Lightning Spell



"Electrocute your enemies with bolts of lightning! Cast this spell at the enemy village to damage buildings and units inside a small area."


 * Summary
 * The Lightning Spell is the first spell unlocked and comes with the Spell Factory once it has finished construction.
 * When this spell is used a number of lightning bolts drop from the sky, damaging all Buildings and enemy Troops randomly within a circle of 3.5 tiles in radius. The most damage is done to the area where the spell is dropped.


 * Offensive Strategy
 * Some people use Lightning Spells only on the Dark Elixir Storage to steal the Dark Elixir from them.
 * It is very useful to take out an enemy's defenses such as Cannons or Archer Towers.
 * It is also very useful to take out enemy Clan Castle Troops.
 * It can be used to destroy Mortars, or at least damage them significantly due to their relatively low hitpoints.
 * It can be very useful if you need to just destroy a building to get a star.
 * A good Trophy-hunting strategy is to use Lightning Spells to take out an Air Defense then deploy Dragons. Jorge Yao stated in his interview that he used that tactic to help him reach number one on the top players' list.
 * Lightning Spells are usually used to take out or damage Defenses with relatively low hit-points.


 * Trivia
 * The Lightning Spell used to take 2 hours to make, but it was reduced in an update to 1 hour. The latest update on 17 Apr 2013 further reduced the creation time to 30 minutes.
 * Supercell posted a video on it. Lightning Spell Video
 * The Lightning Spell's damage goes up by 30 points after every upgrade.
 * It takes 2.4 seconds for all the lightning to strike.

