Why is the Air Sweeper Necessary?

This game has drifted so far towards defense that it is getting very frustrating to play at higher levels. At higher levels, it is extremely difficult to even 50% somebody that is at your level. One of the few armies that was viable at higher levels is the LavaLoon army. Instead of improving ground attacks viability at higher levels, they have added another air defense! The inferno towers basically make hogs unusable. They simply don't have the health to survive, even at level 5. Golems are hard to use due to the insane amount of wall health and, again, inferno towers being able to target both your golems and your wizards.

Am I the only one who has seen the game get severely out of balance at high levels? I'm not necessarily against the air sweeper but something should be done to bring back balance and give people a chance on the offensive side. Either lower wall health or introduce higher level giants than seven and higher level hogs or maybe a combination of both. You can look through all the top players and almost all of them are using air troops. To me that seems obvious that they haven't made ground troops strong enough to compete at the higher levels.

ikr :( idk what the heck SC was thinking...air attacks weren't OP anyway.

i think an air defense that actually did damage would've been good.

if you guys never thought air attacks were over powered then you've never been attacked by hounds balloons and minions.

Soon to come aquatic troops. Can they bring in Aqua man?😝

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Originally Posted by Aeaswen

...You can look through all the top players and almost all of them are using air troops...

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I think you gave the reason right there. There's no mandate that you HAVE to be able to 3 star every base. No one has been unfairly advantaged or disadvantaged by the addition of the air sweeper. It's really not that strong, and everyone can get it. Maybe it will force development some new ground strategies.

The sweeper was necessary, so that many of those elite war clans would have something to blame for their decrease in three starring...after the same update put a stop to the fluffy.

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Originally Posted by Cristian

i think an air defense that actually did damage would've been good.

if you guys never thought air attacks were over powered then you've never been attacked by hounds balloons and minions.

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Was it overpowered? Or was it rightly powered and everything else was just underpowered? I am going to hazard a guess that 99% of th10's couldn't 3 star a max war base.

The problem with the game is there is 2 games that contradict each other. Trophy pushing you want defenses as strong as possible to make it hard. War however you want bases reasonable to 3*. They need to find a way to work these two modes. They don't work on the same plain and they need to realize that.

Air attacks were overpowered don't tell me it wasn't. Only Drags at TH7/8 or PentaLaLoon at TH9 were too easy. Just spaming troops and getting 3 Stars is not the meaning of this game.
IMO it even is still not enough to nerf those air attacks. You can still Drag/Dragloon/PentaLaLoon from the side, where the sweeper isn't looking.
It is still possible to 3 Star any base, it is just more difficult, and that is OK.
I hated those spam attacks.

If you still want 3 stars, use hybrid attack strategies, they work same as before, and they always will.

I don't think the defense strength is based on actual game play it is balanced against a simulation of game play. It is obvious that the only thing important is that the offense isn't over powered. That's the sum of their concern. The more they add the less control we have, more bugs, and the less fun it is to play. The higher level players have very little fun these days. I war and I play other games I see no future for me in clash..

Defense is stupid overpowered, traps have too much power to ruin an attack, it is not manageable by the average human mind. Too busy, too many variables, no feeling of control

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