Changing Lightning to Poison Gives Me Lots of Trophies
Hello clashers,
This is PSYCH0++ from Turkey, 39 years old, from clan The Sahabes. I am addicted to this awesome game like many others.
This game is full of strategy, timing and concentration. I used to be a good chess player in the past but now I’m happy to be a considerably good player in this game.
I have been struggling in Legendary Arena and Challenger I between 3800-4050 throphy. I was losing and winning but could not make my way to challenger II until I have changed just one card in my deck: Poison instead of Lightning!
Now I have 4320 trophy and I can make more progress.
Why do I choose Poison over Lightning
I was using lightning for a long time in my old deck:
However I realized that I struggled a lot to cycle my deck after each time using Lightning in the games (even in a very efective way).
Lightning is very good card and lots of fun to use.
I have level 7 Lightning and I could crash Wizard, Witch completely and leave Executioners with very small hitpoints with this level and sometimes waste a few of them together. It also damages Princess Tower 388 in ladder matches if its used around the Tower (which is close to rockets damage).
However my deck used to have 4.1 average Elixir with Lightning and it was not easy to cycle it by using Lightning; 6 elixirs.
I have lost many games against fast control and medium control decks because of lack of cycling my cards.
You have to use Lightning in single troops such as Wizards, Executioner, Witch but should not use over swarm cards such as Gobling Gang, Minion Horde because of negative Elixir trade.
I have Fire Spirits to destroy Minion Horde as a good air defense but when I dont have them in cycle or my Tesla Tower in defense then I was helpless, stuck against air attacks or swarm attacks.
Also in attacks there were not many combination without killing swarm units.
I was aware of this issue and found a great solution and gave up Lightning card and started using Poison. Now average Elixir of this deck is 3.9.
My Poison is also level 7 and in the ladder matches it is even stronger than level 10 Fireball when used over towers or troops.
Now I am able to use Poison over swarm cards such as Skeleton Army, Gang, Minion Horde and so many others.
I have realized that Poison is more effective and versatile than Lightning:
- Before pushing Bandit or Dark Prince to the bridge you can Poison front of your enemy Princess Tower, a little bit towards main Tower to the middle so that it includes swarm units that are mostly dropped there to distracy Prince or Bandit, then your way to Princess Tower could be clear and your Bandit or black Prince could engange to the Tower.
- Lightning was so effective against the Pump, it completely destroys the Pump however you spend 6 elixirs to destroy enemy pumps while Poison does its mission very well and leaving barely enough time for the enemy Pump to produce just 1 Elixir not more (+1 Elixir trade), so its considerably as efective as Lightning with 4 elixirs.
- You can Poison Hut and Princess Tower, Furnace and Princess Tower and it protects you 8 seconds and leave very less hitpoints in huts or furnaces.
- Against 3 Musketeers, it does not destroy the Musketeers completely but leaves very less hitpoints that a Princess Tower can kill them by one hit. However if you have Log in your deck then push Musketeers back with Log and then they all will die. Against Graveyard Lightning is not an option but Poison is.
- To destroy towers beware that you need 8 seconds while Lightning requires just 1-2 seconds or Fireball 3-4 seconds when the towers are left small hitpoints to be destroyed
My Deck
Bandit:
With a decent level of Bandit you can even deal with an Executioner!
Wizard, E wiz, Ice wiz or Princess they are all welcome to my Bandit
As a tricky well-calculated move I use my Bandit to kill Wizards or Executioner who are behind the beatdown decks. Bandit kills Executioner easily when Executioner is locked to another troop.
In offense its effective with help of Fire Spirits behind.
Dark Prince:
When played in the middle of your area it lures all enemy troops and with help of Princess towers you can deal lots of swarm units or strong units with the help of Princess towers.
In offense its strong with its shield and splash power.
Sometimes use it in split push together with Bandit.
E Wiz:
Very good defense against Golem, Giant and Lava-Balloon decks with the help of well positioned Tesla Tower.
