I've been reading the comments and I feel like I probably worded what I was trying to say wrong. I'm not necessarily saying that the air defense is useless because it is weak, since it is one of the strongest things against air troops, but i'm saying it's useless because you can just lightning spell all 4 of them, meaning they can't function and are therefore "useless" in the battle. Plus, the lava hounds can also distract them long enough for them to be unable to do much damage to the balloons, which once again makes them almost "useless" in that situation. Sorry for any confusion, just thought I'd clear that up.

So apperantly being a high priority target that you NEED to dedicate your entire spell slot to get rid of all 4 is useless...

Tbh the air defense is really important in my eyes

Just because people destroy them using lightning spells doesn’t make them useless in those levels, infact it’s more useful, the spells used on the air defenses can’t be used on the other air targeting defenses, if you didn’t have air defenses then those buildings that target both become the new target of the spells or they start using more rage spells or something

so you did admit that the air defence is really strong. if your opponent has to spend all his spell slots to destroy your air defence isnt that a just because they are so strong? dealing 500 dmg to air troops wile getting +40 or +60 damage per upgrade is a roi that almost no other tower offers espeacially when compared to stuff like the archer towers or teslas which can only gain +10 damage per upgrade. theres a big reason why most people focus on their air defences before upgrading stuff like mortars, canons, archer towers or teslas. honestly I think you kinda missed the mark on this one even tho a lot of your early game complaints ring true

Disfuncional in 2027 be like: why the grass is so HATED in clash of clans?

The base design at 2:00😭

The air defense itself is not useless, just feels like it when it's been powercrept by so many other harder hitting defenses that can either hit harder or multi-target/does splash. Air defenses nowadays are used like the mortars: to annoy people who wants to funnel lol

Worst CoC take I've heard in a while. Who hates air defenses? Never heard anyone complain, and I play the game 10 years. It is a good defense with a unique function that does its job well.

With how the Air defense are rockets it could make sense to have them deal area damage to troops. It would make them more usefull against Baloons and dragons

No clue what this guys talking about, air defenses do 500 damage per second, they are definitely very good. The problem at hand is that instead of a diverse ways of defense for ground (such as bombs towers, cannons, and mortars), they needed to make up for the fact that those didn’t target air, so they have one defense which does a ton of damage to balance it out, which can be considered poor design at worst. Either way though, it works out just fine, and this video is sorta pointless.

When you get 3-Stared by 5 Electro dragon spam attacks in a row, you will very quickly want to upgrade air defence 🤣

Am at town hall nine and I get sweeped by all types of attacks and my air stuff does nothing to them lava hounds cover and the balloons kill everything else

2:00 Looks like someone got rejected from art school 😭

"How attacks ruined clash of clans" is next

(from the perspective of a current th10 player, upper town halls can give a different perspective than mine). down here the problem with the air defense is that they're just too powerful of a defense that they have to be taken out first in air attacks and this results in them becoming a priority in all air-based attacks. For dragons this often means enough zaps to take out 3 air defenses max then sending all of your troops towards the last one and taking it out first. rendering them obsolete besides taking up spell space for the rest of the attack . for blizzard/electrone lalo the strategy revolves around taking out at least 1 air defense minimum along cc and queen; while heroes attempt to take out another air defense. Failing to take out 2 air defenses minimum with the combination of heroes + blimp can result in failure as you have to use one hound alongside your blimp for reliable blimp results, leaving you only with 2 Air defenses remaining and 2 lava hounds. Air defenses are always a priority when attacking with air troops which is why they'll always seem to have the least impact in a battle in comparison to air sweepers, enemy eagle, inferno towers, and x bows which are taken out later in these attacks. Of course the strength of any defense is only as strong as the skill of the attacker, if you're skilled it doesn't matter if the enemy base is maxxed or if they have strong cc and high level heroes. 3 star capable players will always find a way to 3 star. In this game your base is at the mercy of the enemy's skill. PS and slightly unrelated but to help vs queen walks and queencharges: while queen charges arent't inherently an air attack the air defense isn't entirely useless vs queen charges when properly placed in a base. they should always be 5 tiles away from the queen so that the air defenses can snipe enemy healers while the queen can't reach them; having air defenses in adjacent compartments can help vs queen charges since the enemy will often only bring enough wallbreakers to only open one or 2 compartments exposing only one air defense while the other adjacent one can fire free attacks vs the enemy healers.

