LvL 6 Giants drop like flies VS today's defenses

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Originally Posted by TTTIIIMMM

Because hogs tank so much better:rolleyes:...

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Hahaha. Is now the time to reveal that I have taken and tweaked a base that is hog defensive, giant defensive, and air defensive?:rolleyes::o It is called the Black Mamba, and the defenses are completely jaw dropping. Hog after hog attack, no one ever gets to my storages!

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Originally Posted by ragnus

Also, 6 giants vs 1 golem:
1. can distract several different towers on opposite corners
2. 6 giants hit much harder than a golem, and they walk faster
3. they can distract multi-ring inferno towers while golems only distract one of the fire-rays.

I've used giants + rage spells to tank/destroy non-maxed TH10s with 2 infernos/3 xbows. haven't really hit anyone with maxed walls/mortars.

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1. True. But usually you want to start your attack from one direction.
2. Neither unit is really a striker. Meat shields, there job is to take fire so stronger DAM units can live.
3. Maybe, but giants die *really* fast when getting hit by infernos and multiple splash. This is where golem shines, mortars, discos and wiz towers has hardly any impact on them.

to the OP, giants are not meant to take on max th10 defenses. Lol, and hogs can not do that either!

They drop to wizards in the cc, but not with heal spells or healers. I got 3 stared once at th9 while farming by a guy with 15 giants some hogs healers and wiz. So they work good together.

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Originally Posted by ragnus

giants-healer strategy is fundamentally flawed because it's vulnerable to both air and ground defense. Most successful strategies are either all-air (balloonians, dragons) or all ground (hogs, GoWiWi, GoWipe). Those high-level ADs become a pain-in-the-♥♥♥ to take out and there are 4 of them (usually nested somewhere inside). You don't want to worry about them AND the mortars/cannons

Healers are intrinsically random in their performance: you have 5 seeking-mines at TH10 that can destroy a healer with 4-tile radius. That's too much dice-roll to put on a 14-space troop. They are also random in whom they decide to heal. They can end up healing a single barbarian throughout the battle while rest of your army get destroyed.

Randomness is very bad when you're pushing for cups. A strategy that works 95% of the time is 8 times better than one that works 80% of the time in terms of net cup gain. This disparity becomes wider as you get higher since on average a loss takes away 3x many cups as a win.

I religiously used 2-3 healers as recently as 2 month ago, and got up to crystal 2, but I took many many detours since I couldn't win with any consistency.

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I have to agree with this. For a 14 space unit, the healer is too unpredictable in performance. Not saying a good user can't compenstate but other strategies begin to easily outshine it