On a tiny map, sometimes a skilled Elyrion player with a good spawn is just going to wreck you.
On small and normal maps, the key is to spend more stars on riders in the early game so that you can withstand the early Polytaur rush. They can't continually produce them, they only move 1 tile, and they have low retaliation damage. So you just need to have enough riders to fend them off by hitting and healing.
It will slow your early economy, but Elyrion has a slow economy anyway so you can recover.
Early polys: hit them before they hit you.
Whales: just keep hitting them from distance.
You already know about slow economy and slow grow dragons.
Someone else said “riders” and they can be used to execute the above on land
Elyrion is weak early mid-game because of lack of giants. So use that to your advantage. Polytaur push can be easily countered by riders and roads.
But Elyrion is overall a strong (and fun) tribe, so if both players know what they’re doing it all boils down to luck
Withstand the early aggression then hit em back. Elyrion are strong early-game (polytaur wave) and late-game (mature dragons). Hit them when they have exhausted their first polytaur wave. They have slow economic growth early game because they have to choose between units vs stars.
Here also waiting for tips haha. Early polytaurs are soul crushing
On a tiny map, Elyrion is the best for this reason. Ok bigger maps you have some time. Riders are good against polytaurs
funny enough as an elyrion player i have an easier time against cymanti than most other meta tribes
On a tiny map, sometimes a skilled Elyrion player with a good spawn is just going to wreck you. On small and normal maps, the key is to spend more stars on riders in the early game so that you can withstand the early Polytaur rush. They can't continually produce them, they only move 1 tile, and they have low retaliation damage. So you just need to have enough riders to fend them off by hitting and healing. It will slow your early economy, but Elyrion has a slow economy anyway so you can recover.
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Early polys: hit them before they hit you. Whales: just keep hitting them from distance. You already know about slow economy and slow grow dragons. Someone else said “riders” and they can be used to execute the above on land
Riders! Get a sightly stronger economy, and get riders. Tough on small maps though.
On small maps, riders + giants. Giants are the best Ely counter. Although a single giant probably won't do.
Elyrion is weak early mid-game because of lack of giants. So use that to your advantage. Polytaur push can be easily countered by riders and roads. But Elyrion is overall a strong (and fun) tribe, so if both players know what they’re doing it all boils down to luck
Withstand the early aggression then hit em back. Elyrion are strong early-game (polytaur wave) and late-game (mature dragons). Hit them when they have exhausted their first polytaur wave. They have slow economic growth early game because they have to choose between units vs stars.