Clash Royale: Best Ways to Spend Gems and Gold

How to Spend Gems in Clash Royale

In all honesty, there aren’t a ton of great uses for gems in Clash Royale. There are a lot of ways you can spend them, though, so let’s start off with a quick list to round them up:

• Elite Wild Cards (12,500 Elite Wild Cards for 2,000 gems)
• Daily Deals
• Royal Chests
• Emotes
• Tournament Entries

Starting from the top, I don’t really think the Elite Wild Cards are a good thing to buy with gems unless you have a ton. They’re just too expensive.

The Daily Deals are the offers in the shop where you can pay gems or gold for a certain amount of cards. I always recommend checking the Daily Deals in the shop each day since you can get some really good offers.

Then there are three royal chests to buy, increasing with value as the cost goes up: Lightning Chest (250 gems), Fortune Chest (750 gems), and Legendary King’s Chest (2,500 gems). I don’t think chests are the best thing to spend gems on, but they’re not the worst.

Next up are the emotes in the shop. If you see an emote you like, then the 250 gem price isn’t that bad. Obviously there’s no reason to buy them, but why not?

Tournament entries are the last thing you can do, and it’s probably what I spend my gems on the most. Whether it be the Classic and Grand Challenges or event-related tournaments, I usually use a lot of gems to enter and/or retry them.

How to Spend Gold in Clash Royale

Figuring out how to spend your gold is a bit easier than with gems. Gold in Clash Royale is primarily used to upgrade card levels. While it starts out pretty cheap to do so, later levels require a ton of gold. I never feel bad when I’ve stockpiled a ton of gold up, because I know eventually I’ll end up using it all to upgrade one or two cards.

However, if you don’t want to save your gold, there are a few other ways to spend it. Just like with gems, you can spend gold to buy Elite Wild Cards. It’s 100,000 gold for 5,000 of them, so I really don’t think they’re worth buying, but they are an option. Then you have the Daily Deals just like with gems.

Use your gold however you want, but I pretty much never use it for anything other than leveling up cards. The other options just aren’t nearly as valuable as more levels.