Mortar (Clash of Bloons)

**Mortar** is a defensive tower that is available for Clash of Bloons.

## **Tower Info**

**Mortar** shoots out powerful splashing projectiles that can explode on impact when it hits a troop. Perfect for booming enemies with ease!

## **Upgrades**

***Left side upgrades***:

Tier 1 | Powerup 1 | Upgrade cost: $425 | Increases mortar shell damage by 2.

Tier 2 | Powerup 2 | Upgrade cost: $475 | Increases mortar shell damage by 2.

Tier 3 | Shell-shocked | Upgrade cost: $1,300 | Troops that gotten hit in Mortar's AOE will get stunned for 1 second (except PEKKA and Golem). Increases Area Splash by more and Damage by 3.

Tier 4 | Multi Mortar | Upgrade cost: $5,200 | Gear Up Upgrade: adds 2 more barrels for the Mortar to shootout a burst of 3 mortar shells at troops.

***Right side upgrades***:

Tier 1 | Speedup Mortar | Upgrade cost: $400 | Increases attack speed of the Mortar.

Tier 2 | Even More Speedup | Upgrade cost: $500 | Increases attack speed by more!

Tier 3 | Fragment Shells | Upgrade cost: $1,500 | Mortar's mortar shell now splits into 8 fragments that do great damage and pierce to troops when the shell hits a troop.

Tier 4 | Hard-shelled Mortar | Upgrade cost: $4,750 | Ability: shoots a very slow mortar shell that has a lot of fragments inside whether troops hit it, it'll be big AOE and fragments everywhere!

## **Tips and Tricks**

* The Mortar is quite effective against swarms and groups of enemy troops. Try to get its speedup upgrades to make it attack faster and nonetheless Shell-shocked upgrade to stun tanks like **Giants** to make it a bit easier to takeout.

## **History**

* Version 2.0
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell damage was increased to 50 (from 20) and fragments' damage increased to 3 (from 2)
	+ Fixed an issue that caused the Mortar's Mortaring Improvements upgrade to not allow Set Target priority.
* Version 3.0
	+ Mortar's Multi Mortar now increases damage by 1.
	+ Mortar's Multi Mortar burst delay was increased to 0.2 seconds per shot fired (from 0.15)
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell now bounces on the screen.
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell Area Splash was increased to 300 (from 225)
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell will trigger if it doesn't hit a troop.
* Version 4.0
	+ Mortar's base cost was decreased to 850 (from 1,000)
	+ All of Mortar's upgrade costs were decreased slightly.
	+ Mortar's 0/3 upgrade was renamed to Fragment Shells (from Mortaring Improvements) and reworked from allowing you to set targeting priority and do more additional damage to allowing the mortar bomb to split into 8 damaging fragments in a volley.
* Version 5.0
	+ The Multi Mortar skin was added.
* Version 6.0
	+ Mortar's Multi Mortar upgrade damage increase bonus was increased to 3 (from 1)
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell explosion damage was increased to 60 (from 50)
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell fragments' damage was increased to 10 (from 5)
* Version 8.0
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell ability cooldown time was decreased to 30 seconds (from 40 seconds)
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell explosion damage was increased to 40 (from 30)
* Version 9.0
	+ Mortar's mortar shell damage was increased to 8 (from 6)
	+ Mortar's Powerup 1 upgrade cost was decreased to 425 (from 525)
	+ Mortar's Powerup 2 upgrade cost was decreased to 475 (from 575)
	+ Mortar's Multi Mortar upgrade cost was decreased to 5,200 (from 5,500)
	+ Mortar's Multi Mortar now attacks 1 second faster if x-1 and x-2 are bought (from just attacking 0.5 seconds faster per upgrade)
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell ability cooldown time was decreased to 25 seconds (from 30 seconds)
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell explosion damage was increased to 150 (from 40)
	+ Mortar's Superbomb Shell explosion area of effect was decreased to 200 (from 300)

## **Trivia**

* It's Gear Up upgrade is not bad to get, but It's pretty strong for some reasons. The Ability is secretly... OP or Bad?