Master I - Seeking Advise and Coffee Talk

Hey guys, what's up with Masters 1? Need your thoughts and sharing here. The game seems to be quite different up here. First off, I'm getting attacked by people more than 400 cups above mine! For example, when I was 3003 cups, I got hit by someone above 3450 cups. I lost 1 cup! I'm getting two starred now by players with obviously a lot more skill from deep within the champs league. Unlike all other leagues, where the difficulty increases progressively, being attacked with people at +- 200 cups, its now mostly peeps outside and above that 200 cups range.

At first I thought to myself... hey, that's not too bad. They take fewer trophies away and I can probably rise faster when I revenge them. Looking at their bases, they are easy 1 star victories in my opinion. The only problem is, I could never revenge any. They are always shielded. I even tried stalking them and pressed revenge continuously for pockets of minutes throughout the day ... and they're always online or shielded.

So I'm being forced to attack peeps within the +-200 range for normal trophy numbers, but am instead being offered as a match to those well above 400 cups.

Second, there's the pro GoWiWi players with level 40 heroes that pop up and skillfully take out 2 stars and tonnes of trophies away. This is in contrast to Masters 2 when my defense used to win 50% and lose one star to 50% of all defenses. Also, I used to go by up to 48 hours in Masters 2 without ever getting picked on, where as now, it takes 2 minutes guaranteed due to the expanded offering of my base deep into the higher champs league.

I need some advise on how to progress. My attack win rate is almost 100% ... I go for one star victories with balloons and minions. I don't want to gem too much, apart from the spell factory plus, I want to play naturally without having to hide my base by artificially online. What do I need to know, and what advise, if any could I use to play my way to champs in a fun way.

48 hours and no attacks? This was not my experience. As you rise there are less and less players and it gets serious with shielding and being online. If champs cant attack champs they attack you.

What are the level of your heroes? When i was 3300+ 3400+ it was always pairing me with master 1 league players and it was rarely giving me the players whose cups were closer to mine. I tried so many times revenging other players but trust me its like a lottery cos as soon as anyone logout he/she will recieve a strong attack from higher cups players. So dont lose your time on that. If you wanna rise to champions league and advance there you should gem your heroes sleep times.

How do you play as "artificially online"?

It gets worse the higher you get, OP. I am hovering around 3400 and I sometimes scroll through nearly 100 bases (many repeating) to find something beatable worth more than 8 trophies. Don't be upset that you're attacking champs because it's much worse being a champ and risking 31 trophies to get 6 out of a master 1 base. The game gets pretty lame up here. Maxed heroes become the norm (I farmed mine so they are only lvl 17) but walls vary. You end up playing less because, like others are telling you too, shield management becomes very important. Forget about revenges. Not sure what advice my clanmates and I can give, but you're more than welcome to drop in. Helpful, friendly ppl here. We have pretty much mastered the balloon - minion attack you were describing.

Zombiebender, between 2600 to 2800 I was hardly attacked at all ... since my attacking style hardly required heroes, they was rarely sleeping. 48 hours is the largest gap I faced at around 2800 cups, which was a nice farming spot for me. More on average though I was attacked once or twice a day with me constantly breaking shields to farm. At around 2850 up, I was attacked more often, maybe 4 times a day with me still breaking shields. Above 2950 is when I'm experience immediate attacks upon logging off.

Tuvya, my BK is lvl15, AQ is lvl14. Trying to get em up two levels each before forum elite 2. :) So there's no way I'm gonna get lucky with revenges huh... :(

JesusIsGod, staying artificially online is basically keeping the game screen active while not playing. Touching the screen now and again until you get force kicked out by the enforced break. I've read here that some do it with apps too ... but I just feel like that's che4ting. I don't wanna do it.

Strong heroes mean alot in higher levels. They are a whole army on their own but my friend he has level 18and 19 Bk AQ too he climbed to 3300+ level and not with balloonian. He was using GoWi.
I remember i had to stay online all the time to avoid losing cups. I was also hoping so much if any 3900+ player to attack me and give me a 16 hrs shield time for 3 cups :)

Are there any good base designs against gowiwi to avoid a two star?

I've nothing really to add at this point but hoping others do come in and contribute.

These are areas I'm hoping to reach during Forum Elite II. So really interested in the replies.

I know Daddy went to Champions recently, if he doesn't post soon maybe PM him the thread link and ask him to stop by.

Would also be great if Zach or Thor could contribute.

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Originally Posted by Stitch

I've nothing really to add at this point but hoping others do come in and contribute.

These are areas I'm hoping to reach during Forum Elite II. So really interested in the replies.

I know Daddy went to Champions recently, if he doesn't post soon maybe PM him the thread link and ask him to stop by.

Would also be great if Zach or Thor could contribute.

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Lol me too I'm keeping an eye on this thread for trophy pushing pointers. I have never trophy pushed before and being a new th 9 a month before the forum elite I'm kind of in a bad position. I hope Phal or Treyborray can help me out since they went champs pretty much gems free