What is the best strategy for attacking at TH7?

[goldbradore]

Hey guys,

I have been playing around with different strategies in clash and I am currently a TH7. But my question is pretty straight forward, What is the best attack strategy you guys have found so far? I would love to here your answers.

[Ternic]

Hey guys,

I have been playing around with different strategies in clash and I am currently a TH7. But my question is pretty straight forward, What is the best attack strategy you guys have found so far? I would love to here your answers.

Farming, when elixer and DE is tight - barch, always barch

Farming, when you really need gold or just want to wreck a base, loonian is pretty amazing at TH7 with only 2 AD

War, dragons obviously

Edit: seriously loonian is amazing at TH7, i always wonder when i see people using some giant/healer/dragon abomination in war, because they are on a budget or something why they don't just use loonian. It's a close second to mass drags for 3 starring Th7's

[ElijahTheKing]

Hey guys,

I have been playing around with different strategies in clash and I am currently a TH7. But my question is pretty straight forward, What is the best attack strategy you guys have found so far? I would love to here your answers.

For Th 7, Dragons are the way to go. No matter what your base looks like, a th 7 cant defend very good against mass drags. What I use is 10 Drags, 3 Rage Spells, & In ur clan castle use eather a drag or hogs. ( The Hogs kill the Air defense) And remember, always put your drags close as you can to the air defense. NEVER PUT THEM ALL IN ONE SPOT. Hope this helps you out

[thebuch4]

For Th 7, Dragons are the way to go. No matter what your base looks like, a th 7 cant defend very good against mass drags. What I use is 10 Drags, 3 Rage Spells, & In ur clan castle use eather a drag or hogs. ( The Hogs kill the Air defense) And remember, always put your drags close as you can to the air defense. NEVER PUT THEM ALL IN ONE SPOT. Hope this helps you out

No, don't do this. 10 dragons, and max loons in your CC.. Drop three lightnings on the AD further from your drop point, and then send your dragons and max loons at the last one. The dragons can tank for the loons until they pop up over the AD and drop their bombs on it. There's no reason to take rage and try and fight two AD's when you only have to target one, and your dragon can't tank for hogs nearly as effectively as they can for loons.

[daz258]

No, don't do this. 10 dragons, and max loons in your CC.. Drop three lightnings on the AD further from your drop point, and then send your dragons and max loons at the last one. The dragons can tank for the loons until they pop up over the AD and drop their bombs on it. There's no reason to take rage and try and fight two AD's when you only have to target one, and your dragon can't tank for hogs nearly as effectively as they can for loons.

I do agree Lightning works better for TH7, however; you will make a better transition to TH8 if you learn to rage now.

War: 10 x Dragon + cc loons + 3 rage. Unstoppable vs TH7 and will also give you potential to hit lower TH8s.
Farm: Barch, Barch, Barch, repeat.

[Ternic]

For Th 7, Dragons are the way to go. No matter what your base looks like, a th 7 cant defend very good against mass drags. What I use is 10 Drags, 3 Rage Spells, & In ur clan castle use eather a drag or hogs. ( The Hogs kill the Air defense) And remember, always put your drags close as you can to the air defense. NEVER PUT THEM ALL IN ONE SPOT. Hope this helps you out

while your advice for using dragons is applicable at TH8, and good habits should be made before then, it doesn't matter. Your cat could accidently 3 star a TH7 with drags by pressing the dragon button wherever. I've seen 3 stars where the 3 lightning misses the ad, where they deployed them all in 1 spot, randomly all over the base, with only enough army camp space for 9 drags instead of 10. Saw a 3 star where they forgot to bring the CC, you name it. I saw 1 fail of mass drags at TH7 and it was a combination of pretty much every fail i just mentioned and it still got 98% lol

I actually think this is a driving factor in all the failed dragon attacks at TH8, people get used to being able to do whatever with dragons for the 3 star. It probably takes a while for it to set in you have to be more strategic at TH8. I just saw a low TH8 base take the enemy clan 5-6(can't recall which) attacks to 3 star it with dragons.

[thebuch4]

I do agree Lightning works better for TH7, however; you will make a better transition to TH8 if you learn to rage now.

