How to make defensive CC's interesting again

As we know, the poison spell was supposed to make CCs interesting, but since two of them kill everything remotely useful but a hound defensive CC's are completely broken again. Here are some ideas to make it interesting again:

1. Barbs: If there are no troops to draw them anywhere, these warriors will run out of poison clouds.
2. Archers: These disciplined warriors file out of the clan castle at a rate half of which other troops do.
3. Goblins: Due to their sneaky nature, they appear invisible to the attacker until their first attack on the nearest opponent.
4. Giants: Ranged attacks do half damage to these meat shields.
5. Wall-Breakers: Favorite target: Golems (damage x40)
6. Balloons: Their attack animation immediately begins upon arriving over a troop, and even if the troop moves they drop their bombs on the spot they're over.
7. Healers: Double their healing rate to defensive troops (or triple, or something to make them useful)
8. Dragons: Gain a poison immunity after the first poison.
9. Pekkas: Their mighty sword sweep deals area splash damage.

10. Minions: Because they are born of dark elixir, they seek dark elixir, and so their favorite target is opposing royals.
11: Hog riders: After a wizard made fun of their barbaric ways, the hog rider has sworn himself to taking out wizards and they are now his favorite target.
12. Valkyries: Give them the same poison spell damage resistance heroes have.
13. Golems: Because of his weak damage, he targets the troop with the least hp on in a certain tile radius.
14. Witches: Poison spells do not damage the witch, but prevent her from summoning her skeletons.
15. Lava Hounds: Similar to the effects of inferno towers, the heat from this molten beasts blocks healing on the target.

Thoughts? In my opinion, these ideas would bring back the interesting chess game between defenders and attackers.

I really like the idea for the wall breakers.

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Originally Posted by westphalma

I really like the idea for the wall breakers.

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If other people have better ideas for other troops I'm all ears, but the current state of defensive CCs is a joke.

interesting lol. So buff everything besides wizards?

I like that wall breaker idea


But i think no one should resist poison spell,
Cause its SPELL not a simple poison

I like ccs as they are now. Never had a problem with how they work or file out in defences.

Really cool ideas. I like a lot of them

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Originally Posted by tyler4

As we know, the poison spell was supposed to make CCs interesting, but since two of them kill everything remotely useful but a hound defensive CC's are completely broken again. Here are some ideas to make it interesting again:

1. Barbs: If there are no troops to draw them anywhere, these warriors will run out of poison clouds.
2. Archers: These disciplined warriors file out of the clan castle at a rate half of which other troops do.
3. Goblins: Due to their sneaky nature, they appear invisible to the attacker until their first attack on the nearest opponent.
4. Giants: Ranged attacks do half damage to these meat shields.
5. Wall-Breakers: Favorite target: Golems (damage x40)
6. Balloons: Their attack animation immediately begins upon arriving over a troop, and even if the troop moves they drop their bombs on the spot they're over.
7. Healers: Double their healing rate to defensive troops (or triple, or something to make them useful)
8. Dragons: Gain a poison immunity after the first poison.
9. Pekkas: Their mighty sword sweep deals area splash damage.

10. Minions: Because they are born of dark elixir, they seek dark elixir, and so their favorite target is opposing royals.
11: Hog riders: After a wizard made fun of their barbaric ways, the hog rider has sworn himself to taking out wizards and they are now his favorite target.
12. Valkyries: Give them the same poison spell damage resistance heroes have.
13. Golems: Because of his weak damage, he targets the troop with the least hp on in a certain tile radius.
14. Witches: Poison spells do not damage the witch, but prevent her from summoning her skeletons.
15. Lava Hounds: Similar to the effects of inferno towers, the heat from this molten beasts blocks healing on the target.

Thoughts? In my opinion, these ideas would bring back the interesting chess game between defenders and attackers.

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I like these.. it would definitely allow the defender to have an element of surprise.. Some people are saying TH9s are unbalanced post TH11 update because of the 2 DE spells attackers can bring.. Maybe this helps push the favor back to defenders for TH9's..

Not sure about game balance for TH10/11 though. I think the general opinion in the forums is still is that it's too difficult to 3-star TH10s, so this buff to defenses would probably only come after they improve the attacking capability further for TH10/11.

The wallbreaker thing does sound cool to me too - but I think it may be too strong against players using gowi variations, especially because those strategies tend to hit the CC on the fly instead of luring them to a corner. (Just digressing a bit.. but making attacking players bring a valkyrie to deal with defending wallbreakers sounds interesting to me though - I'd like to see more valks in action at least.. but not sure if they'd get the wallbreakers in time even if they stand next to the golems)

I personally would have liked to see pekka's deal more damage to enemy AQs - as a counter to AQ-healer attacks. I think more players would fill their CC's with a pekka to defend their loot in multiplayer mode. That might work in SC's favor if more players cook pekkas for donation perhaps? - pekka's dont really come too cheap actually. So that might be incentive for them to buff defending pekka's.

I like the fact also that archers file out slower - but as long as the order of coming out of the CC doesn't change. Sometimes I put 10 archers + dragon in my CC, instead of balloons + dragon, because I like to make it hard(er) for enemies to lure my dragon from my CC and killing it with poison. There's an extra 30 secs added to battles now anyway, so every I think defenders deserve more chances to prolong the battle as much as they can.

Also, it may mean clans have to be more careful in planning their attacks for war - because the second and subsequent attack will be more valuable after collecting information on the CC. I would like that strategic dimension of wars.

I think this suggestion could be looked into (once they sort out the other problems which perhaps should deserve higher priority)

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Originally Posted by OMCKG

interesting lol. So buff everything besides wizards?

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♥♥♥♥ how did I forget wizards? But I can't really think of anything other than poison resistance they'd need

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Originally Posted by Charizar

I like ccs as they are now. Never had a problem with how they work or file out in defences.

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You like that anything can be double poisoned other than hounds/golems?