| “ | There can be only one. | ” |
| ~ "There Can Be Only One" MK description |
The Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey (AKA Vengeful True Sun God, Vengeful Sun God, Dark True Sun God or the Dark Temple) is a tower added to Bloons Tower Defense 6 in the 3.0 update, named after the BMC variant. It is a more powerful version of the True Sun God, requiring the Monkey Knowledge skill, 'There Can Be Only One,' along with a separate sacrifice of The Anti-Bloon and Legend of the Night outside its range in order to become three times more powerful than normal. The Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey summons dark Sun Avatars and Spectres instead of the normal gold variants. It also shoots out deep red variants of the True Sun God's projectiles. Other than aesthetic changes, all of its attacks also become three times stronger, making it the single-most powerful tower in the entire game. It cannot be summoned in Sandbox Mode, nor can it be summoned on C.H.I.M.P.S., where Monkey Knowledge is disabled.
It costs the same as a normal True Sun God, along with $50k of all tower categories (Primary, Military, Magic, Support) sacrificed prior to upgrading an existing Sun Temple, plus the costs of The Anti-Bloon and Legend of the Night outside the range of it. Combining the sacrificing costs and the upgrade cost of the True Sun God upgrade itself altogether, the Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey upgrade costs the following:
- $997,385+ on Easy (4 * $50,000+ for the four tower categories, $107,015 for 0-5-0 Anti-Bloon, $265,370 for 0-0-5 Legend of the Night, $425,000 for the True Sun God upgrade).
- $1,138,100+ on Medium (4 * $50,000+ for the four tower categories, $125,900 for 0-5-0 Anti-Bloon, $312,200 for 0-0-5 Legend of the Night, $500,000 for the True Sun God upgrade).
- $1,213,148+ on Hard (4 * $50,000+ for the four tower categories, $135,972 for 0-5-0 Anti-Bloon, $337,176 for 0-0-5 Legend of the Night, $540,000 for the True Sun God upgrade).
- $1,325,720+ on Impoppable (4 * $50,000+ for the four tower categories, $151,080 for 0-5-0 Anti-Bloon, $374,640 for 0-0-5 Legend of the Night, $600,000 for the True Sun God upgrade).
Creating an Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey
In order to summon the Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey, the player must follow the steps below:
- Have "There Can Be Only One" knowledge unlocked, have Monkey Knowledge enabled, play on a mode other than Sandbox Mode and C.H.I.M.P.S. (monkey knowledge is disabled in these modes).
- Build a Sun Temple with appropriate sacrifices (for the best results use $50,000 in 3 out of 4 categories), and then prepare $50,000+ sacrifices for all categories of towers for the True Sun God. Bear in mind that some towers may be discounted around the newly upgraded Sun Temple, so ensure the sell prices of each category sum up to more than $35,000 (or more than $37,500 with the Better Sell Deals MK).
- Outside of the Temple's range, create The Anti-Bloon (x/5/x Super Monkey) and The Legend of The Night (x/x/5 Super Monkey); they cannot be sacrificed to the creation of the TSG, otherwise the upgrade to AOTVM will fail. (To be safe, if possible move your Legend of the Night and Anti-Bloon out of the Sun Temple's range with an x/4/x Heli Pilot)
- Upgrade the Sun Temple into True Sun God. If the Monkey Knowledge Point "There Can Be Only One" is activated the God will first animate the creation of the True Sun God and then absorb the Anti-Bloon and Legend of the Night, becoming a powerful Dark Temple.
The Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey is effectively identical to its standard form with the exception of its main attack (which gains +50 damage from 25 to 75) and a triple increase in damage to its magic Avatar summons (from 4 to 12, excluding damage buffs from support sacrifices) as well as its other sacrifice powers. This form also disables the Anti-Bloon and Legend of the Night upgrades unless the Vengeful True Sun God is sold.
The Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey can only be summoned by having maxed sacrifices on both the Tier 4 Sun Temple and the True Sun God, so it will always be some variation of 2/2/2/1 as it is impossible to have a Tier 4 Temple maxed in all categories. The tier of sacrifice paths increases by having sacrifices inputted into the Sun Temple prior to upgrading to True Sun God. The additional benefits provided by the Sun Temple are additional to the minimal Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey. Keep in mind that it is worth it to sacrifice both the Legend of the Night and The Anti-Bloon for the Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey, as it is overall much more powerful than all 3 original Tier 5 Super Monkeys combined.
Sacrifices
Pre-Transformation Sacrifices
Before transforming into the Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey via absorbing The Anti-Bloon and Legend of the Night, an Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey's sacrifices act exactly the same as the True Sun God. See the True Sun God#Sacrifices page for details regarding the sacrificing mechanics for the pre-transformed Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey.
Fully Maxed Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey
When given to an Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey with maxed sacrifices (assuming the 2/2/2/2 formation, even though it's technically impossible to have a 2/2/2/2 AotVM, as Sun Temples only accept 3 of 4 sacrifice categories), the following occurs. Extra bonuses compared to True Sun God are in bold:
- Primary
- +40 pierce to main attack.
- +100% attack speed to main attack.
- +15 damage to main attack, for a total of 90 damage for the main attack
- Adds 16 dark blades every 1.5 seconds, deals 75 damage, and has 20 pierce.
- Dark blades are split between 22.5° from each other.
- Adds a new dark glaive attack that fires every 0.5 sec. These golden glaives act like Glaive Riccochet glaives that bounce between the nearest bloons each time it moves. Golden glaives now have 90 damage and 50 pierce.
- Military
- +100% larger projectile size (caps at 100%)
- +100% projectile speed (caps at 100%)
- +30 pierce to all attacks
- Shoots two dark missiles every 1.0 seconds. Travels at infinite range and can deal up to 225 damage to up to 50 bloons.
- Second missile has increased projectile speed.
- Gains four dark Spectres that shoots darts and bombs every 0.15s. Darts deal 45 damage and have 10 pierce, while bombs deal 30 damage and have 30 pierce.
- First dark Spectre is set on Circle
- Second dark Spectre is set on "Center Circle" (see Centered Path)
- Third dark Spectre is set on Figure-Infinite
- Fourth dark Spectre is set on Figure-Eight.
- Magic
- Adds 12 homing magic shots every 2.0s, dealing 105 damage and have 7 pierce each.
- Gains a 40% chance to distract bloons with its main attack.
- Gains a forcefield attack every 5.0s that can knockback bloons up to Ceramic and MOAB. Affects up to 500 bloons.
- Adding additional sacrifices does not improve the forcefield attack; rather, the highest Magic sacrifice tier is used to determine the functionality of the forcefield attacks.
- Can spawn mini dark Sun Avatars every 15 seconds that deal 12 damage per shot and without any footprint. By default, without adding attack speed bonuses, a maximum of 6 mini dark Sun Avatars can appear on the map at one time, as the mini dark Sun Avatars have a lifespan of 65 seconds.
- Support
- +10 range to base Temple
- 40% discount to all base cost and upgrades of all towers in range
- +4 damage, 40% attack speed bonus, +6 pierce, +40% range for all towers in range
- +$10000 end of round cash
- +100% more cash from bloons popped within range of the Temple
Strategies
- Unlike with a normal True Sun God, the optimal Vengeful God is a 2/2/2/1 setup, with maxed Primary, Military, and Magic Sacrifices. As the Vengeful God has the highest damage in the game, it is preferred to make it stronger over giving it a larger support buff to other weaker towers. The player can fill the buff to other towers through another tier 4 Sun Temple with support sacrifices as well.
- Again, boosting the Vengeful God with a Permanent Brew Alchemist is highly advised as it boosts the rate of spawning powerful Dark Avatars and the Vengeful God's various attacks.
- Do keep in mind that Dark Avatars are considered sub-powers and therefore are not able to be directly buffed by Permanent Brew.
- However, the Avatars are able to be affected by area-of-effect buffs, such as Homeland Defense's attack speed increase.
