WHY the HEALER SUCKS

I have been trying to use the healer but after several attempts I just gave up.

Why?

1) She always heals the wrong targets!!!

2) She does not heal air units

3) She takes too long to fly to the damaged unit

4) Her healing rate of buildings is too slow.

Her targets should not be any unit, but the most affected bunch of units. If you have one damaged giant that's close to the healer and 150 barbs who are damaged but further away, the healer should go to the barbs. NOT THE DAMN GIANT. (First hand experience)

And also she moves too slowly, so the affected unit always dies before she gets to heal them.

It would be nice if she shot out 2 healing rays at the same time.

i never use healer neither upgrade my healer!!!
its so S U C K S!!!
your comment is so true LOL :cool::cool:

Giant sucks, slow and low damage LOL
Archer sucks, always die to mortar and wizard in groups
Goblins stupid, always attack collectors instead of storages
Wall breaker stupid, always open wrong wall
barbarian are stupid, they don't attack inside walls
LOL all units are stupid let's all put our storages and collectors away from defense and quit.
LOL minion and dragon die to air bomb and air mine and anti air defense LOL LOL

QUIT CRYING about units being bad, you guys are just horrible players. Every unit can be good if the players learn to control them properly.

I use the healer-giant all the time and it is fine you just need to know how to use it

And look at Flammy's attacking vids he'll tell you

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Originally Posted by Syaoraen

Giant sucks, slow and low damage LOL
Archer sucks, always die to mortar and wizard in groups
Goblins stupid, always attack collectors instead of storages
Wall breaker stupid, always open wrong wall
barbarian are stupid, they don't attack inside walls
LOL all units are stupid let's all put our storages and collectors away from defense and quit.
LOL minion and dragon die to air bomb and air mine and anti air defense LOL LOL

QUIT CRYING about units being bad, you guys are just horrible players. Every unit can be good if the players learn to control them properly.

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Congrats OP! You have just successfully trolled our resident troll-king Syaoraen!! *clap* *clap* :o

Learn how to use the healer many players do well with her with a lot of practice you can be better ...

The Healer is a must have in my army to support giants. If you waste in on a farming army, that may be your issue.

Giant - healer combo rock!!!

The combo got it's flaw too, but the combo works so well for me.

I think u just have to learn how to use them properly.

Love the healers, please don't change a thing...........

My healers take after me there intelligent if you're stupid they may take after you and you must be if you think there rubbish

Healer doesnt suck, but i do agree it needs a BIG buff.

Maybe increasing movement speed? That is an issue with it.

Healer is my hero at th8... This unit is my key to destroy all other villages..just learn to use it....

Healer doesn't suck, but she's very weak at TH9. Duh, all anti-air defenses and seeking air mines - using Healer at TH9 is like asking for trouble. She served me well at lower town halls though.


I don't really think she needs any concrete buffs, though I would much prefer her to continue healing one main unit even if it's not damaged for a couple seconds instead of flying all through the enemy base to heal a lone barbarian.

AI could use a band-aid, but not numbers. In fact, Healer will kind of be getting a buff when Golem comes out since she'll have a much better tank to heal.

Healer/giant combos can be useful, but I find the restrictions (weakness to cc troops and spring traps, time to build, can only attack bases with poor air Defence) far out way the benefits for me.

I used to use healer giant all the time! ...then I unlocked dragons....

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Originally Posted by d3o

Healer doesn't suck, but she's very weak at TH9. Duh, all anti-air defenses and seeking air mines - using Healer at TH9 is like asking for trouble. She served me well at lower town halls though.

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I attack TH9 bases all the time with a healer-giantcombo, try bringing some minions to lure out the airmines.

And there really is ALOT of bases with porly positioned ads.

FYI minion does not trigger the black air mine. I don't understand why people post strategies they have yet to try

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Originally Posted by XenapZ

I attack TH9 bases all the time with a healer-giantcombo, try bringing some minions to lure out the airmines.

And there really is ALOT of bases with porly positioned ads.

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Seeking Air Mines don't get triggered by Minions, only Air Bombs do - and they're not a threat to Healer.

Like I said before, you can use the combo and it can be effective at times - but there's just too many things that can go wrong with it. There are much better and more safer strategies at TH9.

Oh right, forgot about that.

"I" suck at healer- giant combo attack. Epic fail 5 of 5 times. I blame Flammy-- he makes it look so easy! :rolleyes:
I'll be sticking with other army configurations that will not include the big guys and the glowing chick. Not their failing -- mine! :(

Ask yourself this question. Would you rather have 4 giants or a dragon? Then ask yourself would you rather have 4 giants and a healer or two dragons. I ask myself this question and my answer is always dragons. This is assuming that you have lots of elixer which is usually the case for me, so much so that I donate dragons a lot too...

Healers are overrated. Towers are easily fooled when too many units are attacking all over the place.

You don't need a bunch of giants taking all the fire that lives longer with a healer when you can just mass rush a base from different directions and confuse the towers which unit to attack.

WHY you can't use it's AI Properly

Apparently someone doesn't know how to use a healer.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, like if your giants split off and they follow the small group. But healer giant is the way to go on th eight and low th nines. dragons are better in mass, but their cost and training time makes them too costly.

Just be sure when you flank them you don't get too close because then the healer might peel off to follow some barbs.

On high levels Healer giant doesn't work so great but what really does outside of pekkas and dragons.

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Originally Posted by Zero

Apparently someone doesn't know how to use a healer.

