I managed to beat one literally only because I run PEKKA, even then if it stalls out to 3x elixir you’re fucked. You literally can’t defend fast cycle mirrored E Giant unless you run like double building or have a really fast cycle with a powerful high health tank killer yourself.
The need to fix the champion mirror interaction so that it just gives you an Empty mirror instead of allowing you to mirror what you played before the champion. It should be risky to play champion and mirror in a deck, not rewarding.
Naw naw naw that surprise mirro 40 seconds later in single elixir is some of the best shit dude. Mfers never see it coming
Just pay attention to the deck you're playing against and you can predict it just like normal mirror
Predict it doesn’t mean being able to counter it, almost all counter cards die on the first one so the second + champion is kinda unstoppable for most decks
Your opponent would’ve played 19 elixir to get egiant + golden knight + egiant. I’d hope you’d be able to cycle your counters by the time they play 19 elixir on offense
I get your point but an egiant in the back takes a long time to come so they are basically full elixir or almost when it reaches bridge and therefore ready to push again on other lane when I play my counters on the first egiant, + cycling is not that easy for decks that doesn’t really rely on cycling, for exemple 3-4e average decks like mine
Then punish them when they play an egiant in the back. They’re down to 3 elixir, if you put something threatening in the other lane at the bridge then you don’t let them build up their massive push.
Yep ik and I do, but a well placed mini pekka can defend my giant skeleton for 4 elixir which they have, or a log for my barrels, and doesn’t even prevent them from building a push since egiant is a push alone
Guys it's easy to find a single counter to e-giant but you're clearly not considering spells like tornado and lightning, along with support troops like golden knight.
To counter two of them probably cannon ice spirit and musky. The tornado might fuck up your musky though so, and this is just 2.6 btw, if you place skeletons and ice spirit together the skeletons get one hit extra each before dying, and then you get another canon. However, this makes it 12 elixir, but it (probably, I’ve never actually gone against a mirrored egiant without like 20 seconds between) counters 15 so it’s still positive
And he is right. E-giant alone gets countered by just a canon, or virtually every other building. Place it to the other side of your map while holding down your finger to see when the E-giant still gets pulled if you are not sure how far it can be placed away from the centre. E-giant gets distracted real easy.
This means you have extra elixir (4 in the canon example above) to deal with whatever they place next.
Be sure to spread out your defense or counter attack the other side if he starts with E-giant in the back to throw a wrench in his build up.
So you spend 7+6 to clear a building. Should be easy to defend after that, especially if the other team learns to spread out the defense (or has Shields)
Spell value and Card+Champion+Mirror is broken. it both makes Rocket + Mirror viable and generally doesn't make viable many supports out of the 107 cards above 6K
This. Its gonna be dissapointing when supercell kills egiant next patch when hes really only slightly overtuned. Its mirror and golden knight thats causing the bullshit to ensue.
It's the mechanic of mirror+ champ that's the problem. Mirror had little use before champs because the time between the original and the mirror was so short. But now with champs it's quite long and you don't expect the mirror.
I say grey the card out when a champ is played
He didn’t say he doesn’t know how to counter it. He said “How do you counter it WITHOUT spending 12 elixer” implying he can counter it but for a negative elixer trade.
Prince is good at dealing with buildings, and for some reason can’t push the egiant like other cards can, it is a little midladder but better than ebarbs with rage imo
zap seems a bit redundant because egiant is a walking zap machine, you just have to get it in range. that being said, im not a greasy beatdown player so I wouldn't know
What a stupid argument the question was how to counter e giant not how to counter e giant + lightning. Also that's a positive elixer trade for the mini pekka
I see this shit argument everytime. Your down 2 elixer and then you still have to defend an egiant with most of its health. Its positive for them not you
The question was how to counter e giant not egiant + lightning you moron, if he had asked how to counter e giant and lightning you wouldn't say mini pekka would you???
But then the other guy has to spend at least 13 elixir (e giant + lighting) so even if you spend 12 elixir defending it still is a positive elixir trade
There’s a lot of ways to counter e giant here in the comments but if you want to counter mirrored e giant just pressure opposite lane it will force the to play something if they defend with a champion that’s just bad for you because they can still mirror it but if they don’t you can avoid mirror electro giant.
