Use for Clout Snouts?

[1bubbainpa]

So I’m the rare occasion that I get a pig belt, I usually set up the arena around pig king in a way that favors me to farm a ton of gold.

My question is, what’s the best use of clout snouts? They only last for 10 seconds, and I’m struggling to find a use for them.

[gaymime]

maybe hound waves or rockjaws

[Owlrust]

I love the idea of a Clout Snout (a great emergency "get out of death free" token or a temporary ally), but I think it doesn't do an amazing job at what it says it does. As a matter of fact, the time it takes to throw the coin in the air is long enough for you to get stun-locked to death in the process ironically; here's a list of reasons that I personally feel should be addressed if they are to be truly viable in a serious combat situation.

My criticisms of the Clout Snout:

1. I Wish it lasted as least 20 seconds or more; by the time you even summon a pig and get them to aggro a target (including the time it takes for the pig to run up to the target) 4 out of your 10 seconds are up.
2. The Elite Pigs go away after killing one single enemy.
3. The times you choose to use them in a boss battle they often get killed quickly because of their low health (low enough to get 2-shotted by a bearger but [ironically] high enough to survive any other fight that you yourself could handle easily).
4. You can't call out more than one pig per casting animation, meaning that it's impossible to get a full team of them at almost any point.

My proposal for these pigs:

1. Increase their health
2. Let them automatically aggro onto enemies
3. Let them last much longer/until they're no longer aggro'd onto enemies
4. Let you summon multiples at the same time
5. Allow them to keep fighting until there are either no threats or until the duration is up, and not leave after killing a single enemy

I personally think that, with the enormous time investment into gathering the Clout Snouts in general, they should be more worth the effort.

[Well-met]

greatly buff the pig's lifetime. 30 sec minimum. 

make it so only one ninja pig can be summoned at a time on the world, even with other players.

fix the ninja pig not attacking anything if the player isn't.

[Canis]

Wait, were they actually called Clout Snouts?

God dammit, Klei.

[NSAiswatchingus]

I think they look like neat little coins. Make a pig village that uses Clout Snouts as a currency. That's what I'd do.

[minespatch]

1 hour ago, NSAiswatchingus said:

I think they look like neat little coins. Make a pig village that uses Clout Snouts as a currency. That's what I'd do.

I'd be for this. Bring the Hamlet currency barter system but not bring the entire game in. It'd evolve the pigs but not too much they would be as eloquent as the Swinesbury residents.