Balloon — Clash of Clans

Troops

Elixir troop

Updated: 18 September 2026 · By the Goblins Farm team

A Balloon is a Giant that flies and hits much harder. It targets defences, ignores walls entirely, and deals heavy damage when it arrives. It is also slow and helpless against anti-air, which is the entire balance of the unit.

What it does

Balloons prefer defences and travel by air, which means walls, compartments and the entire discipline of base layout are irrelevant to them. They deal high damage to the buildings they reach and continue to damage the ground beneath them when destroyed.

The price is speed and vulnerability. Balloons move slowly, so a base with well-spread Air Defences gets several seconds of free fire on them before they reach anything.

How to use it

Balloon attacks are about removing anti-air fast enough to matter.

Go where the anti-air is not. Identify the side with the thinnest Air Defence coverage and commit there rather than attacking the front door.
Group them, but not under one shot. Balloons need mass to kill defences quickly, but clustering them under a single air-splash defence is how a Balloon army evaporates.
Bring support. Rage to speed up the kill, healing to survive the approach, or freeze to disable the one defence that is doing the damage. See spell mechanics.

How to beat it

Spread anti-air, and never let two Air Defences sit under one spell radius. Balloons are slow enough that adequate, well-distributed anti-air simply shoots them down before they arrive. A base with clustered Air Defences, by contrast, hands the attacker a single point of failure.

Stats by level

Balloon stats by level
Level	Hitpoints	DPS	Research cost	Research time	Town Hall
1	150	25	—	—	4
2	180	32	100,000 Elixir	4 h	4
3	216	48	400,000 Elixir	6 h	6
4	280	72	720,000 Elixir	18 h	7
5	390	108	1,300,000 Elixir	1 d	8
6	545	162	2,750,000 Elixir	3 d	9
7	690	198	4,400,000 Elixir	3 d 6 h	11
8	840	236	5,000,000 Elixir	3 d 12 h	12
9	940	256	7,000,000 Elixir	4 d 12 h	13
10	1,040	276	10,000,000 Elixir	7 d	14
11	1,140	290	14,000,000 Elixir	8 d 12 h	16
12	1,240	304	17,500,000 Elixir	11 d	17
13	1,360	326	28,000,000 Elixir	14 d 18 h	18

Where these numbers come from. Read from Clash of Clans' own game files, client build 18.600.3. They are exact for that build and do not reflect anything released after it, so verify in game before committing an upgrade.

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Frequently asked

What counters Balloons in Clash of Clans?

Air Defences, particularly when they are spread across different sides of the base so they cannot all be removed by one spell and a single stack of Balloons. Air-targeting splash defences are especially effective because Balloons tend to travel in groups.

Are Balloons good for farming?

Rarely. They are slow, cost a lot of housing space and target defences rather than resource buildings, so they spend the attack killing things that hold no loot. Goblins and Archers are far better value for stripping collectors.

Goblins Farm is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or specifically approved by Supercell. Clash of Clans is a trademark of Supercell Oy. This material is unofficial fan content produced under Supercell's Fan Content Policy. Game values change with every update; always verify in-game before committing an upgrade.