Hey guys, its Blaze back with another guide for you all! Today, I will be talking about one of the top meta decks, which will be none other than the mighty Splashyard.

It’s currently one of the best decks for Tournament Standard or Max level matches. As for non-max ladder, it works pretty well against the decks, but it’s very difficult upgrading the deck to higher levels as it extremely Epic and Legendary heavy.

Deck:

Deck Breakdown:

Graveyard:

Graveyard is the win-condition of this deck. It’s one of the top 5 win-conditions in the current meta. It can deal a lot of damage very easily and it’s near impossible to completely defend against a Graveyard.

Poison:

Poison is GY’s best friend as well as it’s worst enemy when in the opponent’s hand. Even though GY and Poison form a strong pairing, try to use Poison when you can get good value out of it and not just for the sake of it, as an over-commitment can bite you back.

Knight:

Knight is the main Mini-tank for your GY. For 3 elixir, Knight provides a lot of value and is an underrated card among casuals. As I said, use it to tank for GY, as an assassin to kill support troops (if barb barrel is not available/ isn’t enough) or just take care of win-condition and threat cards.

Barbarian Barrel:

It’s the best cheap spell in the game. You can use it to clear swarms and take care of support troops at the same time. With GY however, you can also use it as a cheap tank with your GY, if you don’t have other cards available or you wanna apply some opposite lane pressure without losing your defensive cards.

Tornado:

Tornado is the best card to use with the amount of splash available in this deck. You can also use it for King Tower activations. On offense, you can bring enemy troops from outside the Poison spell into it, or to clump all the enemy troops near the Princess Tower so that your splash troops can hit them as well as the tower simultaneously.

Ice Wizard:

Ice Wizard is an amazing defending card with his slowing ability. Couple it with Tornado, and enemy troops are gonna have an extremely hard time reaching to your Princess Tower. It is also a decent tank for your GY, as even though its only Firebally, it only costs 3 elixir and his slowing ability effectively increases his survivability and thus his ability to tank.

Baby Dragon:

Baby drag can be considered to be a secondary mini-tank if this deck. It has quite good HP for a troop meant to be splash support. His fiery breaths can deal serious damage without seeming to be threatening. A lot of your matches would be dependent on getting a Baby drag lock on enemy towers and a good tornado.

Bomb Tower:

It is one of the strongest defensive buildings in the meta, or rather one of the only good defensive buildings in the meta. Bomb tower provides amazing ground defense with its splash and high health, and its death damage can come in clutch a lot of times, even working against air troops. Like the other splash cards, it has amazing synergy with tornado.

Gameplay:

Starting Hand:

The worst starting hand is:

Here, you can’t make any play without wasting elixir and putting you at a disadvantage. If you’re really desperate, then play Bomb Tower and hope that you can defend the enemy push.

In any other case, play anyone of the remaining four cards with the priority as follows:

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Single Elixir:

Play passively and defend, don’t generally go for Graveyard pushes unless the opponent overcommits and you get a good counter push going or if the opponent places a heavy unit in the back and you need to pressure the opposite lane.

Double Elixir:

Start actively going for GY pushes and applying pressuring, yet always have enough elixir to defend against enemy pushes. This might seem confusing, so let me explain.

Usually, apply pressure with a GY push, opponents spend a decent chunk of elixir on defence, but often can send a something like say, a sneaky Hog rider on the opposite lane. Try to have enough elixir to defend stuff like that.

Triple Elixir:

In triple elixir, your deck becomes extremely strong. The reason being that you can get a lot of your splash troops on the arena and can repeatedly Tornado the enemy troops, so they won’t be getting near your towers anytime soon.

At the same time, you can also do a lot of GY Poison pushes and have a strong support/tankage with it and deal a lot of damage. Here again, Tornado can be used to clump all the enemy troops and kill them with your splash troops, regardless of the number of enemy troops, and get damage on the enemy tower at the same time.

You can also just spell cycle and get GY chip damage if you’re unable to do full-fledged pushes, and try to win the tie-breaker. This also works because you’ll most likely be using Poison and Tornado with your GY.

Matchups:

This deck performs against most decks with ease as it has a really strong defensive set-up. Only sort of tough match-ups could be Heavy Beatdown and other GY Decks.

