Overview[]
The Dartling Gun is a tower that shoots fast, but inaccurately towards the mouse with infinite range. It has very powerful and expensive upgrades making it more of a late game tower. It is considered to be the 3rd most powerful tower in the game, after the Super Monkey and the Heli Pilot. Costs $950.
Upgrades[]
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Directed Fire
More accurate and pops 3 bloons
$750
 Total cost: $1,700
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Unlock the challenge for this tower by unlocking 5L (Golden Barrage).
Complete the challenge to unlock 3S (Unloader Plus). | |
Faster Barrel Spin
Shoots very fast
$1,200
 Total cost: $2,900
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Unloader
Unleash a barrage
$4,300
 Total cost: $7,200
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Laser Cannon
Lasers pop several bloons and are shot faster
$5,900
 Total cost: $8,800
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Hydra Rockets
Rockets that explode
$6,600
 Total cost: $9,500
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Unloader Plus
Wider and Stronger Barrage
$5,000
 Total cost: $7,900
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Rank 35  x5Flechette Darts
Darts split into smaller darts
$8,500
 Total cost: $15,700
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Rank 35 x7Ray of Doom
Does continuous damage over a large distance
$39,000
 Total cost: $47,800
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Rank 35 x5Rocket Storm
Shoots a wide array of rockets
$13,900
 Total cost: $23,400
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Rank 35 x15Golden Bolts
Does heavy damage to bloons
$15,000
 Total cost: $22,900
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Rank 59 x11Golden Barrage
Golden Bolts do rapid damage
$17,000
 Total cost: $32,700
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Rank 59 x15Hyper Ultra Beam
Does way more damage
$85,000
 Total cost: $132,800
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Rank 59 x11BADS
Wave upon a wave of rockets
$21,000
 Total cost: $44,400
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Rank 59 x25Golden Shower
Shoots sparkles and pure energy
$63,000
 Total cost: $85,900
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Total to fully unlock: 94
Tips[]
- This tower always aims at your mouse. To keep the tower in the same place, force your cursor out of the game window by using either Alt+Tab or a touch screen. This will keep the tower from changing position.
- You can also move your mouse out of the game window directly, but this may result in Heli Pilots being sent to the edge of the screen.
- Can pop camo by default.
- Can pop lead with all middle and right upgrades, and 5S.
- Can damage HTAs with all middle and right upgrades, 4S, and 5S.
- Team up a Hyper Ultra Beam with a 3S Village to make the ULTRA DEATH BEAM!
- Can solo a Party Blimp using 5M Dartling Gunner and 5S Village
Advantages/Disadvantages[]
Advantages[]
- Has infinite range
- Can detect camo bloons
- Higher tiers are great against MOABs
- Middle path has amazing grouped popping power, basically infinite at the 4th & 5th tiers
- Good against shielded bloons (excluding Right path)
- Aims towards the mouse, meaning that you can tell it what to pop
Disadvantages[]
- Expensive
- Can't pop lead until higher tiers
- Difficult to control when managing other towers mid-round
- Lower tiers struggle against HTAs and DDTs
Trivia[]
- Before 1.2, when you clicked on the minigun barrel it would count it as clicking on the tower. so it would block access to other towers, as the barrel moved with your cursor.
- Before 1.1, the 4M and 5M upgrades were cheaper, but less powerful. The Right path was also buffed in 1.1.
- In BTD5, Rocket Storm was the name of the activated ability for the BADS.
- Before 1.2, it was possible to buy on Impoppable on round 1.
- It is currently possible to do so using the Unidentified Laughing Object, added in 1.5.
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