Do people still use hog riders?

[Pole]

I only started using hogs after hero and giant bomb update. Since I got L5 heroes, I only failed once to three star, which was due to bad spell use and running out of time. I hogged TH9 with max defence before, not too hard if you attack well.

[kaibosh]

I am in C1 and use Mass Hogs on every attack. I am TH10 and cook up 3 wallbreakers, 6 Giants, 4 Wiz, and 8/8 barb/arch. I sometimes carry a single Witch as well but otherwise the rest Hogs. I only hit TH9 bases with no internal spaces, and quite often I don't have to drop any heals. I can also usually keep my cc and Wiz/Witch in reserve, Heroes on top of the other ground stuff is for taking storage.

As has been mentioned, you will NOT gain DE this way, so if you are grinding Heroes this isn't the cook for you. I admit is it rather lazy, but there is *some* skill involved. I drop my wb/Giants on a corner and quite often send half my Hogs in through that vector as well, if you can time it to drop a Heal on your Giants and Hogs at the same time (if you have to) it works well. Otherwise... You can avoid double gaps in a base with ease, the Hogs will drive forward into core as long as there is more defense closer than if they cross the bomb gaps. A lot of bases have NO gaps, in that case I trickle a single Hog in from somewhere that looks good or drop a Barb if I know it will trigger a bomb.

Hogs are so crazy OP still that a lot of my raids are three stars where there are ten or more Hogs left at the end mopping everything up very fast. By then it doesn't matter if they run across spring traps or bombs. The new skeleton traps can be kinda disconcerting, but even though they move as fast as Hogs they still have to catch up and *then* start attacking, and usually by that point the Hogs are already moving on.

For spells I carry 2 Heals, 1 Rage, and 2 Freezes. I can't afford to lose the raid so I only drop the Rage/Freezes in extreme emergencies. As for loot, well... I am at 2500 cups and up here there is no loot unless you 'bring it', so the league bonus is the loot. The *only* bases carrying any serious loot have lvl 3 Infernos and maxed everything else, so... And yeah, Infernos have a damage modifier against Hogs so they pretty much insta-melt them. Even perfect Freeze drops very rarely work out, I've done it but can't risk the trophy loss.

[Nez01]

Ye our clan still use them at TH9 still very effective you used correctly. We use a mixture of holo (Hogs Loons) or Golem Hogs or Pure hogs.

here's a replay of a hog attack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y23Fb-yostI

[Pole]

Ye our clan still use them at TH9 still very effective you used correctly. We use a mixture of holo (Hogs Loons) or Golem Hogs or Pure hogs.

here's a replay of a hog attack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y23Fb-yostI

Some nice raids there, strategy of mass witch used in the vid is debatable, but it seems a nice way of using the strat.

[Gavin13]

I haven't used them in quite some time, nor been hit by them, but yes, people do still use them.

(When I first got hogs, thats what all my DE went to, so I learned how to master them very quickly.