📌 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 📌 👾 Join my Discord: discord.gg/Xr8Z29KDc9 📋 Skilltree: imgur.com/a/lnNs45o ▶ Heroes: Hero promotions: imgur.com/a/OhJwjic Please note individual changes might be made to the build depending on players items, wave level etc. Using your own head is recommended but don't make changes unless you know what you are doing since it might break the synergy between heroes and build Later on Dark Assassin can be used for damage as well, but early game he is better to be used as a support unit. Even though he is lightning type hero, his damage is highly reliable on his aoe ability that has relatively high cooldown. You will need to stack up some cooldown on your Pure Wizard and Necromancer, get damage items for Dark Assassin AND get the +1 Slash rune from Intermediate Dungeon before he can be worth the gold investment. You can find Dark Assassin guide here: ua-cam.com/video/EbbjoxMcDww/v-deo.html it is made for the Physical build, but the items/orbs/runes presented there are the same you will use in lightning build as well. Lightning Wizard might be possible to use as well, but in terms of gold invested, the damage dealers presented here will provide better value (at least in early game) Lightning Hunter has terrible damage and is not worth to be used. ▶ Hero Targetings: Thor - Auto or Ground Dark Lightning Archer - Auto Zeus - Flying Thunder Tower - Flying Slingers - Ground (flying shouldnt be an issue) Dorothy - Auto or Ground ▶ Hero Levels / Ratios Ratios do not work on low wave levels, but your highest level units will be (likely in this order) - Thor 0.05 - Dark Lightning Archer 0.04 - Thunder Tower 0.04 - Zeus 0.03 now early on Ligthtning archer can't yet reach her full potential (until you get bow node and physical tree for strafe nodes). - Thor takes care of ground monsters - Zeus and Lightning tower make sure you have aerial supremacy - Archer helps during wave and kills bosses Frozen Tower, Ice Wizard/Sorcerer, Barracks, Giant Ogre: THESE DO NOT NEED TO BE LEVELED past their final promotions. They deal absolutely no damage, use the gold on your damage dealers instead. ▶ Orbs: You unlock orbs when you get a hero to level 10.000. Orbs can only be equipped on heroes that are level 10.000 or higher. You will want to divide Orb of Luck, Critical Orb, Orb of Power and Lightning Orb between your four main damage dealers, depending on what kind of items they have been able to get. Place Critical damage or Critical luck orb on Lightning Archer, depending which stat you are lacking most from your items. i.e you have 3 lines of critical chance but no critical damage, pick the critical damage orb, and vice versa. Thor can likely use Lightning Orb, but if he is the first level 10k unit you have, you can use Luck orb on him temporarily as well. Eventually Zeus will get the other critical orb that Dark Lightning Archer did not get. This leaves Orb of Power for Assassin. Note that everyones account is different, so individual changes are possible. Test and see for yourself which brings best results! You got this! TO BE UPDATED!
My friends the most horrible update is live also laku pls read this comment below If this build comes out live i will quit until it is back which will never be i just cant use another build ahhhh shame on raon games for making all grow castle players sad😭😖😣
I remember when i played this game as a kid YEARS ago. Im still sad they changed the sexy monster's attack from nipples to tounge. That was the funniest thing in the game lol.
Comming back to this game after YEARS, I only remembered Zeus and Thor were OP damage dealers, so I went into electricity build and skills on my own. I'm so happy I made the right choice accidentally 😅 but this video made my setup even way better, so thank you!
Hahaa nice 😁 good timing for the comeback then! You just missed the old physical meta and went straight to the new one 😎 also welcome back to the game!
i renember i was watching you like 2 months ago i thought you're a youtuber with over 100k sub but when i check your sub count it was 12k i was so shock because your editing skills are so good you deserve more than this!
Aww, thanks 😊 I appreciate your kind words alot! This is a dear hobby to me haha, I try to slowly learn to be better and better 😁 it's fun and I can help people at the same time!
Wow, there's a second decimal for cooldowns? That's great QOL feature not mentioned in the other beta. Stone is also the provider of more green orb slaves. I'm excited to change up the meta!
Yeah the second decimal was a nice surprise from the developer 👍 it has been asked for for a while now, its very nice QOL indeed! And also the option to name decks is pretty nice new feature 😊
I watched your tutorial guide for beginners it caught my attention on this game and I play it it's great I try different composition and I can't decide which one I will play now I saw this video hope to see another composition build keep doing great contents
Hey hey 👋 with the most recent update, if you were to start from beginning, lightning is definitely now the way to go for waving 👍 but yeah now instead of one meta (physical), we now have multiple options which is pretty dang nice 😎
Thank you Laku! For your guide, I reach 20.6k wave on day11 of playing and can get some decent L grade item + conquered all 2 first world, only orc world left ❤ (Hope I can farm Legendary dragon + use +4 & +5 skip wave soon)
Hey hey 😊 I'm very happy to hear that! That's very good progress congratulations 😊 Finishing up those orc colonies and getting to legendary dragon farm levels will take a while, but with that progression speed it shouldn't be too long for you, keep up the good work 💪 I wish you the best luck 🍀
@@LakuJK This is day19, I reach 51k waves and finally first beating Legendary Dragon!! 😊 Finally I can farm L equip. I'm so happy that my hardworking paid off rn
Lightning has been decent for a while, the problem with it was that it lacked boss killing power, in which giants and bowmaster simply dominated the field. Now with the introduction of Lightning Archer promotion, that issue can be fixed and lightning is fully usable finally 😎
Its nearly not as effective as running lightning. Doable, yes, but likely you will want to then run some town archers - poison variation or something, and still lightning would just be better to run
Im sad bruh i spend all my coines on physical build so when is was new idk how to play but when i saw your vids i got to wave 35k but i spen all my gold on the physical build so i need to get more coines for lighting build (great video)
Yeah it will likely take a while to gather enough gold for the change, in the meanwhile try to keep using the old build or the mix of the two 👍 no rush, eventually you'll get it sorted out 😊
Ye I feel that just got a physical damage taken reduced for angels and plus 1 summon for giants I'm on wave 11k lol gotta redo all least my Zeus is decently leveled already
Just got back to this game and right now I'm trying this Lightning setup. I don't have high level among my lightning heroes, leaders and towers. By now I'm leveling them up but I don't know who should I prioritize. Edit: Also do u have a lightning setup that is also autobattle but instead uses gold?