Against Heavy Beatdown:

Heavy Beatdown isn’t too difficult of a match-up as long as you keep up with opposite lane GY pressure when they used their tank, or start to prepare for a push by placing a 4 elixir or more card. Follow this with a Bomb Tower + splashnado push and you’ll be coming up at the better end of the trade almost always.

Don’t tower trade or let it escalate to a two-tower match. GY becomes significantly weak with two towers defending, while the enemy can start slowly taking down your tower by placing the tanks in the pocket.

Against GY:

Against GY the issue that arises is that you’ll be saving your Poison for each other’s GY, which also means that you’ll be in an extremely weird stalemate situation, unless you can get a lucky GY in.

The result of the match will be dependent on the results of the numerous bridge battle that will take place. In order to win these bridge battles, you’ll need to fine tune your troop placements it’s timing, as well as the better and more effective use of Tornado.

The other way to win this is go for opposite lane instead of battling for the upper-hand in a single lane. However, you need to wait for the right moment to actually go for an attack or else the opponent can actually take out your tower while defending easily.

That’s all folks! Hope you guys enjoyed reading this guide and have fun with this deck! Clash On!

Sayonara,

Blaze Stone.

Hey guys, its Blaze back with another guide for you all. Today, I will be breaking down the Royal Recruit and Hogs dual lane pressure deck.

Deck:

Royal hogs, royal recruits, earthquake, barb barrel, zappies, flying machine, gob cage, electro spirit

Card Breakdown:

Royal Hogs:

Royal Hogs are the main win-condition of this deck. Even though they deal quite less damage per hit, their quick hit speed and 4x count makes up for it. You can place them at the bridge as quick spam attack or place them in the middle of the river and split them for dual lane pressure.

Royal Recruits:

Although the piggies are the win-condition of the deck, IMO the Royal Recruits are the core of the deck. It is a low skill card, as even though they cost 7 elixir, you can plop them down and opponent can’t really punish you. You can perform a 3-3 split or a 4-2 split depending on your need and keep applying the dual lane pressure. They can act as tanks for your piggies and support troops as well as do a great deal of work on defence.

Earthquake:

Earthquake is used to take out buildings which are used to distract your piggies. It can also act as your secondary win-condition due to its high Crown Tower damage to elixir cost ratio in case you cannot get your piggies to connect.

Barbarian Barrel:

Easily the strongest cheap spell in the game at the moment. For 2 elixir, you can clear out ground swarms and have a barbarian to take out the higher health support troops. ‘Nuff said.

Zappies:

Zappies are the main part of your defence. They can almost perma-stun enemy troops which can do wonders on defence. They can also be split 2-1 so you can again apply dual lane pressure. They can also bait our Fireball so that you can freely use your piggies or Flying machine. On defensive side of things, you can place them in the center so that they kite enemy troops like Prince, or place them towards the inner edge of your Princess towers so that they can get the maximum stun possible on cards like the Giant.

Flying Machine:

Flying machine is an amazing card to have in a deck as it can be extremely hard to take out due to its long range, without using a Fireball. This makes it an extremely strong card and a staple in fireball bait decks. It also has a weird shadow and does its often possible than the enemy misses their spell. It’s long range and sight enables to snipe buildings as well as lock on to crown towers when the opponent doesn’t expect it.

Goblin Cage:

One of two best buildings in the meta, completes the defensive trio with RR and Zappies. You can place in the center of the map to kite enemy troops while your Princess tower reduces their health, and once the cage is destroyed the spawned Goblin Brawler can finish them off. The Goblin Brawler can also put up a lot of pressure as it has a high damage potential, especially behind the Recruits and piggies.

Electro Spirit:

The final card of the deck, eSpirit provides lot of cycling ability. It’s chain stun attack can be useful on defense, in conjunction with the stun by Zappies. On offence, it can clear out small swarms placed to counter your piggies while also allowing the piggies to get a few extra hits with its stun. Since, you’ll be doing dual lane pushes a lot, the opponents tend to use a lot of defensive troops which really give the eSpirit’s chain attack a lot of value.

Gameplay:

Starting Play:

For the starting play this deck has a lot of choices. You can either split Royal Hogs at the river or Zappies behind your King Tower, you can cycle your Barb Barrel at the bridge or just plop down your Goblin Cage. Heck, you can even split your Recruits in the back if you don’t have anything else in your hand or the enemy doesn’t give you a choice to play anything else.

Don’t cycle Electro Spirits at the bridge in the start, or even anytime during the match as it gives your opponent a chance to active their King Tower, which puts you at a disadvantage.

