Verminion how do I counter hildy?

Seriously, I cant figure this one out. I know some of these players are just better than me, but I can usually understand what they did and think about what to do about it. Then there is hildy. He destroys even his counters with disproportionately high stats, if they start to get an upper hand and they have roaming hildy parties, I cant win. its done. he kills everything, even the things supposed to counter him and takes forever to die too.

Is there any kind of strategy or minion I can use to beat him specifically? I don't care about the rest I figured them out but I am tired of losing to these roaming hildy gank squads that can fight more than twice there numbers.

Option 1: Set traps with Chocobo Chick Couriers. The bomb will deal 260 damage leaving them with 140 health, and since critters are effective against poppets they should kill each of them in 2-3 hits while taking less damage because of their high defense.
Option 2: Summon 4 Wind-up Echidnas and destroy both search eyes and barriers. They can't chase you if they can't see you.

If you aren't familiar already, I'd look at http://ffxiverminion.com/ to see what minions have what stats and actions, it could help you plan better.

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Originally Posted by SirBrighton

Option 1: Set traps with Chocobo Chick Couriers. The bomb will deal 260 damage leaving them with 140 health, and since critters are effective against poppets they should kill each of them in 2-3 hits while taking less damage because of their high defense.
Option 2: Summon 4 Wind-up Echidnas and destroy both search eyes and barriers. They can't chase you if they can't see you.

If you aren't familiar already, I'd look at http://ffxiverminion.com/ to see what minions have what stats and actions, it could help you plan better.

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Thanks I have the chocobos though not echidna

Don't do echidnas, you will get wrecked if you try that because they will desummon and you destroy your own structures too. So now you're down in units while your own eyes/sheilds are also destroyed and they have a bunch of hildies running around. Not to mention echidnas are weak to hildies by default.

You can beat hildies by:
1. having good micro. A hildy is a 30 point unit, if you can stretch the opponents micro by having a bunch of small battles in multiple areas of the map they won't be able to effectively split. Send one cat to the search eyes, one serpant hatchling to the shield, and one seige unit to each crystal constantly, while having two fighting groups. Only merge the groups if the opponent rolls in with a deathball.

2. Swarm with wolf/tomato/cats in multiple fighting groups. Make sure to have your own hildies to in the mix too to tank some damage. A hildy user won't get to use their abilities as much as you do due to hildies long cooldown, but make sure you have groups of 4-5+ as only the abilities you get off will tilt the game in your favor. If they do get hildies ability off, make sure to run. Swarming also helps because you will destroy crystals faster since the hildy user will have less overall minions, and all minions do the same damage to crystals if they are not seige, so you will break crystals faster just by having more units.

3. Use bombs/traps if they like to clump their hildies into one deathball.

But most importantly, make sure to have your own hildies!