Dragons – Cancer of Clan Wars

[SiitpsErt]

Greetings,

I am the leader of a very active war clan, consisting mainly from town hall 7s and 8s, all of which are experienced players. Lately we've discovered an unfortunate phenomena; all-dragon attacks. 80% of our losses are due to this troop composition. Three starring a nearly maxed town hall seven with level 2+ dragons requires no planning whatsoever.
Furthermore, at town hall 7 it's practically impossible to design a viable anti-air base. The two air defenses available go only to level 5, providing the firepower to take out two or three dragons before they overrun the base completely.

To counter this flaw, low-level air defense should be somehow buffed. Increasing the amount of seeking air mines at low levels would balance the problem to some extent.

[SharkyFinn]

Don't you have access to all the same troops as your opponents? If dragons are that simple, you should be either winning or tying all of your matches.

[Deucey]

So start upgrading those "maxed town hall 7's" then the town hall 8's and you'll be fine...

[tomatosarenice]

Don't you have access to all the same troops as your opponents? If dragons are that simple, you should be either winning or tying all of your matches.

This. If dragons were the instant 3-star people claim they are, two clans each with a mix of TH 7s and TH 8s should always get the maximum number of stars.

[andrgin]

1.) 3 staring a high th8 as a th8 with Dragons is hard, if the Player has max air defense and a good anti Dragon base. If you dont use them correctly, they will only fly around the base.

2.) 3 staring a high th7 as a th7 with Dragons is not hard for the Player, but hard for the leader to get all of his th7s to use Dragons very early.

3.) You should get your members to max air defense as soon as possible. If all th8s have air defense centered and at lvl6 getting 3 stars will be much harder. Also you should Play around a bit with clan Castle troops. Archers are very good against Dragons because they slow them down. Witches work very well if there are ground troops deployed for cleaning up buildings on the outside. In this case the Skeletons will walk below the Dragons and the Dragons will turn back for some seconds.

[DeviantRoach]

♥♥♥♥, im so tired of ppl complaining about dragons! They are supposed to be one of ghe strongest troops in the game! A th7 shudnt be able to defend against them, and most high lvl th8s have no problem defending against them. Sure they moght be able to 2 star a maxed th8 np but 2 stars dont even matter in war....

[GodII]

♥♥♥♥, im so tired of ppl complaining about dragons! They are supposed to be one of ghe strongest troops in the game! A th7 shudnt be able to defend against them, and most high lvl th8s have no problem defending against them. Sure they moght be able to 2 star a maxed th8 np but 2 stars dont even matter in war....

1. Your logic is incredibly bad because the strongest troop in the game should not be an instant 3 star.
2. There's no reason why a TH 7 should not be able to defend against them. It's the only reason why TH 7 and below wars are utter trash if both clans are willing to spend the elixir.

Dragons at TH 7 are the reason a certain clan of 10 alts is able to be near the top of the leaderboard. It doesn't take any skill whatsoever it just takes a bit of elixir.

[GauS444]

I still don't understand why th8s use dragloon against max th8s, they don't give 3 star always. Whereas lvl 4 hogs will give 3* on every th8 even th9s with lvl 1 xbow if done correctly. As for th7. Zapdrag is simple.

[Michaelyoda]

Dragons 3-starring town hall 7s—the cancer of clan wars, even the th 10 clan wars.

[Nitecrawller]

1. Your logic is incredibly bad because the strongest troop in the game should not be an instant 3 star.
2. There's no reason why a TH 7 should not be able to defend against them. It's the only reason why TH 7 and below wars are utter trash if both clans are willing to spend the elixir.

Dragons at TH 7 are the reason a certain clan of 10 alts is able to be near the top of the leaderboard. It doesn't take any skill whatsoever it just takes a bit of elixir.

The strongest troop in the game should not be an instant 3 star at its level. But that does not mean it shouldnt be able to run over a small base. Otherwise what is the point of having high level troops if they cant make things easy for you. Even lvl6 BARCH can 3 star a th6/7....that doesn't mean BARCH is overpowered.

Talking about drags at th7.....firstly

Its costs 1.5m to unlock drags in 1 barracks....if a player makes an all drags army it wud take 5 hours which is a LOT OF TIME INVESTMENT

It would cost 6m to unlock drags in 4 barracks.....if a player makes an all drag army it wud take atleast which 1.5 hrs....which considering for a th7 is STILL A LOT OF TIME INVESTMENT.

To unlock lvl2 drags is 2m..which is a significant amount at th7

LVL1 drag army without spells - 250k elixir
Lvl2 drag army without spells - 300k elixir
War loot for hitting a TH7 - 50k-60k ONLY
War loot for hitting a TH8 - no profit in elixir again

I agree it is difficult to defend against drags at th7 but If someone is ready to invest so much time and elixir for a team cause and sheer fun of playing the game and enjoying it then so be it.

It is by no means an easy task to get your th7s to do all drag attacks....Even to a large extent th8s...So if a team is hammering you with their drags then they are more passionate about the game and deserve to win. The know how to attack with drags and deserve to win again. If you say they close their eyes and 3 star then your layouts and bases are terrible in defense and again the other team deserves to win.

The only reason people want to complain about getting hammered by drags

They dont know how to use them - I have seen tons of all drag armies only 1 star th7s and th8s

They dont know how to defend against them

They dont want to put the effort that the other team is putting and want supercell to do something about their laziness.