Talking bout 9.5's

Since i became a new TH10 with max TH9 defenses and walls and 25/25 heroes, i would like to here your thoughts to my plan going 9.5 according to my priority list:

1) Spell Factory
2) Laboratory
3) Clan Castle
4) Army Camps

Since i didn't drop any new buildings, walls, traps or resource buildings, i should count as a max th9 further on i guess. Also i started maxing my existing walls, because i don't want to upgrade my defenses because of the war weight.

My Questions now are:

a) What should i upgrade in the laboratory firstly? Valks, Golem, Hogs for War or Giants, Barbs and Archers for farming?
b) Should i upgrade my consisting traps or will it effect my war weight massively?
c) Any recommedations left? So let me know! :)

Do all traps new and old, go ahead and max them.

Lab, valks first. Then depends what you want to do.

Bowlers 2 would be good.

Any one of Giants, Hounds, Hogs, Freeze, Baby Dragons, Golem, Pekka can be good upgrades, some are better for cleaning 9s, others better for hitting 10s

I did one dark barracks upgrade before camps in order to unlock bowlers. Then in the lab I did hog6 followed by bowler2. When it comes to dip attacks, though, bowler2 is just icing on the cake. So far my farming remains fine; I do QW into gob knife and just mass gobs when AQ is down.

The big question dominating my 9.5 planning is at what point will my offense be advanced enough that I start drawing full 10s? When I eventually do drop infernos, I don't want to be one of those easy TH10 with TH9 defenses; I want to be hard to 3 star. So I plan to go ahead and upgrade my existing defenses alongside maxing my heroes. I'm not concerned about the small amount of war weight that will add.

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Originally Posted by Klavious

Do all traps new and old, go ahead and max them.

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Careful with this one - giant bombs weigh 150 per level, which is slightly less than 2 point defence levels.

Thanks for your recommendations so far! :)
I really appreciate your thoughts and opinions, b/c they really help me to get along with this.

So i decided to level the valks at first, followed by the hogs and currently i'm saving dark for the hounds 3 for the next lab upgrade. but i'm unsure to upgrade either the minions or golems, cause nowadays i farm and attack in war with cb golalo with some minions in the back for clean-up in champs.
The extra spell makes beating 9's with this strategie really easy and i sure can 2-star low level 10s with a small success rate to 3star them.

I will stick to the plan and wont build any new buildings, traps or walls. so after the dark troops upgrades in the lab i can focus on the heroes for the 40/40 grind.
guess i will finish the traps, new ressource buildings and walls at 35/35 and drop the infernos at 40/40 and max walls.

i'll keep you guys updated and look forwards onto your thoughts!

Best Regards,
Patrick

Definitely do bowlers after hounds, or at least as soon as you unlock them. They are a must have for hitting a decent amount of th10 bases, which youll soon start seeing more of. Baby drags are also very, very good at level 4.

go upgrade all existing defense to the max of th10, even th10 max offense will hardly 3 stared you even w/o IT. also suggesting add the extra cannon and archer tower together w/ 3rd xbows then max them. If all of this done just rush to th11 and get the warden and additional cannon and archer tower. Now your offense become th11 and you still sit at lower th10 with it.

Dark barracks ASAP, with bowlers > 2 in lab. Post update valks have kinda lost steam, and laloon and bowlers are much more viable. After bowlers do Hounds4 and Loons7.

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Originally Posted by pepunktenpunkt

Since i became a new TH10 with max TH9 defenses and walls and 25/25 heroes, i would like to here your thoughts to my plan going 9.5 according to my priority list:

1) Spell Factory
2) Laboratory
3) Clan Castle
4) Army Camps

Since i didn't drop any new buildings, walls, traps or resource buildings, i should count as a max th9 further on i guess. Also i started maxing my existing walls, because i don't want to upgrade my defenses because of the war weight.

My Questions now are:

a) What should i upgrade in the laboratory firstly? Valks, Golem, Hogs for War or Giants, Barbs and Archers for farming?
b) Should i upgrade my consisting traps or will it effect my war weight massively?
c) Any recommedations left? So let me know! :)

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a) valks , golem , hogs for war
b) u can max your traps including teslas
c) remain th9.5 at th11 too ,,

I recently upgraded to th10 and building it according to 9.5 idea.

Have some questions for more experienced people:
1) War army combination? I have success with gova approach and already maxed valk, golems in progress.
Should I do bowlers to lvl2 next or try drags+ light lvl7?

Tricky question cause I have good experience with gova, and bowlers seems good but spend DE.
However mass drag + 4 lights looks interesting. Takes elexir which I need so far for army camps upgrades.

2) Existing D. I do teslas, wiz tower double upgrade looks good?
What else could I do next without affecting my weight?

3) Finally base design...Should I build walls? probably no.
In this case my main q would be about war base. Keep unbeatable anti3 or try to rebuild it for anti2 by th9 maxed?
The issue is that any strong th9 would 2 star me, very hard to 3 star. As th is almost outside its not a big deal to 2 star...
Or is anti 3 vial strategy for th9.5 path?

