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Today I'll be talking about one of my favourite cards

Skeletons are one of the most versatile card in the game

They make your deck more dynamic and they have one of the the best cost to damage ratios

If you desperately need a card that's queued up, you can shuffle your deck for one elixir

Though fragile, the skeletons will deal massive damage if accompanied with a tank

Since skeletons only cost one elixir

It's hard for you opponent to justify spending 3 elixir to arrow them

If you don't have splash or arrows available

You can use skeletons to tank a few shots and pull a crowd of minions upwards

You can also pull half of them within range of your other tower

Just plant the skeleton slightly in the other lane

Right as when the minions are within aggro range

You can pull a dragon within a similar fashion

With a good understanding of game mechanics, you can use skeletons for almost any situation

In this match, I use the skeletons to tank the minions

Which also prevented them from locking onto my tower

Then I use the melee goblins to simultaneously pull the minions and take out the princess

If a single mini tank or range troop engages your tower

Unsupported, it can deal hundreds of damages to it

You can shut down or mitigate the damage done with 1 elixir skeletons

For splash units, you'll want to surround the witch and wizard with skeletons

For the dark prince, his charge strike has a 360 degree area of splash

So if you try to surround him with skeletons while he's charged up

They'll die immediately

Here's a trick you can use to work around his charge strike splash

You let him hit your tower with his charge, then you're safe to plant the skeletons directly in front of the tower

Then this causes all four skeletons to push the dark prince backwards one tile

That creates enough distance to prevent him from splashing the tower while he's hitting the skeletons

If you try to surround him in all four corners

The two skeletons in the front aren't big enough to push him backwards

Noticed how close he is to the building that when he hits the skeletons, he also splashes the tower

That's over a hundred damage to the tower that you can prevent with proper technique

If the prince is nearing your building

Skeletons work great to stop him from hitting your tower with his charge strike

For the princess, her fire arrows have a large hit box, similar to the bomber

So you can't surround her

You have to wait until she locks on to a different target before you can take her out with skeletons

For range troops like spear goblins, archers and musketeers, you want to plant skeletons on top of them

For melee units, you'll want to pull them to the centre to increase the path they'll need to walk to reach your tower

For P.E.K.K.A and giant skeleton, it sets you up for a chain pull

If you don't have a direct counter or your elixir is low, you can pull with skeletons

It won't stop the valkyrie, but it will reduce a lot of damage she can do to the tower

The skeleton prevented over 500 damage from being dealt to the tower

Not bad for a 1 elixir card

Skeletons slightly obstructs the hogs pathing

For the cost of 1 elixir

They prevented 700 damage from being done to that tower

If you counter hog with skeletons, but your opponent uses zap or freeze

You'll still have more than enough elixir to defend

A really deadly combo is valkyrie, hog, freeze combo

She can tank the tower and splash small units, protecting the hog

With the solid understanding of aggro

You can separate these two lovers, effectively breaking up their relationship

This greatly minimizes the damage that could have been done against that deadly combo

If you're low on elixir

Skeletons are going to be your best option for taking out support troops that are hiding behind the tank

You'll want to wait until they've locked onto your tower

Then you can place the skeletons behind the troops to take them out

You shouldn't place them in front of troops

Since that'll push them out of range of the tower and cause them to retarget your skeletons

If you see a giant coming, one strategy is to pressure the other lane

Forcing them to abandon their giant combo attack

If you notice they expend a lot of elixir to defend against your attack

Skeletons alone can take care the incoming giant in the other lane

Here's another scenario

My opponent over committed elixir on those barbarians

I had skeletons coming up

So I push the other lane and distract the barbs with skeletons

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