War: 10 x Dragon + cc loons + 3 rage. Unstoppable vs TH7 and will also give you potential to hit lower TH8s.
Farm: Barch, Barch, Barch, repeat.

Most of our TH8 3 stars with dragons come with lightning, not rage, for the simple fact that you have two AD's firing at you rather than 3.. You seldom save AD fire time by raging through 3 than just killing one with lightning then killing the first two normally.

[Ternic]

Most of our TH8 3 stars with dragons come with lightning, not rage, for the simple fact that you have two AD's firing at you rather than 3.. You seldom save AD fire time by raging through 3 than just killing one with lightning then killing the first two normally.

You absolutely do save fire time, how could you not? Rage speeds up the troops and increases damage. Not only does this mean they clear a path to the AD's quicker(even with a properly executed dragloon, this means the defenses that would hold up the loons are taken down quicker), and it also means they take out other buildings, defenses quicker. At TH7 those 2 AD's are really the only thing that is a threat to drags for the most part. TH 8 things get a bit stickier, with another hidden tesla, another archer tower, higher levels on both, wizard towers actually doing a little damage to the drags now, air traps all over the place, well you get the picture.

Edit: actually even at TH7 rage rage heal is far superior when executed properly. The reason people suggest lightning is because it's "dummyproof" in other words you can't screw it up. When i took rage i rarely lost even a single dragon and the battle was over in under a minute sometimes. The fact that your teammates only have success with lightning leads me to think they may not know how to use dragons(i mean no offense), you could direct them to the many video's out there as to how to use them properly

I'm actually surprised at this post because you seem to typically know your stuff. Maybe you just didn't use drags much at TH8? Anyway ya lightning can still be viable on the right base but rage/rage/heal is normally much better.

[thebuch4]

You absolutely do save fire time, how could you not? Rage speeds up the troops and increases damage. Not only does this mean they clear a path to the AD's quicker(even with a properly executed dragloon, this means the defenses that would hold up the loons are taken down quicker), and it also means they take out other buildings, defenses quicker. At TH7 those 2 AD's are really the only thing that is a threat to drags for the most part. TH 8 things get a bit stickier, with another hidden tesla, another archer tower, higher levels on both, wizard towers actually doing a little damage to the drags now, air traps all over the place, well you get the picture.

Edit: actually even at TH7 rage rage heal is far superior when executed properly. The reason people suggest lightning is because it's "dummyproof" in other words you can't screw it up. When i took rage i rarely lost even a single dragon and the battle was over in under a minute sometimes. The fact that your teammates only have success with lightning leads me to think they may not know how to use dragons(i mean no offense), you could direct them to the many video's out there as to how to use them properly

I'm actually surprised at this post because you seem to typically know your stuff. Maybe you just didn't use drags much at TH8? Anyway ya lightning can still be viable on the right base but rage/rage/heal is normally much better.

Can 2 heal one rage be better? Maybe, but yeah, to be honest, I HATE using dragons. I find nothing enjoyable about dragon attacks, and much prefer hogs/GOWIVAs. It's far easier to explain to my clanmates to just lightning an AD and they can generally get the three stars I'd expect them to, but we try and get them to upgrade hogs ASAP and get away from dragons as quickly as possible.

Also, for what it's worth, 2R1H is strongest against cored AD's.. which we tend to hog or otherwise ground assault anyway for the three star. Most cored AD designs either have a section of walls that can be flattened by an earthquake spell for a GOWIVA or are vulnerable to hogs.

And defensively, maybe it's just that we pay attention to the basics of anti dragon defense above all else, but two rage one heal attempts against us virtually never get the three star.. I'm usually ecstatic to see an attacker try a two rage one heal or three rage because it gives us a 95% chance at surviving a three star at TH8, and a nonzero chance at TH7.

[BitterRivals]

Hey guys,

I have been playing around with different strategies in clash and I am currently a TH7. But my question is pretty straight forward, What is the best attack strategy you guys have found so far? I would love to here your answers.

In terms of war, 11 light (10 dragons, cc dragon, 3 light) is a pretty sure 3 star each time. Only way you miss is if you light weaker AD or clamp all your drags in one place without a funnel but even then I have seen guys pull it off.