Air defence usless ❌ This video useless ✅

honestly, it's really nice to have these videos- learning a lot of stuff even i didn't know as a multi-year player, having these documentary style videos is unlike anything in the clash of clans community ATM, and it's really nice to see that niche fulfilled. dunno if you'll read this, but keep it up disfunctional!

after 7 years of not playing the game, ive rushed my townhall to lvl 13, the first defence ive upgraded to max were the 4 air defences, ive never been 3 starred by dragons/edrags since.

if people are choosing to zap all of the air defenses, doesn't that make them strong? if you choose to zap all of the air defenses with 12 zaps, you now have to do the rest of your attack with basically no spells.

Bro is a master at yapping

I think it would be nice if the Air Defense got the same mechanic as the Multi-Archer tower where it can be multi target but can be single target with all the damage combined.

You have to attack without spells because of air defence

I would not say that its irrelevant, because you either have to trade an AD for spell capacity or troop capacity (depends on base layout) or you leave them there, focus troops and spells on infernos, the eagle & scattershots - while the ADs are slowly taking down your troops. They deal a ton of damage, especially if you dont focus on destroying them

Air defenses on higher TH are like cannons or archer towers and function as a frontier defenses. They're here to make the attack difficult to go to the center.

How tf is it useless?

We need to get this man to 100k subs fast finally a KZfaqr who makes history/documentary videos about clash

If you can't reach to them they are so strong you have to take air defence or other defence also damaging

i actually find them to be good

I don't think ADs are useless at all. They have enough power that they must have and that keeps a balance between attacks and defences. Increasing the ADs power will till the balance of power towards defences. I've been using lava loon since th9 and now I'm in th12. And my other rushed base is th14 and I use lava loon in that one as well.

one more thing is, at around th 10 or 11 I forgot, basically when you can use a max earthquake spell, instead of 3 zap per AD, you can use 2 zap and an earthquake and produce the same result, heck if they're inside the earthquake range, you can took out 2 AD with just 5 spell slot rather than 6, saving the other 5 for either full zaps again or something like rage or freeze to help with tactical situation

They became so ignored in th16 (using most ground atks) that i often dropped my healers accidentally in range of AD during warden walks.

They should make air defs immune to lightning... Such a skilless strategy should never be viable... Or just add one more air def...

Disfunctional: people dedicate 6 housing space of spells to take them down, so we can infer that they are useless and do nothing

1:58 woah hold on. I didnt know we are learning about history now

And here I'm always working on these as soon as I complete the key defenses upgrades

i totally understand you and dont understand why people are hating. its only job is to defeat air attacks, and other buildings do its job better while also defending against ground attacks. overall great video, been binging your channel for a couple days now. keep up the great work.

This video is just wrong. As a dedicated Disfunctional fan, I must rectify some of his mistakes. I am sorry if this sounds too harsh. The fact that you have to use all of your spell slots to take them down makes them useful. You can also take down the Eagle Artillery and the Monolith with lightning spell. Does that make them useless? No! They are quite useful. And the fact that there is a specific troop (lava hound) which counters the air defense makes them even more special! There is also the headhunter which targets heroes. Does that make heros useless? No! (upgrading heroes is useless, heroes themselves are a core part of an attack) If there is any circumstance where any air defenses are left, they are an absolute nightmare! In th 4, that is more of a game balancing issue than an air defense issue. In th7, well dragons are just too OP. You can't really stop them at all. Every defense struggles to defend them. You wouldn't really call the archer towers "useless" if they can't stop dragons. The air sweepers themselves are not OP, the air sweepers paired with other defenses, especially the air defense is OP. What is the air sweeper gonna do on its own? Push the troops? That would at max cause a time fail. I completely disagree with you at the end. The air defense are absolutely the best against air troops. You HAVE to have air defenses at max level to have a shot at defending your base. You at least have a chance of defending if they are maxed. You have 0% chance of defending if they are low level. In conclusion, the air defenses are a core part of the base, just like the cannons, archer towers, wizard towers, x-bows, inferno towers, eagle artillery, scattershots and monolith.

