Vid Watch - Lavoonions and More

Several great videos caught my attention this week, in the wake of the latest update of Clash of Clans with the Lava Hound.

Godson used 3 Lava Hounds and 75 Minions to 2-star a buff TH10 in a Clan War. Wow. or "Yeaaaaaa!!" as Godson would say :)



MaddenDvinik posted some great 2-Star air raids from UN Epic Raids.

In the first video (at 1:38) there is a vanilla Balloonion attack that got a nice two-star on a near max TH10. Minions hit freebies then the attacker pre-raged left and right for a line deploy of balloons followed by a dragon from the clan castle. When archers and wizards poured out of the clan castle two lightning bolts crushed them. Finally, a rage on the TH secured the deuce.

Second video (2:35) showed a highly reliable mass dragon attack vs a strong TH10. The attack started off by using a CC golem and deployment of max heroes to clear the top quadrant (12:00-2:00 o'clock), including one AD and the AQ, using one rage spell. The other relevant AD was triple-bolted. Then seven (of 12) dragons were deployed to the east (2-4 o'clock) in order to clip outer buildings, lure and kill the CC. While they're were finishing up the remaining 5 dragons were deployed from the NE (2:00 o'clock) with a nice straight path to core. The last rage spell was deployed as they reached the TH and the infernos could do nothing to stop them. A solid two-star with 60% destruction.

Clash With Ed shared an advanced lesson - an Ed Academy video on getting two stars from even the toughest TH10 bases using Balloonion and high level heroes. If your heroes are lower level, hit a weaker base, but the principles here are solid and well explained: clip left and take out AQ+AQ, bolt out the right AD and clear % on that side with half your dragons, then deploy the other half in the middle for a clean path to the town hall.

Hogs Ride Again

I ran across a great strategy guide for Hog Riders in this brave new world of unlurable heroes and bigger giant bombs, by Noel. In the guide he covers general principles, then walks you through key tips for several different specific cases. The example videos are all from Clan Wars, so no preemie bases with empty clan castles! Specifically Noel covers:

• Hogging a TH9 with Anti-hog base
• Hogging a TH10 for 3-Stars with a Single Mode Inferno and central heroes
• Hogging the popular TH10 box base
• A TH9 clan-mate 3-stars a Deep Lure TH9 with anti-hog ring
• Hogging a TH10 for 3* with Multi-mode (disco) infernoes
• Hogging for 3* a TH10 with Multi-infernoes and anti-hog ring (sheesh!!)
• Hogging a TH10 with one single tgt and one multi tgt inferno for 3*
• Hogging a TH10 for 3-stars (Using golem to take out AQ)

Below is the TH10 disco base, but check out the entire forum guide which has all these videos embedded.