Inferno Dragon

For his base version, see Baby Dragon/Home Village.

For his Clan Capital version, see Inferno Dragon/Clan Capital.

For the Builder Base Troop with an identical ability but on Fire Mode, see Electrofire Wizard.

For the defensive building, see Inferno Tower.

"Not getting upset over being alone anymore, the Inferno Dragon has learned to focus its rage into a very powerful beam that builds up over time!"

Level 6-11

Summary

The Inferno Dragon is a Super Troop based on the Baby Dragon. It can be unlocked by boosting the Baby Dragon when the Baby Dragon is at least level 6.
The Inferno Dragon is a super version of and has a similar appearance to the Baby Dragon, in which he has a metallic helmet with sharp teeth at the bottom connected to a wooden barrel with iron rings and an iron base at the end. He attacks with an inferno beam from his mouth that builds up damage over time, much like the single-target Inferno Tower.
Boosting the Baby Dragon requires 25,000 Dark Elixir or a Super Potion, and doing so allows the Baby Dragon to be boosted for 3 days. The level of Inferno Dragon you obtain from the boost corresponds to the level of Baby Dragon you have.
Because of the level requirement, players require Town Hall 12 in order to boost Baby Dragons into Inferno Dragons. However, because of the Laboratory level cap, players require a level 6 Clan Castle or greater in order to get donated one, allowing anyone Town Hall 10 or above to get one.
Inferno Dragons have no preferred target when attacking; they will simply attack the closest building. However, if they become aware of enemy Clan Castle troops, Heroes, or Skeleton Trap skeletons (either by being attacked themselves or by being near another friendly troop under attack), and can fight back against them, they will leave their previously targeted building and instead engage the enemy troops. Once all of the nearby enemy troops are defeated, the Inferno Dragons will proceed to attack the nearest structure.

Strategies

Offensive Strategies

Inferno Dragons can serve very well as part of air attacks, as they have the capability of taking down high health buildings quickly. They also have no loss of DPS when next to other troops as well.
- This is especially good for LavaLoon attacks, where you can send them with the main army and let them take down the defending Archer Queen and Royal Champion, allowing other troops to be used elsewhere (E.G. allowing a Queen Charge to target something else like Town Hall.)
The Air Sweeper should be a defense to watch out for when using Inferno Dragons. The Air Sweeper's pushback will send the Inferno Dragon out of range of his target, resetting his damage build-up.
Inferno Dragons can be quite poor at taking out moving targets, particularly a defending Barbarian King, as they will often need to retarget whenever these targets move, resetting the Inferno Dragon's damage build-up. However, against defending Archer Queens and Royal Champions, multiple Inferno Dragons can easily defeat them because the defending Heroes will usually stay in place.
Like their non-super counterparts, they can be used to create funnels as well, but this is only better than a Baby Dragon when there are a number of high-hitpoint buildings, due to his less space-efficient health and lower low-level DPS.
Against a defending Inferno Dragon, bring a Lightning Spell. It resets the charge and deals a good amount of damage, along with one-shotting other commonly used Clan Castle troops.
You can also swarm him with troops that have low housing space, or you can use your Archer Queen if she is high leveled (at least level 45).

Defensive Strategies

Inferno Dragons are superb to use as a defensive Clan Castle troop. Their ramping damage acts as movable Inferno Towers on defense. A Freeze Spell or Poison Spell is almost always required to save the tanks and Heroes from this troop.
Inferno Dragons are slowed down by low HP buildings. Putting them around your Heroes can buy time before they are targeted by the Inferno Dragon.
- Also put them around high damage buildings like Air Defense, so they can take the Inferno Dragon out or do major damage to him before they get destroyed.
An Air Sweeper is detrimental to the Inferno Dragons. Protect them well and make them cover the whole base to destroy Inferno Dragons.
Seeking Air Mines can instantly take out an Inferno Dragon. Place them where you think Inferno Dragons may be deployed.
- However, when sufficiently leveled, they may be able to survive a level 1 Seeking Air Mine.
Inferno Dragons are far less health efficient than their counterpart. Focus on making high damage areas to waste their space taken.

