Heli Pilot

Overview

The Heli-Pilot is a flying monkey that shoots 2 darts at a time at bloons within its range and follows the mouse. Costs $1250.

Upgrades

	Quad Darts Shoots out four darts $900 Tier 1 Total cost: $2,150		Unlock the challenge for this tower by unlocking 5L (Pestilence). Complete the challenge to unlock 3S (Railgun Plus).
	Quintuple Spin Shoots out five stronger spinning darts $1,150 Tier 2 Total cost: $3,300
Rail Gun Powerful concentrated energy attack $2,500 Tier 3L Total cost: $5,800	Razor Rotors Quickly pops bloons closeby the tower $2,400 Tier 3M Total cost: $5,700	Down Draft Blows bloons away $1,900 Tier 3R Total cost: $5,200	Railgun Plus Shoots wider railgun beams and faster $3,600 Tier 3S Total cost: $6,900
Rank 37 x5 Bloon Gas East away at closeby bloons $4,500 Tier 4L Total cost: $10,300	Rank 37 x5 Apache Dartship Shoots much faster + Explosives $17,900 Tier 4M Total cost: $23,600	Rank 37 x5 Support Chinook Gives money, lives, and prevents stun $6,000 Tier 4R Total cost: $11,200	Rank 37 x15 Rail Minigun Plus Ultra fast railgun lasers $16,300 Tier 4S Tier 4S Total cost: $23,200
Rank 61 x9 Pestilence Creates an inhospitable area $9,000 Tier 5L Total cost: $19,300	Rank 61 x13 Flying Fortress All in One Destroyer $49,500 Tier 5M Total cost: $73,100	Rank 61 x11 Relief Aid Temporarily gives you +6000 lives, you keep 100 $13,000 Tier 5R Total cost: $24,200	Rank 61 x25 Giga Drill Beam Ultra Strong Beams + Mega Drill Beam $53,300 Tier 5S Tier 5S Total cost: $76,500

Total to fully unlock: 88

Tips

• Can pop camo by default.
• Can pop lead with all upgrades tier 3 and beyond.
• Can damage HTAs with the rail gun and gas for the left upgrades, the rotors for the middle upgrades, 4M, and 5M.
• 5R ability gives 6000 lives, then 300 frames later (10 seconds at normal speed), removes 5900 lives, leaving you with 1 if you had less than 5901 left.
• 3R can infinite stall bloons, but sometimes causes a regrow farm.

Advantages/Disadvantages

Advantages

• Extremely powerful when upgraded.
• The helipad can be built anywhere, since the actual damage source follows the mouse.

Disadvantages

• Expensive.
• Very weak without upgrades.
• Weak against high tier MOAB-Class bloons.
• Requires micromanagement.
• The helicopters have collision, so you can only build so many before they get in each others' way.

Known bugs

• Helicopters can stick into the corners or edges of the map, unable to get out.
• Selling Relief Aid before temp lives are taken keeps them permanently

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