Air Sweeper Update FEEDBACK

[Rowcoy]

The update that introduced the 2 air sweepers was the best thing supercell could have done for me personally!

Prior to this update I was completely addicted to the game and spent hundreds of hours a month playing the game honing my air attacking skills and adjusting and tweaking my base on defence to catch out those over confident air attackers!

The game was fun and exciting with a great deal of diversity, when I got bored of air attacks I could throw in a mass golem attack or even have some fun with a weird combination. On defence I never knew what was going to be used to try and defeat my base and had to try and anticipate any number of troop combinations.

After the update the fun and sparkle seems to have gone out of the game, at least for me anyway, there is a boring monotony about the game now. Whereas before my defence log used to have 18-20 golem based defences 8-10 lavaloon defences and 1-2 weird and wonderful compositions. Now my defence log is just a long list of mass golem based defences! The only variety is how many were used 4,5,6 or 7. From an attacking point of view air attacks still work and you can get 2 stars, but this has become infinitely more difficult and now for the majority of players air attacks will only get you 1 star the majority of the time against a fully maxed TH10 and this probably explains the switch to mostly ground based attacks at the top end of the game.

As a result of this update I have therefore found myself playing coc far less that I did previously and spending much much less money! In truth I have spent virtually nothing since the update as I have switched to being a casual player, attack once log off and defend and wait for army and spells to cook. This has done wonders for my social life though and I am far more active than I was previously so in truth I am actually really quite grateful for such an awful update!

[jzitovsky]

Even after the update, almost all the top global players use lavaloonion. Just saying...

[Aldam]

I hope you all know this was the May update.....

See bold below. Of course.

So now we have had them for a while with time to upgrade etc, how do people feel about the air sweeper?

I personally think that SC dropped the proverbial introducing it. The great thing about coc is its diversity, now a couple of well placed air sweepers of lv4+ make air attacks null and void.

I love them! They add an excellent new dimension to clan wars. At first I thought they were pointless. Then I started using them well and now it it forces my opponent in clan wars to think twice about LavaLoon against me, which almost always yielded 2/3 stars.

Since the update I'm rarely attacked in the air, and since my base was designed to defend ground troops I cannot recall being 3 starred in wars.

As for attacking them. You just have to plan it better. Not all bases are anti-air attacks, as not all bases are anti-hogs or anti-GoWiWi.

The beauty is some people use them well, some don't. For those who don't I'll continue to LavaLoon them, for those who do we have other reliable attack strategies to use.

[Deadlyxda]

Can we not necro threads?

[Holps]

I hardly ever saw Air Raids before and I don't see them now. They are incredibly risky and demand far more skill than a Golem based attack. I don't think the sweepers have destroyed them they just make the planning take the sweepers into account.
They are clearly tougher now and that was obviously the intention otherwise why add the sweeper. For my limited air skills I will only use them when a base absolutely demands I go ariel otherwise it's the big purple fellas for me every time. However we have several Loon specialists in my clan and they seem to be 3 starring in wars still I just imagine they are more selective about bases they raid.