Archer Queen

Archer Queen is a 5-Elixir Champion Troop that auto-attacks Air & Ground like a hardened Archer (1000 HP, 225 dmg/hit, 1.2s hit speed, 5 range, 800 projectile speed). Her activatable ability, Cloaking Cape (1 extra Elixir), has a ~0.933s wind-up before she turns invisible, slows to a crawl (Slow/45), and gets a +180% attack-rate boost (1.8x faster hits) for 3.5 seconds — pushing her DPS from 187 to 337 while she cannot be directly targeted. This makes her a devastating "pop-and-shred" defensive unit and a credible bridge-spam offense threat. Her numbers have been tuned repeatedly since her Oct 2021 launch (cooldown/duration swings, a first-hit-speed nerf, a movement-speed nerf), and as of a 4 Aug 2026 Supercell rework, the old cooldown-timer system for her ability was scrapped in favor of a single-use-per-deployment model shared by nearly all Champions/Heroes.

• Archer Queen costs 5 Elixir to deploy, moves at Medium speed (60), has a 1 sec deploy time, 5-tile range, 800 projectile speed, targets Air & Ground, deploys as a single unit (x1), and is a Ground-transport Troop.

• At tournament-standard Level 11, Archer Queen has 1000 hitpoints, deals 225 damage per hit (187 DPS with her ability inactive), attacks every 1.2 sec (hit speed), and has a 0.3 sec 'first hit speed' delay before her opening shot after being deployed or reactivated.

• Cloaking Cape's cooldown was 17 sec, set by a 7 Jan 2025 balance patch (up from 15 sec) — this was the live cooldown value as of the LOCAL_SNAPSHOT's July 2026 revision.

• Effective 4 Aug 2026 ('Final August Balance Changes'), Supercell reworked Hero/Champion abilities from cooldown-timers to single-use: every ability except Boss Bandit's (whose kit was built around rapid repeat activation) — including Archer Queen's Cloaking Cape — can now be triggered only once per deployment, replacing the old 17-second-cooldown system outright rather than adjusting it.

• Archer Queen was released on 27 October 2021 as one of Clash Royale's first three Champion-rarity cards, alongside Golden Knight and Skeleton King.

• Within days of the Champions launch, a balance patch (~1-4 Nov 2021) nerfed Archer Queen: Cloaking Cape's cooldown rose from 11 sec to 15 sec and its duration fell from 3.5 sec to 3 sec, after she reached roughly 60% usage in Grand Challenges with a net-positive win rate — the strongest of the three launch Champions.

• A February 2023 balance patch increased Archer Queen's First Hit Speed by 0.2 sec, making her slower to loose her first arrow after being placed or reactivated, because she was the most-used Champion in the game at the time.

• While Cloaking Cape is active, Archer Queen cannot be targeted by enemy troops or buildings — for example, a Tesla will not surface/engage her, since Teslas only activate against detected (non-invisible) targets, letting a lone cloaked Archer Queen walk past an undefended Tesla toward the Tower.