Ultra-Effective and Fun Hog Cycle for 2v2
Hello guys, it’s PeakCell. I’m now coming up with a guide about an incredible deck you will love.
As you guys may know, I’m more of a 2v2 player, and I play 1v1 rarely. As you also probably know, I like stats, and I only play decks I like to play, looking more for funnier decks than more effective ones. I don’t play meta decks, so don’t expect this one to be meta.
Since I like stats, let me talk about it in the intro : This deck, I’ve played it for 29 games and I have a 72.4% winrate with it, against maxed cards generally. It should be enough for you to trust its power !
Before I show you the deck, I’d like to write about general things about this deck and the 2v2 mode.
What’s the goal of this deck ?
Obviously it is to win and to have fun while doing it, but in fact the goal isn’t limited to that!
This deck is designed to put you to the top of the game players!
You will carry your team, and feel you do everything by yourself. Even a bad ally can not prevent you from winning and having fun.
Good opponents? You’ll feel you are destroying them two by yourself.
Now, how to do that? Well, you’ll have to use some of the best cards you can play in 2v2..
What are the best working things in 2v2?
I want to talk about it because it shows you I didn’t make my deck randomly.
What can we say about the best working cards in 2v2?
First we can tell that there are 2x more player, which means potentially 2x more cards to stop in a push, and 2x more defenses against your cards.
Now logic makes us understand something huge : Spells are top tier cards in 2v2, because they can potentially destroy 2x more cards in a single cast !
But.. Are we using the fireball, lightning or rocket then?
No. We’ll be using an instant control spell: Freeze.
This spell is extremely powerful because it is instant and doesn’t damage troops, but automatically puts them out of fight!
With that, we’ll use the only spell which can damage+control an entire lane: The Log, because it can then greatly help dealing with the troops we froze + potential other ones meant to make a huge push.
Now, OK, spells are top-tier. But what other things work? We don’t only have spells in our deck, do we?
Of course not!
Since I play a lot of 2v2 with random allies, my deck needed powerful and extremely versatile cards! As well as a dynamic gameplay to always be able to do something when your ally can’t!
So we are playing the Ice Spirit, and the Fire Spirits, which are cheap and versatile. Then we use two low-cost anti-tank units, Goblins and the Skeleton Army.
Then, what can we use?
Ranged units are extremely powerful in 2v2 when they can attack the two lanes. The Dart Goblin is potentially ultra versatile and effective so we’re playing him !
Why don’t we use a building?
Because we don’t need that. Our deck is so versatile that it will most of the time complete your ally’s deck perfectly. If it does not, you can still use the Freeze spell to control a push !
Last thing, what win condition will we use?
The Hog Rider is extremely powerful when played with the Freeze spell.
In 2v2, people will often stress out and send many things to stop your Hog, making the Freeze spell even more effective.
Also, it is a great punishing combo, which is perfect in 2v2 where people will often make mistakes.
The Deck
Hog Rider
Your win condition is the Hog Rider.
The goal is to be a real douche and to play him without thinking about your ally: Let your ally defend alone, he will do it, send a Hog + Freeze on the other lane, you’ll take a Tower most of the time because they are focusing on their push too much.
Also, when your ally pushes, you can also try to push on the other lane while they are trying to counter them.
Pig push by placing your Hog on the side, so he will not go to the buildings.
The deck cycles pretty fast so you can easily outcycle some of your counters (like the Tornado which is very commonly used). You have many choices to build your pushes, so you can counter many of the Hog’s usual counters without even having to outcycle them.
The ideal moment to land a Hog push is either when you have 4 elixer and your opponents just spent all of their elixer, or when you have 7 and have the Freeze available, or when you have more elixer and some support to add with your Freeze + Hog combo.
Keep in mind that you will gain 1 Elixir by the time the Hog Rider reaches the opponents’ Tower, so you don’t have to wait to have enough Elixir to do this combo.
Freeze
The Freeze spell is literally the cheatcode of the deck.
By that I mean you will generally deal A LOT of damages because of it. Of course you will generally use it to support your Hog, but you can also help your ally with it, like, if he has a great push prepared.
When you will push on the lane your ally is not attacking, however, you might do even more damages, not only because they are not focused on your push, but also because they might lose elixer by defending too much against your ally.
Then they will have some trouble defending against you, and the little they place as a defense can be frozen.
Don’t forget to be perfect on your timing and to Freeze the good things ! A late Freeze is a shame and an early Freeze is totally the same.
You can predict with a Freeze tho, like when you know your opponents will place Ebarbs, put the Freeze and the surprise will be even greater !
The Log
A control spell, but also a spell you can use in a LOT of conditions.
