New Dark Troop - The Icener

***Name changed to Icener from Arksel***

Hello everyone! Welcome to my newest troop concept, the Icener. Throughout this thread, I'll go into tons of detail to make sure you know how this troop works and how this will affect the game. You'll also get to see offensive and defensive strategies including this unit, and some example stats.

Beware, this thread is long! For those of you that have to time to read this thread, I thank you. All in all this idea took me a couple of weeks on finalizing this thread and making sure it was ready for presentation.

So, now that that's all done with, let's get to the Icener!

Table of Contents
I. Description
II. Summary
III. Backstory
IV. Attacking Strategies
V. Army Compositions
VI. Defensive Strategies
VII. Statistics
VIII. Trivia and Frequently Asked Questions
IX. Conclusion

Description
The Icener blasts and produces ultimate icy shock waves that damage buildings!

Summary
✔ The Icener absorbs the attacks he has sustained and stores then as potential energy.
✔ The Icener blasts after every 5 seconds and produces shock waves that damage 3 buildings nearest to him.
✔ The Icener has very low DPS of its own.
✔ After the blast, the Icener is revived again in 0.5 seconds with the remaining HP.
✔ When the Icener dies, he would blast and produce shock waves with the damage he has stored so far!
✔ The heat of Inferno Tower decreases the DPS of Icener by 5%.
✔ This unit is unlocked at Dark Barracks level 7 and Town Hall level 10.

Backstory
One Wizard, unknown till now, was researching in his lab on Dark Elixir. He dropped 1-2 living cells of animals into it and cooled it at super low temperate. He designed blueprints of this and hid them. Then suddenly, there occurred a blast and an icy creature came out from the extremely cool mixture. Terrified by this, the Wizard attack him a number of times and then, the unknown creature blasted, killing the Wizard. The icy creature revived again, but died soon of the due to the heat present there. 200 years after, the great grandson of the Wizard was researching in his great grandfather's laboratory when he found the blueprints, in very bad condition. He examined them and followed the same procedure, but he didn't dis it alone, he was with his friends. Again another icy creature came into life but the Wizards didn't attack him and tried to examine them. One Wizard understood about him and told others. They tested it found that they had found the way to create deadly Icener! But only one Wizard lived out of those 4 whose spread this news all over.

What kind of strategies this unit would enable
✔ Using Icener on Inferno Tower is very powerful strategy as Inferno Tower's heat will increase his low DPS.
✔ Drop Icener before P.E.K.K.A, Wizards and Valkyrie and reach the core of base with his amazing powers.

Army compositions including this unit
✔ GiIcViz (Giants + Iceners + Valkyries + Wizards)
Deploy Icener before Giants followed by Valkyries and Wizards. Don't tank him, use him as a tank. Then break into the core of base with Icener blasting and reviving, causing massive damage.
✔ GoIcWiPe (Golems + Iceners + Wizards + P.E.K.K.As)
Deploy Icener before Golems followed by Wizards and then P.E.K.K.A. Golems act as meatshield while also the Icener gets damage and break into the core of base with Icener blasting and reviving, causing massive damage.

✔ GoIcLaLoon (Golems + Iceners + Lava Hounds + Balloons + Cleanup units)
Use the Golems, heroes, a few Wizards, and the Icener to get rid of one or two Air Defenses, the Archer Queen, and the Air Sweeper in the beginning of the battle. Then send in your Lava Hounds and Balloons to help clear all of the defenses, while Icener deals with infernos.

✔ GoIcWiWi (Golems + Iceners + Wizards + Witches)
With the Iceners getting damage and Golems acting as your meatshield, send in the Wizards and Witches behind, finally followed by a few Iceners. If executed correctly, the Iceners can help in breaking into the core of base.

How to redo your base to protect from this unit

✔ Place your hero's altars and Clan Castle far apart - you don't want them to be so close that the Icener can help kill Clan Castle troops and heroes almost instantly, before the attack even begins! Spread them out so they don't all go down at once!
✔ Strategically place your traps as Icener is vulnerable to giant bombs.

Statistics
✔ Preferred Target: None
✔ Attack type: Single Target (Ground)
✔ Housing space: 20
✔ Training time: 20 minutes
✔ Movement speed: 18
✔ Attack speed: 1.5 seconds
✔ Range: 0.3 tiles
✔ Dark Barracks level required: 7
✔ Cost to upgrade Dark Barracks: 4,250,000 elixir and 10 days

Level	Damage per second	Damage per attack	Damage Dealt While Blasting	Hitpoints	Training cost http://i.imgur.com/r1cVlrn.png	Research Cost http://i.imgur.com/r1cVlrn.png	Laboratory Level Required	Research Time
1	40	60	75%	1550	215	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	60	90	85%	2050	240	800,000	8	12 days
3	80	120	100%	2600	280	1,000,000	8	14 days

Trivia and FAQs

✔ A maximum of 12 Iceners can fit in a set of fully upgraded Army Camps. This number increases to 13 if you count the one that can fit into a level 3+ Clan Castle.

