Axe Monkey

Axe Monkey
Info
Cost	$275
Appearances	Bloons TD 6
Range	23 units
Type	Primary
Unlocked at	3,500,000 pops
Popping power	8
Detects camo? (Unupgraded)	No
Terrain	Land
Final Upgrades	Exotic Sweeper, Minotaur Horde, The Grim Reaper (by path); Supreme Butcher (Paragon)

“Swings an axe that can pop Bloons at close range. Slow attack speed but moderate pierce.”

— In-game description

The Axe Monkey is a Primary Tower for Bloons TD 6 that is introduced in a future update. It is unlocked after 3,500,000 pops like Dartling Gunner, Beast Handler, Mermonkey, and Desperado. Costing $275 in Medium Mode, the tower is a regular monkey holding an Sharp-type axe, swinging in 180 degrees that deals 8 pierce and 1 damage every 1.5s. Upgrades focus on each path: the first is shooting lasers for more Bloon-annihilating power, the second is stunning them and summoning bulls for increased rampage, and the third is creating crescent-shaped projectiles in eight directions after losing a few lives while creating Skeleton Monkeys.

Description

Origins

Axe Monkey is a tower originally created in 2013 by Monkeysandbox, created during the Bloons TD 5 Generation. It functioned as a melee tower, slashing Bloons in an arc. Notably, The tower predates the Beast Handler–the first melee tower released which only functions as a unupgraded form–as it was created before the April 4, 2023, update. After receiving three delete requests, the original page was deleted by JustLeafy due to originality and balancing concerns on September 18, 2019. The page was later recreated as a Bloons TD 6 Generation tower on June 24, 2025, making more unique and balanced than the previous iteration and its concurrent now-deleted versions of Maxywaxy, Tristan395, and Bloons Tower Defense 7: Global Warfare. Axe Monkey's current appearance is similar to that of the Dart Monkey, with the main distinction being a silver-bladed axe having a wooden handle that it holds at its left hand.

Stats

• Footprint size: 6 units
• Axe attack: 1d, 8p, 23r, 1.5s, Sharp type
• Swing limit: 180 degrees
• It has four unique target priorities: Normal (attacks in a clockwise manner), Counterclockwise (attacks in a counterclockwise manner), Throw (attacks by lobbing with an increased range by +10 units), and Swinging Spin (attacks like Normal but with axe spinning around the tower with an increased pierce by +6).

Upgrades (costs on Medium Mode)

Note: All statistics use the system used by Advanced Popology.

Path 1

Sharper Blade ($300)

• Description: "Blades can pop 11 Bloons each."
• Stats:
  • +3p (11)

Bloontonium Blade ($600)

• Description: "Now coated with Bloontonium, the blades are capable of popping any Bloon type."
• Stats:
  • +6p (17) and damage type changes to Normal

Laser Axe ($2,000)

• Description: "Launches a stream of lasers that deal more Bloon popping power."
• Stats:
  • Lasers deal 3d, 20p, and have Normal damage type; are launched with each attack; and travels forward in a straight direction until reaching into edges of the screen.
  • Axe attack buffed: +1d (2) and +8p (25)

Sweeping Laser ($9,000)

• Description: "Laser can now sweep in the entire screen."
• Stats:
  • Laser attack buffed: +5d (8) with +3fd and +13md, +130p (150), can now sweep in the entire screen for four seconds with a cooldown of six seconds, ignores Line of Sight
  • Axe attack buffed: +2d (4) with +2cd, +3fd, and +5md; and +15p (40)
  • Both attacks buffed: apply Laser Shock that deals +3d (+10md) after 2s

Exotic Sweeper ($60,000)

• Description: "Unleash the clean sweep with the power of exotic matter!"
• Stats:
  • Laser attack buffed: 3j, +12d (20), +7fd (+10), +27md (+30), +600p (750), can bounce thrice, lasts for 7 seconds
  • Axe attack buffed: +2d (6) with +4fd (+7), +5md (+10), and +10p (50)
  • Laser Shock becomes Electromagnetic Shock, therefore buffed: +2d (5) with +15md (25), in addition to stacking with other Laser Shock-affected towers and heroes up to five times and +2d to any magical damage types.

