Air Bomb

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"Latest invention in the field of flying pest control. This trap can blast multiple air units in a small area."
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Level 1-2
Level 3-4
Level 5-6
Level 7-8
Level 9-10
Level 11
==Summary==
*The Air Bomb is unlocked at Town Hall level 5. It is the first trap that targets aerial troops. It triggers when a flying troop comes into proximity, then rises out of the ground and follows the nearest flying troop. The Air Bomb explodes after coming in contact with the flying troop or—if dead—the location of its death.
*Despite the name, it is not an airborne version of the normal Bomb, since the Air Bomb is able to move around.
*It is extremely effective against large groups of Minions and does a significant amount of damage to Balloons (especially level 3 and below). It's much less effective against higher health targets such as Dragons.
*Like other traps, the Air Bomb requires re-arming after it has been activated. Doing so is free and occurs automatically once the player logs into the game.
==Strategies==
===Defensive Strategy===
*In the early game, placing an Air Bomb next to an can be very effective. After a Ground Troop destroys the Air Defense, the enemy might deploy all of their powerful Air Units at once, and the Air Bomb may be able to damage a vast majority of the troops.
**However, at higher Town Hall levels, it is not recommended to place Air Bombs in the range of an Air Defense as Lava Hounds fly directly towards it, which will trigger the trap and absorb the hit, dealing next to no damage to the hound.
*At lower levels where Balloons have relatively low health, placing two Air Bombs next to each other can easily and swiftly destroy clumps of Balloons, often before the attacker has the chance to react with a Healing Spell (if they have one).
**You can place your defenses in a way such that you can force enemy Balloons to clump up and then destroy them with the Air Bombs when they are clumped up in such a manner.
*At higher levels, Air Bombs will have less of an effect on Balloons but can still have significant effects on Minions, Lava Pups, and Bats (the latter only if another troop triggers the trap first). Nonetheless, multiple Air Bombs can prove problematic to Balloons, especially if a Wizard Tower is nearby and can force the attacker to use a Healing Spell.
*It could be useful to put air bombs and seeking air mines together as they mitigate each other's weakness and the air bomb would've weakened the air troop to a point that a seeking air mine will just straight-up killed it.
===Offensive Strategy===
*If you want your strong aerial troops to be safe from Air Bombs, deploy the weakest air units that you have (a Minion or Balloon) in the specific area where an Air Bomb may be. This will trick the Air Bombs into attacking them, letting your other aerial troops become safer.
*Avoid spamming your Minions in areas where you suspect an Air Bomb may be nearby (this may be near an exposed Town Hall or resource storage, or near an ); an Air Bomb can detonate and almost always instantly kill a large group of Minions.
**The only time that this isn't the case is when deploying level 9 or higher Minions against a level 1 Air Bomb, which is exceptionally situational (and often only occurs with a new TH12 or TH14's newly built Air Bomb), unless their hitpoints have been buffed by the Life Aura of the Grand Warden, in which case a level 10 Minion is able to survive Air Bombs up to level 5.
*Air troops with higher hitpoints, such as Dragons and Electro Dragons, can usually ignore the Air Bomb as its damage is negligible compared to the health of the troop. However, the Lava Hound can be an exception in situational cases; if the Air Bomb explodes just as the Lava Hound splits into Lava Pups, it may wipe out all of the Lava Pups at once before they can do any damage.
==Upgrade Differences==
*The Air Bomb goes through significant visual changes at levels 3 and 9.
**When initially constructed, the Air Bomb is a barrel with metal rings under a trapdoor with two red balloons attached to it. The balloons have white skulls painted on them.
**At level 3, the Air Bomb gains spikes on its rings, and the trapdoor opens up slightly.
**At level 5, the Air Bomb's spikes and rings become gold.
**At level 7, the wood of the barrels changes into a glossy dark color, matching the Seeking Air Mine. The spikes are much larger as well.
**At level 9, the Air Bomb's balloons become larger and pinkish red. The wooden barrels are colored red with dark gray spikes. The trapdoor's corners are also reinforced. When triggered, a fuse appears to be ignited.
**At level 11, the trapdoor is now made of stone-like metal instead of wood, its corners are now gold in color, and the spikes of the Mine also turn gold.