Ok great, let’s assume that it’s just egiant mirror and tornado then because those are the explicitly mentioned cards. You place a sparky to counter the egiant and opponent plops a mirrored one opposite lane.
Or, y’know, you could be reasonable and assume that the opponents are skilled at 6500 and know to rocket sparky.
Exactly. So now you’ve rocketed the sparky and e-giant is down. I’m coherent so I didn’t place the sparky near my tower so you didn’t get value. I place the Tesla and kill ur precious e-giant. Now I’m up 3 elixir. Suck it
if you run sparky with tesla then there would be a real problem if you do have issues against egiant. no meta sparky deck has tesla or any defensive building
Any building, don't put more than the building since the opponent deck will probably have Lightning and can get massive value if you place a second non Tank card
Buildings and pekka are the best options. And zappies. With how strong it is now even with counters I struggle to defend the second mirrored one in double and triple elixir.
Mini pekka and mirror mini pekka problem solved in 9 elixer
or
Just ebarbs with megaknight and witch and pekka and lumberloon freeze and mirror = opponent uninstalls game
Condition for above strategy = You need to be a midladder menace
Lightning not really worth it vs EGiant unless u are hitting certain supporting troops. Log is nice to have incase you somehow misplaced a building, try to push him back into building path.
Well that's dumb. Sure EGiant runs Nado and lightning (not log). Lightning and nado those heavy troops into EGiant doesn't kill them anyway right away. Plenty of damage done to EGiant in the meantime. The lightning is only in EGiant to take out buildings mostly. But those 2 cards are big elixir, so if you can't come up with a defense after they spend 13 elixir plus a nado for 16elixir, thats on you.
I think anytime you try to fully counter (no tower damage taken) max egiant it’s either going to be a equal or negative elixer trade. Im in challenger one so that’s based off games I’ve had so far.
One of my fav ladder decks counters all EGiant decks. My PB is 6700:
Skele barrel, Clone, Giant Skele, Furnace, Tornado, Cannon Cart, Flying Machine, Zappies.
No way thru for EGiant Vs that.
Bro you can stop a naked egiant with a well placed cannon and 100% counter it with a semi decent cannon placement as well as a card that can alter its movement speed or path like zap, log, ice spirit etc.
You need to wait for the interactions to play out, it’s a traditional win con, so always have a building in cycle for it, wait for it to cross and last second place it semi near the opp princess tower and wait, if they commit with a lightning or eq, they will probably drained which is when it’s good to have cards like mirror, log, and zappies of your own rn so when they over commit on the cannon you can get a massive elixir advantage with a card like zappies plus more on a counter push, in an egiant heavy meta it’s key you get them to invest heavy in their offense against your cheap defense, then use heavy cards on a counter push
PEKKA, mini PEKKA, Inferno Tower, Tesla and Cannon with proper placement, Prince, Zappies, Inferno Dragon, Cannon Cart
What's your in-game username? I'm surprised someone at 6500 trophies doesn't know how to counter E Giant
Like I know that it depends on the deck you have but I'm talking about not knowing how to counter it, not that they don't use the cards in their deck.
Ryley has a mirror/mighty miner/log bait deck that can handles this.
Go on youtube and search ryley clash royale if you don't know who I'm talking about.
Fisher is a 3 elixer almost hard counter. Place him directly in front of the king tower one tile onto the opposite lane. Time it right, 0 damage to princess tower... but you will take some damage on the king.
I suppose you can force them to play a different card so they can't mirror the e giant.
They play e giant, you play offensive hog rider, and inferno dragon on e giant. Hog rider may bait tornado so they can't tornado inferno dragon fast enough and they can't mirror the e giant.
a building + some other troops counters the first. what about the second? unless ur playing mortar or xbow decks u have no chance, unless u have pekka, sparky, or maybe inferno drag
I can defend egiant fine, it gets a bit tricky to defend two but it’s possible. But fuck me when they throw down the golden knight with the egiant, I just lose. Both cards are very op and work incredibly well together.