Synergies:

This deck has three main trios or components: The Dual Lane Pressure trio consisting of Royal Recruits, Royal Hogs and Zappies; The Fireball Bait trio of Royal Hogs, Zappies and Flying Machine; and The Defensive trio of Royal Recruits, Goblin Cage and Zappies.

As you can see, majority of the cards perform multiple roles as well as synergize extremely well with each other individually as well as the three Trios. This is the reason why this deck works so well, other than the strength of the cards in the current meta.

In Single Elixir:

Your game plan would be to apply passive dual lane pressure and focus on defending and counter pushing in general. Don’t be afraid to play your Royal Recruits in Single elixir time as it is the card that holds this deck together. This a mistake I see many players make: saving their Recruits for Double Elixir. Take advantage of Fireballs used by your opponent.

In Double Elixir:

You should start actively applying dual lane pressure with your hogs and getting creative with your spells and Flying machine. Flying machine should most often be placed in the centre at the river so it can attack both of the enemy lanes from that position, but can also be placed at the bridge on so that it can kill enemy troops place towards the edge of the arena.

In Triple Elixir:

Try to overwhelm your opponent with dual lane pressure. In case you can’t overwhelm your opponent, you can instead go super defensive and start cycling as many EQs as you can.

Matchups:

This deck works well against most decks in the meta. The only two weakness I can think of our Lava Hound and Splashyard.

Against Lava Hound:

You don’t have any card that can directly go aggro on the Balloon when it’s behind the Hound, and even if you can get your Zappies on the Balloon, the opponent can Fireball then. You can’t get a lot of value of EQs or Barb Barrels as well since these both are Ground only spells against an Aerial deck.

Against Splashyard:

It’s difficult to connect your Hogs due to the high splash and Tornado activations. Your Recruits will most likely melt away as well and you can’t bait out Poison that well since the opponent can easily bring your troops together using Tornado.

That’s all folks! Hope you guys enjoyed reading this guide and have fun with deck. Clash on!

Sayonara,

Blaze Stone

Hey guys, it’s Blaze back with Part 2 of the Classes in CR articles. This article duo will help you guys create better decks more efficiently. What I will be doing is explaining the different classes and their respective uses, followed by mentioning the cards which fall into the particular class. You can find the first part here.

Today, I will be dividing the troops according to their roles, irrelevant of their HP followed by Spells and Buildings.

Without further ado, let’s jump right in!

Clash Royale Classes:

Win-conditions:

Win-conditions are the core of your deck. They have high damage potential and are easier to connect with the enemy towers. They are generally the cards that determine the meta.

Threat Cards:

Threat cards are cards which can create a lot of offensive pressure. They have high damage potential, but face difficulty to connect with the enemy towers. They are most often used simultaneously with a win-condition which results in powerful pushes.

Splash-damage Troops:

These troops deal AoE damage i.e. they attack over an area instead of a single unit. They are generally used as support troops on both offence and defence to clear lot of troops simultaneously.

Multi-target Troops:

These troops can hit multiple targets at the same time, but they don’t have a splash attack, but instead multiple projectiles or chained attack.

Point-damage Troops:

These troops target only a single unit but usually have a higher dps. The melee troops can be used to defend at close range and block troops, while the ranged once can be used to distract troops.

Multi-unit troops:

These are troop cards which spawn multiple units at the same time. They are good for surrounding enemy troops or putting up dual lane pressure.

Spawner Troops:

These cards spawn other units, either periodically and/or when they die, except Mother Witch who converts enemy troops into Cursed Hogs, still acting as a spawner.

Troops with Death damage:

These are troops who when killed, deal some amount of damage. They can be used on defense when you desperately need the damage, and also the distraction.

Spells:

Cheap Spells:

These are spells which you can cycle easily, and generally deal relatively less damage.

Medium Spells:

These spells can’t be cycled extremely fast but at a good enough pace. They deal mediocre damage.

Heavy Spells:

These spells are difficult to cycle in a short amount of time, but they deal extremely high damage.

Gimmick Spells:

These spells don’t deal damage (except freeze, which deals quite less damage). Instead they have special abilities or “Gimmicks” that make them useful.

Spawner Spells:

These spells spawn troops when deployed. Barbarian Barrel and Royal delivery spawn a single unit and deal damage, but can’t reach Crown Towers. Goblin Barrel and Graveyard on the other hand spawn multiple units, but don’t deal damage. However, they can deployed anywhere on the arena, and hence are use as win-conditions.

