3-Star Gowipe Strategy

Here is my 3-star strategy for TH8 vs. TH8, regardless of base design and cc troops once you have determined Gowipe is the best attack method. There is a lot of misinformation being spread about this attack strategy as being only a 2-star method, but after much frustration and learning more and more about the game's A.I., I have this attack strategy down pat and wanted to share with you all. I have both a maxed TH8 and a fresh TH8 and have been successful consistently with both. Here are the key features....

1. PATIENCE. I cannot stress this enough. The common mistake is to deploy a bunch of wizards immediately after golems, and then pekkas and BK soon follow. This is NOT how to do it. It is CRITICAL you deploy wizards as minimally as possible. I typically deploy one to two wizards at a time as the attack progresses throughout the entire duration of the attack, and not deploying my last wizard until around 1:30 timeframe. The success of this attack hinges on the wizards only, nothing else.

2. Destroy CC Troops Using No-Lure Method. I watched an extremly informative youtube video outlining how to do this, especially with dragons in CC, and I have had perfect success since. The key here is to make sure outside buildings are destroyed so your wizards can move into the dragon (typically) as quicky as possible. Drop a rage over your wizards and watch the defensive units go bye bye. I will try to share the link to the video later as there were good attack examples displaying exactly what I mean.

3. Use Pekkas as Meat Shields. Most videos and opinions I've read online suggest all the pekkas should be deployed up the gut. This is a mistake. Your pekkas are quality meat shields and should be used as such. When you send them all up the gut, they implode with all the surrounding defenses firing at them all at once. Instead, deploy ONE up the gut, then the other two on each side of the base. Place one or two wizards behind each one on the outside. When they are spread out like this, the defenses wont have time to kill anything before being destroyed by the nearby wizards. Plus you are spread out so the defense isnt so concentrated to one area, limiting the defensive ability of the base design.

Here is the troop composition to use:
2 Golems
6 Wall Breakers
13 Wizards
3 Pekkas
1 Poison
1 Heal
2 Rage
Wizards and haste or poison in CC

Alternatively, If you have a clan with lv4 pekkas and above...I recommend this troop comp (my clan didn't have high level pekkas until recently):

2 Golems
7 Wall Breakers
19 Wizards
2 Pekkas
1 Poison
1 Heal
2 Rage
Lv4 Pekka and haste or poison in CC


Here is the attack timeline outline:
Clear outside buildings with a few wizards if they are really far outside preventing the wizards from immediate access to the CC trigger area AND if the wiz are not accessible by any defenses. If base is tightly built, skip this step. Spread Golems out along side nearest to CC trigger area, ensure they attack different spots of the base, with 6 wizards spread out. When CC troops head their way, drop two to three wizards as closely as possible to the defensive cc troops' target golem amd the poison to slow them down. When wizards start to aim, drop rage over golem and wizards. Immediately deploy all wall breakers in this area so they can utilize rage as well. Now is a good time to drop heal over this Golem and the adjacent troops. Now deploy one Pekka (CC Pekka if applicable) and your Barb King to go up the gut. Finally deploy one pekka on the left side and then one on the right side of the base with two wizards behind each Pekka. Wait to make sure Pekkas distract perimeter defenses and deploy one wizard at a time as needed if they die from traps or if they go in a weird direction. Use your last spell when BK and Pekka make it to the base's center.

One more thing.....PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! If it doesn't work, see what went wrong on the replay, and fix it next try. Good luck. Let me know if you have any questions.

I usually take 3 golems and only 2 pekka's with 2 rage and 1 heal.

I don't think that the comp matters that much it's all about the execution of your attack.

Another common mistake I often see in clan wars is that ppl are too slow taking out the enemy cc troops and let them do way too much damage to their golems.

Anyways, nice post and I will try your comp in the next cw.

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Originally Posted by Melon00

Here is my 3-star strategy for TH8 vs. TH8, regardless of base design and cc troops. Anyone that says Gowipe is a 2-star strategy doesn't know the attack well enough.

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Then you're wrong, any true three star strategy is designed to exploit the base's weaknesses.

I do things a bit differently but successful with gowipe at th8 as well, this is what i do.

2xHeal, 1x rage.

I poison over rage the cc troops, typically a drag. It reduces the drag's attack speed enough where it wont do much damage to my golem.

- Golems, I try to have them dead or into golemites every raid, otherwise I wasted 30 housing; their dps is garbage. So if enemy cc dragon under poison is blowing hot air on a golem I dont care if it gets damaged or near death, rage spell more valuable than a golem and golemites can tank a bit too anyway. Besides, I bring 2 golems.

-I want all 3 pekkas and bk going straight into core. Upon entering core, rage it out.

