Gonna be the first one to do the TH8.5 in my clan; help me please:)

[ClashOfTomatoes]

Wow that's nice advice I will do it the way you said and wait so u don't build the new defenses at all? Just the current existing ones is it? The walls too?

You can build the AD and tesla early on after camps, lab, spell fac, cc etc. I didn't build them right away too but I did get the AD in pretty early.. (after I got 3 starred by a TH9 spam drag ) Just keep them to TH8 max level will do! As for the tesla.. I absolutely love teslas so I got them anyway hahah.

Yup I don't upgrade existing defenses as well. All are kept at max TH8 level. Pour all existing resource into walls, I always keep 1 wall builder. Wouldn't want everyone raiding me for 300k gold/elixir do we? Hahah. That's half a wall!

Maybe a little more input, I loved hogging at TH8 so I went the GoHo route at TH9. I did my first LaLo only after 3 months? Lol. Because LaLo is a completely new strategy to me, but your knowledge with hogs can be brought over to TH9. You don't have to follow my upgrade order but just wanted to share my thoughts about the usefulness of each troop.

Hogs 5 - Simply because.
Giants 6 - GiBarch with level 6 Giants can be pretty sick. This helped in my push to masters, I have farmed in masters ever since. You'll find them useful for surgical hogging as well.
Loons 6 - Just to pick off lonely unprotected defenses, because many rushed 9s suck at base building Balloonion is a pretty legit farming composition with both heroes on upgrade too.
Jump 2 - Extremely important if you want to get deep into the enemy base to trip dgb/for AQ kill, more so for 2 or 3 golem compositions. Jump 1 is just too short... you'll find your troops stuck behind if you place it too early! Helps for LaLo too!
Heal 6 - Because you use them every war attack!
Golem 3 & 4 - Level 4 Golems are beast. Like beast af. They tank so much you'll be impressed! Helps for LaLo too!
Witch 2 - To add firepower to your killsquad especially if you want to kill that core. GoHoWiWi time! Mass skellies are pretty sick under rage!

After that if you want to try LaLo, you can do Hounds and Haste. If your AQ is high enough (15?) you can get max Healers for AQ walk. If you love your Valks, get em for flashy GoValo/GoVaHo!

I still have Level 5 Barch, I don't see a need for them lol I farm perfectly well anyway.

[Jellal1473]

You can build the AD and tesla early on after camps, lab, spell fac, cc etc. I didn't build them right away too but I did get the AD in pretty early.. (after I got 3 starred by a TH9 spam drag ) Just keep them to TH8 max level will do! As for the tesla.. I absolutely love teslas so I got them anyway hahah.

Yup I don't upgrade existing defenses as well. All are kept at max TH8 level. Pour all existing resource into walls, I always keep 1 wall builder. Wouldn't want everyone raiding me for 300k gold/elixir do we? Hahah. That's half a wall!

Maybe a little more input, I loved hogging at TH8 so I went the GoHo route at TH9. I did my first LaLo only after 3 months? Lol. Because LaLo is a completely new strategy to me, but your knowledge with hogs can be brought over to TH9. You don't have to follow my upgrade order but just wanted to share my thoughts about the usefulness of each troop.

Hogs 5 - Simply because.
Giants 6 - GiBarch with level 6 Giants can be pretty sick. This helped in my push to masters, I have farmed in masters ever since. You'll find them useful for surgical hogging as well.
Loons 6 - Just to pick off lonely unprotected defenses, because many rushed 9s suck at base building Balloonion is a pretty legit farming composition with both heroes on upgrade too.
Jump 2 - Extremely important if you want to get deep into the enemy base to trip dgb/for AQ kill, more so for 2 or 3 golem compositions. Jump 1 is just too short... you'll find your troops stuck behind if you place it too early! Helps for LaLo too!
Heal 6 - Because you use them every war attack!
Golem 3 & 4 - Level 4 Golems are beast. Like beast af. They tank so much you'll be impressed! Helps for LaLo too!
Witch 2 - To add firepower to your killsquad especially if you want to kill that core. GoHoWiWi time! Mass skellies are pretty sick under rage!

After that if you want to try LaLo, you can do Hounds and Haste. If your AQ is high enough (15?) you can get max Healers for AQ walk. If you love your Valks, get em for flashy GoValo/GoVaHo!

I still have Level 5 Barch, I don't see a need for them lol I farm perfectly well anyway.

Yeah I agree that giants lvl6 are sick!! I've seen them wreck my cute th8 base-.-
Maybe if Ill do the barch to lvl6; because I don't gibarch; takes time to train the giants. However if giants lvl6 are used I do agree that lvl6 barch isn't necessary. I'll also probably take the goho route; gowipe just isn't for me; maybe once I have the experience it'll get better; but for now I just have been getting close petty two 90% odd raids and it's frustrating -_-

Ok I will just take the AD and Tesla as additional defense and keep them at th8 level; the teslas smack.

Probably won't follow ur upgrade order but will get thro

And did u get the new walls? So far that still sort of not sure and bizzare, would like it if someone really clarifys it

But all good and well👍 thanks for the input and all the help, for those who replied above too

[ClashOfTomatoes]

Yeah I agree that giants lvl6 are sick!! I've seen them wreck my cute th8 base-.-
Maybe if Ill do the barch to lvl6; because I don't gibarch; takes time to train the giants. However if giants lvl6 are used I do agree that lvl6 barch isn't necessary. I'll also probably take the goho route; gowipe just isn't for me; maybe once I have the experience it'll get better; but for now I just have been getting close petty two 90% odd raids and it's frustrating -_-

Ok I will just take the AD and Tesla as additional defense and keep them at th8 level; the teslas smack.

Probably won't follow ur upgrade order but will get thro

And did u get the new walls? So far that still sort of not sure and bizzare, would like it if someone really clarifys it

But all good and well👍 thanks for the input and all the help, for those who replied above too

Yup, I did get the 25 new walls, whatever gold I had, I used on upgrading them to skulls If you're talking about legos, yes, do upgrade them as well if you have extra resources!

[Jellal1473]

Yup, I did get the 25 new walls, whatever gold I had, I used on upgrading them to skulls If you're talking about legos, yes, do upgrade them as well if you have extra resources!

Thanks a lot! Helped me greatly I shall follow ur foot steps:P

[poke26]

Sorry if I hijacked your thread, but I have similar problems as yours. I will be a max TH8 with max lab in 1,5 months and want to do TH 8.5/8.75 so I could get easier opponents in war.

My plan is to get 25 walls and build all new defenses to TH8 max without X-Bows and upgrade army camps, lab, spell factory and get AQ.

My lab upgrade would be Giants ---Baloons-----any suggestions?
Did lvl5 Barcher still viable at TH9? I always use barcher, but seeing those TH9 wreck my base with giants made me want to Gibarch.

Any new advice?

[deadmansdreams]

Drop by my clan(in sig) to see how to be a proper 8.5. We have over 15+ 8.5.

[Jellal1473]

Drop by my clan(in sig) to see how to be a proper 8.5. We have over 15+ 8.5.

Ill try to swing by and if it's on invite; I'll say that deadmansdreams invited me for a bit,if it's okay...