What are your ways in dealing hounds in early, mid and late game?

[Guille6785]

[Zima Blue]

This is an old screenshot but late game me and my boyfriend always build something like this with houndius.  Early and mid game we just fight them with a dark sword or ham bat.

[Mysterious box]

23 minutes ago, Jakepeng99 said:

You are taking tons of damage.

Not really keep in mind his armor does aoe damage and will shred hordes in afew hits nor does that mean you need to take every bite that comes your way.

9 minutes ago, grm9 said:

almost same thing as saying everyone oneshot hounds, they just need to run around for half a minute around beefalos 

Depending on your horde size with Webber they'll change target due to being body blocked but even with a smaller horde you can just use a boomerang or fire staff to have your horde pick them off not really a need to be passive with your extermination.

27 minutes ago, Jakepeng99 said:

Wurt and Webber are in high teir. They essentially one hit hounds once their followers aggro on them. 

 

1 hour ago, chirsg said:

Problem with webber is surely he can't be with his spiders constantly. 

What chirsg says here is actually applicable to Wurt however as keeping her horde on you at all times isn't as feasible as Webber even if it's mostly possible. On the other hand since merms will naturally protect her regardless of if they're her followers turtling can be a effective strat for her alongside just building merm settlements throughout the map as another alternative though that's mostly the same as using pigs or arguably worse since pigs will engage on their own while merms will wait until Wurt is harmed. (Speaking of which perhaps we could add a skill to her eventual skill tree to make merms attack those who aggro on her not jist those who attack her.)

Just to be clear the Pigs example assumes a player makes more pig houses which tbf would be fairly expensive compared to merm homes.

[The Starver]

I also usually just facetank the first hound wave with just a spear (did I mention that I’m a Wilson main?)

[grm9]

14 minutes ago, Mysterious box said:

Depending on your horde size with Webber they'll change target due to being body blocked but even with a smaller horde you can just use a boomerang or fire staff to have your horde pick them off not really a need to be passive with your extermination

should've probably made it more clear that i meant that you also need to wait for them to finish fighting 

[Mysterious box]

1 minute ago, grm9 said:

should've probably made it more clear that i meant that you also need to wait for them to finish fighting 

If your going the passive route you can skip the waiting by using a snurtle shell then start fighting alongside your horde when they change target.

[grm9]

1 minute ago, Mysterious box said:

If your going the passive route you can skip the waiting by using a snurtle shell then start fighting alongside your horde when they change target

ik, still not an oneshot, that's why i compared that to saying that aggroing hounds onto beefalos is an oneshot   

[Jakepeng99]

27 minutes ago, Mysterious box said:

Not really keep in mind his armor does aoe damage and will shred hordes in afew hits nor does that mean you need to take every bite that comes your way.

Normally only 1-2 hounds spawn at once, before a short break where more come. You are still taking alot of damage.

[Mysterious box]

1 minute ago, Jakepeng99 said:

Normally only 1-2 hounds spawn at once, before a short break where more come. You are still taking alot of damage.

I mean why would you tank 1 to 2 hounds at a time though? You'd either fight them 1 by 1 or fight them all at once making use of the spread damage as you fight.

11 minutes ago, grm9 said:

ik, still not an oneshot, that's why i compared that to saying that aggroing hounds onto beefalos is an oneshot   

The main difference between Webber and the beefalo is you can't carry a beefalo horde with you however.

[grm9]

12 minutes ago, Mysterious box said:

The main difference between Webber and the beefalo is you can't carry a beefalo horde with you however

the point was that it doesn't make sense to call aggroing enemies onto other enemies/minions an oneshot, not comparing merms/spiders to beefalo   

[Mysterious box]

2 hours ago, grm9 said:

the point was that it doesn't make sense to call aggroing enemies onto other enemies/minions an oneshot, not comparing merms/spiders to beefalo   

Sorry I understand I missed the point.

[hoppin mandrake]

Toothtraps for when I'm in base and Marble Armor and a Hambat/Some Weapon if I'm caught outside of base.