Faun Keg

Faun Barrel

> ***"Flying barrel. Spawns 3 fauns when explosion."***
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Faun Barrel is a 3 Mana card. It is a spell that launches a Barrel from the player's Tower. Upon impact, the Barrel breaks open and spawns three Fauns.

## Strategy

* The Faun Barrel can be launched anywhere in the Arena, allowing players to attack or finish off buildings they cannot reach. However, it is easily countered with damaging spells and area damage troops due to their low hitpoints.
* It is a good idea to put a tank/mini-tank (such as an Explorer or Swordsman) in the same lane as your Faun Barrel, so the opponent’s Tower would lock on to the tank, potentially allowing all three Fauns to connect multiple times and deal massive damage to the tower.
	+ However, this combo can easily be countered by using a spell or splash damage-dealing card to destroy the Fauns before finishing the tank off.
* It is not a good idea to leave a Faun Barrel alone as it will do nearly twice as much damage to a Tower as a Missile for half the Mana cost.
* When the Faun Barrel is placed at the center of a Tower, the spawned Fauns split apart on all sides of the Tower, making them harder for area damage units to defeat.
* The Fauns from the Faun Barrel have high damage per second, but low hitpoints. If it is being tanked by a high hitpoint troop that distracts the Tower and any defending units, the Faun Barrel can deal extremely high damage in a relatively short amount of time.
* The Faun Barrel can force the opponent to use their spells, allowing the player to swarm their opponent with cards such as the Skeleton Horde and Devil Horde. However, this strategy can backfire if the opponent has some splash damage troops, another splash spell, or a Mirror. If the player has a Mirror, they can send a Faun Barrel at the Tower again, forcing them to react with less effective counters.
* When countering the Faun Barrel, the player must not overreact and play a high cost card unless they are confident that they can turn said card into a counterpush, since the Faun Barrel only costs 3 Mana.
* Spells like Rocket and Lightning are impractical to use against a Faun Barrel since it is both a negative Mana trade and may not hit all of the Fauns. However, if the defending player is ahead in a match and their Tower is at low health, they can use these spells to clear out a Barrel in the final seconds of a match.
* Some spells such as Blitz will not instantly defeat the Fauns, so a Princess Tower will take some damage. This is significant enough to fully destroy it over the course of a match if this is the only card played to counter the Barrel. The Footman Barrel and Rolling Steel fully defeat the Faun Barrel for a neutral or positive Mana trade.
* If the player has no spells, then swarms such as the Skeleton Horde will be able to negate the damage.
* Good outcomes can be achieved with troops that can 1-shot Fauns; such as the Drunker. These counters are somewhat situational and depends on what else the player has to counter Faun Barrels because the opponent can throw their Faun Barrels anywhere they please.
* Ranged units aren't affected by placement since as long as all three Fauns are in range, the result will still be the same. Archers, Gunner, Bomber Man and other ranged units prevent all but two stabs on the player's Tower. In some situations, the player may want to have the ranged troop tank a few shots from the Fauns in order to prevent more chip damage.
* Flying swarm troops such as Devils can be effective when placed directly above the Faun Barrel's landing, as they will safely destroy the Fauns without being counterattacked.
* An effective offensive strategy is to play a Bomber Girl at the bridge after sending a Faun Barrel to the opponent's Tower. The opponent will likely be distracted by the Faun Barrel and allow the Bomber Girl to lock onto the Tower, and since they cannot hit both with one spell, they will have to choose which one to go for. If combined with a tricky barrel, it may even result in the opponent missing both cards with their spell.

## History

2023

* The Faun Barrel card was released with Boom Arena's game launch on 4/5/2023.
* On 6/30/2023, Faun Barrel recived a Deploy Time nerf from 0 seconds to 1 second.

## Trivia

* It's the Boom Arena equivalent to the Goblin Barrel. A laugh is heard when both are played.