Firespitter

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For the temporary Crafted Defense with a similar name, see Flame Spinner.

"The Firespitter spews flames at a fire rate faster than the X-Bow! If it misses, the Firespitter will shoot past its target to deal damage to enemies behind. It can only face a single direction, so place carefully!"

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Level 1

Level 2

Summary

• The Firespitter is a multi-targeting defense unlocked at Town Hall 17.
• The Firespitter attacks by firing a hail of small molten iron balls at enemies in a straight line. These projectiles do a small amount of damage, but come in bursts of 20 shots and can hit two targets each.
  • The flames are able to hit both ground and air units, independently of which type of unit is first hit. Thus, it is possible for a shot to hit a ground troop followed by an air troop, and vice versa.
  • Once individual flame projectiles have hit two targets, they disappear and cannot hit any further targets.
• The Firespitter's shots are not perfectly accurate. Instead, they scatter over a narrow angle, making the Firespitter less accurate over longer distances.
• The Firespitter has a very long range of 16 tiles but can only cover a single general direction, spanning an arc of roughly 150 degrees which covers roughly less than half the base. It can be rotated in angles of 90 degrees, facing directions parallel to the tile sides and not the corners, telegraphed by where its head and claws are facing.
• Just like the Scattershot, it can deal damage to units behind the initial target, and players can only have two Firespitters on their base.

Strategies

Defensive Strategies

• Due to its extremely long range, it is able to outrange the Flame Flinger and the Royal Champion equipped with the Rocket Spear. Also, due to its fast attack speed, it is able to deal massive amounts of damage to tanky units such as Root Riders.
  • When paired with the Rage Spell Tower, it becomes much more powerful and dangerous having more damage per second which can change the tide in a battle.
  • However, due to its inaccuracy, it is possible for fast enough troops to only take fewer shots, which reduces its damage potential.
• This defense is very effective against Queen Walks and Charges, as the projectiles are able to pierce through the Queen and even the Healers and the Unicorn if the Archer Queen is directly targeting the Firespitter with the Healers being in the line of fire of said defense, provided that they are not on its blind spot.
  • However, even if the Queen is out of range, the Firespitter still has a long range and can eventually take the Healers out if the attacker is not careful.
• The Firespitter is very effective against units that come out from the Battle Blimp, especially Super Archers, as when a unit comes into the Firespitter's range (such as a Dragon), the piercing projectiles can take them out with the help of Traps.
  • For Balloons, Air Bombs can deal heavy damage to those troops, dealing enough damage for the Firespitter to take them out, especially when paired with the Tornado Trap.
• When the original target is taken out, the Firespitter stops shooting and then starts a new burst on a new target. The delay between bursts is significant; if it happens frequently, such as when attacking a group of low-health troops, this can significantly reduce the damage output of the Firespitter.
  • This mechanism is unlike the Roaster in the Builder Base which is able to fire off the whole burst even if its original target was killed while retargeting to other units.

Offensive Strategies

• One should be wary of the Firespitter's range, as it is able to outrange the Flame Flinger. If you want to destroy the Firespitter, you must either attack it from its blind spot, or protect your Flinger by using a tanky unit such as the an Ice Golem, Golem, or a Yeti.
• You can use the Grand Warden's Eternal Tome to protect your troops from heavy damage, especially if there are other high-damage defenses nearby.
  • However, the troops must be in the range of the aura, otherwise they will lose their invincibility, rendering them vulnerable to damage.
• In the case the Firespitter deals heavy damage to your main army (especially when boosted by a Rage Spell Tower and/or supported by high-damage defenses), either use the Grand Warden's Eternal Tome to make your troops invulnerable for a short period of time, a Freeze Spell to freeze it, or disable it for a while using the Overgrowth Spell.
• You can use a Skeleton Spell to distract the Flame Flinger, so that it will waste its shots, provided if the main army does not get hit by them.
• Attacking the Firespitter from the sides or behind it can be a good idea, since the Firespitter cannot target units that are not within its attack radius. Be wary however, any defenses and traps (as well as another Firespitter that would cover the blind spot) can protect it from being destroyed easily.

Upgrade Differences

• Initially, the Firespitter is a charcoal-colored, spherical metal furnace with a golden grate on top, and has a dragon-shaped head with bronze horns, glowing white eyes, and a barrel inside its mouth, which resembles the Dragon Rider's head, and can turn in different directions by a horizontal golden band, although the head is only limited to turning to a roughly 150-degree cone. It also has a tail, two cage-like openings, and a slightly opened lid at the back. All of these parts are held by a stone foundation with two metal claws at the front. When being rotated, the entire furnace changes to the direction it is currently facing to, including the claws. The Firespitter attacks by firing a maximum of twenty molten balls which pierce through units, ground and air alike. These molten balls spread by a small angle, which means that the Firespitter is more accurate when troops are close to it and may damage troops behind its original target.
• At level 2, the top part of the dragon's head and its horns turn gold, and the eyes glow yellow.

Statistics

Statistic Modifiers

Input values into these modifiers below to modify the statistics in the tables below accordingly

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Gold Pass modifiers

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Town Hall Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Number Available	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2

Size
3x3

Level	Damage per Second	Damage per Hit	Hitpoints	Cost	Build Time	Experience Gained	Town Hall Level Required
1	399	46	4,500	17,000,000	11d	974	17
2	425	49	5,000	18,000,000	11d 12h	996	17

Supercharges

These additional levels can be attained at Town Hall 17 once the maximum level of the building has been attained. These Supercharges will be removed when a new level of this building is added.

New Level Coming! This Supercharge lasts until a new level becomes available. Depletes Soon!

