Just take a few minutes to consider my idea and leave suggestions

I know that a few people have already tried to make a unit similar to the Greek mythological beast called the hydra, but I think I have an idea that would make the creature a unit that isn't overpowered or just annoying. My version of the hydra is a unit the grows an additional head with based upon how much health the unit has left. With each head the unit would begin to attack faster rather than stronger.
read edits at the bottom of post.
The hydra would look similar to the dinosaur BAROSAURUS since it is very large. The first level of the hydra would have 1 head would be a dark-grey color, and would have dark hairs going up the back of its neck.

Level	change in appearance
1	n/a
2	n/a
3	has small spikes going up both sides of its neck and is now a light gray color
4	n/a
5	whitish-grayish color with white hairs and spikes going from its tails to its 5 heads ( to show that its old but experienced) also has a mace like tail.

Desciption: what was once a tiny lizard has now grown into an enormous multi-headed monster due to its tunnels being filled with dark elixir from the over-worlds dark elixir drilling spillage.

if you have any suggestions please post them below.

Also let me know if you have a better name for this because I would rather the unit be called something other than hydra.

Preferred target	attack type	housing space	dark barracks required	attack speed
Any	melee	35	6	1 second

X for every 20% of damage the hydra loses it gains another head.

Level	dps	damage per attack	speed	heads	training time	hit points
1	25-125	25	15	5	30 mins	1500
2	35-175	35	14	5	30 mins	1850
3	40-225	45	13	5	30 mins	2000
4	45-275	55	12	5	35 mins	2500
5	50-325	65	11	5	40 mins	2850

X

level	cost
1	350 de
2	450 de
3	550 de
4	650 de
5	750 de

Research cost	research time	lab required
n/a	n/a	n/a
45000 de	7 days	lv 7
60000 de	10 days	lv 7
75000 de	12 days	lv 7
85000 de	14 days	lv 8

Edit: instead of having an increasing housing space i have decided that the damage should increase due to possible coding errors and glitches associated to army camp size addressed by mageobalance.

Edit: severely decreased the dps of the hydra suggested by Mj3344.

edit: instead of an increasing housing space a decreasing speed would be put into each level. The speed would decrease by 1 each level the hydra goes up suggested by beetlejuice.

MAJOR EDIT: I have changed the hydra's ability so that it receives an additional head with every 20% hit points it loses. This way the hydra can only use its maximum damage for a short time.

For some reason my original post's stats are getting squeezed together so any help here would be great.

A great idea would be a building that you can use elixar, dark elixar or gold to change its favourite target

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Originally Posted by hydra64

A great idea would be a building that you can use elixar, dark elixar or gold to change its favourite target

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I would have never thought of that, but another building that decides which type of building a unit attacks is what'll make the hydra to op.

I dunno, the other troops in Clash have a non-changing housing space, so if people upgrade them and they have like 2 hydras and the rest archers or something, the army camp will be too full to accept the other heads on the hydra, (and Supercell might have problems coding the housing space variable in so...) so something has to happen to those heads, either removing a hydra or removing the archers, which might glitch out the game. But overall, it sounds like a great idea. :D

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Originally Posted by MageOBalance

I dunno, the other troops in Clash have a non-changing housing space, so if people upgrade them and they have like 2 hydras and the rest archers or something, the army camp will be too full to accept the other heads on the hydra, (and Supercell might have problems coding the housing space variable in so...) so something has to happen to those heads, either removing a hydra or removing the archers, which might glitch out the game. But overall, it sounds like a great idea. :D

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What if i increased the damage as well and took away the increasing housing space do you think that would work instead?

Don't you think you should give a visual description of the hydra that you have in mind since your unit stats are alredy set up.

I guess it would make sense to give you all a description of what I think the hydra should look like so check out my revised original post.

To be honest i really thought more people would be interested in this idea.

Last time i bump my own thread