking. There is not enough cash to have a favorite tower if that tower isn’t also one of the best. When the going gets hard, these are the towers that have the best return on investment when it comes to popping the toughest balloons.

Updated on April 16th, 2022 by Hodey Johns: There is very little not to love about Bloons TD 6. The game has been balanced so many times now that it’s reasonable for even the consensus “worst” tower to get heavy usage on tough maps. Still, some towers get carried by player talent and strategy while other towers compensate for tactical errors. These towers deserve special recognition as some of the best in the game. To account for expanded player tastes and styles, five more towers have been added to this list.

15 Tack Shooter

Many veterans will confidently say that the Tack Shooter is the most underrated tower in the game. Sure, it’s not going to sink any big MOAB class blimps on its own and it doesn’t apply a negative status effect to opponents. But since when is massive area damage useless?

This is effective in early and mid rounds as thicker waves of balloons start to stack on top of each other. Later on, while the Tack Shooter doesn’t take down the blimps, these blimps are usually packed with smaller balloons that the Tack Shooter can demolish.

14 Mortar Monkey

At high-level waves and during limitless rounds, experts will always have at least one Mortar Monkey on the map. If the massive area damage isn’t a selling point, the limitless range should be. The Mortar Monkey is not hindered by obstacles.

That’s not where the benefits end. Given the right paths, Mortar Monkeys also apply extra damage and slows to MOAB blimps. Given both damage and support effects, the Mortar Monkey should not be overlooked on tough maps.

13 Monkey Ace

Hard maps get their reputation from sending waves of balloons down multiple paths. Players can’t be able to cover both of these paths at once with most towers, but placing a Monkey Ace in the middle of the map sends tacks out all over.

Upgrades enable the Monkey Ace to strike down camouflaged balloons and to further increase the density of the tack coverage on the map. Single-target towers will need to be placed eventually, but the Monkey Ace is simply the best first tower for these kinds of maps.

12 Wizard Monkey

The Wizard Monkey checks a lot of boxes for what makes a tower “good.” It’s got nice damage and range as well as some damage over time abilities that help take down tough targets. So what is it doing on a list of the best towers?

The Wizard Monkey can resurrect balloons and send these new “zombie” allies backward toward oncoming traffic. When the waves start to get denser, this increases the Wizard Monkey’s usefulness, giving him a limitless stream of balloons to send back at the enemies.

11 Sniper Money

The Sniper Monkey is probably the reason that only one level five tower of any type can be on the map at any time. The limitless range and ability to take down ceramic and camouflaged balloons would make more than one of each very overpowered.

Still, one to three of these does quite enough to clear many maps all by themselves. If nothing else, place a few in areas far away from the action and take advantage of these empty zones. Eventually, they’ll call down support crates for extra cash and debuff MOAB class blimps.

10 Monkey Buccaneer

Players who love a good open-world mobile game will look at the ocean and hope that it doesn’t go to waste. With the Monkey Buccaneer, it’s assured that the aquatic areas of the map will be occupied by a formidable force with a good deal of versatility.

There is no bad path for the Monkey Buccaneer, either. Players can choose between giving it aerial attacks that work from across the map, extra economic support, or an ability that spells instant death on any MOAB ship (including the biggest, baddest ones in the game).

9 Glue Gunner

Bloons TD 6 is more of a great tower defense game and less of a classic mobile arcade game, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t incorporate some arcade elements. Enemy balloons will be trying all kinds of strategies to avoid getting burst.

The Glue Gunner is the only primary tower to make this list, but it belongs. With a longer range than other towers that slow, it’s already doing a great job, but it sets itself apart from other utility towers by putting this slow on the dreaded MOAB class blimps.

8 Super Monkey

Sometimes the wave of balloons can make the game feel like an endless runner-style mobile game. When the higher difficulties try to cram through a bunch of balloons all at once, gamers can be left feeling hopeless in the face of such an onslaught.

This is where the Super Monkey’s knockback ability and laser blasts shine. By sending balloons back, damage towers are given more time to do the work they need to do to take out the waves. The area attack means that the Super Monkey himself is unaffected by these clusters.

7 Ninja Monkey

If players are only permitted to throw down one building, they should probably go with the Ninja Monkey. The rapid attacks take care of early waves and he comes with camouflage detection at absolutely no cost at all; it’s built into the hero himself!

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With the right upgrades, he can end up stringing combos of attacks together that hit balloons well outside of his already vast range. If nothing else, he gives players the time they need early so they can construct a full-on strategy later.

6 Banana Farm

This would probably be near the top of the list if it weren’t for the modes that disabled the Banana Farm. Why is it disabled? Because the extra cash it provides is (sorry about the pun) bananas. Many upgrades aren’t affordable without a few of these planted toward the middle rounds.

If it seems like too much hassle, feel free to select the upgrades that automatically collect the bananas for the player. About four or five of these are plenty for gamers to build whatever they want in 80 to 100 round matches.

5 Heli Pilot

Thanks to being able to fly around with the top upgrade path, there is no map in which the Heli Pilot isn’t useful. On several maps that have changing courses, spawn points, and exits, the Heli Pilot goes from a good idea to an absolute must-have.

Being in the face of every balloon as soon as it spawns yields an advantage to gamers regardless of who their main damage-dealers are. Even if it isn’t the Heli Pilot, he’s the best at softening up the wave before it gets to the other towers.

4 Spike Factory

One Spike Factory near the exit is a smart disaster-preventing move. Any balloon, camouflaged, lead, or otherwise, isn’t going to make it over a few spikes. With upgrades, it’s capable of handling entire waves of leaks all on its own.

There is no reason to reserve its power for mistakes, though. Able to speedily fire out needle traps, spikes, and mines, it’s just as good on the front lines of defense as well. Cost-wise, it must be stated that this is surprisingly cheap to build and level up.

3 Monkey Village

Many monkey towers are fantastic but have the weakness of not being able to target camouflage or lead balloons. It’s a serious drawback until players get the Monkey Intelligence Bureau upgrade for the Monkey Village, which grants all towers in its range the ability to attack anything.

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As a support structure, it’s still not done. The bottom track gives players a boost to their economy and the top track juices up monkeys in range with extra attack speed. Any build that doesn’t utilize this tower should be met with some skepticism.

2 Alchemist

The Alchemist has a mediocre ability in the middle track and some lackluster cash-generation on the bottom track. So why does it rank second-best on this list? Simply, it provides big damage boosts to those around it when it comes to popping Ceramic, Lead, and MOAB balloons.

Given that these are the toughest opponents in the game, it’s no wonder the Alchemist is so highly regarded. But it’s not done yet. Two more potions also increase damage, attack speed, and piercing. At the highest level, these boosts become permanent.

1 Druid

While it can be possible to beat the game’s toughest challenges without Druids, it’s not entirely likely. For a while now, the Druid strategy has been regarded as the best option for beating the unbeatable and that is a credit to the Druid’s might.

Throwing shotgun-style blasts of projectiles at enemies, the balloons don’t last long against clusters of Druids. With some support from Obyn Greenfoot and the other towers on this list, the Druid steals the show and has no rivals on the horizon.

Bloons TD 6 was released on June 14, 2018, and is available for Android, iOS, and PC.

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