Big dilemma: Should I do th9.5 or head straight for th10?

Hi all

Let me say first I'm happy to join the forums!

I'm new to the forums, but not to the game, which I've been playing for about a year now. I maxed out th9, have 250 lava walls and 22/25 heroes (would love to get them to 30/30 but after maxing walls I don't have anywhere to spend gold and elixir). So, having already pushed the dreaded button for th10, I need your opinions and experience on this:

Should I go for th9.5, i.e. upgrade CC, Lab, Camps etc before any defences and see how it goes in wars (as I am in a war clan),
or
Should I go for th10 building infernos and the third x-bow straight away.

To further explain my dilemma, I do war a lot and want to take advantage of the matchmaking system (having been on the receiving end of such a manipulation many times before in my matchups), but on the other hand I fear I'm already "too heavy" with all these lava walls and the 22/25 heroes so even if I don't build infernos perhaps I'll get matched with th10s anyway and not th9s (while also having a disadvantage in everyday farming, where I sit in Masters I with an exposed th).

Btw when I hit th9 last December I built and upgraded x-bows straight away and had a really hard time at wars to begin with...My current weight is 73000 (4X18.000 in storages).

I would appreciate any insight!!

Building the new TH10 def will just way you down more, especially the IT. Lava ways a lot so I would recommend to go the 9.5 route. The moment you add IT, prepare to be matched against maxed out TH10s with lowish lvl walls

I recently done th 10 with all lego n few lava.. i was also thingking to do 9.5...but after seeing ppl stealing half loot in every aatck and 3000 dark i had to switch to build infreno...i must tell u that my loot is extemlly protected nobody aatcks me just snipes only but in war i faild to 1 star mirror th 10...but plus point is loot is so amazing at th10.....

I have a fun village, Townhall 10, before its weight was 40k

after building 2 infernos it went up to 54k

i was very confused as i thought 1 inferno only adds about 1000 points to the weight

get offensive stuff up (camps, heroes, golems, freeze spell) and then drop infernos

Th 9 fully upgrade first, no rush
u'll much easier in th 10

Yea, use 9.5 route, will be easier for you in the future..

I tried the 9.5 thing, with all lavas and in a clan of mostly rushed th10s, I was already matched with th 10s in war. After getting 3 starred in a couple wars myself, I decided the 9.5 thing wouldn't work for me and am currently upgrading both ITs and my new xbow to lvl 2. War works both way, you have to be able to defend also.

when i went th10 i had 30/30 heroes and lavas since i always got paired with th10s anyway in war i didn't want to go th9.5 route imo it was better soon as i added the infernos i went from getting 2 starred to no stars n can still consistantly 2 star all my mirrors and 3 star if base has an exploitable weakness so if you have good heroes(yours are good enough) and experience attacking th10's you will benefit more since you will not give up stars/give up less stars.