Heroes: In the core, or not in the core???

So i have been looking in thread after thread, and looking at youtube video after youtube video, and even looking at base after base on COC builder, but one thing has not come clear to me… Should i have my heroes (or hero presently) in the core, or even inside the walls, of my base?

From my searchings i have figured out a few things about leaving them in the base:

PROS:
•The barb king has massive damage to a single unit. This damage can take out giants one by one, thus ruining an attack.
•The archer queen has a ranged attack also with a good amount of damage. This can cause melee troops, like giants and pekkas, to be extremely wounded and be more vulnerable to defenses.
•The heroes can also be huge distractions because of their high amount of health. Even with a ton of tier one troops firing on them, they are still alive for a while. This leaves the tier one troops vulnerable to mortar fire.

CONS:
•Both heroes can be easily distracted and lured to their death, causing their altars to take up useful space.
•When they are upgrading or sleeping, they are useless and take up space in the base.
•They only attack one target at a time. Even though they have high damage, after they kill a troop, they still have to switch targets to another troop, while getting fired on by all the other ones.

Leaving them outside the base also has strengths and weaknesses:

PROS:
•You can leave them asleep and only save them for offensive purposes.
•Their altar can be used as a tanking building and can push back the spawn point for troops.
•The space in the base that would have been for the hero can now be used for a more useful/valuable building, and thus making the base more condensed.

CONS:
•You lose another defensive unit that could possibly make or break a defense (slim chance though).

From this information, i have decided to leave the hero(s) out for now. I leave him asleep at all times to save him for my attacks. I am still a little on the fence though, and any input is greatly appreciated!

are you farming? if so, inside walls. If pushing vice versa

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Originally Posted by tonjerfita

are you farming? if so, inside walls. If pushing vice versa

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I am farming, could you please explain the reasons?

It's really your preference - if you use him as offensive a lot, leave him out, but if you don't use him that much, leave him in. The raiders will have to sacrifice several troops to get rid of him, and can also cause people to click the next button as they don't want to deal with taking out a BK.

It depends. I say that the higher the level, the more important part of the core they are. The lurablilty of each hero also may play a huge effect in the outcome of win or lose. I think they belong in the core.

So when i upgrade my town hall to 9, you guys suggest that i put both the BK and the AQ in the core.

just put them to sleep they dont matter on defense

I would save them for offense if you are farming because if they are killed then it takes over 1 hour for them to heal. Plus on offense they will get you more loot. Also, they can use their abilities on offense but not on defense.

Keep them in for sure

I think you should keep them inside since 10-20 archers easily defeats a barb king. And we all have better things in life to do than wait an hour and a half for our barb king to heal.