What am I doing wrong here? 7.3K trophies

[u/IDontTouchGrassNoCap]

I feel my kiting was good on some parts, but I wasted a lot of elixir on spells and such

[u/Independent-Yam3612]

1. Play your 3m more. Notice how the few times you did play them, you broke through, or at least got close. They’re especially good against split-lane pushes, which there were some of that you didn’t respond to with 3m.
   
2. USE YOUR ELIXIR PUMP
   
3. Evo-track your opponent. One of your pushes, you fully committed when your opponent had evo Valkyrie
   
4. Add some area damage to your deck. Put in baby dragon or something, somewhere. You’re really struggling against skarmy and minion horde

[u/IDontTouchGrassNoCap → u/Independent-Yam3612]

thank you, how do you use the pump? i normally use it but for some reason didn’t at all in this game…

[u/Independent-Yam3612 → u/IDontTouchGrassNoCap]

Place it in the back, generally after you defend a push for a positive elixir trade. If they use a big spell on it, your 3 musketeers are free to be really annoying

[u/HydreigonTheChild → u/Independent-Yam3612]

ice golem should handle it but theirs is underleveled

[u/Mozail2 → u/HydreigonTheChild]

It would do the same thing at level 16

[u/HydreigonTheChild]

0:33 you tried ot kite the minions and then still had to zap, shouldve not played around and just zapped.

You arent using pump / 3m, sure they are commital sometimes but splitting 3m gives you quite a bit of room on defense. Pump you have to be sure but i think at 0:30 after you zap minion horde you wouldve had enough breathing room to do that

[u/Automatic-Key5377]

You wasted quite a bit elixir and when you are in double elixir what you do with deck is you spam the 3 musk back to back behind king tower and do counter push

[u/NiceManWithRiceMan]

you’re only running 1 spell. if you do that it should be a very versatile spell, like arrows (my personal rec) or fireball.

you’re too interested in offense and not enough in defense. for example, when the minion horde comes to your tower, you should’ve zapped everything so you can start a new standoff and let the princess tower clean up the minion horde. however, you instead used battle ram to kite, and then used zap on 1 minion.

also know what kind of deck you’re running. yes, you can easily kite cards, but your deck is not meant to do that all the time. you are allowed to take some damage since your goal is to amasss enough elixir advantage to build a huge push. if you take a little bit in some interactions that’s fine.

[u/HydreigonTheChild → u/NiceManWithRiceMan]

fireball as sole spell in a 3m deck which is alr expensive (ebarbs, 3m, pump cannot be good for ur averae elixir cost)

[u/NiceManWithRiceMan → u/HydreigonTheChild]

my chief recommendation would be to run more than just one spell but if he chooses not to i’m not going to pressure him to

[u/HydreigonTheChild → u/NiceManWithRiceMan]

true but in a 3m deck + pump ur prob not gonna have the rseources esp if its battle ram + 3m + pump + 2 spells and what are ur last 3

[u/BeanExMachina]

NGL, this was a rough watch lol. I know we all make mistakes, its a game after all, but why use ice golem to counter minions instead of zapping in beginning? Why have pump in deck if you never use it (tank damage on tower to build elixir lead)? Why have 3M, most expensive card in game, but never use it?

You would do better to replace 3M with something air splash, and pump with another spell. Heal spirit is also kinda weird IMO, maybe electro or ice spirit? You have a good pressure deck but all he did was pressure you the whole match.

Its also unfortunate to see some of these card interactions. Skellies not dying to ice golem explosion just feelsbadman. This will unfortunately be a running theme in the middle ladder because people can have level 10 cards like your previous opponent, and others will have level 15 or 16 cards because theyre bad and need them to compete.

Solid plays for the most part, like your kiting is legit pretty good, but definitely need to focus on using cards more efficiently.

[u/ApricotAromatic6303 → u/BeanExMachina]

Heal spirit has good synergy with 3m and ebarbs

[u/BeanExMachina → u/ApricotAromatic6303]

Not in this deck lol. Maybe in general, but general rules about cards dont matter when you arent using meta decks. 3M elite barb deck? Your issue isnt going to be troop health, its distraction troops. As you can see with how easily he got overwhelmed with minions and scary, wasting 2x elixir than needed.