What is your wave level? The first ones to prioritize in early game would be Thor and Thunder towers (with mirror, stone and red defender) 👍 after that Zeus and Dark Lightning archer. Rest of the units dont really need to be leveled more than to get their final promotions. If you are not in my discord yet, I would highly recommend joining 😊 we have loads of information available in there as well regarding lightning build, levels, items etc (invite link is in the description box of this video) As for gold build, the only one about lightning i really have now is my main account gold autobattle build. You cannot use it for profitable autobattle yet, but if using manual for some reason or using time autobattle, then the layout is okay (except you will still want to have thunder tower with stone, mirror and red defender in the build). That video can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/XQ0bVSwLdDg/v-deo.html
angels would probably achieve more, but chrono increases progression speed which is really important (also increases colony gold speed at the same time) 😊
Yo would you recommend switching to this even tho i alr invested in physical/summon build and is at wave 2700 rn or just keep physical/summon to a certain point
I would recommend starting to level up the lightning units and switch over 😊 physical can work but eventually lightning will simply be stronger now after update
your highest level units will be (likely in this order) - Thor - Dark Lightning Archer - Thunder Tower - Zeus early game you can leave lightning archer a bit lower than the others as well, but those are your main damage dealers 👍 also your castle level should be as high as your highest damage dealers!
Dark elf should only be dropped if you can reach the "archer trio applies to itself" skillnode in the skilltree, before that drop dorothy or slingers in early game 👍 Dark assassin as support unit is decent pick that doesnt require leveling (just get him to level 51)
I would recommend that, yes 😊 it might take a while to gather the gold, so temporarily drop to single waves (no devil horn) and collect that gold. Lightning is pretty strong so even with relatively low levels you can start doing waves quite comfortably 👍
Great video Laku i really love your vids specially the guide ones, but i have some question. Im at wave 450 and my build is mostly physical as i watched your guide videos before this and the physical was the way to go so i followed it,but my towers arent really that a high level since im just at early game. Now that the meta has changed im curious,Now my question would i need to be at wave 1k to do this or do i just go straight from this? Also do i need to level up my town archers or no? Or do i also upgrade the gold mine thing or do i keep mining for dark crystals and not up them? Im curious on your opinion!
Hey, sorry for the late reply 😊! Not sure how far you have advanced by now, but i would recommend starting to level up these units instead for now, if you need gold, you can leave your game on overnight (if possible) to gather plenty of colony gold and in the morning you should have enough to level up the units that you need 👍 you dont really need to be at wave 1k to do this, but you COULD also use gold autobattle and make profit from it until like ~1000-2000 waves so thats an option for you. in that case include military band M, Orc Band heroes in the build instead of dorothy and ice wizard/smith and use the gold bar, golden heart and bronze piece treasures, as well as trophy tower instead of Barracks 👍 And i would recommend just setting the workers to mine dark crystals and not level them up
@@LakuJK hey! i have a problem with using bluestacks 5. i was gonna download grow castle but it said "Your device isn't compatible with this version" how do i fix this?
I will do video of my main account also as soon as I can, I plan on doing full lightning on it as well so that build will be about higher wave gold autobattle build 👍 hopefully it will help
Kind of yes, but the other damaga dealers do his job as well / better so he is not required for the build. And adding another damage dealer is not great idea resource-wise, as you will need to have enough gold for all damage dealers to keep up with the waves
does it matter where i put the units? i dont really like activating abilities on the top, so can i just put the units in whatever way i want, as long as Necro, pure wizard and bowmaster are next to each other?
you can re arrange the units yes, but make sure to keep bowmaster in the bottom right corner, and try to have units that shoot projectiles closer to the right side of castle (like dark elf and slingers in here for example). But if you are doing manual gameplay then its pretty much up to what is most convenient to you anyway!
Main boss damage dealer in dragons will be Dark Lightning Archer, and Zeus will help out and so will Thor, although to lesser extent 👍 dragons will be a bit slower than before, but we got the reduced timer on the chest after dragon, which balances things out quite nicely
Hi Laku im on wave 235 what build do i use and which units to level up to which level including castle lvl and leader lvl Is that a green screen behind you or your house 😅cuz it looks cool
Sadly it's a greenscreen 😂 my house looks more boring! Focus on Thunder towers and Thor at your wave level now most, but also keep on upgrading lightning archer and zeus as well. Keep castle leveled up as well, it can be around the same level as your highest units 👍 work on building up your whole castle if you dont have all 12 hero slots yet, thats a huge boost early on, and dont worry if you have mana problems, those are very common in early game but they will get better after a while!
Sup I’m at wave 800k and have 136 skill tree points/ stars, what modifications would you recommend I make to this build with me being where I am, and would you recommend doing a hybrid lighting+poison build (with scubas), that’s what I’ve seen some other people do
hybrid build surely can be an option, although im not exactly sure if you have enough skillpoints for it yet, could be but if we talk about pure lightning, then the change you definitely want to do is to start using dark assassin as damage dealer instead of thunder towers 👍 the towers will not be able to provide good enough damage for you anymore at that point, so your main units will be: Dark Lightning Archer | Thor | Zeus and Dark assassin, and their levels likely go in this order as well from highest to lowest. if you can get giant ogre to double proc (cooldown lower than pure wizards) that will be a great source of crowd control for you as well, i believe with your points you can get lightning, physical and summon trees (from summon you want the slinger pierce node, and if you want to start testing gold autobattle, you will need the 10% more monsters node as well, but if you still use fab that can wait)
I would advice doing so 👍 take your time to level the units, no need to rush though, your physical build will still likely be able to run just fine thanks to all the extra skillpoints
That's kinda individual depending how you want to proceed with your early game. Either level them up now until they are level 10.000 and then stop, or just ignore them for now and spam them later to 10.000. I ignored them but some want to see them in use, both options will lead to same outcome with pretty similar speed i would believe. 10.000 is the preferred stop point though, at that level you get a skillpoint from them and its more effective to run just heroes after that
Hello, I knew of an automatic combat deck that doesn't use money, but can you tell me the link to a video that is good for an automatic combat that uses time? I'm not good at English, so it's hard to find a video because I'm running a translator
So I’m using the gold build that you made in the ultimate beginner guide like 2 months ago but I was wondering when I should switch to this composition or should I do a physical composition ???