Buildings:

Offensive Buildings:

These buildings are used as win-conditions and can damage enemy crown towers. They can also be used as defensive buildings when needed.

Defensive Buildings:

These buildings are used as to defend against enemy pushes. They have quite short range so they can’t be used offensively. You place them in the center of your side of the arena, so that enemy troops are kited into the cross-fire region of your crown towers.

Spawners:

These buildings don’t deal damage, but spawn troops which indirectly deal damage. They can be used to deal constant chip damage to enemy towers, or if you want to easily switch to a counter push after a good defence, as the spawned troops can snowball. They can be place either in the center like normal defensive buildings, or behind your princess towers to protect them from troops, or in front of your king tower.

Elixir Collector:

Elixir collector is one of a kind card in the game. It spawns 1 elixr periodically so that after its life time, you gain more elixir than you spend. This card dominated the early years of the game but after a reword *cough* nerf *cough* , it fell out of the meta, and isn’t really seen a lot

That’s all folks! Hope you guys enjoyed reading this guide, and found it helpful. I will soon be posting another guide on deck building, where all the different classes mentioned in this article duo will help you understand it, and enable you to build better decks! Have fun and Clash on!

Sayonara,

Blaze Stone

Hey guys, it’s Blaze back with another guide for you all. After the Win-condition post, I thought that we needed an article explaining the different “classes” in Clash Royale. Understanding these different classes will help you guys create better decks more efficiently. What I will be doing is explaining the different classes and their respective uses, followed by mentioning the cards which fall into the particular class.

I decided to divide this in 2 posts: The 1^st one aka this post will cover the division of troops according to their roles due to their HP, the 2^nd post will cover division of troops according to their roles irrelevant to HP, and division of spells and buildings.

Without further ado, let’s jump right in!

Note: All stats mentioned in this post are at Tournament Standard. It’s not necessary that a card belongs to only one category. The higher the number of classes the card falls in, the more versatile the card is, although in most cases the card will outperform in one class than the others.

Clash Royale Classes:

Tanks:

Tanks are the cards with extremely high HP. Their main job is to soak up a lot of damage, while the remaining troops are safe. Most tanks are win-conditions, the remaining are better used as threat cards than win-conditions. A card with HP above 2500 (as a single unit, all stages) can be considered to be a tank, the Royal Giant being the lowest HP tank with 2544 HP.

Mini Tanks:

Mini-tanks are the cards with moderately high HP. They aren’t as tanky as Tanks but they compared to the ranged support troops, they have a pretty good amount of HP. Now, the mini tank range is a bit vast, and IMO should be divided into the three sub-classes based on their interaction with Rocket and Lightning.

Pseudo Mini-Tanks:

These cards have HP above 700, which is decent but die to Lightning which deals 877 dmg. Cannon Cart and Battle Ram can be as good as the below-mentioned sub-class in most scenarios as they have multiple stages, but their base stage dies to lightning.

Rocket-able Mini-Tanks:

These cards can survive can survive a Lightning hit and do their job as Mini Tanks extremely well. However, they still die to a Rocket which deals 1232 dmg.

Rocket-immune Mini-Tanks:

These cards can survive a Rocket hit, which is the highest damaging spell in the game. They perform the role of a mini-tank the best in the game.

Fireballies:

This consists of cards which are weak to cards like Fireball and Poison, hence the name Fireballies. Now, this class ranges from troops which survive arrows which deals 303 dmg to troops who survive poison, but die to lightning and are below 700 HP. So, similar to mini-tanks, I will divide this class into three sub-classes based on the interaction with Fireball and Poison.

Die to Fireball:

These cards die to Fireball straight away. They can bait put a Fireball more often than the below mentioned sub-classes, as those cards require another a spell or a troop to take them out which might be a bad trade.

Die to Poison:

These cards survive a Fireball with a sliver of health, but die to Poison. They are better at baiting out Poison than Fireball, but the difference isn’t a lot.

Survive Poison:

These cards survive both Fireball as well as Poison, but can bait out the spells better than the remaining cards in the game.

Cheap Troops:

These are cards which cost 3 elixir or less and can’t survive arrows. Again, will be dividing into 4 sub-classes based on their interaction with Zap/Snowball, Barbarian Barrel, The Log and Arrows.

