Raids



Notes
 * 1) Pairs you up with a random offline player's village within your Trophy range. View more under Multiplayer Raiding Mechanics. If you have a current shield, you will lose some duration on your shield; For the first attack, you lose 3 hours of your shield, and you will lose increasing amounts of shield time for subsequent attacks.
 * 2) The cost to find an enemy village to raid. Each different village that you view charges you gold and deducts your shield time. Only the gold cost increases as you upgrade your Town Hall to higher levels.
 * 3) The amount of Trophies you currently have.
 * 4) Shows the amount of shield time deducted when you start an attack.
 * 5) The amount of stars you have earned in the Single Player Campaign.
 * 6) A partially completed level. You are allowed to continue on to subsequent levels, but you have only gained 1 or 2 stars on this level. You may or may not have collected all resources available.
 * 7) A completed level. You have earned all 3 stars and collected all resources.
 * 8) An uncompleted level. No stars have been earned, so you cannot proceed to the next level(s).
 * 9) A locked level. You need to at least partially complete the previous level to unlock (earn at least one star on it).
 * 10) Shows the amount of stars accumulated that go towards the Star Bonus, if completed, you will be notified that loot has been transferred to your Treasury.

Multiplayer
Test your skills against another player! Matchmaking matches you with another player based on your Trophies and Town Hall level. Matchmaking tweaks are added and says you are more likely to find targets at or near your Town Hall level. Alternatively, you can enter a 'Revenge' battle by tapping the button in your Defense Log. This allows you to fight against a person who has attacked you first. Beware of this when you attack higher level villages as they will be able to 'Revenge' match you.

Prior to Battle
When the opposing player's village first appears, you get 30 seconds during which you can scout the enemy's defenses and plan your attack. Although you can deploy troops during this time, the battle will start immediately upon doing so (you do not get extra time by starting early). When viewing another player's village to raid, potential loot and Trophies that can be earned/lost are shown. Before the battle has started, if the village you are first paired up with is not to your liking you can press the 'Next' button to pay a small amount of gold and be shown another village to potentially raid. The 'Next' button disappears once the battle timer has started, but if you haven't actually deployed troops or cast a spell, you can tap 'End Battle' to return to your own village without penalty.

Once you have deployed a troop or cast a spell (even accidentally), the 'End Battle' button is replaced by the 'Surrender' button; pressing that will cause you to immediately lose the battle.

Although once you have earned at least 1 star the 'Surrender' button will once again become the 'End Battle' button, you can click it to end the battle early even before the 3m 30s is up. (A good reason to use this is to save your Heroes before they lose too much health so you can use them again sooner than if you let their health reach 0.)

Victory and Defeat
Trophies are awarded upon a multiplayer victory. Victory is determined by how many stars you earn during the raid. There are three stars available to be earned in each battle:
 * One star is earned for destroying 50% of the buildings.
 * One star is earned for destroying the enemy Town Hall.
 * One star is earned for destroying 100% of the buildings.

For each star that you earn, you receive one-third of the available Trophies. This means that destroying your opponent's Town Hall gives you an automatic victory. It is impossible to get more than one star without destroying the Town Hall. Failure to get any stars means a loss, causing you to lose Trophies.

Gaining and Losing Trophies
There is often a lot of confusion surrounding Trophies, as it is often possible to lose a lot more Trophies than you can win (although sometimes the opposite is true as well). The reason for this is simple: If you begin the match with more Trophies than your opponent, it is presumed that your opponent is "weaker" than you (Town Hall or Experience levels are irrelevant for the purposes of this determination). If you defeat this "weaker" opponent you will receive fewer Trophies than you would an "equal" opponent; losing will cost you a higher amount of Trophies. The opposite is also true: If you have fewer Trophies than your opponent, it is presumed that your opponent is "stronger" than you. Defeating this "stronger" opponent entitles you to more Trophies than you would get by defeating an "equal" opponent, and likewise being defeated by a "stronger" opponent costs you fewer Trophies.

There is no hard-and-fast rule, but in general the higher your Trophy count the more difficult opponents you will encounter, both those you are matched with to attack as well as those attacking your village. Because of this, many higher level players keep an artificially low Trophy count by intentionally losing battles; in this way they can both make their villages easier to defend (as they will on average be attacked by weaker opponents) as well as ensure themselves less difficult bases to attack for resources.

Before attacking, pay attention to how many Trophies you can win or lose; often this can help give you a quick indication as to how difficult the upcoming battle will be. If you see a large discrepancy in the number of Trophies available to win vs. the amount available to lose, there is a large Trophy difference between you and your opponent. If the number of Trophies available to win is much higher than that available to lose, you are likely to encounter a difficult battle. If the number available to win is much lower than that available to lose, the battle may in fact be relatively easy. However, do not rely solely on this comparison, as Trophy counts can be easily manipulated (as shown in the above paragraph).

Single Player Campaign
Fight the goblins in the Single Player Campaign! Each level has a preset amount of loot that can only be earned ONCE, however most of the time you will spend more Elixir on troops than you get as a reward. In addition, most of the villages past stage 16 are quite hard, so you'll have to wait until you're much higher level to complete them. Note that no Trophies can be won or lost in the Single Player Campaign and it will not cancel shields.

The lower levels (1-16) usually have no aerial defenses such as Air Defenses or Archer Towers, allowing easy completion with a single Balloon or Minion. Some levels after level 16 can also be easily completed by taking out their aerial defenses first with ground units, and then using a Balloon or Minion to destroy the rest of the village. Note that using a single air unit in this fashion can take quite some time; in fact, often it will take so long that the game will time out due to inactivity, causing the attack to fail (regardless of how many stars you had earned to that point). To prevent this, pan or zoom the screen every so often, or attack with additional units.

