How to Counter Hog Freeze Combo
Hey guys it’s Ash! Some of you may know me from my YouTube channel.
Many of you guys here have been having problems with stopping the Hog
Rider and Freeze Spell, so I created this guide to help you get a better
understanding of how to counter these threats.
How to Counter Hog Freeze Combo
The
rule of thumb with the Hog Rider is, whenever your opponent sends in a
Hog Rider, always be prepared against a possible Freeze Spell. One of
the biggest reasons why players struggle against the Hog Freeze combo is
because they do not carry a building in their deck. Carrying at least 1
building card is necessary for defending against not only Hog Riders,
but also threats such as the Mortar, X-Bow, Balloon, Golem, and many
other threats that would otherwise directly target your Arena Towers.
These buildings include, Inferno Tower, Goblin Hut, Tombstone, Bomb
Tower, Barbarian Hut, Cannon, Tesla, or even the Elixir Collector are
all good buildings to block incoming Hog Riders.
Now
first, let’s discuss the radius of the Freeze Spell. The Freeze Spell
has a radius of 3 tiles, so I’ve outlined the area that a Freeze Spell
can be used to freeze both the Arena Tower and your troops or buildings
at the same time. So what this means is, you must avoid deploying your
troops away from this area. Especially your ranged attackers such as
Archers, Musketeer, Witch, Spear Goblins, Wizard, must all be deployed
away from this region!
So
looking at picture, you can see that the best place to deploy your
troops whenever you see a Hog Rider is up top. The Freeze Spell is
unable to freeze both the Arena Tower and the top two tiles of your side
of the map. And as you can see, I have denoted this region within a
pink rectangle, denoting that the distance from this region to the Arena
Tower is 4.5 tiles apart. So this allows all your long ranged
attackers, your Archers, Musketeer, Spear Goblins, Wizard, and so on,
allowing them to target the Hog Rider without having both your troops
and Tower frozen at the same time. This is the “sweet spot” for
deploying your troops whenever you come across a Hog Rider. I’ve also
drawn where you should deploy your Inferno Tower to avoid getting it
frozen with your Arena Tower as well.
Musketeer
(along with other ranged attackers) does more damage than King’s Tower
or Arena Tower, so keep her at a distance from your towers to avoid
Freeze.
Another thing to keep in mind is when one of your
Arena Towers are destroyed, it actually becomes easier to counter Hog
Freeze. How you say? Well when one of your Arena Towers are destroyed,
your King’s Tower is activated and will help assist you on defense. This
means that you must avoid deploying at the area in the middle of your
King’s Tower and second Arena Tower! I just love when I’m using the Hog
Rider and Freeze Spell and someone deploys their troops in the middle of
both their towers, allowing my Hog Rider to quickly take down another
tower and secure myself myself of a victory. This is a major error guys.
Now
let’s talk about building placement. Placing down your building
properly is also very important. Usually the best place to place any
building is inside this region. Placing any building inside here will
allow both your Arena Towers to target the Hog Rider, and also prevent
the Hog Rider from directly targeting your Arena Tower. However, it does
not protect the building from a Freeze Spell. A Freeze Spell can still
freeze both your building and Arena Tower at the same time.
Also,
avoid placing your building before your opponent sends out his Hog
Rider. This is a very important concept because a smart attacker will
spend time to allow your defenses to decay and weaken before he sends
out his Hog Rider. And so, the best time to place your building down is
after your opponent deploys his Hog Rider. Then depending on the
building, you will need to decide quickly where to place down your
building. Don’t worry, I’ll show you all the examples soon.
Another
very important thing to note is that you should never deploy everything
at once when dealing with a Hog Rider. For example, I see attackers
just outright deploy everything from their hand just to stop a Hog Rider
from targeting their building. They send out their Goblins and Mini
Pekka and clump them together next to their Arena Tower. This is a huge
error. Because the attacker can not only freeze your Mini Pekka and
Goblins and Arena Tower at the same time, but since you’ve also spent
all your Elixir and counters to stop the Hog Rider immediately, you’ll
have no way to retaliate. Instead you’ll just spend the next 5 or more
seconds watching the Hog Rider banging on your Arena Tower. So what you
should have done is not only deploy your troops away from danger zone,
but you also should have only deployed one troop card at a time. For
example, all you needed were the 2 Elixir Goblins to stop the Hog Rider.
It doesn’t matter if the Hog Rider damages your Arena Tower, by using
the 2 Elixir Goblins to kill the Hog Rider, you’ve profited by 2 Elixir,
which is worth a lot more than the small damage dealt by the Hog Rider.
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