Electro Spirit

A 1-Elixir kamikaze troop that dashes at the nearest target and detonates on contact, unleashing a chain-lightning burst that hits up to 9 enemies at once for 99 damage each and stuns every one of them for half a second. It's fragile (215 hitpoints) and dies in one hit to most cheap troops, but its instant multi-target stun makes it a premier swarm-clearer and a reliable way to interrupt charge-up attacks like Sparky's for almost no Elixir investment.

• Electro Spirit costs just 1 Elixir and moves at Very Fast speed, reaching its target almost immediately after a 1 second deploy time. It only has 215 hitpoints, so almost anything kills it in a hit or two, but its single leap deals 99 damage and it can lock onto both air and ground targets from a 2.5 tile range.

• When Electro Spirit reaches its target, it explodes into a burst of chain lightning that arcs to up to 8 other nearby enemies at the same instant, hitting as many as 9 units total. Each one takes the full 99 damage rather than a shared or split amount, and every unit it touches — including the original target — is stunned for half a second, freezing them in place and briefly halting whatever they were doing.

• In December 2025, Supercell slowed Electro Spirit's chain lightning down, stretching the gap between each jump from 0.2 to 0.25 seconds — a 25% slowdown. Supercell said the 1-Elixir card's ability to stun entire pushes and wipe out swarms so cheaply was too efficient, and was propping up Royal Giant decks that dominated the meta at the time.

• In August 2026, Supercell cut Electro Spirit's hitpoints from 230 down to 215, a 6% reduction applied to all four Spirit cards at once. The change means Electro Spirit can no longer damage a Crown Tower on its own, and common troops like Archers, the Archer Queen, Bomber, Musketeer, and Tesla can now kill it in a single hit. Supercell explained that Spirits had become a near-guaranteed positive trade in almost any matchup, appearing in 53% of Top 200 decks and 31% of Ranked play, and wanted deploying one to feel like a real decision again.

• Electro Spirit's stun is strong enough to interrupt charge-up attacks, not just movement. Landing it on a fully wound-up Sparky, Prince, Battle Ram, or Inferno Dragon resets their charge completely, cancelling their big hit for just 1 Elixir. This interaction is reliable enough that Supercell had to patch a bug in October 2022 where Sparky's charge failed to reset if she was hit by Electro Spirit at the exact same moment Fisherman's hook pulled her.

• Electro Spirit first arrived in Clash Royale on 2 November 2020, alongside Electro Giant — both cards had gotten early access a few weeks earlier through the Shocktober-themed Season 16 Challenge before their general release.