Navarch of the Seas

Navarch of the Seas
General Information
Tower	Monkey Buccaneer
Unlocked at	500,000 XP
Cost (Upgrade)	$467,500 (Easy) $550,000 (Medium) $594,000 (Hard) $660,000 (Impoppable)
Cash Sacrifices	Up to extra 60,000 power via cash sacrifices Easy: Manual: $23.375 / 1 power Slider: $24.54375 / 1 power Max Manual: $1,402,500 Max Slider: $1,472,626 Medium: Manual: $27.5 / 1 power Slider: $28.875 / 1 power Max Manual: $1,650,000 Max Slider: $1,732,501 Hard: Manual: $29.7 / 1 power Slider: $31.185 / 1 power Max Manual: $1,782,000 Max Slider: $1,871,101 Impoppable: Manual: $33 / 1 power Slider: $34.65 / 1 power Max Manual: $1,980,000 Max Slider: $2,079,001
Activated Ability(s)	Navarch's Claw Ability
Targeting Options	First, Last, Close, Strong, (Missiles and Harpoons locked to Strong)
Popology
Damage Type(s)
Base Projectile	Turret Canister: Normal Camo affected Straight Spray Straight Attack Area of Effect Extra Damage to Blimps Extra Damage to Boss Bloons Turret Grape Shot: Normal Camo affected Angular Spray Straight Attack Extra Damage to Blimps Extra Damage to Boss Bloons
Ability	Normal Camo affected Target Blimps Instakill Blimps Impact
Other(s)	Fighter Darts: Normal Camo affected Single Projectile Straight Attack Multitargets Extra Damage to Boss Bloons Full Range Fighter Missiles: Normal Camo affected Orbital Spray x4 Weak Seeking Target Blimps Area of Effect Multitargets Full Range Cash Generation: Passive Spawn Bonus Income Carrier Buff: Passive Target Tower Whole Screen Bonus Sellback: Passive Target Tower Discount Trade Strength: Passive Target Tower Bonus Income Passive MOAB Takedown Ability: Normal Camo affected Target Blimps Instakill Blimps Impact
Statistics (Degree 1)
Damage	Turret Canisters:60 120 (MOAB-class Bloons) 180 (Boss Bloons) 360 (Elite Boss Bloons) Turret Grape Shots:25 55 (MOAB-class Bloons) 85 (Boss Bloons) 170 (Elite Boss Bloons) Fighter Darts:44 88 (Boss Bloons) 176 (Elite Boss Bloons) Fighter Missiles:200 (MOAB-class Bloons) 400 (Boss Bloons) 800 (Elite Boss Bloons)
Pierce	Turret Canisters: 28 Turret Grape Shots: 10 Fighter Darts: 14 Fighter Missiles: 10
Attack Speed	Turret: Every 0.429s Fighter Darts: Every 0.15s Fighter Missiles: Every 1.5s
Range	Turrets: 60 (Fan-shaped) Fighters: Infinite
Status Effects	N/A
Tower Boosts	Carrier Buff: +17.65% attack speed, targets all water-based towers and Monkey Aces, including Goliath Doomship (Does not stack) Bonus Sellback: +10% sell potency, targets nearby towers (capped at 95% sell potency, does not stack) Trade Strength: +$(n*20) for all x/x/3 and x/x/4 Boats, where n is the number of them, capped at n = 20 +10 damage, and +10 MOAB and Ceramic damage to all x/x/3+ Buccaneers on screen (Stack with Trade Empire)
Income/Life Boosts	+$3,200 per round (no MK), automatic generation +$20 per round with Trade Agreements MK, automatic generation
Constituents
Carrier Flagship
Carrier Flagship
Pirate Lord
Pirate Lord
Trade Empire
Trade Empire
[Source]

“	The greatest thing ever to float on water.	”
	~ In-game Upgrade Description

The Navarch of the Seas is the Paragon of the Monkey Buccaneer, added to Bloons TD 6 in the 29.0 update. Combining major features from the Carrier Flagship, Pirate Lord, and Trade Empire, the Navarch of the Seas is armed with 6 independently-aiming triple-turrets, each of which fires 3 explosive rounds and 10 arrowhead-shaped grapes per shot. On the deck of the vessel, kinetic grappling hooks automatically take down MOAB-class bloons of ZOMG strength and below every 0.6s. These shoot 10 times before entering a 10 second cooldown period (a ZOMG uses 2 hooks). The ship's runway launches 3 high-tech fighter jets which rapidly fire darts, as well as 4 seeking missiles every 10 shots. For its activated ability, the Navarch of the Seas shoots a grappling hook which takes down the strongest MOAB-Class Bloon on screen, including BADs. The ability can be used twice per round (more with selling and rebuying) and does not affect Boss Bloons. This extends to Rock Bloons for both passive and active hooks, despite Pirate Lord being able to hook in Rock Bloons. All of these attacks are affected by Monkey Knowledge (except Big Bunch) and deal heavy damage to all bloon types, including camo, with bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons and Boss Bloons.

The Navarch of the Seas also comes with non-offensive utilities, including a $3200 end-of-round bonus ($3220 with Trade Empire Monkey Knowledge), the bonus sellback on nearby towers from Favored Trades, and two landing pads which are each able to accomodate one medium-sized tower. The vessel also provides the buffs supplied by the Trade Empire and Carrier Flagship to all applicable towers. The Trade Empire buff stacks with the Trade Empire tower and gives a stronger damage bonus, and the Carrier Flagship buff is uniquely capable of buffing the Goliath Doomship and Nautic Siege Core.

The Navarch of the Seas is obtained by having one of each tier 5 Monkey Buccaneer and purchasing the Paragon upgrade, which subsequently consumes all Monkey Buccaneers on screen. The Degree of the Navarch of the Seas ranges from 1-100 and is determined by total cost, pop count, bonus income, upgrades, and number of Monkey Buccaneers sacrificed as explained here. As with all Paragons, the Navarch of the Seas cannot receive buffs from any external sources except the Nautic Siege Core's Energizer buff and the "Paragon of Power" Monkey Knowledge (and from the bloon debuffing status effects of Cripple MOAB, Glue Storm, and Super Brittle). Additionally, the Navarch of the Seas is unobtainable in Sandbox Mode until it is purchased in a real game, but can be created in Challenge Editor.

