Lets Talk Strategy

Primary Monkeys will get you started. Here you can find info on all of them.

Dart Monkey

• Cheap and reliable
• Necessary for C.H.I.M.P.S mode on several maps
• Offers excellent mid game performance with the primary training village or alchemists
• Has a unique monkey knowledge to get 2 of the same 5th teir tower

• Poor late game performance
• Fanclub ability has huge downtime and is no more efficient than buying 0-0-0 super monkeys, it also takes up huge amounts of space.
• Top upgrade path is redundant
• Crossbows are generally useless, infact the only viable option is 0-3-2 or 2-3-0 depending on circumstances, this tower lacks variety, and that's not fun.

Tack Shooter

• Exceptional value for money on base upgrades
• Ability is incredible for its price
• All varieties of the tower are useful (perhaps sparing 0-2-3+)
• Provides some of the best value for money when paired with primary training

• Lack of camo detection
• 3-2-0 tack shooters are painfully bad while waiting on the 4th teir
• Loses potential after round 80
• Blade shooter is punished for crosspathing with the ability in mind

Boomerang Monkey

• Glaive Ricochet is incredibly powerful for a low price and can pop lead with the optimal crosspath
• MOAB press is cheap and pumps out tons of MOAB damage, its even good against DDTs with a camo village
• MOAR glaives is just incredible.
• Middle path is quite effective against MOABs, dealing 3 base damage with the optimal crosspath (for against MOABs)

• Poor ability
• Lackluster performance after round 80
• Somewhat useless before getting a 3rd teir upgrade
• Middle path needs lots of buffs to be effective, and is overpriced

Bomb Shooter

• Cluster bombs (and recursive cluster) both offers the single greatest source value for money group damage the game can offer.
• Moab eliminator ability deals 10,500 damage when paired with striker jones against the B.A.D
• Bloon crush is rather obscene against grouped blimps
• The heavy bombs upgrade makes cluster bombs a generalist tower, good against everything.

• Needs a MIB (or camo village with Striker Jones) to pop bloons
• Will struggle heavily in the early game
• Moab maulers... aren't the best
• This tower is quite poor before 3rd teir upgrades.

Ice Monkey

• Great help for round 63
• Can slow unlimited numbers of Bloons with the middle path, and a MIB allows the ability to stall MOABs cheaply
• Good group popping power in the early game
• Permafrost is very handy for round 76, should you need a hand with it.

• Tower is redundant before 5th teirs
• Middle path 5th teir is out performed by 4th teirs and a MIB
• Top path is only really useful when paired with other 5th teirs, and is very circumstantial
• Icicle impale needs a MIB to pop DDTs with the optimal crosspath.

Glue Gunner

• Moab glue is a lifesaver on double health MOABs, chimps and more
• Glue hose can stall an enormous amount of Bloons!
• Relentless glue is very effective for the price
• The disolver path offers great DPS, though is somewhat expensive.

• 5th teir punishes the optimal crosspath for the 4th teir
• The ability is just terrible, why does it exist like this, thankfully glue storm got a nice buff to be usable.
• Top path upgrades are exceptionally expensive
• The tower is really a support tower, and isn't very good on its own