Yo Laku, gc just updated is this gonna be the new meta waving build, or still the physical summon build? And i also spent all my gold on the physical summon build, and on wave 50k lately.
This is pretty much going to be the meta wave build, at least for early to mid game. Physical can still work but its just much weaker than before thanks to giants being nerfed to the ground 😥 You can keep using your build now im sure, if you struggle, drop down to no devil horn for a while and gather some gold for the lightning units, mainly focus on thor and thunder tower for now, they dont need to be leveled super high for them to be able to do very well for you. Take your time, don't rush, and don't panic. You got this
Town Archers should always be a better option to use than the lightning cannons. They dont get boosted from the lightning tree anyway and that extra damage to flying monsters is kinda useless in lightning build where everything is blasting air monsters with increased damage already
Laku i have just got an L tier item with a cooldown, critical damage and flying damage should i use it for wizard (-10% cooldown) or use it for something else? It has 46% crit damage
you can use it for the cooldown yes 👍 if you got another cooldown for pure wizard, you can temporarily use this on zeus as well, its not a terrible item for him either 👍
while i wait for sin build i try to make my dragon build by myself is it ok? i use dark nec. pure wizard dark lighting archer zeus stone ice wizard/sorcerer smith chrono slinger orge red defender ll dark elf
Yeah that would seem to be good 😊 ogre might not be needed so you can use druid to boost castle defense by 5% ( no need to level druid!!) and Dark assassin as support unit should help a little, instead of again ogre or ice wizard or slingers. Make sure to always use the strange key treasure when fighting dragons!
@@felansear you can but it wont make any difference, only reason to use him would be the defense boost for castle. If you can survive sin attacks then also Druid will be completely useless
Hey, Laku. I've tried this setup... I find it to be a bit MID... I've been a lightning build main for years, now. I didn't find dark lightning Archer to be effective, neither the spear slingers. My top 9 in analysis are all capable of getting 9 figures worth of damage and it scales all the way down to newbie levels.
Hey laku im on wave 1 rn i changed phones so my progress reset so what build should i use can you reply like this if can 😅 physical summon build wave 100 to 1000 gold autobattle 1000 to 5000 something like that to a million if can 😊
The latest update simply made lightning the most versatile element to begin with, something that has both good boss damage and good normal monster damage 👍 Physical used to be THE meta build for like 2 years before this update, but it was heavily nerfed (mainly Giants were nerfed) so it simply does not perform as well anymore. Fire and Ice on the other hand just dont get to same level in terms of performance as lightning does atm, but we will have to see if next updates will bring more balance stuff or not. Fire has great normal monster clearance damage atm, but it's lacking boss killers for example
I just got to wave 1200 and this will prob help me but idk I will try this and Also I want to ask of You Can respond Why havent you streamed on Twitch Since 2023?
At that point, switching over to this should be relatively easy, and waves should be super easy with lightning build 👍 I kinda just continued streaming in UA-cam since most of my viewers would likely find me here instead of Twitch. I've been meaning to switch over to Twitch, but there's always been "something" to keep me occupied and I've gone with the path of least resistance 😅 that's the only reason really, I still do plan to stream on Twitch at some point
This is my build since I start playing again last month until now Druid, lightning archer, military band, lightning hunter,red def,darf elf,Zeus,Poseidon, Dr goblin,golem master,dark lightning wizard and Elizabeth Champion is Tony for crystals Is this good or bad set up Pls help
I'm not sure if it will be a great idea having more than 4-5 dmg dealer I see that you kinda want an ice/lightning type of build I can't seem to think a combinations since ice dmg dealer are TA skele.king Poseidon and Elizabeth you should prioritized lightning heroes more I recommend thor Zeus lightning archer and towers and the test should be support/buff/stuns/knockbacks I'm currently using lightning wizard chain instead of lightning archer since it has higher level
hi i put all my egg in one basket in the physical summon build and mat all the items not relevent to my build prior to this update. im at wave 816k and 131 skillpoints. it is really difficult for me to transition to another build as i have absolutely no items for other heroes. i believe my best plan is to continue running my build with the giants on lower devil horn until i find items for lightning heroes for the lightning build, which is obviously going to take forever and then copy the build in this video. do you have any other recommendations?
Heya! 😊 Yeah basically everyone is in this position right now, it's going to take a while for everyone to be able to adjust to new builds after this update. Your plan sounds exactly what I would also recommend, temporarily take it slower and take your time to do the swaps 👍 for your wave level this exact build might not be the most optimal, have you been leveling / using dark assassin yet in your physical build before? Zeus Thor and Lightning Archer will be 3 key heroes even for you, but Thunder Towers are likely not optimal for you anymore so you can skip those and try to focus on Dark Assassin instead. Which would mean you can drop stone and defender from the build and take in Assassin and some crowd control unit, like Giant Ogre or Mech Ram
yeah thats normal, the shield defense numbers are kinda wonky in this game. While they do serve as guidelines, they really lack consistency between different modes 😅
Since the last update, lightning heroes are now better to start with, but both options will work! I would recommend picking the damage dealers from this build (and skilltree), and use all the gold boosting units presented in the starter video
It can, but you will eventually drop thunder tower and take in dark assassin, much like you did with sniper in physical summon build 👍 with enough sp lightning poison also becomes an option in late game, but full lightning also works
What is your wave level right now? Start investing into thor and thunder towers first if you are in early game, getting those two to decent levels will allow you to wave quite easily. Since you already have leveled bowmaster for physical build, she is ready to be used in lightning build, just switch the promotion to dark lightning archer 👍If sniper is leveled already, you can kind of use a hybrid build and keep him in the build for a while, but without physical tree he likely won't do much damage. After you get thor and thunder towers leveled up, start leveling zeus as well. This change will likely take a little bit of your time, so you can stop using devil horn treasure until you have been able to complete the switch.
