I did read your reply and it was extremely helpful! Your reply had all the info I wanted so I didn't comment on it, but his reply lacked some information so i questioned it :) Maybe he does it similarly to you but I wanted to ask to make sure.
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Depending on the base layout I typically use pentalavaloon, or golowiwi atm and have been getting a steady flow of 3 stars with them. My hogs are only lvl 1 but once they hit 5 I will look up strategies that include them, but that's in a couple months as my golem is still lvl 1 and I need to lvl it.
You can YouTube one hive for the pentalavaloon strategy.
As for golowiwi I watched one hive as well. But typically the attackers there have a hero or both heroes. I'm facing mid TH9s atm and I'm using 2 heal 2 rage, or 2 heal 1 rage 1 jump depending on the base. 2 golems 1 in CC 3-4 witches, scout base to see how many loons I need to bring and the rest wizards. Maybe some wall breakers if needed.
im sure once I start facing close to max TH9 I will need at least a hero to get the 3 star, but for the moment it seems to be working good still.
I typically avoid pentalaloon now because of changes to the exploding pups. With one hero, I usually opt for a GoWiWi, GoHo, or Go/LaLoon.
I have also been testing GiHeHo (HGH) as a TH9, but it is iffy with one/no heroes.
Really difficult to 3 star max defense TH9 and above without any hero now. You can thank SC for the fact you gotta gem up 1 hero or attack really low in wars now with the aggro radius change that makes it much harder to kill the queen. You won't 3 star any decent TH10 without both heroes now. If you're a TH10 attacking TH9 then some combination of ground attack and hogs on the back end can still 3 star.
Way to get around it is rush and have really low defenses so you can still hit your own rank without heroes.
I really dont want to risk and cost my clan a victory...i rather opt out and give a chance to someone else :smirk:
And i like to overkill tbh :cool:
Use the cold blood / shattered to take enemy queen, golem to tank wizards all the way in to the queen & AD, then wizards do the killing. You can bring a lightning for cc witch, if it would be a dragon, use rage on top of the CB / shattered to kill it. Sorry if my previous comment is not clear enough :) and sorry for my broken english :D