[HWYA] My first lava loonion was crap. Any tips?

Firsr, a lavoonion attack implies you using minions together with loons, which is something that hasn't been done for a long time.

I don't really know where to start, so first of all I'll tell you to go on youtube and search for "pentalavaloon", "laloon" and "golaloon". Strongly advised powerbang's and onehive raid's videos on the matter: you really need to watch them and understand how air attacks works, cause you clearly have no clue.

That said, about the replay:

1) you used one hound only. Past TH9 bases have 4 air defenses, hence if you do not take out prehemptively any air defense with a killsquad (golem + heroes and a couple wiz usually) you need 5 hounds (usually 4 + 1 in CC).

2) you though you can perform a laloon type of attack without killing CC enemy troops and enemy AQ first. That's impossible, loons and hounds do not target enemy troops and they just get shredded by them. It is impossible to perform that kind of attack without luring CC and killing AQ first (unless In CC there are troops that don't target air such as valks or loons). You need to deal with CC and AQ before deploying hounds and loons with either a killsquad (golem, wizs, heroes) or just your heroes if AQ is exposed (in an outer compartment) and CC easily lurable.

3) your giants and wiz theory is pointless. They are useless in an air attack; all they could achieve is working as a mini killsquad, although I don't think it can work properly.

4) at TH10 you need at least 1 max freeze spell to deal with infernos as your loons approach them. No way you can outpower them with loons only. Also get packed with haste spells and at least one rage.

To all this, I'll add that laloon kind of attacks need a lot of planning. Practice them on friendly challenge and then in war once you understood how they work and got handy with them. There is not a magical recipe for multiplayer raids, where you have no time to plan and study the loons pathing. It's not a spam attack, you can't just deploy everything and expect it to work.

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