USE the HEALER for DEFENSE

All this time I thought the Healer totally sucked.

All this time I was thinking of the Healer as an offensive troop. When they made the Heal Spell I thought, well damn, why need a healer?

The answer is...DEFENSE.

If you don't know already the Healer HEALS MOTHER TRUCKING BUILDINGS (wizard towers, camps, everything).

The healer also doesn't run out and engage the attackers. She just hangs back and heals the current building being attacked. She is 20 slots and I've used her successfully for a few attacks.

If she took up 10 slots, that would be pretty OP for a TH9 with two healers healing the x-bow.

it used to be good vs the balloon and archer attacks but it hard to heal against pekkas when they 1 hit everything

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Originally Posted by hb808

All this time I thought the Healer totally sucked.

All this time I was thinking of the Healer as an offensive troop. When they made the Heal Spell I thought, well damn, why need a healer?

The answer is...DEFENSE.

If you don't know already the Healer HEALS MOTHER TRUCKING BUILDINGS (wizard towers, camps, everything).

The healer also doesn't run out and engage the attackers. She just hangs back and heals the current building being attacked. She is 20 slots and I've used her successfully for a few attacks.

If she took up 10 slots, that would be pretty OP for a TH9 with two healers healing the x-bow.

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might be better with lvl 2 and up but i tried this last night with a lvl 1 healer and it wasnt healing the buildings fast enough to be worth it. It slowed down the building maybe a second or 2 but thats it. Then it got shot down by archers. Not worth it for 20 slots, IMHO.

Against pekkas with rage spells she'll fly right back in the cc and hide. Lol

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Originally Posted by JesseJames2013

Against pekkas with rage spells she'll fly right back in the cc and hide. Lol

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Hahahahaha. 8 Raging PEKKA! Hahahaha

interesting idea, has anyone else tested this yet - high level players pref i wanna know if it can help against a pekka attack...

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Originally Posted by Daddy

interesting idea, has anyone else tested this yet - high level players pref i wanna know if it can help against a pekka attack...

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Makes me think of an idea ....

The common census is the Healer is mostly useless,and we don't have a unit used strictly for defense( unless you never use archers on offense because you gem Dragons and Pekkas as a Top 50 Player)

So how about replacing the Healer with a defensive unit ?

It would have either 0 attacking power or that of a Level 1 barbarian ( or equivalent )

Its best use would be to delay Pekkas and Dragons .

To make up for its lack of attacking power , it would have a massive amount of HP

It would basically be a Tank unit clad in heavy armor ( like a defensive Pekka) . Unlike Pekkas though ,they would be very slow,half the speed of a Giant .

What do you guys and gals think of having a defensive -only unit that has the HP of a Pekka , half the speed of a Giant , and zero or minimal attacking power ?

For those with high trophies, I believe it would make the game much more dynamic than simply adding another defensive building ... We have plenty of those,and coming up with more doesn't serve much of a useful purpose against Pekkas ... We should either have a defensive unit designed to delay high HP/attack units or have a defensive building with a delay feature

The cost and time to train ,and Housing Space could be the same as a Healer

Agree/Disagree this would be a worthwhile change?

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Originally Posted by baldiesrt

might be better with lvl 2 and up but i tried this last night with a lvl 1 healer and it wasnt healing the buildings fast enough to be worth it. It slowed down the building maybe a second or 2 but thats it. Then it got shot down by archers. Not worth it for 20 slots, IMHO.

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I have the maxed healer (lvl 3?) She is a goddess.

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Originally Posted by Daddy

interesting idea, has anyone else tested this yet - high level players pref i wanna know if it can help against a pekka attack...

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Like Sneaky said, they don't help much vs PEKKAs - they don't heal the building quick enough to slow the PEKKA down.

I posted my test in this thread: http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...er-more-viable

I would think the goal of the healer on defense is slow down the enemy by causing them to make more attacks to destroy the building, resulting in your defenses having more time to hit the enemy. Versus giants, it seemed to do very well.

If the healer heals what's under attack, she has benefits (except maybe PEKKAS) but now and then if the attacker casts lightning in one part of the city, but attacks the other, and the healer just spends the whole battle healing the lightning damage, that part stinks.

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Originally Posted by twister

Like Sneaky said, they don't help much vs PEKKAs - they don't heal the building quick enough to slow the PEKKA down.

I posted my test in this thread: http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...er-more-viable

I would think the goal of the healer on defense is slow down the enemy by causing them to make more attacks to destroy the building, resulting in your defenses having more time to hit the enemy. Versus giants, it seemed to do very well.

If the healer heals what's under attack, she has benefits (except maybe PEKKAS) but now and then if the attacker casts lightning in one part of the city, but attacks the other, and the healer just spends the whole battle healing the lightning damage, that part stinks.

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I think the developers for the game should allow us to reserve a small amount of units for "guard duty" maybe ten or twenty units that would be stationed maybe in the townhall or a new type of building to accommodate these but I like how using healers helps but to get them from clan mates is very hard so using one as a designated defense troop I think would help