[Noel Hog Tutorial 101] My Hog Rider Attack Strategy Guide

Dear Clashers,

I am no hog guru, just another clasher that loves to use hog rider to raid, especially for clan wars. I will like to share my hog rider attack strategy on 3 starring TH9s and TH10s.

All my tutorial are post update, which means heroes are no longer lure-able.

First lesson here is how to hog a TH9 with a anti-hog base layout:

http://youtu.be/NI7QTkNo5l4

Some key points to take note:

1) Always scout for possible giant bombs location, trigger them early with a hog or a barb if possible. (Best to skip bases with many 'double giant bombs ambush', unless you can trigger at least one of them first. Heal spells are useless against 2 x newly buffed giants bombs. (2 x level one giant bombs are able to kill a maxed hog instantly now)

2) Do not be stingy on the number of hogs for the first wave. Use a heal spell if necessary, luring the CC cleanly and breaking the defense ring is very crucial.

3) If you are unsure whether your second wave of hogs will go into the core, drop one or two hogs to 'test water' before releasing the whole group.

4) Deploy your CC troops and heroes strategically to distract defense buildings and take out enemy's heroes early. (Especially Archer Queen, if they are non-centralized)


If you have any comments or questions, pls kindly post it here or PM me. I will try my best to get back to you asap.

Cheers and happy hogging.

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Originally Posted by noelng33

Dear Clashers,

I am no hog guru, just another clasher that loves to use hog rider to raid, especially for clan wars. I will like to share my hog rider attack strategy on 3 starring TH9s and TH10s.

All my tutorial are post update, which means heroes are no longer lure-able.

First lesson here is how to hog a TH9 with a anti-hog base layout:

http://youtu.be/NI7QTkNo5l4

Some key points to take note:

1) Always scout for possible giant bombs location, trigger them early with a hog or a barb if possible. (Best to skip bases with many 'double giant bombs ambush', unless you can trigger at least one of them first. Heal spells are useless against 2 x newly buffed giants bombs. (2 x level one giant bombs are able to kill a maxed hog instantly now)

2) Do not be stingy on the number of hogs for the first wave. Use a heal spell if necessary, luring the CC cleanly and breaking the defense ring is very crucial.

3) If you are unsure whether your second wave of hogs will go into the core, drop one or two hogs to 'test water' before releasing the whole group.

4) Deploy your CC troops and heroes strategically to distract defense buildings and take out enemy's heroes early. (Especially Archer Queen, if they are non-centralized)


If you have any comments or questions, pls kindly post it here or PM me. I will try my best to get back to you asap.

Cheers and happy hogging.

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What level hogs would u think this would work for? and how high lvl a base can u attack with what lvl hogs?

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Originally Posted by JackPlaysCOC

What level hogs would u think this would work for? and how high lvl a base can u attack with what lvl hogs?

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I will highly recommend at least level 4 hogs against TH9s. For spells - at least level 5 heal.

Level 5 hogs will be optimum because the increase in dps and hitpoints are great.

Level	Damage per Second	Hitpoints	Training Cost http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...rk_elixir.webp	Research Cost http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...rk_elixir.webp	Laboratory Level Required	Research Time
1	60	270	40	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	70	312	45	20,000	5	8 days
3	80	360	52	30,000	6	10 days
4	92	415	58	40,000	6	12 days
5	105	475	65	50,000	7	14 days

Some of my clannies which were previously using level 4 hogs can 3 star a maxed TH9.

The key to perfecting the art of hogging a TH9 largely depends on spell timing and placement in my opinion.

Hope this answers your queries. Cheers.

Dear Clashers,

Welcome to lesson 2 of my hog tutorial.

This time I will be hogging a TH10 with centralized heroes and both its inferno on single mode. Not recommended for TH9s due to their handicap of one less spell.

http://youtu.be/h0bvn7bBFi4?list=PLi3twIplYxzT8SAsjXTJELdk81BNgM7T c

Some key points to take note:

1) Always try to find the shortest route to get your hogs to the inferno. Motive is to take down the inferno in the fastest possible time as they deal the most damages to your hogs. Skip bases that has a defense ring, because you will have to break the ring before you can get inside the core.


2) Spells usage are pretty objective, highly dependent on base layout. I would recommend at least 3 heal spells, the other two can be made up of either heal, rage or freeze.


3) Try to scout for giant bombs location, trigger them with a barb or hog early if possible.


4) Deploy your heroes strategically to distract defense building, in order to provide cover for your hogs.


5) Lady luck do plays a part in the end result of the raid. Centralized heroes will keep eliminating your surviving troops until your troops take them out. (That's where your witches come into play, their skeletons will keep them occupied while your other troops or heroes can take them out.)

6) Do avoid centralized heroes that are too high leveled, I will normally skip bases with centralized heroes of level 20 and above. (There are actually ways or methods in which you can tackle high level heroes in core which I will cover more in details in my future videos.)