Upgrading to this Paragon costs $467,500 on Easy, $550,000 on Medium, $594,000 on Hard, and $660,000 on Impoppable. To max out on manual cash sacrifices starting from v39.0, the player must spend at least $1,402,500 on Easy, $1,650,000 on Medium, $1,782,000 on Hard, and $1,980,000 on Impoppable; before v39.0, the max cash sacrifices was $250,000. With max slider, these costs increase to $1,472,625 on Easy, $1,732,500 on Medium, $1,871,100 on Hard, and $2,079,000 on Impoppable.

Description

Overview

Navarch of the Seas pictured next to all three tier-5 Monkey Buccaneers

The Navarch of the Seas is an opulent, fervently-animated pirate in command of a futuristic aircraft carrier and fighter jet arsenal. The commander itself dons a spiky gray beard, gold tooth, eyepatch, pegged cane, white military admiral's uniform, and orange sailor's jacket with gold shoulder trimmings and cap with a skull symbol. The portrait shows the Navarch wearing black pants, but the placed tower does not show him wearing any shoes.

The ship is a technologically advanced aircraft carrier accented in orange and white, featuring a large central runway and two "M" monkey helipad platforms illuminated in green. Beneath the bridge is the launch platform, which is shaped like a cat's face. The eyes are two teal windows that light up when the Navarch is not firing grappling hooks. On the deck of the ship are 6 ports for MOAB takedowns, which launch teal, energized grappling ropes with a mechanical claw attached. This claw is displayed in both the upgrade icon and ability icon. At the base of each grappling hook are two superimposed triangles which rotate in opposite directions. These harpoon features become red during the activated ability. Whenever the Navarch takes down a blimp, a plume of green smoke in the shape of a skull ascends when the takedown is complete. Mounted on the bottom of the ship are 6 triple turrets (3 on each side) that fire arrowhead-shaped grape shots and orange explosive canisters which leave behind glowing teal and airbust-dart style streaks respectively.

The jets are two-pronged, futuristic aircraft that have orange and teal accents. The main cockpit resembles a single large green crystal. The jets' dart and missile projectiles are identical to those used by the Aircraft Carrier, Carrier Flagship, and Monkey Ace seeking missiles.

The Navarch itself has comparatively few animations. The captain's jacket will constantly billow in the wind and the captain will occassionally look to either side, grovel its fist, or tap its cane on the ground.

Every 20 degrees, the Navarch of the Seas gains a more geometrically sharp appearance, with additional armor plating and more glowing lights being added to the ship and the coat, hat and eyepatch of the captain becoming more elaborate. The planes and projectiles do not change with degree.

Compared to other Paragons, the Navarch of the Seas's design and function incorporates a very wide and disjoint set of constituent tier-5 themes (military, pirates, and global trade). The military theme dominates the overall look of the ship, with the main ship, guns, and jets deriving from the Carrier Flagship. The captain's appearance and the ship's grappling hooks are directly influenced by the Pirate Lord. However, the Trade Empire has little visual presence in the Navarch of the Seas, aside from the end-of round-bonus and orange accents. Here, the word "Navarch" is derived from the Greek word for "Leader of the Seas."

Activated Abilities

See also: Activated Abilities (BTD6)#Navarch of the Seas

Navarch Ability

Alongside a passive ability to quickly hook in multiple MOAB-class bloons below BAD at regular intervals, which is merely an automatic attack instead of a true activated ability, Navarch of the Seas gains a new activated ability that hooks in a single MOAB-class bloon including a BAD. MOAB-class bloons destroyed by the Navarch's special hook do not generate extra cash. However, a single Navarch can only use this activated ability up to twice per round. This activated ability has a cooldown of 30 seconds and has a full initial cooldown, minus the transformation animation after purchasing the Navarch.

Targeting Priorities

Navarch of the Seas targets bloons using the standard targeting priorities. It has multiple types of attacks that are shot in different styles.

• First: Targets the first bloon visible within its range.
• Last: Targets the last bloon visible within its range.
• Close: Targets the closest bloon visible within its range.
• Strong: Targets the strongest bloon visible within its range.

Navarch of the Seas has multiple types of attacks that interact with Targeting Priorities in various ways, which cannot simply be explained in a single paragraph:

• Navarch of the Seas has 6 separate independently targeting multi-barreled turrets that each shoot both canisters and grapeshots. Each grapeshot and canister is shot in a straight movement. Each multi-barreled turret can only rotate up to 90 degrees either side from where it is placed and was initially pointing. Its rotational range depends on where each of the multi-barreled turrets were initially placed and pointing on the Navarch ship when first bought.
• Navarch Planes fly towards nearby bloons in a flight pattern that tends to follow them down the track.
• Darts from Navarch Planes are shot in a straight movement with no homing, and use targeting priority based on the Navarch of the Seas.
• Anti-MOAB missiles from Navarch Planes are shot in a straight movement, weakly seek, only targets MOAB-class bloons, and is locked on Strong.
• All hooks including those from the passive and activated abilities are locked on Strong and only target MOAB-class bloons. All hooks can target blimps below BAD, but only the activated ability hooks can target BADs. None of them can target Boss Bloons.
• Navarch's end-of-round cash is spawned cash gain, and has no interaction with targeting priorities.
• Navarch's buffs affect the whole screen, and buff the respective towers that it benefits. The Carrier buff affects all water monkeys and Monkey Aces but does not stack with Carrier Flagship's buff. The Trade Strength buff works just like duplicate but much stronger second Trade Empire buff, affecting Tier 3-5 Bottom Path Buccaneers.

Despite being able to detect Camo Bloons naturally, Navarch of the Seas does not have the Camo Prioritization targeting priority.