start working on upgrading thor and thunder tower (if you are below 200k waves), and keep using physical summon for as long as you can before you can do the switch. Can temporarily add giants and sniper instead of dorothy and dark elf in the lightning build also
I would recommend taking it slowly, do single waves for now without devil horn and start leveling thor first, you can get lightning build running with relatively low levels as long as thor can handle ground monsters. You can also try to use some mix of lightning and physical until you can fully do the shift, likely keep sniper instead of dorothy and maybe giants instead of some other unit (but i doubt they will do much with just lightning skilltree)
Lightning hunter is very weak hero and I would not recommend him in any case Lightning wizard can be okay, but there is justnot really room for him since the damage dealers slots are kinda in use and all parts of damage dealing are already covered. He doesn't do the job better than any of the other options here, which is why he's left out Dark Assassin can and will be very good unit 😊in early game his damage cannot yet reach full potential, but later on he can be extremely useful (replaces stone and thunder towers). Early game he can be used as level 51 support unit if you have room for him
I know physical summon is dead almost but i justa changed it a little and its running so good. I am using as i call it PHYSICAL SUMMON LIGHTNING BUILD 4 : gold boosting heroes(rogue,orc band, alchemist, military band) 3 : buff and debuf (pure wizard,chrono,dark necromancer) 6 : damage dealer(dark lightning archer, zeus , assassin, mad giants, angels, slingers) this build is running super good for me and i thing late game players can run it even better and use max devil horn @LakuJK
Sounds like a save error, you cannot get them back, but for next time, after you do anything like that or claim any reward, make sure to do manual save and if possible do 1 wave at least to make sure the game saves your progress 😊 that should prevent it happening again in the future!
📌 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 📌
👾 Join my Discord: discord.gg/Xr8Z29KDc9
📋 Skilltree: imgur.com/a/lnNs45o
▶ Heroes:
Hero promotions: imgur.com/a/OhJwjic
Please note individual changes might be made to the build depending on players items, wave level etc. Using your own head is recommended but don't make changes unless you know what you are doing since it might break the synergy between heroes and build
Later on Dark Assassin can be used for damage as well, but early game he is better to be used as a support unit. Even though he is lightning type hero, his damage is highly reliable on his aoe ability that has relatively high cooldown. You will need to stack up some cooldown on your Pure Wizard and Necromancer, get damage items for Dark Assassin AND get the +1 Slash rune from Intermediate Dungeon before he can be worth the gold investment.
You can find Dark Assassin guide here: ua-cam.com/video/EbbjoxMcDww/v-deo.html
it is made for the Physical build, but the items/orbs/runes presented there are the same you will use in lightning build as well.
Lightning Wizard might be possible to use as well, but in terms of gold invested, the damage dealers presented here will provide better value (at least in early game)
Lightning Hunter has terrible damage and is not worth to be used.
▶ Hero Targetings:
Thor - Auto or Ground
Dark Lightning Archer - Auto
Zeus - Flying
Thunder Tower - Flying
Slingers - Ground (flying shouldnt be an issue)
Dorothy - Auto or Ground
▶ Hero Levels / Ratios
Ratios do not work on low wave levels, but your highest level units will be (likely in this order)
- Thor 0.05
- Dark Lightning Archer 0.04
- Thunder Tower 0.04
- Zeus 0.03
now early on Ligthtning archer can't yet reach her full potential (until you get bow node and physical tree for strafe nodes).
- Thor takes care of ground monsters
- Zeus and Lightning tower make sure you have aerial supremacy
- Archer helps during wave and kills bosses
Frozen Tower, Ice Wizard/Sorcerer, Barracks, Giant Ogre: THESE DO NOT NEED TO BE LEVELED past their final promotions. They deal absolutely no damage, use the gold on your damage dealers instead.
▶ Orbs:
You unlock orbs when you get a hero to level 10.000. Orbs can only be equipped on heroes that are level 10.000 or higher.
You will want to divide Orb of Luck, Critical Orb, Orb of Power and Lightning Orb between your four main damage dealers, depending on what kind of items they have been able to get. Place Critical damage or Critical luck orb on Lightning Archer, depending which stat you are lacking most from your items. i.e you have 3 lines of critical chance but no critical damage, pick the critical damage orb, and vice versa. Thor can likely use Lightning Orb, but if he is the first level 10k unit you have, you can use Luck orb on him temporarily as well.
Eventually Zeus will get the other critical orb that Dark Lightning Archer did not get. This leaves Orb of Power for Assassin. Note that everyones account is different, so individual changes are possible. Test and see for yourself which brings best results! You got this!
TO BE UPDATED!
laku are u gona stream later
Make a wave build for 400k and 1m wave. pls
Im waiting for a GAB setup. I hope u make a video about ur main account build 🙏
@@NeoBlissGC once i get it updated, will do! I'm due to 8m video anyway 😁
My friends the most horrible update is live also laku pls read this comment below
If this build comes out live i will quit until it is back which will never be i just cant use another build ahhhh shame on raon games for making all grow castle players sad😭😖😣
I remember when i played this game as a kid YEARS ago. Im still sad they changed the sexy monster's attack from nipples to tounge. That was the funniest thing in the game lol.
That's the biggest loss in the history of this game, I agree 😂!
I agree too
RIGHT????
That was the first thing I noticed when I picked the game back up haha
Comming back to this game after YEARS, I only remembered Zeus and Thor were OP damage dealers, so I went into electricity build and skills on my own. I'm so happy I made the right choice accidentally 😅 but this video made my setup even way better, so thank you!
Hahaa nice 😁 good timing for the comeback then! You just missed the old physical meta and went straight to the new one 😎 also welcome back to the game!
i renember i was watching you like 2 months ago i thought you're a youtuber with over 100k sub but when i check your sub count it was 12k i was so shock because your editing skills are so good you deserve more than this!
Aww, thanks 😊 I appreciate your kind words alot! This is a dear hobby to me haha, I try to slowly learn to be better and better 😁 it's fun and I can help people at the same time!
Thank you. I'm a player from Korea, and your build has been incredibly helpful to me
I am very happy to hear that 😊 thank you for the comment! And good luck with your game!
Originally had your physical summon build and it worked like a charm even after the nerfs (I am on very low waves
Hearing that makes me happy 😊! Thanks for taking the time to comment
Earliest I’ve ever caught a video, love you and the game, wish it got more attention
Nice, happy to have you here, much appreciated I also wish the game got more attention, but it seems a very distant dream 😥
Wow, there's a second decimal for cooldowns? That's great QOL feature not mentioned in the other beta. Stone is also the provider of more green orb slaves. I'm excited to change up the meta!
Yeah the second decimal was a nice surprise from the developer 👍 it has been asked for for a while now, its very nice QOL indeed! And also the option to name decks is pretty nice new feature 😊
@@LakuJK I have officially become Raon Games' walking PR team as this update is simply incredible.
I remember when you make a vid about physical build and i try it and now i will try this build again. Thanks for the big help ❤
sorry for late reply but thanks for the support 😊and happy to help!
