TH10 efficient looting in champions

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Originally Posted by Creatine

Hi,

I am about 4 months into th10 as a th9.5. I have maxed valks, hogs, golems, lvl 2 bowlers, lvl 1 miners. All other troops are still max at th9 level. Heros are 26\26. I recently pushed to champs league for the achievement after spending most of my time in crystal aq walking\barching for loot. I would like to stay in champs and slowly push trophies. The issue I am having is finding an efficient looting army while being able to 2 star a th10 base and get the looting bonus. I am currently using bowler walks and burning 5 spells which works well but very expensive on de. Even with 100% loot bonus, I am not making much de per raid.
Are there better army compositions which will allow me to make more de and 2 star th10 bases ?

Thanks.

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If de is your main objective and your need for elixir at this point is minimal then mass drag is probably what your looking for. 10 drags, 8 loons, cc loons, 4 zaps, 2 eq, 1 rage. zap-quake 2 air d and funnel drags to the core. This army has a very high elixir cost but only 125 de cost.

If you need to accrue loot a little more balanced then I would suggest an aq walk + giwiva or giwibo. I usually use 4 healers, 8 wiz, 4 giants, 14 valks, 5 wb, 1 baby, cc giants, 3 rage, 1 heal, 1 jump, 2 poison. This army is a little bit expensive on the de end but I find I am able to bring in all 3 types of loot at a decent rate.

If you are going to be a th10 and try to raid in high level leagues then I would recommend focusing your efforts on de or elixir. Basically use a de based army such as your bowler or valk army to get elixir profits and use an elixir based army like mass drag or gob knife to get your de profits. Most of the time you can just focus on raiding for de and then switch to raiding for elixir once your lab gets close to finishing.

Thanks for the advice, think I'm going to drop to masters/crystal for easy bases. Aq walk isn't really an option since she is down 95% of the time due to upgrades. Tried mass drag with zapquake and got toasted, also tried a 5 pekka gowipe without luck. Maybe they will be viable once I upgrade these troops.

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Originally Posted by Creatine

Thanks for the advice, think I'm going to drop to masters/crystal for easy bases. Aq walk isn't really an option since she is down 95% of the time due to upgrades. Tried mass drag with zapquake and got toasted, also tried a 5 pekka gowipe without luck. Maybe they will be viable once I upgrade these troops.

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Honestly the mass drag works just don't give up on it. It takes time and patience to learn how to funnel your drags well. I pulled in 70k de yesterday doing mass drags. The army only costs 125 de for the earthquake spell so it basically nets you pure de profits. The first few times I used it were not the most successful but you get the hang of it after awhile, and I am only using lvl4 drags so they are th9 level. Really though because this strategy is such an elixir drain it might not be the best if you are a newer th10 due to how much elixir is needed for upgrades at the beginning of th10. Using a more balanced army comp or dropping and barching are probably better options or gob knife.

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Originally Posted by WookieFloyd

Honestly the mass drag works just don't give up on it. It takes time and patience to learn how to funnel your drags well. I pulled in 70k de yesterday doing mass drags. The army only costs 125 de for the earthquake spell so it basically nets you pure de profits. The first few times I used it were not the most successful but you get the hang of it after awhile, and I am only using lvl4 drags so they are th9 level. Really though because this strategy is such an elixir drain it might not be the best if you are a newer th10 due to how much elixir is needed for upgrades at the beginning of th10. Using a more balanced army comp or dropping and barching are probably better options or gob knife.

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My goal is to put both heros down within 2-3 days of eachother so I don't sit out of war too long. Burning elixer is not a problem. I might be hitting the "wrong" kind of bases then. I can funnel drags with my eyes closed. Just getting toasted by inferno and upgraded archer towers, etc. Are you hitting newish th10s in champions with this attack ? What kind of base are you targeting ?

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Originally Posted by Creatine

My goal is to put both heros down within 2-3 days of eachother so I don't sit out of war too long. Burning elixer is not a problem. I might be hitting the "wrong" kind of bases then. I can funnel drags with my eyes closed. Just getting toasted by inferno and upgraded archer towers, etc. Are you hitting newish th10s in champions with this attack ? What kind of base are you targeting ?

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I guess what level are your drags? if they are lvl4 then they should be able to hold up to multi target infernos but single targets can get dicey since you have limited rage spells. For arch towers i like to drop a drag then two loons to target arch tower to help keep drags up longer, this is why I bring 8 loons plus cc loons. Basically I use a couple drags and a couple loons on each side to create the funnel and then drags and remaining loons and cc loons up the gut to the core, use rage on loons going into core. Ideally loons take out at least one inferno and some xbows or teslas while drags clean up th and de storage. A lot of times loons splash damage will take out other core buildings while taking out defenses. I will hit all th10 levels but mostly look for bases that I can take out 2 ad and then be out of range of other two ad while i get to th and de storage. I don't worry too much about infernos. It's by no means a fool proof strategy, sometimes those drags are just dumb and slow. I know a number of people using it at th10 and 11 and having success if de is the only goal.

honestly what you are looking for is mass miners prenerf.

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Originally Posted by WookieFloyd

I guess what level are your drags? if they are lvl4 then they should be able to hold up to multi target infernos but single targets can get dicey since you have limited rage spells. For arch towers i like to drop a drag then two loons to target arch tower to help keep drags up longer, this is why I bring 8 loons plus cc loons. Basically I use a couple drags and a couple loons on each side to create the funnel and then drags and remaining loons and cc loons up the gut to the core, use rage on loons going into core. Ideally loons take out at least one inferno and some xbows or teslas while drags clean up th and de storage. A lot of times loons splash damage will take out other core buildings while taking out defenses. I will hit all th10 levels but mostly look for bases that I can take out 2 ad and then be out of range of other two ad while i get to th and de storage. I don't worry too much about infernos. It's by no means a fool proof strategy, sometimes those drags are just dumb and slow. I know a number of people using it at th10 and 11 and having success if de is the only goal.

honestly what you are looking for is mass miners prenerf.

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Yes my drags are lvl4. I'll give it another try. Are you zapping ad closest or furthest away from drags?

My 2 th10.5s in champs use giwipe for de and valks for elixir. Pretty solid 2 stars.
2 babies for funneling, 4 eq, 1 freeze, heal 2 rage (2 heal 1 rage for valks).
Freeze is only level 1 to keep war weight down
Half of my attacks are without heroes because I use them on first attack at end of shield and let them recover in time to defend base at end of guard