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Tack Shooter Paragon! We’ve always known there’s a Monkey inside each one, and now we’ll all get to see what the Paragon-in-a-can can do!
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~ Ninja Kiwi, Version 46.0 patch notes
Tack Shooter Paragon (placeholder name) is planned to be added in Version 46.0, making the Tack Shooter the third of the Primary Monkeys to possess a Paragon.
Since there is currently no verifiable evidence on what Tack Shooter Paragon will do, the only possible way to strategize this Paragon for now is to view its buildup towards the aforementioned Paragon.
Tips[]
To get a cheap degree 20 Paragon with normal prices, one can buy 20 2-0-3 Tacks with Even Faster Shooting and Tack Sprayer to fulfill the 100 upgrade tiers requirement and a decent amount of cash for a cheap degree 20, which will be enough to get a degree 20 Paragon. In some cases, upgrading some of the Tacks to Overdrive is worth to squeeze in a few more tiers.
4-2-0 Ring of Fire is the most expensive non-Tier 5 Tack that can be sacrificed. 2-4-0 Blade Maelstrom is more recommended for widespread damage, while 2-0-4 Overdrive is suited for intense single-target damage compared to 4-2-0 Ring of Fire's grouped damage.
Most of the buildup of pops will come from raw damage from all Tier 5 Tack Shooters, alongside some minor help from all other Tack Shooters. Tack Shooters lack any instakill attacks nor income generation, and the Inferno Ring's meteor burn only does marginal amounts of damage compared to lower-tier spam. Because of this, the process of accumulating pops should focus on the most expensive Tier 5 Tacks in combination with spamming powerful Tier 4 Tacks. Choose the most optimal Tier 4 Tack spam for the correct situations.
For Boss Events and Boss Rush, it's more natural to purchase lots of 2-0-4 Overdrives as the T4 spam of choice.
Tack Shooters notoriously contain multiple of the cheapest Tier 4 towers, which makes buildup of the sacrifice costs portion much harder than the Glaive Dominus (Boomerang Monkey Paragon), without resorting to the cash slider.
Trivia[]
Since the Tack Shooter Paragon's announcement on August 1st 2024, it marks over 3 years since the announcement of the Apex Plasma Master (Dart Monkey Paragon), which had its reveal on July 9th 2021.
Tack Shooter Paragon will be the first Primary Paragon to not have shared a release date with other Paragons.
This is the first Paragon where neither the base Tower nor any of its upgrades provide any form of Camo Detection whatsoever. It is the second Paragon if Monkey Knowledge is not considered, as the Boomerang Monkey can get innate Camo Detection via Bionic Augmentation.
Between the release of Nautic Siege Core (Monkey Sub Paragon) and the announcement of the Tack Shooter Paragon, it took 3 updates to unveil the next Paragon, taking between Version 41.0 and 44.0 to do so.
