Barbarians

Barbarians is a 5-Elixir Common troop card that deploys five single-target, melee, ground-targeting fighters in a spread/staggered formation. At tournament-standard level 11 each Barbarian has 716 HP; the base-card snapshot lists 191 damage per hit (136 DPS) on a 1.4-second swing cycle, with a much faster 0.4-second first swing after engaging a target. Note: the Evolution snapshot lists a slightly different non-boosted figure for what should be the same underlying unit (192 damage per hit / 137 DPS) — this entry could not resolve which figure is authoritative, so it is flagged here as an open discrepancy rather than smoothed into a "191-192" range (see unresolved notes). Its Evolution keeps the same base stats but periodically triggers a "Rage" buff — the same underlying effect used by the Rage spell, Lumberjack's death-rage, and Evolved Battle Ram — that speeds up hit rate and movement by 30% for 5 seconds, without adding any bonus hitpoints (the old +10% HP bonus was removed in the August 2026 rebalance). The Evolution snapshot states boosted DPS as 197; independently recomputing from the public hit-speed/damage/boost fields predicts damage/(hit_speed*(1-boost)) = 192/0.98 ≈ 195.9, which rounds to 196 — a 1-point gap that this entry could not explain from any confirmed source (see unresolved notes). The card's stats have been actively tuned through 2026: hit speed and hitpoints were both adjusted in March 2026, the shared Rage buff was nerfed in October 2025, and hitpoints/Rage duration were reworked again in August 2026 — all of which the current snapshot already reflects and which are backed by primary Supercell blog posts. Barbarians has been in Clash Royale since the game's 2016 launch window: it was present at the game's regional soft-launch on 4 January 2016 (a small set of countries), ahead of Clash Royale's actual worldwide/global release on 2 March 2016 — the 4 January date is not itself a "global launch."

• Barbarians is a Common troop card costing 5 Elixir that spawns 5 ground, melee (Short range, 0.7 tiles) units per cast, with Medium movement speed (60), 1 sec deploy time, 1.4 sec hit speed, and a 0.4 sec first-hit speed. At tournament-standard level 11 each unit has 716 hitpoints, deals 191 damage per hit, and does 136 damage per second.

• The wiki snapshot's releaseDate field for Barbarians reads 4 January 2016 — but that date is Clash Royale's limited regional iOS soft-launch (Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, and New Zealand), not a global launch. Clash Royale's actual worldwide release (all platforms, all regions) was 2 March 2016. Barbarians therefore released during Clash Royale's phased 2016 rollout: regional soft-launch 4 January 2016, ahead of the 2 March 2016 worldwide release.

• Checked for supersession: Supercell's own 'Final August Balance Changes' post (published August 4, 2026) confirms Barbarians' level-11 hitpoints are 716 — the exact figure already present in the LOCAL_SNAPSHOT — so that snapshot value is current and not stale.

• Before the August 2026 patch, Barbarians had 691 HP at level 11 — itself raised from 670 by the March 4, 2026 balance update. That 691 value is now superseded by the current 716.

• The same March 4, 2026 update slowed Barbarians' hit speed from 1.3 sec to 1.4 sec (+8% slower interval) — this is the value still live today and matches the snapshot's '1.4 sec' hit_speed.

• EvolutionEvolved Barbarians carry the same 716 HP as the base card and deal 192 damage/137 DPS at level 11 when not enraged, rising to 197 DPS for 5 seconds while their Rage effect is active.

• Evolutionthe August 4, 2026 patch extended Evolved Barbarians' Rage duration from 3 sec to 5 sec (+67%) while simultaneously removing their old +10% bonus-hitpoints perk (now +0%), i.e. the evolution now matches the base card's HP exactly and instead offers a longer speed-buff window — this is why the snapshot's evolution and base level-11 hitpoints are both 716.

• Combat interaction / targeting quirk: the 5 Barbarians land in a spread star formation with a staggered deploy timing between individual units (a 0.15 sec stagger added in a March 4, 2019 balance update), specifically so that a single small-radius area-damage spell landing at the moment of deployment cannot catch all 5 units at once.