True Sun God

For the Sun God from previous installments, see Sun God.

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“	Tremble before the AWESOME power of the TRUE Sun God!!	”
	~ In-game description

True Sun God is the fifth and final Path 1 upgrade for the Super Monkey in Bloons TD 6. Much like the Sun Temple, the True Sun God requires another set of tower sacrifices that will provide him greatly increased benefits. His hypersonic sun energy blasts now deal a base 15 damage 20 pierce, excluding additional benefits provided from sacrifices. The True Sun God cannot detect Camo Bloons without Ultravision or external camo detection. A Monkey Knowledge allows a maximized True Sun God to receive a substantial further increase in damage output when upon the time of upgrade, both of the other Tier 5 Super Monkeys owned by the player are present and outside of the temple's sacrifice range. It is considered the most powerful upgrade in the game, possibly excluding the Paragons, and it is central to deep freeplay rounds.

If Adora is at max level and is within a Sun Temple's range (not including external range buffs such as the increased range of nearby Monkey Villages), upgrading that Sun Temple into the True Sun God reveals her secret True Sun Goddess form. In the process, she will permanently acquire significantly increased damage and pierce, alongside several purely cosmetic changes such as gaining a godly appearance and distorting her voice.

This upgrade costs $425,000 on Easy, $500,000 on Medium, $540,000 on Hard, and $600,000 on Impoppable. For a full breakdown of sacrifice costs, see below.

Description

Overview

With a lot of farming that had to take place to afford this tower, upgrading the Sun Temple into the True Sun God will play a short animation of the Sun Temple looking up into the sky, with a beam of light coming from its eyes. The head will swell and enlarge for 2-3 seconds until the head breaks apart and the True Sun God will emerge from the top of the temple, followed by a glowing effect. Note that this cinematic is purely aesthetic and the True Sun God will be able to attack at full power even while the animation is playing. Once it finishes transforming, the True Sun God's headdress gains a slightly more complex design compared to Sun Avatar, its fur is much whiter but still slightly yellow and its tail has white and yellow stripes. It wears a yellow necklace made of large, golden beads around its neck, and yellow wristbands are on its wrists.

Crosspathing with the tier 1 middle path only gives the red carpet for Super Range and the only change to True Sun God's appearance. However, technically, Epic Range's metal wristbands are already on the True Sun God.

True Sun God's artworks portray it in a bold manner. The upgrade icon displays the True Sun God's head, looking unamused or more possibly angry. The upgrade portrait shows the True Sun God floating above with an open mouth and wide open arms.

True Sun God's ultimate power comes from its much stronger attacks. At base, True Sun God shoots sun balls that deal 15 damage and have 20 pierce. These rays of sun receive Normal damage type, allowing for popping of any bloon type provided it can detect them. True Sun God takes another set of sacrifices of other towers to make it more powerful, improving its base stats or adding additional attacks that improve its arsenal. It receives additional sacrifice benefits on top of its preceding upgrade, Sun Temple. See the #Sacrifices section for further information about True Sun God's various sacrifices.

Targeting Priorities

True Sun God targets bloons using the standard targeting priorities. Its main attacks shoots straight movement projectiles. Sacrifices give the Sun Temple with multiple attacks that cannot simply be explained in a single paragraph.

• 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.

Adding Ultravision adds Camo Prioritization, allowing all its attacks to prioritize Camo Bloons over other types when this secondary targeting option is active.

Full Popology

Statistics

Updated as of Version 44.2

Base stats

Prior to upgrading from Sun Temple to True Sun God, target all valid sacrifice towers within local range. Tally up total costs for all sacrificed tower categories (Primary, Military, Magic, Support). Generate extra attacks if surpassing thresholds of sacrifices, and adjust if a copy of sacrifices from Sun Temple already exists. Refer to #Sacrifices for a general overview of all of the True Sun god's sacrificing benefits.

• Sunball:
  • Projectile, normal type, 65 range, 0.06s attack cooldown, 15 damage, 20 pierce, 9.6° projectile deviation. ??? projectile speed, ???s projectile lifespan.

Crosspathing interactions

• 5-1-0: Range increased from 65 to 75, pierce of Sunball increased from 20 to 21.
• 5-2-0: Range increased from 75 to 87, pierce of Sunball increased from 21 to 23, projectile speed of Sunball increased from ??? to ???.
• 5-0-1: Sunball inflicts Knockback versus non-blimp bloons (-300% bloon speed,-150% "heavy" (Lead, Ceramic, Fortified) bloon speed) for 0.1s.
• 5-0-2: Gains camo detection, range increased from 65 to 67, Sunball deal +1 damage to Camos.

Monkey Knowledge Interactions

• Lingering Magic: Projectiles fired from all Super Monkey have longer lifespan.
  • Projectiles last 20% longer, from x seconds → x seconds.
• Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
• 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%.

Attack Interactions

See also: Attack Interactions/Bloons TD 6/Magic

Updated as of Version 44.2

Base attack(s)

• Sunball:
  • Normal
  • Single Projectile
  • Straight Attack
  • Erratic Movement (9.6° deviation)
  • Extra Damage (15)

Costs

Updated as of Version 46.0. Listed prices exclude external buffs, any sacrifices, and Monkey Knowledge.