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Originally Posted by 0oMcMikeyo0

a) valks , golem , hogs for war
b) u can max your traps including teslas
c) remain th9.5 at th11 too ,,

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As i already mentioned i did upgrade the valks and hogs and will stick to the hounds and bowlers as aquamantis mentioned, saving exilier for the second dark barracks in order to decrease the training time for the bowlers and furthermore to focus on the baby drags for the lab upgrade.

@MaxBusters:

i'm in champ 3 currently and loosing cb golalo with 3 hounds, 20 loons, some wiz, minions and wb with ~2k dark per raid, but nothing you coulndt compensate through the raids or bonus ^^ should try out the mass drag thing, but 2 barracks are upgrading, so it would 72min to build an army :-/

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Originally Posted by MaxBusters

I recently upgraded to th10 and building it according to 9.5 idea.

Have some questions for more experienced people:
1) War army combination? I have success with gova approach and already maxed valk, golems in progress.
Should I do bowlers to lvl2 next or try drags+ light lvl7?

Tricky question cause I have good experience with gova, and bowlers seems good but spend DE.
However mass drag + 4 lights looks interesting. Takes elexir which I need so far for army camps upgrades.

2) Existing D. I do teslas, wiz tower double upgrade looks good?
What else could I do next without affecting my weight?

3) Finally base design...Should I build walls? probably no.
In this case my main q would be about war base. Keep unbeatable anti3 or try to rebuild it for anti2 by th9 maxed?
The issue is that any strong th9 would 2 star me, very hard to 3 star. As th is almost outside its not a big deal to 2 star...
Or is anti 3 vial strategy for th9.5 path?

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1. I am having great success with laloon variations right now against close to max th10s. I like to do aq walk into a laloon, aq walk into gobolaloon, or just straight up gobolaloon. I also had success with valks for awhile but since the canon buff it has become harder to 3 star max th10s. For lab upgrade order I would go hound3, valks5, bowlers2, hogs6, drags5, giants7, wb6.

2.Start with tesla, traps, walls, and sweepers, then do air d, canon, and arch tower. Wiz tower, mortor, bomb tower, and xbows all have higher weight values because they are splash damage.

3. I have a 9.5 base with no bomb towers, no extra arch tower, canon, or xbow, and I didn't drop the 25 new wall pieces. I have upgraded all things elixir, traps, tesla, sweeper, air d, canon, arch tower, and about 75 lvl11 walls and I find my base holding to 2 star against th10s very frequently, now sometimes these aren't the best attackers, but they still have th10 offense. I will say I would not expect my base to hold up every time to a th10 attacker but I have yet to have a th9 3 star it and rarely do they ever even try.

if you are going 9.5 you may want to not increase your offensive weight much because offensive weight matters too. pekka, goblin, lava haste(if youre a ground attacker) or what ever troop you rarely use. you dont need miners.

Thx
WookieFloyd For reply!

1. I see some guys amazing with laloon combos. I had no success using it been th9, so guess it will take a lot of time and practice to be better. I know theory, but for some reason it never worked well for me.
I found also laloon is much harder to execute, as u need to lure cc and aq before staring main scenario.

I need to research more on mass drag.

2. My teslas 2 done 2 under upgarde. 1 gbomb left. 1 wiz in progress. 1st ad will start today.

3. Good 9.5 can 2 star me np...

Just saw the new videos from Klaus_Gaming from Youtube for his updated 9.5 buildings and lab guide and agree mostly with him, really appreciate the quality content he puts out! :)

started the last barrack today, so i now can focus on saving elixier for the lab, especially baby dragons, but still need to finish the bowlers and golems, while the hounds are upgrading currently for the next 10 days :/

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Originally Posted by WookieFloyd

1. I am having great success with laloon variations right now against close to max th10s. I like to do aq walk into a laloon, aq walk into gobolaloon, or just straight up gobolaloon. I also had success with valks for awhile but since the canon buff it has become harder to 3 star max th10s. For lab upgrade order I would go hound3, valks5, bowlers2, hogs6, drags5, giants7, wb6.

2.Start with tesla, traps, walls, and sweepers, then do air d, canon, and arch tower. Wiz tower, mortor, bomb tower, and xbows all have higher weight values because they are splash damage.

3. I have a 9.5 base with no bomb towers, no extra arch tower, canon, or xbow, and I didn't drop the 25 new wall pieces. I have upgraded all things elixir, traps, tesla, sweeper, air d, canon, arch tower, and about 75 lvl11 walls and I find my base holding to 2 star against th10s very frequently, now sometimes these aren't the best attackers, but they still have th10 offense. I will say I would not expect my base to hold up every time to a th10 attacker but I have yet to have a th9 3 star it and rarely do they ever even try.

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If you upgraded, valks, hogs, bowlers and maybe heroes a bit, then you should get some defensive weight. That doesnt mean infernos, but extra archer tower and cannon would be very wise after offensive weight changes. Upgrading archer towers and cannons to max level would makes lot of sense as well. I would drop new xbow and bomb tower after infernos though. Too much weight.