Night Witch

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For its Home Village counterpart, see Witch.

"Fearlessly summons flocks of flying creatures and, unlike her sister, leaves the grass in pristine condition."

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Level 1-4	Level 5-8	Level 9-12	Level 13-16	Level 17-18

Summary

• The Night Witch is a Builder Base troop unlocked by upgrading the Builder Barracks to level 8, which requires Builder Hall level 6.
• The Night Witch is a splash-damaging ranged troop that will periodically spawn Bats, in which are single-target melee air units. This is similar to how the Witch spawns Skeletons.
• Her Special Ability, Bat Swarm, allows her to explode into bats when she dies. The ability is unlocked at level 4.
• Night Witches have no preferred target when attacking; they will simply attack the closest building to them. However, once they become aware of enemy Guard Post troops (either by being attacked themselves or being near another friendly troop under attack), they will leave their previously targeted building and engage the enemy troops instead. Once all of the nearby enemy troops are defeated, they will proceed to attack the nearest building from their current location.

Strategy

Offensive

• The Bats spawned could be used as an advantage by attacking as air units.
• The Battle Machine works well with the Night Witch, as the Battle Machine has a lot of hitpoints to tank hits for the Night Witch while the Night Witch aids the Battle Machine from behind.
  • However, because Night Witches are ranged units, they are likely to travel around the outside of the base, not following the Battle Machine. You can counteract this by bringing Bombers and Raged Barbarians which will help funnel the Night Witches in.
• It is a good idea to spawn her at the corner of the map, because she can stack up Bats before she starts attacking, but beware of possible Mega Mines placed at the corners, for they will destroy the Night Witches as they get closer to the base. To counteract this, place the Battle Machine before Night Witches.
• Placing one or two Night Witches a few tiles behind a Boxer Giant is a good strategy. The Boxer Giant will tank enemy defenses while the Night Witches summon lots of Bats and chip away at the enemy's structures without being targeted. This strategy, however, is vulnerable to Multi Mortars if the troops are not placed a few tiles away from each other due to its large splash radius.
• Lava Launchers are extremely powerful against Night Witches and must be watched out for. Tanking troops will not be very effective, as the Lava Launcher's shots will create lava pools that linger for a period, which is usually long enough for Night Witches to get hurt by it as the army advances through the base. As the damage potential of the lava is extremely high, they can be quickly killed if they remain in the lava for long enough. Their slow movement speed is also a reason why the lava pools are so dangerous so make sure the Lava Launcher is aiming at something far away.

Defensive

• Any Bats spawned by the Night Witch are vulnerable to Air Bombs and the Roaster. Make sure to protect these defenses so your other defenses can take the Night Witch out before she can stack up her Bats.
• Unlike Skeletons, the Bats cannot protect the Night Witch from ground attacks. This makes her especially vulnerable to ground defenses such as the Double Cannon or Multi Mortar.
• Single Mines set to air mode are an effective option to quickly destroy a swarm of Bats.
• The Giant Cannon and Lava Launcher are excellent at damaging Night Witches that are hiding behind tanks. The latter usually won't attack the Witches directly, but the resulting damage over time effect of the lava can be fatal to the Witches.

Upgrade Differences

• At level 1, she is a woman with a red dress, a black cloak, and glowing blue eyes.
• At level 5, she gains a blood-red colored mist from below her.
• At level 9, the top of her staff changes to gold.
• At level 13, she wears a crown-like piece of jewelry with gold trim on her head to match the staff, similar to a level 3-4 Witch.
• At level 17, the end bits of her scarf turn golden.

History

Patch	Description
May 22, 2017	Data of her in the game files was available.
June 27, 2017	Added the Night Witch, with 12 levels.
September 27, 2017	Added levels 13-14 Night Witch.
March 5, 2018	Added levels 15-16 Night Witch.
June 18, 2019	Added levels 17-18 Night Witch.

