Contemplating a push to masters, any tips?

[J9sh]

Balloonion. Easy and hard to screw up

th8 loons against maxed th9s and tens. no

[Bighundy]

th8 loons against maxed th9s and tens. no

yes, wont be using loons until th9 / lvl6

[IVWizdumb]

Snipe to 2000 trophies
giant/healer to 2300 trophies
balloonion to 2600 trophies

also a great tip, if ur logging for a while, leave ur th out. You will only lose about 5 to 10 trophies instead of someone clearing you out for 25 and a lot of loot.

slow and steady. 3 hour sessions of pushing a day. Every day youll log on to see -10 trophies or so. Then do about 5 raids or so and make 50 trophies. Wash and repeat. In 5 days or so you'll be there!

[Fas]

I'm in the same position as you. I tried at one point to completely protect my TH so that I might be able to come back to some trophy gains from people failing to one star me, but as a TH8 that didn't really work because my base would get skipped until a TH10 would come by and steam roll me with level 7 archers that my mortars can't one hit.

So I went back to just letting people snipe my TH, but today I just tried something new and it's a really great way to get trophies while you're offline. All you need to do is leave a gap for people to spawn troops right in the centre of your base, place your DE and TH right by it and make sure all your splash can hit that spot. I've had some hilarious failed attacks on me today, one guy even lost a golem, two pekkas, three dragons and his BK within the space of 30 seconds trying to get out of that hole, it's brilliant.

It can be countered by giants + wb, but most people underestimate how much damage they'll get dealt when every defence in your base is trained on one spot. I'm going to try to use this tactic to push to masters, but even without the defence trophies, you should slowly be able to push your way up by 1 or 2 starring other TH8s each time your break your sheild.

You're getting hit by idiots in Crystal. I usually 2 star black hole bases unless they have well placed Infernos, then I can only get 1 star and it's not worth it. Don't expect any defense wins in Masters.

[angu724]

I have a member in my clan trying to push for masters at th 8 as well. He's at 2400 currently. He's using balloonions now. My overall advice is to stay online as much as you can. And be patient.

[ChiefJoshuaCOC]

keep town hall outside so people only attack that and you only snipe