Little Prince

Little Prince is a cheap Champion who fights at range with a rapier that gets faster the longer he keeps swinging — starting at a slow 1.2-second pace and ramping up to a rapid 0.4-second flurry against anything that stays in front of him. Unusually for such a fast attacker, he can hit air troops as well as ground. His Royal Rescue ability spends another 3 Elixir to dash forward and call in Guardienne, a tough ground-only bodyguard who barrels in with a heavy opening hit before sticking around as a permanent ally. A major August 2026 update changed how that ability behaves: it now fires only once per Little Prince you place instead of recharging on a cooldown, though Guardienne now hits harder than before and Little Prince holds onto his ramped-up attack speed a little longer when he's on the move or switching targets.

• Little Prince is a 3-Elixir Champion troop that unlocks in the Silent Sanctuary arena, and has been in the game since November 6, 2023. Like every Champion, a deck can only include one Champion card total.

• At level 11 Little Prince has 698 hitpoints and attacks at range (5.5 tiles) with a rapier that can hit both air and ground troops for 104 damage a hit. He builds up a genuine three-stage combo the longer he keeps attacking: his swing interval drops from 1.2 seconds to 0.6 seconds to 0.4 seconds, taking his damage output from about 86, to 173, up to a peak of 260 damage per second.

• Royal Rescue, Little Prince's special ability, costs another 3 Elixir on top of his 3-Elixir deploy cost -- getting full value out of him is really a 6-Elixir play. Activating it makes him dash up to 4 tiles and summon his bodyguard, Guardienne, after a roughly 0.9-second cast. As of an August 2026 rework, Royal Rescue -- like almost every Hero and Champion ability except Boss Bandit's -- can only be triggered once per deployment, rather than being reusable every 30 seconds the way it used to be.

• Guardienne is a hulking, 1,600-hitpoint melee bodyguard who can only fight ground troops, not air. She charges in dealing bonus damage and knocking back what she hits, then sticks around fighting as a normal ally until she's killed -- she isn't a temporary summon.

• An August 2026 balance update buffed Guardienne's hit damage from 217 to 232 (about +7%, roughly 193 damage per second at her 1.2-second hit speed), landing in the same patch that took away Royal Rescue's repeatable cooldown.

• The same update gave Little Prince 'Hit Speed Conservation': he now keeps whatever ramped-up attack speed he's built up for up to 0.3 seconds after moving or switching targets, instead of instantly falling back to his slow first-stage swing the moment he's interrupted.

• Little Prince launched in late 2023 as a dominant tank-and-DPS duo with Guardienne and drew a heavy round of nerfs through 2024 -- including a range cut (from 6 tiles down to the current 5.5) plus reductions to Guardienne's hitpoints, Guardienne's damage, and Royal Rescue's own damage. Since then he's received a steady string of smaller buffs through 2025 and into 2026, including the August 2026 Guardienne damage increase.

• On offense, quick interrupt spells or troops like Zap, The Log, or Electro Wizard can punish Little Prince mid-cast and stop Guardienne from ever landing. On defense, Guardienne's high-HP, ground-only charge is well suited to blowing up swarms and squishy support troops like Witch, Executioner, or Wizard when they're tucked behind a tank.