What are good counters to flying minions?

[Radix]

Hi, I have issue with fidinga good counter to flying minions, some give me a real headache, any suggestions? I tried multiple different ranged minions but honestly they either often get trumped by flyers or just die to easily to ground stuff. I feel like flying minions are very hard to counter.

Also, is there no proper forum for this game?

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

depends on what flying minions specifically, but plasma marines and crossbow dudes and crystal archers are commonly used ranged units. if they're dying too easily to ground stuff, you're not protecting your ranged units properly

[Revolucas]

Other ranged minions and spells. For Xiao, you can use poison strike or wait till he gets to your tower and spawn ranged minion or flying minion on him. Defense towers can work well but you have to know how and when to play them so that they aren't taken out instantly. Also Slitherbound is a good cheap unit that can easily take care of flying units with it's poison dart. He can kill Xiao even through the shield.

[Radix]

Originally posted by Vrakos Anthrakir:

depends on what flying minions specifically, but plasma marines and crossbow dudes and crystal archers are commonly used ranged units. if they're dying too easily to ground stuff, you're not protecting your ranged units properly

You cant always focus on protecting low value ranged units, not for too long anyway. I find Soulstealer and harbringer especially torublesome, minions like plasma marines are not fast nor strong enough to deal with those efficiently nor are medium mana spells.

[Revolucas]

Other ranged minions and spells. For Xiao Long, you can use poison strike or wait till he gets to your tower and spawn ranged minion or flying minion on him. Slitherbound is an under rated good cheap unit that can easily take care of flying units with it's poison dart. He can kill Xiao Long even through the shield. Defense towers can work well but you have to know how and when to play them so that they aren't taken out instantly.

On your side sometimes it's better to wait for the enemy to attack the tower so you can spawn weak units safely without them instantly taking aggro and dying.

For harbinger and you have no units on the field, you'll want to distract him with either cheap unit or something that taunts (like screaming scrat) so that he doesn't kill what you spawned to kill him. He can be killed with spells and it's nearly an even mana trade. He cost 7, you can using lightning + fireball or beam of doom or scratillary.

[Radix]

Originally posted by Revolucas:

Other ranged minions and spells. For Xiao Long, you can use poison strike or wait till he gets to your tower and spawn ranged minion or flying minion on him. Slitherbound is an under rated good cheap unit that can easily take care of flying units with it's poison dart. He can kill Xiao Long even through the shield. Defense towers can work well but you have to know how and when to play them so that they aren't taken out instantly.

On your side sometimes it's better to wait for the enemy to attack the tower so you can spawn weak units safely without them instantly taking aggro and dying.

For harbinger and you have no units on the field, you'll want to distract him with either cheap unit or something that taunts (like screaming scrat) so that he doesn't kill what you spawned to kill him.

This is pretty much what I am trying to do, I still find harbringer troublesome because you either have to let him hit your tower and then spawn units on him or use up resources to diistract and then attack, it gets very hard when its not the only unit on the board. I find myself often in situation when by the time I deal with harbringer with all these shenenigans the preasure gets aplied and I am getting pushed.

I havent found an efficent way to deal with harbringer thus far. Summning a lot of small units is kind of a nulifying play but oponent is not going to let you do that all the time. Its worst when harbinger gets extra cover from other ranged/flying minions.

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

Originally posted by Radix:

Originally posted by Revolucas:

Other ranged minions and spells. For Xiao Long, you can use poison strike or wait till he gets to your tower and spawn ranged minion or flying minion on him. Slitherbound is an under rated good cheap unit that can easily take care of flying units with it's poison dart. He can kill Xiao Long even through the shield. Defense towers can work well but you have to know how and when to play them so that they aren't taken out instantly.

On your side sometimes it's better to wait for the enemy to attack the tower so you can spawn weak units safely without them instantly taking aggro and dying.

For harbinger and you have no units on the field, you'll want to distract him with either cheap unit or something that taunts (like screaming scrat) so that he doesn't kill what you spawned to kill him.

This is pretty much what I am trying to do, I still find harbringer troublesome because you either have to let him hit your tower and then spawn units on him or use up resources to diistract and then attack, it gets very hard when its not the only unit on the board. I find myself often in situation when by the time I deal with harbringer with all these shenenigans the preasure gets aplied and I am getting pushed.

I havent found an efficent way to deal with harbringer thus far. Summning a lot of small units is kind of a nulifying play but oponent is not going to let you do that all the time. Its worst when harbinger gets extra cover from other ranged/flying minions.

shouldn't be afraid to just take a hit or two to your master tower if you're unable to answer the harbinger earlier via something like spells, or meat shielding some ranged units with cheap spam or a high health unit

[JJsmall]

Originally posted by Radix:

Soulstealer and harbringer

any soulstealer can die from fireball+a little damage from archers. Harbringer die with beam of doom or howling moon+fireball or shadow whelp or infiltration. But best way to learn how to deal with harbringer/soulstealer add them to deck. And other players will show you way)

[Devin]

Originally posted by JJsmall:

But best way to learn how to deal with harbringer/soulstealer add them to deck. And other players will show you way)

That's good advice, no matter what game.

Want to know the weakness of something? Use it.

Want to know the strength? Play against it.

[Taril]

It really does depend a lot on what flying minions are being used.

For Soulstealer, you'd ideally want a single strong minion like Succubus or Shadow Whelp that can bring it down without feeding it Souls.

For Harbinger, you want something a bit swarmy to kind of tank its shots while damaging it like Infiltration, Shielded Crossbow Dudes, Propeller Horde. Or alternatively, you can use something like Divine Warrior to tank its attacks while another ranged minion shoots it down.

Of course, Harbinger being a 7 mana minion, also means that Beam of Doom isn't a bad play either since it'll be trading evenly (Or if lucky with positioning, can trade favourably with hitting other minions as collateral damage)

Also, Sniper Squad and Sniper Scrat can be useful for dealing with flying minions, due to their large range they can often get a shot or 2 off before even Harbinger gets to attack them (The downside is these can often be killed by an opponent using Daggerfall). But a single volley from a Sniper Squad is 200 damage which will take out most flying minions (Except Harbinger) so the opponent has to be quick to take them out.

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scrat tank can distract and absorb hits from flying units. For difficult ones, let them focus on the tower for a hit and then spawn a solution.

[Sicris]

Blastmancer is best for flying scrats. Though rather poor for most other flying minions.