Hog nerf a game changer?

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Originally Posted by GodII

Nope the hogs were OP not the heal. You don't have a bunch of threads complaining about giants + heal or dragons + heal or the like.

Honestly, we still need to see how much of a damage increase it really is for the giant bombs against hogs. It might be a small bump so that 2 level 3 giant bombs exactly kill a max hog. It could be even more. But we don't know yet.

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This poster is correct. To the person saying heals are OP, not hogs, you clearly have very little experience playing this game. The mechanics of hogs make it impossible for a hog pack to ever die beyond a certain level if you are a TH9 or below to due giant bomb capping. A skilled hogger is unstoppable against TH9's with only a small troop investment and low time sink.

Heals are not OP, they supplement but nothing more. In fact, most top strategies such as Gowiwi and gowipe don't even make extensive usage of heals

The Hog/Heal combo was OP though, if you deny it you are just kidding yourself because you are a Hog/Heal user or have one of the better Anti Hog bases and enjoy watching attackers fail.

But the very fact "Anti Hog" bases are so common is proof enough they are terribly overpowered. As Clan Wars has grown the number of "Anti Hog" bases are climbing rapidly. Crystal leagues are littered with "Anti Hog" bases also.

This should mean Hogs WILL die on a set of double Giant Bombs, that is a good thing if you ask me. Watching max hogs survive a double giant bomb blast with heal spells is just total rubbish. Not even an "Anti Hog" intended base can slow them down.

If you make an "Anti Dragon" base with well placed Air Defenses and X-Bows up you will never get 3 starred by Dragons.

But you can still get 3 starred by Hogs with an "Anti Hog" base.

Have I said enough? Hogs are still OP even with futile attempts to nerf them previously.

the new bomb damage wont completely eradicate hog use, but rather make it so that only experienced hoggers will be able to excel, instead of those drop-all-the-hogs-and-shower-with-heals players

so use a heal spell.....


edit - it's actually way better because you can bring a few wbs for the first layer then the barch under a heal can smash through the inner layer. it actually makes it much stronger.

Here's the problem, instead of me making 10 million a day using barch, I only make 700k a day using gowipe :/ This is sad.

Edit : If SC gets enough no's on the AI change then they will Change it.

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...-D-D-D/page207

stand up against this here.

Up for publicity
:)

Weird. I just cannot fathom how people see this as a nerf for barch when it is a buff.


but a buff is actually the last thing barch needs. you shouldnt be able to just progress through this whole game just using the 2 weakest troops.

being able to work synergistically on a wall looks like a buff to me. no complain there

Wall AI is bad news for barbs but wouldnt effect most barching.

IF GB buff kills lvl5 hogs there will be a large surge in anti-bomb sniffing bases. Will make all TH9 basically a 2 star affair in wars. My base design has 13 possible DGB locations all impossible to set off with sniffer hogs, so good luck 3 starring a base like that if u cannot heal through them.

I have seen some good attacks with GiWiWiz tho so maybe I will do thtat in wars but its a damn expensive 3 star 3.5k DE...

The new wall AI will have zero impact on barch, if anything it will improve it, just have to use it the right way. It will also help out giants a fair bit to. That said lets see what the actual impact it has.

The giant bombs will be interesting, definitely make hogging a good base a bit harder and you will have to seek them out a bit more. But improved big bombs does not improve bases and that's where hogging comes into its own, set up a poor base with obvious traps or worse you big bombs outside you are going to get hogged even if they makes those bombs nuclear :p