First DE Troop Upgrade At TH10- Valks or Hogs?

[Affront]

Curious what the forum take is on these two troops. Valks seem to be the it troop at the moment, thus on the radar for a possible future nerf. Meanwhile, hogs just keep plugging along as old reliable.

Simple: whatever I have enough DE for, when the Laboratory is ready to take orders.


I'm going to max out all the troops anyway and the sequence of upgrades doesn't change the end game at all.

/Affront

[JohnSnow83]

If you do mass valks then yes golem is not a first option. But in case you do mixed attacks then golem is base for almost every attack at th10/th11

I'm saying a mixed attack uses one or two golems typically. Bring a max in your CC and one of your own. Lvl 5 golem is only 300 more hp (all other lvls are 500 additional per level). Lvl 5 valks (even with 3 or 4 in your CC) offer a much bigger boost since you're bringing 6-10 of them.

[JohnSnow83]

Golems get about a 5% bump in HP & DPS and you almost never bring more than 4 of your own so you pick up an extra 1200 HP for your army to absorb

Valks get a 22% bump in HP and 12% bump in DPS. If you bring 16 valks in your army that's an extra 3200 HP your army just picked up, 20 valks? 4000 extra HP.

Math is hard.

This. I can't believe people are recommending golems or (even worse) hounds. It's valks all day. If it matters, Jake from Onehive upgraded valks AND hogs before golems.