Apex Pantheon (BTD8 HTP)

"There truly can only be one."

- Monkey Knowledge's description of "There Can Only Be One"

The Apex Pantheon is a tower added to Bloons Tower Defense 8 as part of its 2.0 update. It is a more powerful version of the Sun Pantheon. All the versions of monkeys summoned by sacrifices are now a bright white, and the attacks of the Apex Pantheon now shoot out blindingly bright white beams of destruction, in comparison to the normal Sun Pantheon's rainbow-colored aesthetic. The Apex Pantheon gains a massive damage boost to all of its attacks.

Appearance
The Apex Pantheon is similar to the Sun Pantheon in appearance, both being massive structures seemingly worshipping the being that stands on it. The only difference between the two is that the Apex Pantheon has a dark base, and the monkey itself on it is entirely white.

Creating
To create an Apex Pantheon, you must first gain the MK "There Can Only Be One". This will allow for the creation of the Apex Pantheon outside of Sandbox mode. Once this is done, the following steps can be used to create it: Other then the physical appearance of change, the only difference is a quadrupling of all forms of damage (the main ray, for example, goes from 1000 to 4000).
 * 1) Place a Super Monkey, and begin upgrading along its first path. Once you reach the various tier of temples, put in maximum sacrifices for each of the categories. Yes, that is going to cost you $1,100,000 each time you get the next tier of temple, along with the massive costs for the Temples themselves.
 * 2) Outside of the range of the temple, build a Nanotech Terminator (x7xx Super Monkey), a Ruler of the Darkness (xx7x Super Monkey), and a Cosmic Supermonkey (xxx7 Super Monkey).
 * 3) Upgrade to the Sun Pantheon. If the MK is active, and everything has been done correctly, the four Super Monkeys will all merge together and form the Apex Pantheon.

Strategies
The Apex Pantheon is obviously the most powerful tower in the game. The following strategies should be used to make use of its full potential:
 * Considering that the range of Apex Pantheon covers the whole screen, it might seem as though placement of it is irrelevant. Not true. The sacrifical towers that it spawns around it such as the Sentires and Mini Avatars do have a limited range, and therefore it is benefical for them and the Apex Pantheon itself to be placed in a central location.
 * Boosting the Apex Pantheon with top-path Alchemists is highly advised, as it boosts speed and popping power of all of the tower's attacks.
 * Using Overclocks, Ultraboosts, Megacharges, and Hyperdrives are all good ideas, at the very least doubling the rate of attack of the Pantheon and leaving permanent buffs on it.
 * It's most defnitley worth it to sacrifce the other three seventh-tier Super Monkeys for the Apex Pantheon, as its damage output is drastically greater than even the sum of all four of the seventh-tiers put together.