[Module | Data]	Purchase				Sell
Costs	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
Upgrade (5-X-X)	$425,000	$500,000	$540,000	$600,000	-
Total (5-0-0)	$532,950	$627,000	$677,160	$752,400	$373,065	$438,900	$474,012	$526,680
Crosspath (5-1-0)	$534,225	$628,500	$678,780	$754,200	$373,958	$439,950	$475,146	$527,940
Crosspath (5-2-0)	$535,840	$630,400	$680,830	$756,480	$375,088	$441,280	$476,581	$529,536
Crosspath (5-0-1)	$535,500	$630,000	$680,400	$756,000	$374,850	$441,000	$476,280	$529,200
Crosspath (5-0-2)	$536,520	$631,200	$681,695	$757,440	$375,564	$441,840	$477,187	$530,208

This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: Better Sell Deals

Sacrifices

“	Do you wish to summon the TRUE SUN GOD!!??	”
	~ Message that appears before upgrading a Sun Temple into a True Sun God

A maxed-out True Sun God requires intense financial input and careful planning of tower placements. More than $50,000 worth of up to 3 of the following categories of towers (Primary, Military, Magic or Support) must first be sacrificed to a Sun Temple and then a further investment of more than $50,000 of every category must then be sacrificed to the True Sun God to fully maximize its bloon destroying potential.

Each type of tower provides its own benefits to the True Sun God. True Sun God sacrifices are considered distinct from the original Sun Temple sacrifices, and can stack with another Sun Temple with Support sacrifices, even if not from the same Temple.

Consider below as the values given to only the True Sun God's Support sacrifices (in bold is a new or modified buff for the True Sun God):

Primary Class

• $301-$1000
  • +2 pierce to main attack
• $1001-$2000
  • +2 pierce to main attack.
  • +1 damage to main attack.
  • Adds 8 golden blades every 2.0 seconds that deal 150 damage each with 100 pierce.
• $2001-$4000
  • +2 pierce to main attack.
  • +11% attack speed to main attack (0.9x attack cooldown).
  • +1 damage to main attack.
  • Adds 8 golden blades every 2.0 seconds that deal 150 damage each with 100 pierce.
• $4001-$7500
  • +2 pierce to main attack.
  • +25% attack speed to main attack (0.8x attack cooldown).
  • +1 damage to main attack.
  • Adds 8 golden blades every 1.5 seconds, deals 250 damage, and has 200 pierce.
• $7501-$10,000
  • +2 pierce to main attack.
  • +25% attack speed to main attack (0.8x attack cooldown).
  • +2 damage to main attack.
  • Adds 8 golden blades every 1.5 seconds, deals 250 damage, and has 200 pierce.
• $10,001-$15,000
  • +4 pierce to main attack.
  • +~43% attack speed to main attack (0.7x attack cooldown) .
  • +2 damage to main attack.
  • Adds 8 golden blades every 1.5 seconds, deals 250 damage, and has 200 pierce.
  • Adds a new golden glaive attack that fires every 1.5 sec. These golden glaives act like Glaive Ricochet glaives that bounce between the nearest bloons each time it moves. Golden glaives have a decent 50 damage and 50 pierce.
• $15,001-$25,000
  • +7 pierce to main attack.
  • +~43% attack speed to main attack (0.7x attack cooldown).
  • +3 damage to main attack.
  • Adds 8 golden blades every 1.5 seconds, deals 250 damage, and has 200 pierce.
  • Adds golden glaives with 50 damage and 50 pierce that fire every 1.5 seconds.
• $25,001-$50,000
  • +10 pierce to main attack.
  • +~43% attack speed to main attack (0.7x attack cooldown).
  • +4 damage to main attack.
  • Adds 8 golden blades every 1.5 seconds, deals 250 damage, and has 200 pierce.
  • Golden glaives now have 100 damage, 50 pierce, and fires every 0.8 seconds.
• >$50,000
  • +10 pierce to main attack.
  • +~67% attack speed to main attack (0.6x attack cooldown).
  • +5 damage to main attack.
  • Adds 8 golden blades every 1.5 seconds, deals 250 damage, and has 200 pierce.
  • Golden glaives now have 150 damage, 50 pierce, and fires every 0.5 seconds.

