Why all the hate for healers?

Hey all, just a random post because I keep seeing healer-bashing going on in many forum posts.
Firstly I am a pretty well-developed TH10 (level 121) and I will say that I rarely use healers anymore because of playing in masters and champs. But anyway..

As a TH7-9 I used the giant-healer combo a lot, and I had a huge amount of success with it against storage bases. Giants would go in with wallbreakers, take out an air defence and then I would drop my healer (or two). The giants would then proceed to trash most of the defences, allowing me to take the majority of the base's loot with my other troops.

This strategy was incredibly useful, reasonably cheap because of the lack of spells, and as someone who raids once every few hours I had no issue with troop training times. I will accept that healers (even at level 4) are past their best at TH10-level, but they are awesome between TH6 and TH9, and it would appear that is the level of gameplay that they were designed for.

I just wondered if anyone else has the love for healers that I do? Let me know what you guys think :)

EDIT: The forum exclusive for the sneak peek says that healers will no longer trigger air traps - seemed like a common complaint in this thread so people have got to be happy with that.

I just upped them to lvl4 for Valhalla's CoC Girls event. I know Nio regularly uses valks and healers in his valk tornado combo with great success in masters league. Going to give her a try but i feel she just needs some tweaking, either an extra level, or changing to a multi target system instead of area splash.

Th9s are similar to th10s. Even th8 they were starting to become redundant, only up to th7 are they useful. But due to training time even there they are not worth farming with.

Once hopped in a korean clan for a while and view a random defense attack on their base. Watched a level 20 or 30 AQ + maxed healer alone could bulldozed a TH8 base. That was stunning.

Guess i'm in the minority cause I love my healers. They're maxed, I use 4 at a time with 12giants, 12wb, 40archers, 40barbs which is a 32 minute army. If King & Queen available it just makes looting a decent TH9 too easy. cost about 120k so hitting
4 less than 250k in elixer is not & option.

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Originally Posted by Gama321

Th9s are similar to th10s. Even th8 they were starting to become redundant, only up to th7 are they useful. But due to training time even there they are not worth farming with.

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I do not agree, I'm maxed out TH8 and I still use healers now and then. They are pretty usefull if u know how to use them.

But I also think, it depends on the person, we all have that one troop we dislike right?:)

Interesting to see people's thoughts - I think one of the main problems people have with healers at TH9 and above (a problem that can be solved by luck or deployment skill) is that below that level healers often stay alive for the entire attack, doing a huge amount of healing, whereas at higher levels people can't accept the fact that even if a healer dies reasonably early on in the attack she has still prolonged the life of your troops as a heal spell would but at half the cost.

But as has already been said, I guess it's just down to personal preference as with any troop :)

They don't heal air troops and since I always use dragons and I don't ever use healers anymore. :(

TH10 and i never use healers, haven't since i was TH8.

Healers are an expensive waste at TH10. Don't see why no option for 'Used them before but not now?' At lower TH's they were great with a swarm of giants but fodder now..