Why Cant I Make It To Master?

I used level 6 balloons and level 5 minions during my clan's trophy push and got from Gold 3 to Crystal 1 (barely made it to 2400)

Once I hit crystal 1, the bases were overwhelmingly challenging. I felt like I had no problem getting to crystal 1, but there was no way I could go to master. Is it because I am still a town hall 9? Do I need to have a th 10 with inferno towers to help defend my base?

I am so confused why I kept getting 48-49% on bases where I would usually 100% or close to it.

Any tips?

How often do you click "next"? Often it is just a question of patience to find the right bases to attack.

with those troops and maxed army camps you should be able to balloon minion to masters. Dont want to sound rude but you might be doing it wrong. check youtube for good balloon tactics. better still check out daddy's videos they will teach you the right way.

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Originally Posted by Kylesamp

I used level 6 balloons and level 5 minions during my clan's trophy push and got from Gold 3 to Crystal 1 (barely made it to 2400)

Once I hit crystal 1, the bases were overwhelmingly challenging. I felt like I had no problem getting to crystal 1, but there was no way I could go to master. Is it because I am still a town hall 9? Do I need to have a th 10 with inferno towers to help defend my base?

I am so confused why I kept getting 48-49% on bases where I would usually 100% or close to it.

Any tips?

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I'm sure it's not your base, trophy pushing is more offense than defense.

how many raids a day are you doing? And when waiting for your army to build do you leave the game (I.e. You get attacked between each of your raids and have to break a shield constantly)?

when looking for a good base to raid with balloons minions you need to find a base that suits your army comp, and that varies depending on the number of balloons you use. But you always want to find a base with wizard towers and air defenses easily accessible with your balloons. Try attacking from a wide side of a base, and not a corner. The more spread out your balloons are on a single side the better it is. Bases that are extremely compact , have wizard towers well inside other defenses, and air defenses hidden well inside the bases core are not wise to attack.

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Originally Posted by Kylesamp

I used level 6 balloons and level 5 minions during my clan's trophy push and got from Gold 3 to Crystal 1 (barely made it to 2400)

Once I hit crystal 1, the bases were overwhelmingly challenging. I felt like I had no problem getting to crystal 1, but there was no way I could go to master. Is it because I am still a town hall 9? Do I need to have a th 10 with inferno towers to help defend my base?

I am so confused why I kept getting 48-49% on bases where I would usually 100% or close to it.

Any tips?

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are you using spells?

Do you use spells? This can make a difference between 49% and 70% :)

Do you pick outside units with your minions? I usually get like 15 percent damage before I send the wave in ..

I made it to Masters as a TH 7 using level 2 dragons, archers and spells. It wasn't but it can be done.

Should be no problem with that army. 1 lightning and the rest heal or rage. YouTube for deployment advice or visit a clan that has replays of sucsessfull raids. It does. Get tough from 2500-2600 because you can lose quite a bit of cups on defense.

With 20 balloons, 60 minions, 4 rages, 1 light it's not so difficult...

Look at Youtube clashers for advice. But 1 wave of minions (around 20), after balloons with rage spells and when they destroy air defence & wizz tower you can destroy everything with your minions ;)

The light spell is for CC (but you know that I'm sure) ;)

Good luck man :)

Check out my thread that I created on easy trophy pushing: http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...nting-Strategy

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...eague-for-TH9s

I recently took 16 level 5 balloons + 70 level 4 minions to 2490, and am slowly making my way back up with level 6 balloons now, same number of troops. You can certainly do it,. it's just perseverence and patience. Through Crystal 1, there are still bases you can 1-2 star, you just have to find them.

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Originally Posted by TehMikester

How often do you click "next"? Often it is just a question of patience to find the right bases to attack.

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I click next quite a bit to find a good battle. I usually find the right base after 20-30 nexts.

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Originally Posted by hastur

I recently took 16 level 5 balloons + 70 level 4 minions to 2490, and am slowly making my way back up with level 6 balloons now, same number of troops. You can certainly do it,. it's just perseverence and patience. Through Crystal 1, there are still bases you can 1-2 star, you just have to find them.