Monkey Knowledge Interactions

The following Monkey Knowledge Points directly affect the Navarch of the Seas:

• Naval Upgrades: All Monkey Buccaneers get +1 pierce.
• Big Bunch: An extra grape shot from 10 to 11? (It doesn't increase any extra grapes)
• Faster Takedowns: Navarch of the Seas ability cooldown decreases from 20 seconds → 15 seconds?
• Trade Agreements: Navarch of the Seas generates +$20 per round, for $3220 end-of-round cash.
• Flanking Maneuvers: Attacks 10% faster when set targeting priority to "Last".
• Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more.
  • Increases sell potency from 70% to 75%.
• Veteran Monkey Training: All Monkeys' reload time reduced by 3%.
  • Makes all Monkeys attack 3.07% faster.
• Global Ability Cooldowns: All Ability cooldowns for all Monkeys reduced by 3%.
• Paragon of Power: Any paragon will gain a large boost to its attack speed so long as you have no T5s of the same tower type placed

The following Monkey Knowledge Points do affect Navarch of the Seas, but only indirectly:

• Elite Military Training: All Military Monkeys get a one-off +1000 XP and earn XP in-game 5% faster permanently.
• Military Conscription: First military tower costs only ⅔ of the original cost. [note: this is a small benefit for Navarch of the Seas]
  • Monkey Buccaneer base cost from $425, $500, $540, and $600 → $285, $335, $360, and $400 on Easy, Medium, Hard, and Impoppable, respectively.
• Advanced Logistics: All Military Monkeys base costs reduced by 5%. [note: this is a small benefit for Navarch of the Seas]
  • Monkey Buccaneer base cost reduced from $425, $500, $540, and $600 → $405, $475, $515, and $570 on Easy, Medium, Hard, and Impoppable, respectively.
    • If Military Conscription is also enabled, the base cost will be $265, $310, $335, and $370.
• Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.

Creation

Creating a Degree 1 Navarch of the Seas

The Navarch of the Seas can be created by having one of each Tier 5 Monkey Buccaneer on screen, at which point, the upgrade icon for the Navarch of the Seas will become available on any of the Tier 5 Monkey Buccaneers. Purchasing the upgrade will change the selected Monkey Buccaneer into the Navarch of the Seas, while sacrificing every other Monkey Buccaneer on screen (including those belonging to co-op players). Only one Navarch of the Seas may exist at a time, even in co-op.

Paragon Power

The degree of the Navarch of the Seas depends on a hidden value known as "power", which itself depends on the amount of tier 5 upgrades, non-tier 5 upgrades, cash, and pops of sacrificed Monkey Buccaneers, as well as any Paragon Power Totems on the map. In addition to cosmetic changes every 20 degrees, a higher degree will elevate the damage output of the Navarch of the Seas. Power is calculated as follows:

• Each Tier 5 Monkey Buccaneer will contribute 6,000 power for a maximum of 50,000 power (9 Tier 5 upgrades). Excludes the first three Tier 5 Monkey Buccaneers.
• Each non-Tier 5 Monkey Buccaneer upgrade will contribute 100 power for a maximum of 10,000 power (100 non-Tier 5 upgrades). Excludes the first three Tier 5 Monkey Buccaneers.
• Every $23.375 / $27.5 / $29.7 / $33 spent on sacrificed Monkey Buccaneers will contribute 1 power for a maximum of 60,000 power ($1,402,500 / $1,650,000 / $1,782,000 / $1,980,000 spent). Excludes the three cheapest Tier 5 Monkey Buccaneers.
  • Alternatively, cash can be injected into the Paragon directly with 5% reduced efficiency.
• Every 180 pops or 45 generated cash achieved by sacrificed Monkey Buccaneers will contribute 1 power for a maximum of 90,000 power (16,200,000 pops or $4,050,000 generated). Includes the first three Tier 5 Monkey Buccaneers.
  • Round 132 is the first round where the game's cumulative RBE exceeds this threshold. Waiting until round 136 before upgrading to Navarch of the Seas should provide enough buffer to achieve the 16,200,000 pops, assuming Monkey Buccaneers are responsible for 80% of all pops until that point. These rounds will be earlier on Double HP MOABs or Boss Events due to the increased RBE from Boss Bloons and MOABs, so it is always best to confirm by calculating manually.
• Each Paragon Power Totem contributes an additional 2,000 power, with no limit.

Assuming no Paragon Power Totems, a maximum of 160,000 power is obtainable in single-player, and 210,000 power is achievable in co-op, though only up to 200,000 power is actually used.

Degree roughly scales with the natural logarithm of power, so there is no unique set of upgrades, prices, etc. that will place the Paragon at a certain degree. In addition, the attack speed, pierce, damage, specialized damage, and boss damage each scale differently with the degree.

Statistics

The approximate power requirements for the 20 degree increments are listed, alongside the associated damage statistics and some general guidelines on which sacrificial investments to make.

Key for labels

• r - Range units/Attack radius
• d - Damage
• md - MOAB damage
• bd - Boss damage
• ed - Elite Boss damage
• p - Pierce
• s - Time between attacks (or damage ticks) in seconds
• j - Number of projectiles

All Degrees

• 60 range
• Same footprint as a base Monkey Buccaneer
• Has 10 harpoons that automatically hook in MOAB-class bloons for +100% income; MOABs, BFBs, and DDTs use one hook while ZOMGs use two. 1s between each hook, 10s to replenish after all 10 hooks are used.
• The ship has two platforms which can accommodate up to medium sized towers. Height is not elevated. See "Behavior and Interactions" below for full list.
• Generates $3200 at the end of each round.
• Gives the following buffs to other towers:
  • +$20 to all Merchantmen's end-of-round income per Merchantman, as well as +10d, +10cd, and +10md. Stacks with Trade Empire.
  • 85%s to other water-based towers and Monkey Aces including Paragons (+17.65% attack rate). Does not stack with Carrier Flagship.
  • +10% sellback value to other towers in range. Does not stack with other Favored Trades.

Activated Ability

• Grapples and destroys the strongest MOAB-class bloon, including BADs. Does not affect Boss Bloons or Lych-Soul.

