Tornado

Tornado is a 3-Elixir Epic spell, unlocked in the Miner's Mine arena, that drags every enemy troop within its large radius toward the center over about a second while chipping them with area damage. It's a positioning tool as much as a damage spell: bunching enemies together sets them up to be finished off by your splash-damage troops or lets you drag a push closer to your King Tower so it starts firing. Tornado doesn't damage buildings on the enemy side, but it can scratch a crown tower if the pull effect overlaps one. Its own damage is modest and was cut further in a 2025 balance pass, so it's best paired with another card that punishes grouped-up troops rather than relied on to win a fight by itself.

• Tornado is a 3-Elixir Epic spell unlocked in the Miner's Mine arena, first released on 11 November 2016.

• It pulls all nearby enemy troops, air and ground alike, toward the center of a wide zone (about 5.5 tiles across) over roughly 1 second.

• How hard a troop gets pulled depends on its speed and weight — slow, heavy units like Golem get dragged the furthest, while fast units moving away from the Tornado resist the pull.

• At tournament standard (level 11), Tornado deals 84 damage total to troops it pulls in and 29 damage to a crown tower if the effect reaches one.

• In April 2025, Supercell halved Tornado's total damage output, from two 84-damage hits landing on a target that stayed in the pull for its whole duration (168 total) down to a single 84-damage hit — the value still in effect today.

• Tornado's current short, powerful pull dates to a May 2020 rework: Supercell cut its duration in half, roughly doubled how strongly it drags troops in, and gave it the ability to chip crown towers for the first time.

• Because it groups enemies without dealing much damage on its own, Tornado is usually paired with a splash-damage troop or building (like Baby Dragon, Executioner, or Bomb Tower) so the bunched-up group gets punished together.

• Tornado is also used to drag an enemy push within range of your own King Tower, waking it up early to help defend, or to yank a lone tank off the bridge and stall its advance.