Maxed TH9 Push to Masters 3 - Cheapest Army?

Other than a push to 1250 trophies at th6 (for the achievement), I have always been in farming mode. Now that I am done upgrading all defenses at TH9 (just grinding lego walls now), I have decided I want to do a Masters push before I start my TH10 upgrade (again, for the achievement).

I know I can get there by doing all hog raids, dragon raids, or by doing balloonion raids, but in the interest of keeping my resource usage as low as possible and to get up to Masters as quickly as possible (i.e. dragon raids take super long to cook), what cost-effective armies to do you (people who have successfully done masters league pushes) suggest?

And remember, I have maxed TH9 troops (lvl 15 BK, lvl 13 AQ) and looking for the most cost-effective way to reach 2600 trophies.

Here are first set of questions:
A) Should I leave my TH outside since I have maxed TH9 defenses (hoping to only get th-sniped 90+% of the time)?

B) How much of each resource should I have in my storages before starting this push from 2100 trophies?

Here are the next set of questions:
If you can, please provide your suggested armies for the following trophy ranges:

1) 2100-2199
2) 2200-2299
3) 2300-2399
4) 2400-2499
5) 2500-2600


If you think I NEED to use a more expensive army comp for trophy ranges #4 and #5 above, that's fine with me, just let me know.

Thanks!

You can BARCH

I went to Masters at th7 for gems and because our clan had a push contest. You can do it by sniping with Barch and a lvl 5 king.

Not sniping with barch, the intention of a barch army is to get 50%. sure you can snipe th if you see it.

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Originally Posted by TvanM

Not sniping with barch, the intention of a barch army is to get 50%. sure you can snipe th if you see it.

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barch is cheapest option, even for sniping. th7 barch is next to impossible to 50% most bases in c1.

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Originally Posted by hawdog

Other than a push to 1250 trophies at th6 (for the achievement), I have always been in farming mode. Now that I am done upgrading all defenses at TH9 (just grinding lego walls now), I have decided I want to do a Masters push before I start my TH10 upgrade (again, for the achievement).

I know I can get there by doing all hog raids, dragon raids, or by doing balloonion raids, but in the interest of keeping my resource usage as low as possible and to get up to Masters as quickly as possible (i.e. dragon raids take super long to cook), what cost-effective armies to do you (people who have successfully done masters league pushes) suggest?

And remember, I have maxed TH9 troops (lvl 15 BK, lvl 13 AQ) and looking for the most cost-effective way to reach 2600 trophies.

Here are first set of questions:
A) Should I leave my TH outside since I have maxed TH9 defenses (hoping to only get th-sniped 90+% of the time)?

B) How much of each resource should I have in my storages before starting this push from 2100 trophies?

Here are the next set of questions:
If you can, please provide your suggested armies for the following trophy ranges:

1) 2100-2199
2) 2200-2299
3) 2300-2399
4) 2400-2499
5) 2500-2600


If you think I NEED to use a more expensive army comp for trophy ranges #4 and #5 above, that's fine with me, just let me know.

Thanks!

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check your title..pretty sure you mean champions and not masters :p

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Originally Posted by NoneYa

check your title..pretty sure you mean champions and not masters :p

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Where are you getting that information?

To the OP, you can probably get to 2400 with your regular army and spells/heroes as backup. At that point I use an all arch strategy myself, barch will work as well but I've never tried it..

During the release of clan wars, I decided to farm-pushed to Masters for the first time when loot wasn't great as a TH9. I kept my farming base with TH outside the entire time. For all ranges you've listed, I used BAM (only one barrack queuing minions). The higher I went, the less minions I used. Both heroes were upgrading.

At the same time, I decided to push my second account and my son's account to Masters to 2400 using BAM and just to speed things up Balloonians the rest of the way. Oddly, it was a lot easier the second and third time going to masters than on my main account although both heroes were readily available.

Enjoy your DE hunting while you're up there as well as dropping back. To be honest, I'm finding the drop back down to gold a bit harder as a farmer than climbing up. :p

I'd get sniped seconds after logging off all of the time in masters.

Thanks for all the replies guys. I had a feeling Barch would be a popular option. I will maybe flip between barch and BAM to see what I prefer. And for sure, the heroes will help in getting that last extra 5% or so when the farming army fails. I just wanted to really know how far up Barch or BAM would be able to take me :)

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Originally Posted by NoneYa

check your title..pretty sure you mean champions and not masters :p

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nope, masters was my intention :)

Thanks for the detailed feedback moonsabre, seems like you've done this many times to know what works by now!

BArch. About 20-60k per raid and is brilliant at getting one star

I recently pushed from 1650 to 3291 as a TH 9. This is the troop combinations I used during my push (10 days):
1650 - 2300: Barch - 120 Archers, 100 Barbarians - 4 Lightning spells
2300 - 2650: Hogs - 32 Hogs, 40 Archers, 20 Barbarians - 4 Healing spells
2650 - 3291: Balloonion - 24 Balloons, 50 Minions - 3 Rage spells, 1 Lightning spell

If your only goal is to reach M3 (2600) for the achievement you got all options open. I would recommend using hogs considering the slow progress of 1-star raids. Thats the reason why I used hogs from 2300. In my opinion, pushing for champ at TH 9 was the best experience in my Clash career. You should go all in and see how far you can get at TH 9.

