Jump Spell/Targeting Mechanics

Hi all,

Today I was doing clan wars, and I couldn't figure out why my pekka won't move to attack the townhall even though it was the closest target. As you can see from the picture, the pekka highlighted by the yellow arrow had the closest target indicated by the blue line (Jump spell dropped a couple of seconds ago). Instead of going there, it went for the elixir storage as indicated by the red circle.


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There are two possible explanations I can think of: 1. Troops use the center of the buildings to calculate the distance (unlikely); or 2. the pekka in question wanted to help out the other pekka that was being attacked by the AQ (makes a bit more sense). Does anyone know, with certainty, why this is happening?

I failed the attack miserably, by the way. If the pekka got to the townhall, I could have raged it for the win. :mad:

Cheers and have a good day!

My guess is the pekka was going for the AQ. I've noticed that they've changed the AI a bit for attacking troops. They will hunt down a AQ or BK if nearby. I've seen dragons fly right over a town hall to flame a BK, only to get into range of the air defense on that side of the camp and subsequently die. If the drag had just attacked nearest item, the TH would have gone down and added another star to my team mates war attack.

I think they changed this AI in response to the fact that you can't really lure out the BK and AQ anymore. So instead your troops will give chase when close enough..

all troops that does not have a special target will hit the moving targets first if they come into range or maybe the peka just doesn't like u

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Originally Posted by vicoftw

all troops that does not have a special target will hit the moving targets first if they come into range or maybe the peka just doesn't like u

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I've run into it a couple times lately that troops don't always attack the BK/moving target first. He was somewhere I could draw him out drop some barbs to keep him busy then a bunch of archers to kill him. Barbs all target him and archers target the army camp he is basically standing on. Once he finishes the barbs he attacks the archers but as soon as he hits one they all target him.

Not sure how much this adds but I would agree that he was chasing the AQ particularly as the other pekka was already on her.

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Originally Posted by vicoftw

all troops that does not have a special target will hit the moving targets first if they come into range or maybe the peka just doesn't like u

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This. Moreover, if a hero comes into the range of the troops already attacking a building, those troops will switch from their current target and chase that hero.