It's pissing me off...

Recently I started experimenting with HoLo / GoLavaLoon / VaHoLo and all those weird stuff. I'm at th9 but my troop level is for th8 basically (level 2 hogs/level 1 golems and valks)

I only got hounds unlocked and balloons maxed but LavaLoonian is a no brainer and I don't want to use it.

My queen is level 6 AND ALL raids have failed miserably. I'm trying to figure out if the problem is with the low level queen and troops or I'm just really bad at it (if someone can 3 star mid th9s with th8 troops - then I'm really bad at it.)