Hmm it's orange juice
What's up, everyone? This is oj with the royal hogs. There are four of them each with 600 health
So that's like having four musketeers worth of health
Each piglet will deal 59 damage each with a 1.1 second attack speed
this is a swift as stab goblins making each of their damage per second 53 for a total of
212 damage per second. individually though, they're one of the weakest units in the game
they're a little different from the hog rider in the sense that
Traditional single targeting units like a mega minion is not going to be effective against it
You're going to want to use alternative Splash methods to take out the piglets rocket is the hard counter the piglets
But that's six four five. Just like the hog rider. They have a very fast move speed large sight range and they only target buildings
Some of them might taper off onto the building and some of them might tipper off onto your princess tower if the cannon is four
Tiles from the river and three tiles from the princess tower
They cost 5 elixir furnace 4 elixir the fire spirits deal work to the piglet
Especially with a 4-2 placement. You'll be pulling all of them Piggy's
Tombstone isn't wide enough to stop the piglet, but it can prevent some of the damage
the goblin hut has more health so it perfectly stops the piggies just
Nicely when you lay down the hoglets behind your king tower or even at the bridge
they will split two and two towards the towers making for a very
Interesting split push if they do not have any buildings to pull in the piglets. So piglets left alone. They will deal
2,000 damage to that princess tower
They're kind of like scarmy, individually they're weak but together that's a lot of damage per second
However, if you split the piglets, they'll only deal around
590 damage to each tower
Knowing that piglets aren't actually that intimidating when you split them
So just split your goblin gang to address the piglets to negate most of that damage done on both towers
There's still a very interesting card to pair with split-pushing decks
When you slam the three musketeers down and you've baited out your fireball of minion or even the elixir collector
Then he can just split the hoglets in the middle and support the 3m for some mad dual pressured
you got to be careful though
If you didn't bait out their fireball
That's a lot of fireball value on that side with the two Musketeers and the piglets if you're defending
Against the split push like this and can only counter the musketeer or the piglets
Choose the Musketeers because two piglets do so little damage
No matter how much the piglets come at you a Valkyrie is going to dominate them
She's got a really sharp blade and she has so much health for counter push. fireball is more like a soft counter
They'll still have a bit of health remaining but your tower will kind of finish them off
Though fireball is not a reliable counter if they have a tank your tower is still gonna get rekt by the surviving piglets
You better be sure to have snowball zap log or at least something else to finish them off if they pair it with a tank
Minion horde dishes out a lot of damage per second
So as long as they don't get arrowed, they'll be able to reasonably stop the piglets without the help of any spells
But this is kind of 5 elixir for 5 and you are hooped if they have spells for your horde
With the tank. It's a whole new ball game
Defensive buildings besides bomb tower will not stop the piglets
Here's a very cool interaction
The piglets when pump is placed in the center in front of the king tower and you plant the piglets in the middle it is
Chaos two go to the princes tower one goes to the other princes tower
And the last piglet goes directly to the elixir collector and it is not targeted by any tower
For true blue when one princess tower is down notice how the piglets stagger bottom top
Bottom top this means plant it on the first tile
3 will go towards the princess tower and 1 will go toward the King tower
now for true red
Look at the formation now, the piggies are top bottom top bottom this
Results in the left piglet suddenly being targeted by the king tower
Let's watch these side by side
So the left piglet is tanking a little bit more from the king tower allowing the other three piglets to live longer this quite literally
results in true red getting
500 more damage on the right princess tower
Here's where it gets janky this card
Revolves around true red and true blue as true blue
If you plant it on the second tile all four will go to the princess Tower
Whereas if you are true red only three will go to the princess tower
This is not only inconsistent with this tile. But also with the pig push tiles
The rabbit hole goes deeper when you are true blue and you plant the royal hog on the left side. They assemble in a square
Formation now, whereas if you place them on the right side, they form an L formation
Okay, bear with me now
If your true red it's the opposite the right side forms a square formation and the left side forms an L formation
Overall both formations will all deal the same amount of damage when left ignored of course, but
Interactions, they're completely different
In
the square formation
Splash units have an advantage fire spirits will hit all four of them
Compared to the L formation where the front fire spirits won't hit the rear piglets
Valkyrie placed in the center is the ideal placement against the square formation as she'll be able to splash the
maximum amount of piglets
Executioner should be placed a little on the side to maximize his splash once they group together onto your tower
Same should be done with the bowler. You'll want to stagger him slightly off to the side so they can continue splashing the piglets
Whereas if you Center plan to bowler wizard or executioner
It causes the piglets to split which makes your splash defense weaker against them
Same with the wizard you want to maximize the splash radius by not splitting the piglets in half
So you'll want to keep the wizard away from the center so you can keep splashing the bacon
Pretty much to sum it all up all splash units, wizard, ice spirit, Sparky
royale ghost, baby dragon, Valkyrie
Witch bowler princess, executioner and the fire spirits are going to deal with the square formation better just because they are splashers
So regardless of true red or blue when hogs are planted right on the bridge, they form a similar square formation
They will be more vulnerable to these splash units
All right. So let's talk L formation against splashers
They straight up won't clip all the hogs compared to the square formation at least resulting in a little bit more damage to your tower
So for the L formation swarm units are actually better than splash units at
minimizing the damage dealt to your Tower into the Hogs lineup in a single file and block each other a
Goblin gang will actually not be as effective at stopping a square formation because they're clumped together
The tornado can pull the piglets into the King Tower if you pull the piglets with the L formation here
You can roughly snag two piglets and the other two. Well, they'll do all around 900 damage to your princes tower. No big deal
Whereas against the square formation you're going to be able to pull three piglets into your king power
This will result in your princess tower only getting 400 damage delt
the mini Pekka almost
One-shots a piglet but with massive overkill on the second attack so with an L formation
This is more efficient timed correctly. And on this tile you can synchronize with the tower and eliminate them one by one
single file
It's actually not as intimidating with a square formation as well the mini Pekka might stutter a little bit
But the Tower is there to help it out. So it's still a pretty decent counter despite there being four of them
wait
If one royale hog has 600 health and a hog rider has
1,400 health
Does that mean that the hog rider himself has at least?
800 health