need advice for barching in masters

I'm a recent th10 and am starting to barch in Masters league. So I only have 220 troops and they are still level 6. I don't rely on my clan to donate enough troops to have some every fight. I have been barching a long time.. I find that I can 1 star 50-75% of the time just by picking the right targets. But I'd like to improve that and also move on to harder targets. Any general advice or answers to my specific questions would be appreciated.

My goal is to 50% for one star, 100% of the bases I attack. Strictly for the loot bonus. I don't have issues barching for resources and losing.

1) Should I stay away from th10s altogether? At this level, there aren't many premies, so no need to mention them. There arent many th9s, but it seems like there might be enough to live off until I get level 7 troops?
2)Ratio of archers to barbarians? Right now I do 140 archers and 80 barbs. That always worked for me in the past, but maybe its not good anymore. I am also upgrading barbs to 7 first, so when I have level 7 barbs, would getting more barbs help at that point?
3)Lure out cc? Everyone says yes to this. But its not that easy. Do you only look for bases where cc is not centralized? How many barbs/archers do you give up to lure and kill the cc troops. I am guessing 5-6 + 1 lightning spell? Is there a way to tell if the CC is empty?
4) Lure out heroes? I usually don't bother and ive regretted it. Most of the time you can't lure them anyhow. But what about the times you can? I'm guessing I should be luring them out. How many troops to spend on them. Seems like I'd have to spend 20+ troops to get both. Seems like too much?
5)Deployment. I do 3 fingers to release 40 barbs on two quadrants and then 60 archers behind them. Then I do the same for the other two quandrants. Basically its the fastest way ive found to release all my troops around the whole base.
6) picking off buildings. I do pick off buildings in corners that are obviously unprotected. But I don't bother trying to guess if the closer buildings are far enough from all the defenses. Is this really that important.
7) Mortars centralized or on the outer wall? I look for centralized mortars as that seems more safe. However, if the mortars are near the outside wall, I may take 1 or 2 out with lightning spells on one side of the base so that I feel more comfortable my troops will be able to get some defenses inside the walls.
8) Infernos and xbows. I jsut avoid any base unless the infernos are very centralized. For xbows, I am not sure if I should be worrying about them.
9) Defense building levels. If I see level 3 infernos and xbows, I hit next. I also avoid level 13 archer towers.
10) spells. I run with 5 lightning. I think that is probably the best choice. Looking for advice on how to use them. Sometimes I use them to take out a mortar or two and sometimes to pick off buildings at the end. Picking off buildings at the end doesn't seem to work for me, so maybe I should be taking out more mortars in the beginning?

1) depends on what your goal is, if you're barching for cups learn how many buildings you have to pick off for each TH you're up against and skip any that won't get you that from the perimeter. For resources it doesn't matter as much, still need to know if you are able to 50% it after collecting though.

2) everyone has their own opinion, try different ratios and find one that works for you

3) yes, try adding a couple hog riders to lure the CC. If it's centralized you won't lure with barch.

4) you can't lure heros.

5) if you've barched up to TH10 you should already know how to deploy. Sprinkle barbs to check for traps before deploying archers.

8) avoid multi target infernos.

10) typically used for splash if it will cost you 50% or the resources you're gunning for.

Ya 50-75% chance to win is not good. You can lose as much as 30 trophies for a loss, and can only gain ~10 trophies (if you're lucky) for a win. so 75% win rate will only brake even.

Instead of giving you generic advice, I'll tell you a couple things that you can apply right now that will make a difference for your situation.

- Your method of barching sounds fine, so keep using what you're familiar with.

- Always bait giant bombs - that's the only thing that can potentially ruin your entire attack.

Only attack TH9 or lower (you don't have trouble with these do you?) they are pretty much free win no matter how maxed they are. so you can get to masters purely on TH9, they are very abundant even in master 3.

If you want to attack TH10s:
- don't attack maxed defense
- only attack bases with infernos centralized
- only attack bases with heroes inside
- only attack bases with centralized CC (so no need to waste troops luring cc)
- only attack bases with Wiz tower in inner layer of base


For me xbows are like cannons with long range = they suck (unless he have 3 and all of them are level 4 lol), mortars never bothered me because if you deploy your troops right, they should be very spread out, the mortars attack so slow that I don't think they matter. I like 100/120 barb/archer. but don't think it matters, I never try to get that exact number.

I don't lightning buildings beforehand unless I can take out a wiz tower and mortar at once.

I got to masters in 2 boosted barracks sessions with level 5 archers, so that's about 4 hours in total. So if you don't lose, you can get there very fast.

now those are definitely not the golden rules of barching, it's just something you specifically want to do now just to build some confidence, to look at your attack log and see 10 straight wins. When you get some confidence, you can slowly expend out, maybe start attacking bases with wiz towers out, or heroes out, or non centralized CC. just take it slow and only add one thing at a time.

Just do that, make it your goal to win every match. If you follow the things I said, you should win over 95% of the time. But you'll still lose, and this is the most important of all, don't just shrug off losses like it never happened, you only learn and get better when you lose, so you make sure you watch those replays over and over and over again and figure out exactly why you lost and make sure you don't make the same mistake the next time. and if you can't figure out why you lost, then that's even easier, just never attack that base again. lol

I got a bunch of vids on barch in masters league on my youtube, but I don't want to plaster your thread with my ♥♥, you can check it out only if you want to lol.

Happy holidays mang.