Degree 1 (Base)

• 0 Power needed

Main Ship

• Grape Shots: 25d, 55md, 85bd, 170ed, 10p, 0.25s, 6j
• Main Canister: 60d, 120md, 180bd, 360ed, 28p, 0.25s, 40r, 3j

Fighter Planes

• Darts: 44d, 88bd, 176ed, 14p, 0.18s
• MOAB Missiles: 200md, 400bd, 800ed, 10p, 1.8s, 30r, 4j

Activated Ability

• 30s cooldown

Degree 20

• Turrets: Fires every 0.328 seconds.
  • Main Canister: 72.4 damage, 143.8 MOAB damage, 272.52 Boss Bloon damage, 545.04 Elite Boss damage, 52.32 pierce.
  • Grape Shots: 30.75 damage, 66.45 MOAB damage, 129.72 Boss Bloon damage, 259.44 Elite Boss damage, 30.9 pierce.
• Fighter Planes:
  • Darts: 53.36 damage, 137.336 Boss Bloon damage, 274.672 Elite Boss damage, 35.66 pierce. Fires every 0.1147 seconds.
  • MOAB Missiles: 239 MOAB damage, 620 Boss Bloon damage, 1240 Elite Boss damage, 30.9 pierce. Fires every 1.147 seconds.
• Activated Harpoon: Refreshes every 15.29 seconds.
• Recommended Sacrifices: Have all three base tier-5 Buccaneers, $25,800 in external Buccaneer cost investment, 100 tier-5 or below upgrades across all buccaneers. This is easily done with 25 (2-0-2) Buccaneers with Double Shot and Crow's Nest.

Degree 40

• Turrets: Fires every 0.2975 seconds.
  • Main Canister: 86.4 damage, 169.8 MOAB damage, 387.84 Boss Bloon damage, 775.68 Elite Boss damage, 77.92 pierce.
  • Grape Shots: 37.75 damage, 79.45 MOAB damage, 186.29 Boss Bloon damage, 372.58 Elite Boss damage, 52.9 pierce.
• Fighter Planes:
  • Darts: 64.16 damage, 200 Boss Bloon damage, 400 Elite Boss damage, 58.46 pierce. Fires every 0.104 seconds.
  • MOAB Missiles: 281 MOAB damage, 893.8 Boss Bloon damage, 1,787.6 Elite Boss damage, 52.9 pierce. Fires every 1.04 seconds.
• Activated Harpoon: Refreshes every 13.87 seconds.
• Recommended Sacrifices: Have all three base tier-5 Buccaneers, $250,000 in external Buccaneer cost investment, 100 tier-5 or below upgrades across all buccaneers. This is easily done with 34 (4-2-0) Aircraft Carriers. Additionally, have 2.04 million pops achieved across all Monkey Buccaneers. If unable to garner all these pops, every $1 of income generated by bottom path Buccaneers is equivalent to 4 pops.

Degree 60

• Turrets: Fires every 0.278 seconds.
  • Main Canister: 100.4 damage, 195.8 MOAB damage, 523.16 Boss Bloon damage, 1,046.32 Elite Boss damage, 103.52 pierce.
  • Grape Shots: 44.75 damage, 92.45 MOAB damage, 252.86 Boss Bloon damage, 505.72 Elite Boss damage, 74.9 pierce.
• Fighter Planes:
  • Darts: 74.96 damage, 273.848 Boss Bloon damage, 547.696 Elite Boss damage, 81.26 pierce. Fires every 0.0972 seconds.
  • MOAB Missiles: 323 MOAB damage, 1,216.4 Boss Bloon damage, 2,432.8 Elite Boss damage, 74.9 pierce. Fires every 0.972 seconds.
• Activated Harpoon: Refreshes every 12.96 seconds.
• Recommended Sacrifices: Have all three base tier-5 Buccaneers, $250,000 in external Buccaneer cost investment, 100 tier-5 or below upgrades across all buccaneers. This is easily done with 34 (4-2-0) Aircraft Carriers. Additionally, have 8.35 million pops achieved across all Monkey Buccaneers. If unable to garner all these pops, every $1 of income generated by bottom path Buccaneers is equivalent to 4 pops.

Degree 76 (Single Player Max w/o Geraldo)

• Turrets: Fires every 0.266 seconds.
  • Main Canister: 112.0 damage, 217.0 MOAB damage, 578.2 Boss Bloon damage, 1,156.4 Elite Boss damage, 124.0 pierce.
  • Grape Shots: 50.75 damage, 103.25 MOAB damage, 280.7 Boss Bloon damage, 561.4 Elite Boss damage, 92.5 pierce.
• Fighter Planes:
  • Darts: 84.0 damage, 303.8 Boss Bloon damage, 607.6 Elite Boss damage, 99.5 pierce. Fires every 0.0931 seconds.
  • MOAB Missiles: 357 MOAB damage, 1,341.2 Boss Bloon damage, 2,682.4 Elite Boss damage, 92.5 pierce. Fires every 0.931 seconds.
• Activated Harpoon: Refreshes every 12.4 seconds.
• Recommended Sacrifices: Have all three base tier-5 Buccaneers, $250,000 in external Buccaneer cost investment, 100 tier-5 or below upgrades across all buccaneers. This is easily done with 34 (4-2-0) Aircraft Carriers. Additionally, have 16.2 million pops achieved across all Monkey Buccaneers. If unable to garner all these pops, every $1 of income generated by bottom path Buccaneers is equivalent to 4 pops.

Degree 100 (Max)

• Turrets: Fires every 0.252 seconds.
  • Main Canister: 130 damage, 250 MOAB damage, 860 Boss Bloon damage, 1,720 Elite Boss damage, 56 pierce.
  • Grape Shots: 60 damage, 120 MOAB damage, 420 Boss Bloon damage, 840 Elite Boss damage, 120 pierce.
• Fighter Planes:
  • Darts: 98 damage, 460 Boss Bloon damage, 920 Elite Boss damage, 128 pierce. Fires every 0.088 seconds.
  • MOAB Missiles: 410 MOAB damage, 1822.5 Boss Bloon damage, 3645 Elite Boss damage, 120 pierce. Fires every 0.88 seconds.
• Activated Harpoon: Refreshes every 11.74 seconds.
• Recommended Sacrifices: Have all three base tier-5 Buccaneers, 9 additional tier-5 Buccaneers or 45 Paragon Power Totems, $250,000 in external Buccaneer cost investment, 100 tier-5 or below upgrades across all buccaneers. This is easily done with 34 (4-2-0) Aircraft Carriers. Additionally, have 16.2 million pops achieved across all Monkey Buccaneers. If unable to garner all these pops, every $1 of income generated by bottom path Buccaneers is equivalent to 4 pops.

