Main purpose of Lava Hound is to be a tanky distraction to shield balloons, dragons and minions from getting taken out too quickly. However, the cons of Lava Hound makes this objective very difficult to achieve. Here is why:
- Too fast! With the speed nearly twice as fast as balloons and dragons, the hound gets out by itself and it really defeats the purpose of tanking for the rest of the air troops
- Health is too low as a tank. At lvl 1 with 5700 points, two lvl 6 ADs with bunch of archer towers or Wiz towers can take out a hound within 10 seconds. Not enough time to shield for balloons and dragons.
- Attacking power is way too low. 10 per second is a joke. Lvl 6 minion deals 54 per second. Lava Hound practically has no attacking power at all.
So being said, how to use Lava Hound efficiently? Well, theoretically:
- Look for bases with ADs not spreading too far apart from each other. If they do, Lava Hound can fly out by itself and nobody is gonna follow and they die fast.
- You must deploy the balloons right after them and rage balloons to follow the hounds fast. Dragons the same but dragons won't follow sometimes if there are too many structures around. Balloons have a better chance cuz they target at defenses
- Now, here is the biggest difference from the regular balloonion attack. Usually we hold on to our minions because of the air attacks can vaporize them fast. Now, you probably need to release a few to accompany the balloons and lava hounds simply because minion's speed is comparable to Hound's. Then try to rage everybody together.
Here is one of the better attacks on a TH9. If you look closely, I had one balloon..ONE balloon able to take out a lvl 5 AD because hounds were on top of it.. Balloon suffered no damage.
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