Military Class

• $301-$1000
  • +15% larger projectile size
  • +15% projectile speed
• $1001-$2000
  • +15% larger projectile size
  • +15% projectile speed
  • +3 pierce to all attacks
• $2001-$4000
  • +15% larger projectile size
  • +15% projectile speed
  • +3 pierce to all attacks
  • Shoots one golden missile every 3.0 seconds. Travels at infinite range and deals 1 damage with 74 bonus MOAB-class damage to up to 50 bloons.
• $4001-$7500
  • +15% larger projectile size
  • +15% projectile speed
  • +3 pierce to all attacks
  • Shoots one golden missile every 3.0 seconds. Travels at infinite range and deals 1 damage with 74 bonus MOAB-class damage to up to 50 bloons.
  • Gains one golden Spectre that shoots darts and bombs every 0.15s. Darts deal 10 damage and have 10 pierce, while bombs deal 6 damage and have 30 pierce.
• $7501-$10,000
  • +15% larger projectile size
  • +15% projectile speed
  • +6 pierce to all attacks
  • Shoots one golden missile every 1.5 seconds. Travels at infinite range and deals 1 damage with 74 bonus MOAB-class damage to up to 50 bloons.
  • Gains one golden Spectre that shoots darts and bombs every 0.15s. Darts deal 10 damage and have 10 pierce, while bombs deal 6 damage and have 30 pierce.
• $10,001-$15,000
  • +30% larger projectile size
  • +30% projectile speed
  • +6 pierce to all attacks
  • Shoots one golden missile every 1.5 seconds. Travels at infinite range and deals 1 damage with 74 bonus MOAB-class damage to up to 50 bloons.
  • Gains one golden Spectre that shoots darts and bombs every 0.15s. Darts deal 10 damage and have 10 pierce, while bombs deal 6 damage and have 30 pierce.
• $15,001-$25,000
  • +30% larger projectile size
  • +30% projectile speed
  • +10 pierce to all attacks
  • Shoots one golden missile every 1.0 seconds. Travels at infinite range and can deal up to 1 damage with 74 extra MOAB-class damage to up to 50 bloons.
  • Gains one golden Spectre that shoots darts and bombs every 0.15s. Darts deal 10 damage and have 10 pierce, while bombs deal 6 damage and have 30 pierce.
• $25,001-$50,000
  • +45% larger projectile size
  • +45% projectile speed
  • +10 pierce to all attacks
  • Shoots one golden missile every 1.0 seconds. Travels at infinite range and can deal up to 1 damage with 74 extra MOAB-class damage to up to 50 bloons.
  • Gains one golden Spectre that shoots darts and bombs every 0.15s. Darts deal 10 damage and have 10 pierce, while bombs deal 6 damage and have 30 pierce.
• >$50,000
  • +45% larger projectile size
  • +45% projectile speed
  • +10 pierce to all attacks
  • Shoots one golden missile every 1.0 seconds. Travels at infinite range and can deal up to 1 damage with 74 extra MOAB-class damage to up to 50 bloons.
  • Gains 2 golden Spectres that shoots darts and bombs every 0.15s. Darts deal 15 damage and have 10 pierce, while bombs deal 10 damage and have 30 pierce.
    • Both Spectres are set on Figure-Infinite.

Magic Class

• $301-$1000
  • N/A
• $1001-$2000
  • Adds 4 homing magic shots every 4.0s, dealing 40 damage and have 15 pierce each.
• $2001-$4000
  • Adds 4 homing magic shots every 4.0s, dealing 40 damage and have 15 pierce each.
  • Gains a 10% chance to distract bloons with its main attack.
• $4001-$7500
  • Adds 4 homing magic shots every 2.0s, dealing 60 damage and have 15 pierce each.
  • Gains a 10% chance to distract bloons with its main attack.
• $7501-$10,000
  • Adds 4 homing magic shots every 2.0s, dealing 60 damage and have 15 pierce each.
  • Gains a 10% chance to distract bloons with its main attack.
  • Gains a forcefield attack every 5.0s that can knockback bloons up to Ceramic. Affects up to 500 bloons.
• $10,001-$15,000
  • Adds 4 homing magic shots every 2.0s, dealing 60 damage and have 15 pierce each.
  • Gains a 20% chance to distract bloons with its main attack.
  • Gains a forcefield attack every 5.0s that can knockback bloons up to Ceramic. Affects up to 500 bloons.
• $15,001-$25,000
  • Adds 4 homing magic shots every 2.0s, dealing 60 damage and have 15 pierce each.
  • Gains a 20% chance to distract bloons with its main attack.
  • Gains a forcefield attack every 5.0s that can knockback bloons up to MOAB. Affects up to 500 bloons.
• $25,001-$50,000
  • Adds 6 homing magic shots every 2.0s, dealing 70 damage and have 15 pierce each.
  • Gains a 20% chance to distract bloons with its main attack.
  • Gains a forcefield attack every 5.0s that can knockback bloons up to MOAB. Affects up to 500 bloons.
• >$50,000
  • Adds 6 homing magic shots every 2.0s, dealing 70 damage and have 15 pierce each.
  • Gains a 20% chance to distract bloons with its main attack.
  • Gains a forcefield attack every 5.0s that can knockback bloons up to MOAB. Affects up to 500 bloons.
  • Can spawn mini Sun Avatars every 30 seconds that last for 65 seconds, deal 4 damage per shot, and have no footprint. The spawning is seperate with tier 4. Deployment rate is unaffected by attack speed bonuses.