While in 1v1 you still have to be careful about the way you use it, in 2v2 you can spend those 2 elixer without problems, so this spell is even more enjoyable.
I don’t have much to add about it, except it works great with the Dart Goblin because of the fact that it helps him do more damages.
Also, this spell can destroy Goblins so it’s very useful to play it with the Hog.
Dart Goblin
This guy is extremely powerful.
He can defend the two lanes, but needs some help (Log, Ice Spirit) and is a little fragile.
Generally you want to place him far away from the ennemies to kill, even behind the king Tower if you want to counter a Graveyard.
You also want to play him to counter air units, since he is your only ranged attacker.
Little tricks to remember while playing the Dart Goblin: You can play him with an Ice Spirit quickdropped in front of him, it is sufficient to deal enormous damages if your opponents do not react quick enough.
Also, when you took a Tower, you can alternate Hog at the bridge + Dart gob in the middle, Hog in the middle and Dart at the bridge, it sometimes is sufficient to take a Tower because your opponents will target the Hog and the Dart Goblin might have time to do enormous damages meanwhile. Oh and he can destroy the buildings.
Goblins
Goblins are simply a support to your Hog, and an anti-tank as well as an anti-support troop card.
Just use them this way, but you have an other option of gameplay which is to send Goblins to lower-level opponent towers, or Goblins + Ice Spirit to same/higher level towers.
You can also use them to distract Minions and other problematic troop-targeting troops.
Skeleton Army
Same role as the Goblins, but you may use it differently: Mainly use the Skeleton Army on tanks or support, and land a lone Skeleton Army on a lane only to pig push the other lane when your ennemies are out of Elixir.
Take care tho, the Skeleton Army is zappable.
However, it can enhance a push greatly if used well, for example in the above case your opponent may not be able to defend the 2 sides as effectively, or an Inferno Tower could target the Skeleton Army when it should target the Hog, or your opponents would defend the Skeleton Army with freezable Minions, etc.
Also, when a Tower is destroyed, you can play a Skeleton Army in the middle to destroy potential buildings.
Fire Spirits
Fire Spirits are one of the best cards in the game in terms of fun!
They will take care of small units, bridge Princesses when you don’t have the Log, or Goblin barrels in the same case, but they will also be a great support to your Hog, preventing your opponents from just dropping Minions, or Goblins, without anything else.
So it forces them to use Elixir, and if they have an Elixir disadvantage it can be enough to destroy them.
Ice Spirit
The Ice Spirit is also a great support unit because it will temporize for you to land an easier Freeze/Log, but it also will damage some units AND tempo for your Dart Goblin ! Also an Ice Spirit can destroy a lone Valkyrie with the help of Fire Spirits if you kite her. Same goes for the Mini P.E.K.K.A, Knight, etc.. The Ice Spirit complements the deck pretty well, because it is versatile AND is a cycle card.
Matchups
Ok I generally play it with random people, so I can talk about the ally matchups as well
I also played many similar decks so I know these things pretty well.
Best Allies:
Hog decks
They generally are a great synergy because you have more great occasions to Freeze. If your ally is synchro with you, you will be able to delay your hogs to put their counters out of cycle, and send 2 hogs at the same time when your opponents don’t have anything to deal with them.
Miner decks
Generally they have a great defensive capacity, so they are great to play with too: Your deck is more of an attacking deck after all. Miner decks generally have a building/a tank for your Hog (Miner at least, but sometimes also the Knight) and great spells (like Poison). Those things complement the deck pretty well.
Air decks
Incredibly strong synergy! Your opponents will generally be disturbed by the air+ground attacks and it is pretty rare to see a perfect defense against this kind of attacks. Use your ally’s hound to take the focus so the Freeze spell will be even easier to land !
Beatdown decks
You want to play a bit differently with these ones: When your ally is pushing a lane, you should most of the time try to destroy the other ! Your opponents will generally have a hard time countering a Hog + Freeze on one side plus a beatdown push on the other.
Worst Matchups
Several buildings
Generally several buildings are hard to deal with, even with your ally helping you. You can try to outcycle them, but if each of your opponents have at least one building, if won’t be easy.
Well-prepared RG players
Because everything you can defend with will be Zapped, Logged, Fireballed. It happened to me to place my Goblins, who were killed by a Log, then my Skeleton Army, killed by a Zap, then my Dart gob killed by Arrows. Huh. This matchup is however winnable just by landing better attacks against your opponents than what they do against you.
Hog decks
Well this Hog deck has some trouble against other Hog decks, because it has nothing to deal with them easily, since everything is destroyable. The solution is the same than against RG decks, you must defend and do better than your opponent by landing a perfect Freeze spell.
