HogHealer Attack Strategy Guide for TH9

I saw an defense replay posted by a Clanmate once that was poorly executed, yet still mostly successful. The only reason it sort of worked was due to Heal spells and level 5 Hogs against a TH8.5. It was pretty much a layup, but it gave me an idea. I asked “Why don’t Hogs and Healers work well together?” and after looking around the Internet to find someone who has mastered this attack, I found nothing. The best I could find was a Queen walk with Hogs and Heal spells as the core of the attack.

It made perfect sense to me why nobody had yet tried. Hogs are faster than Healers, and if a Healer is chasing, she isn’t Healing. Then, there’s those pesky air defenses. Tough cookie, huh?

HogHealer Army Composition

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Clan Castle: /

• You can use either 4 Goblins or 1 Wizard for cleaning up the base.
• Based on the enemy layout, sometimes you need up to 4 Rage Spells.
• If you don’t like the Skeletons, ask for 1 more Poison Spell from your friends. Otherwise 1 Clan Haste Spell would be great for your Healers.
• You don’t need to care about flying Skeletons If you have Healers level 4.
• Just take what you need in the Clan Castle to kill the enemy Queen. Don’t hesitate to swap your Barbarian King with the enemy Queen.

What base should I target?

There’s a trick, and it makes perfect sense: Rage Spells. This only works on a specific type of base, however. Your target base should have an easy Archer Queen kill, and an easy CC kill (or a CC hound). The base should also have either a rectangular pattern defense layout or an otherwise obvious and certain Hog path for a large group of Hogs. I prefer the former, as it allows for a wall type deployment, which will take down the base very quickly.

The keys of HogHealer Attack

1. If you deploy heroes early, let them die before sending in the Hogs and Healers.
2. If you deploy heroes late, be sure that all defenses are down, or your heroes are capable of taking down the last few defenses, just in case the Healers leave your Hogs.
3. After all the defenses are down, your cleanup should start away from the Hogs.
4. Deploy in a fashion that allows for a “sweep” of the base. If the Hogs group, and then split, Healers may follow only one group, acting as unpredictable as they seem to do.
5. Spread the Healers in a line behind your Hog line.
6. Place rage spells so that the rim of the spell is touching the AD, and that the majority of the spell is on the side you’re attacking from.
7. If you have a base with a somewhat uneven defense layout, use a Heal spell instead of a 4th rage. Use this Heal spell to cover any Hogs that manage to break away from their Healers. It happens sometimes.
8. You’ll want the Hogs to rage into the Air Defenses and take them down fast, and they will. In many cases, almost instantly, which means that the AD will only get one or two shots at the Healer. If one particular Healer gets targeted by subsequent Air Defenses, which happens sometimes, she’ll likely die. Don’t worry, you’ve still got at least 3 more, and probably a lot of Hogs left.
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10. After the Hogs leave the rage spell, the Healers will fly through it and (hopefully) all your Hogs will be at full Health instantly. Two lvl4 Healers under rage will most of the entire damage of a Giant Bomb with ONE pulse. That’s 268 Heal after 337.5 damage from a lvl3 Giant Bomb. Defense buildings barely put a scratch in your Hogs for a brief moment before they’re Healed up again.
What about Double Giant Bombs?
If the Healers can pulse in between the two bombs going off, you maximum level Hogs will survive. In theory.
475-337.5+268-337.5 = 68HP
From full Health, they’ll be left with 68 hitpoints left, and just a few Heal pulses from full Health again. If you can short side a Double Giant Bomb, and be sure you have at least 2 Healers on that group, under rage, you can survive it. I wouldn’t recommend it, but the Heal after a GB is almost instantaneous.


How to attack with HogHealer

Let’s take a look at a base. Aside from the Air Defenses and air sweepers, this is a maxed TH9:

There are various ways to kill the Archer Queen, and strategy guides all over on how to do it. The only requirement is that she needs to be an easy kill, using anything available aside from the Hogs and Healers. That’s about 24 troop space, plus the CC, plus your heroes. Keep in mind that you’ll need some cleanup, but the lower the cumulative DPS of a base, the more Hogs you’ll have left. Low level TH9s will leave you with most of your Hogs left at the end of a raid. In the below base plan, I used the PEKKA giant and some wallbreakers to get to the Archer Queen.

Brown is the Hog wall, pink are Healers and magenta circles are proposed Rage placement.
In this raid, the last Rage ended up being wasted entirely. It still worked, but the Healers went awry. Before we take a look at the video, watch for certain things in the video. First, take note of how quickly the Hogs take down an AD under rage. next, take note of how quickly the Heal effect works, especially after GB detonation.
Here’s a second video. Thanks to BigDog for recording it. Sorry about the lack of audio. This time, a weaker th9, but you get the idea.

The TH8 proposed army would be 1 fewer Healer and one Healer plus 2 Hogs in the CC. You can use 3 rage or 2 rage 1 Heal. There’s no Archer Queen and if you can double poison this CC, this attack is theoretically easier than at th9.
Another thing to note. This is one of those attacks that can be harder attacking a village than a war base, if the CC is hard to pull or is full of several one-space troops. It still works but if becomes less reliable and with only 30 seconds to scout, it’s considerably easier to fail. Here’s a farming example below (you’ll have to follow the link, as this post is at the 2 video maximum).
If you have any questions, fire away. Thanks Loring for sharing this strategy!

