Dragonfly/1.03.24

Dragonflies are basic fliers. Dragonflies are on par with Bats. However, they can at least cause poison, allowing their otherwise-useless-bites to actually leave some lasting impression.

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Plaguelords
There aren't any basic fliers that cause disease, so the Plaguelords had to settle for one that caused poison instead. (I never understood why Bats never caused disease.) But their poison is weak and they cost that sacred resource - crystal. It may not seem a lot at first but soon mounts up when you need to build a swarm of them in order to make them actually accomplish something. Stat wise, they're terrible. You're better off forgetting they even exist.

Ssrathi
The purpose of the Dragonfly is to inflict Poison upon aerial targets, but the problem here is that the Ssrathi have much better options for doing just that, and at the same tier level, too. However, up untill tier 4 the Ssrathi have limited ways to deal with aerial targets, relying heavily on fire attacks from their Snakepriests. This leaves the Ssrathi unable to fend off early Daemon attacks summoned from enemy Heroes or produced from Infernal Temples. Although Dragonflies are utterly terrible, they can help out with this one situation - just remember to have a large swarm of them and even back them up with Snakepriests for extra damage, even if it is a small amount due to the Daemon's fire resistance, lest the Daemon will just feed off them and grow even stronger!

Benefits from Couatl's Favor and Eagle Eye researches.