Tank + Balloon
A nightmare. Because a Balloon cycle decks isn’t much of a problem, but a tank in front of it can’t be destroyed fast enough and you don’t have any building. Against those, you should even use your Freeze spell defensively.
Conclusion
I hope this guide will make you win a lot with this ultra fun deck. I tested many things and this is the one I have the best results with for now. Keep in mind that the good use of the Freeze spell is the key skill of playing this deck.
See you in the arena !
First
GG
Thanks 😀
On ur own guide… HAX
uhhhhh xD
Will posted it under my name 😉
XD
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first reply to the first reply
first reply to TheLegend27
lol
Finally 2v2 decks!
Me too finding a effective 2v2 deck
Beatdown (28%, 348 Votes) <3
Control (28%, 337 Votes)
dang, really close duel!
control op
Come on give siege some love. I personally also use siege in ladder
Come on Bait! Do better!
Beatdown 😀
Beatdownnn <3
CONTROL FTW!!!
#bait4lyf
Control FTL
3rd?
stop
why?
its 3st
haha should I laugh?
not really its a bad joke sorta like the heal spell
look who is talking
hey i may use three muski but never heal spell
>:(
lol
4th?
5th no one claimed
You’re 2nd
Late again 🙁
Thank you ! I’ll do my best 🙂
YESSS YOu’re back! So happy!
Wow, wow, am I that great ? xD
I liked your guides and innovative strategy. I thought you’d left!
Guess you’d be happy to know I’m planning to do an ultra-guide on my own deck. (Should be hard to read tho, I’m questionning Will about the viability of a post like that)
Do make an ultra guide!!
It would be something like 4 to 6 times longer than the guides you’re used to read. Idk if it would be short enough for people to read it because of that.
I WILL be waiting for THAT!
Idk if this guide would be relevant enough tho, I’m still thinking about whether or not I’ll write it. Sorry to speak in english to you but I want everyone to understand my answer 🙂
Good guide! I liked how you changed it up a little bit which really made it stand out more!
Thanks ! Are you talking about the structure compared to my latest guides, or the pictures ?
The Structure of the guide. Was well thought through.
Thanks ! Yeah I improved it because people didn’t like the old ones as well as I wanted x)
I’m happy to see these changes weren’t unnoticed 🙂
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I understand it takes awhile, but i turned in deck guide a few days ago and it hasn’t been posted. Has it been turned down?
usually takes 2-5 days. if it doesnt get posted by then, it most likely got turned down. Dont give up though!
OK!
That instant reply though. . .
What’s the name of your post ? Might be able to see if it’s on its way or not
I just called it Giant Graveyard Beatdown. Kept it simple.
It’s still up there, you may just have to wait for it to be checked !
ok thanks! Also, how did you check?
When this guide was posted, I’ve been granted an author access at the same time. It’s not sufficient to edit/see other people’s guides, but we can see the list of the names of the guides in the trash, and the ones which are just waiting for a check. Also you’re welcome 😉
YESSS YOU’RE BACK!
It seems like you’ve waited an eternity for me to post a guide xD
Yeah because you posted like 5 guides in a week then was insactive for so long
I had no studies at the time, and was ultra-motivated. Right now I have some things to do and have way less motivation (except from time to time).
U were not active for sooooo long since the MK guide
Yup. Lack of motivation.. It’s hard to post when you’re bored to do so ^^
I like the guide a lot. And you know why I love the deck 🙂
Yeah lol coz you’re dart gob ftw.
This card is dope ! And you’re the core part of the deck 😉
I understand this is a 2v2 deck but since all the card in this deck is so fragile you can’t just rely on your teammate. Maybe get some more hardy defense cards? It’s very hard to defend with just your teammate doing all the work against a massive push. And what if your teammate has a deck with weak defense as well? How will that work?
Well if I can’t rely on my teammate idk why I have 73% winrate with it + 6 games made on each of my 2 other very similar decks with no loss.
This deck is designed to be able to win by itself : A good freeze can do a lot of damages, and your units can support your ally’s defense well. Your ally will be useless only if they do nothing defensively.
I seen. Ok! 🙂
Ok I see…:)
Oh and if the push is too big, just freeze it. 😉
Peakcell how do you make your profile pictures??? Absolutely love the minimalist pyramid design!!
Haha glad you like it !
This design is a logo I made for myself with the help of my sister for the idea part. Technically speaking, this was done with Inkscape, and it is a purely vectorial design. Could be done with Adobe Illustrator too.
My last pic was done with Paint and was simply a pixel art of the bandit, if you’re also asking about this one.
Inkscape…I’ll try!
You should ! Easy to work with, great results.
Is this a good deck:
minions skeletons balloon babydragon lavahound fireball clone zap
Idk, should try it to know.
hey the double elixir challenge is back again
Yea, I’m so happy!