Support Class

• $301-$1000
  • +5 range to base Temple
• $1001-$2000
  • +5 range to base Temple
  • 10% discount to all base cost and upgrades of all towers in range
• $2001-$4000
  • +5 range to base Temple
  • 10% discount to all base cost and upgrades of all towers in range
  • 11.1% attack speed bonus (0.9x attack cooldown) for all towers in range
  • +$500 end of round cash
• $4001-$7500
  • +5 range to base Temple
  • 10% discount to all base cost and upgrades of all towers in range
  • 11.1% attack speed bonus (0.9x attack cooldown) for all towers in range
  • +$500 end of round cash
  • +50% more cash from bloons popped within range of the Temple
• $7501-$10,000
  • +5 range to base Temple
  • 10% discount to all base cost and upgrades of all towers in range
  • 11.1% attack speed bonus (0.9x attack cooldown), +3 pierce, +20% range for all towers in range
  • +$1500 end of round cash
  • +50% more cash from bloons popped within range of the Temple
• $10,001-$15,000
  • +5 range to base Temple
  • 10% discount to all base cost and upgrades of all towers in range
  • +1 damage, 11.1% attack speed bonus (0.9x attack cooldown), +3 pierce, +20% range for all towers in range
  • +$2000 end of round cash
  • +50% more cash from bloons popped within range of the Temple
• $15,001-$25,000
  • +5 range to base Temple
  • 20% discount to all base cost and upgrades of all towers in range
  • +1 damage, 11.1% attack speed bonus (0.9x attack cooldown), +3 pierce, +20% range for all towers in range
  • +$2000 end of round cash
  • +50% more cash from bloons popped within range of the Temple
• $25,001-$50,000
  • +5 range to base Temple
  • 20% discount to all base cost and upgrades of all towers in range
  • +1 damage, 23.5% attack speed bonus (0.81x attack cooldown), +3 pierce, +20% range for all towers in range
  • +$5000 end of round cash
  • +50% more cash from bloons popped within range of the Temple
• >$50,000
  • +5 range to base Temple
  • 20% discount to all base cost and upgrades of all towers in range
  • +2 damage, 23.5% attack speed bonus (0.81x attack cooldown), +3 pierce, +20% range for all towers in range
  • +$5000 end of round cash
  • +50% more cash from bloons popped within range of the Temple

Fully Maxed Sacrifices

When a True Sun God with maxed sacrifices on a certain category is upgraded from a Sun Temple with maxed sacrifices the same category, the following interaction(s) occurs to itself from the base form. Those in bold are unique to the True Sun God.

Primary

• +20 pierce to main attack.
• +~177.77% attack speed to main attack (0.36x attack cooldown)
• +10 damage to main attack.
• Adds 16 golden blades every 1.5 seconds, deals 250 damage each with 200 pierce. They are spaced 22.5° from each other.
• Two glaives every 0.5s that deals 150 damage with 50 pierce, one clockwise and one anticlockwise.

Military

• +90% larger projectile size (caps at 100% but impossible).
• +90% projectile speed (caps at 100% but impossible).
• +20 pierce to all attacks.
• Shoots two golden missiles every 1.0 seconds. Travels at infinite range and deals 1 damage with 74 bonus MOAB-class damage to up to 50 bloons. Second missile has increased projectile speed.
• Four golden Spectres that shoots darts and bombs every 0.15s. Darts deal 15 damage and have 10 pierce, while bombs deal 10 damage and have 30 pierce. Two of these Spectres are set on Figure-Infinite.

Magic

• Adds 12 homing magic shots every 2.0s, dealing 70 damage and have 15 pierce each. The 6 new shots have a wider spread.
• Gains 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.
• Two separate spawnings of mini Sun Avatars every 30 seconds that deal 4 damage per shot and without any footprint. A maximum of 6 mini Sun Avatars can appear on the map at one time, as the mini Sun Avatars have a lifespan of 64 seconds.

Support

• +10 range to base Temple.
• 40% discount to all base cost and upgrades of all towers in range.
• +4 damage, 52.4% attack speed (0.6561x attack cooldown), +6 pierce, +40% range total for all towers in range.
• +$10000 end of round cash.
• +100% more cash from bloons popped within range of the Temple.
• The buff from a maxed support sacrifice for the Sun Temple and the True Sun God portion are considered different and unique, even if there is only one support True Sun God, both buff icons will appear.

Vengeful True Sun God

Main article: Vengeful True Sun God

The Monkey Knowledge point "There Can Be Only One" allows a further increase in the damage output of the True Sun God. When this MK is active, upon upgrading to a maximized True Sun God while also having The Anti-Bloon and Legend of the Night who must be placed outside of the sacrifice range, the True Sun God will sacrifice both of the other Tier 5 Super Monkeys, receive a visual overhaul, and gain +35 damage to all of the attacks. It is considered a 5-5-5 Crosspath Hybrid, much like the Paragons released later.

As long as the VTSG is in play, The Anti-Bloon and Legend of the Night cannot be purchased.

