Defending Against Lava Hounds

With all this talk about nerfing Lava Hounds, I'd like to share a few tips for defending against them.

• Clan castle unlureable with balloons. CC wizards really shorten the lifespan of Hounds.
• Air defenses all in range of eachother. Hounds go down fast when taking fire from all 4 ADs.
• Seeking air mines next to air defenses. They take a nice chunk of Hounds' health.
• Air defenses out of range of some archer towers/wizard towers. Hounds go straight for the ADs. If the ADs are out of range of an archer tower/wizard tower, the archer tower/wiz tower will not be able to reach the hounds. They will attack the balloons instead.
• Strategically placed defenses to guide balloons away from the core. Balloons go for the nearest defenses and ignore walls, which makes it easy to predict their paths.
• Avoid having many defenses densely clustered around the Archer Queen. This will lessen the chances of the splash damage from balloons killing the Archer Queen.
• Air bombs and skeleton traps set to air strategically placed near defenses and away from Air Defenses. This way, they are more likely to go for balloons instead of Hounds.
• And of course, X-Bows set to air.

Lavaloonion is a strong army composition which is capable of getting 2-3 stars on strong bases. Just like any other army composition, a well designed base has the potential to stop it dead in its tracks.

Let's see these tips put to good use to make some good anti-Lava Hound bases. Clash on! :cool:

Great guide, thanks for the tips!

I'm just a TH8 but thanks for the advice when I go to TH9!

I'm sorry, but a lot of this is just common sense.

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Originally Posted by Janz

• Air defenses out of range of some archer towers/wizard towers. Hounds go straight for the ADs. If the ADs are out of range of an archer tower/wizard tower, the archer tower/wiz tower will not be able to reach the hounds. They will attack the balloons instead.

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only this one helps, rest of your tips do nothing to stop lavaloon and things like all AD within range of each other actually makes it easier to 3 star the base.

Tesla's behind an AD help too!

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Originally Posted by xCompleteBSx

I'm sorry, but a lot of this is just common sense.

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Common sense ain't so common these days.

If you haven't been placing your seeking air minds near your AD, have you been living under a rock?

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Originally Posted by xCompleteBSx

I'm sorry, but a lot of this is just common sense.

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Some of these things may be obvious to some people. To others, they might not be. As long as someone finds this thread helpful, I'm happy.

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Originally Posted by Morgauth

only this one helps, rest of your tips do nothing to stop lavaloon and things like all AD within range of each other actually makes it easier to 3 star the base.

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I'm going to have to disagree with you. All of these tips certainly do something to defend against LavaLoonion. A well designed base which utilizes all of these will be able to stop most attackers from getting the 2 or 3 star.

Also, in my experience attacking with LavaLoonion, it is beneficial for the defender to have ADs within range of eachother.

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Originally Posted by Janz

I'm going to have to disagree with you. All of these tips certainly do something to defend against LavaLoonion. A well designed base which utilizes all of these will be able to stop most attackers from getting the 2 or 3 star.

Also, in my experience attacking with LavaLoonion, it is beneficial for the defender to have ADs within range of eachother.

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Depending how the base is laid out otherwise, having AD within range of each other makes it easier to attack imo. Since I use hounds frequently, I'm not going to bother saying what kinds of defensive layouts I avoid, but's it's certainly not bases with overlapping ADs.

sounds like an easy base to holo 3 star..