Finally you made an lightning setup. Greetings from your old subscriber😄👍
Much appreciated, my friend! I wanted to wait until lightning is completely viable, and now the time is finally ripe 😎
I just started the game and this is extremely helpful! Thanks for all the hard work!
Heya! Happy to hear that and welcome to the game and to the channel 😊 I appreciate it a lot!
I watched your tutorial guide for beginners it caught my attention on this game and I play it it's great I try different composition and I can't decide which one I will play now I saw this video hope to see another composition build keep doing great contents
Hey hey 👋 with the most recent update, if you were to start from beginning, lightning is definitely now the way to go for waving 👍 but yeah now instead of one meta (physical), we now have multiple options which is pretty dang nice 😎
@@LakuJK I'll wait your other builds and mix it with my build 😁
Thank you Laku! For your guide, I reach 20.6k wave on day11 of playing and can get some decent L grade item + conquered all 2 first world, only orc world left ❤
(Hope I can farm Legendary dragon + use +4 & +5 skip wave soon)
Hey hey 😊 I'm very happy to hear that! That's very good progress congratulations 😊 Finishing up those orc colonies and getting to legendary dragon farm levels will take a while, but with that progression speed it shouldn't be too long for you, keep up the good work 💪 I wish you the best luck 🍀
@@LakuJK This is day19, I reach 51k waves and finally first beating Legendary Dragon!! 😊 Finally I can farm L equip. I'm so happy that my hardworking paid off rn
@@RealMelodyHinariVery nice 💪! You've been progressing very smoothly I see 😊
Been using lightning build ever since... Thank you for the new idea sir.
Nice 😊 I wish you good fortune with your waves 💪
I knew that the build through electricity would be good, it was not in vain that I started downloading it
The funniest thing is that the assembly itself is very similar
Lightning has been decent for a while, the problem with it was that it lacked boss killing power, in which giants and bowmaster simply dominated the field. Now with the introduction of Lightning Archer promotion, that issue can be fixed and lightning is fully usable finally 😎
Thanks a lot laku with your videos i can play the game a lot better and get to know builds and a lot of tips for the game 👍
Happy to hear this 😊! That is my main goal when doing these haha!
Hell yeah im gonna start doing lightning build soon after the update is done 👍
I actually like lightning build
I'm sad to lose giants, but maybe something new can be refreshing 😊
@@LakuJK Agree
@@LakuJK Imagine if Raon Games will add new hero that summons a dragon
Hey is using poison a good idea in early game? I've been thinking using of it.
Its nearly not as effective as running lightning. Doable, yes, but likely you will want to then run some town archers - poison variation or something, and still lightning would just be better to run
Thx. Learning more and more 👍👍👍maybe there’s actually 5 main damage dealers, namely mirror also:)
😂 nice big thumbs up
14:43 quite surprising 🙀
It is amazing how easy it is to be good at grow castle by watching a video
so this is the best wave build in the cake currently?
Yes, lightning is currently the recommended starting point☺️
Im sad bruh i spend all my coines on physical build so when is was new idk how to play but when i saw your vids i got to wave 35k but i spen all my gold on the physical build so i need to get more coines for lighting build (great video)
Yeah it will likely take a while to gather enough gold for the change, in the meanwhile try to keep using the old build or the mix of the two 👍 no rush, eventually you'll get it sorted out 😊
Ye I feel that just got a physical damage taken reduced for angels and plus 1 summon for giants I'm on wave 11k lol gotta redo all least my Zeus is decently leveled already
@@LakuJK thanks I did and I got all my heros on the lighting build to lvl 2600
Laku can you please make a video about first world colony sin dragon orc colony builds and also gold autobattle
I'll keep on working on the lightning stuff 👍 it will likely take some time to create all, but eventually i will make them 😊
@@LakuJKok please make ones for wave 2000-500000
Hi ,I would like to suggest castle defend online. It is a 4 player games that is really interesting .Hope you will play it.
Thank you for the suggestion 😊 I will check it out!
Just got back to this game and right now I'm trying this Lightning setup. I don't have high level among my lightning heroes, leaders and towers. By now I'm leveling them up but I don't know who should I prioritize.
Edit: Also do u have a lightning setup that is also autobattle but instead uses gold?
What is your wave level? The first ones to prioritize in early game would be Thor and Thunder towers (with mirror, stone and red defender) 👍 after that Zeus and Dark Lightning archer. Rest of the units dont really need to be leveled more than to get their final promotions. If you are not in my discord yet, I would highly recommend joining 😊 we have loads of information available in there as well regarding lightning build, levels, items etc (invite link is in the description box of this video)
As for gold build, the only one about lightning i really have now is my main account gold autobattle build. You cannot use it for profitable autobattle yet, but if using manual for some reason or using time autobattle, then the layout is okay (except you will still want to have thunder tower with stone, mirror and red defender in the build). That video can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/XQ0bVSwLdDg/v-deo.html
Wow Laku, already pumping out a shit ton of guides haha, good stuff man, thank you
I've been trying to prepare 😅 kinda got lucky with the timing, very happy about that
I don't really like chrono so im still gonna put angel or giant but it depends on my liking if I would or wouldn't
angels would probably achieve more, but chrono increases progression speed which is really important (also increases colony gold speed at the same time) 😊
@@LakuJK one more question does this also work on 2+ and 3+ waves?
@@Bread_bighead Yes 👍
wow This is a SHOCKING⚡ build 😬🙃
love it!
Yo would you recommend switching to this even tho i alr invested in physical/summon build and is at wave 2700 rn or just keep physical/summon to a certain point
I would recommend starting to level up the lightning units and switch over 😊 physical can work but eventually lightning will simply be stronger now after update
Make video on gold build
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Laku ty so muche. But what shoud i upgrade first to the highest level?😅
your highest level units will be (likely in this order)
- Thor
- Dark Lightning Archer
- Thunder Tower
- Zeus
early game you can leave lightning archer a bit lower than the others as well, but those are your main damage dealers 👍 also your castle level should be as high as your highest damage dealers!
@LakuJK TYSM LAKU!
What would I should drop Dorothy or dark elf and what is a recommended hero to change
Dark elf should only be dropped if you can reach the "archer trio applies to itself" skillnode in the skilltree, before that drop dorothy or slingers in early game 👍 Dark assassin as support unit is decent pick that doesnt require leveling (just get him to level 51)
@@LakuJKthank you🎉
Great video
now im on physical build wave 56k, what should i do after physical got nerfed? should i change my build to this build?