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I used to use the healer all the time when I was TH7. But when I started farming the healer just had no use. It takes up 20 spaces - might as well fit a dragon. She was expensive to maintain too.

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Originally Posted by Thanatos

My healers take after me there intelligent if you're stupid they may take after you and you must be if you think there rubbish

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*they're.

Please if you want to criticise people do it well. And if the healer does take after me she'll have a cheerful nature with hidden potential to bully verbally.

Sounds like someone thought that unlocking the healer meant you'd be invincible ...

If the healer was faster/healed more HP per hit/followed exactly the troops youwished, she would be way over powered.

Learn to use them effectively, and as others said, stop moaning FGS, learn by your mistakes.

I know that since I've unlocked healer my attacks are much more successful Giants getting almost through all defences where the same amount were barely breaking in.

I use the giant and archer combo quite well. pls don't change the healer.

To the OP, first of all the healer doesn't suck, she is the only unit in the game whose behavior you can alter well after she's been deployed because of how her AI works. You can even kite her around air defenses if she starts to stray in the wrong direction if you are good with her.

I'm going to quote myself from another thread so I don't have to type too much.

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Originally Posted by Riv

The healer is one of my favorite units in the game, if not my absolute favorite.

Some things to know about her would be:

She can only heal ground units.

Her heal spell is ranged.

Her heal does a small aoe and is great for neutralizing splash damage on groups of troops, as long as the splash damage does not 1 shot your troops.

Unlike the heal spell, her heal effects heroes. if you have a damaged BK for example, if you can get her to heal the BK to full health, he will be available for the next battle without requiring any sleep.

Healers can be used on defense, although this is generally not advised, and she will heal buildings.

Most importantly,regarding her AI, she will always path towards the nearest unit who is still alive and missing health. Once a unit is fully healed, if they do not take damage in the next second or two, she will begin flying towards a new unit to heal. You can essentially guide her by deploying troops nearby, in range of a defense (so they take damage) and she will start going their direction. When you get the hang of it, you will start to realize just how useful she can be.

She can get "confused" and bounce back and fourth between two groups not healing anything if her nearest target keeps dying right before she gets there. This can be avoided if you add a few troops to one of the groups as she arrives so that they will not be dead by the time she arrives.

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I've just today maxed out my healers so i've been experimenting a bit, i've never used them before at all so i'm way behind the curve of some on this thread so bear with me - these are my first impressions:

The AI takes getting used to - they seem to target giants first but i havn't figured out what they go to then
They are slow - pretty useless healing goblins
You need to be careful when dropping them that you don't put two on the same giant leaving others un healed.
Air defence needs to be taken out first or they will die quickly.

I really should take a look at one of Flammy's vids again I remember he was pretty good with them.

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Originally Posted by Daddy

I've just today maxed out my healers so i've been experimenting a bit, i've never used them before at all so i'm way behind the curve of some on this thread so bear with me - these are my first impressions:

The AI takes getting used to - they seem to target giants first but i havn't figured out what they go to then
They are slow - pretty useless healing goblins
You need to be careful when dropping them that you don't put two on the same giant leaving others un healed.
Air defence needs to be taken out first or they will die quickly.

I really should take a look at one of Flammy's vids again I remember he was pretty good with them.

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Since L6 barbarians can also take a big punch, they are really good with healers too. Try mixing in some barbarians inside the giant mob.

Also, place the healer when only giants are on the field, and they will lock onto them so long as they are taking damage.

You guys do realise she was buffed?

The old healer stats: (Aprox) L1 healer

Heal: 30
Health: 430

New healer stats

Heal: 37
Health: 500

speed is the same.

How many healers do you see the most in one battle? I have seen a few times people used 4 healers.

I have seen wizards and healers be really effective as well ... sadly they were plowing through my base.

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Originally Posted by Riv

To the OP, first of all the healer doesn't suck, she is the only unit in the game whose behavior you can alter well after she's been deployed because of how her AI works. You can even kite her around air defenses if she starts to stray in the wrong direction if you are good with her.

I'm going to quote myself from another thread so I don't have to type too much.

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see his quote at pg 3 plz.

Im a fan aswell, her housing space to traing time is very good at 1/1 (20space/20min) better then WBs
TimtheEnhancer has a thread (or a post in a thread) with a chart in it displaying the troops to housing space times/values.

I use her with a few 6-8 giants, typically. Sprinkle some barbs to clear out traps and take damage too, some archers to back up the "Tanks" and clear out 'trapped' bulidings...then in the last min or so if the Giants/Barbs/Arch havent cleared out stores a few gobs finish off things.

or if I am farming, Ill let the Giants and Barbs distract the Defs while my gobs get down on the stores/collectors.

she is a hit to the elixir, but I find that with her I get much more resources with fewer tier one troops. I like Dragons too, but they are expensive elixir troops and take longer to train then the healer. (IMO a better option for different kinds of loot gathering, or troph hunting; they are awesome for big bases...Revenge and are great in the CC for def.)

make sure you take out the AD, and ArchyTwr as priority, as they hurt her the most. followed by Wiz tower CC archers.


Mix of troops helps a lot, although Ive had a pack of Barbs run through a base (esp the 'Box' bases) when the defenses could not one shot kill them.

just like all the troop types they have strengths and weaknesses.

make sure you asses which is the Best point to deploy her to maximise your loot grab. or you will fail. always.

like I say, time to adjust.