Super Lava Hound

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“The Lava Hound is a majestic flying beast that attacks buildings. The Lava Pups are less majestic angry babies that attack anything.”

The Super Lava Hound was a temporary Legendary card, only available in certain Events. It spawned a slow, single-target, building-targeting, short-ranged, air troop with very high hitpoints and very low damage. when defeated, three fireballs were dropped, dealing high damage, and it also bursted into 2 spread-out smaller Lava Hounds which had the same amount of damage but much lower hitpoints. Like their larger counterpart, when defeated, they would also burst into 4 spread-out Lava Pups which had slightly higher damage but much lower hitpoints. The Super Lava Hound appears to be a flying, burning rock beast with an underbite, short wings, small rocky dog ears, team-colored spikes on its back, and small limbs. A Super Lava Hound card costs 8 Elixir to deploy.

Strategy[]

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Like the Lava Hound, the Super Lava Hound is a great air tank with high hitpoints. It is best used as a shield for air troops with higher damage and fewer hitpoints like Evolved Bats, Minion Horde, Mega Minion, Phoenix, Flying Machine, or the Inferno Dragon. It is less effective to use the Super Lava Hound as a shield for ground troops as the opponent can use troops with ground-only targeting to bypass the Super Lava Hound.
The Super Lava Hound has a lower sight range compared to other troops that only target buildings. Its sight range matches that of most non-building-targeting troops, like the Knight. This means that it can bypass certain building placements, as opposed to a Golem or a Balloon.
Unlike the Lava Hound, the Super Lava Hound has death damage, which means that certain cards can be severely damaged or possibly killed from the death damage. As such, ranged troops should be placed at a distance from the Super Lava Hound, to prevent them from taking unnecessary damage.
Destroying one Mini Lava Hound will result in the other one tanking for the Lava Pups. In this case, make sure that the Lava Pups are defeated before the other Mini Lava Hound, otherwise, more Lava Pups will spawn, and the Crown Tower will struggle to keep up.
The Tornado and Executioner combo is very effective in destroying the Super Lava Hound and its support troops. The Tornado brings all the troops to the same spot, so the Executioner can hit all of them at once. If the Executioner defeats the Lava Hound, he can also hit the generated Mini Lava Hounds at once. Similarly, every Mini Lava Hound defeated by the Executioner will result in the spawned Lava Pups being hit as well. The Tornado can also pull things back, giving your Executioner more time to defeat them, as well as positioning the Super Lava Hound in such a way as to avoid the death damage from affecting the Crown Tower or the Executioner.
The Firecracker/Executioner/Wizard and the Super Lava Hound are a good partnership. The Firecracker/Executioner/Wizard defends the Lava Hound from defending units, but the combination costs 11 and 13 Elixir. The Firecracker can also act as bait for Arrows, to ensure that the Lava Pups can attack unharmed.
The LavaLoon is a popular strategy where the Super Lava Hound tanks for a Balloon while it wreaks havoc on the Towers.
- However, this strategy is easily countered if the troops have no support, as the Balloon can be destroyed before the Super Lava Hound. For example, the Minion Horde or Bats can easily destroy the Balloon before it deals damage to the Tower and proceed to destroy the Super Lava Hound. So a support unit behind them like a Baby Dragon, Skeleton Dragons, or an Evolved Electro Dragon is crucial to protect the Balloon from swarm units, although this would make the combo very costly.
- It can also be easily defeated by the Wizard or the Executioner. Place the Wizard or Executioner correctly so that he targets the Balloon. When the Balloon dies, support the Wizard or Executioner with other troops to finish off the Super Lava Hound and its Lava Pups. Thus having a Mega Minion or a Flying Machine supporting them could also come in handy.

Statistics

Super Lava Hound Attributes

Cost	Hit Speed	First Hit Speed	Speed	Deploy Time	Range	Projectile Speed	Target	Count	Transport	Type	Rarity
8	1.3 sec	1 sec	Slow (45)	1 sec	3.5	400	Buildings	x1	Air	Troop	Legendary

Mini Lava Hound Attributes

Hit Speed	First Hit Speed	Speed	Range	Projectile Speed	Target	Count	Transport
0.9 sec	0.6 sec	Slow (45)	3.5	400	Buildings	x2	Air

Lava Pup Attributes

Hit Speed	First Hit Speed	Speed	Range	Projectile Speed	Target	Count	Transport
1.7 sec	1 sec	Medium (60)	Melee: Long (1.6)	500	Air & Ground	x8	Air

Card Statistics

Level	Super Lava Hound Hitpoints	Super Lava Hound Damage	Super Lava Hound Damage per second	Super Lava Hound Death Damage	Mini Lava Hound Hitpoints	Mini Lava Hound Damage	Mini Lava Hound Damage per second	Lava Pup Hitpoints	Lava Pup Damage	Lava Pup Damage per second
9	2,800	45	34	120 x3 (360)	1,500	45	50	179	75	44
10	3,080	49	37	132 x3 (396)	1,650	49	54	196	82	48
11	3,388	54	41	145 x3 (435)	1,815	54	61	216	90	52
12	3,724	59	45	159 x3 (477)	1,995	59	65	238	99	58
13	4,088	65	50	175 x3 (525)	2,190	65	72	261	109	64
14	4,480	72	55	192 x3 (576)	2,400	72	80	286	120	70
15	4928	79	60	210 x3 (630)	2640	79	87	315	132	77

History[]

2022

The Super Lava Hound card was made available in the Super Lava Hound Challenge on 7/2/2022.
On 13/2/2022, the Super Lava Hound was removed from the game.

2023

On 10/4/2023, the Super Lava Hound was readded to the game in the Super Cards Triple Draft Event.
On 18/4/2023, the Super Lava Hound was removed from the game.

2024

On 19/8/2024, the Super Lava Hound was readded to the game in the Super Cards Draft Event.
On 26/8/2024, the Super Lava Hound was removed from the game.

2025

On 27/1/2025, the Super Lava Hound was readded to the game in the Super Cards Draft Event.
On 3/2/2025, the Super Lava Hound was removed from the game.

Trivia[]

The Super Lava Hound may likely be based on the Grandpa Hound from ClashCon. In particular, the Grandpa Hound splits into Lava Hounds instead of Lava Pups and then each Lava Hound spawned from Grandpa Hound splits into Lava Pups upon death.
It is the most expensive Legendary card, costing 8 Elixir.
The Super Lava Hound is tied with the Elixir Golem for the highest amount of forms and divisions of any card – it has 3 forms and divides 3 times.
It was the first Super Troop to be introduced in the game.
In the Italian and Russian language settings of the game, the Super Lava Hound's name translates to "Super Lava Mastiff" and "Super Hell Hound" respectively.
The Super Lava Hound bears more than a passing resemblance to Heatran from Pokemon.
While the Super Lava Hound and the Mini Lava Hound appear to be made of both molten lava and solid rock, the Lava Pup seems to be a pure lava being. Fans theorize that the lava cools into rocks as the Lava Pups mature.
It appears to have an underbite, similar to the Minions, Guards, Giant Skeleton, and Lava Hound.
A large part of the Super Lava Hound's card description is used as a Loading Screen Hint.
The Super Lava Hound is 1 of 15 troops which bring an excited reaction from the audience upon spawning and brings a collective groan from the audience when defeated, as well as a concerning gasp when the opponent plays him, the others include the Royal Giant, Giant, P.E.K.K.A, Giant Skeleton, Rune Giant, Goblin Giant, Golem, Bowler, Electro Wizard, Inferno Dragon, Sparky, Lava Hound, Night Witch, and the Monk.