Berserker

Berserker is a 2-Elixir Common ground melee troop (x1, Fast speed/90, 1s deploy, 0.8-tile melee range, ground-only targeting) built around unusually high DPS-per-Elixir: 896 HP / 102 damage per hit / 0.6s hit speed / 170 DPS at level 11. Her signature quirk is a 0.2s first-hit timer versus her 0.6s normal hit speed — she lands an opening swing far faster than a full attack cycle would suggest, letting her get in an early trade hit. Balance history has swung back and forth: Hit Speed buffed 0.6→0.5s (Feb 2025), Hitpoints raised 8% (Apr 2025) so she "holds her ground" longer in troop fights, then Hit Speed reverted 0.5→0.6s (Oct 2025) to rein in her damage output as a cheap minitank; no further base changes found through Aug 2026. An August 2026 Hero variant (community-labeled "Season 86"; Supercell's own "K.H.A.O.S" launch post does not itself state a season number) adds a single-use "Savage Survival" ability that temporarily boosts her hit/attack speed and keeps her from dying (HP floor) for a few seconds — Supercell's own post confirms the effect qualitatively (hit-speed boost plus a temporary unkillable window) but not exact numbers. A community guide (gamelevate.com) corroborates a roughly 200% hit-speed increase and roughly 64% damage increase while active; more precise figures that had circulated elsewhere for this ability (an absolute 0.2s hit speed, an HP floor of exactly 1, a duration of up to 4s, a ~1.45s cast/activation time, and a ~2.6s effective window) could not be verified against any source in this pass and appear likely fabricated, so they are not treated as established here.

• Berserker costs 2 Elixir, is a Common-rarity ground troop deployed as a single unit (x1), moves at Fast speed (90), has a 1 sec deploy time, and attacks in melee range (Short, 0.8 tiles), targeting only Ground units (troops and buildings) — she cannot target or be targeted by air troops directly.

• At level 11 (tournament standard for a Common card), Berserker has 896 hitpoints, deals 102 damage per hit, and outputs 170 damage per second.

• Berserker's first attack after she is deployed lands after only 0.2 seconds, roughly three times faster than her normal 0.6-second hit speed — meaning her opening swing comes out almost immediately rather than making her wait a full attack cycle before dealing her first hit. This lets her land a surprise early trade hit against troops that are placed to counter her, before they'd otherwise expect an attack.

• On 11 Feb 2025, Supercell buffed Berserker's Hit Speed from 0.6 sec to 0.5 sec, a +20% Damage Per Second increase, because 'Berserker ended up weaker than we had hoped.'

• On 9 Apr 2025, Supercell increased Berserker's hitpoints by 8% (832 → 896 at level 11), officially framed as letting her 'hold her ground against other Troops for a bit longer' — i.e. survive troop-vs-troop trades longer before dying.

• On 6 Oct 2025, Supercell reverted Berserker's Hit Speed from 0.5 sec back to 0.6 sec (roughly a 17% DPS reduction, 204→170 at level 11), stating Berserker 'has become the best minitank option with a high damage output for only 2 Elixir' and that her DPS was being toned down to line up with other low-cost, mid-hitpoint units.

• No further balance changes to base Berserker's cost, hitpoints, damage, or hit speed have been published since the 6 Oct 2025 patch — Supercell's July 2026 and August 2026 balance-change blog posts (Seasons 85/86) contain no mention of Berserker, so the LOCAL_SNAPSHOT's level-11 figures (896 HP / 102 dmg / 0.6s hit speed / 170 DPS, 2 Elixir cost) remain the live values as of this verification.

• As a ground-only unit, Berserker cannot target air troops and will engage the nearest ground troop or building rather than beelining straight for a tower the way pure building-targeters (e.g. Giant) do.