Other Interactions

• The True Sun God upgrade increases its footprint from 20 to 25.
• The True Sun God can sacrifice another Temple or even another True Sun God in co-op if it is in range.
• Sun Temples and the True Sun God cannot sacrifice Heroes, Powers, or Paragons.
  • Because Temples have a larger footprint compared with its previous tiers, this means that powers can be inside a Sun Temple or True Sun God's footprint.
• The Support Chinook is able to place towers inside a Sun Temple, and by extension, the True Sun God's footprint by chinooking a tower next to the Super Monkey before upgrading it to a Sun Temple, then upgrading it while the Chinook is still moving the tower. The Chinook will place the tower in the original spot, in the Sun Temple's footprint, as of v35.
• Sun Temples and the True Sun God can be placed on water, but they need an Arctic Wind Ice Monkey's ice platforms or a Pontoon to provide a platform for the Sun Avatar. When the Sun Temple is bought near an Arctic Wind, the platform will be sacrificed and the True Sun God will remain on the water.
  • When placed in water, the Carrier Flagship buff and Admiral Brickell's Naval Tactics Ability will buff them, as they are considered water towers.
  • This sometimes sells the towers on the platform, and as a result, is able to heal Gravelord Lych indirectly.
• The +50% cash buff from popping bloons in range of the True Sun God, and by extension, other temples, stacks with multiple Sun Temples.
• The Support Class sacrifices do not affect the Golden Spectres or the Mini Sun Avatars.
  

Strategy

Summary

True Sun God is the most powerful tower in the game (without MK) in terms of DPS, possible through maximal sacrificing. Designed exclusively for epic late-game (Rounds 101+), the True Sun God can be used as the main form of DPS, outside of Legend of the Night's temporary black hole passive ability that instantly neutralizes bloons reaching past the exit for a limited time. The True Sun God's performance is greatly enhanced by adding additional tower buffs from as many sources as possible. If MK is enabled, it is preferable to have the Tier 5 Super Monkeys together as the Vengeful True Sun God rather than separately in most scenarios due to the multiplicative increase in the True Sun God's already extremely high attack power.

To optimize its performance, every single buff possible should be added to the True Sun God on top of careful sacrificing preparations prior to upgrading to Sun Temple and True Sun God. These include, starting from the most important:

• Jungle Drums (+18% attack speed)
• Maximum Ultraboost stacks (10x, for a total of +66% attack speed)
• Consistent Overclock (temporary +66% attack speed, 66% uptime each, try two Overclocks)
• Permanent Brew (+18% attack speed, +1 damage, +3 pierce, most importantly)
• Homeland Defense (temporary +100% attack speed and +100% pierce, 44.4% uptime)
• Multiple Call To Arms (temporary +50% attack speed and +50% pierce to cover the cooldown of Homeland Defense, 3x 66.7% uptime for the best results)
• An external maxed Support Sacrifices Sun Temple (+20% attack speed, +2 damage, +3 pierce, most importantly)
• Level 20 Adora's Blood Sacrifice ability (temporary +100% attack speed, +50% range, 600% uptime)
• Energizer (20% ability cooldown to increase Homeland Defense, Ultraboost, and Adora's Blood Sacrifice ability uptime) if applicable.

By using the "Water Temples" trick, True Sun God can accept yet more buffs. To do the "Water Temples" trick, place a Sun Avatar on an Arctic Wind platform prior to upgrading to Sun Temple, and upgrade the Sun Temple to True Sun God. The following buffs can also be added to the True Sun God if water is available (either from the map or via Portable Lakes):

• Carrier Flagship (+18% attack speed)
• Level 20 Admiral Brickell's Naval Tactics ability (temporary +100% attack speed, +1 pierce, and damage to all bloon types, nearly full uptime with Ability Mastery)

Alongside all these buffs, True Sun God greatly benefits from all the slows and stuns in the entire game, and in particular:

• Ascended Shadow (50% slower bloons via ability, plus -25% incoming blimp health for Grand Sabo)
• Super Glue (nearly full slowdown)
• Icicle Impale (freezes affected blimps)
• Bloon Crush (2.0s stun, although duration decreases in Rounds 300+)
• Absolute Zero (freeze ability)

Debuffs such as Cripple MOAB, Super Brittle and Glue Storm are also very effective for epic late-game at destroying bloons faster with the True Sun God, most specifically when paired with many mini Sun Avatars.

Additional epic late-game tips are shown on BTD6 Freeplay Mode/Strategies, and will show how to reach the highest rounds possible.

