Anti AQ Walk Suggestion

Supercell, please allow the air bombs and air mines to work against healers. Maybe reconsider returning the heal strength back to the healers if you go through with this if you're worried about over-nerfing.

Edit: Avicularia brought up a good point that air mines would be too strong and a hard counter against AQ walk and I think he's right. Seeking air mines would destroy the AQ walk but please allow the skeleton traps and the (aoe) air bombs to work to at least chip away at the healers but not one-shot them.

People have the assumption that I am against the AQ walk. I use it myself and I have a lot of 3-star success with it in clan wars against mid to high TH9s when I couple it with govaho or other strats. I have a level 19 AQ in TH9.

When it comes to farming, I find that AQ walk is too easy to learn for its high reward and it only gets easier the higher level the queen gets.

i have often wondered why they wont let air mines take down healers. I remember once when I was like townhouse 7 and I made my base specifically to stop a healer/giant attack and placed my air mines well, later on i was attacked, and the healer waltzed through the bomb i deliberately put there and my base proceeded to get wrecked lol i was like ♥♥♥ why did it the air mine not work, and that's how I found out about that lol

I think it's because healers are already weak, and air bombs/mines would just destroy them. I don't use healers, so maybe my argument is useless, but based on what I have seen, they shouldn't be afflicted by air bombs.

This I find would be the easiest counter to the AQ walk though. It does not make the AQ walk obsolete because it would require smart bomb placements and the AQ would still do a lot of damage by the time a healer would walk on top of it. This just limits the distance an AQ would walk around a base.

I also feel like the Healer should be able to be targeted by traps. However, I don't think that it should be targeted by all of them. In my opinion, a smart balance would include Healers being targeted by Air Bombs and Skeleton Traps, but not Seeking Air Mines that kill them upon impact. If this were to be implemented, I also agree that the maximum heal effect should be lifted- but only slightly. It should go from 4 Healers to 5 for the maximum healing effect.

Good post... I feel like a lot of people, myself included, want a change like this.

You got your nerf with the last update to super queen, the 1-2 star farming strat for de storages. You will not receive another. Supercell will not nerf 3 star queen walk and queen charge strats which use 3-5 healers. They said this in one of the sneak peaks for the last update. Base design is enough to defend yourself. If you want help with this, let me know. Cheers.

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Originally Posted by Ironlionzion

Supercell, please allow the air bombs and air mines to work against healers. Maybe reconsider returning the heal strength back to the healers if you go through with this if you're worried about over-nerfing.

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The easiest way to defend the queen walk is to put your elixir storage unprotected in the corner, with both drills beside it, then the elixir stores, then gold stores, and while you're at it go ahead and put the gold mines and elixir collectors out there too. You're welcome for the information.

...for the record, queen walk is pretty well balanced. You just have to sell out on trying to defend it and in doing so, you open yourself up for different styles of attacks. Just as designing an anti-drag base leaves you vulnerable to gowipe or hogs, it also opens you up to a queen walk.

Anecdotal: I just walked over an early th9.
4 healers, 4 giants, 1 max rage, level 14 queen. 280k gold, 250k elixir, 2200 de. No support troops other than the 4 giants to spam a cannon early when all the point defenses were at full strength. His base design was absolute ♥♥♥♥...why should he not have been walked over?? ...I bet your base is the same way and that's why you cry that "something needs to be done about" the attack you can't defend.

The bombs use to hit healers. They removed it to get healers used past TH6. The heavy ADs in TH8-11 plus air bombs made them useless.

You would like the strategy if you tried it but if they wanted to nerf AQ walk or whatever they call it the only way I could think to do it would be to shorten the length of the AQs fire or raise the distance ADs fire.

Maybe a new air trapped called stun that stuns a group of enemies for 2-4 seconds added at TH8.

But I personally don't mind it I get hit by it but I'm also learning how to get it done correctly.

What´s wrong with AQ walks tho?

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Originally Posted by Ultr4

What´s wrong with AQ walks tho?

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Nothing is wrong with them. There is a perception problem that a skilled qw/sq attacker is "just" dropping a queen and healers and that is resulting in automatic base destruction. With the recent changes to the way healers effect heroes, if players are still seeing this end result, their base designs suck.

My defenseless is being 3 starred by barbarians and archers. We need to nerf barch walk. Eagle artillery needs to be made available at th3 because it isnt fair that my defenseless is constantly being 3 starred by such an easy attack.