Statistics

Preferred Target	Attack Type	Housing Space	Movement Speed	Attack Speed	Range	Special Ability
None	Single Target	15	18	0.128s	4 tiles	Inferno Beam

Boost Cost	Boost Duration	Baby Dragon Level Required
25,000	3d	6

Level	Damage per Second			Hitpoints
Level	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Hitpoints
6	75	150	1,500	1,900
7	79	158	1,580	2,050
8	83	166	1,660	2,200
9	85	170	1,700	2,300
10	86	174	1,740	2,400
11	88	178	1,780	2,500

History

Patch	Description
June 20, 2020	Announced the Inferno Dragon, with levels 6 and 7.
June 22, 2020	Added the Inferno Dragon.
June c. 2020	Fixed Inferno Dragon's missing shadow.
July 1, 2020	Reduced the number of Inferno Dragons in trial level from 28 to 18.
October 12, 2020	Inferno Dragons no longer heat up their beam when flying, but charge-up time for higher damage tiers has been reduced.
April 12, 2021	Added level 8 Inferno Dragon. Decreased damage at level 7 from 80-160-1,600 to 79-158-1,580. Decreased hitpoints at level 7 Inferno Dragon from 2,100 to 2,050. Inferno Dragon's beam cooldown time increased from 0.5s to 0.6s.
September 27, 2021	Charge-up time for higher damage tiers increased: 1.5/3.0s -> 1.7/3.2s for tiers 2 and 3 respectively.
June 12, 2023	Added level 9 Inferno Dragon.
February 27, 2024	Added level 10 Inferno Dragon.
November 25, 2024	Added level 11 Inferno Dragon.
February 10, 2025	Reduced training time from 2m 15s to 2m 7s.

Gallery

Trivia

General

You can have a maximum of 22 Inferno Dragons at one time in a complete set of fully upgraded Army Camps. This number increases to 25 if you include 3 that can fit into a level 9 or higher Clan Castle. On the battlefield, you can clone an additional 8 Inferno Dragons with four level 5 or higher Clone Spells (three from the regular spell inventory and one from a level 10 or higher Clan Castle). These total to a maximum of 33 Inferno Dragons.
The Inferno Dragon resembles dragons from European cultures. Being reptilian legendary creatures, often depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire.
- The Inferno Dragon is slower than the Baby Dragon, despite being of the same breed. This may possibly be because he carries extra equipment and wears a helmet.
  - Unlike the regular Baby Dragon which changes his appearance as he levels up, the Inferno Dragon's appearance does not change.
The Inferno Dragon's artwork is shared with Clash Royale. Despite coming after the one in Clash Royale, the artwork was originally made for Clash of Clans.
- The Inferno Dragon was added to Clash Royale on September 30, 2016. The descriptions in Clash of Clans and Clash Royale both mention how the Inferno Dragon's beam deals higher damage per second over time. The Inferno Dragon was added to Clash of Clans in the 2020 Summer update along with the Super Witch.
It is said that the Inferno Dragon has learnt to focus his rage into a very powerful beam (his inferno attack), possibly revealing why the Inferno Dragon no longer goes into a raged state when alone.
The Inferno Dragon's wings, hands and feet are red in his artwork, but in battle, they are orange.
The Inferno Dragon was first revealed in a dark silhouette at the end of a developer livestream. That was the only thing known on his "confirmation".
Prior to the July 1st maintenance break, the Inferno Dragon appeared without a shadow because of a glitch.
- According to the official Clash of Clans website, the Headhunter may have stolen the shadow. The post can be found here.
The barrel on his back may contain Dark Elixir, as it is the fuel of the Inferno Tower as well as Dark Elixir is required to boost it.]
The Inferno Dragon is one of ten troops featured as a monster in the game Squad Busters. The others are the Wall Breaker, P.E.K.K.A, Minion, Golem, Bowler, Baby Dragon, Lava Hound, Ice Golem, and Yeti
- He is also the Super Troop to be featured as a monster in the game.

