User blog comment:Smarty Pants 264 Clash Royale/Wishes for future Balance Updates 14/9/2016/@comment-12690164-20160916091753/@comment-29396184-20160916102730

The Rocket is not overpowered the main purpose is to destroy Elixir Collectors and defenses. If you run a cheap cycle deck you can easily rush the other tower because they just spend 6 Elixir doing about 400+ damage to your tower which they have to use their limited elixir to defend. As long as you don't run an Elixir collector based deck rocket users are not that bad to deal. Also if you are using an Elixir collector deck just place the pump between the arena towers so the Rocket's radius cannot reach both elixir collector and crown tower but be careful of poison spells. Remember they won't have a lot of elixir to defend after they used a rocket.

To your right here is where you should place your elixir collector if you know your enemy has a rocket. Credits to Orange Juice Gaming

P.S. Thanks for the feedback hope this helps