I will do one final push at TH 9 when both of my heroes are level 30 and then I will upgrade my TH :) Good luck!

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Originally Posted by Proto

I recently pushed from 1650 to 3291 as a TH 9. This is the troop combinations I used during my push (10 days):
1650 - 2300: Barch - 120 Archers, 100 Barbarians - 4 Lightning spells
2300 - 2650: Hogs - 32 Hogs, 40 Archers, 20 Barbarians - 4 Healing spells
2650 - 3291: Balloonion - 24 Balloons, 50 Minions - 3 Rage spells, 1 Lightning spell

If your only goal is to reach M3 (2600) for the achievement you got all options open. I would recommend using hogs considering the slow progress of 1-star raids. Thats the reason why I used hogs from 2300. In my opinion, pushing for champ at TH 9 was the best experience in my Clash career. You should go all in and see how far you can get at TH 9.

I will do one final push at TH 9 when both of my heroes are level 30 and then I will upgrade my TH :) Good luck!

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When you're using balloonian to get to champ are you just going all out towards the town hall or are you dropping a few at a time around the outside to get 50% like some do?

I'm a th 9 as well and could use those gems!

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Originally Posted by Rerisen

When you're using balloonian to get to champ are you just going all out towards the town hall or are you dropping a few at a time around the outside to get 50% like some do?

I'm a th 9 as well and could use those gems!

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It depends on the base. 98% of the time I go for 50% and one star but is some occasions I go for the TH as well. If ALL X-bows are set on ground and both inferno towers are set on single target, I do try to get the TH if I feel confident. 50% most of the time though, I do not recommend using the balloonion strategy to rush on the TH.

hey all... i'm on the exact same position, in the middle of my push now. A few things i've noted:

1. Army comp: 9 giants, 9 WB, 4/5 wizzards, rest archers & barbs. Heroes both lvl 15, 2 rage, 1 heal & 1 lightening.

2. so far (2400ish) cups most raids i get 2 stars.

3. i've won 8 out of 11 defences using an anti-hog base. thats given a load of cups, over 100 one day!

4. i've decided to leave tomb stones around to make the base look less used - i think at least once this has led someone to attack without spells / heroes - they only managed 38%. sneaky!!!

However.... i'm expecting the last 200 cups to be more tricky... might switch to hogs, or balloons / minions.

Barch could work good. But personally i like mass archers better. Im at 2928 trophies right now and im aiming for at least 3000. Hogs do also work good to master lll, and its much faster than using barch or mass archers.

Keep your TH inside! With a decent th9 base i won defenses in master ll, you just need the right base.

If you use mass archers or barch you dont really have to worry about resources. I do actully earn a lot of resources while pushing too. DE could be a problem with hogs tho :/

Good luck with your push! :)

Alright, so I've made it up to 2470 just by using a mix of giant/healer/barch/minions/hogs.

I'm thinking soon I will either barch, balloonion, or hog.

On defense with my TH inside, I've won 6 times, and lost 3 times. The losses were a 1-star, and two 2-stars. So I'm actually gaining quite a few trophies just by defense. It helped that two of the attackers had THs outside, so I just revenge sniped those.

I'm not really rushing this, not boosting anything, trying to wait for all my spells and BK to be ready before raiding. My AQ is still upgrading for the next two days, I hope to reach masters before she is done upgrading (although she would be very helpful for getting that last few % if I barch).

i barched to master 3 (high lv king and queen required) :p

Barch is Barbarians and Archers for anyone who didn't know. I am a TH9 too so i use 110 Barbarians and 110 Archers gets easy 50% on most bases! You can also get some decent loot out of it since the cost of it is so low! Good Luck!

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Originally Posted by hawdog

Other than a push to 1250 trophies at th6 (for the achievement), I have always been in farming mode. Now that I am done upgrading all defenses at TH9 (just grinding lego walls now), I have decided I want to do a Masters push before I start my TH10 upgrade (again, for the achievement).

I know I can get there by doing all hog raids, dragon raids, or by doing balloonion raids, but in the interest of keeping my resource usage as low as possible and to get up to Masters as quickly as possible (i.e. dragon raids take super long to cook), what cost-effective armies to do you (people who have successfully done masters league pushes) suggest?

And remember, I have maxed TH9 troops (lvl 15 BK, lvl 13 AQ) and looking for the most cost-effective way to reach 2600 trophies.

Here are first set of questions:
A) Should I leave my TH outside since I have maxed TH9 defenses (hoping to only get th-sniped 90+% of the time)?

B) How much of each resource should I have in my storages before starting this push from 2100 trophies?

Here are the next set of questions:
If you can, please provide your suggested armies for the following trophy ranges:

1) 2100-2199
2) 2200-2299
3) 2300-2399
4) 2400-2499
5) 2500-2600


If you think I NEED to use a more expensive army comp for trophy ranges #4 and #5 above, that's fine with me, just let me know.

Thanks!

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1. Barch
2. Barch
3. Barch
4. Barch
5. and Barch
6. Balloonion if you get here

A)No, you can still get defence wins with the tsunami at 2600 trophies
B)As much as you want? will be getting 100%ed by GoWiWi/GoWiPe a lot at about 2500 though