Help with Giant/healer combo

Hi lovely community :)

In short, I farmed for a really long time. Im now TH8 with level 5 troops and spells.
I was basically doing a 8-10 WB/20 goblins and rest in barbs/archers to farm. This is the best strat I have used to far and the fastest to train and cheapest.
It's weakness is against high Th8 and above.

I then decided to practice the 15 Giants/1healers/8Wb and rest in barbs/archer.
It seems I am doing something really wrong because its doing poor.

First of all I send 10-12 giants with some barbs/archers to takes the outside quicker. Once giants gets the agro, I send 2 pairs of WB to destroy the first 2 walls.

But before my giants even get close to their closest AA, all my giants are dead so sending my Angel is just a waste.
If I get my angel out to heal them well the AA just 4 short it...

Should I send a couple of barbs/archer before my giants to hopefully destroy the first wave of defence, then drop all my giants and hope they aim their AA tower ?
Should absolutly use my spells everytime ?

I am kind of confuse because I've seen many people doing that against me and doing really good with it and My defence is like twice more upgraded or efficient than those I try using that combo...

Anyways Thanks in advance :)

I normally use 18 giants, 1 healer, 20 gobs, 10wbs and the rest archers. Barbarians distract the healer more than anything, and the more giants, usually the better. If the air defense is too far inside the walls, do not attack the base unless you can triple lightning it or something like that. If you want to destroy the air defense faster, use a rage spell with giants and wbs. It is all about picking your battles, but make sure the giants are deployed first to take out the air defense, otherwise the healer will get distracted with archers and goblins.

There are some good videos in this thread, maybe they will help.

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...r-Raid-Tribute

Thanks for the video, im watching it right now.

I forgot to say that I'd like to trophy push instead of farming .
I'd like to reach the 2000+

I had a rough time using it the first time. I think the biggest problem most beginners have with it is that they expect it to be REALLY straightforward when it's not.

Like the one dude said, first thing is you need to make sure you only attack a base that has the AD on or close to the outside. That's the most limiting factor of the Healer/Giant combo.

The second thing that alot of people overlook is that the giant/healer combo is not invincible. You can't just send it into range of every single point defense and expect them all to survive. I find that my giants tend to die fast with or without a healer if they're within range of 2-3 point defenses (cannons/archer towers) at once. The healer just can't keep up. You either need to split your giants to take heat off of one group, or use your archers to take out some of the point defense.

People using the combo tend to focus alot on AD and getting to the mortars/WTs to clear a path for their little guys (which they should), but they often forget that cannons and archer towers are the weak points of the giants themselves.

Also try using 2 healers. I'm finding that the combo tends to be more robust wiht a second healer. It's also nice to hvae in the event that your giant group splits up (which happens more often than not).