Your Top 10 Trophy Hunting Tips!!!

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May 9th, 2013
childish

Your Top 10 Trophy Hunting Tips!!!

Hello Clashers!!

I'm Childish, Leader of Clan Misfits of War, and am a few days away of starting a Trophy Event for my Clan this upcoming Monday. I have gathered quite a bit of information over the last few months from some of the members here in the COC community to include:

- Offense/Defensive Strategies
- Base Design Setups
- Troop Compositions

Needless to say, I would be kidding myself to think I have learned everything there is to know about Trophy Hunting and am looking for your input on this topic from those who have extensive experience at Trophy Ranges of 1000-2500. I'm planning on compiling the information so I can provide it for my clan members on our Recruitment Page.

Just an Example:
- For troop composition, choose a composition that is cheap but effective (IE: Barb/archer Strat) Adjust your composition as you move into the higher end on your potential TH trophy range.
- Make sure you keep upgrading your mines/collectors as you level. The benefit of resources gained overnight will cover for raids, spells, etc. if you can't find bases with good trophies and a decent amount of loot.
- When considering a base, look/count how many buildings there are outside the walls vs inside the walls to see if you can easily one star the base.
- When base design, focus on protecting your TH and defenses more so than resources. Hybrids will get the job done but all out trophy bases will get you to that next level.
- Understand that at the upper end of your potential trophy range for your TH level. That most trophies will be gained Offensively, and not defensively.
- If your Logging off for the night and are at the top end of your potential trophy range, consider the fact that it might be beneficial to place TH outside and attempt to get a shield to lose ~10 trophies vs getting 2-3 starred for 30+ Trophies. At the end of the day it comes down to netting a positive amount of trophies because at the high end there is a good chance that they will be able to 2/3star you considering the units we have available to use ( Golem, Mass Dragon, etc.)
- When attacking with mass dragons look at the position of the ADs and consider using Lightning Strike on the AD that will provide the most available buildings to take out after it's gone. meaning if they have 2 very close to each other on one side and another one covering 40% of the remaining base - take that one out and push from that side.
- Check Old Revenges for easy trophy targets as some people that hit your town are going to be farmers with their TH outside.

Again, these are a few examples and I'm sure we can all debate if they are legit or not. I'm looking to see a trend in various topics so I can provide a nice list of the most common basic/advanced tactics people use so we can push our trophy count as high as possible.

I thank you all for taking the time to provide this information as it will help not only my clan but the COC community in general.

~C.
May 9th, 2013
pinser

I've found that to successfully use the barb arch combo in 1700's+, you must have at least one hero and some rage spells.

1. lure and kill CC troops, don't attack a non lurable base
2. pick closest path to TH
3. Zerg it
4. Enjoy your one star;)
May 9th, 2013
Ang

Quote:

Originally Posted by pinser

I've found that to successfully use the barb arch combo in 1700's+, you must have at least one hero and some rage spells.

1. lure and kill CC troops, don't attack a non lurable base
2. pick closest path to TH
3. Zerg it
4. Enjoy your one star;)

I disagree. I have witnessed a TH7 clan member using all level 4 barbs and archers get all the way close to 2300 trophies in 1 day from 1100 trophies. Its more about deployment technique and strategy. I wish I can expand more but certain clan member doesn't want to divulge all his secrets. I just know that it can be done. He obviously wasn't searching out for exposed TH's only as he went up in big steps and obviously not 1 star at a time.
May 9th, 2013
AngrehBard

1. If you feel you need to use a spell, use it.
2. Lightning can take down low health buildings, like builder huts, barracks, and the lab. Use this when you are close to 50% and but have no troops left.

Will edit later if I feel the need to.
May 9th, 2013
zachUVA

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ang

I disagree. I have witnessed a TH7 clan member using all level 4 barbs and archers get all the way close to 2300 trophies in 1 day from 1100 trophies. Its more about deployment technique and strategy. I wish I can expand more but certain clan member doesn't want to divulge all his secrets. I just know that it can be done. He obviously wasn't searching out for exposed TH's only as he went up in big steps and obviously not 1 star at a time.

