Air Attack Links

I've come across some amazing videos recently on various forms of air attacks, from mass dragons and dragon-balloons (dragoon) to Lava Hound - Balloon - Minion. If you're an air attack fan in Clash of Clans, you really need to check these out!

• How to Dragloon at TH8 - Part ONE and Part TWO
  Incredibly helpful videos by OneHive Raids specifically looking at TH8 vs TH8 air attacks with dragons and a few balloons. The first part covers centrally clustered Air Defenses; part two looks at more spread out AD's. OneHive has other excellent videos for strategy lovers, uch as this base attack breakdown. 
• JTJ University Clan War Tactics - wiping out TH8 with 105 Dragoon and 813 Dragoon
  This series also considers the difference between clustered and spread out air defenses. The 105 Dragoon uses 10 Dragons and 5 Balloons in the Clan castle with clustered AD best faced with heals and rage spells while the 813 uses 8 Dragons and 13 total balloons with a triple lightning bolt. Almost any TH8 can be three-starred with one of these two raid styles.
  --> he added two extra videos to round out the type of bases covered:
  11 Light Dragon Attack (all dragons, using lightning to knock out a far away AD)
  Dragon Snipe Attack (using hogs to knock out external AD's)
• Quatrolavaloonion! Galadon's epic "Lethal Attack Combo" video using four lava hounds to wreak havoc on enemy bases. This is a very powerful and novel attack, you really have to see it to believe it!
• More Lava Hound attacks focusing on the use of multiple hounds (PolyPuppy as I call them) have also been posted. Some especially good ones by: Galadon on TH9 Quatrolavaloonion; Clash with Ash on using Lava Hounds in Champion League to 2-star and more gameplay vs max base; top clash air attack master Ed on using Lavaloonion to 2-star; even Godson is starting to like them as he shows a great 3-star attack. Here is andreinen's sick 100% vs a max TH10 using 2 LH 20 Loons 40 Minions and very well timed spells.
• Super Dragoon explained by Galadon, both for TH10 and for TH8-9. In SuperDragoon (or Dragloonion as I would call it) the idea presented here is to use a raged tactical squad of balloons to take out one external AD and triple lightning bolt another AD. Send a line or V-formation of balloons, and use two dragons on each side to clip off distractions and create a funnel. Release the killer force of four balloons once the funnel is established. Army composition at TH10: about 8 (or 9) dragons with 14 (or 10) balloons and some barbs-archers and 5 more balloons. The last rage is saved until the main force is upon the TH. The first tactical squad of balloons also activates the clan castle. Use the barbs-archers to position troops over the air defense you want to bolt. :)
• HoLoWiWi - Using Loons as a supplement to a GoWiWi ground attack. There are many variants to the GoWiWi. In the GoHoWiWi 8-20 Hogs are used after Golem and heroes and witch clear one side of path and distract or kill royals (Hogs are not dead after the update, you just need to modify your approach!). The HoLoWiWi is a custom attack good versus certain kinds of bases only: the super spread out one with a large defense ring and inner AD. Loons are used to knock out all or most of the outer ring and hogs wreck the core and rest of the base. Heroes with witch and wizard is used to kill the CC which must be lured. TheHulkFiles goes into a lot more detail with HoLoWiWi, considering variants with 10 or less balloons (the Needle) and >11 (the Swarm HoLo). 

December 2014 - More Air Attacks

• Lava Hound are the hot item right now! Some of my favorite recent videos include:
  - Vodka CoC's TH10 3-star Lavaloonions showing two great attacks. First used 4 LH 24 Loons 12 Mins 5 Barb 3 WB and standard 3 rage 2 freeze, clip-lure-AQ-AD-main attack; second attack had AQ deeper so he swapped out a hound for a golem.
  - Vodka CoC's TH10 3-star with Quattro-Lavaloonions showing how four hounds can work well. He uses one a bomb-killer/CC lure. two great attacks. Total of 19 loons, 27 minions, and some great spell timing and placement.
  - Vodka CoC again? Yup. Two more super Lavaloonion attacks in his Lava Hound strategy guide episode 7. I had to chuckle at his subtitle that this guide was for non-max heroes. I'm thinking lvl 15... no, he means BK is "only" lvl 30! :) The first attack takes advantage of two AD fairly near each other. He uses a hog lure, CC, kill then heroes after golem to knock out those two AD, using a jump spell to negate those blue walls. Three hounds and 21 loons (14 in camp, 7 in CC) and 10 minions wail on the other two AD and the rest of the base. The second attack is different from what you normally see. Zero minions! 33 loons and three hounds, with 2 rage and 2 freeze, plus a lightning bolt for CC since minions wouldn't be killing them. The attack began with a heroes-based AQ kill and CC lure.
  - How to Lavaloonion Like a Pro - Guide from the UN Family has some great information. Army combo's; what bases to attack; the steps in an attack; and common mistakes. One popular army when going for three stars is 3 hounds, 23 balloons, 13 minions, 3 wb, 3 archers (and commonly 7 more loons in your CC).
• Toucharcade1 had its first Lavaloonion CW 3-star. Bax narrates this quattrolavaloonion attack by TH9 boyzpod vs a TH9. 
• Chief Pat at PlayClash of Clans has a decent Lavaloonion strategy guide. His composition is fixed at 2 hounds, 20 balloons, 30 minions, one dragon, with more of whatever in the CC.
• Clash of Clans 3Star Clan Wars brings a powerful duo-hog lavaloonion 3* vs a tough TH10. (Xbows were all down). Two AD near TH, two up north. The raid starts atypically, with king and queen released up top, before a full air deploy south. 28 balloons, 2 hounds (including one in CC) and 31 minions roll very quickly. As the AD were deeper, he holds just a few seconds on the hounds (best practice when deep). He knew CC was a lot of archers and such so he brought a lightning along with two rage and two freeze. You can tell the attacker studied the pathing of the balloons, as the rage were perfectly placed. The freezes went up simultaneously left and right on the IT and teslas, allowing the loons to get ahead of the minions and take them out. The heroes up top had cleared buildings and were just starting to come inside at this point. They took out the two top AD just in time as the remaining air troops were mopping up. 3*.
•  What's that? You want to see some high level raids, none of this polylava stuff?
• Galadon is not scared to admit defeat, and in his new video, Extreme Clan War Domination, Lost Phoneix just got owned by 300! War. (No shame there!) There were seven 3-stars on top TH10 bases, and he showed three of them. First was a cool quatrolavaloonion wrecking the base in 1:15. The second was a GoWiPe where everything just went right, starting with a super wide three-golem spread. Third was a mass hog rider raid, with golem-led royals 
• ClashWithEd brings us a video with 3 high level TH10 2-stars with balloonion. First attack is 27 balloons with 45 minions (one hound) with 4 rage and a freeze. Second and third attacks use the same composition. He leads off with a CC hound and balloon to lure CC and take out one AD. He uses a rage and about 9 balloons with that to take out a whole quadrant. A prelaged tactical balloon squad takes out the adjacent quadrant. Some minions clean up free buildings to get percentage close to 50%. He very cleverly uses barbs to pull away the BK to kill him with minions. By the time all that is done, he's already over 50% :) Hero time, with some beefy heroes, take down the TH with no worries. Those of us with mortal heroes won't take out fully max TH's with this, but we can hit non-max ones for two-stars pretty nicely! :)

Got any other favorite air strategies or videos for clan wars?