2:56 “most of the time you don’t even notice the air defense” also the air defense dismantling the entire attack alone:

I think they should give air defense splash since it is a firework after all, doesnt need to be something big, maybe does like a quarter of the normal damage it does to troops that get hit by it, so like if it does 100 dmg it would deal 25 to splashed troops and 100 to the troop its targetting if that makes sense

they overbuffed air attacks so much because of zap. My base still get 3 starred even with 4 maxed air defense and spams dragon in one place with no funneling in TH9-10. In Th8 they have it even more rough, leaving only 1 air defense. Good thing it gotten so much better over time

Town hall 10 and up, the inferno tower makes you choose between wanting to freeze spell inferno towers and going for a ground defense or taking down 3 air defenses with 11 lightning spells but praying the inferno towers don’t shred your dragons.

I think increasing the hp and range of the air defense would make sense, doesnt need more damage it just needs to be more expensive to lightning it and a bit more range would help for obvious reasons.

i bloody agree seriously i always max out my air defence to the highest possible for my hall but EVERYTIME even against a STUPID DRAGON and a bunch of air balloons it either doesnt do enough damage or simply just sucks since it gets rushed to easily seriously it should have a hard buff on its hp and minor buff on its damage and honestly it shoots fireworks so it should deal splash damage to encourage players to not cram 723847618726498176 air balloons in one place this literally forces me to cram my air bombs and air mines near the air defences or outside the base in hopes itll hit something and slow down a rushed air assault and also now i got funni skeleton traps i switch most to anti air mode

That th 6 base gave me flashbacks💀

WAIT SINCE WHEN THEY ARE USELESS???? they are so important that some strategies at lower town halls completely relies on pre-emptively destroy all them with lightning 😮. If they were so "useless" like archer towers no one would use lightning spell on them

Normally I agree with your videos or at least find them informative. But I disagree with this one. I've had many air attacks destroyed because I didn't target air defenses. I've also won multiple defenses because the attacker ignores or fails to funnel towards the air defense. Actually I end up using ground army's because I don't want to deal with it at all.

No idea what this guys talking about, air defenses are pretty balanced and the fact that you need to dedicate all your spell slots to take them out shows how strong they are

I actually dont mind E-Dragons. I don't find them overpowered like people say it is, the reason why is because most E-Drags attacks ive seen always gets 1 star and 2 stars, especially in home base and the 3 star attacks is because the base they're attacking is either rushed or a th lower than them. The only thing i hate about E-Drags is my clanmates using it on war and getting the most painful looking 2 stars ive ever seen

I don’t take lightening in my army because of blimp so even today Air Defence is a threat so I usually use giant arrow to destroy at least two of them

My idea for a “rework” is upon destruction it would shoot all of its fireworks into the sky like a giga bomb but for the air

1:58 that th6 be giving me ww2 flashbacks

At th11 I'm prioritising eagle , inferno, xbows, tesla, wizard, at last air defence. You know if the enemy is going air then they will likely zap it so it is useless to prioritise.

As a lightning spell + electro dragon enjoyer I must say I love the air defences

Just maxed all mine. Glass cannons would best describe them..theyre pretty solid.

air defence isnt useless its an important defence if can also take down queen charge attacks and electro dragons which are common attacks in th 11, 12 and 13

TBH, Air defense is the second highest DPS building in home village the first being the single Inferno Tower. Having 600 DPS on max level with high range is what makes this building a threat to most air units and its also vulnerable by few lightning spells and swarms due to its low HP. I could say that Air defense is useful and important since it is OP on lower town halls.

2:14 why it zooming in 🤨🤨🤨

I wonder what our new siege machine will be

the fact that people spend all their spells destroying them shows that they are actually useful

Reign of terror of the electro dragons is a fitting name

Maybe it should deal splash damage in a small radius , considering they shoot fireworks.

Lava hound: i gonna end this fireworks whole carrier

People zapping out all 4 air defenses can actually be a good thing, as backwards as it sounds. The 2 main reasons for it is the obvious “attacker has no more spells after that” which means that the remaining scattershots, inferno towers, air xbows and the eagle all have free real estate to dumpster your army. The other reason is because lava hounds will just move from defense to defense, moving with the balloons or dragons instead of flying ahead to protect them like they’re supposed to. This results in air traps being far more effective since the chances of them being tripped by a lava hound is significantly lower since the hound is just moving inside the pack instead of ahead of it, thus not protecting shit

E dragon "let me introduce myself"

I saw that electro dragon meme

The giant arrow can take out two flak. 6 spell slots saved! Or 60 troop capacity. ❤

I’d agree with this contrary to others, they are useless in both air and ground attacks because ground attacks don’t matter and air attacks always have lighting spells

We see a lot of e-drag spam nowadays, I think the air defences are hard counters to these troops, so I wouldn't call them "Useless"

Honestly your video showed me why the Air Defense is one of the strongest defenses in the game.

