Clan War Matchmaking in detail and how to improve it | Clash Of Clans | TEC Clashzz

Have you ever asked yourself why your Clan is being matched up against much stronger Clans in Clan Wars? I want to explain how the Clan War Matchmaking works, how you can affect the Matchmaking, and also discuss if this really has an impact. Please mind that I’m giving you this explanation without knowing the coding of the game, so there might be factors I’m not aware of and Supercell doesn’t let us know.

How Clan War Matchmaking Works

Basically, you and your clan members get points for everything you have – you get defensive points depending on the Levels of each of your Defenses, you get attacking points for your Troop Levels and Spell Levels, your Heroes levels, and what you, theoretically, could create to attack someone.

These numbers are added up and are used to match against another Clan with the most similar attacking and defending scores. This sounds like the best system to handle finding a perfect match for your Clan, but as you know, it doesn’t work

The reasons:

1. Supercell just made the Clan War Matchmaking Algorithm softer, so you don’t have to wait for hours to be get matched against a perfect opponent.
2. Your Clan has up to 50 members taking part in the match up – it’s important to be aware of how spread your Clan can be in terms of rankings/levels.

The first thing is easily understandable – if there is no match for your clan in the first few minutes, the algorithm gets more cloudy. This can result in being matched against a weaker Clan or even against a stronger Clan.

You know that if there’s a stronger Clan, there’s also a weaker Clan possibility, and this is one thing I have argued with my Clan Leader for ages. Now, here’s what you can do with this knowledge:

The longer the Clan War Matchmaking takes, the more likely you will get matched into an unfair Clan War

My approach is simply canceling the Clan War Matchmaking after 5 minutes. I know there’s no evidence, but I can simply tell from that many Clan Wars I did that this is working.

I consider this a big secret for how you can make the matchmaking more fair for your Clan.

The next one is the equity of your Clan – if you have 50 members taking part in the Clan War and 10 of them are Town Hall 10, 10 are Town Hall 9, etc. (very easily done, not representative) you will have an average of Town Hall 8.Let’s stay in my example for a little bit longer, and assume that there will be the perfect match against a Clan with 50 Town Hall 8s – how do you think this War will end? Your Town Hall 6 and Town Hall 7 will really struggle to score and might lose the Clan War. This example was created simply, just to show that it’s also good if your Clan has a homogeneous average Town Hall score based on the defensive and attacking power. If your Top 10 members are Town Hall 10 on the road to being maxed out, and the last 20 of your Clan are just upgrading to Town Hall 6, you will struggle to get a fair match for a Clan War because there has to be a Clan with about the same arrangement of Town Hall / Base Power.

Let’s stay in my example for a little bit longer, and assume that there will be the perfect match against a Clan with 50 Town Hall 8s – how do you think this War will end? Your Town Hall 6 and Town Hall 7 will really struggle to score and might lose the Clan War.This example was created simply, just to show that it’s also good if your Clan has a homogeneous average Town Hall score based on the defensive and attacking power. If your Top 10 members are Town Hall 10 on the road to being maxed out, and the last 20 of your Clan are just upgrading to Town Hall 6, you will struggle to get a fair match for a Clan War because there has to be a Clan with about the same arrangement of Town Hall / Base Power.

This example was created simply, just to show that it’s also good if your Clan has a homogeneous average Town Hall score based on the defensive and attacking power. If your Top 10 members are Town Hall 10 on the road to being maxed out, and the last 20 of your Clan are just upgrading to Town Hall 6, you will struggle to get a fair match for a Clan War because there has to be a Clan with about the same arrangement of Town Hall / Base Power.

Attention! The Matchmaking Algorithm Got Updated In March 2016. Here’s what changed and what you need to do to prevent mismatches:

Urban Myth about Clan War Matchmaking

You remember my personal trick of restarting the Clan War Matchmaking after 5-10 minutes to get a more fair match? I’ve heard a lot of tactics on how to get easier opponents in Clan War, so I will take the most popular and tell you if they work or why they don’t work:

• Dropping Cups: If you have read the first part of the post you know that Trophy count has absolutely nothing to do with Matchmaking at all. It’s about the Troops you have and the Defenses you have.
• Just adding some low-level player to the Clan: This is a huge mistake because it doesn’t make your Clan equally appear weaker in the same amount that it will make yourself easier to defeat. Basically, you will give your opponents lots of easy 3 star bases, but your whole Clan will not get ranked that much lower so you can get the same amount of additional stars. It’s better to try to have equally strong bases – Maxed Town Hall 8 with mid range Town Hall 9 and maybe some fresh Town Hall 10.
• Time of the day: My Clan starts with matchmaking in a time where we can avoid certain parts of the world – we have been stomped when pitted against Chinese Clans, so we decided to just avoid them. Play around a little bit with the starting time.

Now that you got your match maybe you just need to improve some details in your organization during Clan War – have you checked out my Checklist to improve your Clan War success rate? Maybe you can improve your Clan War experience with some additional tips.