How do I counter a baby dragon?

How do I counter a baby dragon? - Man and Woman Standing beside a Child Sitting on White Counter

I am having trouble countering Baby Dragons. I encounter:

  • Spear goblins get killed by one attack.
  • Minions get killed quickly by the AOE as well (unless I use something else to distract the dragon)
  • Archers suffer the same AOE problem as spear goblins.
  • The musketeer does well but seems to trade evenly unless I put something else to distract the dragon (like minions).

How do I decidedly win an elixir trade with a baby dragon?



Best Answer

Here's some good tips I got from Youtube user Orange Juice's video, How to Counter Baby Dragon:

When first starting out the dragon can be a pain to counter. It's a mini tank that can splash and fly. You can counter dragon with dragon. But there are much better methods that'll put you at an advantage:

Dragon splash attack

It's important to realize that the baby dragon's attack splashes. You don't want to place archers and spear goblins beside the tower. It's better to wait until the dragon is targeting the tower. You want to place your spear goblins or musketeer one tile away from the tower to avoid the splash.

Archers and Pulling

For archers, they can tank at least 2 shots from the dragon, completely preventing it from touching your tower. Lets take this a step further, you can do an advanced archer pull: If you plant the archers in the center, slightly in the other lane, and one second before the dragon is within the archer's aggro range, the second archer will wander off for a moment and then reengage at a safe distance, completely shutting down that dragon, while only losing 1.5 elixir worth of troops. This requires perfect timing or the second archer will run away.

Dragon/Prince combo

If you're in a lower arena, one of the most devastating combos you'll encounter down there is the dragon-prince combo. The dragon splashes away at all the troops you're trying to lay down to defend against the prince. After learning the lesson the hard way, most people will plant their troops behind the tower but the dragon / prince will still do over 1000 damage over that tower.

The best way of dealing with this combo is with a pull using archers, skeletons, or spear goblins. Since we know your archers can tank 2 hits from a dragon, you want to use them to pull the prince within range of both your towers.

You can get creative with this and do a splitting chain pull for the cost of 3 elixir.

With the good understanding of these techniques, you could apply them in any situation.

Other countering methods

The Hog rider can turn your offensive move into defense by luring the dragon into a U-Turn.

Witches are also great against the dragon. If the timing is right, the dragon will be distracted by all the skeletons. If timed properly, she will take minimal damage from the dragon, which gives you an opening to counter push.

Since the dragon is a mini tank. Players tend to place it in the back to accumulate elixir for a strong push. If you have lightning or rocket it's a perfect excuse to damage their crown tower for 2 elixir. Because it's flying unit, you can easily miss the rocket, You need to react as soon as you see the dragon deploy and launch it just below the tower. The trick is to aim for its shadow.

Buildings

Buildings are incredibly effective against the dragon. Telsa and Inferno towers shred the dragon like it's a goblin. Tombstone works too, but only if the dragon is by itself

A good unit to counter a lone dragon is the mortar. Dealing 700 damage to their tower, while your crown tower chips away at their dragon

Source: How to Counter Baby Dragon by Orange Juice




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What kills a Baby Dragon in clash Royale?

If you drop the troop while the baby dragon is within range of your crown tower then you will end up killing the baby dragon from the crown towers arrows before they can kill your tanky unit, making this an effective trade which you can follow up on to create an offense.

What is counter to Dragon?

Ice-types are often the most potent way to counter Dragons. This is because many Dragons are either part Flying-type (Dragonite, Rayquaza) or part Ground-type (Garchomp, Flygon). In these cases, Ice attacks are quadruple times effective, and Mamoswine has one of the best damage outputs for Ice-type Pokemon.

What is the best Baby Dragon counter in clash Royale?

How to counter Baby Dragon in Clash Royale
  • Defensive buildings are incredibly effective agianst Baby Dragon. ...
  • My absolute favorite building to counter a lone Baby Dragon is the Mortar. ...
  • The Witch is also great against the Dragon since her Skeletons can distract the Baby Dragon.


How do you rage a Baby Dragon?

To make use of his rage ability, a player can simply request just one Baby Dragon and fill the castle with ground troops. Note that Skeleton Traps set to air mode will also take away its rage ability, so place them away from its path.



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Answer 2

My favorite card to counter the dragon is a witch. I wait for it to get closer to my side, then deploy the witch and the skeletons will distract it for a little, then the witch can attack. The witch almost always survives when I use this strategy. Alternatively, you could use another Dragon, or barbarians + minions/spear goblins. Also, if you can have the battle occur on your side with the tower helping, it will significantly help you out, as the towers do quite a bit of damage.

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