Thank you SO much for reading this thread and troop idea! If you read all of it, I really appreciate it as it took quite some time to finalize all of this. I would like to give a special thanks to Devil9394 for helping me with the idea and AnthonyVince for letting me use his design and some troop stats.

Supercell is a great company and always takes into account people's suggestions, so I believe if this thread gets enough support the Icener could end up in the game. I'd love to hear what SC thinks about this idea.

Here is how you can help! I'd love to hear your comments, opinions, suggestions, and questions as I can always improve upon this idea. Here are some things that would be great to comment on:

✔ Suggestions to make this troop more balanced
✔ Ideas you have for strategies this could enable
✔ Ideas you have for setting up your base to defend from this unit
✔ Description suggestions
✔ Questions about how this troop works
✔ Explain why you do or don't like this troop

If you like this idea, tell your friends! Your Clanmates! That is how you can get SC to see this idea.

Thanks for reading and happy clashing, everyone!
Sujal

On what basis is this arksel.There were real barbs archers Pekkas and hogs maybe in the past.Rest are based on myhtological creature.On what basis did youcome up with this name.

12/9 :-
✔ Changes in DPS and DPA
✔ Increased Damage Deals Upon Blasting
✔ Decreased - 1) HP
2) Number of buildings getting affect
3) Duration of storing damage
4) Housing Space
✔ Name to Icener from Arksel
13/9
✔ Description Changed
✔ Added blast at the time of death feature
✔ Decreased DPS and DPA
✔ Increased Research Cost

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Originally Posted by SAMI345

On what basis is this arksel.There were real barbs archers Pekkas and hogs maybe in the past.Rest are based on myhtological creature.On what basis did youcome up with this name.

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By random thinking of my mind, lol

It's a good basic idea for a troop, nothing too complicated or too powerful about it, and I see it as being a main-offensive unit/Tank that can damage multiple buildings in range by absorbing damage. I'd like to see some written statistics for the troop as soon as possible though, but good job.

Another cool idea! :thumbsup:

Because I'm terrible at math, i don't know how powerful its shockwaves are going to be. But do you think 25 CC space is a bit high? Or is it enough for its power?

Wish it had a better backstory though, no offence, :smirk:.

And a cooler-sounding name!

But another great idea! Who knows, we might get another new troops with a different name whose stats are super-similar to one of your troops..... :smirk:

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Originally Posted by Alisreal

Another cool idea! :thumbsup:

Because I'm terrible at math, i don't know how powerful its shockwaves are going to be. But do you think 25 CC space is a bit high? Or is it enough for its power?

Wish it had a better backstory though, no offence, :smirk:.

And a cooler-sounding name!

But another great idea! Who knows, we might get another new troops with a different name whose stats are super-similar to one of your troops..... :smirk:

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I know the name isn't so cool. I am thinking of different name, as soon as I will get some cool name, I will change that but only poll name can't be changed. Hm, I think 25 space is enough for its power as he becomes invisible for 0.5 seconds and 8 seconds. But if more people are against it, I will change

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Originally Posted by jaronhudson15

It's a good basic idea for a troop, nothing too complicated or too powerful about it, and I see it as being a main-offensive unit/Tank that can damage multiple buildings in range by absorbing damage. I'd like to see some written statistics for the troop as soon as possible though, but good job.

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Which written stats? Could you possibly give example?

I like the idea; however, I have a couple of concerns that I could very well be wrong on, so I'll go ahead and say them :smirk:

First, I was originally thinking this troop might be to similar to Smasher's Knight, as they both involve taking damage from defenses and attacking with it. But, this troop attacks five close buildings with the damage he has sustained, so maybe it's different enough.

I was also thinking it might be too OP. 8 seconds is a long time he could be sustaining damage, and then he would be attacking 5 buildings with all that power. My suggestion is to first lower the hitpoints by a bit across all levels, decrease the damage sustaining time to 5 seconds, and increase the % to 70, 85, 100 but make him only attack with the damage he has sustained one building at a time.

Finally, because this makes the troop slightly less powerful I suggest decreasing the housing space to 16 or 20 :cool:

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Originally Posted by AnthonyVince

I like the idea; however, I have a couple of concerns that I could very well be wrong on, so I'll go ahead and say them :smirk:

First, I was originally thinking this troop might be to similar to Smasher's Knight, as they both involve taking damage from defenses and attacking with it. But, this troop attacks five close buildings with the damage he has sustained, so maybe it's different enough.
Yes that is
I was also thinking it might be too OP. 8 seconds is a long time he could be sustaining damage, and then he would be attacking 5 buildings with all that power. My suggestion is to first lower the hitpoints by a bit across all levels, decrease the damage sustaining time to 5 seconds, and increase the % to 70, 85, 100 but make him only attack with the damage he has sustained one building at a time.
I think I should increase the time to 5 seconds. But increasing it to 70, 85, 100 might make him OP, only because of single IT. I will decrease the HP and make him attack 3 buildings at a time, coz 1 building would be eventually destroyed really early and make him like Knight.

Finally, because this makes the troop slightly less powerful I suggest decreasing the housing space to 16 or 20 :cool:
Decreasing it

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My answers in bold