Comparisons

The Inferno Dragon is the only Super Troop to have been transferred from Clash Royale, although the Super Archer and Super Valkyrie are conceptually similar to the Magic Archer and Lumberjack, respectively.
- He is also the only Super Troop to appear in Clash Royale.
He is one of the four Super Troops that do not have "Super" in his name, the others being the Sneaky Goblin, Rocket Balloon, and the Ice Hound.
- He is the only one of them that, when changing the first word to "Super", gives the name of another Super Troop.
The Inferno Dragon is one of the five troops associated with Dragons, the others are the Super Dragon, Baby Dragon, Electro Dragon, and the Dragon Rider.
The Inferno Dragon, along with the Super Witch and Ice Hound are the only Super Troops to have unique sounds when deployed, attacking, and dying.
The Inferno Dragon is one of two troops modeled after a defense, the other being the Cannon Cart.
Out of all troops in the game, the Inferno Dragon is the fastest attacking unit, with a hit speed of 0.128s, tied with the Capital Inferno Dragon, and has the same attack speed as the Inferno Tower.
The Inferno Dragon is the first Super Troop that is an aerial unit, and is one of five such Super Troops to be air units (the others being the Rocket Balloon, Super Minion, Ice Hound and Super Dragon).

Home Village Army
Elixir Troops	Barbarian • Archer • Giant • Goblin • Wall Breaker • Balloon • Wizard • Healer • Dragon • P.E.K.K.A • Baby Dragon • Miner • Electro Dragon • Yeti (Yetimite) • Dragon Rider • Electro Titan • Root Rider • Thrower
Dark Elixir Troops	Minion • Hog Rider • Valkyrie • Golem (Golemite) • Witch (Skeleton) • Lava Hound (Lava Pup) • Bowler • Ice Golem • Headhunter • Apprentice Warden • Druid (Bear) • Furnace (Firemite)
Super Troops	Super Barbarian • Super Archer • Super Giant • Sneaky Goblin • Super Wall Breaker • Rocket Balloon • Super Wizard • Super Dragon • Inferno Dragon • Super Miner • Super Yeti (Electromite) • Super Minion • Super Hog Rider (Super Hog • Super Rider) • Super Valkyrie • Super Witch (Big Boy) • Ice Hound (Ice Pup) • Super Bowler
Heroes & Hero Equipment	Barbarian King: Barbarian Puppet • Rage Vial • Earthquake Boots • Vampstache • Giant Gauntlet • Spiky Ball • Snake Bracelet (Snake) Archer Queen: Archer Puppet • Invisibility Vial • Giant Arrow • Healer Puppet • Frozen Arrow • Magic Mirror • Action Figure (Giant Giant) Minion Prince: Henchmen Puppet (Henchmen) • Dark Orb • Metal Pants • Noble Iron • Dark Crown Grand Warden: Eternal Tome • Life Gem • Rage Gem • Healing Tome • Fireball • Lavaloon Puppet (Lavaloon • Lavaloon Pup) Royal Champion: Royal Gem • Seeking Shield • Hog Rider Puppet • Haste Vial • Rocket Spear • Electro Boots
Elixir Spells	Lightning Spell • Healing Spell • Rage Spell • Jump Spell • Freeze Spell • Clone Spell • Invisibility Spell • Recall Spell • Revive Spell
Dark Spells	Poison Spell • Earthquake Spell • Haste Spell • Skeleton Spell (Skeleton) • Bat Spell (Bat) • Overgrowth Spell • Ice Block Spell
Siege Machines	Wall Wrecker • Battle Blimp • Stone Slammer • Siege Barracks • Log Launcher • Flame Flinger • Battle Drill • Troop Launcher
Pets	L.A.S.S.I • Electro Owl • Mighty Yak • Unicorn • Frosty (Frostmite) • Diggy • Poison Lizard • Phoenix • Spirit Fox • Angry Jelly • Sneezy (Booger)