"Reduces ability cooldowns of all monkeys in range" What does it mean exactly?

[Lycon]

I see a lot of people praising it but does it only reduce ability cooldowns of your usable skills? Or does it increase the monkeys attack speed?

[DarkMatter]

Activated abilities are abilities that requires activation from the user, the icons appearing at the bottom left of the screen are the abilities in question.
After activating an ability it takes sometime before you can use it again, this is called "cooldown".

Reducing cooldowns make faster ability availability.

A good example is the 5xx sub which gives all ability 20% reduced cooldown. So if an ability takes 10 seconds to cooldown, it will now be 8 sec instead.

[DarkMatter]

Attack speed is different. This is a measurement of tower's attack interval. Usually measured in milliseconds.

000 Bomb shooter has attack speed of 1.5 sec.
000 Ninja has attack speed of 0.7 sec

Therefore ninja has more attack speed than bomb shooter.

[Lycon]

Hmmh, but then why is the 5xx sub so good? Just so you can spam more abilities?

[spinkkle]

5xx sub is just super good for bloonarius and late game especially with homeland because double attack speed ability recharge quick = good

[Ninja Zyborg]

Originally posted by Lycon:

Hmmh, but then why is the 5xx sub so good? Just so you can spam more abilities?

for activating homeland defense ability faster and also it's decent group popping power

[Lanosa]

The 5-0-2 submarine is the PERFECT anti-bloons. It kills alone ALL the bloons in a loop. Only need help for ceramics and MOAB-class.

Other than that, yeah, it helps to a hero level up and cut the CD for skills, allowing you to use them more often and give you the upper hand.

[BoiledInPilk]

Originally posted by Lanosa:

The 5-0-2 submarine is the PERFECT anti-bloons. It kills alone ALL the bloons in a loop. Only need help for ceramics and MOAB-class.

Other than that, yeah, it helps to a hero level up and cut the CD for skills, allowing you to use them more often and give you the upper hand.

a 5-0-2 only is about double the damage of a 4-0-2, and by the time you can get it, that damage isn't that great. It's a utility upgrade, but that utility definitely can be useful.

[Ninja Zyborg]

Originally posted by Ineedtostopchangingusername:

Originally posted by Lanosa:

The 5-0-2 submarine is the PERFECT anti-bloons. It kills alone ALL the bloons in a loop. Only need help for ceramics and MOAB-class.

Other than that, yeah, it helps to a hero level up and cut the CD for skills, allowing you to use them more often and give you the upper hand.

a 5-0-2 only is about double the damage of a 4-0-2, and by the time you can get it, that damage isn't that great. It's a utility upgrade, but that utility definitely can be useful.

no... it's triple damage, and 20x pierce.

[zghaun]

Originally posted by Lycon:

I see a lot of people praising it but does it only reduce ability cooldowns of your usable skills? Or does it increase the monkeys attack speed?

Ability Cooldown Reductions are quite powerful

If you noticed they are useful vs Bloonarius