Path 2

Faster Swing ($280)

• Description: "Swings faster than normal."
• Stats:
  • 33%s (1.005s)

Whirlwind Slash ($500)

• Description: "Performs whirlwind slashes that push away Bloons every 5th attack."
• Stats:
  • Every five attacks replaces with a Blowback attack that sends Bloons 25-75 units back and applies Unglue and Unfreeze

Morning Star ($925)

• Description: "Spiked mace can stun Bloons for a short duration."
• Stats:
  • Axe attack performs a shockwave that applies Stun for 0.5 seconds

Moo-moo Mallet ($7,250)

• Description: "Bull Rush Ability: The bull charges toward the track anywhere to crush the Bloons."
• Stats:
  • Axe attack buffed: Stun lasts longer for 0.75 seconds and Blowback deals +2d. This upgrade also changes the weapon to a mythical hammer with blue cracks.
  • Adds Bull Rush activated ability: The bull will appear on the screen in a random direction where it will charge toward the tower and could be seen with a big orange mark (>>) on the screen. Hitting the bull within the tower's range can redirect its direction, prioritizing in one or more Bloon Track(s). Cooldown: 45 seconds, with 12 seconds initially.
    • The bull has a stomp attack (10d with +30md, 100p, 30 absolute speed (as), Aggressive Seeking, Normal type) and directly targets the Bloons without losing its trajectory.

Minotaur Horde ($45,000)

• Description: "The Bloons have nothing to stop with these quartet minotaurs!"
• Stats:
  • Axe attack buffed: Stun lasts longer for 1 second and Blowback deals +3d (5)
  • Minotaur Horde activated ability buffed: +3j (4), +5d (15) +45md (75), +100p (200)

Path 3

Encircled Spin ($170)

• Description: "Allows the Axe Monkey to perform a 360-degree spin and see Camo Bloons."
• Stats:
  • Swing limit changes to 360 degrees and gains Camo Detection

Wider Arc ($300)

• Description: "Increases the Axe Monkey's attack range."
• Stats:
  • +5r (28)

Double Swing ($800)

• Description: "The Axe Monkey can swing another time."
  • Swing limit increases by +1 (2)

Breath of Hades ($6,000)

• Description: "Scythe drenched in dark magic releases explosions that summon Skeleton Monkeys when reaching the pierce capacity, and shoots crescent projectiles in eight directions upon losing lives."
• Stats:
  • Axe attack buffed: Normal-type explosion on contact deals 2d, 20p, 18r, and has a 40% chance to summon a Skeleton Monkey subtower
    • Skeleton Monkeys do a melee (sword)/ranged (longbow) attack (1d, 5p, 20/34r, 1.25s, Normal type) and lasts for 10 seconds. Up to three can be placed and has no footprint.
  • Gains a passive Retaliation-type ability: shoots 32-unit Normal-type eight crescent projectiles in an Orbital Spray formation that deal 4d, 100p, and 0.75s (within hitbox). Cooldown: 60 seconds, with 20 seconds initially.

The Grim Reaper ($50,000)

• Description: "The personification of Death itself vows many Bloons to oblivion, and then shreds them into bits."
• Stats:
  • Axe attack buffed: Swing limit increases by +2 (4)
  • Dark magic explosion buffed: +4d (6), +20p (40), +5r (25), 65% chance to summon a skeleton subtower
  • Skeleton Monkey buffed: +3d (4), +5p (10), 1s; lasts for 15 seconds; and up to seven can be placed
  • Passive Retaliation-type ability buffed: +10r (42), +4d (8), +100p (200); and adds a midnight swirl that pulls all Bloons inward within the 32-unit radius, dealing 2d per 1.5s, ∞p, lasts for 4.5 seconds, and instantly summons three Skeleton Monkey subtowers

Paragon: Supreme Butcher ($350,000)

“None shall be spared from a brutal carnage.”

— Upgrade description

General stats

• Axe attack: ∞p; 35r; 0.125s (360-degree spin); applies Knockback that pushes non-MOAB-Class Bloons backwards by 30%, MOAB-Class Bloons up to ZOMG rank by 15%, and BADs by 10%; Normal type
• Gamma ray attack: ∞r, 3j, 0.8s with a cooldown of 4 seconds (360-degree spin), Normal type
• Skeletal Stampede activated ability: tagging each Bloon onscreen up to ZOMG rank will summon up to 15 Skeleton Minotaurs upon dealing 75 damage or being popped. Each Aggressive Seeking-Skeleton Minotaur inflicts Normal type damage and stuns any Bloon for 2.5 seconda in a 20-unit stomp attack.

Degree 1 stats

• Axe attack: 20d with +40md, +80bd, and +180 Elite Boss Bloon damage (ed)
• Gamma ray attack: 400p, 30d with +45md, +90bd, and +200ed
• Skeletal Stampede activated ability: Skeleton Minotaur deals 40d with +70md, +100bd, and +200ed; and 50p. Cooldown: 45 seconds.

Other appearances

• Bloons Golden Defense
• Bloons: Clash of Worlds
• Bloons Tower Defense: The Fourth Wall

Trivia

• The Axe Monkey is the first and so far only tower to have a Retaliation-type passive ability unlocked in Tier 4, as Bomb Shooter, Sniper Monkey, and Super Monkey all do so in Tier 5.