Troubleshooting

See Paragons:Troubleshooting

Behavior and Interactions

Like other Paragons, the Navarch of the Seas will ignore most tower interactions, such as buffs, discounts, and redeployment as detailed here. However, there are a few noteworthy points of the tower's behavior to consider:

• Turrets and Fighter Plane darts will obey the set target priority, while the Missiles and Harpoons are locked to Strong.
• Passive MOAB takedown will prioritize the first blimp on screen (or strongest? farthest? bloon on screen).
  • Does not target Rock Bloons with either its passive or activated hook ability.
• Benefits from Flanking Maneuvers's attack speed.
• If a Carrier Flagship is chosen for the location of the Navarch of the Seas, any towers placed on it will reappear on the Paragon, including other Paragons.
• Navarch of the Seas' bonus sellback buff does not stack with Favored Trades.
• Navarch of the Seas' Trade Empire buff is indeed unique, as x/x/3+ Buccaneers gain +10 damage to all attacks and +10 damage to Ceramics and MOABs rather than Trade Empire's +1. As the two buffs are considered different, generating bonus cash stacking should be intended as well.
• Can be linked to a Tech Bot, as well as set ambush, which is granted by Ambush Tech.
• All blimp instakills via its automatic or activated M.O.A.B. Takedown ability will count towards the Hook, Line, and Sinker achievement.
• Monkeys which can be placed on platform: Dart Monkey, Boomerang Monkey, Tack Shooter, Bomb Shooter, Ice Monkey, Glue Gunner, Sniper Monkey, Dartling Gunner, Wizard Monkey, Ninja Monkey, Alchemist, Druid, Engineer, Heroes (except Churchill, Pat, and Brickell).
• Its attack speed buff affects Goliath Doomship.

Costs

Like all Paragons, which are able to sacrifice other towers, Navarch of the Seas has a complex set of costs.

Data updated as of Version 35.0.

Quick Reference Costs

Assumes normal undiscounted costs of each tower.

Quick reference costs of some popular variants of Navarch of the Seas:

	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
Vanilla	$TBA	$651,780	$TBA	$TBA
Vanilla + 25 2-0-2	$TBA	$701,280	$TBA	$TBA
Vanilla + 20x 4-2-0	$TBA	$903,780	$TBA	$TBA
Vanilla + 20x 0-0-4 + 4x 4-2-0 + 1x 0-1-0	$TBA	$901,830	$TBA	$TBA

Combos written for the above table:

• Vanilla Navarch of the Seas: The cheapest Navarch of the Seas at raw cost, using only 5-0-0, 0-5-0, and 0-0-5.
• Vanilla Navarch of the Seas + 25x 2-0-2 (exactly 100 upgrades): Uses vanilla costs plus coverage of the 100 upgrades worth of sacrifices. Uses the cheapest upgrades for the Monkey Buccaneer, the 2-0-2 Boat with Double Shot and Crow's Nest. This results in a Degree 21 Paragon (degree 20 on Easy).
• Vanilla Navarch of the Seas + 20x 4-2-0 (just over $250k sacrifices): Uses vanilla costs plus coverage of the $250k worth of sacrifices. Uses only the most expensive Buccaneer option, the 4-2-0 Aircraft Carrier
• Vanilla Navarch of the Seas + 20x 0-2-4 + 4x 4-2-0 + 1x 0-1-0 (just over $250k sacrifices): Uses vanilla costs plus coverage of the $250k worth of sacrifices. Uses 20 0-0-4 Favored Trades with the remainder on 4-2-0 Aircraft Carriers and a Grape Shot boat to top off the remaining $1,000 in Normal difficulty.

Arbitrary definitions for convenience in this table:

• Vanilla: Only a single 5-0-0, 0-5-0, and 0-0-5.

Cost Formula

Lists all three unique Tier 5 upgrades without crosspathing, as well as all possible Tier 4 upgrades without crosspathing, and all T1-T2 upgrades collected together for each path. Use the table below to start evaluating into the equation further down. The costs for each entity are listed with their prices on all four game modes (Easy, Medium, Hard, Impoppable), along with a rate of max sacrifices on Medium as "$250k/Cost (Medium)" for whole T4 towers only. T5's only contribute to the power requirements for the T5 towers regardless of how many T5 towers are on screen.

Whole Tower Purchase	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
5-0-0 Total	~$31,067	$36,550	~$39,474	$43,860
0-5-0 Total	$28,345	$33,350	$36,015	$40,020
0-0-5 Total	~$27,098	$31,880	~$34,430	~$38,256

Whole Tower Purchase	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	$250k/Cost (Medium)
4-0-0 Total	$9,810	$11,550	$12,475	$13,860	TBA
0-4-0 Total	$5,905	$6,950	$7,505	$8,340	TBA
0-0-4 Total	$TBA	$8,880	$9,590	$TBA	TBA

T1+T2 Purchase	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
2-0-0 T1+T2	$TBA	$TBA	$TBA	$TBA
0-2-0 T1+T2	$TBA	$TBA	$TBA	$TBA
0-0-2 T1+T2	$TBA	$TBA	$TBA	$TBA

Where T(x,y,z) and C(x, y, z) are functions with three parameters corresponding to tier numbers, S1 and similar are the number of Tier 4 upgrades of each path, and L1 and similar are the sums of Tier 2 crosspaths from each of the Tier 4 upgrades:

T(5,0,0) + T(0,5,0) + T(0,0,5) + S1 * T(4,0,0) + S2 * T(0,4,0) + S3 * T(0,0,4) + L1 * C(2,0,0) + L2 * C(0,2,0) + L3 * C(0,0,2)

Substitute each of these functions with the respective tower costs (e.g. Carrier Flagship → T(5,0,0) → $36,550 if Medium prices are used). Use Wolfram Alpha or similar to plonk in specific combinations.

