Lava hound (too weak)

[Anonymous1]

I know that everyone is all excited about the new dark troop, the lava hound, but the truth is the hound doesn't make a good choice. The lava hound at level one only has 10 damage per second taking a monstrous 30 housing space, making the troop not reasonable. The videos show that with only one or two lava hounds, the air defense takes almost no damage with one-fourth of your camps gone from just that and at the high levels there are 2-3 other air defenses still not occupied and a highly upgraded air defense will take it down in 15-20 seconds with some time taken for it to reach the air defense. The lava hound is meant to be a meat shield or gollem for flying units, which i understand, but the gollem at level one does 38 damage per second win 30 housing space making a significant increase in damage. my suggestion to the supercell team is to increase damage or reduce housing space to make it more reasonable, but not too much so that it is overpowering. I think that the lava hounds damage should be either be increased by 1.5 times in damage, double the damage or reduce the housing space to either 20 or 25 to make the lava hound more usable.

[Icefury]

I know that everyone is all excited about the new dark troop, the lava hound, but the truth is the hound doesn't make a good choice. The lava hound at level one only has 10 damage per second taking a monstrous 30 housing space, making the troop not reasonable. The videos show that with only one or two lava hounds, the air defense takes almost no damage with one-fourth of your camps gone from just that and at the high levels there are 2-3 other air defenses still not occupied and a highly upgraded air defense will take it down in 15-20 seconds with some time taken for it to reach the air defense. The lava hound is meant to be a meat shield or gollem for flying units, which i understand, but the gollem at level one does 38 damage per second win 30 housing space making a significant increase in damage. my suggestion to the supercell team is to increase damage or reduce housing space to make it more reasonable, but not too much so that it is overpowering. I think that the lava hounds damage should be either be increased by 1.5 times in damage, double the damage or reduce the housing space to either 20 or 25 to make the lava hound more usable.

do you know how to properly use the lava hound it is supposed to be used as a distraction troop with other air units such as balloons dragons and minions. it is supposed to tank the air defenses and then balloons for example do the actual damage its a air troop there fore it will do less damage. it also has alot more health then a gollem

[Jman213]

The thing a monster!! This opens up different army's (flying), if you said its "weak" then your wrong! It has what 5,700 hit points?, At level one? there two levels and it gains more health. ITS NOT WEAK

[AT0MIC]

The thing a monster!! This opens up different army's (flying), if you said its "weak" then your wrong! It has what 5,700 hit points?, At level one? there two levels and it gains more health. ITS NOT WEAK

Lol another thread Jman, I know how you fell lol (Face Palm)

And the Lava Hound is fine the way it is.

[jonnguy2014]

TH 6 here. May be a noob but if you think the Hound is weak some high level needs to wreck your base using them

[PhilISuppose]

The thing a monster!! This opens up different army's (flying), if you said its "weak" then your wrong! It has what 5,700 hit points?, At level one? there two levels and it gains more health. ITS NOT WEAK

Watch the videos of them getting wrecked by air defenses and air mines. I have yet to see them be really effectively used.

5700 sounds a lot, but they're less than three times the health of a dragon and dragons get monstered by a good air defenses base.

Air defenses and airmines do enormous damage to air troops compared to anything ground based that a golem can expect to be targeted by except for the inferno tower.

[Flihp]

I havent used them so cant say much about them, but someone attacked me today with 4 of them level 3, along with a weird combo of golems and wizards and they failed big time. My AD is level 7. The four hounds were placed at one of my AD , two of them died to destroy it and the other two then proceeded to the next AD and barely made it. It was a great defence win, but very disappointing to see 120 spaces used up in level 3 lava hounds to only take down 1 air defence. I imagine that a lot of players will have great success with them with various strategies and pretty sure if they dont get used and get bad feedback that sc will tweak them.

[AURORA07936]

The lava hound are really weak, they may be able to take lots of damage, but the cant destroy anything much less an air defense which has lots of HP.

The only thing they are currently used for is a distraction for the air defense so you can send in your other flying troops.

But in my opinion, that's not enough. I think their Damage per second should be increased to at least 20 if not more.

[ChandlerLiuTaiwan]

It's ok to change the spacing, but the purpose of Lava Hound is like golem, so the damage is low

[Brett771]

It's absolutely worthless,beyond belief really. Definetly the biggest pile of garbage a troop could be and I speak from actual expierience. Does no damage what so ever and dies much quicker then a golem don't believe me get the worthless thing you'll see.