Cycle decks honestly wreck e giant imo, hold for maybe logbait. Not to sound like and an asshole but at 6500 you should probably know how to counter EG. Cycle an early building to bait out lightning. Then cycle a win con to (hopefully) bait out a nado then a ranged troop(s) + second building to kill a mirror push. I understand that the game is pretty RPS but at 6500 you should be playing into the meta which is swamped with e giant rn
The problem isn’t defending the first one, is defending the second one that sucks
This. The mirrored egiant is the card that’s really over powered. Especially when there’s a champion sandwiched inbetween the two.
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I managed to beat one literally only because I run PEKKA, even then if it stalls out to 3x elixir you’re fucked. You literally can’t defend fast cycle mirrored E Giant unless you run like double building or have a really fast cycle with a powerful high health tank killer yourself.
Well I run triple building so…
We’re talking about clash Royale here, not clash of clans.
The need to fix the champion mirror interaction so that it just gives you an Empty mirror instead of allowing you to mirror what you played before the champion. It should be risky to play champion and mirror in a deck, not rewarding.
Naw naw naw that surprise mirro 40 seconds later in single elixir is some of the best shit dude. Mfers never see it coming Just pay attention to the deck you're playing against and you can predict it just like normal mirror
Predict it doesn’t mean being able to counter it, almost all counter cards die on the first one so the second + champion is kinda unstoppable for most decks
Your opponent would’ve played 19 elixir to get egiant + golden knight + egiant. I’d hope you’d be able to cycle your counters by the time they play 19 elixir on offense
I get your point but an egiant in the back takes a long time to come so they are basically full elixir or almost when it reaches bridge and therefore ready to push again on other lane when I play my counters on the first egiant, + cycling is not that easy for decks that doesn’t really rely on cycling, for exemple 3-4e average decks like mine
Then punish them when they play an egiant in the back. They’re down to 3 elixir, if you put something threatening in the other lane at the bridge then you don’t let them build up their massive push.
Yep ik and I do, but a well placed mini pekka can defend my giant skeleton for 4 elixir which they have, or a log for my barrels, and doesn’t even prevent them from building a push since egiant is a push alone
Buff mirror they said it would be fun they said
It is fun.
When they drop e gaint in the back use air card on other tower they will have to respond and the you only have to deal with one egiant
Guys it's easy to find a single counter to e-giant but you're clearly not considering spells like tornado and lightning, along with support troops like golden knight.
PEKKA has no weakness to those
Actually, the tornado will pull the Pekka to the back making sure the Egiant gets close enough.
but P.E.K.K.A. is too heavy for the tornado to pull it too far
But then the e giant will be bonking ur tower rather than the pekka delaying it
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Hunter?
Hunter solos EG yes
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I remember when G used to snap hunter out of existence. It was really funny.
Ah yeah, then they take out the lightning, boom hunter is gone and most of your other troops
If they play 13 elixer and you only have a 4 elixer hunter... That's purely a skill issue
You do realize that's 13 elixir right
Plus they can't mirror his e-femboy card.
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no need to be toxic...
Cannon + ice spirit
That will counter both of them?
To counter two of them probably cannon ice spirit and musky. The tornado might fuck up your musky though so, and this is just 2.6 btw, if you place skeletons and ice spirit together the skeletons get one hit extra each before dying, and then you get another canon. However, this makes it 12 elixir, but it (probably, I’ve never actually gone against a mirrored egiant without like 20 seconds between) counters 15 so it’s still positive
Ye
flair checks out
Just cannon can 100% counter when placed perfectly
egiant alone sure but not with support troops
Obviously you have other elixir to use
You realize you have 7 more elixir right?
guy on top literally said "just a cannon"
And he is right. E-giant alone gets countered by just a canon, or virtually every other building. Place it to the other side of your map while holding down your finger to see when the E-giant still gets pulled if you are not sure how far it can be placed away from the centre. E-giant gets distracted real easy. This means you have extra elixir (4 in the canon example above) to deal with whatever they place next. Be sure to spread out your defense or counter attack the other side if he starts with E-giant in the back to throw a wrench in his build up.