Cash Sacrifices

• Cash : Power: Ratio of cash required to gain 1 power. Maximum power gained from cash sacrifices is 60,000 power.
• Max Manual Sacrifices: Maximum amount of cash required to max out power via cash sacrifices by only using placed towers, irrespective of non-impossibility in practice.
• Max Slider Sacrifices: Maximum amount of cash required to max out power via cash sacrifices by only using the cash slider.

	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
Cash : Power	Manual: $23.375 Slider: $24.54375	Manual: $27.5 Slider: $28.875	Manual: $29.7 Slider: $31.185	Manual: $33 Slider: $34.65
Max Manual Sacrifices	$1,402,500	$1,650,000	$1,782,000	$1,980,000
Maximum Slider Sacrifices	$1,472,626	$1,732,501	$1,871,100	$2,079,000

Strategy

See also: Paragons: Strategy

Summary

The Navarch of the Seas combines elements from the Carrier Flagship, Pirate Lord, and Trade Empire to unleash a wide arsenal of turrets, fighter jets, explosives, and income bonuses. However, its most important weapons are the harpoon attacks and ability which can deal percentage based damage to Blimps regardless of health. As a result, the main utility of this Paragon is providing high levels of damage to MOABs and Boss Bloons. Its main weakness is its enormous cost and tedious setup process, especially due to limited availability of water for Buccaneer placement. As such, the main use case for the Navarch of the Seas is Boss Bloon and most Late Game defenses.

During Boss Fights obtain as high a degree Navarch of the Seas as possible. Every $1 generated counts for 4 pops, allowing the pop threshold to be more easily achieved through boat farming. Navarch is good on maps with lots of water, but still falls short to other powerful paragons, notably the Goliath Doomship. Even though its Carrier Flagship buff buffs the Doomship's attack speed, this does not affect the Ace's ability whatsoever.

For both general late game and Boss Fight usage, place the Navarch of the Seas in water that allows as many of its six turrets to fire on Bloons for as long a duration possible. These turrets will provide the bulk of the tower's ranged damage. However, the Harpoon passive and activated abilities will be the most useful as they will greatly accelerate the destruction of high-health ZOMGs and BADs.

Tips

• Out of all the Paragons, the Navarch of the Seas excels the best at late freeplay, as its ability to instantly destroy BADs greatly increases in value with freeplay ramping.
• For Ranked Boss Bloon Events, the Navarch tends to fall behind the Goliath Doomship and Master Builder, as their Carpet Bomb ability and Mega Sentry Explosions provide extremely valuable burst damage. As most of Navarch's damage comes from its close-range turrets, the exception is on maps with lots of water, with enough water near the entrance to fit one boat for the navarch.
• Since the Navarch's instakilling abilities counts toward Hook, Line, and Sinker, the achievement can be completed relatively hassle free in Freeplay.
• Energizer does not affect the cooldown for Navarch's activated ability.
• Assuming there is enough water space, the 2-0-2 Boat with Double Shot and Crow's Nest can be used to fulfill the 100 upgrade tiers requirement and $25,800 cash for a cheap degree 20 in boss events, if water space is plentiful and cash is tight. This will actually be a Degree 21, or Degree 22 on Impoppable.
• 4-2-0 Aircraft Carrier is the most expensive non-Tier 5 Buccaneer able to be sacrificed. However, mixing them and 0-2-4 Favored Trades is generally better for building up a solid income first, unless there is limited water space.
  • On water-heavy maps like Spice Islands, it is better to have the Trade Empire with 20 Favored Trades first. The income that Bottom Path boats provide also count towards pops across all Buccaneers.
• If there is enough water on the map to fit about 8 total boats, it is possible to gather enough pops for a Degree 20 by t4 with a few Favored Trades for income and upgrade tiers, and a heavily buffed Pirate Lord and Carrier Flagship to pop Rounds 81-99 by themselves. This is only recommended on weeks with heavy paragon restrictions and no Geraldo.
• If Powers are enabled, Portable Lakes add more space for additional Buccaneers, or simply to enable the option to get a Navarch of the Seas; even a Degree 1 is possible within the space of one Portable Lake.
• Since the Navarch of the Seas already has a Carrier Flagship buff that doesn't stack with the Tier 5 Carrier Flagship, there is no need to add Carrier Flagship in Freeplay runs, outside of the extra two water platforms. This makes Navarch of the Seas efficient in terms of reducing some lag.
  • The Navarch is able to buff the Goliath Doomship with the Carrier Flagship buff. This buff will not affect the carpet bomb which provides a large portion of the Doomship's damage, so it is only recommended to buy the Navarch if it is possible to acquire a good degree for it through Favored Trades farming.
• Buying a low degree Navarch, then rebuying a Favored Trades army, can be a solid income strategy and way to build to a higher degree Navarch, especially if the amount of farming possible is restricted. The downside of this is that the Navarch's passive hooks steal a large amount of pops that other towers could use for their paragon.
• Unlike Pirate Lord and Monkey Pirates, the Navarch cannot hook in rock bloons with either its ability or passive hooks.
• To minimize micro for freeplay mode, utilize a Tech Bot with the Ambush Tech MK on the Navarch. Combine this with towers that stall or eliminate ZOMG and below bloons towards the first half of the map such as Master Builder's MOAB stun or Bloon Master Alchemist. This will help ensure that the Navarch's ability will maximize the amount of BADs instakilled.
• To get the $1,650,000 on Medium valuation of manual sacrifices for Navarch of the Seas, one must spend roughly 133.06 worth of 4-2-0 Aircraft Carriers. Getting this many Buccaneers is impossible outside of extremely water-heavy maps like Spice Islands, and even then it requires occupying excessive amounts of the entire available water, so just place as many as humanly possible and spend the rest on the cash slider.

