3-Star Academy - Be The "Go-To" Player

[Castles]

How about clan castles? The wars I've been in usually have dragons in clan castles, and when I don't bait and expect pups to handle them it just ruins my whole attack. I have max balloons and lvl 2 hounds and max rage, as well. Love your videos man. Thx in advance

Excellent question, Jcrosb and thank you for the compliment.

Dragons are the one and only clan castle troop that I worry about when I am using the Penta LaLooon.

How do you handle them? Easy. Archer Queen and pups. If you're without an archer queen, or your AQ is not level 5+, you won't want to use a Penta on a base with a dragon in the CC. But with a lvl5+ AQ, a dragon shouldn't cause you any problems.

If you know a base has a dragon in the CC and you have a level 5+ AQ but you're still nervous, save 1 of your 4 rage spells for the very end so that you can use it on your AQ at the same time that you use her special ability to handle the dragon.

[Castles]

Check out the latest lesson! In it you'll learn about pathing!

[Castles]

Just a bump! Check out the videos and let me know what you think!

[VeeDubya]

Just a bump! Check out the videos and let me know what you think!

Thanks for this Castles! I shall definitely try and focus on deployment/pathing 👍 Would be nice to see how it works with higher AirD x3 TH8, I think u have an example on one of your other videos, I shall be studying it before war tomorrow!! 👍 ..I shall master this if it kills me - or at least kills a lot of dragons! 😃😊

[Photographer]

Check out the latest lesson! In it you'll learn about pathing

Just got to say, that showing a video about pathing, by demonstrating what a great job your clan mate did against a th7 with 2 l4 ADs against a 105 with lvl 3 drags and max loons is kind of useless, that base could have been walked on with level 1 dragons and no balloons.

I get the point, but show us how your massively wide sweep of dragons works against AD666 on th8, when you need that firepower concentrated to burn through high HP storages to reach the AD6. 2 level 3 drags vs 2 storages with an AD6 behind that the dragons will never make it passed the storages unless you have 4 or 5 drags concentrated.

Good work on the format though

[VeeDubya]

Just got to say, that showing a video about pathing, by demonstrating what a great job your clan mate did against a th7 with 2 l4 ADs against a 105 with lvl 3 drags and max loons is kind of useless, that base could have been walked on with level 1 dragons and no balloons.

I get the point, but show us how your massively wide sweep of dragons works against AD666 on th8, when you need that firepower concentrated to burn through high HP storages to reach the AD6. 2 level 3 drags vs 2 storages with an AD6 behind that the dragons will never make it passed the storages unless you have 4 or 5 drags concentrated.

Good work on the format though

I see your point too, photographer, maybe it was the only example vid available? I have problems with TH8 AD6 x 3. But have a little look at Cold Sept vid on thread page 5, the first attack is a great TH8 AD6 x3 3* win. And the dragons are in a long line and then draw in with rage spell, because there are no destractions to the east or to the west to draw them away, which I think that is the point of this video. You also see CC max loons come into play more too.👍 I'm still waiting for my 1st 3* star on maxed TH8.. Maybe next war tho.😃

[Castles]

Just got to say, that showing a video about pathing, by demonstrating what a great job your clan mate did against a th7 with 2 l4 ADs against a 105 with lvl 3 drags and max loons is kind of useless, that base could have been walked on with level 1 dragons and no balloons.

I get the point, but show us how your massively wide sweep of dragons works against AD666 on th8, when you need that firepower concentrated to burn through high HP storages to reach the AD6. 2 level 3 drags vs 2 storages with an AD6 behind that the dragons will never make it passed the storages unless you have 4 or 5 drags concentrated.

Good work on the format though

Photographer, thank you for commenting!

The number of air defences and their placement have nothing to do with the pathing principles outlined in the video. My only objective was to help viewers understand this: If you drop all of your dragons at one location, the likelihood of them bunching up and funnelling around the base is increased significantly. When that happens, it doesn't matter how many air defences there are or what level they are, you're in trouble.

The video was not meant to be a "How To Dragon 3-Star" guide. It was only meant to illustrate the point I just mentioned. You seem to have watched it and interpreted it as me explaining how to get a 3-star dragon raid, which, as I just said, is not what that video is.

You and many other viewers have expressed interest in TH8 content. I am going to be putting some up tomorrow, Sunday.

As Vee has pointed out, there is already some TH8 content posted in the "Cold Sept" war recap video. The TH8's of Cold September and of Cold Sept have absolutely no problem getting 3-stars on other TH8's regardless of the number of air defences or their levels. Again, I'll be sharing some of it tomorrow.

[Charis]

Great videos! Thanks for all the effort! I've subscribed to your channel and will take a closer look at these. I'm particularly interested in becoming better at figuring out when to quatro, penta, rotate around the base, spam deploy, use a GoLava, when to lure, etc.

[Castles]

Great videos! Thanks for all the effort! I've subscribed to your channel and will take a closer look at these. I'm particularly interested in becoming better at figuring out when to quatro, penta, rotate around the base, spam deploy, use a GoLava, when to lure, etc.

Thanks for the comment, Charis! I already have a video out on the Penta LaLoon and I will be releasing a video on when to "Target drop" vs when to "Spam drop" you balloons very soon!

[JimniKricit]

Love this thread so far!

Im a fairly new TH9 and I've had fair success using GoWiWi attacks in wars getting at least 2 stars nearly every time, but I want to start 3 starring in wars consistently. Your Penta LaLoon attack really looks promising but I was wondering, can it be effective without having Level 2 Lava Hounds?

I'd love to have you come and assess my recent attempt!
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