
If you have to take such a fight, make sure you have Druid of the Claws and/or Mountain Giants in the frontline to tank for your dryads. When using dryads, you want to pick your fights carefully and make sure to avoid a direct head-to-head fight with an enemy who has a lot of ranged units. Also, even though dryads are very cheap to produce, they take up 3 food and give the same amount of experience as other 3-food units. That being said, dryads have Unarmored armor type which means they die very quickly if they are focused by ranged units like Riflemen and Troll Headhunters.

Their high mobility and slow poison ability grant a lot of map control.ĭryads are the perfect counter against air units with Magic damage like Chimaeras, Frost Wyrms and Gryphons. Because of this Dryads most of the times replace Archers as ranged units in the mid game. Their spell immunity gives Dryads a big advantage over Archers, that can be countered by area of effect abilities. Archers as a whole are fairly weak in team matches, because large numbers and collision size do not work well for allied units. They are used in many strategies such as the famous Dryad Bear strategy. The basic ranged unit of the Night Elves, Archers are fairly popular mainly due to their cheap cost allowing them to be easily massed. Dryads are very versatile and useful units.
