Important note: In many cases a single Minion will take enough time to destroy the remaining buildings that your game will time out due to inactivity, which will cause your attack to end prematurely and be unsuccessful (regardless of how many stars you had earned to that point).

In the Single Player Campaign, there is no time limit, so one unthreatened Minion will eventually destroy every building. It takes a bit of patience, but it pays off at the end. You can simply destroy all of the Air Defenses, Archer Towers and Wizard Towers, then deploy a single Minion.

Like Balloons, Minions are exceptionally useful in the Single Player Campaign.

Note that while Giants can be used to destroy an Air Defense, they will not occupy its attention while it is being attacked due to it cannot target foes on the ground.

Using Giants as a distraction when using Minions to attack other buildings is a good idea since the Giants will attack the defensive buildings and keep them occupied while the Minions attack all the outside buildings achieving at least 50% damage.

As is the case with all flying units, Archer Towers, Wizard Towers and Air Defenses should be taken out before deploying Minions.

Does not apply for Seeking Air Mines as Minions are undetectable by them and thus won't trigger them.

Minions can be destroyed by a single Air Bomb therefore a good strategy is to deploy them one at a time in different locations to set off the Air Bombs, and then follow up by deploying them massed.

However, Air Bombs can seriously ruin this attack if many Balloons or Minions were clumped up because Air Bombs can fully take out minions and leave Balloons damaged, or even destroyed completely unless a well-timed healing spell is dropped to prevent the Balloons from being destroyed. Then, they deploy the minions to clean up behind once the first layer of defenses are taken down. The player will make a wall of Balloons where the air-targeting defences mostly are, and if needed, support them with either a haste spell or a rage spell.

Loonion is often brought with Rage Spells, Minions, Haste Spells, Poison Spell, and Balloons. Minions are a part of a very efficient farming attack strategy for town hall 7s, 8s, 9s, and even 10s, called Loonion.Minions are relatively cheap and take up only 2 housing spaces, making them well suited to use in a group rush strategy.This is especially useful in Clan Wars, as they move fast and can easily take out the passive distraction buildings once the majority of the base is destroyed. It is extremely useful to carry a small number of Minions (10 or so) to pick off buildings that are defended by ground defenses only (Mortars, Cannons, Bomb Towers, and Ground Mode X-Bows).Once all of the nearby enemy troops are defeated, the Minions will proceed to attack the nearest structure. However, once they become aware of enemy Clan Castle troops, Heroes, or Skeleton Trap skeletons (either by being attacked themselves or by being near another friendly troop under attack), they will leave their previously targeted building and instead engage the enemy troops. Minions have no preferred target when attacking they will simply attack the closest building.Seeking Air Mines do not detect Minions but regular Air Bombs do and can kill large groups quickly.On a per housing space basis, the Minion has the highest DPS of all Dark Elixir Troops (and is fifth among all other troops, after the Goblin, Wizard, Balloon, and Barbarian). It also has the fastest training time and requires the least housing space per unit.

Out of all Dark Elixir Troops, the Minion has the lowest health and does the least damage per second.Because it is a flying troop, the Minion cannot be attacked by Cannons, Mortars, Bomb Towers, or Ground Mode X-Bows, but is extremely vulnerable to Air Defenses, Wizard Towers, multi-target Inferno Towers, and Air Bombs.The Minion's method of attack is spitting Dark Elixir.It is made of Dark Elixir and is trained in the Dark Barracks.It is the first unlocked Dark Elixir Troop.Its appearance is that of a gargoyle with large horns, stubby wings, and large hands with sharp vicious claws covered in what seems to be Dark Elixir. The Minion is a fast, cheap, and relatively weak ranged flying unit.

Lvl 3 minion