So.... Mass witches?

When witches first came out, it seemed like everyone was using a couple Golems and like anywhere from 6-9 witches and a few clean-up troops. I even remember chief pat doing raids with like 11 witches and still shredding bases. Granted not all these bases were maxed, but some were decent th10's.


I've been watching the ITD clan wars thread as well as the Mega vs FK thread and the new trend in gowiwi seems to be only 3-4 witches and much more wiz and other troops. Is there a specific reason for this? Wasn't it pretty effective having the witches shred a base and using the golems/heroes as tanks and distractions for the defenses?

Wizards out DPS witches. Skeletons are more distractions for defenses and heroes whilst the wizards do the real damage.

I have mass witched a TH10 post patch recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py27ttdlj1E

Wow! 18 witches.... It must've been a good target because his infernos were set to single target?

Granted, that's quite an expensive army, but clearly effective. Wiz can out dps witches, yeah, but witches seem to live longer due to the distraction factor... they are rarely targeted by def...?

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Originally Posted by Defeater

Wow! 18 witches.... It must've been a good target because his infernos were set to single target?

Granted, that's quite an expensive army, but clearly effective. Wiz can out dps witches, yeah, but witches seem to live longer due to the distraction factor... they are rarely targeted by def...?

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They're targeted by mortars a lot since once the skeletons are in theirs blind range they immediately chose the second closest target to attack which is your witches, so if you not skilled with spells and deployment zones then bring 4 lightning spells and take out 2 mortars

It probably has to do with witches having a ridiculous attack range when they were first released.

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Originally Posted by gringoboy70

It probably has to do with witches having a ridiculous attack range when they were first released.

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This. Witches were OP when they first came out, which is why they were so heavily used. After the nerf, they've been used more sparingly.