HogLoonion - a high lvl pushing strategy based on balloonion that saves time

Introduction

Hi, I am a th 10 with mostly th 9 defences. Currently I'm on my quest to champions league (gem free), nearing 3100. I have weak lvl 1 golems and freeze so I had to forget about golem based attacks and two starring those strong th 10 thugs. This was a no brainer- I chose balloons and relied on 50% victories.

This strategy is very reliable, only lost two attacks since my start of the push. Bu there is one downside- the training time. My loon count of choice was 24, which takes 48 minutes to train. I tried to shorten the cooking time by using 20 loons, but sometimes this was a risky move (I ran out of loons once and failed).

I tried to figure out how to shorten the training time to make more raids and thus more cups per session without loosing the effectivennes of using 24 or 28 loons. And this is how I created HogLoonion.

Army composition

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The deafult army composition for th 10 consists of:
16 Balloons
12 Hog riders
50 Minions

The best part of this strategy is the training time- it's only 32 minutes! If you ask me, this strategy if used right is just as effective as the classic Balloonions.

Troop and spell usage

For my spell loadout i use 1 lightning to take out herds of archers in cc, three rage to speed up loons or hogs and one heal, the hog rider's best friend.

This strategy is very similar to balloonion and the goal is the same: getting 50% wins withous wasting too many spells or heroes health.

Use balloons to take out archer towers that are protected by cannons but away from air defence range. Hogs are great for taking out semi protected air defences. They are also perfect for taking out wiz towers near AD. Do not drop your hogs in a place where you suspect a giant bomb. Support your troops with spells when needed. Use minions to clear out trash at the outside. Use cc and heroes if you're a bit short on percentage. That's it, easy as pie. This strategy works great for me so far in masters 1, definitely worth trying. But I wouldn't reccomend it if you are farming DE haha.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Sorry for my bad english.

I was thinking about something like this. I was thinking of replacing the loons with hogs.

Interesting. I may try a TH9 version of this.

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Originally Posted by firelizard

I was thinking about something like this. I was thinking of replacing the loons with hogs.

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I was thinking that also, and it has been good and bad the good is that imo it works better but the bad is that sometimes there's a air bomb which sucks. So, I thought further and now i use 6 drags and 19 hogs and one baloon. The baloon is for testing potential 1 by 1 spots where it looks like air defense is weak, meaning that their might be a air mine there so the baloon is there if you want to be safe, or you can take the risk and swap the loon with a hog. So what i do is use hogs to take out air d and support them with a heal spell once that's done i spam drags and rages and wreck everything(it's not as good as baloonion but i invented it so i use it)also i call it DOG :p

i was using hogs and archers and executed it like a balloonion attack

This sounds honestly really good. Now just to come up with a catchy name.

This strategy got me to champion league, yay!

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