Rushing is when you try to beat your opponent as fast as possible which is a very offensive playstyle very early and pretty much off meta

Some of you might be thinking to yourself "why would anyone want to rush in this game? This way they will just not use all their strong legendaries and other late game cards". And that is exactly what makes rushing effective, most players prefer having a slower more late game deck so even their stage 1 defense isn't that good and a rush deck can sometimes just destroy unprepared opponents

And also rushing is better if you want to farm credits and leaderboard points in bulk, yes having a long match will increase both rewards but what's the point of earning about 20% more when you can earn twice at pretty much the same time

After hearing about the benefits of rushing you might want to do it yourself, but don't really know how if you came to this guide. in order to rush you need to have a deck that is focused on stage 1 (it's also good to have stage 2 cards and maybe even a legendary but you don't need many of them) and it's great to use some annoying and repetitive units like skeletons with giant growth or a spam of dootmen or saplings, anything that can just make your opponent always run out of ammo and unable to defend.
And for probably the most important part of a rush deck, siege damage, you want to have a lot of siege damage spam because that's what going to help you destroy the crystal tower and the nexus because siege deals 4 times damage to them and they are the main obstacles when pushing, good cards you can use early and got siege are soul cauldron (spawner only), balistas, breachers and my personal favourite the stone weavers (unlike the balista they can hit moving targets so they can act both as general DPS ranged units and a source of siege)

Note: this section is about something specific you can achieve and aim for when rushing because it's basically the ultimate form of a rush and not a general concept, and also mainly made just so I can brag in a guide lol

A "1 wave" is a term I made which means destroying the opposing nexus with the first units spawned from your spawners (like 1 shot in shooter games but here with a wave yeah I am so original I know), you just build a huge wave around them and with your first attack you just shred through all your opponent defences

How can you possibly perform such a thing in a pvp match? Well I don't know if it's possible in 1v1 vs an active opponent but it is in 2v2, all you need is a spam of siege, crystal chanter is super helpful, frostshock to freeze the towers for 4 secs and a lot of shields (for the nexus because you can't freeze it).

With such setup you can just make a wave that is too big dealing too much siege damage and not always your opponents can do something about it

How to counter a 1 wave strat? Well there aren't many ways to counter it, at least not my specific setup in here https://youtu.be/7LkZ1hNhOMw . But to counter my specific setup you can wait for the right moment to spam melee units on top of the weavers (you better do it early before too many are stacked) and the use of splash status effects such as entangling roots and the freeze of frostworm when it dies or light pulse. All of these can split up the wave and basically counter it by doing so


If someone makes a better 1 wave strategy then what I did or successfully 1 waved in a 1v1 match I would like if you put videos of you doing it in the comments

If for some reason you really feel like you need premium but don't want to waste crystals you can Speedrun level 5 to use your own friend code on a new account, and rushing with a new account is actually very easy as soon as you get crystal legion unlocked because then you can spam skeletons with giant growths and stone weavers and the players you will find on these early tiers will not be able to do anything, that's basically how you Smurf in this game

And obviously I am going to brag about that too lol https://youtu.be/sfqFsYrhkEo
If you want to make this interesting though you can do what I did and sacrifice all your cards except those you need and intentionally make one card gold so you match against gold players

Rushing is effective if you want to surprise your opponents and catch them off guard or just farm in general and it is a less common playstyle it is fun to do something different, at least every now and then.

I hope you enjoyed reading my rushing guide and also tried stuff out for yourself too, and again for the entire guide in rushian click here: https://pastebin.com/KCps7tn8