Charge Level	Damage per Second	Damage per Hit	Hitpoints	Cost	Build Time	Experience Gained	Town Hall Level Required
1	442	51	5,000	8,000,000	3d 12h	549	17
2	442	51	5,250	6,000,000	4d	587	17

Range	Attack Speed	Time Between Bursts	Shots Per Burst	Damage Type	Unit Type Targeted	Favorite Target
16 tiles	0.0625s	1s	20 shots	Multiple Targets	Ground & Air	Any

Achievements

Firespitter Finisher
Description	Rewards	Rewards
Destroy 40 Firespitters in Multiplayer Battles	100	25
Destroy 400 Firespitters in Multiplayer Battles	800	75
Destroy 4,000 Firespitters in Multiplayer Battles	5,000	200

Icon Descriptions

	Tapping this icon displays information about the Firespitter, such as Level, Damage Per Second, Hitpoints, Range, Damage Type, and Targets.
	Tapping this icon begins upgrading the Firespitter to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Builder (or B.O.B). When the Firespitter is at maximum level, this icon is replaced by the Supercharge! icon.
	Tapping this icon begins Supercharging the maxed Firespitter to the next charge, if you have enough resources and a free Builder (or B.O.B). When the Firespitter is at maximum charge, this icon is not shown.
	Tapping this icon instantly upgrades the Firespitter to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Building if you have one. When the Firespitter is at maximum level, or if the Town Hall requirements for the next level are not met, this icon is not shown.
	Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of the displayed number of Gems.
	Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Building. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Building.
	Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Everything. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Everything but do not have a Book of Building.
	Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, gives the player the option to assign a Builder's Apprentice to that Building. This icon only is only shown if you have unlocked Builder's Apprentice for 500 Gems.
	Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, boosts all your Builders for 1 hour by a factor of ten, at the cost of one Builder Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Builder Potion.
	Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, cancels the current upgrade and refunds half of the upgrade cost.
	Tapping this icon rotates the Firespitter 90 degrees clockwise.

History

Patch	Type	Description
November 23, 2024	Sneak Peek	Announced the Firespitter, with two levels and two Supercharge levels.
November 25, 2024	Town Hall 17 Update	Added the Firespitter, with two are available at Town Hall 17.
March 24, 2025	Update	Added the achievement associated with the Firespitter, "Firespitter Finisher".
November 17, 2025	Town Hall 18 Update	Reduced build times at all levels and all charges: Level 1: 22,500,000 -> 17,000,000 Level 2: 23,000,000 -> 18,000,000 Charge 1: 12,000,000 -> 8,000,000 Charge 2: 10,000,000 -> 6,000,000 Reduced build costs at all levels and all charges: Level 1: 15d -> 11d Level 2: 16d -> 11d 12h Charge 1: 6d -> 3d 12h Charge 2: 7d -> 4d

Gallery

Images

Concepts design of Firespitter.

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Render model.

Animations

Firespitter attacking

Trivia

General

• In some leaked material, the level 2 Firespitter used to deal 50 damage per shot, which was lowered by one when it is released.
• The Firespitter takes 1.25 seconds to shoot all 20 flames and takes a second of cooldown between each attack, resulting in 2.25 seconds per attack cycle by frame counting. However, the damage per second suggested it takes 2.3 seconds per cycle, for example, ${\textstyle {\frac {46\times 20}{399}}=2.306}$. This may suggest the damage per second is not a concrete number like most other defenses but by some testing and estimation, which may cause the damage per second display to be slightly lower.
  • The Firespitter takes a quick pause after defeating its target to waste less of its volley and the flames themselves can miss, those reasons can lower the damage per second and might explain the extra time in the calculated attack cycle length.
• When a unit is hit by the projectile from the Firespitter, upon impact, the sound effect used is similar to the Wall Wrecker's attacking, except pitched much higher.
• While being upgraded, the Firespitter's head will only rotate, and not the claws, in which case they always face to the bottom right side, even if the head is rotated oppositely, as compared to both the head and claws rotating in the same direction prior to being upgraded.

Comparisons

• The Firespitter is the fourth defense in the Home Village that mentions the "damage per hit" statistics in its info section, the first being the Eagle Artillery, the second being the Burst Mode Cannon, and the third being the Burst Mode Mortar.
• The Firespitter is one of the five defenses in the Home Village to have a blind spot, the others being the Mortar, Air Sweeper, Eagle Artillery, and the Scattershot.
• The Firespitter can be considered as an offensive and more powerful Air Sweeper; it deals damage, can damage units, can also target ground, has a much higher hitpoints, has a one-tile longer range, and covers a bigger arc, as well as not having a blind spot on its attack cone at the direction it is facing. However, it is only limited to rotate in four different directions and can only pierce up to two targets.
• The Firespitter is the sixth defense in the Home Village that can attack both ground and air units at the same time, the others being the multi-target Inferno Tower, Giga Tesla, Giga Inferno, Multi-Archer Tower, and the Inferno Artillery.
  • Out of these, the Inferno Artillery is the only defense that does the same but also deals splash damage. Additionally, its fire pools can also damage both ground and air.
• It does not have unique sounds when placed and swapped, as it reuses the Air Sweeper's sound. However, when attacking, it does, except for the projectile impact, as it reuses a higher-pitched Wall Wrecker attacking sound.
• It is the second defense in the Home Village to have a piercing ability, the first being the Scattershot.
  • However, its projectiles have a piercing limit, which can be observed when attacking troops from a longer range, and unlike the former, the latter also does splash damage as well as piercing through infinite targets.
• Out of all the defenses in the game, the Firespitter has the longest range, being 16 tiles (not counting the Eagle Artillery, which has a 7-50 tile range but only activates when it has reached its activation housing space).