User blog comment:LucasH181/POTW (Poll Of The Week) - Week 8/@comment-29396184-20170109004023/@comment-32136031-20170115180101

the P.E.K.K.A needs a lower elixir cost and shorter deploy time, so it can be used more for defense and still maintain a good amount of elixir

also the elite barbs problem can be remedied if you have skarmy and they don't have zap/log/arrows ready