Dark Farming with Balloonion: Advice on trophy range

I am a TH9 trying to find 15K dark/day for my hero upgrades without boosting. I have maxed troops and spells for TH9. I usually take 24 loons, 30 minions, 2 heal spells and some barch for snipes of to kill CC. It takes an hour to train, which means I either have to keep breaking shield (if I leave TH out) or keep TH in and perhaps gain some trophies on defense.

I am currently in Crystal II nexting about 50 times until I see raids for 1500+ DE that I think I can actually get. Once in a while I see a raid for 2500+ but its rare.

My issue is that it seems when I go high enough in trophies to see bases with a lot of DE, the bases are TH10s with the DE storage deep between 2 infernos. I have a hard time getting the DE. And when I do I frequently loose trophies making it hard to stay up here.

All the videos (Clash With Matty, Daddy) I see are people looning dead bases, full DE drills, etc. But I don't see any of those up here.

So I am looking for some tips:
1. Am I at the wrong trophy range? I have spent a lot of time braching in gold I and I know you hardly see 2500 DE raids. Should I go higher? or will the bases just get harder.

2. Is my army comp weak? I can add 4 loons; or use rage spells but that increases cost of army and more importantly train time.

3. How to attack infernos and still get at least a star and the DE? It's hard to maintain trophies.

Thank you in advance for the advice.

very interested to see responses. Im waiting on x bows to finish and I will be doing the same!

Using some form of Gibarch in Gold 1 is actually where its at. I think its better to get 800 easy to find DE with faster training times than using armies that take forever to train and are expensive and having to search a lot. But if you insist on using loonion I would push up towards masters. When I was around that range I actually found some people who would leave their DE on the edge or outside of their base in hopes people would take it and lose.

In addition, you're getting 500 a win at master 3.

Thanks for the Gibarvh suggestion but lets stick to loonion. Any other thoughts?

Try 20 loons, 60 minions, start with all rage and try to average one per raid, add heals as they are used, and raid in sessions as much as you can. That's a 40 minute army at worst. Aim for 50% wins, don't try and be a 2-star hero.

Keep your TH out, and try and head for M3 - more cups = more DE (on average), including more maxed de drills (plenty in masters have plenty in the drills, mines n pumps - it's not until you get near champs that TH10 are raided as soon as they log off).

There are actually loads of TH9 around M3 these days, plenty of which are often poor in everything except DE, so you don't have to raid just TH10, there are loads of options.

16 loons, minions n 1 healing spell... 32 mins training time max. If looning is hard for you in crystal league, gold 1-2 have some weak th9-10 n they r loaded. You only need to next more to see them.

With practice, you don't need cc nor heroes to farm.. 16 loons is more than enough.

you should avoid multi.-target infernoes, single target is ok.

16 loons seems like so little. I cant imagine getting to the core with that (and yes everyone has their DE in the core at my trophy level -- either guarded by ITs or max ADs).

How would that work? I guess you attack TH9s and let the minions overwhelms teh ADs? Spells?

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Originally Posted by ForgiveMeNot

16 loons, minions n 1 healing spell... 32 mins training time max. If looning is hard for you in crystal league, gold 1-2 have some weak th9-10 n they r loaded. You only need to next more to see them.

With practice, you don't need cc nor heroes to farm.. 16 loons is more than enough.

you should avoid multi.-target infernoes, single target is ok.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekCRdhGjXIM

you have plenty of time to look for a base while your next batch of balloons, spells, and minions are being trained.

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Originally Posted by Dmanz28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekCRdhGjXIM

you have plenty of time to look for a base while your next batch of balloons, spells, and minions are being trained.

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Maybe that would work at 2000 trophies, but I am not seeing any here in crystal 2.
Plus 34 loons and 4 spells is such a long training time I don't think that will work.

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Originally Posted by Leoj

16 loons seems like so little. I cant imagine getting to the core with that (and yes everyone has their DE in the core at my trophy level -- either guarded by ITs or max ADs).

How would that work? I guess you attack TH9s and let the minions overwhelms teh ADs? Spells?

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It seems so little but minions overwhelms everything as long as they dont get hit by air bombs or WT... only need 1 healing spell, don't need cc troops or heroes and you can 1-2 stars in crystals league up to master3. I did that with my rushed TH9 and farm there daily. With my rushed TH10 i was able to farm/push to master 1 with the same combo.


Target base :
- xbows target ground.
- single target infernoes.