TH 9 Upgrade Priorities
Key Initial Upgrades
Once your Town Hall is upgraded to level 9, the first upgrades and purchases you should complete are as follows:
Continue to upgrade your heroes as a top priority until they are maxed.
Troops and Spells
Based on which attack strategies are most effective at TH9, the following is the order in which you should upgrade your troops and spells:
Traps & Defenses
The order in which you should upgrade your defenses is based on maximizing your defensive capabilities while minimizing the effect on the war matching formula. Upgrade your defensive structures in the following order:
Key Initial Upgrades
Once your Town Hall is upgraded to level 9, the first upgrades and purchases you should complete are as follows:
- Buy Archer Queen
- Upgrade Laboratory
- Upgrade Clan Castle
- Upgrade all Army Camps to max
- Upgrade Spell Factory
- Upgrade Dark Spell Factory
- Upgrade Dark Barracks
- Buy new resource structures
- Upgrade all resource structures to max
Continue to upgrade your heroes as a top priority until they are maxed.
Troops and Spells
Based on which attack strategies are most effective at TH9, the following is the order in which you should upgrade your troops and spells:
- Hog Rider
- Heal Spell
- Wizard
- Dragon
- Golem
- Witch
- Earthquake Spell
- Lightening Spell
- Poison Spell
- Wall Breaker
- Balloon
- Lava Hound
- Haste Spell
- Jump Spell
- Barbarian
- Archer
- Goblin
- Valkyrie
- Minion
- all others in any order
Traps & Defenses
The order in which you should upgrade your defenses is based on maximizing your defensive capabilities while minimizing the effect on the war matching formula. Upgrade your defensive structures in the following order:
- Buy new Giant Bombs
- Existing Giant Bombs to max level
- Buy new Hidden Teslas (leave at lvl 1)
- Buy new Air Sweepers (leave at lvl 1)
- Buy new Air Defences (leave at lvl 1)
- Buy new Seeking Air Mines (leave at lvl 1)
- Existing Air Sweepers to max level
- Existing Seeking Air Mines to max level
- Buy new Archer Towers (leave at lvl 1)
- Existing Air Bombs to max level
- Existing Air Defences to max level
- Existing Cannons to max level
- Buy new Wizard Towers (leave at lvl 1)
- Buy new X-Bows (leave at lvl 1)
- Existing Hidden Teslas to max level
- Existing Archer Towers to max level
- Existing X-Bows to max level
- Existing Mortars to max level
- Existing Wizard Towers to max level
- Existing Bombs to max level