Many players find the higher levels in single-player to require more than one try. For these levels, it can be wise to use higher-level troops such as Wizards, Healers, Dragons, P.E.K.K.As and/or Dark Elixir Troops to complete the level, which often saves more Elixir than attempting the level multiple times with cheaper units. That being said, raiding the goblins can be quite lucrative once you progress through the hard levels. In fact, some levels can reward you with Gold and Elixir as much as 800,000 each!

It is interesting to note that while the difficulty of the Single Player Campaign increases quite rapidly as one progresses in level, the available loot rises considerably as well. Resources above 300,000 can be found after the level "Choose Wisely".

Army Planning
Army Planning is one of the most important parts of raiding. If your army is not planned out well enough you are probably going to lose, or earn one star. Depending on your objective (trophies or resources), you'll have to plan your army according to it.

If you're raiding for Trophies or a balance of Trophies or resources, this army configuration is decent for mid-level players (169 housing space required):
 * 1 Healer
 * 15 Giants
 * 40 Archers
 * 30 Barbarians
 * 10 Goblins

If you're specifically farming for resources and don't care at all about Trophies, a typical army might look like the following (180 housing space required):
 * 30 Archers
 * 100 Goblins
 * 50 Barbarians

Armies such as this are able to steal up to 350,000 Gold and Elixir (or more in some cases).

Gold/Elixir
Gold and Elixir can be stolen from four types of bulidings: storages, mines/collectors, the Town Hall, and the Clan Castle (if it contains uncollected war loot).

Note that all loot, regardless of building type, is subject to the Town Hall level-based loot multiplier (discussed below). This multiplier is applied after all calculations, including the listed caps.


 * Storages: The percentage of Gold/Elixir that can be stolen from storages until TH5 is 20% and is capped at 200,000. Starting at TH6, the percentage that can be stolen drops by 2% at each TH level. At TH7 and above the cap increases by 50k at each TH level. The following chart shows how this works:

The available Gold and Elixir is split evenly between all the Storages and the Town Hall; for example, if there are 3 Gold Storages then the available Gold to be taken will be split four ways; one part is stored in the Town Hall and one part for each of the three storages, provided that none of these storages are filled.
 * Mines/Collectors: The percentage of Gold/Elixir that can be stolen from mines/collectors is 50% and is capped only by the storage capacity of the mine/collector (the Town Hall level-based loot multiplier still applies, of course).


 * Town Hall: There is a portion of all three resources that can be stolen inside the Town Hall. As the Town Hall acts as a storage building for all resources, the percentage of available resources is equal to the percentage of available resources from the regular storages; for example, if 20% of Gold can be stolen from the storages, 20% of the Gold held by the Town Hall can be stolen. Note, however, that its loot is only obtained upon its destruction; if it is damaged no loot will be yielded.
 * Clan Castle: The percentage of loot that can be stolen from your Clan Castle's Treasury is 3%, and is capped only by the storage capacity of the Treasury itself, which is dependent on Town Hall level and Clan Perks.

The current maximum loot comes from raiding a TH11 with full collectors and 4.5M or more in storage. This means that the maximum calculated loot, for each resource, that can be stolen from 1 opponent is: 450,000 + (7 x 100,000) = 1,150,000. If you add in a full Treasury (from a village belonging to a level 10 clan), this maximum can be as high as 1,150,000 + 108,000 = 1,258,000.

These figures are before the loot multiplier is applied. The loot multiplier is what is behind the loot "penalty". The amount of available loot = calculated loot x loot multiplier, and this calculation applies to all loot sources. Well, except for the Clan Castle actually - the loot penalty simply does not apply to what is looted from it. The loot multiplier is determined as follows:

Dark Elixir
Dark Elixir can be stolen from three types of buildings: storages, drills, Town Hall and the Clan Castle.
 * Storages: The percentage of Dark Elixir that can be stolen from the storage until TH8 is 6% and is capped at 2,000. Starting at TH9, the percentage that can be stolen drops by 1% at each TH level (down to a minimum of 4% at TH10 and TH11) and the cap goes up by 500. The following chart shows how this works:

The available Dark Elixir is split between the Dark Elixir Storage and the Town Hall in a 4:1 ratio, which means that the Dark Elixir available from the Dark Elixir Storage itself is four times greater than that available from the Town Hall.
 * Drills: The percentage of Dark Elixir that can be stolen from drills is 75% and is capped only by the storage capacity of the drill.

The current maximum Dark Elixir loot comes from raiding a TH11 with full drills and 87,500 or more in storage. This means that the maximum calculated loot, for Dark Elixir, that can be stolen from 1 opponent is: 3,500 + (3 x 1,350) = 7,550. If you add in a full Clan Castle Treasury (again from a village belonging to a level 10 clan) the maximum can be as high as 7,550 + 540 = 8,040.

The same loot multipliers as with Gold/Elixir apply to Dark Elixir as well.

Trivia

 * As soon as the three-minute and 30 seconds raid timer begins counting down, all Builders and Villagers run towards the Town Hall to hide.
 * Every time you get raided, you will get the notification saying Your village was raided by (Attacker's name)! (assuming you have notifications turned on). It was changed to  (Attacker's name) is attacking your village! during the Christmas 2014 Update. It was changed to Your village is being raided by (Attacker's name)!
 * Players from up to 200 Trophies above and below you are able to raid you, but these are not hard limits.
 * Following the Christmas 2014 update, it is possible to watch a live attack on your village, if you are able to log on while the attack is in progress.
 * Supercell increased the battle timer by 30 seconds at the 10/12/2015 update.
 * This update also allows players to steal Dark Elixir from the Town Hall.