Unfortunately, this beast is too weak to piercing damage. She will die really quickly. Pellez's test is still relevant today. The best beast for most players at max level is Growl beast. But you need to have insights on how to make this beast fearsome. Growl has 2 powers, he slows down and weakens the hero, plus he also boosts the surroundings. Basically, Growl needs a setup around him. If the beast appears in the middle of nothing, the hero will defeat it quite easily. But if the beast appears well protected behind blockades, sitting on pikes and healed by heal towers in the back. Plus surrounded by high damaging units like vikings, plus high damaging towers like lightning towers or others. Then Growl can be quite a problem, even more than Phoebe beast. To do so, you need yet some well upgraded obstacles. People that players with Gaspar guardian can defeat a lot of the beast easily. But the boost effect from Growl makes him tougher against Gaspar. Pheobe is the beast that gives value with the least setup. You just need a couple of wolves around it, and he starts to be an issue. If your alliance unlocked it, you can also try Ceres beast. Ceres has the power to clone units close to him. So if you position it well enough, and protect it well enough with a similar setup to Growl. You will have a beast that creates defensive waves based on your existing waves.

It's a F2P design...

You need 2 conditions: 1) join an alliance if it not already the case. Defensive beats are available only if you are in alliance. 2) pick an alliance that has the beast you look for. Basically alliances need to unlock the beasts. Mainly, look at the alliance level, it goes along more or less for how long the alliance is active. Most alliances will have the common beats : Tammy, Archimedes, Howl, but also Growl 👍. Nonetheless Growl is more interesting if you have very strong obstacles, and if you have a good amount of leadership in your waves. It is still quite good. You can like pair it up with monks and necros, vikings if you like and you end up with boosted skeletons and a beast that get healed by boosted monks. But it requires yeah, high leadership in waves and obstacles to protect Growl. Otherwise Pheobe is one you need to look for, if you are more a casual player 👍. It is just a lot of trouble for people that don't really know how to deal with it. And he does in that case, a really good job. Reminder : high level alliances often asks more to their members (more donations, higher trophies, active participation in events, etc). Just pick one you feel comfortable with and have fun 👍.

Indeed, his test is good to see from which range the beast attack, or what a howl boost implies for the beast attack potency. But, like you said, we don't see the effect on the surroundings. Because there are no troops (neither on the attack nor the defense). As well, there is no tower or obstacle. I guess 1 test is just not enough for explaining everything. Yet, he manages to convey a good amount of Intel. To clarify on your questions: On the beast description, you can see 2 aura ranges indicated. The "blue-ish" icon shoes the range of the intimidation effect. The red one shows the range of the howling effect (aka the howl from any wolf). Because Growl beast is generous, not only he has intimidation upon the ennemis, he also have red aura howl boost on all allies units and structures. So he is also a Howl beast (making Howl beast a useless beast). The range is described in, meter or something. 1 square of the path has a side length of 5. So it gives an idea of the capacity from both auras of Growl beast. Then you can make a small test in your defense. You put a couple obstacles and towers in a area around the beast, plus units. And you will see the difference. The blue aura will get casted and slow down all attacking units. As well making them twice more vulnerable. At the same time, ennemies will be boosted and be tougher with higher attack rate. This is where Growl is much better than Phoebe. Higher in trophies, a looot of players have Gaspar guardian, that just destroy beats quite easily. And Phoebe is no exception. That bear disappears in a second on the battlefield. But, Growl on the other hand. If he has time to roar. He will be boosted and might resist the Gaspar attack. And, he will make the Gaspar guardian less resistant. Namely, the defense can rip out the Guardian more easily. The biggest weakness of Gaspar is his HP bar. And Growl can exploit that. A lot of players make also a S shape around the Growl, and put heal towers behind Growl. So this cute dog will boost all obstacles, protected by blockades, he will boost the heal towers, and the heal towers will also heal the beast. Most probably, Growl will be standing on pikes. That he will boost as well. And that the tower will heal. At any time the pikes get damaged, it triggers the healing from the towers, and heal the beast. The hero will arrive on the beast, and if he has a bad timing, he is facing a boosted beast that make all surrounding tougher, slow down everything, and cripple the attacker health by half. A double swing from a max level beast with max level hero can shred the guardian in pieces. And good thing for Growl, his attack deals normal damages. So it not resisted by the units, and most players don't have resistances for normal damage. All in all, Growl beast allows to exploit a lot of complex mechanics. But in order to be profitable. A player must have a good amount of suitable obstacles, towers, and units so Growl can benefit from them. On the other hand, Phoebe requires much less efforts. With only a wolf or two in the area, the best still can be danger for some players.

@@fellowkrieger457 Thx, this answered all the questions I had and I understand the intimidate effect About Growl vs Phoebe, I believe on an overall basis Growl is better, but Phoebe is better for low level players Btw what's your IGN?

​​@@Neon87rr2gamer IGN : - BabboNatale - Yeah, overall that's the idea, Phoebe is more a casual player beast. Growl is for sweaty players (there is Ceres and Eris too, although Eris I find really overrated).