Ice Hound/Ice Pup

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“Unlike most Pups, these are cold-hearted with ice coursing through their veins… you know, real cool cats. Their attacks will slow enemies."
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Ice Pup
==Summary==
*Ice Pups are spawned when an Ice Hound dies in battle. Although they vaguely resemble their parent, the Ice Hound, in appearance, they are significantly stronger offensively but have only have a miniscule fraction of the Ice Hound's health.
*They are similar to Lava Pups in abilities, except they are able to slow down targets they hit just like the Ice Hound does - affected targets will have reduced movement and attack speed.
*Even though less Ice Pups spawn from the Ice Hound than Lava Pups spawn from a Lava Hound of equal level, they are generally more effective due to their freezing effect.
*As one of the seven sub-troops (the others being the Golemite, the Skeleton, the Yetimite, the Lava Pup, the Bear and the Big Boy), it cannot be trained, placed, or donated directly via the Clan Castle (although the parent troops can).
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*Ice Pups are considered to take up 2 housing space for the purpose of determining its interactions with the Tornado Trap, Clone Spells and the Recall Spell.
==Strategy==
===Defensive===
*Keep crowd control defenses like the X-Bow, Multi-Archer Tower and the multi-target Inferno Tower away from Air Defenses, so that they are less likely to be frozen when an Ice Hound dies and the Ice Pups get released; they will be able to quickly make short work of them.
*Air Bombs are as effective of a threat to Ice Pups as they are with Lava Pups. Try to place them in locations such that the Ice Hound will not trigger them, but the Ice Pups do when they are scattered out from the Ice Hound.
===Offensive===
*During the freeze of the death of Ice Hound, the Ice Pups can help clear surrounding defenses. This freeze enables them to stand more of a chance against the immediate surroundings.
*It is advisable to distract the nearby defenses with other units, such as Balloons, so that Ice Pups will be able to survive longer and possibly slow down the attack speeds of nearby defenses as well (which synergizes with the rest of the attack).
==Statistics==
Preferred Target	Attack Type 	Movement Speed	Attack Speed	Range
None 	Ranged (Ground & Air)	32 	1s 	2.75 tiles
Damage per Second	Damage per Attack	Hitpoints
35 	35 	50
==History==
Patch 	Type 	Description
December 6, 2020	Sneak Peek	link=
December 7, 2020	Update 	Added the Ice Pup.
==Gallery==
IcePupConcepts.jpg|Concept designs of Ice Pup.
Ice Pup model.jpeg|Ice Pup model (beta)
Ice Pup beta pose.jpeg|Ice Pup pose (beta)
File:Ice hound and pups.jpg|The Ice Hound with its Ice Pups
==Trivia==
*The Ice Pup's 2D texture does not look identical to its info image, instead looking identical to the Ice Hound's 2D texture, only smaller and lack ice spikes.
*The Ice Pup, alongside the Ice Hound are the only Air Troops that have grass in their info image.
*The Ice Pup is one of the four troops associated with ice, the others are the Ice Golem, Ice Hound and Ice Wizard.
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