Tips

• Make sure to have LOTS of money before and after creating the maximum True Sun God. Additional support can benefit it very well.
• The 5-2-0 True Sun God is better for covering extra range for utilizing its support sacrifices benefits. 5-0-2 is only useful when camo detection is unavailable externally.
• The TSG with 2(9,9)-2(9,9)-2(9,9)-1(9) sacrifices is usually the best sacrifice combination. Although a 2-1-2-2 is stronger alone, a 2-2-2-1 is not missing out on the TSG buff, but the temple buff. You can use two support temples to surround the entire map with the temple buff, allowing you to gain the second military sac without losing out on your support.
  • Alone, the 2-1-2-2 is better. This is because the Military sacrifices are generally the weakest, and this can be the one that can be cut from the Sun Temple sacrifices, which accept only up to 3 of 4 categories instead of all 4 for the True Sun God. For one reason, its main attack buffs cap projectile speed and projectile size anyway, and the second reason is that the military sacrifices DPS are not very strong.
  • The "2(9,9)-1(9)-2(9,9)-2(9,9)" nomenclature refers to two parts: maxed Tier 9 sacrifices for Primary, Magic, and Support for the Sun Temple sacrifices; and maxed Tier 9 sacrifices for all 4 sacrifice categories for the True Sun God sacrifices.
• Add as much support as possible, for the Temple and against the bloons especially since you should have the economy to afford Tier 5 upgrades quite easily at this point. Support with all the possible buffs in the entire game. Slow down the bloons with slows, stuns, and knockback. Add MOAB-class instakills too, especially versus the deadly BADs.
• If the player opts for 5-2-0 instead of the 5-0-2 path for the True Sun God, the player will have to provide it with camo detection through other means, such as a Monkey Village with Radar Scanner.
• For Boss Bloon Events, the True Sun God has an advantage against the Vengeful True Sun God if one wants just the Support buffs, as a 0-0-0-2 True Sun God is significantly cheaper.
• True Sun Gods, let alone Sun Temples, are rarely used in CHIMPS due to its extremely high price and the lack of income generation. They are thus confined to Freeplay CHIMPS.

Version History

Balance Changes

Bug Fixes and General Changes

Extra Notes (Version History)

Sounds

When upgrading to True Sun God, normal progression:

• [Godlike sound, constructing and finalizing]

When upgrading to True Sun God on Fast Forward:

• [ditto, but sped up to 2.5 seconds length]

Gallery

Max TSG with Primary + Military + Magic for the T4 Temple

Official artwork

Trivia

• The True Sun God is currently the 6th most expensive upgrade in the Bloons TD franchise, when excluding its previous upgrades and sacrifice demands, behind the Navarch of the Seas.
  • The new most expensive upgrade in the game is the Goliath Doomship.
  • The True Sun God is the most expensive upgrade non-Paragon upgrade.
  • Excluding the Monkeyopolis with impossible amounts of farms, this is the most expensive tower that is able to be discounted by non-difficulty discounts.
• The name "True" Sun God refers to how the Sun Avatars are merely channeling its power, discarding their former name of "Sun Gods" in BTD4 and BTD5.
• True Sun God with Support sacrifices is one of the only ways to grant discount to 4th-tier and 5th-tier upgrades, as all Monkey Village upgrades only grant discount bonuses to up to 3rd-tier.
  • Other ways are through Sun Temple Support sacrifices, One Two Tree's discount tiles, or Come On Everybody! (Primary Only).
• True Sun God is one of five towers referenced (or at least had their names said) by a hero, with Captain Churchill saying "The Sun God fights on the side with the best artillery!" and Adora also referencing it by saying "The Temple Provides!". The other four are Blooncineration mentioned by Gwendolin, Spirit of the Forest mentioned by Obyn Greenfoot, The Big One mentioned by Pat Fusty/Fusty the Snowman/Smudge Catt, and Overdrive mentioned by Sentai Churchill.
• True Sun God's appearance may be partially based on a lemur as it has a ringed tail.
• The True Sun God is potentially a reference to Golden Frieza from Dragon Ball Super, as the stance it uses in its artwork is similar to that of the stance commonly used by Frieza, especially after transforming.
• According to Ninja Kiwi's November 12th 2021 blog, True Sun God only sacrifices towers considered as cannon fodder (i.e. expendable units of war), and therefore does not sacrifice Heroes, which have names and therefore does not consider them as cannon fodder.
  • However, the Monkey Names feature seemingly contradicts this lore.
• According to Ninja Kiwi's January 21st 2022 blog, Ninja Kiwi believes that True Sun God can't see camo because it has sun in its eyes.

v • d • e Super Monkey Classic Tower Super Monkey (pre-BTD4) Upgrades Path 1 Super Range (BTD3) · Epic Range (BTD1-BTD3) Path 2 Laser Vision (BTD2-BTD3) · Plasma Vision (BTD3) BTD4 Tower Super Monkey (BTD4) Upgrades Super Range (BTD4) · Laser Vision (BTD4) · Plasma Vision (BTD4) · Sun God (BTD4) BTD5 era Tower Super Monkey (BTD5) Upgrades Path 1 Laser Blasts (BTD5) · Plasma Blasts (BTD5) · Sun God (BTD5) · Temple of the Monkey God Path 2 Super Range (BTD5) · Epic Range (BTD5) · Robo Monkey (BTD5) · Technological Terror Specialty Buildings Super Monkey Lair BMC Buildings Super Monkey Villa · Super Enhancements · Altar of Sun · Temple Complex · Biomech Enhancements · Antimatter Weapon Facility Other Dark Temple Idol · Temple of the Vengeful Monkey BTD6 era Tower Super Monkey (BTD6 · BP · BTDB2) Upgrades Path 1 Laser Blasts (BTD6 · BTDB2) · Plasma Blasts (BTD6 · BTDB2) · Sun Avatar (BTD6 · BTDB2) · Sun Temple (BTD6 · BTDB2) · True Sun God (BTD6 · BTDB2) Path 2 Super Range (BTD6 · BTDB2) · Epic Range (BTD6 · BTDB2) · Robo Monkey (BTD6 · BTDB2) · Tech Terror (BTD6 · BTDB2) · The Anti-Bloon (BTD6 · BTDB2) Path 3 Knockback (BTD6 · BTDB2) · Ultravision (BTD6 · BTDB2) · Dark Knight (BTD6 · BTDB2) · Dark Champion (BTD6 · BTDB2) · Legend of the Night (BTD6 · BTDB2) Monkey Knowledge SUPER Range · Lingering Magic · Heavy Knockback · Hot Magic · Strike Down The False · X-Ray Ultra · There Can Be Only One Other Vengeful True Sun God · True Sun Goddess Adora Strategies BTD6 Strategies BTDB2 Strategies (General Strategy · Optimization Strategy · Countermeasures Strategy) Related Crosspathing (BTD6) · Damage Types (BTD6) · Tower Strength and Weakness

