Does the Balloonion Strategy Constitute Farming?

I've seen tonnes of vids on youtube and people on the forums advertising balloonion as a kind of 'farming' army composition. I do not believe this is so for a number of reasons.

e.g. of videos that claim Balloonion is farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCupst7DCEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-jhhgwCKe4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6B3u-hus4

-Balloons take a very long 8 minutes to produce
-spells often used in conjunction with this strategy take a long time e.g. rage(45 mins each)
-The Balloonion strategy exhausts elixer (about 100k for 24 lvl 6 balloons and almost another 100k for 3 max rage spells) which takes a lot of potential profit out of the raid and forces the user to be in a high trophy level (bad for farming due to constant hogging, balloonioning, Gowiwi/Gowiping of home base)
-The Balloonion strategy also takes some dark elixer, although this is less of a concern at high trophy levels.

So how on earth is the Balloonion strategy considered 'farming'?
Is it actually really just a glorified form of trophy hunting with some resource gathering capability?

And dont get me wrong, balloonion is definitely one of my favorite attack strategies during clan wars, and i recognise its use for trophy pushing, just not farming, thnx:).

PS I farm at 1700-1800 with barchers, so I dont know too much about how high trophy level people think:p sorry if it insulted anybody.

eh if ur farming in gold barch is the way to go, it works, its quicker, and will lead to a higher net profit (assuming ur smart about choosing ur raid, and conducting the raid)

however when as you get higher those strats become.... not obsolete, but alot harder to pull off, while maintaining a trophy count.

yes balloonian costs more, and takes longer, however its still a good farming strat at the higher levels (where loot should be better to justify the inflated cost of balloons)

as for the time issue, yes if ur gonna do a session, you need to boost barracks, and spell factory for balloonian which isnt the case with barch.

Useful if you can online once every few hours instead of 2-3 hours non-stop. You can attack more powerful base with more loot with fewer searches. Just like with other farming methods, use spells accordingly instead of overkill. Usually 12-20 balloons is enough so training time can be adjusted to around 24-40 minutes per raid.

Personally I always use balloons and minions to farm with, I find them very effective for both storage attacks and colloctor attacks (if any pop up).

Using 24 balloons and 60 minions takes 45 minions to cook up, most farmers rarely use more than 1-2 spells per raid meaning there are plenty left over for the next raid to occur.

The attack is fairly quick and allows you to take of pretty much any base meaning win win when it comes down to loot.

There is also a loot bonus at the higher trophies, but loonion isn't used to farm elixir.

Personally, I think balloonion is good for TH7's when going for dark elixir.
I use 32 balloons and 20 minions as my war composition, and it works perfectly!
You just need to use strategy...

From the way i see it, I'm using max loonian at th9 doing duo trophy pushing + farming. I'm going after late th9-early th10 raids with 300-400k. But given the fact that i'm working, i guess the time taken to build my army is justifiable. :rolleyes:

I feel like balloonion is mainly a TH10 farming strat. Once you get about midway through TH10, you no longer need elixir. So you don't mind spending a lot of elixir to farm for gold and de, as it's a very effective attack that you rarely fail on.

been looning non stop for about a month now. 1 i get all dark no matter were its located in the base. and 2 i was getting annoyed with passing bases i knew i could loon but couldnt barch

Is this thread serious?..... So tyreal didn't farm his maxed base with Lev 11 walls then I guess?

Plenty of people in master 1 and champ have been able to manage 5-8 mil gold a day with loot bonus and 50k+ de or so. I don't see how that's not farming.


I enjoyed a break from tier one troops for a bit when I was farming m1-2. Also their no de drain up there as the de bonus is more than minons cost anyways.


I generally and using tier one troops often BAM in gold league personally so I'm not all about loons but they are useful farming troops especially when someone can only raid 1 time every 40-50 min then knocking out a 400+ gold raid is useful