What to Research Next, and High Masters/Champ Attack Strategy?

Hello All,

My lvl 3 hogs are going to be done researching in 25 hours, and I need help figuring out what to research next!
My current plan is to upgrade minions to 2, but after that should I take hogs to 4, pekka to 2, or something else?

I'm a mid to upper town hall 8, lvl 72, and in a few weeks I'm wanting to make a push for High Masters/Champs.
What attack strategy is best? I've been practice Hogs, GoWipe, and Baloonion a bit.. I'm thinking maybe hogs since they're higher level?

All input appreciated.

Thanks guys!

You won't get to champ with hogs anymore. Your best bet is to upgrade your loons and minions and try that route. It is honestly going to be pretty tough for a Th8 to reach high master and champ. Good Luck

Getting to 2200 is pretty easy, I used my farm troops

Next hard push to 2400 is tougher, the first time I made 2400 I struggled quite a bit until using all L2 dragons with 3 lightning. I also learned to snipe while my main troops and spells were cooking, the few trophies add up, but be careful for trapped TH. I have come to hate them quite a bit. Never go in without enough troops to take out 4 teslas around a th and don't panic when they pop up. Make sure you attack the teslas, not the TH. The second time went much faster, I used L4 hogs with heal spells. I would make 30 hogs, 4 WB, and the rest wiz for cleanup with wiz in my cc, 3 heal spells. I would snipe when I had 10 hogs and a few wiz. If teslas popped up I would drop 5 hogs on each side of the th with wiz also attacking the teslas....

2400 and up I used gowipe, the biggest killer is wiz in the CC. Make sure the CC troops go after a golem. TH sniping is your friend, I'm not sure if I got more trophies with my main attacks or sniping...

My goal was(is) just Master 3, I can't imagine going to Champion at TH8, but it has been done...

Another key thing is to clash in sessions, I would clash in the morning for a few hours, then get shield, use that all day for work. Then clash again at night and get attacked while I slept. Good luck pushing...

As far as research, I would try to get L3 dragons first, then L2 Pekka, L4 hogs, and then L2 golem...

I had L3 hogs and L2 dragons first push and then L4 hogs and L3 dragons on my second attempt...and I just made Master 3....thank goodness...

Thanks for the tips!

I'll get my troops leveled up and try a push or two before I go to th9.
We'll see how it goes.

My GoWiPe is pretty inexperienced still, but I feel like that or baloonion is going to be more effective at 2.4k+

Snipe, don't break your shield unless you want to get 3 starred, plan on long sessions of not logging out and nexting endlessly to find a snipe. This starts at 2500 for a TH8:D

You're not ready to push that far. Lvl 6 balloons and lvl 5 minions are the best way to get way up there (you need TH 9 to upgrade them to that level). Plus hogs have been nerfed a lot so now they officially suck. A lot.

Then again thats my opinion.

You need to stay on and play in long sessions, boost barracks, or both. Use 8/9 Dragons and 5-10 Minions. Lightning spell the AD from the side you will be attacking from and pick off free buildings with Minions. Then deploy dragons for the 50%.

Another strategy is using archers and minions to get 50% in the higher leagues once you get there.

Good luck even getting past crystal 1 with hogs hahah

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Originally Posted by Benson822175

Good luck even getting past crystal 1 with hogs hahah

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That is true, I've never tried hogs in crystal before..
So what I gather is that hogs don't work high up, so use a different attack strategy.

Maybe champs was a bit lofty of a goal :P

With the troops you have I would say only realistic chance of hitting high masters or champ will be sniping. You need to bring lots or gold for that though so you can afford nexting. As a th getting to masters Id say best army is drag/minions and take every snipe you can get.

Upgrade Id prob do pekka to lvl 3 to be able to do a decent gowipe and then minions.

Good luck!

Its a boring way to do it, but about the only one open to you if want to try n make it that far.
If you want to try kicking ♥♥♥ on the way, then id suggest doing pekkas, we have a few th9s in the clan pulled a few 2* on th10s with a baby gowipe in wars.