Evolution Barbarians

common

5 Elixir

Evolution

These Barbarians have grown stronger through Evolution! Not only do they now have glorious hair, but they also gain extra Speed and Hitspeed with each attack.

Card TypeTroop

ArenaBarbarian Bowl

Evolution released19 Jun 2023

Elixir Cost5

Raritycommon

Max Level16

Evolution1 Cycle

Combat Attributes

Attack

Hit Speed: 1.4 sec
First Hit: 0.4 sec
Targets: Ground
Range: Melee: Short (0.7)

Movement

Movement Speed: Medium (60)
Transport: Ground

Deployment

Deploy Time: 1 sec
Count: x5

What the Evolution Adds

Compared with Barbarians

Evolution: 1 Cycle; Every second play evolves
Base stats: Unchanged; Same hitpoints, damage and attack as Barbarians

New mechanics

Rage on attack

Every attack

Every attack gives the Evolved Barbarians a Rage boost that increases their attack speed and movement speed by 30% for 5 seconds.

Attack & movement speed: +30%
Rage duration: 5 sec

Stats include official balance changes through October 2026.

Level Statistics

See how Evolution Barbarians' stats scale from Level 1 to Level 16

Evolution Barbarians stats at each card level, Level 1 to Level 16. One row per level; columns are the stats that change with level.
Level	Hitpoints	Damage	Damage per second	Boosted damage per second
Level 1StartYour level	280	74	52	76
Level 2Your level	308	81	57	83
Level 3Your level	338	90	64	92
Level 4Your level	372	99	70	102
Level 5Your level	408	108	77	111
Level 6Your level	448	119	85	122
Level 7Your level	492	131	93	135
Level 8Your level	540	144	102	148
Level 9Your level	593	159	113	163
Level 10Your level	652	175	125	180
Level 11TournamentYour level	716	192	137	197
Level 12Your level	786	211	150	217
Level 13Your level	865	232	165	239
Level 14Your level	949	256	182	263
Level 15Your level	1,041	281	200	289
Level 16MaxYour level	1,145	309	220	318

Tournament: Level 11 is the level tournament matches use, whatever a card's rarity.

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

Combat Mechanics Encyclopedia

Mechanics verified against Season 86 (August 2026)

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

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.
Barbarians are frequently dated to 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.

Also in Merge Tactics

Barbarians 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 Barbarians in Merge Tactics

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does Barbarians work?

Barbarians is a 5-Elixir Common troop card that deploys five single-target, melee, ground-targeting fighters in a spread/staggered formation

What is Barbarians's elixir cost and rarity?

Barbarians costs 5 elixir and is a common card.

What does Barbarians's Evolution change?

Evolved 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.