v • d • e Upgrades in Bloons TD 6   Dart Monkey Path 1 Sharp Shots · Razor Sharp Shots · Spike-o-pult · Juggernaut · Ultra-Juggernaut Path 2 Quick Shots · Very Quick Shots · Triple Shot · Super Monkey Fan Club · Plasma Monkey Fan Club Path 3 Long Range Darts · Enhanced Eyesight · Crossbow · Sharp Shooter · Crossbow Master Paragon Apex Plasma Master   Boomerang Monkey Path 1 Improved Rangs · Glaives · Glaive Ricochet · M.O.A.R. Glaives · Glaive Lord Path 2 Faster Throwing · Faster Rangs · Bionic Boomerang · Turbo Charge · Perma Charge Path 3 Long Range Rangs · Red Hot Rangs · Kylie Boomerang · MOAB Press · MOAB Domination Paragon Glaive Dominus   Bomb Shooter Path 1 Bigger Bombs · Heavy Bombs · Really Big Bombs · Bloon Impact · Bloon Crush Path 2 Faster Reload · Missile Launcher · MOAB Mauler · MOAB Assassin · MOAB Eliminator Path 3 Extra Range · Frag Bombs · Cluster Bombs · Recursive Cluster · Bomb Blitz   Tack Shooter Path 1 Faster Shooting · Even Faster Shooting · Hot Shots · Ring of Fire · Inferno Ring Path 2 Long Range Tacks · Super Range Tacks · Blade Shooter · Blade Maelstrom · Super Maelstrom Path 3 More Tacks · Even More Tacks · Tack Sprayer · Overdrive · The Tack Zone Paragon Crucible of Steel and Flame   Ice Monkey Path 1 Permafrost · Cold Snap · Ice Shards · Embrittlement · Super Brittle Path 2 Enhanced Freeze · Deep Freeze · Arctic Wind · Snowstorm · Absolute Zero Path 3 Larger Radius · Re-Freeze · Cryo Cannon · Icicles · Icicle Impale   Glue Gunner Path 1 Glue Soak · Corrosive Glue · Bloon Dissolver · Bloon Liquefier · The Bloon Solver Path 2 Bigger Globs · Glue Splatter · Glue Hose · Glue Strike · Glue Storm Path 3 Stickier Glue · Stronger Glue · MOAB Glue · Relentless Glue · Super Glue   Sniper Monkey Path 1 Full Metal Jacket · Large Calibre · Deadly Precision · Maim MOAB · Cripple MOAB Path 2 Night Vision Goggles · Shrapnel Shot · Bouncing Bullet · Supply Drop · Elite Sniper Path 3 Fast Firing · Even Faster Firing · Semi-Automatic · Full Auto Rifle · Elite Defender   Monkey Sub Path 1 Longer Range · Advanced Intel · Submerge and Support · Bloontonium Reactor · Energizer Path 2 Barbed Darts · Heat-tipped Darts · Ballistic Missile · First Strike Capability · Pre-Emptive Strike Path 3 Twin Guns · Airburst Darts · Triple Guns · Armor Piercing Darts · Sub Commander Paragon Nautic Siege Core   Monkey Buccaneer Path 1 Faster Shooting · Double Shot · Destroyer · Aircraft Carrier · Carrier Flagship Path 2 Grape Shot · Hot Shot · Cannon Ship · Monkey Pirates · Pirate Lord Path 3 Long Range · Crow's Nest · Merchantman · Favored Trades · Trade Empire Paragon Navarch of the Seas   Monkey Ace Path 1 Rapid Fire · Lots More Darts · Fighter Plane · Operation: Dart Storm · Sky Shredder Path 2 Exploding Pineapple · Spy Plane · Bomber Ace · Ground Zero · Tsar Bomba Path 3 Sharper Darts · Centered Path · Neva-Miss Targeting · Spectre · Flying Fortress Paragon Goliath Doomship   Heli Pilot Path 1 Quad Darts · Pursuit · Razor Rotors · Apache Dartship · Apache Prime Path 2 Bigger Jets · IFR · Downdraft · Support Chinook · Special Poperations Path 3 Faster Darts · Faster Firing · MOAB Shove · Comanche Defense · Comanche Commander   Mortar Monkey Path 1 Bigger Blast · Bloon Buster · Shell Shock · The Big One · The Biggest One Path 2 Faster Reload · Rapid Reload · Heavy Shells · Artillery Battery · Pop and Awe Path 3 Increased Accuracy · Burny Stuff · Signal Flare · Shattering Shells · Blooncineration   Dartling Gunner Path 