Deck talk:Hog Rider Goblin Barrel Deck/@comment-31668248-20170410185005/@comment-34590425-20190104151445

I suggest Zap instead of arrows if you have it unlocked. mostly you'll use arrows for taking out skarmy and other swarms of troops. Zap does this within a smaller range and does less damage both of which are barely relevant obstacles. On the plus side, Zap has a shorter deploy time for tergets far away (from your king tower) and it also stuns the troops (if they survive the hit). This can be quite useful especially in one of the most common scenarios:

You deploy hog rider.

The opponent throws down some defensive troop.

You use arrows which don't manage to stop the troops in time (hog still takes lots of dmg)/You use Zap and the troops are briefly stunned allowing hog rider to get a hit or two in on the tower.