Great write up. I think it will help a lot of players.

Although there are endless ways to play the game, watching the top players - they usually play the following principles as their core:

• play ranged attack to avoid magic reflect or thorns and retaliate.
• play double attack (double snipe, double sneak).
• counter a double attack (eg. turtle/friendly giant/hydra at the back to counter sneak).
• increase your speed or reduce opponents speed.

In my opinion anyway the top players utilise the above. After that it's basically scissors paper rock when 2 top players face off. Players not following these core principles get smashed most times.

Thanks 😀