Lava hounds serves almost as a 4th and 5th freeze spell. It goes in and soaks up all the air damage. If they survive for 10 seconds that's a massive advantage. Max freeze only lasts 8 seconds. Well timed freeze with lava hounds can disable air defense, infernos, and xbows while balloonians wreck havoc on the base. With that being said, I agree, lava hounds only become very good at th10. Gowipe and gowiwi are superior at th9
Last edited by SidVicious; November 17th, 2014 at 10:17 PM.
I think the lava hound is one of the few troops that SC nailed perfectly right off the bat... no need to touch them as they add a new strategy to the game and can be used to fight maxed out bases.