What this guy said, although the loon and giant can be swapped depending on preference.
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GIANTS!
You got huge improvement at level 6.
Next is balloon if you use Loonion strategy.
I left Archers to the very last -- simply because it doesn't offer any big difference. But people are right, its good for donation.
I'm always barching so I went with barbarians (cheapest) then archers, now minions ;).
1669 Attacks won, probably 1500-1600 barching.
Please tell me more about farming.
1. The best farming for TH9 is Gold 2 and it is full of abandoned premie TH8 and TH9.
2. You have a storage behind a wall covered by mortar. With lvl 5 archers you need to send wave after wave to take it out. With lvl 6 the first wave has several more seconds until mortar can shot again.
This allows to use less troops and attack more often.
...sooo many say giants or loons first, and that's what I did, but with hindsight, not what I recommend!
This is a very fresh TH9 question, and early TH9 requires elix, elix and more elix
for SF, AC, DD, rax, DexStorage and of course the lab + upgrades.
That is why you'll want to spend as little elix as possible on your attack, therfore, barch with no spells is really the only good attack formation. Clearly, you'll want to do those troops first. Archers are damn expensive to upgrade and at the start of TH9 you don't even pack enough storage space. So barbarians first, build up your elix storage and fill them in the meantime then do archers next. Go for giants or loons then, because they both really are so much better at L6 compared to L5, however, if you're not done with AC at that time, maybe squeeze in minions in the lab to save the elix for builder-upgrades rather than spend it in the lab.
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I did :
Giants
Balloons
Minions
Archers
No regrets, I will do Barbs next even tho I use Balloonion 80% of the time. Than I will work on my Golem and Witch.
Giants or Barbarians should be the first and second, depending on your style. Giants get a HUGE buff from 5 to lv 6 and will allow u to take on much stronger bases to get to the storages.
Barbarians also get a significant buff and will help a lot when u love to barch bases.
Archers cost a lot to upgrade and their buff is very minor, it does help and archers are good, but the minor buff doesnt warrant upgrading them before giants and barbarians.
Level 6 balloons are also pretty strong, but i think baloons are mostly used for pushing rather then farming, if you are in the early stages of TH9 u need to farm, everyting costs a ton compared to th8... so leave the loons and archers for a bit and get them giants and barbs up, thats what i did and i do not regret it. They help me farm so much loot in the 1900-2200 area that i have to gem upgrade time so i can spend my gold and elixer..
My clan leader made the weirdest choice.He upgraded balloons first to lvl6. During War he normally donates it and we win all the time. Bcuz if someone is attacking with giants then, bye bye giants. Archers and wizards can be a problem but still. First of all archers upgrade cost a lot more than the balloons. So weird to say. It is actually good for balloonians too.;)