My grindr Id is Tim

Not liking this deck at all. I feel like hog is a "win more" card. I never want to play it unless I countered the **** out of someone and am pushing with my leftovers. With Prince, I can play it back a bit and counter or one-shot an incoming tank/musketeer, or have it solo a side-lane while the ****'s going down in a different lane. Still feel like 5horde, 6bomber, 5arrows, 5spear, 2prince, 2baby, 3tombstone, 4giant is doing better for me.

I do feel like have 6barbarians and 6tesla on the bench is wrong though. I also went to 3barbhut and 3goblinhut just to ding level 6, although I don't think adding any 3rare is a vertical move for my deck. How well does telsa counter balloons?

Tesla a solid counter imo

I pitched tombstone and have no loon counter aorn

If I ruin into a loon guy, f it, unlucky

Been able to easily maintain 2000+ trophies now, topped off at 2097.

Pretty fun given that I have zero overpowering card.

I got to arena 3 by day 3. Got demoted back to 2. Need to level my cards up. Don't wanna spend money yet

FWIW, it's possible to go even higher.

Few days ago, I was up to arena 3 in day 1 with one deck.

Most players still don't know what to do at that level.

Highlights from super magical

Yah, i make a ton of mistakes, obviously. Read a few things online, but ton of RNG involved also. Skill definitely helps though. I just need to trade better

This is nice!

Poison seems a bit overpowered.

Dropping it on tower would pretty much destroy all the low elixir counters and render them useless against giants/golems/pekkas.

poison might be played if freeze didnt exist

Broke 3k trophies, feels good

Based on this: http://clashroyalearena.com/guides/clash-royale-chests

You could actually calculate optimal way of getting certain cards.

I wonder if I am too high in arena.

Silver Chest:

Goblin Stadium (Arena 1, 0 to 399 trophies): 18 combos and 3 total cards.

Bone Pit (Arena 2, 400 to 799 trophies): 24 combos and 4 total cards.

Barbarian Bowl (Arena 3, 800 to 1099 trophies): 30 combos and 5 total cards.

PEKKA's Playhouse (Arena 4, 1100 to 1399 trophies): 36 combos and 6 total cards.

Spell Valley (Arena 5, 1400 to 1699 trophies): 35 combos and 7 total cards.

Builder's Workshop (Arena 6, 1700 to 1999 trophies): 38 combos and 8 total cards.

Royal Arena (Arena 7, 2000 to 2999 trophies): 42 combos and 9 total cards.

Skipping Legendary Arena because it isn't showing up for me.

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So if your goal is to get hog cards and you are in lvl 7 arena, you have 9/42 or 21% of getting a hog card. In lvl 4 arena, you have 6/36 or 17% chance of getting a hog card.

Same thing applies to just about any other card. I guess it once again debunks the notion that if you want specific cards, you should remain low.

Perhaps there are other factors involved?

The easiest other factor is that there is more than silver chests and they all have more cards including more guaranteed rares. I would by pretty pissed if my super magical random chest dropped in arena6 while I can play arena7. That is assuming the extra card alone isn't already worth a lot more than the extra odds of a specific card. Specific rares you request or buy in the shop anyway. So yeah it is a myth that dropping arenas on purpose is useful.

Well, you kind of missed the point of that myth that lower arena would remove those higher troops from available selection and increase the chance of getting specific cards you want.

So whether you get more rares, more cards, and what not do not actually debunk that myth.

But if you actually run the math like I did, it does. However, I am open to the idea that perhaps there is more to it, because chests have multiple cards of the same type, and reducing number of types would increase chance of getting specific type.

Using hog card as an example again, staying in arena 4 would give you 1 in 36 chance of getting a hog card, and royal is 1 in 42 chance.

FWIW according to the published pattern, out of 250 chests before pattern repeats itself:

180 or 72% of chests will be silver.
54 or 21.6% will be gold.
16 or 6.4% will be others.

My point is that higher arenas give more guaranteed rares especially in the higher chests so your math is incomplete to begin with. Also not even sure if the odds for a rare in a silver chest are the same in every arena.

yeah getting more cards / golds is way more important in the long run, even if in the short term you could get a few cards a bit faster. and some cards you get later are way better aswell so climbing as fast as possible seems really important.

Something else i noticed is how potent lvl 1 and 2 epics are at start while once your common are lvl 7+ unless you dump alot of money your epics will fall behind

I'm finding that. Most of my commons are lv 7, rares lv 4/5 and epics lv 1. Finally getting a bunch of epics I've wanted for ages (prince, gob barrel, xbow) and they're useless!

you d need lvl 3 epics at that point to have an edge over your commons and rare

I still can't find a combo I like (and you all know I've tried them all )
Can't win consistently in arena 4, good winrate in 3.
Probably should drop the rocket, but love the satisfaction of the mid-air game winning emote.

Most likely I just suck.

This has been working for me on a4,a5

Rocket is expensive. Hard to make positive elixir trades with it. Fireball just works better in most decks

Yea you are right I was thinking to switch it with freez ... Looks like it's working