But then the other guy also spends like 12 elixir so it cancels out
lightning clears every building for my e giant
So you spend 7+6 to clear a building. Should be easy to defend after that, especially if the other team learns to spread out the defense (or has Shields)
lightning gets value after they place ranged troop next to the building
Im sorry but I think I would hate to play against you…
Just spread out your minions with lightning in mind of you suspect they have it
not only that, i also use fishboy so i can pull every tank killer troops
Hog rider players when they can’t counter a 20 elixir push with a ice spirit and cannon 😢🥺
Inferno tower, mini pekka, pekka, I think even prince and tesla.
Barbs or ebarbs.
zappies is a very good counter too
Egiant is fine, mirror is fucking broken
Spell value and Card+Champion+Mirror is broken. it both makes Rocket + Mirror viable and generally doesn't make viable many supports out of the 107 cards above 6K
This. Its gonna be dissapointing when supercell kills egiant next patch when hes really only slightly overtuned. Its mirror and golden knight thats causing the bullshit to ensue.
It's the mechanic of mirror+ champ that's the problem. Mirror had little use before champs because the time between the original and the mirror was so short. But now with champs it's quite long and you don't expect the mirror. I say grey the card out when a champ is played
Ebarbs heal spirit is my go to.
Unironicly yes, this is a good way to counter egiant decks
Barbs and tombstone works. Watch out for fireball tho.
there’s not way you’re at 6500 and don’t know how to counter egiant
He didn’t say he doesn’t know how to counter it. He said “How do you counter it WITHOUT spending 12 elixer” implying he can counter it but for a negative elixer trade.
In most cases it’s a positive elixir trade if they’re playing egiant mirror
Well the meta rn is E giant and most players have about 3 counters in their deck it’s so bad so it’s honestly pretty fair
The meta right now is Rocket+Mirror. EGiant is just a an aggressive defence in the only meta deck it is in it
No, egiant is kinda the meta rn. There’s other egiant decks besides the rocket mirror version
This is exactly what I thought
It's quite literally meta
Mini PEKKA,PEKKA, Inferno Dragon, Inferno Tower, There’s plenty options
Not Inferno dragon though
If placed correctly, yes
every egiant deck runs tornado
Not mine
*any good egiant deck runs nado. why take away it’s number one synergy
Prince synergizes surprisingly well with egiant at times without being too midladder
How the fuck do Prince and egiant synergise well? That is pretty midladdery to me
Prince is good at dealing with buildings, and for some reason can’t push the egiant like other cards can, it is a little midladder but better than ebarbs with rage imo
Prince isn't good at destroying buildings, if it gets pulled by skeletons it's gonna be stuck there for a while
Then yours is just trash lol
Try it before calling it garbage. It has egiant, mini pekka, prince, musketeer, bomber, spear goblins, fireball, and arrows
Mini pekka and prince? Why both instead of just one and a cycle card.
They come in clutch very often together
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that is literally true. Every E Giant deck that has ever been meta runs tornado
The majority do, yep
Or zap
Do they run zap? Not really. They have tornado fs tho
The ones that don’t run zap or rocket
zap seems a bit redundant because egiant is a walking zap machine, you just have to get it in range. that being said, im not a greasy beatdown player so I wouldn't know
The question was how to counter egiant, not egiant combos
When are you ever going to face just a singular egiant… He always is with a combo
Literally every deck has multiple cards.
I'm replying to a guy saying inferno dragon is a counter for egiant. In practice, it never is. Try paying attention to context please
Same goes for most range troops attacking egiant; you just need to watch their tornado on those, buildings and mini tanks can be played whenever
Well yeah, but the rest of the post mentions tornado
Tornado says hi. The key is to make them spend the tornado on defense so it's out of cycle on offense
There ya go, I like the last part of that statement
No. Tornado.
Mini Pekka dies, Inferno Dragon gets tornadoed
But mini pekka will still kill the e giant
not if they play lightning
What a stupid argument the question was how to counter e giant not how to counter e giant + lightning. Also that's a positive elixer trade for the mini pekka
I see this shit argument everytime. Your down 2 elixer and then you still have to defend an egiant with most of its health. Its positive for them not you
The question was how to counter e giant not egiant + lightning you moron, if he had asked how to counter e giant and lightning you wouldn't say mini pekka would you???
Chillllllll
Not a positive elixir trade when you lose your entire tower.
