Which third-level creature is the best?

Checked? Tell me, how did ghosts manage to lose to golems, griffins, snakes, beholders, and many others in a ONE-ON-ONE battle? I can understand them losing to cerberuses (if those have luck and morale), but how about the rest? Just describe the mechanism...
Because if they just stand there and focus on defense, they can't possibly lose...

Look, let's take a battle between 7 ghosts and 7 griffins, for example. With equal conditions (the heroes have 1 in all parameters).
Royal Griffin:
Attack 9
Defense 9
Damage 3-6
Health 25
Speed 9
Responds to all

Ghost
Attack 7
Defense 7
Damage 3-5
Health 18
Speed 7

The first griffin goes, doesn't reach, and as a result, the ghost attacks first -1 griffin, response -1 ghost. The griffin goes, attack -2 ghosts, response -1 griffin. The ghost's turn doesn't kill anyone, response -1 ghost. In the end, there are 4 griffins left... Of course, in a 1-on-1 situation, the ghost will regenerate health. But I evaluated it based on the overall results: growth, battle with each, I summed all this up and presented the results

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because initially, the condition was to calculate everything together

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IMHO: Royal Griffins are still the best. :smile12:
1. They fly, and during a siege, that's the most important thing (especially against elves; if you're leading a Rampart army, you take out the ballista towers first).
2. Counterattack on any attack.
3. Having a Griffin Bastion in the city - under otherwise equal conditions, there will be more griffins.

With this setup, I also support griffins. Because they can fly over castle walls - a big plus, and so on.