I would recommend that, yes 😊 it might take a while to gather the gold, so temporarily drop to single waves (no devil horn) and collect that gold. Lightning is pretty strong so even with relatively low levels you can start doing waves quite comfortably 👍
Great video Laku i really love your vids specially the guide ones, but i have some question. Im at wave 450 and my build is mostly physical as i watched your guide videos before this and the physical was the way to go so i followed it,but my towers arent really that a high level since im just at early game. Now that the meta has changed im curious,Now my question would i need to be at wave 1k to do this or do i just go straight from this? Also do i need to level up my town archers or no? Or do i also upgrade the gold mine thing or do i keep mining for dark crystals and not up them? Im curious on your opinion!
Hey, sorry for the late reply 😊! Not sure how far you have advanced by now, but i would recommend starting to level up these units instead for now, if you need gold, you can leave your game on overnight (if possible) to gather plenty of colony gold and in the morning you should have enough to level up the units that you need 👍 you dont really need to be at wave 1k to do this, but you COULD also use gold autobattle and make profit from it until like ~1000-2000 waves so thats an option for you. in that case include military band M, Orc Band heroes in the build instead of dorothy and ice wizard/smith and use the gold bar, golden heart and bronze piece treasures, as well as trophy tower instead of Barracks 👍
And i would recommend just setting the workers to mine dark crystals and not level them up
hi, will you be making a video on the colony build?
Yes 👍
How do you play on PC? are you using an emulator like bluestacks or is there a direct download?
I use BlueStacks yes! 😊 I have also made guide for bluestacks and hotkeys if you want to check it out: ua-cam.com/video/pEDoGckbGN0/v-deo.html
@@LakuJK hey! i have a problem with using bluestacks 5. i was gonna download grow castle but it said "Your device isn't compatible with this version"
how do i fix this?
Hey Laku , Can I replace Dark assassin with Thunder towers/Stone cause I got very good items for him ,and also replace red defender to blue defender?
Yes, after early and mid game that is exactly the change you will want to do 👍
@@LakuJK ok thanks⚡
Laku hi, will the build guide be higher than 1 million waves?
I will do video of my main account also as soon as I can, I plan on doing full lightning on it as well so that build will be about higher wave gold autobattle build 👍 hopefully it will help
@@LakuJK Thanks!
Is lightning wizard a viable hero for this build?
Kind of yes, but the other damaga dealers do his job as well / better so he is not required for the build. And adding another damage dealer is not great idea resource-wise, as you will need to have enough gold for all damage dealers to keep up with the waves
Should i use lightning mage with this build or nah?
He doesnt really have a slot in this build, other damage dealers do the job better and having more damagers is not that cost efficient
Finally update come after 3 weeks 🤧
Finally 😅 the beta period was much longer than I thought it would have been
does it matter where i put the units? i dont really like activating abilities on the top, so can i just put the units in whatever way i want, as long as Necro, pure wizard and bowmaster are next to each other?
you can re arrange the units yes, but make sure to keep bowmaster in the bottom right corner, and try to have units that shoot projectiles closer to the right side of castle (like dark elf and slingers in here for example). But if you are doing manual gameplay then its pretty much up to what is most convenient to you anyway!
Are Lightning setups better than Physical Setup?
After last update, yes 😄 Lightning is the recommended path to go for
@LakuJK ok thank you 😁
Are you gonna make guides on the dragon build and other builds aswell?
Definitely! I'll work on them as soon as I can, but it will take a while to get all the stuff done 😊
nice build
😊💪
What will the colony and drag builds look like with lightning build? Currently running physical summon with 32 sp at wave 90k
Main boss damage dealer in dragons will be Dark Lightning Archer, and Zeus will help out and so will Thor, although to lesser extent 👍 dragons will be a bit slower than before, but we got the reduced timer on the chest after dragon, which balances things out quite nicely
Hi Laku im on wave 235 what build do i use and which units to level up to which level including castle lvl and leader lvl
Is that a green screen behind you or your house 😅cuz it looks cool
Sadly it's a greenscreen 😂 my house looks more boring!
Focus on Thunder towers and Thor at your wave level now most, but also keep on upgrading lightning archer and zeus as well. Keep castle leveled up as well, it can be around the same level as your highest units 👍 work on building up your whole castle if you dont have all 12 hero slots yet, thats a huge boost early on, and dont worry if you have mana problems, those are very common in early game but they will get better after a while!
Thanks Laku😊
Sup I’m at wave 800k and have 136 skill tree points/ stars, what modifications would you recommend I make to this build with me being where I am,
and would you recommend doing a hybrid lighting+poison build (with scubas), that’s what I’ve seen some other people do
hybrid build surely can be an option, although im not exactly sure if you have enough skillpoints for it yet, could be but if we talk about pure lightning, then the change you definitely want to do is to start using dark assassin as damage dealer instead of thunder towers 👍 the towers will not be able to provide good enough damage for you anymore at that point, so your main units will be: Dark Lightning Archer | Thor | Zeus and Dark assassin, and their levels likely go in this order as well from highest to lowest. if you can get giant ogre to double proc (cooldown lower than pure wizards) that will be a great source of crowd control for you as well, i believe with your points you can get lightning, physical and summon trees (from summon you want the slinger pierce node, and if you want to start testing gold autobattle, you will need the 10% more monsters node as well, but if you still use fab that can wait)
I'm at wave 5500 using Physical/Summon build. Should I turn to lightning once the update drops?
Thanks!
I would advice doing so 👍 take your time to level the units, no need to rush though, your physical build will still likely be able to run just fine thanks to all the extra skillpoints
So I should level my town archers up.? that is the only part I’m confused on
That's kinda individual depending how you want to proceed with your early game. Either level them up now until they are level 10.000 and then stop, or just ignore them for now and spam them later to 10.000.
I ignored them but some want to see them in use, both options will lead to same outcome with pretty similar speed i would believe. 10.000 is the preferred stop point though, at that level you get a skillpoint from them and its more effective to run just heroes after that
Can i use this for gold auto builds
Yes 👍 just make sure to include the gold boosting stuff 😁
Hello, I knew of an automatic combat deck that doesn't use money, but can you tell me the link to a video that is good for an automatic combat that uses time? I'm not good at English, so it's hard to find a video because I'm running a translator
I use orge, should i upgrade that or just for knock back?