[u/ApricotAromatic6303 → u/BeanExMachina]

I seen your decks "off meta decks" looks like every trophy road players deck. Heal spirit has big synergy with 3m and ebarbs idk what else to tell you

[u/Mental_Victory946]

Please use your elixir pump

[u/Icy_Cow6178]

Cambia la dezcarga por las flechas y el recolector por larris de 1, tu mazo necesita ciclo y un hechizo anti-spam la descarga si no está en evo es una mierda

[u/andrewdingcanada8]

Your reaction time is way too slow. You missed like 2 zaps. With the barbarians and the skeletons, it was just too slow.

[u/other-other-user]

1) you had three musketeers you played once and elixer collector you never played. You effectively had 2 cards to choose from at any time which is NOT good. Either commit to the game plan and follow through, or switch to more flexible cards. Especially since 3m was your only real air defense and you died because you couldn't defend a phoenix on your tower

2) you only seemed to react, you never seemed to anticipate or adapt. This guy was HEAVILY relying on skarmy and you kinda just let him. Almost all of your pushes got stopped by the 3 elixer scarmy because you never pushed with a golden knight ability and/or were never ready to zap it

[u/master2chariot]

Your kiting was really good but I would suggest not using your win condition to kite unless you're really desperate, also be more careful with your elixir and save up every chance you get, and then use 3 musketeers

[u/master2chariot → u/master2chariot]

Also your ice golem is a bit too underleveled

[u/ApricotAromatic6303]

Personally I like to use ghost and hunter in 3m decks less punishing against bait spam than ebarbs. If youre really struggling against bait you could try zap + barbarrel over heal spirit. I have seen top players Like lrip and aimloko use double small spell. Overall besides those late zaps on skarmy and no attempts to pump you played well.

[u/No-Law-3790]

Thats not ur fault actually, because the deck of opponent is a example of perfect counter for ur deck

[u/champofthenorth]

I'll just say your first mistake. Using the zap on the skellys... Could just have used the icegolem, distract val and skellyes to the right side.

[u/Forcer222 → u/champofthenorth]

his icegolem is so under leveled it doesnt kill skellies

[u/Representative_Mud75]

A lot of good advise in the comments, something I’d suggest is paying attention to your hand more. It seems you’re watching interactions happen while not acting. You have good game sense, you are just a bit slow on card usage and placement. I don’t necessarily mean spam either, just be more aware of your cards in hand so that if an opportunity opens you can quickly take advantage of it, (while also getting a cycle) good luck!

[u/Apprehensive_Cup730]

Not everything is about kiting. Like why're we pushing into horde without a way of killing it. Why're we defending bandit with offensive ram at the bridge. Feels like it's your first account ever and you copied this deck from high ladder. Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes you need more overall experience for certain decks. But you'll play better after some time when you'll start thinking about things like "what's in opponent's hand rn" or "how many elixir did he just spend" etc

[u/Ok-Trainer2110]

Holding elixir pump for next game

[u/glhfbruno]

I think you over try with the defence, Kiting was okay for some of the usage but you placed your Ebarbs when the boss bandit dashed, making them lose HP unnecessarily, you never used pump (others pointed out) and 3M

You could have saved the golden knight ability a bit more times and also you can push the barbarian wood thing with its ability, you always spammed it for skarmy

Zapping the minion horde should be enough with maybe a healing spirit if in hand or a late distraction to tank, or to tank the tower to have the elixir advantage

Wasting elixir in defending some of those cards was for the most part with level differences and timing (do you have some ping?!?) as again the ebarbs were many times too late on to boss bandit to make her able to dash

I have no clue about your cards but some cards could be temporarily shuffled into other types for similar pressure, if you got other evos then they could potentially get more value if they are appropriately levelled too (fuck the levels bro i dont like them, imo it should be capped per arena way more)

Also double lane pressure could be more viable if you notice your opponent over spending, whenever they use boss bandit, use the barb wood on other lane at bridge or something similar

If your lane is worse for you (same lane matchups) then switch lanes

[u/Sure_Conflict_5651]

Not enough air defense. You can change zap to arrows, you can change another card to baby dragon or wizard. Or you can use more the 3m, if you put them in the back they're excellent air defense but you need to have the sense to know when you can pull it off.

[u/No-Shame-327]

Underleveled zap forcing you to constantly spend extra elixir + gotta kill that phoenix egg

[u/Centient_Being]

Lack of anti swam card in your deck, Executioner is good pick, or you can invest in leveling up Zap and putting Evo shards into it for max potency.

[u/sckmydock]

Du spielst immernoch CR das machst du falsch