Can't decide if I should rush to th9 Help me rushers!

[Jatindevnani123]

Warring is a bit tricky as a rusher, but it can be done well for war.

Some guidelines for war

• You mirror is not who you should be attacking. Mirror is based on only roughly equal defenses. Rushers upgrade their offense more than their defense and so they bring a higher base to the table than mirror.

• If you are the bottom TH9 in your clan, you should measure yourself against how you attack against the enemy's bottom TH9/top TH8 ish. (if they have more TH10/TH9 than your clan, your appropriate target might not be the bottom TH9, but a few up, etc)

• Attack for 3 stars, not 2. It's harder, but 2 stars in wars can be done in your sleep at TH9 (a lot of golems (6 ish), rest wizards, 3 jumps and a rage should clear max TH9 for 2 fairly reliably. maybe only 5 golems and more wizards, but I'm partial to lots of golems.)

• Give yourself a month of leeway to get established at TH9 before holding yourself to the low TH9 portion of that standard. If you can farm for AQ10 in that month, BK10/AQ10 and level 1 hounds/level 6 loons can clear 3 star low TH9's. (65k and under) You'll want to upgrade Balloon, Jump, Hound in that order.

Grt info Buddy. I think I am gonna go the th9 way. What are the things I should get done before moving on other than giants and loons which are my next priorities. thx in advance again

[Jatindevnani123]

I would say you can go either way. One thing to consider is you will not have the time as a TH8 which is way different than TH9, wheras again there are many benefits to rushing as well. I actually rushed with a second account I have and so far it has turned out pretty well. Here is the link to me rushing to TH9 and not being a liability in war. It's essentially a rushed 8.5 sort of deal. So far in war I am below most TH8s but I can attack any TH8 and usually the weakest TH9 as well. It's not an easy task to do but I have real war logs, attack logs, defense logs, and reflections on my experiences in the whole process. I really think it could be a benefit to you. Hope this helps.

Your thread had evwrything I needed to know. Great info. Thx

[tyler4]

Ah got ya now .yeah its a bit late now lol but I rarely use hogs anyway but I will look up some YouTube vids and learn them . my golems got 4days then I'll start the hogs up again . so should I stay and do the rest of the walls or jump up and finish them there that's my main question tbh sort of at a stalemate right now doing 6-7 walls a day if I'm lucky

If there's one argument I hate, it's the "I rarely use them so I don't upgrade them" argument. Hogs aren't usable at TH8 for 3 star attempts until they're level 4 because they don't have enough hp to survive a giant bomb with enough of a grace to pre heal properly.

As for your walls, here's what I'm in the middle of:

Finish lab at TH8. Get to TH9, drop queen, gem spell factory, start upgrading camps. Use gold for the new air defense and new tesla, all excess gold goes into the wall. Don't build any new defenses until all 250 skulls are done. Upgrade your queen to 5, loons to 6, and then hogs to 5.. Then focus on golems to 4. When you have level 4 golems and a level 10 queen you can get away with plopping down the xbows.

That way should make you both harder to three star without affecting your war weight too much, and keep your offense at a higher level than your defense as long as possible. If your golems are level 4, and hogs and loons are maxed, you're ensuring that the rest of your troops are going to live as long as possible and you can take out the backend defenses as fast as possible.

[boogaloo92COC]

1.5 months? Lol no, it took me 4 months at TH8 and that's considered faster than usual. TH8 is one of the worth THs to rush. If you don't max things now, you will never find the motivation to do it at TH9.

[Mingfa]

The decision to rush or not is up to you (there are plenty or pro/con threads to browse) but what ever you do get the BK 10, Giants & Loons to 5 at TH8. It's also better to get Hogs to 4 and Golems to 2.

Whether you rush or max having these troops at TH8 max is what makes the jump to TH9 worth it so you can dump all DE in AQ and get the L6 Giants/Loons to wreck havok.

I upgraded my BK non stop until 10. Giants and Loons are still level 4. The thing I am saying is I get a lot of DE accumulated till lab finishes and I start to lose it to other th9s. I lose a lot to th9s. Everytime my shield goes off I lose 1.5k of it. I can Upgrade hogs to level 3 and then 4 but again I will be sitting at lot of DE with nothibg to spend it on.

Spend on the expensive one, Golem.

[Kazouma]

Why do you want to rush? For clan wars or faster base progression with minimal usage of gems?
My reasons of rushing to th9 are clan wars and heroes as high as possible without gems.
If you like idea of rushing to th9, better do it as early as possible. Prioritize heroes and war troops certainly helps a lot, after your primary farming troops of course.

[AcemanCOC]

I hang around 950 cups with a TH7 account. I barch TH7 bases with 200-250k gold every 10 minutes (mostly collectors, core if necessary).
I'll continue doing that when I am TH8, until I have all skull walls.
DE will be better at TH9 when you can get into the core of TH8 and TH9 bases. But if it is gold you are after, barching TH7 and TH8 bases is king, and level 5 or level 6 barch makes no real difference.

[erethizon]

Yea Thats cool too. My other clan mate is almost maxed at th8 and can 3 star any th8 withougt DGBs. But its again 22 days to get lvl 2 hogs to level 4.

22 days is not a problem because you still have a ton of stuff to do. I would stay at TH8 at least until you have done all the DE upgrades in the lab. You are done with your king which means you don't need DE for anything else. You have 50 levels of hero upgrades for TH9 so you don't want any leftover DE lab work from TH8 (leftover elixir lab work is fine). Since you have tons of elixir I would get all 6 of your barracks fully upgraded. You don't have anything better to spend elixir on and you will benefit from the increase troop storage capacity (you can hide elixir in your barrack's training queue) and the ability to make any troop you want from any barrack or dark barrack. The buildings also get increased HP so you want to do it eventually and you may as well do it now while elixir is plentiful.

[erethizon]

I upgraded my BK non stop until 10. Giants and Loons are still level 4. The thing I am saying is I get a lot of DE accumulated till lab finishes and I start to lose it to other th9s. I lose a lot to th9s. Everytime my shield goes off I lose 1.5k of it. I can Upgrade hogs to level 3 and then 4 but again I will be sitting at lot of DE with nothibg to spend it on.

When I was TH8 I stayed in crystal 3 and just barched. I never went out of my way to get DE (I wouldn't even attack drills that were behind 1 level of walls that could be easily hit with archers unless I needed the drill for 50%). The reason is that it is quite easy to get all the DE you need at TH8 will almost no effort (you don't need much). Focus on doing just DE lab work to get those upgrades over with and other than that don't focus on DE. Don't go out of your way to attack bases for DE. If you find yourself getting capped on DE too easily still then donate DE troops or attack with DE troops (Valkyries are amazingly powerful).

[Calin2015]

"Hardcore gowiper"
In early-mid th8 u 3 star your mirror with gowipe, after that gowipe wont get you 3.
BTW you will lose much more in th9 and gowipe is for noobs in th9.