Version History

Balance Changes

Navarch of the Seas has always been a dominating Paragon at gathering significant amounts of damage in Freeplay and Boss Events for a rather low cost and high synergization potential. Its power has been toned down slightly over many updates, but also gained the first Paragon external buffing interaction in the form of its Carrier Flagship buff affecting the Goliath Doomship. v39.0 Only minorly nerfed the paragon to keep it at its current power level after the major changes the update brought.

29.0

• The Navarch of the Seas was added.

30.0

“	Some parts of the new Buccaneer paragon were balanced more around a Degree 100 level without properly scaling, so we have fixed up some of this to better fit scaling up to 100 reaching those values, and moved the ability for it and any possible future paragons to also scale in cooldown based on the Degree.	”
	~ Ninja Kiwi

• Navarch activated ability cooldown will now increase rate in a similar formula to attack speed
• Navarch passive grapple hook rate: 0.02s → 0.06s
• Navarch active grapple hook cooldown: 20s → 30s

32.0

“	Navarch Paragon feels too dominant over other expensive paragons, as such a powerful choice it feels overused even on many low water volume maps	”
	~ Ninja Kiwi

• Navarch of the Seas price increased from $500,000 → $550,000

33.0

• Navarch of the Seas' Big Hook ability no longer is affected by Rejuv Potion.

35.0

“	You asked for it (and we’ve always wanted it), so … our first Paragon Synergy!	”
	~ Ninja Kiwi

• Navarch of the Seas buff to Monkey Ace attack speed now applies to the Goliath Doomship

??? (possibly 37.0)

• Navarch of the Seas' Mega Hook ability now has a full initial cooldown instead of 1/3 (10s).

39.0

“	Wasn’t too impacted by the bug fix while standing out as quite powerful for a mid-range cost in general, so just nerfed a little to keep it around where it is after the buffs it is gaining this update from knowledge & the boss bonus multiplier going up.	”
	~ Ninja Kiwi

• ??? [buff/nerf indeterminate] Navarch of the Seas's overall Boss damage undetermined
• Navarch of the Seas turrets base attack cooldown delay increased (0.2145s → 0.25s)
• Navarch of the Seas planes main base attack cooldown delay increased (0.15s → 0.18s)
• Navarch of the Seas planes radial base attack cooldown delay increased (1.5s → 1.8s)
• Navarch of the Seas cash sacrifice per power increased/decreased in all game difficulties
  • Easy: $25 → $23.375
  • Medium: $25 → $27.5
  • Hard: $25 → $29.7
  • Impoppable: $25 → $33
• Navarch of the Seas is no longer affected by the bonus sellback benefit from Favored Trades or Navarch of the Seas.
• Navarch of the Seas no longer gives extra sellback to nearby Paragons or itself
• Navarch of the Seas can now accept a cash slider to fill additional cost sacrifices for a 5% price markup
• Navarch of the Seas bonus Boss damage multiplier per 20 degrees increased (20% → 25%)

41.0

• Navarch of the Seas can receive Nautic Siege Core's Energizer buff
• Navarch of the Seas is now affected by Flanking Maneuvers

Bug Fixes and General Changes

41.0

• Flanking Maneuvers knowledge now works for the Paragon

Bugs

Current

• [29.0] The positions of the support platforms are rotated based on the rotation of the Buccaneer being upgraded to the Navarch.
• [41.0] The damage type for the main attack of the paragon has unintentionally been changed from Normal to Sharp. This is in relation to a recent balance change to Carrier Flagship that converted the damage type of its darts from Normal to Sharp.

Patched

• [29.0] Re-entering a game with towers placed onto the Navarch's pads will freeze the supported towers, making them unable to attack, but still use their idle animation. Fixed in 29.1.
• [29.0] After creating a paragon, and then undoing it (by going back to the main screen before the end of the round), the Navarch of the Seas will place a non-paragon tower beside it. Fixed in 29.1.
• [29.0] If there is already a tower placed on the left pad by itself, then going back to the main menu screen and back again, it will move to the right pad. Fixed in 29.1.
• [29.0] Navarch of the Seas' mini-planes are affected by Homeland Defense. It is likely because they are coded the same way as normal Carrier Flagship Planes. This can be indicated by the amount of explosions caused by the MOAB Missiles. Fixed in 29.1.
• [29.0] Attempting to sacrifice a buccaneer on a Portable Lake will crash the game instead. Discovered on 29.0, patched in 29.2.
• [29.0] Navarch hooks would create invulnerable targets in Apopalypse and Boss Bloon Events. Patched in 29.3.
• [31.2] There was a bug in Version 31.2 that allowed multiple Paragons of the same type, by using specific interactions. This allowed for multiple Navarchs of the Seas in a game, which can also stack their own income benefits with each other. While this bug is no longer exploitable as of Version 32.0, any game saves that used this bug will still keep the multiple Navarchs of the Sea, allowing for extreme records in Freeplay max rounds.
• [33.0] Navarch gave xx4 buccaneers a "small income buff." Resolved in 33.1.

Teasers

The Monkey Buccaneer Paragon (Navarch of the Seas), as teased on Social Media.

On 4th December 2021, Ninja Kiwi teased the Monkey Buccaneer Paragon on their Twitter. The Monkey Buccaneer Paragon was later released in the 29.0 update, and later revealed to be the Navarch of the Seas. It has been teased with the following description without double quotation marks: The greatest thing to ever float on water...🎈⚓️; the only differences compared to its upgrade description on its initial release is the absence of an ellipsis or emojis. Navarch of the Seas was the last of the Paragons to be teased with the generic Paragon template until the teaser for the Magus Perfectus, the Wizard Monkey Paragon, three Paragons after Navarch of the Seas.