Locate your E.wiz other side of Tesla Tower as he can target Golem and Giant and will be safer for a long time.
E wiz is also your key card in offense when opponent has a Inferno Tower or Dragon!
Brilliant offence behind Dark Prince or Mega Knight.
Mega Knight:
When opponent has a beatdown deck then you can split their win condition cards (Golem or Giant) from their support troops by targetting behind support troops then your Tesla Tower will handle the Golem or Giant itself.
Tesla Tower:
Main great defensive building against Golem, P.E.K.K.A, Giant or Lava-Balloon decks.
Protect it from Minion Hordes or fire machine if necessary by using Fire Spirits or gobling Gang in front of the Tesla Tower.
Fire Spirits:
Well timing and positioning would help you kill Minion Hordes, gangs, Bats, Skeleton Army.
With decent level of Fire Spirits you can even destroy an Electro wiz.
Goblin Gang:
Avoid the Log!
Use the Gang in the middle of your side to avoid Log when you defending. Distracting Inferno Dragon or Minion Hordes if you dont have Fire Spirits in hand or Poison.
Distract P.E.K.K.A, Mini P.E.K.K.A, Prince and such strong tanks.
Poison:
Poison swarm units in offence to clear out the attack corridor.
Poison pumps, Huts, Furnace together with a Princess Tower. Poison Minion Hordes, Graveyard. Poision all kind of wizards. Poision Princess to destroy your opponents game plan
General Gameplan:
Starting hand
If you don’t have Goblin Gang or Fire Spirits in hand then don’t start until your opponent starts.
If you have them then play splitting Goblin Gang or Fire Spirits behind your main Tower. You don’t have to wait until your opponent starts!
Then put Bandit or Prince just before less part of split units reaches then see how they counter. Then your opponent has to defend Bandit or Prince one side and they might forget about defending 3 gangs and you can give a cheap damage.
Don’t never use your Mega Knight unless your opponent sends strong troops with support units such as Elite Barbarians etc.
Don’t over push without seing your opponents all cards.
If you once give Elixir advantage to your opponent it could be difficult to attack & win you will rather have to defend in whole game not to lose.
Don’t forget that you are so strong in split push with this deck; whenever your opponent pushes from one side with a slow heavy tank then you can be effective from other side faster.
Against Giant & two Prince, do not push other side of Giant with a big push otherwise your opponent can go for your main Tower after destroying Princess Tower.
Defend Giant or Golem with Tesla and E.wiz and gangs and even Prince/Bandit then counter with a split push.
In Double Elixir time
Against beatdown decks, defend and then fast counter from other lane with your Bandit or black Prince.
If your opponent puts all his power one side behind his Golem or Giant then you will win by pushing from other lane with all your power.
Against Hog cycle hands, reserve your Tesla for the Hog.
Against fast cycle decks, defend well until Double Elixir time, then in last minute you can use Mega Knight from one side and push from other side by using Bandit and Prince and Fire Spirits.
Don’t be scared to take some damage with Goblin Barrel or smilar attack in last minute as you have Mega Knight in one side and Prince + Bandit + Fire Spirits on the other side if your opponent does not have a good tank killer then they are not able to defend all your attack even with an Inferno Tower.
New meta P.E.K.K.A, Hut, Ghost, Miner deck could be very difficult but use your Poison on Hut+Princess Tower, keep the Tesla for P.E.K.K.A and support with Gang or e.wiz. Use Gang or Fire Spirits against Miner. Use Prince against ghost and it can go for one hit to Princess Tower after killing ghost. Against this deck you slowly win by using Poison and some cheap damages by using Gang at the end.
Poison is sooo good card!
Yup
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You almost did what I do lol
wait 1ST
lol
First reply…
lol
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3rd
No double claiming
Or triple or quadruple
I can because u are a noob
4.1
And 5th
And now everyone’s going to be triggered
nah I don’t give it a ****
Haha
BRUH!!! Don’t do that in public! This is an open website!