Trivia

• You can have a maximum of 12 Night Witches in a set of Army Camps.
• In her description, it says that unlike her sister, she leaves the grass in pristine condition, which refers to the Witch since she summons Skeletons from the ground.
  • This reveals that the Night Witch is Witch's sister.
• The Night Witch explodes regular Elixir upon death instead of Dark Elixir.
• The Night Witch's appearance has many errors in battle.
  • Her dress is red instead of blue.
  • Her bracelets are gold instead of silver.
  • Her buckle is a golden skull instead of resembling her axe.
  • Her cloak is identical to the Witch's cloak, only black.
  • She is shown wearing a scarf.
  • The stick of her staff is brown instead of grey, and lacks swirls.
  • The knob of her axe resembles the Bat instead of a diamond.
  • The glowing mist under her dress is red instead of pink
• The Night Witch was nerfed before pre-release. Her base hitpoints were reduced by 50, her death spawn reduced by 2, and her max Bats spawned by 1.
• The Night Witch is a subject of the Night Witch Mortis skin from Brawl Stars.

Comparisons

• The Night Witch is a Builder Base Troop that originated from Clash Royale, along with the Bomber, and the Baby Dragon.
  • However, she shoots the same projectile as the Witch, as opposed to the Clash Royale melee counterpart despite wielding an axe.
  • Additionally, she can do area damage just like the Witch, while her Clash Royale counterpart cannot.
• The Night Witch is one of the few troops in Builder Base not to add more units per Army Camp when upgraded, the other two being the Drop Ship and Super P.E.K.K.A.
• The Night Witch is the only troop to unlock its ability at level 4 as opposed to level 2.
• The Night Witch is the only unit in either village to have a statistic other than training cost be worse off when upgraded; in particular, her summon cooldown is reset to 6.8 seconds (from 5.6 seconds) when she gains the ability to summon more Bats at a time.
• The Night Witch, Dropship, Hog Glider, Golem, Lava Hound, Yeti, Ice Hound and the temporary Pumpkin Barbarian, Battle Ram and Skeleton Barrel are the only troops to spawn other troops after death.
• The Night Witch has the fastest hit speed of all troops in the Builder Base (including sub-troops), at 0.7 seconds.

Gold Pass modifiers

Input Gold Pass boost to modify the statistics in the tables below accordingly

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Spring Weight	Number of Units per Army Camp	Preferred Target	Attack Type	Movement Speed	Attack Speed	Builder Barracks Level Required	Range	Special Ability
12	2	Any	Area Splash	12	0.7s	8	4 tiles	Bat Swarm

Level	Damage per Second	Damage per Attack	Hitpoints	Bats Summon Cooldown	Bats Summoned	Number of Bat Swarm	Research Cost	Research Time	Star Laboratory Level Required
1	90	63	200	6.8s	2 (Max 3)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	90	63	200	5.6s	2 (Max 3)	N/A	600,000	12h	5
3	99	69.3	220	5.6s	2 (Max 3)	N/A	700,000	12h	6
4	99	69.3	220	5.6s	2 (Max 3)	2	800,000	1d	6
5	109	76.3	242	5.6s	2 (Max 3)	2	900,000	1d	6
6	109	76.3	242	6.8s	3 (Max 4)	2	1,000,000	2d	6
7	120	84	266	6.8s	3 (Max 4)	2	1,100,000	2d	6
8	120	84	266	5.6s	3 (Max 4)	2	1,200,000	2d	6
9	132	92.4	293	5.6s	3 (Max 4)	2	1,300,000	2d	6
10	132	92.4	293	5.6s	3 (Max 4)	4	1,400,000	2d	6
11	145	101.5	322	5.6s	3 (Max 4)	4	1,600,000	2d	6
12	145	101.5	322	6.8s	4 (Max 5)	4	1,800,000	2d	6
13	160	112	354	6.8s	4 (Max 5)	4	2,500,000	3d	7
14	160	112	354	5.6s	4 (Max 5)	4	2,700,000	3d	7
15	176	123.2	389	5.6s	4 (Max 5)	4	3,500,000	4d	8
16	176	123.2	389	5.6s	4 (Max 5)	6	3,700,000	4d	8
17	194	135.8	428	5.6s	4 (Max 5)	6	4,200,000	5d	9
18	213	149.1	471	5.6s	4 (Max 5)	6	4,400,000	5d	9