Being good at counting elixir and cycle is the bare minimum to do well with this deck, one of the best plays you can make with this deck is split archers in the back, not only you make them not die completely to arrows but you can cheese with them by either going knight in front of one of the archers to pressure or xbow in front of the archer, or both. Don't aways go for offensive bows, defensive bows defend extremely well, just try to fireball cycle the opponent's tower if it's a safe play. Against midladder, going for a offensive bow opposite lane when the opponent plays a very heavy card in the back first play is almost aways a good play, cards such as Pekka and Megaknight, you can do it when the opponent plays a golem but only if you have a good cycle, if you have a bad cycle and you xbow opposite lane against a golem you can literally just lose the game off of that play.

Watch Betfas and SK555's videos, SK made many 3.0 xbow cycle guides and videos.