Lavaloon

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Temporary Troop Partially Available The Lavaloon was available in ClashoWeen 2023 and 2024 events, and the original content may or may not return at a later date. Currently, this temporary troop is partially available. This temporary troop may also be available from the Lavaloon Puppet.

For Lavaloons spawned by the Lavaloon Puppet, see Lavaloon Puppet/Lavaloon.

"Blending the powerfully blasty bombs of a Balloon with the rock-hard armour of a Lava Hound, the Lavaloon brings a base to ruin one boom at a time."

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Level 1-11

Summary

• The Lavaloon is one of four temporary troops introduced in the Mashup Madness event for Clash-o-Ween 2023, where it could be unlocked after accumulating 35,000 Sour Elixir in the event. It returned in the Mashup Mania event for Clash-o-Ween 2024, where it can be unlocked with 100 Sour Elixir.
• The Lavaloon combines aspects of the Balloon and Lava Hound. Like Lava Hounds, the Lavaloon preferentially targets Air Defenses; in attacking, the Lavaloon releases its bombs on its way to its target, similar to a Battle Blimp. Each bomb does moderately high damage per hit and spawns a Lavaloon Pup. When defeated, the Lavaloon explodes, dealing high area damage, and releases a few Lavaloon Pups depending on its level.
• The Lavaloon cannot be upgraded in the Laboratory. Its level is instead determined by the player's Town Hall level.
• Lavaloons prioritize Air Defenses above all other targets, and will bypass all other enemy buildings and troops while any Air Defenses remain on the battlefield. This is true even if they are under attack by enemy Clan Castle troops, heroes or Skeleton Trap skeletons. Once all Air Defenses are destroyed, they will continue to attack any other remaining defenses. Note that like all troops that prioritize defenses, Lavaloons do not consider the Clan Castle to be a defense regardless of whether or not it contains enemy troops, but do consider the activated Town Hall weapon (if any) to be defensive buildings.
  Once all remaining defenses are destroyed, Lavaloons become like any other troop with no preferred target; they will attack the nearest building to them regardless of type, and will turn and attack enemy units if they become aware of any nearby and can fight back against them.
• The Lavaloon Puppet summons Lavaloons, but these Lavaloons are slightly weaker than the temporary-troop Lavaloons, and are considered distinct from these Lavaloons.

Strategies

Offensive Strategies

• Much like the Lava Hounds, Lavaloons target Air Defenses and drops bombs which spawn a Lavaloon Pup each every few seconds. To get the best value, use Lightning Spells and/or other attacking units to destroy Air Defenses so that the Lavaloons will destroy defenses and the Lavaloon Pups will take out the non-defensive buildings, and eventually destroy the base.
  • The Archer Queen's Giant Arrow can be a useful ability to remove at least two Air Defenses, provided it is angled correctly. If it also destroys an Air Sweeper or both, it can provide great value.
• In the case if there are any defending Clan Castle troops, use a Poison Spell to slow them down or take them out.
• Lavaloons are weak to single-target damage, with traps such as Seeking Air Mines and defenses like single-target Inferno Towers. For single-targeting defenses, use a Freeze Spell or the Overgrowth Spell disable the defense, or use an Invisibility Spell to turn them invisible.

Defensive Strategies

• Defending against Lavaloons are quite tricky as they can distract Air Defenses to provide cover for other air units. The best way to prevent this is to spread them from other important defenses from other Air Defenses, so that the Lavaloons will be split away from the main army.
  • However, this does not work if the attacker manages to destroy too many Air Defenses.
• Multi-target Inferno Towers are very useful in warding off Lavaloon Pups, because they can target Lavaloon Pups independently of any shielding Lavaloons.
• At Town Hall 15 and above, Poison Spell Towers are effective area denial tools against Lavaloon Pups.
• Useful troops to include in a defending Clan Castle to oppose Lavaloons are Super Dragons and Electro Titans. A Super Dragon can deal strong damage to Lavaloons and his area damage can eliminate nearby Lavaloon Pups; an Electro Titan will outright wipe out any Lavaloon Pups that come near her due to her aura.

Statistics

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Preferred Target	Attack Type	Housing Space	Movement Speed	Attack Speed	Barracks Level Required	Range
Air Defense	Area Splash (Ground only)	23	16	2.5s	1	???

Special Ability
Boom + Bust (Passive Ability)
When its bombs explode they also spawn Lavaloon Pups.
Lavaloon Pups spawned (per hit)
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Training Time of Lavaloons
Barracks available	Barracks upgrading
1m 30s	3m

Level	Damage per Second	Damage per Attack	Hitpoints	Damage when Destroyed	Lavaloon Pups Spawned (After Death)	Town Hall Level Required
1	50	125	1,080	200	2	6
2	70	175	1,575	450	3	7
3	90	225	2,070	500	3	8
4	110	275	2,565	600	4	9
5	130	325	3,060	720	4	10
6	150	375	3,555	840	5	11
7	170	425	4,050	960	5	12
8	190	475	4,455	1,000	6	13
9	210	525	4,860	1,050	6	14
10	220	550	5,000	1,100	6	15
11	225	562.5	5,100	1,150	7	16

Gallery

Trivia

• You could have a maximum of 13 Lavaloons at one time in a complete set of fully upgraded Army Camps. On the battlefield, you could clone an additional 4 Lavaloons with four fully upgraded Clone Spells (three from the regular spell inventory and one from a level 10 or higher Clan Castle). Additionally, a total of 2 could be summoned by a Grand Warden equipped with a level 9 or higher Lavaloon Puppet. These total to a maximum of 19 Lavaloons.
• So far, the Lavaloon is the only troop to take up 23 housing space.
• This troop's name comes from an army strategy, the LavaLoon.
• The Lavaloon is one of few temporary troops to later become a permanent part of the game. The other such troops are as follows:
  • The Lavaloon is also the only temporary troop to be summoned from a Hero Equipment, via the Lavaloon Puppet from the Grand Warden, but they are weaker than the ones from the event.
  • The Battle Ram and Skeleton Barrel both appear as troops in the Clan Capital.
  • The Royal Ghost also makes permanent appearances, but is not usable as an attacking troop. He instead appears as part of "Royal Ghost traps" which are specially-modified Skeleton Traps that spawn Royal Ghosts instead of Skeletons. These Royal Ghost traps appear in certain levels in the Single Player Campaign and in a few Attack Challenges.