Anti- Lavaloon Resources
Published April 22/2015
You move your Wizard Towers Away From your ADWizard Towers are the loons worse enemies, and the current meta bases have the wizard Towers beside the Air defense, being distracted by the Hound, thus negating any focus towards the loons. Having the wizard tower away from the AD gives the anti air buildings a chance to fight back instead of being distracted by the hound. It's difficult to do because Wizard tower and AD's radius clashes with each other. This is the more targetting against the Loons aspect of the Lavaloon attack.
Make your Base Fit for the QueenThis is purely subjective, but I think most of those that are at this stage agree that using the Town Hall as a shield against enemy heroes is the best option, as it has a high HP, stalls for time, and takes up alot of space and influence on enemy hero AI. The base that used to revolve around the sections and clan castle, now slightly shifts to the Archer Queen's role. You know that they are going to aim for that Queen and 4th Air Defense, so make it hard on them to do it. This is targetting the enemy heroes and absorbing more time as the golem gets wittled away.
Move your ADs aroundThis is a different area of focus that I feel needs to be touched up alot more in the future (will talk about in Metaki #6 Ovaki). Since you know that the 4th AD will be takened down along with queen, giving the remaining 3 AD a stronger focus so that they don't need to depend on the 4th AD would be the best action. This is where the idea of having it looked 3 in a row, or compressed comes back into play, and has to balance well with the wizard tower area.
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Other Resources
My base design concept atttempt that tries to add extra 'steps' towards stalling lavaloon.
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BB's - An Anti-Laloon concept by reddit troopers
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Ongoing discussion thread by TheJ to talk about defending against lavaloon.
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(It's an hour long) Onehive's video explaining how to build an anti-lavaloon base.
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Predator's more in-depth and more mathematical guide to anti-lavaloon bases.
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A highly informative base building video tips for making it anti-lavaloon
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