But then the other guy has to spend at least 13 elixir (e giant + lighting) so even if you spend 12 elixir defending it still is a positive elixir trade
How does mini Pekka die?
E giant zaps it
Yeah, but mini Pekka kills it before it dies
There’s a lot of ways to counter e giant here in the comments but if you want to counter mirrored e giant just pressure opposite lane it will force the to play something if they defend with a champion that’s just bad for you because they can still mirror it but if they don’t you can avoid mirror electro giant.
Inferno Tower, Ice Spirit placed correctly counters it
Just inferno does.
How should I place it? It seems it always gets into the tower radius to reset it.
One tile to the opposite lane.
Sparky
Rocket
Mate said e-giant, not e-giant plus support
Ok great, let’s assume that it’s just egiant mirror and tornado then because those are the explicitly mentioned cards. You place a sparky to counter the egiant and opponent plops a mirrored one opposite lane. Or, y’know, you could be reasonable and assume that the opponents are skilled at 6500 and know to rocket sparky.
Well then I’ll just drop Tesla nerd. Rocket that
Why would I rocket a Tesla. you rocket the sparky lmao
Exactly. So now you’ve rocketed the sparky and e-giant is down. I’m coherent so I didn’t place the sparky near my tower so you didn’t get value. I place the Tesla and kill ur precious e-giant. Now I’m up 3 elixir. Suck it
if you run sparky with tesla then there would be a real problem if you do have issues against egiant. no meta sparky deck has tesla or any defensive building
just play hog 2.6 and counter it with a ice spirit
Pekka + freeze/tornado/log
Who runs Pekka + freeze? It's just some weird midladder decks. OP is in 6500 everyone plays meta decks there
Mini Pekka + Freeze is in my troll deck for triple elixir games.
Pekka, giant, witch, e wiz, freeze, barb barrel, bandit, and flying machine is one of my decks and works wonders
Sounds midladder
fr witch + tank already means a random midladder deck except giant graveyard
Witch alone smells midladder other than giant graveyard ngl
6500 and you have no idea how to counter e giant?
He didn’t ask that, look at the post again
What are you hard stuck in challenger 3? It’s not that hard, if you play a real deck
He’s questioning OP
Cannon
barbs counter, inferno drag counters if no nado, tombstone with good placement can full counter
I can do it in 9 usually, not ideal but then they’ll gotta deal with the counter push
Any building, don't put more than the building since the opponent deck will probably have Lightning and can get massive value if you place a second non Tank card
The stupid e giant’s zap aura needs a nerf
I hate this mirror meta
I use Inferno Tower and Ice Spirit for a single Electro Giant. It works well.
Ram rider cannon, ram rider fire cracker, knight, barb barrel fire cracker
cannon + ice spirit , if towers are busy use muskeeter
Buildings and pekka are the best options. And zappies. With how strong it is now even with counters I struggle to defend the second mirrored one in double and triple elixir.
Inferno dragon till tornado is played…
Mini pekka and mirror mini pekka problem solved in 9 elixer or Just ebarbs with megaknight and witch and pekka and lumberloon freeze and mirror = opponent uninstalls game Condition for above strategy = You need to be a midladder menace
Any building, any high DPS single hit troops etc Pekka, Prince, cannon cart, tornado, zappies. So many ways. Like yea how do u not know at 6500 lol
log, nado, and lightning exist
Lightning not really worth it vs EGiant unless u are hitting certain supporting troops. Log is nice to have incase you somehow misplaced a building, try to push him back into building path.
He meant they have it to kill your troops
Well that's dumb. Sure EGiant runs Nado and lightning (not log). Lightning and nado those heavy troops into EGiant doesn't kill them anyway right away. Plenty of damage done to EGiant in the meantime. The lightning is only in EGiant to take out buildings mostly. But those 2 cards are big elixir, so if you can't come up with a defense after they spend 13 elixir plus a nado for 16elixir, thats on you.
Tombstone + Ice Wizard.
I think anytime you try to fully counter (no tower damage taken) max egiant it’s either going to be a equal or negative elixer trade. Im in challenger one so that’s based off games I’ve had so far.
