Bloons Blitz: How to Win the Mortar Monkey Only Challenge

To win a Mortar Monkey only challenge in Bloons Blitz, manually target incoming bloon waves by placing your targeting crosshair ahead of dense packs and prioritizing splash radius upgrades early. Because Mortar Monkeys rely on indirect area-of-effect damage with delayed shell impact, relying on automated targeting will cause fast bloon waves to leak past your perimeter.

Manual Targeting and Leading Waves

The Mortar Monkey can target any location on the map, but automated targeting fails to account for projectile travel time. To defeat fast-moving bloon waves using only Mortar Monkeys, you must manually control targeting and lead incoming enemy packs.

• Lead the wave: Position the crosshair slightly ahead of the front bloons in a cluster so the shell lands exactly as the group enters the blast area.
• Target track turns: Place your reticle directly over sharp turns in the track. Bloons naturally slow down when rounding corners, maximizing the number of hits per shell.
• Active reticle management: Shift your targeting reticle between lanes immediately after clearing a wave rather than leaving it in a static position.

Tower Positioning and Overlapping Kill Zones

While Mortar Monkeys have global targeting reach, their physical placement on the map dictates your operational efficiency.

Concentrate your Mortar Monkeys in a central cluster on the map. Centralizing your towers gives you a consolidated view of your layout, making it easier to shift manual targeting focus without panning across wide areas.

To handle dense waves without support towers, create overlapping impact zones at major track bottlenecks. Direct multiple Mortar Monkeys to target the same chokepoint so their splash damage radii intersect. This redundant coverage ensures that any bloon surviving the first blast immediately takes damage from follow-up impacts.

Upgrade Priorities and Defense Management

Restricting your loadout strictly to Mortar Monkeys limits your utility against varied bloon types and rapid spawns. Managing your gold and upgrade tree efficiently is required to stay ahead of wave scaling.

1. Prioritize splash size early: Invest in splash radius upgrades during early waves to maximize area coverage against large clusters of basic bloons.
2. Increase attack speed: Purchase fire-rate upgrades second to reduce the delay between shots, mitigating the tower's slow base attack speed.
3. Upgrade path commitment: Avoid splitting funds across experimental builds; save income strictly for required damage and penetration upgrades on your established Mortar Monkey group before stronger bloon variants appear.