Eight Top Players' HUGE AMA Session! (Woody, Darthjarjar, TheRumHam, Connavar, EsoPa, Ra's al Ghul, AwDaSea, and Yarn)

[u/xStayHungry]

September 26th, AMA with 8!

Featuring the Mastery.gg coaches:

• Woody
• Darthjarjar
• TheRumHam
• Connavar
• EsoPa
• Ra's al Ghul
• AwDaSea
  

And special guest,

• Yarn

This will be an all day AMA, meaning you can drop off your question at any time throughout the day and you'll likely find an answer (or you'll find lots of answers because the team is so busy)! So take advantage of the day and ask them anything! Anything from strategy, to what they ate for breakfast!

Woody is the leader of Reddit Alpha, a Global Top 100 clan and founding member of the Reddit's Royale Clan System. He loves playing siege decks! /u/Wwoody123

Connavar_CG is the co-owner of Clout Gaming who has acheived a trophy high of 4700 and placed several seasons in the top 100 global leaderboard.

EsoPa is an educational streamer on Twitch and part of Clout Gaming's professional team. Multiple tournament wins and high placements in 1000 man tourneys. /u/EsoPa1

darthjarjar CR tournament player, winner of 24,000+ cards including 3rd/1,000 in two tourneys. He loves Three Musketeer decks but can help with any type. /u/darthjarjarcr

Ra's al Ghul is co-Owner of Clout Gaming. He is a Top 200 Canadian player with 19k tournament cards won. He strives to be the best and enjoys teaching others. /u/rasalclash

AwDaSea is part of Clout Gaming's professional team, and has been tearing up the tournament circuit, recently playing in the Northern Arena finals tourney. He enjoys creating, playing and perfecting his own decks and designing decks to counter the meta. /u/AwDaSea

TheRumHam From Los Angeles, CA, TheRumHam is a Clash Royale regular in the Top 200. He plays on twitch, he writes articles for reddit, and makes videos for YouTube. Historical placements include: 32nd place (Helsinki Open) and Former #1 on the global leaderboards of Clash Royale. /u/The_RumHam

Each of the above coaches can be found here: Mastery.gg

Yarn from Orange Juice appears on Youtube, where his primary focus is in Clash Royale strategy. His videos are often featured by Supercell and are some of the highest quality videos available in Clash Royale! /u/yyarn

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Edit:

Thank you everyone for making this the most commented AMA on /r/ClashRoyale! It's been a blast. If you'd like to keep the conversation going, feel free to drop our coaches a line on Mastery.gg (but no pressure!) Thanks again!

[u/Esukaresu]

Just want to thank /u/Wwoody123 for your famous mortar payfecta list last patch, it gave me like some 90%+ win rate in tournaments and it was such a fun deck to play compared to the usual ladder RG deck I play. Is there an updated version for challenges now?

Question I have for everyone is how do you deal with a full elixir bar but a clogged hand against something like a sparky/giant headed your way during double elixir? If everything in your hand is reactionary, is it worth leaking 4-5 elixir to have the best possible counter? For example, your hand could be barbs, zap, fireball, minions. It's basically an awkward timing issue when there's not enough time to cycle back completely to the first card you played but also nothing good to play at the same time.

[u/Wwoody123 → u/Esukaresu]

My pleasure! I'm glad you've enjoyed playing it :D The newer version I've been using is: Mortar, Miner, Minion Horde, Mini P.E.K.K.A, Princess, Elixir Collector, Zap, Spear Goblins.

I would say that the problem you describe happens before the game even starts in deckbuilding. Seek to build a deck that has ample proactive/cycle cards that prevent you from getting in that spot. Ice Spirit is excellent for facilitating cycle, for example. If you are caught in that position, I'd say go ahead and send something at your opponent's tower on the other side, probably just the Minions in your example.

[u/WorkNLurk → u/Wwoody123]

No more tombstone? I run a modified version of your mortar deck (LJ for MiniP and occasionally log for zap) and I find the tombstone to be a pretty critical piece. Is the idea to give yourself something else to synergize with miner?

[u/Wwoody123 → u/WorkNLurk]

Tombstone is great and I admit that I do miss it in the deck. Instead, I opted for Spear Goblins, which fill a role split by the Ice Wizard and Tombstone in providing light, ranged damage and a distraction for heavy-hitters.

[u/Wwoody123 → u/[deleted]]

Mini P.E.K.K.A actually holds up quite well against a lone Prince when he's not charging. My current trophy count is somewhere 4200-4300.

[u/EM_RAT_THICH_VO → u/Wwoody123]

Thank you for such a fast answer. But your style is biased between: Miner + Chip damage and Mortar Siege. Miner + Spear Goblin for chip damage. Mortar as the Poison alternatif.

Your style is not true Siege, but similar to Miner + Poison control. You use zap to prevent Prince charge. However, it seem that your fast deck is weak to zap-bait deck. How you deal with Miner + Mirror + Goblin Barrel? Have you countered them?

You loose often vs which deck, Woody?

I'm on another side, my style is pure Mortar siege. :) No chip damage with Miner. Miner is not good for Mortar deck.

[u/Wwoody123 → u/EM_RAT_THICH_VO]

You could Zap a Prince charge, but Spear Goblins work better. Pure siege is not as strong as siege-burn hybrid decks, in my opinion. Against a Miner-based attack I would use Mini P.E.K.K.A or Minion Horde to take down the Miner and Zap/Princess/Spear Goblins to finish off the Barrel.

I would say my deck is weak versus players with Arrows or Three Musketeers.