Mortar Cycle & Variants

• Author: Min, Predator
• Published: 2017-12-08
• Reddit post

Description

This post shows ingredients of a typical mortar cycle deck, its variations in different slots, together with a list of suggested decks for beginners and advanced players.

EDIT: This is intended as a supplement to our previously posted guides on Reddit:

• Mortar: Optimal Placement published on 2017-04-06
• Mortar: Optimal Placement v2 published on 2017-09-25

Ingredients

1. Win Con / Defensive Building
   • Mortar
2. Tank
   • Knight
3. Air Defense
   • Archers
4. Cycle
   • Skeletons: quick cycle, opponent can’t ignore when you use it against their tank / dies to zap.
   • Bats: high dps, better against air deck, dies to zap.
   • Goblins: high dps, doesn’t die to zap.
5. Cycle
   • Ice Spirit
6. Ground Swarm Control
   • The Log
7. Air Swam Control
   • Arrow: fastest response to horde
   • Tornado: activate king, good against hog and tank / need to pair up with archers or is to kill horde
   • Princess: gets value if left ignored, can put at bridge to chip
8. Pump Killler / Win con
   • Rocket: response to pump, 3m, xbow and balloon, rocket cycle if mortar can’t get through, can kills a big push if pair with nado
   • Miner: gets value from pump, quicker cycle, clutch tank, less risky unlike rocket
   • Fireball: quicker cycle, kills horde

Decks

Name	Avg Elixir	Deck Link	Notes
Standard	2.9	Copy to Clash Royale	-
Gobs	3.0	Copy to Clash Royale	Recommended: Beginner
Bats	3.0	Copy to Clash Royale	Recommended: Beginner
Nado	2.9	Copy to Clash Royale	-
Nado Bats	3.0	Copy to Clash Royale	Recommended: Advanced
Miner Nado	2.6	Copy to Clash Royale	Recommended: Advanced
Fireball Princess	2.6	Copy to Clash Royale	-

About the Authors

Both play mortar cycle on ladder at top 1k global.

Min /u/min_58

• Co-Leader, Reddit Alpha
• Best season rank: 575th Global
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Predator /u/ArcaneForgery

• Co-Leader, Reddit Alpha
• Best season rank: 676th Global
• http://cr-api.com/clan/family/racf/profile/9QJUQG88

Credits

• Strategy by Min
  • http://twitter.com/Min__CR
  • http://reddit.com/u/min_58
• Strategy by Predator
  • http://twitter.com/predator_cr_
  • http://reddit.com/u/ArcaneForgery
• Compiled by SML
  • http://twitter.com/smlbiobot
  • http://reddit.com/u/smlbiobot
• Proud members of the RoyaleAPI Clan Family
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Previous Guides

• See http://docs.redditalpha.com/#/strategy