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Thread: Pentalavaloon: my first 3 star!

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    Pentalavaloon: my first 3 star!

    To all those that have complained about how unfair this strategy is, try it out for yourself. I have practiced and practiced this strategy and have finally just got my first 3 star war attack. One bad spell placement and your attack is wasted. There are several things you need to consider:
    1. CC lure - you must do this post air sweeper update
    2. AQ location - the closer she is to an AD the better. Gives your puppies something to target as soon as hound is gone.
    3. Spells - I took 4 rage and had success, I failed many times by taking heal or lightning.
    4. Your CC - fortunately, we have a clanmate with lvl 3 hounds. I took 4 lvl 2 hounds and had 1 lvl 3 hound in cc.
    5. Wiz tower location - attack a base that has its WT close and within range of the AD to insure that it will be distracted by the hounds

    Here were my troops:
    4 lvl 2 hounds, 1 lvl 3 hound in cc, 20 loons, lvl 10 AQ, lvl 10 BK, 4 lvl 4 rage.

    His base had 4 max ADs, lvl 1 Air sweeper, and lvl 5 AQ.

    I hope this can help someone and please, stop complaining about how overpowered strategies are until you have tried it for yourself. It may look easy, but I promise you, it is not (either that or I am bad at this game).

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    I prefer "Shattered" or whatever they call it to Penta. I love how dissecting it is.
    What is this that I feel and what is this that I fear?

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    sounds like a regular Lavaloonian strag to me.

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    penta is cool for new or mid town hall 9s after that...2 stars
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    Quote Originally Posted by chrispeterson View Post
    penta is cool for new or mid town hall 9s after that...2 stars
    I've noticed this as well, although sometimes it will work against maxed defenses with bad layouts. Penta is a 3* threat but it has a lot of variables that can cause it to go wrong (pups don't kill queen, cc variances, etc..)

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    I'm a new TH9, and I'm working my way to this attack stat. I have level 6 loons, and I'm currently upgrading my camps and dark barracks.

    Do you really need 5 hounds? I was just 3 starred by quadrolavaloon, but I'm fairly new. It seems like 5 hounds is a bit much, and takes away quite a few loons that could do more damage. Would 4 hounds generally work for lower level TH9 bases?

    Edit: Also, why is the CC lure different now than before the update. My experience has been that you always need to lure CC with loons.
    Last edited by fplant; May 15th, 2015 at 07:40 PM.

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    Penta is unnecessary. I can achieve the same outcome with 3.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fplant View Post
    I'm a new TH9, and I'm working my way to this attack stat. I have level 6 loons, and I'm currently upgrading my camps and dark barracks.

    Do you really need 5 hounds? I was just 3 starred by quadrolavaloon, but I'm fairly new. It seems like 5 hounds is a bit much, and takes away quite a few loons that could do more damage. Would 4 hounds generally work for lower level TH9 bases?
    I have done both, most success with 4. Premise of using 5 is that more pups help take out queen and cc. If you don't kill queen and cc you aren't going to wipe out a base.

    With 4 the extra 6 loons on the backside are very helpful. It's a toss up really.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fplant View Post
    Do you really need 5 hounds? I was just 3 starred by quadrolavaloon, but I'm fairly new. It seems like 5 hounds is a bit much, and takes away quite a few loons that could do more damage. Would 4 hounds generally work for lower level TH9 bases?
    You need the Popups from the Hounds to kill the queen, and for clean-up (and cct if your dont lure them)
    Thats why 5 and not 4

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    Quote Originally Posted by jc1589b View Post
    sounds like a regular Lavaloonian strag to me.
    But it's not. The "ion" is missing, i.e. no minions.

    Congrats on the 3 star OP.

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