- Do keep in mind that Dark Avatars are considered sub-powers and therefore are not able to be directly buffed by Permanent Brew.
- Use Overclocks and Ultraboosts for +66% increased attack speed. Ultraboost in particular adds a +6.67% permanent attack speed buff to the AotVM that stacks up to 10 times, on top of any Overclock abilities and any other attack speed buffs.
- Use a tier 4 Sun Temple with support sacrifices to boost the power of the Vengeful Temple and your other late game support.
Update History
- 14.0
The +50 damage to mini-Avatars was possibly unintended originally, but in the 14.0 patch notes, it was labelled as a balance change. It is also speculated that the damage increase coming along with pierce and damage attack nerfs is to reduce lag by reducing the number of projectiles on screen at once. The changes affecting the True Sun God carrying over to the Vengeful True Sun God are calculated with the actual stats of the Vengeful True Sun God, not the True Sun God. This section is adapted (but not a direct copy) from the 14.0 patch notes.
Main AotVM
No longer grants +50 damage to mini-Avatars- Increases the damage of sub-powers by x3
Primary Sacrifices
- Blade burst stage 1 damage increased from 1 → 45
- Blade burst stage pierce reduced from 100 → 10
- Blade burst stage 2 damage increased from 2 → 75
- Blade burst stage 2 pierce reduced from 100 → 20
- All Golden Glaives stages pierce reduced from 100 → 50
- Golden Glaives stage 1 damage increased from 2 → 30
- Golden Glaives stage 2 damage increased from 2 → 60
- Golden Glaives stage 3 damage increased from 3 → 90
Military Sacrifices
- All Homing MOAB Missile stages pierce reduced from 100 → 50
- Homing MOAB Missile damage increased from 50 → 225
- All Golden Spectre stages attack rate reduced from 0.04 → 0.15
- Golden Spectre dart pierce reduced from 50 → 10
- Golden Spectre bomb pierce reduced from 100 → 30
- Golden Spectre stage 1 dart damage increased from 2 → 30
- Golden Spectre stage 2 dart damage increased from 3 → 75
- Golden Spectre stage 1 bomb damage increased from 2 → 18
- Golden Spectre stage 2 bomb damage increased from 3 → 30
Magic Sacrifices
- Arcane Blasts stage 1 damage increased from 1 → 60
- Arcane Blasts stage 2 damage increased from 2 → 90
- Arcane Blasts stage 3 damage increased from 4 → 105
- VTSG Mini Avatar damage from 51 → 12 (includes the 3x buff)
- 16.0
- Affected by nerfs to Sun Temple
Gallery
Trivia
- At a bare minimum, it costs $1,220,655 on Easy, $1,374,300 on Medium, $1,456,240 on Hard, and $1,579,160 on Impoppable (?).
- If created with Adora in its range, Adora will also undergo a transformation and turn into colors matching that of the Vengeful Monkey, and gain a powerful strength boost.
- Adora will not buff the Vengeful Monkey in return, however.
- The design of the Vengeful Monkey temple may be based off of the other 5th tiers of the Super Monkey; the red eyes and metallic body come from the Anti-Bloon, and the dark color tone comes from the Legend of The Night
- The mini Dark Sun Avatar artwork actually smiles instead of making a tilted frown.
- In the sprite files of the game, it says that it is a 5-5-5 True Sun God. Every texture that involves the Vengeful Avatar is indicated as "TrueSunGod555" as the normal True Sun God is called "TrueSunGod5xx"
- Its projectiles sprites are also said to be "555" but the normal True Sun God doesn't say.
- There will soon be a link to see the difference of sprites between the Vengeful Avatar and True Sun God.
- Prior to Version 14.0, the Avatar of the Vengeful Monkey's mini Dark Sun Avatars would deal just over 50x more damage than a normal mini Sun Avatar (specifically from 1 damage per shot to 50 damage per shot). Rohan stated that this was a bug, and this unusual damage buff was replaced by a much weaker damage buff since Version 14.0.
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