No need to upgrade more than just enough so you can promote him to last promotion ☺️ he deals zero damage so no need to waste gold
@@LakuJK should i buy uni guild
@@goodgame5170 if you level town archers for damage also, then yes. Otherwise just hero guild will suffice just fine
New update has been made yesterday.
Can you cover it and how it affects the physical/summon META?
Or do we have new META build?
Is physical better or this?
After this latest update, lightning is now better
So I’m using the gold build that you made in the ultimate beginner guide like 2 months ago but I was wondering when I should switch to this composition or should I do a physical composition ???
This is better now than the physical after this last update
@@LakuJKbtw why not use hunter instead of dark elf because the hunter gives the same bonus while it having a lightning path but that’s just me
@@LakuJKnvm you talked about it in the video my bad ig I never heard it 😅😅
Yo Laku, gc just updated is this gonna be the new meta waving build, or still the physical summon build?
And i also spent all my gold on the physical summon build, and on wave 50k lately.
This is pretty much going to be the meta wave build, at least for early to mid game. Physical can still work but its just much weaker than before thanks to giants being nerfed to the ground 😥 You can keep using your build now im sure, if you struggle, drop down to no devil horn for a while and gather some gold for the lightning units, mainly focus on thor and thunder tower for now, they dont need to be leveled super high for them to be able to do very well for you. Take your time, don't rush, and don't panic. You got this
@@LakuJK thanks man, sorry i reply this late 😁
Oh and btw is this the only meta waving build, is there more like poison, ice , fire , summon?@@LakuJK
lightning meta is somehow back
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Is this better then the physical summon build?
After this update, yes
Is this build suitable for new update?
Yes its specifically made for it 😊👍
Is the town lightning cannon a viable option for that build? I have my archers at level 20 and idk if I should start using it or just ignore it
Town Archers should always be a better option to use than the lightning cannons. They dont get boosted from the lightning tree anyway and that extra damage to flying monsters is kinda useless in lightning build where everything is blasting air monsters with increased damage already
@@LakuJK Oh I didn't know it doesn't scale with the skills, btw any reason not to swap someone for the lightning mage? Is his dps too low?
is it still good to keep using a physical summon build?
It's still likely usable for you, but just weaker than before and weaker than what lightning will be for now 👍
Eu estava perdido com minha build de invocação, agora encontrei uma build muito melhor.
Encantado de ayudar, espero que esto funcione para usted!
Laku i have just got an L tier item with a cooldown, critical damage and flying damage should i use it for wizard (-10% cooldown) or use it for something else? It has 46% crit damage
you can use it for the cooldown yes 👍 if you got another cooldown for pure wizard, you can temporarily use this on zeus as well, its not a terrible item for him either 👍
@@LakuJK yeah i got an S tier with 2 cooldown lines also thanks for the advice youre the best youtuber for growcastle
while i wait for sin build i try to make my dragon build by myself is it ok? i use
dark nec.
pure wizard
dark lighting archer
zeus
stone
ice wizard/sorcerer
smith
chrono
slinger
orge
red defender ll
dark elf
Yeah that would seem to be good 😊 ogre might not be needed so you can use druid to boost castle defense by 5% ( no need to level druid!!) and Dark assassin as support unit should help a little, instead of again ogre or ice wizard or slingers. Make sure to always use the strange key treasure when fighting dragons!
i have to promote druid or not?
@@felansear you can but it wont make any difference, only reason to use him would be the defense boost for castle. If you can survive sin attacks then also Druid will be completely useless
Is this better than physical summon before the update?
Well, its likely better against normal waves, but still un nerfed physical summon build is stronger than anything we can have right now really
Hey, Laku. I've tried this setup... I find it to be a bit MID... I've been a lightning build main for years, now. I didn't find dark lightning Archer to be effective, neither the spear slingers.
My top 9 in analysis are all capable of getting 9 figures worth of damage and it scales all the way down to newbie levels.
Physical summon build is best or lightning build at wave 5000
Lightning is better right now 👍 but you can keep using physical to gather gold for lightning heroes if you are using physical now
Ok
And thanks
Is fire build still good? Been using it my main dmg is the fire tower
Hey laku im on wave 1 rn i changed phones so my progress reset so what build should i use can you reply like this if can 😅 physical summon build wave 100 to 1000 gold autobattle 1000 to 5000 something like that to a million if can 😊
you should aim to use this one right here 😊👍
Out of curiosity, why lightning, why not physical, or fire or ice etc
The latest update simply made lightning the most versatile element to begin with, something that has both good boss damage and good normal monster damage 👍 Physical used to be THE meta build for like 2 years before this update, but it was heavily nerfed (mainly Giants were nerfed) so it simply does not perform as well anymore. Fire and Ice on the other hand just dont get to same level in terms of performance as lightning does atm, but we will have to see if next updates will bring more balance stuff or not. Fire has great normal monster clearance damage atm, but it's lacking boss killers for example
Is there a build where succubus can be added her new active skill is a lot like strafe but on steroids
should I transition to lightning build or no?
I would recommend it yes
Hi! What about the build for infinite town, can you do a content for it? Thank you
I have a lot of stuff to do, but I'd imagine i will cover that one as well at some point 😊 dragons stuff etc also coming
I just got to wave 1200 and this will prob help me but idk I will try this and Also I want to ask of You Can respond Why havent you streamed on Twitch Since 2023?
At that point, switching over to this should be relatively easy, and waves should be super easy with lightning build 👍 I kinda just continued streaming in UA-cam since most of my viewers would likely find me here instead of Twitch. I've been meaning to switch over to Twitch, but there's always been "something" to keep me occupied and I've gone with the path of least resistance 😅 that's the only reason really, I still do plan to stream on Twitch at some point
@@LakuJK 👍
Finally you create lightning wave build🎉🎉🎉Yipphie
Finally we got the final piece in place to make lightning as strong as it should be 😊⚡
This is my build since I start playing again last month until now
Druid, lightning archer, military band, lightning hunter,red def,darf elf,Zeus,Poseidon, Dr goblin,golem master,dark lightning wizard and Elizabeth
Champion is Tony for crystals
Is this good or bad set up
Pls help
I'm not sure if it will be a great idea having more than 4-5 dmg dealer I see that you kinda want an ice/lightning type of build I can't seem to think a combinations since ice dmg dealer are TA skele.king Poseidon and Elizabeth you should prioritized lightning heroes more I recommend thor Zeus lightning archer and towers and the test should be support/buff/stuns/knockbacks I'm currently using lightning wizard chain instead of lightning archer since it has higher level
How come I don't have the lightning archer ? Only dark bow and dark ranger
It will be available after you've updated your game 😊
hi i put all my egg in one basket in the physical summon build and mat all the items not relevent to my build prior to this update. im at wave 816k and 131 skillpoints. it is really difficult for me to transition to another build as i have absolutely no items for other heroes. i believe my best plan is to continue running my build with the giants on lower devil horn until i find items for lightning heroes for the lightning build, which is obviously going to take forever and then copy the build in this video. do you have any other recommendations?
