[Misconception] TH10 is balanced by TH11

I always see people use this argument... That the introduction of TH11 will introduce more TH10 three star attacks, and thus TH10 will be balanced.

Do people not realise that this game has been designed in a way that any player can easily three star another player of a lower TH base?

TH10 can easily three star TH9.
TH9 can easily three star TH8.
TH8 can easily three star TH7.
And so forth.

Just because a base can easily three star a lower level TH base, doesn't mean that TH level of the latter is balanced.

For example, take a look at TH8s. TH9s can easily three star TH8s but does that mean TH8 is balanced? No. You can only say TH8 is balanced when you're comparing TH8s with TH8s, offensively and defensively. Right now, TH8s need a slight defensively buff since all TH8 dragon, gowipe, and hogs attack can three star a TH8 base with ease.

If you want to take a look at a near-perfectly balanced TH level, TH9 is a great example of that. The offensive and defensive weight of TH9 are pretty much equal. This means all TH9 bases can be three starred by other TH9s. "Anti-three-star" bases can actually be three starred in TH9. You just need to find the weakness of that base and adapt your attacking style to it to exploit that weakness.

At the moment, TH10 is unbalanced simply because of the existence of anti-three star bases in TH10. There are TH10s that cannot be three starred by TH10, and frankly, any TH10 base that can be three starred by TH10 is a poorly designed base. The infernos that are introduced in TH10 are major defensive obstacles that prevents three star attacks in TH10. What TH10 needs right now is an offensive buff that will help tackle its strong defensive weight. The new hero could be the offensive buff that is needed to balance TH10.

So this logic of TH(X) is now balanced because TH(X+1) is introduced doesn't have any logical sense to it. If you're comparing two different TH levels, then of course one of them is always going to smash the other. That is the mechanics of the game.

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Questions:

What are your thoughts on this? Do you agree with my points?

Also, do you think the introduction of the new hero to TH10 would balance TH10?

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I personally think it will, but just to make things not overpowered, TH10s should only have access to the hero up to a certain level (level 5 for example), while TH11s can upgrade him to the max level (which is level 20 as of now).

Yes, I agree with you that townhall 10 needs some balancing. I disagree that it needs the new Hero. I think a new spell or troop could also do it.

I will be escaping townhall 10 as soon as the update drops.

3 starring a well designed TH10 is absolutely possible. It is just very very unlikely.

Agreed, like this post.

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Originally Posted by OMCKG

3 starring a well designed TH10 is absolutely possible. It is just very very unlikely.

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So do you think all TH10s can be three starred? Just curious.

I think of a seesaw. Balance for that would be neither up nor down. Looking at TH10, a competent player can get 50% of a TH10 with similar offense relative to defense, and usually get the TH as well. My idea of balanced, going back to the seesaw, would be the offense can get half a base and maybe the building they want.

You are accusing TH10 of lack of balance (your side down on the seesaw), but my experience in a strong clan is that a good player will get 60-70%, a great player on the right base will get 3*. What you are asking for is a unit that lets anyone 3* a TH10 (your side up). I think TH10 is the most balanced TH level. A good player will not destroy the base every time because the base is balanced, and a defender can keep him from destroying that one important building because the base is balanced. The two sides oppose eachother, tweaking bases and attacks looking for a slight edge because of this balance.

You actually missed the rationale. The rationale isn't th10 can be 3 star because th11 is launched. The hope is that once TH11 becomes the benchmark for pushing, SC can OPEN UP th10 to be a 3 star game.

This is the rationale: TH10 was the standard for pushing, and pushing is about giving up 2 star at the most (0-1 preferably). Once th11 becomes the NEW standard for pushing, SC can buff th10 offence to make it easier to be 3 star (if SC wishes it to be) and not upset their pushing customer base. It always had nothing to do with your rationale. I have actually never even your rationale before. Where did you get it from?

It's possible to 3 star a TH10, but not easy to do it.

Pre-update it made sense that TH10 was hard to 3 star and it required some sheer amount of skill and knowledge of the game to pull off 3 stars, only some people could 3 star max 10's without using bunnies.

But post-update, TH10 should be easier to 3 star, why? Only because TH11 will be the new top dog, figuratively speaking. So considering that, what should Th10 receive that can make 3 starring easier for a Th10 against a fellow Th10? Well the new hero would help a ton. All TH10 needs is 10 levels on that warden hero in order to 3 star a TH10.
Will it still be extremely easy to 3 star Th10 with the new hero? Maybe, maybe not. We don't know the whole scope of things at the moment, a mere video is not enough to guarantee that but it will make it a lot easier to 3 star a Th10 but skill will still be needed to 3 star.

Perhaps TH10 will turn into TH9 with the new hero, not too easy, but not too hard either like how it is currently.

Just my $0.02

Agreed. TH11 does nothing to balance TH10... In addition to not being able to triple our peers we now get steamrolled by 11s :p Sure 9 gets rolled by 10, but at least they can triple each other. When discussing balance, other th levels are irrelevant imo.

just jump to th11..th10 is a deadzone SC dont care about balancing it..so im jumping to th11 as soon the update is out,