1 Focused Firing · Laser Shock · Laser Cannon · Plasma Accelerator · Ray of Doom Path 2 Advanced Targeting · Faster Barrel Spin · Hydra Rocket Pods · Rocket Storm · M.A.D Path 3 Faster Swivel · Powerful Darts · Buckshot · Bloon Area Denial System · Bloon Exclusion Zone   Wizard Monkey Path 1 Guided Magic · Arcane Blast · Arcane Mastery · Arcane Spike · Archmage Path 2 Fireball · Wall of Fire · Dragon's Breath · Summon Phoenix · Wizard Lord Phoenix Path 3 Intense Magic · Monkey Sense · Shimmer · Necromancer: Unpopped Army · Prince of Darkness Paragon Magus Perfectus Former Soulbind   Super Monkey Path 1 Laser Blasts · Plasma Blasts · Sun Avatar · Sun Temple · True Sun God Path 2 Super Range · Epic Range · Robo Monkey · Tech Terror · The Anti-Bloon Path 3 Knockback · Ultravision · Dark Knight · Dark Champion · Legend of the Night Special Vengeful True Sun God   Ninja Monkey Path 1 Ninja Discipline · Sharp Shurikens · Double Shot · Bloonjitsu · Grandmaster Ninja Path 2 Distraction · Counter-Espionage · Shinobi Tactics · Bloon Sabotage · Grand Saboteur Path 3 Seeking Shuriken · Caltrops · Flash Bomb · Sticky Bomb · Master Bomber Paragon Ascended Shadow   Alchemist Path 1 Larger Potions · Acidic Mixture Dip · Berserker Brew · Stronger Stimulant · Permanent Brew Path 2 Stronger Acid · Perishing Potions · Unstable Concoction · Transforming Tonic · Total Transformation Path 3 Faster Throwing · Acid Pool · Lead to Gold · Rubber to Gold · Bloon Master Alchemist   Druid Path 1 Hard Thorns · Heart of Thunder · Druid of the Storm · Ball Lightning · Superstorm Path 2 Thorn Swarm · Heart of Oak · Druid of the Jungle · Jungle's Bounty · Spirit of the Forest Path 3 Druidic Reach · Heart of Vengeance · Druid of Wrath · Poplust · Avatar of Wrath   Mermonkey Path 1 Trident Efficiency · Trident Swiftness · Abyss Dweller · Abyssal Warrior · Lord of the Abyss Path 2 Sharper Prongs · Tidal Chill · Riptide Champion · Arctic Knight · Popseidon Path 3 Echosense Precision · Echosense Network · Alluring Melody · Symphonic Resonance · The Final Harmonic   Banana Farm Path 1 Increased Production · Greater Production · Banana Plantation · Banana Research Facility · Banana Central Path 2 Long Life Bananas · Valuable Bananas · Monkey Bank · IMF Loan · Monkey-Nomics Path 3 EZ Collect · Banana Salvage · Marketplace · Central Market · Monkey Wall Street   Spike Factory Path 1 Bigger Stacks · White Hot Spikes · Spiked Balls · Spiked Mines · Super Mines Path 2 Faster Production · Even Faster Production · MOAB SHREDR · Spike Storm · Carpet of Spikes Path 3 Long Reach · Smart Spikes · Long Life Spikes · Deadly Spikes · Perma-Spike Paragon Mega Massive Munitions Factory   Monkey Village Path 1 Bigger Radius · Jungle Drums · Primary Training · Primary Mentoring · Primary Expertise Path 2 Grow Blocker · Radar Scanner · Monkey Intelligence Bureau · Call To Arms · Homeland Defense Path 3 Monkey Business · Monkey Commerce · Monkey Town · Monkey City · Monkeyopolis   Engineer Monkey Path 1 Sentry Gun · Faster Engineering · Sprockets · Sentry Expert · Sentry Champion Path 2 Larger Service Area · Deconstruction · Cleansing Foam · Overclock · Ultraboost Path 3 Oversize Nails · Pin · Double Gun · Bloon Trap · XXXL Trap Paragon Master Builder   Beast Handler Path 1 Piranha · Barracuda · Great White · Orca · Megalodon Path 2 Microraptor · Adasaurus · Velociraptor · Tyrannosaurus Rex · Giganotosaurus Path 3 Gyrfalcon · Horned Owl · Golden Eagle · Giant Condor · Pouākai