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10 Best Attack Strategies for Dark Elixir

Hey guys, Today I’m going to show you guys the 10 best ways to farm Dark Elixir, giving you guys a good explanation of each attack strategy and what makes each of them unique. Please watch my video to get a sense of how each attack is conducted.

BAM

     

The most efficient attack for farming Dark Elixir. What makes it so efficient? You are using all 6 barracks to train troops, meaning you will get a full army to raid with quickly. Of course Minions cost Dark Elixir to cook, but you will make so much more Dark Elixir faster by using them (to get an army quicker) that their small cost doesn’t matter. I prefer using 16 Minions, as I found that that is all you need to steal Dark Elixir from most bases. Remember, you want to use Minions last to retrieve the Dark Elixir if your Barbarians and Archers have failed. So you shouldn’t need to always use Minions every raid. You can read more about this farming strategy at here.

Super Queen

    

A very effective way of farming Dark Elixir by breaking inside the base with an Archer Queen coupled with a bunch of Healers. Not as efficient as other methods due to Healers taking a very long time to train, so this method is more for players who casually farm by logging on and off every hour or those who boost a lot. You want to carry Minions to direct your Archer Queen towards the Dark Elixir Storage, so make sure you have at least 20 Minions every raid. Read more about Super Queen strategy at here.

Barch – Master Breaker

  

You can use Barch to 50% bases in  Masters League for the Loot Bonus, and if you have the Archer Queen, then you can use her to break into easy bases for the Dark Elixir Storages as well. Which is perhaps one of the fastest way of farming Dark Elixir. Another method with Barch is the Heal Breaker attack, which uses 16 Wall Breakers and Heal Spells. Lots of Wall Breakers to break deep inside a base while breaking all junctions, allowing your Barbarians and Archers to spread furiously inside. Couple them with Heal Spells and the splash damages will be unable to take out your Barbarians, Only thing you want to watch out for are Giant Bombs, so be careful of empty 2×2 tiles (test them first before spamming everything in).
You can find lots of tips and tricks for this strategy in this guide.

GiBarch

     

Very common and efficient method of farming Dark Elixir. I prefer using this attack with the Archer Queen as otherwise Giants won’t provide much use shielding Archers as Giants are unable to shield against Mortar splash. Whereas, the Archer Queen has an ample amount of HP, making her quite impermeable to splash damage, and so she is excellent when couple with Giants.

GiWiArch

     

Same as the above attack, but this one utilizes Wizards. What’s great about this composition is that it doesn’t need an Archer Queen to be super effective. Why? Because Wizards have very good HP, allowing them to take hits from Mortars and at the same time can also be easily healed back up from the splash damages. Only setback is that Wizards take a very long time to train, so this composition is more for casual farmers or those who can boost.

GiBAM

      

Like GiBarch, but with Minions! What makes this a better option than GiBarch? It’s even more efficient as you’re utilizing all 6 barracks, allowing you to get a full army faster. Again, Minions do cost Dark Elixir, and both Giants and Minions eat up a lot of camp space, so only limit using around 8 Giants and 16 Minions.

Balloonion

  

A very effective attack for coring almost any Town Hall 9 base. Simply spam Balloons with Minions behind them and use Rage Spells. Biggest setback is that Balloons take a very long time to train and you’ll need to use a lot of Minions (and they cost Dark Elixir). This attack is most ideal for very casual players or players who boost all 4 Barracks.

LoonBAM

     

A much better alternative to Balloonion, as this composition only utilizes a few Balloons (around 6 to 8). Which is all you need to quickly remove key threats such as Mortars or Wizard Towers, making it easy for your Barbarians and Archers to break in. Use a Rage Spell on your Balloons to quickly allow them to remove defenses, while also using your Wall Breakers at the same time to break into multiple layers of Walls, AND with the Rage Spell send in your Barbarians and Archers to quickly get the Dark Elixir Storage. Read more about LoonBAM at here.

HogBarch

   

Similar to LoonBAM, but you want to use Hog Riders instead of Balloons to remove the key splash defense threats. Hog Riders do cost a lot of Dark Elixir, but you only need about 6 Hog Riders with a Heal Spell to do the job. What makes HogBarch a great option? Unlike Balloons, Hog Riders are much faster to train (5 housing space per 2 minutes vs 5 housing space per 8 minutes of Balloons). So you will do more raids in less time and make more Dark Elixir this way!

Rage Jump Gobs

     

A very fun method of farming Dark Elixir by utilizing Goblins with Rage Spell and Jump Spell. Use your Barbarians and Archers to remove collectors and create a funnel, while also using them to shield Goblins from splash damage. Then place a Jump Spell to the Dark Elixir and a Rage Spell and quickly send in your Goblins to get the Dark Elixir!

Hope you guys liked all of these different Dark Elixir farming strategies. Make sure you’ve watched my video on all of these great attacks too! If you liked my video then please subscribe to support my channel. Also, comment below and let me know what your favorite attack is for getting Dark Elixir. Thank you guys!

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