I didn’t mention any letters, your fault for thinking it is the f word 🙂 (just kidding)
People can’t ****** swear here! Jk
no offense but most people took out lightning for poison a long time ago. still GG, I want to give this a try but my legendarys are underleveled and mk kinda sucks rn
No, they didn’t. It all depends on the deck, Einstein.
That was rude. I don’t know where you’ve been, but lightning is the worst spell according to the stats
Not heal, rage, mirror, clone?
I was talking direct damage
That was sarcasm. Because beating people is illegal. And it DOES depend on the deck. There may be a deck which requires lightning for better compatibility with the other cards, and hence cannot be replaced with poison.
My comment had nothing to do with which spell is statistically better.
Um, rage? mirror? clone? heal?
Srry meant to say direct damage spell.
thanks for calling me Einstein(sarcasm), and dude, if you play clash royale you should know most people took out lightning for poison or rocket, really it happened a long time ago.
Your welcome. People took out lightning for poison only if it suited their deck, not just because it became a trend. The princess knight lightning deck users didn’t change to poison as it wasn’t at all viable in heir deck.
pretty sure princess decks never used lightning. and what about hog exe decks? those used to contain lightning, but now poison hog exe is everywhere
“But now”, because it’s more viable! Which it wasn’t then!
after the lightning nerf it was
I got mk from smc
welp wait for a buff then
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15th!
Dang I was gonna claim that
Sorry!
What’s it with all these chess analogies? Can we please stop comparing an actual intellect requiring game (chess) to an online addiction that’s just a way for some people (the devs) to make money (CR)?
Stop being so salty. No one likes a kid full of salt waiting to unleash a flame war.
Are you even good at either game?
If you you can’t handle the heat, better stay away from the dragon….
You mean this guy? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8d11197ce9020876d4a9d74159a29e31f23c70115db7178cffca052e49e6cf5d.jpg
Spot on!
Relatively good at both. And has stating a factually correct opinion become starting a “flame war”. Just chill dude. Pour some ice on your head.
Haha hes very dramatic.
Who, me?
Never
XD
It’s like chess… why do you care tho
Because chess is an actual game that I respect, unlike this.
Why are u still here then lol
Because……it gets boring playing both, actually XD
oh hey you’re back
Here’s what I learnt after playing this deck – Great in every aspect except aerial defence.
Why? There’s ewiz, Tesla, fire spirits, and two spear Goblins. DONT FORGET THE SPEAR GOBLiNS!!!
None of which is enough for a lavaloon in arena 12.
U kill the loon ignore the lava ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Then they clone the lava and BAM!!
nobody uses clone
Seriously? Many people do.
I could defend a lava hound with the Tesla and fire spirits
Yeah and I can swim through land.
or the fire spirits
I did the same. But first I changed lightning by rocket. Rocket was very useful and powerful, but when I started using poison, I got better results.
What deck?
Hi hybrid, I use P.E.K.K.A.; Hog Rider; Executioner; Tornado; Ice Spiriti; Guards; The Log and, of course, Poison.
Sometimes I use predict poison during a P.E.K.K.A. push like PSYCH0++ said and it works well for me.
Sounds like a great deck! I’m thinking lightning might actually work well in this deck, but whatever floats your boat. If lightning gets a buff, you might wanna try it. Have fun!
Btw the deck is a bit random, doesn’t synergizes, and doesn’t have a win con. Nice guide tho
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4th? 16th? Oh wait we only go up to 5th. Late!
So I guess based on this deck, Poison is actually more viable than Lightningwhich makes sense considering that Poison is cheaper and can get many troops and buildings. Lightning is more expensive, and you hit less. Positive elixir trades, clashers!
#rocketFTW
sigh…my guide will never be posted
Sure it will!
someday….
Thx 4 switching lightning reks my inferno tower so battling you by chance would be much easier
i have i feeling the guide changed from lightning vs poison to a deck guide