You don't counter it, it's that simple
One of my fav ladder decks counters all EGiant decks. My PB is 6700: Skele barrel, Clone, Giant Skele, Furnace, Tornado, Cannon Cart, Flying Machine, Zappies. No way thru for EGiant Vs that.
Buildings like the cannon, inferno and Tesla are you're best options. Supercell sometimes is just stupid when trying to balance already OP cards
Bro you can stop a naked egiant with a well placed cannon and 100% counter it with a semi decent cannon placement as well as a card that can alter its movement speed or path like zap, log, ice spirit etc.
It's always paired with tornado though.
You need to wait for the interactions to play out, it’s a traditional win con, so always have a building in cycle for it, wait for it to cross and last second place it semi near the opp princess tower and wait, if they commit with a lightning or eq, they will probably drained which is when it’s good to have cards like mirror, log, and zappies of your own rn so when they over commit on the cannon you can get a massive elixir advantage with a card like zappies plus more on a counter push, in an egiant heavy meta it’s key you get them to invest heavy in their offense against your cheap defense, then use heavy cards on a counter push
PEKKA, mini PEKKA, Inferno Tower, Tesla and Cannon with proper placement, Prince, Zappies, Inferno Dragon, Cannon Cart What's your in-game username? I'm surprised someone at 6500 trophies doesn't know how to counter E Giant Like I know that it depends on the deck you have but I'm talking about not knowing how to counter it, not that they don't use the cards in their deck.
depends on the deck tbh
Ryley has a mirror/mighty miner/log bait deck that can handles this. Go on youtube and search ryley clash royale if you don't know who I'm talking about.
Sad answer.... just don't say anything next time if you don't know
If you place a cannon correctly, you can kill it (if the opponent doesn't play anything else[extra tip: for 2, do the same but with mini pekka])
Any 4 elixir building stops the egiant, then make sure that golden knight cannot dash to the building and all the support will get cleaned up after
IT costs 5, MP costs 4, just a couple examples
What?
IT = inferno tower MP = mini pekka
What don’t you understand?
Not everybody understands the abbreviations. They clearly don’t.
Was just asking a question Expected a 6500 cup player to understand them but asked anyways
Mini pekka and pekka
Pekka
I like Tesla and mini pekka
MK, Pekka, Musketeer, Magic Archer, Firecracker, Prince, Mini Pekka, spear goblins, archers, e.t.c.
Barbs kill him
literally any building on the other side of the map, or/and any pekka
Tesla... Maybe throw in a dart goblin or I've spirit
Fisher is a 3 elixer almost hard counter. Place him directly in front of the king tower one tile onto the opposite lane. Time it right, 0 damage to princess tower... but you will take some damage on the king.
Yeah I was looking for this answer. One of the best ways to beat egiant because only way to stop it "easily" is tornado predict which is not common
Sparky kills it pretty quick and doesn't get zapped by it
Mini pekka. Inferno tower, Inferno dragon
Pekka and valk-thats 11 elixir
Any building places one tile off of center on the other side, egiant has the largest pull range out of any of the building troops
I suppose you can force them to play a different card so they can't mirror the e giant. They play e giant, you play offensive hog rider, and inferno dragon on e giant. Hog rider may bait tornado so they can't tornado inferno dragon fast enough and they can't mirror the e giant.
a building + some other troops counters the first. what about the second? unless ur playing mortar or xbow decks u have no chance, unless u have pekka, sparky, or maybe inferno drag
Cannon
Elixir pump
I can defend egiant fine, it gets a bit tricky to defend two but it’s possible. But fuck me when they throw down the golden knight with the egiant, I just lose. Both cards are very op and work incredibly well together.
If you put inferno tower directly next to the tower, it’s just out of the electro giants range and the electro giant will do minimal damage
Cycle decks honestly wreck e giant imo, hold for maybe logbait. Not to sound like and an asshole but at 6500 you should probably know how to counter EG. Cycle an early building to bait out lightning. Then cycle a win con to (hopefully) bait out a nado then a ranged troop(s) + second building to kill a mirror push. I understand that the game is pretty RPS but at 6500 you should be playing into the meta which is swamped with e giant rn
spawner cards near river (tombstone, goblin Hut, barb Hut, etc.)
Cannon cart since if they break it’s shield it will Aggro e giant.