

Level 6 balloons in the clan castle is recomended to use with dragon attack. They take cover from dragons and destroy the defenses. Balloons are used behind dragons to destroy the defences. Balloons are very helpful in dragon attack specially in rage/heal attack. And the Rage-heal attack are implemented when the air defence towers are close to each other or in the middle of the base. You will use 3 lightening spells to destroy a air defence when the air defences are far from each other or you can destroy other two air defences with your troops (Giants/balloons). Light spell/ Rage-heal spell strategies are simple. Both of them are really good and can shot down your dragons easily. In a town hall 8 max base you will have to fight against 3 level 6 air defences and level 10 archer towers. Here dragon strategies are implemented effectively.

You can upgrade your dragons to level 3 that’s the diffrence. So technically you’ll have to deal with a town hall level 8 with almost the same troops as town hall 7. In town hall level 8 neither you get a new spell nor a camp upgrade. But it becomes tough when you get yourself upgraded to town hall 8. Taking 100% from a town hall level7 with Dragons is a pretty easy job even with level 1 dragons. Or you can use 2 healing spells and 1 rage spell or 1 healing spell and 2 rage spells depending on the opponent’s base. You can take 3 lightening spells to take down 1 air defence. In town hall level 7 when you’ll be able to unlock dragon for first time you will have 3 spells. Dragon strategies are very much depended on spells. Most of the Dragon strategies are based on taking out as many air defence as possible because this is the biggest weakness of this unit. When dragons are used to defend your village sometimes they can attack the enemy troops being in the range of your defensive buildings because of their range. Range will give some advantage to dragons against their moderate movement speed. Dragons range helps them to attack enemy troops as well as defensive buildings from distance and sometimes keeps them away from air defence tower's range. You can feel the need of having range when you attack with balloons.

Range: Dragons have a effective range of 3 tiles. Later at the middle of 2013 supercell made their attack type as splash damage and dragon got themselves much more powerful. When first dragon was introduced as troops they didn't have splash damage. Usually dragons do not attack walls but if they attack enemy troops closer enough to walls, its splash damage effects the walls and deal damages. Though its splash range is relatively smaller and effective only on enemy troops, sometimes it works good against melee troops. They deal similar amount of damages to multiple units. Dragons have 0.3 tiles of area splash effect. Splash damage is another good thing of dragons.
