Use Skeletons to distract a single-target attacker while your Princess Towers or another defender deal damage. The draft identifies PEKKA, Prince, and Mini P.E.K.K.A. as examples, but Skeletons are fragile, so treat them as a delay—not a counter that defeats the attacker on its own.
How to use the distraction
- Place Skeletons where the attacker will target them before reaching your tower or another key defender.
- Let the attacker spend an attack on the Skeletons while your tower or supporting unit deals damage.
- Add another defender if the attacker is still threatening your tower after the distraction.
The draft also presents Skeletons as a 1-elixir cycle card. That is the cost stated in the draft; it does not establish that cycling them will always bring a needed counter back in time. Don't spend them automatically if you need them for a particular threat.
No deck list or matchup details are supplied, so this is a limited defensive tip, not a complete Hog Rider cycle guide.
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