Dartling Gun

## 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**

Directed Fire
More accurate and pops 3 bloons

$750

Total cost: $1,700

Faster Barrel Spin
Shoots very fast

$1,200

Total cost: $2,900

Unloader
Unleash a barrage

$4,300

Total cost: $7,200

Laser Cannon
Lasers pop several bloons and are shot faster

$5,900

Total cost: $8,800

Hydra Rockets
Rockets that explode

$6,600

Total cost: $9,500

Unloader Plus
Wider and Stronger Barrage

$5,000

Total cost: $7,900

Rank 35 x5

Flechette Darts
Darts split into smaller darts

$8,500

Total cost: $15,700

Rank 35 x7

Ray of Doom
Does continuous damage over a large distance

$39,000

Total cost: $47,800

Rank 35 x5

Rocket Storm
Shoots a wide array of rockets

$13,900

Total cost: $23,400

Rank 35 x15

Golden Bolts
Does heavy damage to bloons

$15,000

Total cost: $22,900

Rank 59 x11

Golden Barrage
Golden Bolts do rapid damage

$17,000

Total cost: $32,700

Rank 59 x15

Hyper Ultra Beam
Does way more damage

$85,000

Total cost: $132,800

Rank 59 x11

BADS
Wave upon a wave of rockets

$21,000

Total cost: $44,400

Rank 59 x25

Golden Shower
Shoots sparkles and pure energy

$63,000

Total cost: $85,900

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.