Ice Hound

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"Free from all the lava-induced indigestion, the Ice Hound is ready to freeze the flow of battle. Chill out, or else."
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Level 5 & 6
==Summary==
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*The Ice Hound is similar to a Lava Hound, except with higher hitpoints, an ability to chill targets that it hits and having less pups compared to the Lava Hound, which slows afflicted targets down just like the Ice Wizard and Ice Golem. Upon death, it freezes the surrounding area like an Ice Golem, and releases several Ice Pups. The Ice Hound also does a little less damage than the Lava Hound.
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==Strategy==
===Offensive===
*Don't Make sure that the Ice Hound explodes into pups prematurely, because otherwise its Freeze upon death and its high tanking potential will be next to useless.
*Ice Hounds can be used very similarly to Lava Hounds in LavaLoon attacks. They can shield for the Balloons and also destroy enemy Heroes with their Ice Pups once popped, and the freeze upon death can help freeze defenses and reduce the damage taken by your damage dealers.
*Each Ice Hound is worth 1/7th or 1/8th of a max army, so use each one wisely and get heavy value out of it or else it will be a waste of precious housing space.
*Like the Ice Golem, an Ice Hound can stop a single-target Inferno Tower from harming powerful troops. However, it will still deal that devastating third-stage damage, albeit just slower, so still watch out for that!
*Even though it has more hitpoints, the Ice Hound should be treated more towards an air-Ice Golem than an air-Golem. This is because of its freezing effect and less Ice Pups, However, it boasts a lot of hitpoints, so it has great tanking potential.
*The Ice Hound and the pups can slow down defenses, acting as a great support and tank for many air troops and for many air-based attack.
===Defensive===
*On paper, the Ice Hound would be an effective Clan Castle troop because of its freezing ability, high health, death freeze, and important Ice pups. However, in reality, the Poison Spell would slow the Ice Hound and its Ice Pups down too much for their ability to be useful. Their death freeze is also not as long-lasting as that of an Ice Golem, and its 40 housing space means not much else can be added to support the Ice Hound (if at all), so keep that in mind when considering using an Ice Hound for defense.
*Putting your single-target Inferno Towers closer to the outside could cause Ice Hounds to pop early and waste their ability. Keep in mind that this could weaken your base to things like Dragon attacks.
*Make sure you destroy them as fast as possible, or else their freeze and its Ice Pups could be a threat to your village. As such, make sure you guard your Air Defenses and your single-target Inferno Towers so they do not get destroyed too quickly and letting the Ice Hound survive more.
==Statistics==
Preferred Target	Attack Type 	 	Movement Speed	Attack Speed	Range 	Special Ability
Air Defense 	Melee (Ground Only)	40	20 	2s 	0.75 tiles	Dish Served Cold
Training Time of Ice Hounds	Training Time of Ice Hounds
Dark Barracks available 	Dark Barracks upgrading
6m 40s 	13m 20s
Level	Damage per Second	Damage per Attack	Freeze Time when Destroyed	Ice Pups Spawned	Ice Pups Spawned	Hitpoints
Level	Damage per Second	Damage per Attack	Freeze Time when Destroyed	On Offense 	On Defense 	Hitpoints
5 	10 	20 	3.5s 	10 	10 	9,500
6 	15 	30 	4.25s 	12 	11 	10,000
==History==
Patch 	Type 	Description
December 6, 2020	 	Revealed the Ice Hound.
December 7, 2020	Logmas Update 	Added the Ice Hound, with levels 5 and 6.
April 12, 2021 	Town Hall 14 Update	Ice Hounds no longer forget about targeting Air Defenses if all the remaining Air Defenses are invisible when they're targeting.
== Gallery ==
Avatar Ice Hound.png|Ice Hound icon
Ice Hound info 2.png
File:Ice Hound5.png
File:Ice hound and pups.jpg|Ice Hound with it's Ice Puppies
IceHoundConcepts.jpeg|Concept designs of Ice Hound.
Ice Hound model.jpeg|Ice Hound model
Ice Hound beta pose.jpeg|Beta Art
Ice Hound beta pose 2.jpeg|Beta Art
==Trivia ==
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*Its death freeze particle is similar to the Ice Golem’s.
*The Ice Hound charmingly appears with a scarf in the artwork, but in-game does not wear one and instead looks like a re-textured level 3 Lava Hound.
===Comparisons===
*The Ice Hound, Sneaky Goblin, Rocket Balloon and Inferno Dragon are the only Super Troops which do not have the word "Super" in their names.
*At max level, the Ice Hound has the second highest hitpoints of any offensive unit, the first being the Barbarian King. If not counting Heroes, then the Ice Hound would be the first.
* The Ice Hound and Super Valkyrie are the only Super Troop to have a spell effect after death.
* The Ice Hound, along with the Inferno Dragon and Super Witch are the only Super Troops to have unique sounds exclusively (deployed, attacking, and upon death).
*The Ice Hound is one of the four troops associated with ice, the others are the Ice Golem, Ice Pup, and Ice Wizard.
* The Ice Hound, alongside the Ice Pup are the only Air Troops that have grass in their info image.
*The Ice Hound is one of the three troops that have three preferred target stages, the other's being the Lava Hound and the Headhunter (has two stages if there is no Clan Castle troops).
**The Ice Hound is the only Super Troop to have three preferred target stages.
**The Ice Hound is one of the two troops to prioritize one type of Defensive Building over others and is the only Super Troop to do so. The other troop that does this is the Lava Hound.
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