The 'One & Only' Poison Spell like it or hate it thread.

[Unidenified]

I like it, but I do recognize the points people make when they say that clan castle variation is dead...
But I guess it's the way SC is going... before, it was that update that didn't let you lure the heros into the corner anymore...

[HFlashman]

Not really a fan. Kills CC variety.

Ummmm....lightening spell does the same, plus takes out defense weaponry, balloons, etc. I have poison lvl 2 in my arsenal but I'm using lightening more often because it wipes grouped cc troops AND does collateral damage.

Answering the main question, I give a thumbs-up

[theJOE]

I personally like the Poison spell, It helps a lot in war and on regular raids, I like to
always have 2 to deal with the CC troops and those pesky skeletons. I don't think
that a level 1 Poison spell is OP at all.

Your thoughts about the Poison spells, Like it, hate it and why?

Lets stay on topic please....

I used to not be a big fan of the poisen but now i am, Good for taking out skelly traps and lava pups

[HFlashman]

Figured I'd just do a quick quoting showing why it sucks from the strategic aspect of the game. Of course the majority of players (who can't be bothered to put strategy into their attacks--which is what you need to do when using a risky 3-starring army--love it, as they don't have to do the skillful things necessary to accomplish it now). When they get the fortunate luck of getting the good end of a severe mismatch in war, there's their win.

It's like putting bumpers in the bowling alley lanes. What segment of people benefit from/love them the most? Exactly, children who haven't developed skill (yet).

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j/k everyone loves bumpers

Ummmm....relying on clan welfare instead of building and planning defenses is a "skill" in your view?

So you're saying since I've never been in a clan, never relied on clan welfare for my defenses, never gemmed and maxd each base before moving up...my half Lego full defense base isn't because of skill and strategy?

Interesting. Guess I suck air as a player while you could draw welfare assistance and be a stud.

Wow

[XxSammyxX]

whats not to like. People should stop complaining, its not op cause about 95% of clans put high hp troops in the cc, so its basically useless against those, in war they r only good for taking out the skellie traps...

Go Poison!

I agree with this, although I do still see some clans in war handing out wizards and archers so it's useful against those too

[Kowalski711]

I hate that I always misplace it :P

[JJL66]

I hate that I always misplace it :P

Too funny....

[FriedSalmon]

Not really a fan. Kills CC variety.

This. Everyone has high HP troops in CCs now so it almost completely nullifies it, save skeleton traps and finishing off botched AQ/CC kills

[ThrobSchneider]

Ummmm....relying on clan welfare instead of building and planning defenses is a "skill" in your view?

So you're saying since I've never been in a clan, never relied on clan welfare for my defenses, never gemmed and maxd each base before moving up...my half Lego full defense base isn't because of skill and strategy?

Interesting. Guess I suck air as a player while you could draw welfare assistance and be a stud.

Wow

That's not even close to what I was saying, but sure go ahead and run with that theory and then draw up other conclusions to what I also didn't say and finally get offended by it at the end.

I'm referring to the poison spell/building HP increase update purely from the clan war perspective, not farming. Farming is merely an hour grind, something that I had available to me a year or so ago but due to a new career environment I had to dial back and thus can only focus on what I think is the best part of the game (what is/was certainly the most strategic aspect at least), which is war. You absolutely need to incorporate cc troops to succeed on defense, and as an attacker you had to incorporate your efficient cc draw/lure/kill into your attack or you weren't getting 3 stars on that base, sometimes even being limited to 1.

What I'm saying is that now there is no cc variety; what is put in the cc sucks (dragons/pekkas/hounds/pretty much all high HP units take up a ton of space/are slow/do terrible DPS per their capacity, they allow for the cc to be drawn out in a single second) and the cc has become an obsolete part of raiding. This, while simultaneously upping the HP on all buildings which wasn't needed (remember all those complaints about how easy it was to 3-star TH10s prior to them needing to bump HP? Yeah me neither) and was purely a money grab move so that trophy pushers had a harder time barching 50% wins up in high leagues (barch is [was] cheap and the most time-efficient troops, leading to less gemming), but Supercell's moneygrab move hurt the one strategic aspect of the game that I still enjoyed: clan wars.

By all means, you are probably a dedicated farmer and do well at grinding out resources. But then this poison spell doesn't really apply to you b/c more than half the bases you come across ever had cc troops in them, ya know? I'm talking strictly from the clan war perspective, and how it dumbs down the skill level required to succeed, and instead places it on lucking out with the matchmaking system (which is still garbage and should have been addressed if this was the route they wanted to go with this update).

[JJL66]

I still think lvl 1 poison it's not OP..