Die to Zap/Snowball:

Zap and Snowball are the lowest damaging spells in the game at 169 dmg, excluding Freeze and Tornado, but they have a different use.

Die to Barb Barrel:

These troops die to Barb Barrel i.e. 200 dmg.

Die to The Log:

The Log deals 240 dmg which is helps it kill the following cards.

Die to Arrows:

These cards die to Arrows which deals 303 dmg. Minions and Minions hoard are air troop so they are immune to Barb Barrel and Log, and hence are included here.

That’s all folks! Hope you guys enjoyed reading this guide. Part 2 will come out soon! Have fun and clash on!

Sayonara,

Blaze Stone

Hello, fellow Clashers! I’m back again with a new Mega Knight Log bait deck, this one is gaining popularity since early Season 19 Stay Cool. It has a good win rate and unique playstyle. So, let’s get started!

Mega Knight Log Bait Deck

Deck Cards

• Mega Knight: The only costly card in this log bait deck, with the huge flail-ball stuck in its hand, he splashes the enemies apart! His role is to be a heavy-hitting splasher in this deck.
• Inferno Dragon: What to say about this mighty beast? Annihilates the tanks with his lava beam. Used as a tank killer for this log bait deck.
• Bats: In this deck to provide more airy firepower with the inferno dragon, Bats have high DPS and they also act as a bait for the opponent’s spells.
• Skeleton Barrel: Another bait card that is hard to tackle, the opponent has to be perfect with their spell timing every time for the skeletons that drop from it. Also when the barrel bursts, it chips the building/princess tower.
• Miner: A tank card used in this deck to tank for fragile chip damaging troops like Skeletons and Goblins. Can be used defensively in extreme cases.
• Goblin Gang: These goblins provide high DPS together, best for defence and counter-attack when paired with the Miner. They also are bait cards.
• Spear Goblins: Again, bait cards providing chip damage and air defence
• Zap: You gotta have a spell right? For the swarms and the goblin barrel, to zap the Inferno Tower locked on your Mega Knight.

Deck Strategy

Opening: Play Spear Goblins/Goblin Gang at the start to chip their tower also, it is very unpredictable and difficult to react to these at the starting of the game so you might get some damage that puts you in lead. Skeleton barrel is a good starting card too if your opponent has a bad hand, they have to spend more elixir, hence, giving you positive trades. If they make the starting move by rushing aggressively, defend by playing Mega Knight if needed, or use Goblins to counter-attack with the miner. If they make a passive start by playing something at the back, rush the other lane by Spear Goblins/Skeleton Barrel/Goblin gang. NEVER play Mega Knight defensively at the start as it gives chance to your opponent to rush the other lane and you won’t have anything to stop it.

Mid-game: Chip your opponent constantly, don’t let them build elixir up, apply pressure, the play style of this log bait deck is somewhat similar to the classic log bait deck defend tanks with Inferno Dragon, and if they have Electro Wizard or Electro Dragon, do not let it target your Inferno Dragon by obstructing their way by your swarms. Play the Mega Knight on their supporting troops when your inferno is locked on to their tank. Mega knight provides splash and good damage plus acts as a tank for Inferno Dragon. Bats do a great job of defence and counter-attack when paired with the Miner. Also, play the Miner with the Skeleton Barrel, so when the barrel bursts, the princess tower focuses on your miner which will force the opponent to react to it.

Endgame: Keep chipping the tower constantly this deck doesn’t have a heavy spell, you have to keep rushing and, after getting a tower, it is not very difficult to defend with Mega knight and Inferno dragon plus the other swarms. Don’t let the opponent build a large push against you because we have some feeble goblins at defence.

Weaknesses:

1.Splashyard: If you don’t know what’s splash yard, it’s Graveyard + splashing troops, you must be wondering how graveyard is strong against this deck if this MK Log Bait deck has swarms, that is because the Graveyard is not played alone, it is paired with poison/freeze, and both are bad for swarms as it forces you to spend more elixir, what you can do against these decks is don’t let their tanks like Knight or Bowler (which are usually paired with Graveyard) get targeted by your princess tower, predict their Graveyard and block their tank on the bridge itself so that your tower targets the Skeletons hence preventing damage.

I hope that this deck helped you with your trophy conquest. Thanks to Shreyas K for submitting this guide. Stay tuned with us for more articles and guides. Until next time!