When Should a TH9 upgrade to TH10?

[jonthepirate]

I went to TH 10 WWWAAAAAAYYYY early by the standards of the guys here. My lab maxed my favorite war troops and I went to 10.

I had 10/10 heroes and th8 troops except war troops. Mostly th8 defenses except air defenses and wizard towers and mortars.

Upgraded all offenses first at th10 and started upgrading war troops and freeze. Then lvl 6 and 7 barch.

Once camps, spell factory, lab, clan castle were all max, I dropped both inferno towers and started my level 9 walls.

I've had no issues raiding or warring. I can 2 star the th10s that are my mirror (sometimes I mess up and only one star, or they have a bad layout and i 3 star). I usually 3 star one of the th9s or get 2 on another th10.

Moral of my story? Go whenever you want. It's sad that I can't get as much loot from this but inferno towers are cool, and I bet there is a new troop coming next month for th10.

I now have lvl 28 queen and 15 king, and some max troops that are fun =)

It's a game, play for fun. =)

[FisherPrice]

Hold off as long as possible. At th9 you can use gibarch raids on live th8 to two to three star. Afterwards, you are pretty much stuck with go wipe or using expensive troops on live th9.
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What? I can not disagree more strongly with this.

gibarch works just fine vs TH9, particularly when you have those solid heroes and bring at least one on your raids...let alone both.

And I say that as a guy who still has lvl6 giants, barbs, and archers, due to prioritizing war troop/spell upgrades.

A TH10 only has a 10% loot penalty vs TH9.

[KiwiZeus]

Bunch of misinformation in this thread Pretty much the only ones who can answer this question are th10s (sorry th8s you have no idea). Lavas are a huge amount of time for little gain, either EQ, jump, or air attacks are going to render them useless. I'm a th10 with L16 heroes, sure it'd be nice if they were a bit stronger, but they get the job done, plus regen time is shorter Pretty much the only downsides of th10 are increased next cost (can't be as picky), you have to hit slightly stronger bases (no more th8s) and you offer up a bit more loot. For a farmer, I'd say go for it if you have legos, 15+ heroes, and everything you use done in lab. If you war then stronger heroes are going to be a good idea.

[dfox]

I've maxed everything bar the latest update and I'm well on my way to maxing the latest 25 walls, Its time consuming and by no means easy. So my advice is from someone whose done it.
If your intentions are to make and reach the current maxed th10 base, then farm like a mad man at th9 and get your heros and walls as high as you can, max every defence. You can as advised go th10 without finishing lava's and heros around 25/25 , that's not a problem. Like any TH change you'll struggle at first, loot your getting and finding as a th9 will be less and being a new th10 you haven't yet upgraded its defence advantages or it's 20 more and stronger troops. Once you've passed that initial hurdle it will be easier.
I personally maxed everything including walls and had heros in the high 20's before hitting the th10 button. I made sure I had full storages so as to get the lab infernos etc started as soon as possiable. The faster I got the base defending and my raiding troops increased and upgrading the easier gathering and retaining loot became.
i see many saying that upgrading walls etc gives harder match making in war, if your worried about war matches you'll never max a base. Good luck and happy hunting .

[newupdateblowsdoublyhard]

What? I can not disagree more strongly with this.

gibarch works just fine vs TH9, particularly when you have those solid heroes and bring at least one on your raids...let alone both.

And I say that as a guy who still has lvl6 giants, barbs, and archers, due to prioritizing war troop/spell upgrades.

A TH10 only has a 10% loot penalty vs TH9.

Not really it doesn't. It may if the th9 you come across still has th8 defenses but it will get shredded on a mid max th9 with a decent setup. You can three star a max th8 with very little problems (a couple of healing spells and rage usually does the trick).

Of course I'm in Champs right now so i can't attack one side for the loot (don't want to drop). You may be able to walk away with half targeting one side I dunno.

As far as th9 goes I mistyped I mean -10% for th9 and -50% for th8. I found I wasn't able to push much deep into most th9 (my heros are always upgrading). I switched to a poor mans lava loon for most of my live base attacks. I still was able to Gibarch dead bases obviously.

Maybe, you're experience varied from my mine. If you were able to get Gibarch to work for th9 all the more power to you.

[Viperaus]

Imo max lava's are a mistake. Too much cost too much weight and not enough benifit.

Unless you plan on going infernos early.

Legos and a good layout can stop any attack lavas can.

I will still be difficult to 3 yet will be weighted much less. I could max my archer towers for the weight of max lavas.

For a farmer like myself who doesn't care about war, and thus defence weighting, it is the only way to play the game. It is much more difficult to max lavas in TH10.

[FisherPrice]

Not really it doesn't. It may if the th9 you come across still has th8 defenses but it will get shredded on a mid max th9 with a decent setup.

Yes really it does. lvl6 gibarch + the solid heroes we are talking about works perfectly fine vs even strong TH9 in raids.

Of course base design is key, and having heroes/spells for the big hits helps a lot, as does using a clan castle of lvl6+ troops on every raid, but I take the DE storage and usually 3/4 of the other storages from maxed defense TH9's frequently.

lvl7 giants are in my lab now though.

Plus I'm pretty sure we were talking about a newer TH10 that still had lvl6 troops, not a pure TH9. You'll get those new camp spaces and new CC space at TH10 even if you work on war troops in the lab first.

I lived on TH9 DE storages as a TH9 too, I just wouldn't get all of the other storages a lot, I'd have to do some raids for elix/gold to help offset the 2500 DE with like 40k elixir I'd do

[Mystery93]

It's pretty tricky to comment on when should one upgrade their TH9 to TH10. It's always up to the invidual's preferences on when to upgrade their TH10. Ex, I am a full maxed TH9 apart from haste and EQ spells yet I didn't press the TH10 button to enjoy my TH9 CW moments that I missed out during the grinds.

But the safest states to move on to TH10 in my perspective are at least full legos, level 25/25 heroes, maxed TH9's defences and offences.

[MJD585]

Im close to max th9, lv 22/23 heros, 65 lava walls the rest legos, I personally do not want to go to th10, TH9 seems more fun to war with than TH10, you actually get to 3 star opponents with good attacks, TH 10 seem close to impossible to 3 star, but i'm not there yet so I don't really know, just from what ive heard

[FisherPrice]

Im close to max th9, lv 22/23 heros, 65 lava walls the rest legos, I personally do not want to go to th10, TH9 seems more fun to war with than TH10, you actually get to 3 star opponents with good attacks, TH 10 seem close to impossible to 3 star, but i'm not there yet so I don't really know, just from what ive heard

A decent layout strong to max TH10 is essentially impossible to 3* for any average or above average or very good, legitimate player.

The real answer is to have a second account coming up behind so that you can go through the TH9 war progression again with it and then perhaps park it at a lower TH