Clash Royale: Best Cards for Draft Battles

Best Threats for Draft Battles

• Royal Giant (6 Elixir)
• Sparky (6 Elixir)
• Balloon (5 Elixir)
• Hog Rider (4 Elixir)
• Goblin Barrel (3 Elixir)

Threats are your keys to victory in Clash Royale, so it’s important to choose them wisely. Typically you want to make sure everything in your deck correlates with the goals of your threats. Royal Giant is one of the strongest in the game as a whole, so he’s hard to overlook. Even though there are a lot of counters for him, he’s still strong since he doesn’t require any specific backup to play. Just try to never pick him if you know your opponent has Inferno Tower, because it’s incredibly difficult to beat. Sparky is another underrated card in draft. I like Sparky because it’s a free win if your opponent can’t answer it, and the counters for it aren’t nearly as popular as others. With good support and as long as your opponent doesn’t have the Electro/Zap cards, it works like a charm.

Balloon is a pretty generic pick, but always reliable. Your opponent has to have air defense and/or good buildings to beat Balloon, and a lot of the times people just don’t have that. Even if they do, it’s fairly cheap for such a high-damage threat and can be easily supported. Hog Rider is a riskier pick since just about any building counters it, but if you know how to play a Hog deck you can make it work with cheap support cards and something like Fireball to answer buildings. And of course, we also have Goblin Barrel. While any spell can counter it, if your deck can quickly cycle them, you can overwhelm your opponent even if they have all the best counters like The Log and Arrows.

Best Air Defense / Support for Draft Battles

• Mega Minion (3 Elixir)
• Baby Dragon (4 Elixir)
• Inferno Dragon (4 Elixir)
• Minions (3 Elixir)
• Bats (2 Elixir)

In the defensive air troop category, the options tend to be a bit cheaper. Mega Minion is fantastic for fighting Balloons or ground-based tanks that can’t fight back against it. Plus it isn’t countered as easily as Minions or Bats. But speaking of them, both are great options for swarming tanks in the air, but do run the risk of being countered easily by any troop with AOE damage.

Baby Dragon is one of the best support troops for your tanks. Putting Baby Dragon behind a Mega Knight or Royal Giant is a great way to make a powerful push that can’t be easily countered with spells. Inferno Dragon is a very high-rated pick in draft, as it hard counters any tank (other than Electro Giant) and can take out buildings with ease if it can target them for a long time. Just beware of Electro Wizard and anything that resets it.

Best Spells for Draft Battles

• The Log (2 Elixir)
• Fireball (4 Elixir)
• Lightning (6 Elixir)
• Tornado (3 Elixir)
• Earthquake (3 Elixir)

All the best spells here are best used for destroying troops. The Log and Fireball are always good in any deck, with no real exceptions (unless your opponent is playing something really obscure). Lightning is more expensive, but it’s very strong against decks where it can one-shot more than one of their cards. Tornado is a more situational pick, as you need to have AOE damage sources like Giant Skeleton, Bowler, or even Executioner for it to pay off (or you can use it to counter Hog Rider or Goblin Barrel). And Earthquake is always situational, since it only targets buildings. If you’re playing Hog Rider, Ram Rider, Balloon, or any decks that will prompt your opponent to play buildings, Earthquake is your best bet to win.