Archers

common

3 Elixir

Card TypeTroop

ArenaTraining Camp

Release Date4 January 2016

Elixir Cost3

Raritycommon

Max Level16

Evolution2 Cycles

Combat data baseline: August 11, 2026. Official balance changes applied through: September 2026 (September 7, 2026).

Level Statistics

Hitpoints

490

Total damage this unit can take before being destroyed.

Damage

180

Damage dealt by one normal attack to a valid target.

Damage Per Second

200

Average damage dealt per second, factoring in hit speed.

Card stats use Level 11 as the scaling baseline. Minor rounding differences may occur at other levels, consistent with the source data.

Combat Attributes

Hit Speed

0.9 sec

Time between repeated attacks, after the first attack.

First Hit Speed

0.5 sec

Time from deployment (or becoming able to attack) until this unit's first attack lands.

Target

Air & Ground

What this card is able to attack.

Range

Maximum distance at which this unit can attack a target.

Speed

Medium (60)

How fast this unit moves.

Deploy Time

1 sec

Projectile Speed

600

How fast this unit's projectile travels to its target — a slower projectile can be outrun or dodged.

Count

How many individual units this card deploys.

Transport

Ground

Combat Mechanics Encyclopedia

Verified 2026-08-17

Figures below use Level 11, Clash Royale's tournament standard, regardless of the level selected above.

Archers deploy as two independent 3-elixir Common troop units (304 HP / 112 damage each at tournament level 11), each attacking Air & Ground on its own 0.9s cadence with no splash and no pooled HP — the commonly cited "224 combined damage" is just the arithmetic sum of both units' 112 hits landing on one target in the same instant, not a distinct mechanic. The Evolution form (live since 6 Nov 2023) shares identical HP and normal damage with Base but extends range 5→6 tiles and adds a purely distance-triggered Power Shot: a boosted single-target arrow that fires automatically instead of the normal hit whenever the target is 4–6 tiles away (currently 140 damage at L11, 125% of normal, per Supercell's 4 Aug 2026 "Final August 2026 Balance Changes"). Real-game fidelity caveats: a 0.1s deploy-stagger between the two units (since 2 Jun 2020) and Evolution's Power Shot are both unmodeled by Crownstats' own Duel Simulator/Interaction Lab.

Type: Troop. Rarity: Common. Elixir cost: 3 (identical for both Base and Evolution).
Base form released 4 January 2016, during Clash Royale's regional iOS soft-launch phase — several weeks ahead of the game's actual worldwide/global launch on 2 March 2016 — as one of the cards available in Training Camp from day one.
Evolution form released 6 November 2023.
Unlock arena is Training Camp, available from the very start of the game.
Archers has Base and Evolution forms only — there is no Hero version of this card.
Damage per unit (normal hit) at Level 11 is 112 for both Base and Evolution.
Evolution's Power Shot damage at Level 11 is currently 140, following Supercell's 4 Aug 2026 "Final August 2026 Balance Changes" patch.
Hit Speed is 0.9 sec for both Base and Evolution at Level 11 (current value; last changed 7 Feb 2023 from 1.1s→0.9s, no later change found).
EvolutionEvolved Archers keeps identical hitpoints and normal damage to the base troop, but extends range from 5 to 6 tiles and adds Power Shot — a boosted single-target arrow that fires automatically instead of the normal hit whenever the target is 4-6 tiles away, currently 140 damage at level 11 after an August 2026 cut from 168.

Also in Merge Tactics

Archers also appears as a troop in Clash Royale's Merge Tactics mode, bought from the shop and merged for star upgrades rather than cycled through a deck.

View Archers in Merge Tactics

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Archers work?

Archers deploy as two independent 3-elixir Common troop units (304 HP / 112 damage each at tournament level 11), each attacking Air & Ground on its own 0.9s cadence with no splash…