Miner

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Miner is a Clash of Clans troop that can be trained with Elixir.

He is unlocked by upgrading a Barrack to level 12, which requires a Town Hall level 10.

This troop was introduced on the May 2016 Update, along with the Baby Dragon.

Content

1. 1. Miner Explained
2. 2. How to Use Miners
3. 3. Attack Strategies
4. 4. Stats
5. 5. Training Time
6. 6. Upgrade Chart
7. 7. Upgrade Images

Miner Explained

Miner is a low health and medium damage unit.

He has the special ability to bury himself underground and bypass walls, making his gameplay similar to the Hog Rider, since both can bypass walls.

While moving underground, Miners don't trigger traps, but they will activate them when they go up to attack a building.

While underground, they can't take damage from defenses, making them invincible while moving.

Differently from Hog Riders, Miners don't have a preferred target and will always destroy the closest building.

How to Use Miners

With low health and medium damage, Miners are commonly used in large groups. Taking only a couple of Miners will not be effective at all.

Since they can't be targeted by defenses while underground, the faster they destroy the building and go back underground, the better, for this reason, mass Miners work great.

Always plan your attack to keep them together; if they spread out over the village, they will be quickly killed, and it will be harder to boost them with spells.

Since they target all buildings and don't have much health, mass Miners are usually used on two-step attacks. First, the attacker destroys all useless buildings outside the walls (usually with Queen Walk) and then deploys the Miners.

Watch out for the Bomb Tower. Once the Bomb Tower is destroyed it leaves a Giant Bomb that will explode before the Miners butty themselves underground again. This change was done mainly to nerf Miners as they were too strong, so always watch out to Bomb Towers.

Miners work great with Rage, but they are mostly used with Healing Spell, just as Hog Riders. This Spell can fully regenerate their health within seconds, giving them a long life boost.

Attack Strategies

• TH 13: ZapQuake + Hogs + Miners

Stats

Preferred Target	Attack Type	Housing Space	Movement Speed	Attack Speed	Barracks Level Required	Range
None	Single Target	6	32	1.7s	12	0.5 tiles

Training Time

Upgrade Chart

Level	Damage per Second	Damage per Attack	Hitpoints	Research Cost	Research Time	Laboratory Level Required
1	80	136	550	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	88	149.6	610	2,500,000	2d 4h	8
3	96	163.2	670	3,200,000	3d 12h	8
4	104	176.8	730	3,800,000	4d	9
5	112	190.4	800	5,000,000	7d	9
6	120	204	900	6,500,000	9d	10
7	128	217.6	1,000	10,000,000	11d 18h	11
8	136	231.2	1,100	16,500,000	16d	12
9	144	244.8	1,200	18,500,000	17d	13

Upgrade Images

Level 1-2	Level 3-4
Level 5-6	Level 7
Level 8	Level 9