Thanks to their high stats overall, White Tigers can take on various different units. They can accompany cavalry units in raids against enemy worker units gathering resources away from the safety of their home base. While White Tigers have equally high hack and pierce armor in the same manner as Azure Dragons and Chimerae, they are best suited to take on human soldiers with low hack armor as the tigers deal no crush damage, only hack damage. Archers and slow-moving myth units like Scarabs and Colossi are especially vulnerable since Tigers can close onto them quickly thanks to their speed and special attack.
White Tigers have a special jumping attack, like those of Anubites, Tartarian Spawn, and Bellerophon, which enables them to strike first. This ability even allows them to jump over walls and immediately enter the base of an opponent relying on a turtling strategy. Doing so allows the White Tiger to attack worker units repairing the wall or attempting to escape a raid. If the player chooses a turtling strategy themselves, White Tigers do not need to rely on gates as they can even leap over friendly walls. Jumping also allows them to bypass units in the front lines of an army and reach the frailer units, such as archers, in the rear lines. The best counters to White Tigers are heroes and stronger myth units.
Initially, White Tigers cost 30 favor, have 20 hack damage, do 300% damage against myth units, and their jump attack does 100 damage in an area of 3 meters. With patch 2.7, they cost 27 favor, have 30 hack damage, do 200% damage against myth units, and their jump attack does 200 damage to a single target (no area damage).
Mythology[]
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Original Name -- Bai Hu Size -- up to 14 feet and 700 pounds Diet -- Deer, antelope, wild pigs, cattle
The White Tiger, also known as the White Tiger of the West, is a mythological creature representing the Metal element and the autumn season. As the tiger was considered the king of all beasts by ancient cultures, the legends speak of its tail turning white as the creature reached the age of 500 years. It is the guardian of righteousness and only appears to rulers of the highest virtues.
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—In-game help section
Trivia[]
Along with the Terracotta Warrior, the White Tiger was one of the first Chinese myth units introduced to the public on October 2, 2015.
The White Tiger has an identical stat distribution to the Chimera and Azure Dragon, with the only differences being that the White Tiger costs food and less favor and they each have different special abilities.
Tiger Spirit (Xi Wangmu): +20% hit points and movement speed.
