Paragon Degree Calculator

No. Ninja Kiwi has never published the exact internal formula behind Bloons TD 6 Paragon degrees, and the mechanic has changed across updates, including a significant cash-scaling change in version 39.0. Every Paragon calculator online, including this one, is a community-built approximation based on observed in-game behavior, not an official data source.

Paragon Power is the internal score this and most other community calculators use as an intermediate step. Different sources of power, pops, income, upgrade tiers, cash, extra Tier 5 towers, and totems, are each capped individually, summed together, capped again at an overall maximum, and then that total effective power maps to a visible degree from 1 to 100.

Community testing suggests pops and bonus income share a single combined power bucket rather than two independent ones, commonly observed around a 90,000 power cap. This means stacking both pops and income doesn't double your available power from these two sources, since they draw from the same capped bucket.

Community reports consistently put each totem at 2,000 power, with no hard cap on the totem category itself beyond the overall 200,000 effective power ceiling. Totems are often the easiest lever to pull late in Paragon planning, since they don't require additional pops or upgrade purchases.

Yes. The three Tier 5 towers of the matching type are required just to create the Paragon at all, but any additional same-type Tier 5 towers you sacrifice beyond those three contribute meaningfully to your power total, up to a category cap. Many players underestimate this bucket and rely only on pops and cash.

Community sources report the maximum achievable degree differs by mode, commonly cited as up to 76 in standard single-player, higher with Geraldo's totems, and up to 100 in modes with looser restrictions. Because these caps have shifted with past updates, always treat any specific maximum as a snapshot rather than a permanent rule.

This is expected sometimes. Since the underlying formula is reverse-engineered from observed behavior rather than official documentation, and Ninja Kiwi periodically adjusts caps and scaling factors, any community calculator's output should be treated as a planning estimate to get you in the right range, not a guaranteed exact result.

Check which capped bucket you're furthest from filling. If your pop and income bucket is already near its cap but your extra Tier 5 or cash bucket is empty, adding more totems or sacrificing additional same-type Tier 5 towers usually moves the needle faster than grinding out more pops on towers that are already near their category ceiling.