Plasma Monkey

Overview

The Plasma Monkey is a strong MOAB-class destruction machine. It's also rather effective against shields and rainbows due to its high attack speed. It's generally a good tower and will happily last you far into late game. Cost $1050.

Upgrades

	Quad Plasma Four Plasma whips $950 Tier 1 Total cost: $2,060		Unlock the challenge for this tower by unlocking 5L (Moab Drain). Complete the challenge to unlock 3S (Plasma Whip).
	Potency Plasma does more damage $1,150 Tier 2 Total cost: $3,210
Bloon Drain Drains money from bloons $1,800 Tier 3L Total cost: $5,010	Solar Flares Does a massive amount of damage $3,350 Tier 3M Total cost: $6,560	Radiation Bloons take extra damage over time $3,000 Tier 3R Total cost: $6,210	Plasma Whip Rapid Short Range Attack $5,000 Tier 3S Tier 3S Total cost: $8,210
Rank 38 x4 Octo-Plasma Eight Plasma Whips $3,500 Tier 4L Total cost: $8,510	Rank 38 x5 Gamma Rays Four times as effective $11,900 Tier 4M Total cost: $18,460	Rank 38 x5 BloonX When bloons get hit, they explode! $6,000 Tier 4R Total cost: $12,210	Rank 38 x15 Plasma Punch Chance For Knockback $16,000 Tier 4S Tier 4S Total cost: $24,210
Rank 62 x7 Moab Drain Completely suck a MOAB-class bloon dry $5,500 Tier 5L Total cost: $14,010	Rank 62 x13 Omega Rays Obliterates everything it touches $28,000 Tier 5M Total cost: $46,460	Rank 62 x11 Red Shift Energizes the screen and very popful $16,000 Tier 5R Total cost: $28,210	Rank 62 x25 Doomfist Pure Doom $66,000 Tier 5S Tier 5S Total cost: $90,210

Total to fully unlock: 85

Tips

• Can pop lead by default.
• Can damage HTAs with the explosions from 4R and 5R (but not the direct attack, there have to be other bloons around to pop).
• Because each blob of plasma has very low PP, it benefits greatly from Monkey Village's first upgrade, drastically increasing the damage output of all but the middle upgrades, and making it possible for the middle upgrades to damage HTAs (1+ village allows a 5M Plasma Monkey to damage HTAs, and 3R villages allow 4M Plasma Monkeys to damage HTAs).

Advantages/Disadvantages

Advantages

• Incredible firing speed make it very good against shields.
• Potential to upgrade into some of the strongest attacks in the game.
• Bloon Drain gives you extra money.
• Solar Flares can take out a Mini Moab almost instantly.

Disadvantages

• Can't pop camo.
• Outshone by the Super Monkey in terms of pure popping power.
• Expensive.
• Very bad against DDT.
• Barely has popping power.
• Almost completely incapable of damaging HTAs without a 3R Monkey Village.

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