This troop has the interesting quality of being able to absorb the health of whatever it is targeting. It doesn't regain all health taken, but a substantial percentage. This allows the phantom to stay in the battle for a long time. It also attacks like an inferno tower, its attack increasing the longer it is attacking.
This troop is extremely powerful against anything with large amounts of health, like a town hall, walls and high level defenses. The strategy then would be to distract any defenses with high health troops and brings this guy in to break things. And since it has a ranged attack it will stay behind your golems.
The army composition would look like a go-wipe, but the Wizards some of the Wizards would be replaced with this.
Defence against it is fairly simple, get any hard hitting, single target tower onto it, and it will die. Giant bombs are also very effective against it.
HP: low
DPS: low - insane
SPEED: slow
ATTACK: ranged, single target
TRAINING: dark barracks
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