==Statistics==
Level	Damage	Cost 	Build Time	Experience Gained	Town Hall Level Required
1 	100 	4,000 	N/A 	N/A 	5
2 	120 	20,000 	1h 	60 	5
3 	144 	150,000 	2h 	84 	7
4 	173 	540,000 	12h 	207 	9
5 	208 	1,100,000 	1d 	293 	11
6 	232 	1,900,000 	2d 	415 	12
7 	252 	2,000,000 	2d 12h 	464 	13
8 	280 	2,600,000 	3d 	509 	13
9 	325 	5,000,000 	5d 	657 	14
10 	350 	6,500,000 	6d 	720 	15
11 	375 	10,000,000	9d 12h 	905 	16
Trigger Radius	Damage Radius	Damage Type	Unit Type Targeted	Favorite Target
4 tiles 	3 tiles 	Area Splash	Air 	None
Unarmed Air Bomb	Unarmed Air Bomb	Unarmed Air Bomb	Unarmed Air Bomb	Unarmed Air Bomb	Unarmed Air Bomb	Unarmed Air Bomb	Unarmed Air Bomb
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
==History==
October 19, 2012 	October 19, 2012	bbodega suggested adding a trap that targets air units.
Patch 	Type 	Description
February 4, 2013 	Sneak Peek 	Supercell announced the Air Bomb.
February 5, 2013 	Update 	Added the Air Bomb.
April 17, 2013 	Update 	Reduced the Air Bomb's explosion radius.
November 6, 2013 	Update 	
*The Air Bomb, as with all other traps, now remain in the village after being triggered, but imposing a re-arm cost in doing so, and removing the ability to sell untriggered Air Bombs.
*Added three more levels to the Air Bomb, for a total of four.
December 10, 2015 	Update 	
*Greatly reduced the re-arm costs of the Air Bomb at all levels.
**Level 1: 3,000 -> 400 
**Level 2: 4,000 -> 600 
**Level 3: 5,000 -> 800 
**Level 4: 6,000 -> 1,000
March 5, 2018 	Update 	Added the level 5 Air Bomb.
October 23, 2018 	Update 	
*Added the level 6 Air Bomb.
*Reduced its trigger radius to 4 tiles (from 5 tiles).
April 2, 2019 	Update 	Removed re-arm costs for the Air Bomb entirely (as with all traps and reloadable defenses), instead automatically re-arming after logging into the game.
December 9, 2019 	Update 	Added the level 7 Air Bomb.
March 30, 2020 	Update 	Reduced Air Bomb's upgrade cost at level 4.
*1,500,000 -> 1,000,000
June 22, 2020 	Update 	Affected the Air Bomb by preventing it from travelling across the map to hit a target if their original target was destroyed before it could detonate, instead only being able to target within an 8-tile radius.
December 7, 2020 update	Update 	Added the level 8 Air Bomb.
April 12, 2021 	Update 	Reduced Air Bomb's upgrade cost at level 4.
*1,000,000 -> 800,000
June 15, 2021 	Update 	Added the level 9 Air Bomb. Its cosmetic appearance was later tweaked in the optional update that released the next day.
December 9, 2021 	Update 	Reduced upgrade costs at levels 4 and 5.
June 27, 2022 	Update 	
*Increased the damage on level 5-9 Air Bombs.
**Level 5: 200 -> 208
**Level 6: 228 -> 232
**Level 7: 248 -> 252
**Level 8: 270 -> 280
**Level 9: 290 -> 325
==Trivia==
*It is possible for a Minion to outrun an Air Bomb.
*When unarmed, it will display 3 deflated red balloons like the unarmed Seeking Air Mine, despite the fact that the Air Bomb has only 2 balloons.
*The Air Bomb goes through an animation of its trapdoor opening and then targets the nearest air unit whenever an air unit goes near its activation radius. Consequently, this means that strange events can happen if the air unit that triggered the Air Bomb dies before its animation finishes. Note that these don't happen if the air unit is dead after the animation plays.
** If there are other air units nearby (within a circle whose radius is twice the Air Bomb's activation radius), the Air Bomb will target them instead.
** Otherwise, the trapdoor will open, but the Air Bomb will detonate harmlessly.
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