Shaolin Temple

The Shaolin Temple is a tower in Kingdom Rush: Vengeance, available as an in-app purchase that costs $3.99 on mobile and unlocked at City of Rivers on Steam. It sends Shaolin Monks to attack and briefly stun enemies (both ground and flying) within range, return to the temple after each attack and stay locked on them until the enemies die or leave the temple's range.
== Description ==
Highly trained in martial arts, the monks of this temple have transcended to use their skills for all eternity.
==Stats==
 	Level	Damage 	Attack Rate	Stun†(per Monk)	Range	Build Cost
150px	I 	3-4 	1.4s 	0.36s 	320 	110
150px	II 	6-10(6-11) 	1.4s 	0.36s 	320 	150
150px	III 	11-17(12-18)	1.4s 	0.36s 	320 	190
150px	IV 	14-26(15-28)	1.4s 	0.36s 	320 	230
:† Monks cannot stun enemies fighting in close combat.
==Abilities==
===Dragon Warrior===
 "We found him!"
Summons an elite shaolin monk to the path.
	Cost	HP 	Heal point	Armor	Damage	Attack 
rate	Re-Spawn	Speed
	250
(212)	400 (520)	40 	None 	40-60 	1.0	13s 	30
===Lion of Abundance ===
 "Live long and prosper"
Enemies that die close to the tower reward an additional 10% extra gold.
Level	Cost 	Increase
1 	100 (85)	10%
* This stacks multiplicatively between towers, i.e. the bounty is multiplied by 1.1 for each tower with this upgrade that an enemy dies in range of.
===Shaolin Monks===
 "Welcome, brother"
Increase the number of monks, allowing the temple to lock onto more targets at once. 
Level	Cost 	Increase (Total)
1 	175 (148)	
2 	175 (148)	
3 	175 (148)	
==Strategy==
The Shaolin Temple is most effective against large numbers of weak enemies with little to no physical armor. The stuns make it very hard for certain enemies like Smokebeard Engineers, Ice Witches, Svell Druids and Leaping Dragons to use their abilities. Overall, the temple is a very distinctive source of ranged damage and crowd control.
Shaolin Monks' stun combined with decent attack speed makes it excellent at slowing down larger targets or small groups as 2 or 3 temples can prove excellent at almost stun-locking a single enemy with a small inch. This however does not mean the dps is great for Shaolin as the enemy will take longer to kill (especially the giants with armor) so using towers with high dps can prove a pretty good combo as the temple can slow down enemies while a tower like the Blazing Gem can chip down its health making it easier to kill.
The temple locks on up to three enemies at a time and each Shaolin Monk upgrade adds another monk to lock onto another target, but this should be the last investment due to being extremely expensive at nearly 300 or more gold apiece. It may not even be worth it anyway since the additional monks do not stack on targets locked onto by other monks; the upgrade only raises the number of affected targets.
With the Hammerhold DLC release, the cost for extra monks was cut in half to 175/148, so it is much easier to make use of.
The very first upgrade should always be the Lion of Abundance since it costs 100 gold or less to buy and increases the bounty of every enemy in range of the temple, even if the monks don't deal the official killing blows. This stacks with other gold-generating abilities like those from Beresad and Dianyun.
The Dragon Warrior upgrade is also a very worthwhile investment since the warrior has tremendous health and deals great physical damage to enemies he fights.
==Range==
==Related Upgrades==
* GUILD OF MERCHANTS (2 souls)
**Costs of towers' special skills is now reduced. (15% cost reduction)
* MASTER ARCHITECTS (2 souls)
**All towers gain extra bonus damage. (10% additional basic attack damage)
==Related Achievements==
== Quotes ==
*"Control your body."
*"Train your mind."
*"Find your center."
Tier 4
*"Expand your senses." (Building level 4)
*"He is finally here." (Dragon Warrior)
*"Destiny will provide." (Lion of Abundance)
*"Trained brothers." (Shaolin Monks)
==Trivia==
* "Control your body"
** Song by Pnau, also a discipline of Kung Fu
* "Find your center"
** Part of a lyric in the Mulan song "I'll Make a Man Out of You"
* Dragon Warrior
** The primary title held by Po, the titular "Kung Fu Panda" of the 2008 Dreamworks Animation film
* "We found him!"
** Potentially a reference line to "The Mummy Returns" when Imhotep's body was found in the ruins of Hamunaptra.
* Live long and prosper
** A phrase said by Vulcans in Star Trek, commonly associated with the character Spock.
**The phrase is also used by the Forest Keepers. 
*When the monks attack flying enemies, they use a move called the Shoryuken, translation: Rising Dragon Fist. Commonly called the Dragon Punch, it is a special move used in the Street Fighter series.
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