
Originally Posted by
DKStus
From a TH7 perspective (my current TH), the DE lightning strike is great for revenge against TH9's who raid you of 100K/100K, when you really have no chance against them with L4 troops. I usually will only do it as a revenge, as I consider it cheesy as well. This is also the only time where DE lightning strikes are a problem (TH7 against a TH9) because of the 50% loot bonus. The increased hitpoints on the DE storage mostly fixed it.
My advice (and I will certainly do this when I'm TH9), is to be careful about attacking TH7's when you have a lot of DE and also stay at a trophy range high enough where TH7's won't find you. I'm a maxed out at TH7 and the highest I could get my trophies was ~1700. Above 1700, I suspect there aren't many TH7s.