Wizard Targetting

I just got Level 5 Wizards... Been using them a lot paired with Archers and Giants, but it seems like every tower favorites Wizards as there target... If I could share replays i would, but for whatever reason Wizards are the first to be shot down Archer Towers, X-Bows, Cannons and Teslas...


In more than one occasion a squad of 25 Archers and 5 wizards saw itself Wizardless when an X-Bow and Archer tower chose the 5 of them over the Archers! They've even stopped dead attacking Giants just to turn to my Wizards!


It hurts to see my expensive and long trained Wizards be picked off first EVERY time... Is there Wizard-targeting technology i don't know about? What on earth Supercell?

It's not that they target wizards like tesla's do wizards have a shorter range than archers so if your using archers and wizards your gonna have to have a golem or a bunch of giants. Because defense's shot at the closest unit.

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Originally Posted by Thesoldier111

It's not that they target wizards like tesla's do wizards have a shorter range than archers so if your using archers and wizards your gonna have to have a golem or a bunch of giants. Because defense's shot at the closest unit.

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Like I said, in more than one occasion defenses have turned from Giants (often destroying the tower in question) to attack a Wizard hidden in a squad of Archers

When something dies and the tower searches for a new target, for some reason I do think towers will target what is attacking the tower. For example if you have archers shooting at both and archer tower and cannon, the AT and cannon will target the archers that are respectively targeting them. AT's also seem to favor air targets, often switching from a pack of archers just to shoot down a minion.

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Originally Posted by acf99oc

When something dies and the tower searches for a new target, for some reason I do think towers will target what is attacking the tower. For example if you have archers shooting at both and archer tower and cannon, the AT and cannon will target the archers that are respectively targeting them. AT's also seem to favor air targets, often switching from a pack of archers just to shoot down a minion.

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I understand that much, but why would a tower prefer a wizard over the pack of giants chipping away at it? It boggles my mind... The Wiz is not an air unit nor is he even attacking defenses all the time, so why do towers spare the immediate threat of a pack of giants and take out Wizards bashing at a collector???

It's a frustrating & fair point.

Could you get a 'screen grab' next time it happens, to share with us?

Thanks.

i attack sometimes with wizards and i use them with dragons and some giants, but the defenses focus on my giants and dragons, i dont have the problem that you say, maybe some footage will help, but i dont think that the wizards are put as a primordial target by defenses.

You shouldn't be using long trained wizards anyway. Only when you go to sleep.

This must be quite annoying, but since I believe the wizard's range is smaller than that of the archers, this targeting could be quite plausible. However, it probably is not if the giants are attacking the turret in question and the wizard is not.