CLASH ROYALE CHEATS, TIPS, AND EXPLOITS

By: Jon Wacker

Here are 7 clash royale tips that some pros don't even know.

2. Use a minion hoard to hide ground troops.

Minion hoards can be used to hide troops like hog riders or mini-pekkas from sight. By placing the minion hoard and then your ground troop in quick secession, the only way to detect the ground troop is by the sound it makes (if your opponent has their sound on).

3. Predict which cards will be in the future meta.

Supercell calculates what cards people use and what cards people don't. When they notice a card is underused, they will buff its stats in the next update. Sometimes though, they buff the card too much and it becomes overpowered. By predicting which cards they are going to buff next, you can have an early start of leveling up that card early by buying it in the shop or requesting for it often by your clan mates. A perfect example of this is the skeleton army. For the first year of the game's release, the skeleton army was of the worst cards. For this reason, Supercell gave the card way better stats, and now it is one of the best cards in the game.

The two charts below show how the ranking of best cards changed between two different updates.

June 2016

January 2017

1. Learn to use the "Rocket Barrel" strategy.

This exploit allows you to hide your airborne goblin barrel behind the flames of your rocket, thus catching your opponent when the barrel lands out of nowhere and deals hundreds of damage to their tower. To pull this off, you need to place your rocket at the front inside corner of their tower and then immediately place your goblin barrel at the back of their tower. This will most likely only work once a game because the second time your opponent will be aware of this cool strategy.

Pro tip: Try to make a good elixir trade by hitting the tower and some other troop(s) with your rocket.

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4. Utilize the log's push mechanic.

When playing against the giant skeleton, the worst situation is when it has locked onto your tower. To avoid it's death damage, you can log it right before it dies to push it's bomb away from your tower.

5. Place a princess or bandit right as the game starts.

When a battle starts, you can tap multiple times to quickly get past the intro screen and see your cards faster. If you then place a bandit or princess or even a hog rider at the bridge and your opponent hasn't even gotten their cards yet, you can get lots of uncontested damage on their tower.

6. Wait to play the three musketeers.

When using the three musketeers, it's important to make sure that the opponent isn't using fireball or lightning spell. If they are, don't play the three musketeers until baiting out their spell first. Back up the musketeers with a giant and you will almost always get their tower.

7. Pay attention to how much elixir your opponent has.

You should always know if you are behind on elixir. If you are, then you need to defend until you can gain an edge and pull off a good counter push. If you are ahead of your opponent in elixir by a lot, you should be very aggressive because the odds are that they won't have enough elixir to defend.