Shade Elementals are minions of Umbra in Kingdom Rush: Frontiers.
Overview[]
Natives of the plane of shadows, the shade elementals embody darkness and death...
Shade Elementals are summoned by Umbra in packs of six and are used by Umbra to reduce the player's lives since Umbra itself does not move towards the exits. At first, due to their lack of HP, Shade Elementals are relatively easy to beat, but after Umbra reforms for a few times and destroys several of towers, it summons an increasingly large number of these enemies, quickly turning them from weak cannon fodder to a deadly threat. In addition, the Shade Elementals' very poor bounty (5) also makes it difficult, though not impossible, to rebuild towers destroyed by Umbra. They are also called ‘shreds‘ in the mobile versions.
Strategy[]
- One should not be fooled by their appearance, these beings deal abnormally high damage, enough to wreck Footmen and Knights alike, so the best bet to hold them back is using Assassins to dodge the deadly blows. Knights Templar work nearly as well, but cannot kill as effectively and thus risk being overrun by many Shade Elementals. Skeletons, being numerous, can stop Shade Elementals for a while, but since the Necromancer cannot raise skeletons from these enemies, his skeleton reserve will inevitably run out. Reinforcements should be spammed as well, since they cannot do much against Umbra, they should be used to their fullest extent to slow down its minions.
- AOE/multi-target attacks are almost vital to defeating Shade Elementals; Pestilence is a good choice, so is Rain of Fire, Critical Mass and Barrage, and potentially Unstable Disease if Bonehart is available. These should be purchased earlier in the stage, one would not want them to eat into their gold reserve for rebuilding towers.
- Although Shade Elementals are creatures with a very deadly attack, they still have not too much health and do not have any kind of defense. It is recommended to build the Crossbow Fort towers against them close to the exits, and make the Barrage upgrades for them. For the most part the Barrage force of the Crossbow Fort was able to deal with Shade Elementa very well, and could kill them very effectively.
- And although the DWAARP cannon tower may also be a very effective tower or even the most effective tower against Shade Elemental, it is still not recommended to use it in this battle because it is a very expensive tower and therefore Umbra can simply destroy it and all the investment in this tower will be worth nothing.
- For more information, see how to defeat Umbra.
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