-Teslas start popping up around core trypically, drop 1st heal spell on raging pekkas and bk only when at 50%health, not when theyre mostly full. If 1 pekka tanking 3 teslas, Ill let a pekka die off than use 1st heal spell, Ill have 2 left over for cleanup, good enough.

-Core almost cleaned out, side defenses now attacking troops in core from all angles.

-Drop max cc troops loons or hogs on backend. With 2 heal spells to work with your bk and 3 pekkas can tank after they exploded the core under rage. Often I save the last heal spell for backdoor hogs.

My last gowipe backdoor hogs instead of loons, 5 level 4hogs in my cc killed 11 defenses that were firing into my troops in the core, sans wizard towers firing on my hogs due to short range, why i like to save a heal for my backdoor hogs n loons sometimes.

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some base designs where too many layers of walls to get into core and the backend of the base isnt hoggable(too much potential for multiple spring traps or gb bombs) or balloonable (air defenses that cover everything and hard to reach to)I skip over honestly.

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Originally Posted by tyler4

Then you're wrong, any true three star strategy is designed to exploit the base's weaknesses.

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You are correct, and I should have clarified a little bit on that statement. My intention was not for gowipe to be all encompassing, but rather if the base is a gowipe base, then the execution stays the same. You are right that if, for example, a base is sectionalized with no gaps, then hogs would work much better than gowipe since wizards would get too close to meat shields and get hit by splash defenses, and the attack would fail.

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Originally Posted by DeBoesj

I usually take 3 golems and only 2 pekka's with 2 rage and 1 heal.

I don't think that the comp matters that much it's all about the execution of your attack.

Another common mistake I often see in clan wars is that ppl are too slow taking out the enemy cc troops and let them do way too much damage to their golems.

Anyways, nice post and I will try your comp in the next cw.

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Thanks! I too will give your comp a try as I have never tried 3 golems before. I'll let you know how it turns out.

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Originally Posted by oreo1981

I do things a bit differently but successful with gowipe at th8 as well, this is what i do.

2xHeal, 1x rage.

I poison over rage the cc troops, typically a drag. It reduces the drag's attack speed enough where it wont do much damage to my golem.

- Golems, I try to have them dead or into golemites every raid, otherwise I wasted 30 housing; their dps is garbage. So if enemy cc dragon under poison is blowing hot air on a golem I dont care if it gets damaged or near death, rage spell more valuable than a golem and golemites can tank a bit too anyway. Besides, I bring 2 golems.

-I want all 3 pekkas and bk going straight into core. Upon entering core, rage it out.

-Teslas start popping up around core trypically, drop 1st heal spell on raging pekkas and bk only when at 50%health, not when theyre mostly full. If 1 pekka tanking 3 teslas, Ill let a pekka die off than use 1st heal spell, Ill have 2 left over for cleanup, good enough.

-Core almost cleaned out, side defenses now attacking troops in core from all angles.

-Drop max cc troops loons or hogs on backend. With 2 heal spells to work with your bk and 3 pekkas can tank after they exploded the core under rage. Often I save the last heal spell for backdoor hogs.

My last gowipe backdoor hogs instead of loons, 5 level 4hogs in my cc killed 11 defenses that were firing into my troops in the core, sans wizard towers firing on my hogs due to short range, why i like to save a heal for my backdoor hogs n loons sometimes.

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some base designs where too many layers of walls to get into core and the backend of the base isnt hoggable(too much potential for multiple spring traps or gb bombs) or balloonable (air defenses that cover everything and hard to reach to)I skip over honestly.

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Thanks for the post, especially the fact that I totally missed the poison spell detail....haha. Yea I hear what you are saying, but I could never get that method to work, but you might be onto something with the heal on backdoor hogs. My hogs would almost always get smoked going in the backdoor, but I applaud you for figuring it out. We must have two successful methods that people can use!

I'm sorry but I say it directly: don't use gowipe to three star!!!
Here a better reason than I can briefly write:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro1K...Cnzsl-utBtbqS8

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Originally Posted by Maximilian99

I'm sorry but I say it directly: don't use gowipe to three star!!!
Here a better reason than I can briefly write:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro1K...Cnzsl-utBtbqS8

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I found a good and short explanation, for everyone who's too lazy to watch the video (not mine):
GoWiPe can be perfected, but there's a limit to what you can do with GoWiPe (inconsistent three stars at th8, rare three stars on th9+), if a three star attack is perfected, you can really do better. I see gowipe as the lazy two star strategy. There are better techniques but gowipe can be used at any skill level and it requires minimal to no planning. I would say it has its uses for trophies though.

Yeah. I dont prefer GoWiPe too