I wish it is revamped to multi target air defense type

4:24 i use that strategy. Love it. Electro dragons x Lightning spell❤❤❤️

imo air defenses are pretty balanced, of course signature defenses are stronger than it because signature defenses are key defenses while air defenses are stronger cannons for air troops. plus if you ignore them it becomes a huge problem so it doesn't need a damage buff. air defenses aren't meant to be special it meant to be a way to defend against air troops like cannons

There's like... For me at least, tons of wrongs here already. Well yes, they could be annihilated by spells. So how about the other ones? And even if you can destroy other major defenses. If there is a Air defense left against an air attack the attack (if and only if there are still left-over buildings to tank) will still lose because of the fact that the air defense will destroy each remaining troop. I have those experiences like all the time and probably many players too. About dragons and other strong air troops. We are talking about many things on how they feel useless. Base Design, Level of Air defense V.S Level of Dragon, and The attacking player's skill. The Lightning spell? It's a Risk V.S Reward, you can destroy the air-defense but there's no support spells for the actual attack. It's now based on the Base design and comparison of levels. I know there is minimal funneling is used but still. It still depends on The Attacking Player's Skill.

idk bro my dragons get wiped by Air defenses, i don't ask clan castle so i only destroy 3, and the 4th one is always a problem

It is one of the most important defence

Just make the defense target multiple Troop (like the geared up archer tower)

Air defenses are not useless, people using all their spells to destroy only 4 buildings instead of having rages or freezing spells means they are so valuable the attacker finds it worth it to attack without spells just to remove them from the equation

they are not bad at all. Firstly, e drags are really base dependent, with a decent base you will evade any attempts of 3 starring from enemy e drag attacks. Wondering why pros dont spam e drags? They suck against actual good bases. Secondly, air defenses play a role not also in dealing damage but LURING the lava hounds to an no-so-great spot. This means that if you want to do a blizzard for example, and the air defenses are away from the th, you will not be able to get your blimp in the th, which means that your heroes have to take it (from a lalo perspective) since ballons are really vulnerable to the th defense. Finally, if, as you say, just use all your spells to blast through the AD's you will have to do an attack with little to no spells, which means that your troops become really vulnerable to heavier defenses like infernos, scatters etc... So i dont see where they are weak, they are certainly helpfull since you need to work around them or use tons of spells for them. (also using zaps for AD's doesnt work on a high level thats why you dont see anyone doing it in tournaments).

i always target air sweeper for e Drag stratagy

They should seriously increase their health to take at least one more zap spell, and add a couple more air sweepers. It would balance it out I think.

9:29 the pain i feel when he didnt zap those sweepers

Not useless when it melts my whole e drag army when i dont use a lightning spell

I need to practice my English, and i like Clash of Clans. You're Welcome thx for sharing your analytics passion 🎉

they need to give more hp to air defence or add a 5th air defence at TH 10/11

With all the powerful defenses that are in the game, I would really not want the air defense to get buffer

to me as a TH7 air defences are painful

i still dont get why we didnt get new gear ups for the builder base update. they could've added a geared up air defense that attacks multiple troops with slower fire rate

Electro dragon do 2 star max on my base because of air defence😂😂😂😂😂 normally they scatter

Thisbis like the most useful for me when did this become useless?

Bro what you smokin on ? They're literally the reason we are safe from E-Drags

"The air defense is the only defense in the game made to specifically combat air troops" Air bombs (builder base thing) and air sweeper: "Am I a joke to you?"

Zap Drags would like a word.

i hate how it always destroys my queenwalk by sniping my healers

brother if a tower take every spells f the attacker it is everything but useless. do you realise how valuable spells are ??

i think you understood it wrong. they reason that they get lightning spelled is because they are so useful on defence

im a th12 and i am a dragloon user who only has zaps, i also am a sweat

Aye bro that Village at 1:58 looks familiar ☠

MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT THE BUILDER BASEEEEEEEEE

The fact of the matter is air attacks will always be advantageous in any war . Look at real life . Any army with advance jets will destory an army without jets . It's just a fact . being at height is a advantage