Cheers and happy hogging.

http://youtu.be/V98CiU7sGTs?list=UUgjlUQepba2jvTK1FepC6ig


Box base is a very popular and common TH10 Trophy base / Clan War base design.

The purpose of sharing this video is to give you a rough idea on how to go about hogging a box base. This raid was done by one of my fellow clan-mate Alucard from Nakama CK during one of their clan wars. He does not have high level heroes and his freeze spell was only level 3 during that raid!!!

Do take note that by duplicating every steps in the video does not necessary guarantee you 3 stars because of the differences in the position & levels of the various buildings, traps and heroes.

Cheers and happy hogging!!!

Some decent tips here. I myself use hogs quite a bit.

But one thing you've already mentioned that I'd like to re-iterate is about double giant bombs. In the first video against the TH9, it definitely had a hog ring defense, but there were no double bombs in that base. In my opinion, a hog base should not only include the inner ring of defenses surrounded by a second ring of non-defense buildings, but it should also include at least 1 set of double bombs - plus it needs to have the appearance of several double bomb locations.

Thanks for taking the time to put up this post, but just wanted to re-iterate that the bases in the video examples aren't fully implementing all the "hog proof" things they should be.

My main take-away from your post is the use of witches and wizards in combination with hogs. Nowadays with the "unlureable" royalty, having a set of troops to clean up the mess from a partially cleared hog attack is definitely something to consider in order to achieve that second star in clan wars using hogs.

Hammer

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Originally Posted by hammer

Some decent tips here. I myself use hogs quite a bit.

But one thing you've already mentioned that I'd like to re-iterate is about double giant bombs. In the first video against the TH9, it definitely had a hog ring defense, but there were no double bombs in that base. In my opinion, a hog base should not only include the inner ring of defenses surrounded by a second ring of non-defense buildings, but it should also include at least 1 set of double bombs - plus it needs to have the appearance of several double bomb locations.

Thanks for taking the time to put up this post, but just wanted to re-iterate that the bases in the video examples aren't fully implementing all the "hog proof" things they should be.

My main take-away from your post is the use of witches and wizards in combination with hogs. Nowadays with the "unlureable" royalty, having a set of troops to clean up the mess from a partially cleared hog attack is definitely something to consider in order to achieve that second star in clan wars using hogs.

Hammer

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Thanks for your valuable feedback. Totally agreed on the part about the double giant bombs, they are the number one killer for hogs after the update in my opinion.

Anti-hog ring is kinda easy to break once you get the hang of it but predicting where the giant bombs are, will be much harder. Most of the popular anti-hog bases have them placed near wizard towers. If you managed to trigger one set of double giant bombs, the other set is most likely found on the opposite side of the base.

Witches is a must for my hog raids, I bring at least 4 of them (2 in CC). The skeletons help to distract the heroes and they also help to trigger hidden bombs and traps, very useful for mopping up.

P.S. I seldom hog TH9s nowadays, thus most of my videos are TH10s raids. In the next post, I will be sharing a video raid on a anti-hog TH9 by my fellow clan-mate who is also a TH9.

http://youtu.be/BkkoK2ssCUk

Sharing my fellow clan-mate's hog raid on a anti-hog TH9.

What he did was to use his first wave of hogs to break the defense ring, lured the CC and triggered one set of giant bombs.

Used both his heroes to cleared the other defense buildings while his hogs worked their magic. You should also take note how he deliberately used his BK to activate the other set of giant bombs.

Last but not least, his witches were hugely involved in taking out the enemy's BK and the mopping up.

Dear Clashers,

Welcome to lesson 3 of my hog tutorial.

This time I will be hogging a TH10 with both its inferno on multi mode. Once again, not recommended for TH9s due to their lack of freeze spell.

http://youtu.be/JYU0Gqx8eWM?list=PLi3twIplYxzT8SAsjXTJELdk81BNgM7T c

Some key points to take note:

1) As always, you need to plan the shortest route to get your hogs to the inferno. Skip bases that has a defense ring, because you will have to break the ring before you can get inside the core.

2) I would recommend 3 heal spells, 1 rage spell and 1 freeze spell for bases with inferno that could not be freeze together using one freeze spell. Timing of spells has to be spot on or you risk your hogs getting killed too easily by the inferno. (Especially freeze spell)

3) Try to scout for possible giant bombs location, trigger them with a barb or hog early if possible.

4) Deploy your heroes and CC troops strategically to distract defense building and take out enemy's heroes if they are near the edges.

5) Do avoid centralized heroes that are too high leveled, I will normally skip bases with centralized heroes of level 20 and above.

If you have any comments or questions, pls kindly post it here or PM me. I will try my best to get back to you asap.

Cheers and happy hogging.

Right before the update, I learned how to hog anti-hog bases. I have been scared to use them since the update. This guide restored my hogging confidence and it looks like I'll be smashing some th9s very soon with the constant wars!!!
ive been trying holowiwi but i run out of time every raid