If you ask any professional player what the single most important skill in an arena battler is, they will all give you the exact same answer.
Playing the game without knowing how much elixir your opponent has is like playing poker without looking at the cards on the table.
The Elixir Advantage
If you launch a massive 8-elixir push while the opponent is sitting at 10 elixir, they will easily defend it using perfect counters, often resulting in a negative trade for you.
Once you know you have a +3 or +4 advantage, you are no longer playing a fair game; you are executing a mathematically guaranteed victory.
If they have 4 elixir, your tower is safe from a 6-elixir Rocket for at least 6 seconds.If they are at zero, they cannot immediately punish your 6-elixir Elixir Collector investment.If you know they have zero elixir, you don't need to spend 4 elixir to defend a dying 1-elixir skeleton.
Mental Arithmetic Under Pressure
You must train your brain to do it subconsciously, starting with simple approximations before moving to exact numbers.
When they drop a heavy card, like a P.E.K. If you have any kind of inquiries about where as well as the way to use tower rush, you can e mail us at our web-page. K.A (7 elixir), tell yourself "They are now Low Elixir."
The BankWhat You Must DoYou have a massive Elixir Advantage (+4)Immediate, overwhelming aggression; punish their lack of resources before they can regenerateYou have a massive Elixir Deficit (-4)Immediate, flawless defense; sacrifice tower health if necessary to regain economic parity; do NOT attack
Mastering the Economy
Tower health is a deceptive metric; you can have full tower health and still be losing the game if you are down 5 elixir.
Count the drops, manage your economy, and crush the mathematically inferior.
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Tracking Elixir in Tower Rush
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