This is how you can win in normal match quite quickly unless they have a castle archer
First get 3 of the Earth Elementals
Second attack middle while getting an earth elemental every time you get enough gold (150)
Attack swords with half and the other half attack the Miners
When they decide to send all inside make sure you click (spacebar) and have everyone attack statue
No matter what keep your eye DIRECTLY ON THEIR MINERS INSIDE!
When the miners move out click (spacebar) and attack the miners second and the swords first
KILL ALL PRAYING MINERS BEFORE GOLD MINERS due to the fact that you need mana for speartons and rage
Then attack till they die :D

Hope i helped



OK OK I AM SORRY I WAS WRONG ABOUT THIS STRATEGY! HERE IS AN ACTUAL STRATEGY THAT WORKS 70% OF THE TIME!
(I tested)
First, get 1 earth and 1 water
then have miners pray
get a treature root it
Then get 2 miners asap
Then 2 more so you can have them pray (4 mining 2 praying)
Once you have enough for another treature get one
Then, save up for the Health increase
get it
Have all your trees unroot and root once the upgrade is complete
Then get more and more and more
once at max
attack middle
you might want to wait for the blue bar to fill up aftet you unroot your trees to attack middle because thats the time it takes to make the minions
then once middle is captured, ATTACK!
IF THEY HAVE FLYING ARCHERS USE YOUR ROOTS TO ATTACK IT!
Hope i helped ☺
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:D

Hmm this is a rush right? Your screwed if they get an archdion they kite your earths to death.
If you uses this on Chaos your still screwed because of poor eco.
This start works best when your going against elementals.

Seriously? What elo have you tried this at?

1 Earth will take out 1 sword and die doing so, hitting an enemy miner just once will get you hit with several attacks from swords, and lose you the fight if they match your Earth numbers with Swords. Also, one archidon will kite your Earths and kill them, leaving you with no army and no eco, and the opponent set to harrass you and win the match.

Yes, Earths do train faster than Swords, but they cost more gold, and spamming them won't get you more, because you and your opponent will have the same gold income, so you won't be able to buy any more Earths than your opponent and won't be able to stack them 4 secs after each other because you'll run out of gold. Inevitably, if you just spam your opponent will end up with 1 extra sword from all the 25 gold they save trading 1 for 1.

You'll have an 8 second time window in which to use that single Earth you trained faster than your opponent, and as Swords are faster units, and can run past your Earths, as well as being able to just run back to base for 8 seconds freely on larger maps, that window will be gone before you can use it on most players that understand Elementals.

1 Earth will take out 1 sword and die doing so

wut

because you and your opponent will have the same gold income

There is basically no opener except for sword/archer that doesn't make at least one miner...meanwhile if you're earth spamming all day everyday you're stuck with two...zero when the other guy's done with you lol

1 Earth will take out 1 sword and die doing so

wut

because you and your opponent will have the same gold income

There is basically no opener except for sword/archer that doesn't make at least one miner...meanwhile if you're earth spamming all day everyday you're stuck with two...zero when the other guy's done with you lol

Sorry read my other strategy

Earths are good. But you need waters. Still not enough trees.

Quote from Skeletonxf

I was kinda referring to best case scenarios, I've seen now that sometimes the sword wins the 1v1 if they get loads of shorter attack frames.

Sword always wins without micro. From the logic of OP, I don't think he has gosu micro with his Earth Elementals.

Quote from DragonArcherZ

Sword always wins without micro. From the logic of OP, I don't think he has gosu micro with his Earth Elementals.

This is why I suspected that they had only tried this at really low elo.