What's up everyone? This is Orange Juice

Today I'll be talking about True Red and True Blue

To simplify things, in a clan match when you request for a friendly battle

The one requesting will be True Blue

And the player who accepts the match will be True Red

When you or another clanmate spectates a friendly battle

You'll be able to determine who is True Blue and who is True Red

When you're True Red what the game does is flip the map

and basically mirrors the units you place

so that you appear on the bottom of the screen as Player Blue

Even if your actually True Red in a perfect world

the mirrored map should reflect the card actions perfectly

but with X/Y Coordinate rounding errors,

interactions with certain units on certain tiles are not always going to be identical

Let's explore these discrepancies

When you split Barbarians in the back, specifically on the center-right tile

3 Barbarians will split right and 1 Barbarian will always split left

This is consistent with True Red and True Blue

However, when you plant the Barbarians on the centre-left tile

True Blue will split 2 Barbarians in the left and 2 Barbarians on the right

Whereas True Red will split 3 Barbarians to the left and 1 on the right

When you're attacking with the Hog on offense

You can't bypass a 4-3 building plant with a Hog Rider

Because he has the largest sight range in the game

Spanning 9.5 tiles, he is easily attracted to buildings

However, if you can nudge him a little bit with a Pig Push

You can bypass a 4-3 building plant with a Hog Rider

Check out my Pig Push video if you havent seen it yet

for a more in-depth explanation on how Pig Pushing works

Now, when you're True Blue

you don't need to do a Pig Push on the left side

Without requiring any units to push

You can Hog Hop the left river as True Blue to completely bypass a 4-3 building plant

When a balloon is planted in the second-most outer tile of the map on the right side

Both of the balloons will be pulled with a defensive building with a 4-2 building plant

Effectively defending against most of the balloons

Now, when a balloon is planted on the map on the left side

True Red will actually bypass a 4-2 building plant

So True Blue fails to defend in this scenario

Against Elite Barbarians, whenever they're approaching you from the right lane

You can actually kite them with an Ice Golem to the left lane

This doesn't hold true when Elite Barbarians are coming at you from the left lane

True Blue cannot kite Elite Barbarians with an Ice Golem on the 4th tile

Instead True Blue has to plant the Ice Golem on the second or first tile from the river

to successfully kite Elite Barbarians from the left lane

Against Royal Giants, there's an inconsistency in both Player Red and Player Blue

When a Tesla is planted 3 tiles from the river and 3 tiles from the Arena Tower

True Blue's Royal Giant will bypass the left side

When you plant a Royal Giant on the right side, now True Red has the advantage

and can bypass the right side without activating the Tesla

I honestly think this interaction was the death of the Tesla

otherwise it would've been a reliable counter to the Royal Giant

because it functioned properly on both sides

You wouldn't have needed to react to Royal Giant with an Inferno Tower or anything else

During the Miner meta, when he was in every single deck

it was a little confusing which tiles were optimal for countering him

because there were inconsistencies

When the Elixir Collector is planted in front of the Kings Tower

and the Miner's planted in the corner on this tile,

True Red's Miner will attack the Elixir Collector

whereas True Blue's Miner will activate the Kings Tower instead of attacking the Elixir Collector

When an Elixir Collector is planted on the corner right side

where the Miner will attack the Elixir Collector

while True Blue's Miner will attack the Arena Tower

Leaving that Elixir Collector untouched

This becomes even more confusing when the Elixir Collector is planted on the left side

Now True Red's Miner will attack the Arena Tower

and True Blue's Miner will attack the Elixir Collector

So, in a clan match

the person to request for the match will be assigned as True Blue

and the person who accepts the match will be assigned as True Red

You can spectate to verify the True Colors

However when you spectate a friend on your Friends List

It is not a reliable way to determine the True Color

because you get Spectator Bias

So the game will always display your friend as Blue

regardless if it's their True Color or not

On ladder, you can determine if you're True Blue immediately based on the trophies

If you have more trophies than your opponent

Then you will be assigned as True Blue

The player with the lower amount of Trophies will be assigned as True Red

Also this is the only game mode where the intro screen for Home and Visitor

holds true most of the time

In Challenges, the player with more wins will be True Blue

There's no way to know right off the bat

if you have more wins than your opponent or not

and the intro screen is not accurate

as you'll sometimes appear as Home and you'll sometimes appear as a Visitor

regardless of your True Color

Why does this happen?

Andrew from Reddit makes an educated guess

explaining that the units are on an X/Y plane

the path finding AI dictates what position they'll move to next

The calculations in that decisions will sometimes rounding fractional numbers

This rounding step will result in different outcomes based on

what quadrant of the map you're in and where you're headed

True Blue sees the X/Y/Z plane as it really is

True Red will see the mirrored image of the True Plane

This allows both players to appear at the bottom when they play

So to recap, the True Red and the True Blue bug makes this game unplayable

Na, I'm just kidding

But they do have very slight feel differences

I wouldn't even consider then field advantages

Since both sides have different interactions

They're so minuscule it won't change your gameplay

Not unless you're consistently reaching 12 wins back to back to back

Chances are this minuscule discrepancies in unit interactions

won't influence the final outcome of the battle

Thanks for watching, stay tuned for more confusing OJ