1 Earthquake lvl 1 and 2 Lightning level 5 take out Air Defense level 6

With the new update both Earthquake and Lightning (level 5&6) deal more damage.
The sum of 2 Lightning level 5 and 1 Earthquake level 1 is 1047 damage. While a level 6 Air Defense is 1050 i thought i'd try to destroy a level 6 AD with this combination before upgrading Earthquake. And it worked.
This is a huge buff considering it opens up 1 slot in the spell factory giving you room to bring an extra Rage spell (or Heal). So meaning Massdrag just gained a big buff.

I recorded a raid with the spells taking out an Air Defense. And i did a Clan War attack using this strat while coming in from the "best" side for AD's while the Air Sweeper was covering that area. Forget to turn down the music, so haters... bare with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWQxkZbSbjA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hpbNMzyeMs

See table for a complete overview (thanks to Andrgin):

http://i.imgur.com/KDnhJGC.jpg

This is horrible, drag attacks at th 8 wil be like th 7 now....

Update, clan war attack using 2 lightning and 1 earthquake

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Originally Posted by thecoolkyle

This is horrible, drag attacks at th 8 wil be like th 7 now....

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Well, i guess it does. Taken it to the limit while pushing thru an Air Sweeper. Worked just fine.

I thought the damage calculation of the earthquake spell is correct now. It seems upgrading earthquake is useless once again. This makes no sense at all.

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Originally Posted by andrgin

I thought the damage calculation of the earthquake spell is correct now. It seems upgrading earthquake is useless once again. This makes no sense at all.

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Well, the Earthquake calculation is fine. The follow up calculation is akward.

Here is my calculation how many hitpoints you can destroy with each level (top block). The bottom block shows which level of ad you can take down with it.

2 quakes lvl5 do 900 damage so the earthquake must have reduced the life from 1050 to at least 900 (14.3%).

http://i.imgur.com/4bPICa3.jpg

Ha anyone tried 2 lighning lvl5 + quake 2 on ad lvl7 yet? This also seems to be close. If this also works, there is no need for lightning lvl6 as long as you dont hit th10s with max ads and have earthquake at lvl2 (which is rather cheap).

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Originally Posted by andrgin

Here is my calculation how many hitpoints you can destroy with each level (top block). The bottom block shows which level of ad you can take down with it.

2 quakes lvl5 do 900 damage so the earthquake must have reduced the life from 1050 to at least 900 (14.3%).

http://i.imgur.com/4bPICa3.jpg

Ha anyone tried 2 lighning lvl5 + quake 2 on ad lvl7 yet? This also seems to be close. If this also works, there is no need for lightning lvl6 as long as you dont hit th10s with max ads and have earthquake at lvl2 (which is rather cheap).

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Your table is off. At least, if you get a quake level 1 on a building with 1050HP you get this: 1050 * 0,14 = 147.
So 2x Lightning level 5 = 900.
147 + 900 = 1047. While 1047 is NOT 1050 hp it does destroy a level 6 AD.

If 2 ad are within eq radius for th9, you can take them both out leaving a potentially easy laloon(ion) attack. Only need 2 or 3 lavas to tank the 2 ad

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Originally Posted by Bobmans

Your table is off. At least, if you get a quake level 1 on a building with 1050HP you get this: 1050 * 0,14 = 147.
So 2x Lightning level 5 = 900.
147 + 900 = 1047. While 1047 is NOT 1050 hp it does destroy a level 6 AD.

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You are right. It seems I made a mistake with quake lvl1 and calculated it with only 13%.

Here is the updated table and I have included the ad lvl6 as well even if it should still not work:
http://i.imgur.com/KDnhJGC.jpg

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Originally Posted by Nzdiver

If 2 ad are within eq radius for th9, you can take them both out leaving a potentially easy laloon(ion) attack. Only need 2 or 3 lavas to tank the 2 ad

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Or you could do a dragon attack. With only 2 ads remaining it should be possible with 11 dragons lvl4 and a hound in the cc.
Also note that at th10 you can use 2 max lightning spells alone to kill a lvl7 ad, so hitting down on th9s will get much easier. You dont even need high heroes for that. 12 dragons lvl5 and 1 hound in the cc while still carrying 1 rage and a 1 slot spell (maybe a haste for loons to catch up) will be more than enough for only 2 ads remaining. Maybe not maxing heroes and going to th10 instead may be the better choice or at least an option that makes sense.

The real pain about th9 base layouts is this:
The earthquake spell has a diameter of 8 and ads are 3 tiles wide wide with a range of 10. If you place your ads so far apart, this means they are not covering each other, which will be an easy cold blooded GoLaLoon. If you zap 1 ad away and kill the other one with wall breakers instead of a jump (because it is so far outside), you end up with 4 hounds left on 2 ads with 2 rage spells or 1 rage/2 haste.