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Thanks! I see alot of replies to this saying they made it with no problem... maybe I just wasnt having good luck :(

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Originally Posted by tomhbri

with those troops and maxed army camps you should be able to balloon minion to masters. Dont want to sound rude but you might be doing it wrong. check youtube for good balloon tactics. better still check out daddy's videos they will teach you the right way.

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thanks! I will definitely look into it!

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Originally Posted by Anarchos

I'm sure it's not your base, trophy pushing is more offense than defense.

how many raids a day are you doing? And when waiting for your army to build do you leave the game (I.e. You get attacked between each of your raids and have to break a shield constantly)?

when looking for a good base to raid with balloons minions you need to find a base that suits your army comp, and that varies depending on the number of balloons you use. But you always want to find a base with wizard towers and air defenses easily accessible with your balloons. Try attacking from a wide side of a base, and not a corner. The more spread out your balloons are on a single side the better it is. Bases that are extremely compact , have wizard towers well inside other defenses, and air defenses hidden well inside the bases core are not wise to attack.

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thanks alot! Im sure that will help! Ill post again soon to let everyone know if I made it to master during the next push with all this advice:)

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Originally Posted by Kylesamp

thanks alot! Im sure that will help! Ill post again soon to let everyone know if I made it to master during the next push with all this advice:)

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I noticed that your Tier 3 Troops are at a minimal level.... Perhaps a correlation? Also upgrade your spells past lvl 2 and you should be set, believe it or not a lvl 5 rage spell vs a lvl 2 rage spell could save your raid.

-That One Guy , Co-Leader of Silver Soul

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Originally Posted by Kylesamp

I used level 6 balloons and level 5 minions during my clan's trophy push and got from Gold 3 to Crystal 1 (barely made it to 2400)

Once I hit crystal 1, the bases were overwhelmingly challenging. I felt like I had no problem getting to crystal 1, but there was no way I could go to master. Is it because I am still a town hall 9? Do I need to have a th 10 with inferno towers to help defend my base?

I am so confused why I kept getting 48-49% on bases where I would usually 100% or close to it.

Any tips?

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With hogs it is possible but Balloons and Minions would be tougher. Any base above 2800 would require you to attack a base that has no troops in the CC and an Archer Queen that is down. At 3100 I found myself searching for over an hour sometimes. Good Luck.

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Originally Posted by SilverSoulClan

I noticed that your Tier 3 Troops are at a minimal level.... Perhaps a correlation? Also upgrade your spells past lvl 2 and you should be set, believe it or not a lvl 5 rage spell vs a lvl 2 rage spell could save your raid.

-That One Guy , Co-Leader of Silver Soul

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I can't believe you.......

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Originally Posted by Kylesamp

I used level 6 balloons and level 5 minions during my clan's trophy push and got from Gold 3 to Crystal 1 (barely made it to 2400)

Once I hit crystal 1, the bases were overwhelmingly challenging. I felt like I had no problem getting to crystal 1, but there was no way I could go to master. Is it because I am still a town hall 9? Do I need to have a th 10 with inferno towers to help defend my base?

I am so confused why I kept getting 48-49% on bases where I would usually 100% or close to it.

Any tips?

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Plenty of TH8s, including me, made the push to Master, we didn't rely on sniping town halls.

You just need the patience to hit next button a lot.

My final battle took over 100 searches before I found a TH9 that doesn't have a centralized CC and an active AQ.

Balloon Minion is quite a good strategy. I used it to get 50 trophies in crystal 1, but I wasn't as familiar with it as with my DAM. If you don't feel comfortable with it, dont use it until you are! Good luck!

I had the same problem just I got to crystal 3 really easily and couldn't be at 2035+ trophies by the end of the day. I gave up, upgraded meh town hall, dropped trophies

With maxed balloons minions and rage spells you can get as high as 2846. At least I did.

My army combo were 28 balloons 40 minions plus 6 lv 6 balloons in cc. and usually looking for bases with air defenses lower than level 5 and grounded xbows. Taking out archer queen is essential plus carrying a lightening spell to kill cc troops