Hog riders are useless now.

Prior to the update that introduced the skeleton traps I could 3 star just about any th9 with my maxed hog riders and heal spells in a war. Now with skeleton traps I fail to even 2 star a meager th9 every time. They have rendered hog rider attacks completely useless at high levels and I feel like they should be altered in order to give hogs a little slack. Notice I didn't say nerf because it is a pretty cool trap it's just when your hogs are balls deep into the enemy base and those traps open up the hogs all disappear rather quickly and no other troops are close enough to dispel them. Positive and negative feedback encouraged:)

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Originally Posted by Mooseramprof

Prior to the update that introduced the skeleton traps I could 3 star just about any th9 with my maxed hog riders and heal spells in a war. Now with skeleton traps I fail to even 2 star a meager th9 every time. They have rendered hog rider attacks completely useless at high levels and I feel like they should be altered in order to give hogs a little slack. Notice I didn't say nerf because it is a pretty cool trap it's just when your hogs are balls deep into the enemy base and those traps open up the hogs all disappear rather quickly and no other troops are close enough to dispel them. Positive and negative feedback encouraged:)

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Traps make every body's life harder. Adapt to it.

Ah, another one of these. :) Oh, Hog Riders, why were you so good for so long? Now you're just like any other troop, you have to be used in conjunction with a variety of troops.

I'm right there with you. Hogs used to be my go to for mid th 9s and below. I shouldn't be attacking those any longer anyway, so needless to say unless lower levels is all I have to attack I won't use them for anything higher than a mid tier th 9 anymore. They're not completely obsolete because you can still use them pretty well for getting the CC troops out or a a few defenses out of the way on the edges but mass hogs is not what it used to be that is for sure.

You have to adapt and over come. Use Valks, Gowiwi, or Gowipe.

It still is possible to 3 star TH9s em with hogs.

When I don't its because I've screwed up somewhere.

I still use hog riders in war all the time you just have use them differently, the attack now is called hogowiwi. The idea of this attack is to half gowiwi to kill the clan castle, heroes and as many traps as you can. Then the hogs come in to clean things up. Don't complain hogs are useless now because they arnt, if u want to see them used well, join my clan and watch my attacks. Just put in your message that you've come to watch dano's raids. Don't give up on hogs man they still destroying fools.

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Originally Posted by Mooseramprof

Prior to the update that introduced the skeleton traps I could 3 star just about any th9 with my maxed hog riders and heal spells in a war. Now with skeleton traps I fail to even 2 star a meager th9 every time. They have rendered hog rider attacks completely useless at high levels and I feel like they should be altered in order to give hogs a little slack. Notice I didn't say nerf because it is a pretty cool trap it's just when your hogs are balls deep into the enemy base and those traps open up the hogs all disappear rather quickly and no other troops are close enough to dispel them. Positive and negative feedback encouraged:)

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Nope....still working just fine and I'm hitting th10s with active infernos......skellies are a minor nuisance compared to everything else they've tried to do to them.

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Originally Posted by DropDeadFred

I still use hog riders in war all the time you just have use them differently, the attack now is called hogowiwi. The idea of this attack is to half gowiwi to kill the clan castle, heroes and as many traps as you can. Then the hogs come in to clean things up. Don't complain hogs are useless now because they arnt, if u want to see them used well, join my clan and watch my attacks. Just put in your message that you've come to watch dano's raids. Don't give up on hogs man they still destroying fools.

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Is it better to just go full gowiwi or half hogs with that? Never tried a combo.

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Originally Posted by Mooseramprof

Prior to the update that introduced the skeleton traps I could 3 star just about any th9 with my maxed hog riders and heal spells in a war. Now with skeleton traps I fail to even 2 star a meager th9 every time. They have rendered hog rider attacks completely useless at high levels and I feel like they should be altered in order to give hogs a little slack. Notice I didn't say nerf because it is a pretty cool trap it's just when your hogs are balls deep into the enemy base and those traps open up the hogs all disappear rather quickly and no other troops are close enough to dispel them. Positive and negative feedback encouraged:)

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You are right, and the answer is you have to adapt. Pure hogging is very difficult against well designed TH9s now. Mix in other troops, deploy hogs in smaller groups, change your timing, etc, etc. The game always changes, the good players adapt quickly and move on the next strategy.

No they r not uselss, like all other troop compositions u can knly attack certain type of bases. U cannot use them for trophy pushing they r too fragile for that, but in clan wars they still good 😊