The rewards are so bad tho
this deck can NOT beat my deck, to be honest. i have zap, log, and ewiz in my deck!!! all of these troops are squishy.
not unless you freeze before your opponent reacts
i tried RG, and guess what, i lost over 100 trophies
it really doesnt. only depends on the lvl of ur rg.
mine was lvl 10 at 3400-3500 trophies
yup it depends on which type of deck you are using with him use rg furnace lightning or exe-nado
I didn’t use any of those 4 cards in my RG deck lol
lol u are not using main cards suits with rg
Well, that’s too short of an analysis and you’re clearly too confident about it. If I follow your thoughts, the bowler, tornado, executionner and mega knight would destroy my deck right ? Well, I faced a lot of those, and I still have 38 games done for a 73.7% winrate, as well as 6 games on each of my 2 similar decks with only a draw with one of those. I face a lot of zaps, double logs, and AoE units.
Also my 1v1 ladder deck is made of squishy units, still beating kinda everything.
People tend to underestimate squishy units a lot, they can do far better than you think once they are played well.
Now this is the kind of roasting I like to see. To the point, clear cut, point, analysis, evidence, and epxlanation.
man, the poll is just CRINGE. my answer: well, you guys all know what it is 😉
Gee, maybe it because you play style is the last option. . .
“The goal is to be a real douche” made me lol! Great guide, always like to see more 2V2 guides 🙂
Haha happy to read that !
Yeah I liked the idea of writing it too. Thing is, it’s as funny as it’s true. xD
I got my first lumberjack from a quest magical chest!
Cool
nice
this is trash and im gay is has nno sparky since sparky buff it realy op and is mandtory
Get the ban hammer
lemme take care of tha for you 😉
ummm what? stop spamming or you’re gonna get banned
i banned him
Ok
Profile reported
Hogs, hogs everywhere
Funniest card 🙂
so true
Hogs the meta
French as in you are from France, speak French, or your parents were French. Maybe a combination?
Everything at once ! Why did you wonder about that ?
parfait!!! du coup a la fin on est combien de francais en tout ?
Aucune idée, probablement pas des masses ceci dit :/
bah deja trois avec larry … qui d’ailleur ne fais plus trop ses poll’s … dommage :/
Yep dommage
Qu’est ce que c’est????? Je ne comprend pas xD
Your English and grammar is better than some of my fellow Americans…. which is a good thing, of course!
Oh ok. Thanks ^^ I love this language, it helped a lot to study it, as well as playing video games which have a lot of english knowledge to bring.
🙂
Je vais aller au France a la printemps. Vous habitez a quel’que region du France?
Plz answer my question and also rate my grammar! I need to practice my french.
Some work needs to be done, but French is kinda hard so that’s perfectly understandable and it’s already a great beginning.. I think. You know, even if I write pretty good in French, I don’t know how I do because I write instinctively, so it’s kinda hard for me to rate your progress. Correct sentence : “Je vais aller en France au printemps. Vous habitez dans quelle région de France ?”
I live in Haute-Normandie.
Ok thx. Of course it’s good to be corrected by a fluent speaker. I learned something new!
Why is it ‘de France’ not ‘du France’?
It would be “du France” if France was an object and a “male” object. Like, if it was an object called “Le France”. Like, we would say “la carte principale du deck”. For a female-gender object, we would say “les propriétés de la carte”. But France is a country so we say “Région de France” or “Les habitants de France” etc.
I was just learning passe compose!
As I told ya, I don’t even know what this is. I never bothered learning the name of each of those things.
Past tense
Doesn’t help me at all !
Btw nice new pfp. Looks nice;
Thank you !
No offence, but I think rocket cycle is better for 2v2
Knight, Skeletons, Ice spirit, executioner, tornado, rocket, mirror, inferno tower(2.8 avg)
Knight, exe-nado, inferno for defence and rocket/mirror for the win!
I’ve played over 30 matches and only lose 2 matches!
Combine this with log bait is “un-defeatable”
It may be. I want to add that I’ve created 2 other similar decks and did 6 games with each of them and lost 0, so it’s hard to say which of our decks is better.
@disqus_4OWb2yR3W6:disqus, Why is there a space after your word before your punctuation? E.g. Why did you wonder about that ? instead of Why did you wonder about that?
Because I’m French. We have a different ponctuation, that’s as simple as that !
Oh ok i see!
i never knew that:)
Now you know !
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easiest way to get a lengendary?
yeah no kidding it’s good, thanks for the deck! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5b1171b577b432bd7a8e1956881e81e8001a949e257103053a994cb362d9e3da.png
thanks for the deck. don’t have dart sadly dropped a archer