Quotes

“	New Paragon Tower: Navarch of the Seas! Bringing all 3 paths together under the command of a sharply dressed, market-savvy, pirate-code-adhering military arch-commander. No need for a bigger boat here. We enjoyed bringing Navarch into the mix as it covers both military category and water-heavy maps. With an emphasis on boat farming, destroyer spam for early rounds, and pop farming with active use of hooks it makes it a very different and fun road to Paragon. Portable Lake spam in non-ranked games has also led to some good laughs.	”
	~ Version 29.0 patch notes

“	Rule all waters with the latest Monkey Paragon: Navarch of the Seas	”
	~ Update 29.0 Patch Notes Announcement

“	The greatest thing to ever float on water...🎈⚓️ #btd6 #comingsoon	”
	~ Ninja Kiwi, Navarch of the Seas Twitter teaser

Sounds

When activating Navarch of the Seas Ability (not the automatic hooks):

• [Hook launching]

Gallery

The image shown in the teaser

Patch Note Thumbnail

Main Vessel with no Turrets. Occurs when reloading a saved game.

An Otherworldly Fighter Jet that comes from the Navarch. Doesn't change appearance with the paragon degrees.

Planes Primary Dart Attack and Secondary Quad Missile Attack

Primary and Secondary Attacks: Volleys of Explosive Canisters and Grape Shots

ZOMG Takedown: Notice that two harpoon zones are active

Using the activated ability to pull a fortified BAD into oblivion.

Multiple Takedown Zones active at once

The Trade Empire and Navarch of the Seas buffs stacking on a Favoured Trades. It is easily mistaken as a bug due to the same image being used.

Level 100 Navarch of the Seas in Co-Op

Navarch of the Seas with an attached Tech Bot

All Navarch direct attacks shown at once: canisters, grapes, plane darts, and missiles

Navarch's range vs a 0-0-0 Buccaneer's range

Degree 100 Navarch without Co-Op Mode using Paragon Totems

Navarch of the Seas upgrade icon

Apex Plasma Master not buffed by extra sellback of Navarch (v39.0)

v39.0 Navarch of the Seas onto Tremp, no sellback bonus of itself

Navarchs of the Seas

Degree 1-19

Degree 20-39

Degree 40-59

Degree 60-79

Degree 80-100

Projectiles

Passive ability hook

Activated Ability hook

Regular Attack projectile

Grape Shot projectile

3D rendered Navarch Plane

Official Artwork

Upgrade Artwork

Upgrade Icon

Ability Icon

Animations

Purchase and Sacrifice: Notice that the upper right turret is spawned in with the ship, while the other pop out a few frames later.

Unlocking the Upgrade In the Menu

Secondary Idle Animation: Looking from side-to-side

Secondary Idle Animation 2: Groveling Left Fist in the Air

Turret Deployment Upon Reloading Save

Plane Launching From Runway Upon First Launch

Attack Characteristics: Explosive Rounds, Grape Shots, Auto-Aim Plane Darts, and MOAB seeking Missiles

Passive MOAB Grapple Ability

Activated Ability Pulling in a BAD Bloon

Plane Dart and Missile Attacks

Videos

Degree 62 Navarch of the Seas versus a weakened T5 Elite Bloonarius

Note: v39.2 35% HP Elite Bloonarius, weaker blimps, and slower bloons and blimps

Trivia

• This is the first Military Monkey Paragon, water-based paragon, and Paragon with an activated ability to be released.
• Navarch of the Seas is the first Paragon that generates income. It is also the first Paragon whose constituent towers have an option for generating income (that being Merchantman and above).
• It was initially revealed here on December 3rd.
• This is the third tower capable of dealing percentage based damage to a BAD Bloon regardless of its health (In this case the percentage is 100%/insta killing the BAD bloon). The first tower is the Legend of the Night, and the second is Ezili with her Level 20 MOAB Hex ability.
• There was a bug where Call To Arms and Homeland Defense could affect Navarch planes. Because of this, Middle path Village, including Homeland Defense, was banned in the Bloonarius event during the week 29.0 released in.
• Despite having 6 fighter jets in the artwork, the in-game Navarch only has 3.
• When creating a Navarch of the Seas, the main body of the ship will spawn in first alongside the top right turret. Strangely, the other 5 turrets spawn in a few frames later.
• If you use mods to get multiple Navarch of the Seas at once, the Trade Empire buff it gives can actually stack on top of each other, causing beastly amounts of end of round cash to be generated at once.
• This is the third completely irremovable tower under CHIMPS rules, after Pat Fusty and Admiral Brickell. All other towers can either be sacrificed to Adora/Sun Temple/True Sun God, placed on an ice platform from Arctic Wind and above and sold via Support Chinook, temple sacrifice or Total Transformation, or placed on a Carrier Flagship that is then sacrificed.
• While most Paragons have attack ranges that are greater than their respective base towers, the Navarch of the Seas is the only Paragon whose range matches the base tower, 60 for the both the base Buccaneer and the Navarch of the Seas.
• According to Ninja Kiwi's official response to the Paragon cap on the "Paragon Limit Update" post, Ninja Kiwi had planned for Navarch of the Seas to apply its Carrier Flagship buff to the Goliath Doomship. However, this specific Paragon synergy had not been implemented in Version 33.0 because Ninja Kiwi "ran out of time". This was later implemented in Version 35.0.
• In Version 39.0, there is proof that Navarch can't affect its own sellback by the Version 39.0 Favored Trades + Paragons "bug fix". For example, a Trade Empire has 85% sellback with the sellback MK, and if this Trade Empire is the one that other Buccaneers merge into as Navarch, the sellback will be approximately $436k, rather than approximately $494k if Navarch did get affected by its own sellback.

Cultural references

• The Fighter jets bear a striking resemblance to the Vic Viper (T301) from Gradius, as well as the Kom'rk-class fighter/transport from Star Wars.
• Navarch, due to its Sci-Fi design, it may look like it came from BBY Yamato from Uchuu Senkan Yamato. while the Design and the Launchpad is based from Nahel Argama from the mecha anime series, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ.
• "Navarch" is an anglicization of a Greek word meaning "leader of the ships."

Ninja Kiwi Blogs

• According to Ninja Kiwi's December 10th 2021 blog, Navarch of the Seas is ranked lower than Admiral Brickell in terms of naval hierarchy.