Bat Spell/Bat

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"Bats are frightfully fast and deadly in swarms, but are easily wiped out by splash damage."
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Bat
==Summary==
*Bats are summoned by Bat Spells. Unlike their Builder Base counterpart, they target defenses.
*These are just like Skeletons, however they fly. This allows them to evade ground defenses.
*Like Skeletons, Bats do not trigger traps or Clan Castle troops.
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*Bats do 15% of their regular damage to resource buildings. In particular, this affects their interaction with the Town Hall's Giga Tesla and Giga Inferno, as they are considered both a defense and a resource building.
*Bats are considered to take 1 housing space for determining its interactions with the Tornado Trap and Clone Spell.
==Strategies==
===Offensive===
*Bats don't deal much damage, but they have power in numbers. When using Bat Spells to attack, it is often recommended to use several Bat Spells at once, so that the resulting mass of Bats are easily able to quickly plow their way through defenses.
*They can be used to cover your troops by distracting and clearing defenses in an area, but due to their low hitpoints they often need cover themselves. Freeze Spells must be used to stop splash or multi-targeting defenses or the Bats will be killed quickly.
*Consider taking out threats to Bats with your other troops before attacking with Bat Spells. Ideally you will want to destroy any Wizard Towers in the planned area of attack (or distract/freeze that tower when the Bats reach it), as well as any multi-target Inferno Towers or Scattershots.
*They are also good as a distraction, but skeleton spell is better for this purpose, as the skeleton spell spawns skeletons with shields, which helps them to take more damage, and spawns more skeletons, thus distracting defenses for longer.
===Defensive===
*Any defense that deals splash damage will take out Bats easily: Wizard Towers, the Eagle Artillery, Inferno Towers (multi-target), Scattershots, the Giga Tesla, the Giga Inferno, and Air Bombs, as well as anything with fast hitspeeds: s (when set to fast attack mode), X-Bow (ground and air), and s.
==Statistics==
Preferred Target	Attack Type 	Targets 	Movement Speed	Attack Speed	Range
Defenses 	Single Target	Ground & Air	56 	2s 	0.8 tiles
Damage per Second	Damage per Attack	Hitpoints
30 	60 	20
==Trivia==
*The Bats resemble the in-life bat species called "Desmodus rotundus" (common vampire bat). The common vampire bat is a hematophagous bat species that primarily feeds on the blood of livestock, which is done by biting their prey while they are sleeping. In Clash of Clans, Bats attack in a similar way by biting their enemies.
*The Bat from the Bat Spell has the second highest Movement Speed from any troop in the game, with 56.
*Bats spawned from the Bat Spell are slower than ones spawned by the Night Witch.
*The Bat's appearance does not change when the Bat Spell is upgraded, similar to the Skeletons when upgrading the Skeleton Spell.
*The Bat does not leave upon-death skeletons; they simply fade away when destroyed.
*Bats' death sound is not unique, as it shares the death sound with Lava Pups' and Ice Pups’’. However, they have unique sounds when summoned and attacking.
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