Clash of Clans TH14 Edrag Guide for Legend League/Wars

TH14 Edrag Guide for Legend League/Wars
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Posted: 23 Jul 2021 08:52 AM PDT

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Preface

Hi everyone!

My main account is a TH14 in a global top 200 pushing clan. I joined them right after June's CWL and saw a bunch of players excelling with Electro Dragons, so I decided to spend the remaining 3 weeks of the season pushing with them. A lot of trial and error followed, and I learned a lot from the constant replays being dropped in chat. That was my first time pushing in Legends ever—I'd only been up before for the badge and dropped down to farm soon after—and I ended at 5600 on the dot with a 5720 personal best. Funnily enough, it was also my first time using edrags seriously and I was completely swayed over.

I switched to blizz drags this season but I've seen my fair share of anti-edrag sentiments on here and while I understand those aren't unfounded claims, edrags worked out well for me once I understood some basic ideas and I wanted to share them with you all. Edrags excel especially against ring bases and corner teasers, and definitely a strategy worth learning considering the prevalence of those bases in the meta.

Army Composition
Picking an entry side
Blimp/Slammer
Entry Strategy
Freezes
Heroes
Dealing with opponent's CC troops
Sample attacks
Key Concepts

Army Composition

The standard Legend League edrag composition is 8 edrags, 10 loons and a baby dragon, accompanied with 3 rages and 5 freezes. You can drop an edrag for some rocket loons to snipe defences or maybe drop 2 loons for 5 cleanup minions - I would advise against the latter because timefails are nearly impossible with edrag armies.

Here's a link to the standard composition for the lazy: https://link.clashofclans.com/en?action=CopyArmy&army=u8x59-10x5-1x23s3x2-5x5

You'll either be using a blimp or a slammer. Your clan castle spells will be a rage and a poison, but your troops may differ. Some common combinations are:

All Balloons
Dragon + Balloons
Baby Dragon + Balloons
Dragon Rider + Balloons
Inferno Dragon + Balloons
2 Yetis, Valkyrie, Barbarian (i.e. Yeti Bomb)

I personally used the third option throughout my push, but all of them are viable depending on your preferences.

Picking an entry side

In the 30s you have to scout the base, the first and foremost things to look for are the air sweepers. Wherever possible, attack from the opposite side of sweepers, and never send your edrags into 2 sweepers both facing them. They simply won't be able to make decent headway into the base without wasting half your spells.

Considering you'll be using the Warden's Tome ability ASAP, entering into heavy DPS zones is a better option unless it includes the Town Hall. I prefer not edragging straight into the town hall - edrags are slow enough to get stuck in the TH poison and get distracted on nearby skellies.

Blimp/Slammer

The idea here is simple enough - if your edrags can reach the town hall easily use a slammer, and if not then blimp.

Use a blimp when attacking from the opposite side of the town hall.
Once you're more experienced with edrags, always use a slammer on ring bases. Unless you have an atrocious funnel, your edrags are 100% making it to the core with a standard entry. For new edrag users I'd recommend a blimp the first few weeks to get comfortable with edrag pathing.
Always freeze the town hall when your blimp pops on it. Pre-rage if necessary, but rages are always better used on edrags.

Entry strategy

This is what you'll be doing in the first 30 seconds of the raid.

Once you pick a viable side of the base, funnel one side of the entry with a coco loon and baby drag and start funnelling the other side of the entry with your heroes.
Drop your balloons followed by the edrags and then Warden in a wide line without clumping the edrags together.
Drop 2 rages and use the Warden's ability ASAP to maximise initial chain value from the edrags.

Clumped edrags branch out like a ripple and are likely to go around the outside of the base after the initial push. You'll be missing a lot of core defences and will probably get a high % 2 star instead.

Additional tip from /u/pm_me_falcon_nudes:

For ring bases try to rage slightly more to the edges so the buildings in the center stay alive slightly longer to help keep your edrags going towards the center and not branching off.

Freezes

Freezes can make or break an attack by themselves. Generally:

Freeze enemy AQ/RC after she locks on to edrags.
Freeze sweepers you're edragging into.
Freeze multiple anti-air point defences clustered together.
Freeze scatters.
Freeze singles. Saving a freeze for the RC at the end also helps against these.

Heroes

Heroes are just as important as the edrags in the attack, perhaps even more. You need to ensure your King and Queen stay alive as much as possible, because more often than not they will be the ones closing the attack when your dragons die off. When you drop your heroes to create the funnel, try your best to drop them away from (i) ground xbows that can target them and (ii) the enemy clan castle, where (i) takes priority. Walk them along the outside of the base and they'll easily help clear half of it. If you have to choose between dropping heroes on two sides where the CC isn't lured at all, choose the one which gives RC more backend cleanup value.

The RC should more often than not be delayed. Drop her behind the last few edrags or your heroes to ensure she doesn't run ahead, exposed. Do not drop her onto enemy heroes (especially BK), or an xbow farm. Saving a freeze for her is ideal if there's a single inferno still afloat on the base.

Dealing with opponent's CC troops

Precise poison spells are crucial for dealing with witches and mass archer CCs. The rest doesn't really matter, your edrags should eat through them relatively quickly.

Sample attacks

Take note:

Drop a coco loon for your baby drag. You don't want to fail the funnel because of a SAM sitting on the edge of the base.
On the first base, I could choose between the entry side and the 6-9 o'clock side to enter. I chose my entry side because the 6-9 oc side could have the edrags splitting apart due to the multiple 2 tile gaps in the compartments there.
Spread your edrags out, but get as many of them under the Tome as possible. Double rage ASAP on entry.
Notice how I froze the CC troops along with the sweeper and scatter? If combo freezes like this are possible I go for it because it's easier dealing with the CC this way, and prevents headhunters from beelining for your Warden. However, freezing CC troops alone isn't worth the spell.
Delayed RC entered behind the edrags, so they could tank for her at the start.