You can't three star bases up there with that army comp. One starring isn't overly difficult, but even two stars takes a bad base, an exposed TH, or quite a bit of luck.
May 9th, 2013
Spanish

When having lv6 troops you can easily climb up the ranks to the 2.500-2.600 trophy range with low budget armies.

This setup took me to 2.500 last hunt before I started using the boring all lv3 dragon setup:

- 4 Wallbreakers
- 12 Giants
- 64 Barbs
- 88 Archers
- 1 Rage spell (lv5)

When not recuperating
- Barb King
- Archer Queen

No need to make expensive armies when you can get to at least 2.500 trophies with low budget and fun to play with armies.
May 9th, 2013
Spanish

Quote:

Originally Posted by zachUVA

You can't three star bases up there with that army comp. One starring isn't overly difficult, but even two stars takes a bad base, an exposed TH, or quite a bit of luck.

So true! It's impossible, and then in 1 day seems even more like a true fairy tale
May 9th, 2013
Joewillibob

Pro tips for trophy hunting:

elixer is king, gold is a bonus

stay online for long periods of time

stay on shield for aslong as possible

snipe undefended town halls

try not to pick targets that can revenge you and win (maxed th9s)

gl trophy hunting.
May 9th, 2013
Ang

zachuva I didn't say he was three star bases "up there". I said he got up there but he eventually plateau'd close to 2300. He got up there most likely by 2 starring and 3 starring bases though as I witnessed the climb and he didn't get a few single trophies at a time.

Spanish, I agree with you that you can make it considerably higher with level 6 troops. I myself can only get up to about 2450 with tier one troops though. If you can make it further props to you. I was surprised that you commented yet again afterwards (I thought it was another posting) saying that its impossible. If you can make it that far with tier 1 troops you should know skill plays more of a role than level of troops. Our clan member certainly did it and it was extraordinary to watch it happen. We had a 3 day trophy climb starting on Friday. He works on Friday so didn't do much. He spent most of saturday doing his steady climb. He got close to 2300 and stopped as he couldn't get any further on the Sunday. We document our trophy pushes on our website. Screenshots of starting points and ending points. There is no lying here as its there for you to see. No magic as he was only a TH7 and not a gemmer. His barracks didn't even support dragons or healers I think.

My point is that skilled deployment and understanding of defenses is more important than level of troops. If used in the hands of a skilled player you would be astonished at what you can achieve.
May 10th, 2013
childish

Looking good so far - anything else you can think of?

I definitely agree with the giant/archer/barb/wb mix - i'm doing 12/75/45/12 atm and i love it. I always used barb/archer/gob combo or Gi/A/B/G combo and that worked good but it seeems like the push wth the Gi/A/B mix is nice and steady.

any more ideas you can think of for the trophy range of 1000-2500?

~C.
May 10th, 2013
Winther32

Trophy hunting is all about getting a bit at a time. The most important thing is to just take out easy bases despite resources and slowly climb to the top using the best troops you got. It's not very complicated. For a base you have to make sure that an attacker can't 50% you on just the buildings outside the walls.
May 10th, 2013
AngrehBard

After 2000 things get a bit hectic and tedious. You'll need to add more expensive troops in the mix, like wizards. I used this at 2060 and it worked well.

18 giants
8 wizards
The rest archers and wall breaker depending on personal preference.
May 11th, 2013
childish

Quote:

Originally Posted by AngrehBard

After 2000 things get a bit hectic and tedious. You'll need to add more expensive troops in the mix, like wizards. I used this at 2060 and it worked well.

18 giants
8 wizards
The rest archers and wall breaker depending on personal preference.

Spimds good!! I been watching a lot of 2200-2500 raiding vids md giant/wiz archer combo is definitely a strong composition .

Thx for the input !!

~C.
May 11th, 2013
pinser

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ang

I disagree. I have witnessed a TH7 clan member using all level 4 barbs and archers get all the way close to 2300 trophies in 1 day from 1100 trophies. Its more about deployment technique and strategy. I wish I can expand more but certain clan member doesn't want to divulge all his secrets. I just know that it can be done. He obviously wasn't searching out for exposed TH's only as he went up in big steps and obviously not 1 star at a time.

What's his IGN?