Barbarian Kicker

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"Starts the match with a calm, carefully aimed shot that smashes the nearest Defense. Then goes on the usual Barbarian rampage."
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Level 1-12
==Summary==
*The Barbarian Kicker is a temporary troop introduced in May 2024, for the Clash with Haaland season. The Barbarian Kicker is available from Town Hall level 3.
*The Barbarian Kicker is a Barbarian wielding a football (from association football). When initially deployed, the Barbarian Kicker moves towards a defense and targets it with a free kick from very long range (11 tiles), doing serious single-target damage on impact. After the football is kicked, the Barbarian Kicker acts as a melee unit, using kick attacks with no preferential targeting.
**The Barbarian Kicker requires time to set up the free kick, with there being a short delay of about 3.5 seconds between startup and launching the football.
**If there are no defenses to target, the Barbarian Kicker's free kick will be aimed at the closest building or ground troop or wall (the kick cannot hit air troops).
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==Strategy==
===Offensive Strategy===
* Their high Free Kick damage can destroy most weaker defenses in a single hit, while two such Free Kicks can destroy any defense except the Town Hall, so make sure you use them wisely to avoid wasting the high damage potential.
** This high damage can be increased further by s, allowing a single Barbarian Kicker to oneshot any relative-level defense apart from the Town Hall. A weaponised Town Hall can be sniped by using a single raged Barbarian Kicker alongside an Earthquake Spell to weaken and activate it.
* They can be used outside the base to snipe crucial defenses, since the range of the free kick is massive, and the damage is also very high overall. Their ability to oneshot defenses allows them to assist in funnelling defense-targeting troops.
** Even if the Barbarian Kicker does not outrange certain defenses, the Kicker's relatively high hitpoints allows the Kicker to often survive long enough to get the Free Kick off.
* The Free Kick only considers targets when the troop is deployed, i.e. 11 tiles from where the Barbarian Kicker is deployed, so use accurate placements or the damage will simply be wasted! This is unlike the Grand Warden's Fireball, where it has unlimited targeting range.
===Defensive Strategy===
* Preventing the Barbarian Kicker's Free Kick is very difficult since the Kicker's high hitpoints prevents the Kicker from being defeated easily, even when using defenses that can reach and target the Kicker. Instead minimise the Free Kick's potential by placing strong defenses closer to the core to prevent Barbarian Kickers from easily reaching and kicking at them.
* A can be used to outright defeat a Barbarian Kicker but this requires anticipating the Kicker's deployment location.
* s placed near likely deployment locations, such that they trigger when Barbarian Kickers are deployed in such locations, can cause the Barbarian Kicker to target the Tesla instead of a more valuable defense.
* Set up defenses to confuse the attacker, so that it will be harder to determine where the closer defense is, that way, you can potentially confuse the attacker, so that the free kick doesn't hit the strong defenses.
==Statistics==
Preferred Target	Attack Type 	 	Movement Speed	Attack Speed	Range	Barracks Level Required	Special Ability
None 	Single Target (Ground Only)	12	20 	1.3s 	? 	1 	Free Kick
Training Time of Barbarian Kickers	Training Time of Barbarian Kickers
Barracks available 	Barracks upgrading
1m 30s 	3m
Level	Damage per Second	Damage per Shot	Free Kick Damage	Hitpoints	Town Hall Level Required
1 	50 	65 	507 	300 	3
2 	60 	78 	561 	350 	4
3 	90 	117 	815 	650 	7
4 	110 	143 	1,015 	1,000 	8
5 	125 	162.5 	1,286 	1,200 	9
6 	135 	175.5 	1,685 	1,400 	10
7 	145 	188.5 	2,011 	1,600 	11
8 	160 	208 	2,247 	1,900 	12
9 	165 	214.5 	2,700 	2,000 	13
10 	170 	221 	2,900 	2,100 	14
11 	180 	234 	3,008 	2,300 	15
12 	190 	247 	3,153 	2,400 	16
==Trivia==
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Category:Troops
Category:Temporary
Category:Elixir Troops
Category:Ground Troops