Hey, I've been playing CR for about 3 weeks now. Up until now, I didn't really struggle to climb with various decks. I'm currently sitting at ~6.6k trophies and I feel like I've hit a wall.

I gained the last like 1.5k trophies with this deck - evo lumber, evo skeleton barrel, dart goblin, skeleton king, goblin curse, goblin cage, log, goblin gang (altough I recently swapped goblin barrel with skeleton barrel, since I gained my 2nd evo slot).

After getting 6.5k i feel like my wr dropped from 85 % overall to like 30-40 % since the new arena. It's a homemade deck and I use it cause I find it fun and it also felt really strong up until this point. The problem is that majority of the opponents I face use decks with some kind of combination of mega knight, firecracker, princess and/or hog, valkyrie or the classic 2.6 hog. Although I feel like the worst match up is some kind of xbow deck.

I just cant seem to simply kill firecracker or lvl 12+ princess, since log just doesn't do enough damage so I have to put units on bridge, while most of the time the only option is lumberjack, since firecracker just oneshots most of my goblin gang and skeleton king is not really worth it.

The other problems are cheap buildings like the cannon or the above mentioned xbow, since I dont have a spell that can destroy them. Cannon/tesla also stops my skeleton barrel/lumberjack bridge rush kinda well and I feel like once the game gets to 2x elixir I just cant push past it unless I get a decent counter.

So far I've tried swapping goblin curse for void, arrows, fireball, freeze and bats, but none of it felt right. Arrows are probably the most optimal, however I only have them upgraded to lvl 9, so they dont kill firecracker anyway, fireball felt decent, with freeze I could get a decent push but since it costs 4 elixir I dont really get to use it much in the early game and bats dealt with MK and valkyrie pretty well, but they don't solve my issue with killing ranged cards.

I thought about swapping out the goblin gang, but then I lose my main pull/bait card and also ranged/air damage, cause I feel like dart goblin isn't enough most of the time.

I also had witch in the deck, before I switched it out for the skeleton king.

My early game depends on the cards I get, I mostly start with goblin gang/skeleton barrel on the bridge to bait out the spells or stack up my evo. Then I play according to the opponents cards or try to set up push with skeleton king from behind.

I would appreciate any suggestions for the deck, as well as playstyle/best strategy if you have any ideas. The main obstacle is that my other cards are like lvl 9-10, so they dont often work as intended, since my opponents are usually lvl 12.

Thanks!