Subject
[Trophy Tactics] "Waffle, “Drop”, “Slow Climb” and “Hover” or tactics for deliberately changing trophies
Background
Following are known tactics for altering your Elo rating (trophies) in Empires and Puzzles. Trophies are your public Elo rating, many MMO have a hidden Match Making Rating also. More than two Elo ratings is possible in a game, but leads to diminishing returns due to random chance.
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Summary
Waffle, Double Waffle, Half Waffle and Slow Drop are used to manually trophy drop but fill your Wanted Hero Mission Chest.
Fast Drop and Food Drop are used to manually trophy drop but NOT fill your Wanted Hero Chest.
Slow Climb is used to slow your trophy increase, fill your Wanted Hero Mission chest and consume excess food from food storage.
Hover is used to stop your trophy incrase, fill your Wanted Hero Mission chest and consume excess food from food storage.
Waffle ( named by my wife )
You discover your opponents in most raids are too tough at your current trophies, so you want to lower your trophies.
You need to defeat heroes for your current Wanted Heroes mission.
But you are matched with an opponent with lots of food, iron and a large minus trophies if you lose to them. Example 45k Food, 30k Iron and -45 trophies for a loss.
So you want the food and iron (win the raid) and to defeat their heroes (win the raid) but you also want to lower your cups (lose the raid).
Waffle part one
Fight them,
Defeat 4 of the 5 heroes on the opposite team (4 heroes for Wanted Heroes mission),
Flee using the Flee button (in this example -45 trophies),
Rematch using the rematch button.
The most important part is using the rematch button. Even if you don’t have more Raid Energy, if you use the rematch button now, you can come back in 60 minutes and fight the same opponent (if they are still offline).
Waffle part two
Fight them,
Defeat 5 of the 5 heroes on the opposite team (2 Raid Energy for 9 heroes for Wanted Heroes Mission),
Claim rewards (in this example 45k food & 30k iron).
This also leaves you with another rematch if you cannot defeat all 5 heroes in Waffle part two.
Double Waffle
After Waffle part one, you discover the opposite team is really easy for you to defeat.
Double Waffle part two (replaces Waffle part two)
Fight them,
Defeat 4 of the 5 heroes on the opposite team (2 Raid Energy for 8 heroes for Wanted Heroes mission),
Flee using the Flee button (in this example approximately -38 trophies since they defeated you twice in a row),
Rematch using the rematch button.
Double Waffle part three
Fight them,
Defeat 5 of the 5 heroes on the opposite team (3 Raid Energy for 13 heroes for Wanted Heroes Mission),
Claim rewards (in this example 45k food & 30k iron).
It stops at part three because you have used all your Rematches.
Half Waffle
This is basically a Waffle, but You keep forgetting how many rematches you have.
Half Waffle part one
Fight them, but before matching ANY tiles on the board,
Flee using the Flee button (in this example approximately -45 trophies),
Rematch using the rematch button.
The most important part is using the rematch button. Even if you don’t have more Raid Energy, if you use the rematch button now, you can come back in 60 minutes and fight the same opponent (if they are still offline).
Half Waffle part two
Fight them,
Defeat 5 of the 5 heroes on the opposite team (2 Raid Energy for 5 heroes for Wanted Heroes Mission),
Claim rewards (in this example 45k food & 30k iron).
This also leaves you with another rematch if you cannot defeat all 5 heroes in Half Waffle part two.
Fast Drop
You discover your opponents in most raids are too tough at your current trophies, so you want to lower your trophies.
You do not need to defeat Heroes for Wanted Hero mission.
You do not currently need food or iron from winning.
You are matched with an opponent with a large minus trophies if you lose to them. Example -45 trophies for a loss.
Fast Drop part one
Fight them, but before matching ANY tiles on the board,
Flee using the Flee button (in this example approximately -45 trophies),
Rematch using the rematch button.
The most important part is using the rematch button. Even if you don’t have more Raid Energy, if you use the rematch button now, you can come back in 60 minutes and fight the same opponent (if they are still offline).
Fast Drop part two
Fight them, but before matching any tiles on the board,
Flee using the Flee button (in this example approximately -38 trophies since they defeated you twice in a row),
Rematch using the rematch button.
Fast Drop part three
Fight them, but before matching any tiles on the board,
Flee using the Flee button (in this example approximately -29 trophies since they defeated you three times in a row).
It stops at part three because you have used all your Rematches.
Slow Drop
You discover your opponents in most raids are too tough at your current trophies, so you want to lower your trophies.
You need to defeat Heroes for Wanted Hero mission.
You do not currently need food or iron from winning.
You are matched with an opponent with a large minus trophies if you lose to them. Example -45 trophies for a loss.
See Fast Drop above, except you do not flee until you have defeated 4 of the 5 heroes on the opposite team.
Slow Climb
You want to slow your trophy increase.
You need to defeat Heroes for Wanted Hero Mission Chest.
You need to consume food from food storage.
Reroll your opponents, to consume your food, until you have an opponent with a low team power and +20, or less, Trophies,
Fight them,
Defeat 5 of the 5 heroes on the opposite team,
Claim rewards,
Repeat.
Food Drop
You discover your opponents in most raids are too tough at your current trophies, so you want to lower your trophies.
You do not need to defeat Heroes for Wanted Hero mission.
You do not currently need food or iron from winning.
You need to consume food from food storage.
Reroll your opponents, to consume your food, until you have an opponent with -40, or more, Trophies.
Fight them, but before matching ANY tiles on the board,
Flee using the Flee button,
repeat.
Hover
Hover is basically a Waffle, or Half Waffle, but reroll until your opponent is worth +30 / -31 Trophies.
