# TH16 Jetpack Dragon Riders: Air army

> Dragon Riders under a Totem screen, with the Dragon Duke on a Rocket Backpack.

Source: https://clanwarden.com/armies/th16/jetpack-dragon-riders  
Town Hall 16 · Air · Three stars TH17 and TH16.

Dragon Riders hit defences harder than anything else in the air at this Town Hall, and their problem has always been surviving the walk in. Totems fix that: three of them drop in front of the pack and the defences shoot the totem instead. The Rocket Backpack on the Dragon Duke is where the name comes from, and it is what lets him get ahead of the pack to soak the first Air Defence rather than trailing behind it.

## Army composition

**Troops**: 8x Dragon Rider, 4x Inferno Dragon, 5x Rocket Balloon, 2x Archer, 2x Minion, 1x Baby Dragon, 1x Wizard

**Spells**: 3x Lightning, 3x Totem, 2x Freeze, 1x Skeleton, 1x Overgrowth

**Siege machine**: Log Launcher

### Clan Castle

- Troops: 2x Dragon Rider
- Spells: 3x Earthquake
- Siege: Sky Wagon

### Heroes

- **Royal Champion**: pet Spirit Fox, equipment Rocket Spear + Seeking Shield
- **Minion Prince**: pet Phoenix, equipment Meteor Staff + Dark Orb
- **Grand Warden**: pet Electro Owl, equipment Eternal Tome + Healing Tome, air mode
- **Dragon Duke**: pet Angry Jelly, equipment Flame Blower + Rocket Backpack

### Copy this army

Opens straight in the game: https://link.clashofclans.com/en?action=CopyArmy&army=h4p10e13_6-6p4e49_43-2m1p2e4_34-7p11e57_53i2x65-1x188d3x10u8x65-4x63-5x57-2x1-2x10-1x23-1x6-1x87s3x0-3x120-2x5-1x17-1x70

## How to attack with it

1. Lightning the Air Defence covering the side you want to walk, using the three castle Earthquakes on the wall if the base is tight.
2. Send the Dragon Duke in on a Rocket Backpack to soak the first Air Defence.
3. Drop the Rocket Balloons on the two Air Defences either side of him.
4. Deploy all eight Dragon Riders in one line, then Totem the compartment ahead of them as they cross.
5. Inferno Dragons and the Warden in air mode go in last, and the Freezes are for the Monolith.

## What beats it

Long air sweeper chains push the Riders off their line and the Totems land where the pack is not. Against a base built to fling air troops around, take a witch army.

## Other TH16 armies

- https://clanwarden.com/armies/th16/fireball-ruin-witch.md: Ruin Witches arrive at TH16 and immediately become the ground meta.
- https://clanwarden.com/armies/th16/thrower-totem.md: Throwers unlock at TH16, and Totems are what stop them being shot on the way in.

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