Heya! 😊 Yeah basically everyone is in this position right now, it's going to take a while for everyone to be able to adjust to new builds after this update. Your plan sounds exactly what I would also recommend, temporarily take it slower and take your time to do the swaps 👍 for your wave level this exact build might not be the most optimal, have you been leveling / using dark assassin yet in your physical build before? Zeus Thor and Lightning Archer will be 3 key heroes even for you, but Thunder Towers are likely not optimal for you anymore so you can skip those and try to focus on Dark Assassin instead. Which would mean you can drop stone and defender from the build and take in Assassin and some crowd control unit, like Giant Ogre or Mech Ram
off topic, but how is that i can win the 8k shield colonies but not the 5k dungeon?
yeah thats normal, the shield defense numbers are kinda wonky in this game. While they do serve as guidelines, they really lack consistency between different modes 😅
I'm only at wave 540ish.. heroes at level 40-50 Is this build better than the starter build?
Since the last update, lightning heroes are now better to start with, but both options will work! I would recommend picking the damage dealers from this build (and skilltree), and use all the gold boosting units presented in the starter video
Can this build go up to millions of waves like physical summon
It can, but you will eventually drop thunder tower and take in dark assassin, much like you did with sniper in physical summon build 👍 with enough sp lightning poison also becomes an option in late game, but full lightning also works
Which building should i use for more than 500k waves?
Bro is this a glitch? I installed grow castle again and i was on 8k waves but i have w 41 skill point in the skilm tree
That is one of the changes in this update, ALOT more skillpoints for early game 😊
@@LakuJK ohhhh
laku will you do a lightning gold autobattle setup ?
Most likely, at least for later game but ill keep on doing stuff for as much as I have time 😊
I am using the physical build, what is the easiest way to go to lightning build ?
What is your wave level right now?
Start investing into thor and thunder towers first if you are in early game, getting those two to decent levels will allow you to wave quite easily. Since you already have leveled bowmaster for physical build, she is ready to be used in lightning build, just switch the promotion to dark lightning archer 👍If sniper is leveled already, you can kind of use a hybrid build and keep him in the build for a while, but without physical tree he likely won't do much damage. After you get thor and thunder towers leveled up, start leveling zeus as well. This change will likely take a little bit of your time, so you can stop using devil horn treasure until you have been able to complete the switch.
@@LakuJK I am around 65k in waves, thank you so much for the advice 😁
@@hamzaabofara2433 okay yeah all what i said applies to you then 😊 good luck with the changing! You got this 💪
I have already invested all my gold in giants so what should i do
start working on upgrading thor and thunder tower (if you are below 200k waves), and keep using physical summon for as long as you can before you can do the switch. Can temporarily add giants and sniper instead of dorothy and dark elf in the lightning build also
Who's here using lightning build before this update
Not me 😁
Bro help i just came back to the game my build was physical and my high hero is giant im having a hard time to adjust to the current meta (30k wave)
I would recommend taking it slowly, do single waves for now without devil horn and start leveling thor first, you can get lightning build running with relatively low levels as long as thor can handle ground monsters. You can also try to use some mix of lightning and physical until you can fully do the shift, likely keep sniper instead of dorothy and maybe giants instead of some other unit (but i doubt they will do much with just lightning skilltree)
I would prefer dark assasin instead of Dorothy, skeletons look like they are only there to block poison meteors
It's an option, yes 👍 but also blocking poison meteors is good because that will allow longer slinger uptime during wave
@@LakuJK doesnt barrack do this
Laku do i get the extra sp after the update drops?
Yes 👍!
Im back after what took a toll on my mental health, btw what is your main tip to progress quicker in the game?
Welcome back friend 😊! Best tip would be to be able to keep the game up and running 24/7 on autobattle
@@LakuJK thanks for the tip also, keep up the good work my man i believe in you😁
Dark necromancer
Pure wizard
Dark lightning archer
Dark elf
Red defender
Strange stone
Chrono
Ice sorcerer
Zeus
Dorothy
Smith
Do i leave workers in gold or dark crystals?
Dark Crystals are recommended, those are always needed and the amount of gold they bring you is very minimal. ☺️
@ thanks
Hi, is lightning hunter and assassin not good? because you didn't recommend them.
Also dark lightning wizard
Lightning hunter is very weak hero and I would not recommend him in any case
Lightning wizard can be okay, but there is justnot really room for him since the damage dealers slots are kinda in use and all parts of damage dealing are already covered. He doesn't do the job better than any of the other options here, which is why he's left out
Dark Assassin can and will be very good unit 😊in early game his damage cannot yet reach full potential, but later on he can be extremely useful (replaces stone and thunder towers). Early game he can be used as level 51 support unit if you have room for him
I know physical summon is dead almost but i justa changed it a little and its running so good. I am using as i call it PHYSICAL SUMMON LIGHTNING BUILD
4 : gold boosting heroes(rogue,orc band, alchemist, military band)
3 : buff and debuf (pure wizard,chrono,dark necromancer)
6 : damage dealer(dark lightning archer, zeus , assassin, mad giants, angels, slingers)
this build is running super good for me and i thing late game players can run it even better and use max devil horn
@LakuJK
Will you make a new hell build?
At some point probably 😊
yo laku yesterday im open 3 mystery box i got 30 crystal from it and then im closed game tyen i come back my 30 crystal is gone can i fix it?
Sounds like a save error, you cannot get them back, but for next time, after you do anything like that or claim any reward, make sure to do manual save and if possible do 1 wave at least to make sure the game saves your progress 😊 that should prevent it happening again in the future!