Evolution Royal Recruits

Royal Recruits is a 7-Elixir Common card that deploys six shielded troops spread across a wide horizontal line, letting one card cover both lanes at once for defense or a two-pronged push. Each recruit's shield soaks up incoming damage before their real hitpoints start dropping, giving them solid built-in resistance to spells and splash damage until that shield finally breaks. The card's Evolution turns that passive defensive line into a real offensive threat: once a recruit's shield is destroyed, it charges the rest of the way into its target for extra damage instead of just plinking away at normal speed.

• Royal Recruits is a 7-Elixir Common troop card that deploys six lightly armored, shielded soldiers spread out in a wide horizontal line, letting a single card threaten or defend both lanes at once.

• At level 11, each recruit has 547 hitpoints plus a 240-point shield that absorbs damage first, and hits for 133 damage every 1.3 seconds (about 102 damage per second) at long melee range.

• The card was introduced on 7 August 2018 alongside the Royal Arena (Arena 7), where it's still unlocked today.

• In a May 2024 balance update, Supercell raised Royal Recruits' hitpoints from 532 to 547 while trimming the Evolution's bonus-hitpoint multiplier, closing the gap between the base troop and its Evolution.

• Because the six recruits spawn spread across a wide line, players commonly split them 3-3 or 2-4 across both lanes for defense, or keep them together behind support for a two-lane push.

• Each recruit's shield absorbs damage before its real hitpoints take a hit, so with 240 shield points, small spells or splash hits often get wasted on the shield instead of killing the troop outright.

• EvolutionRoyal Recruits' Evolution launched on 4 September 2023 and costs the same 7 Elixir, needing only one card cycle before it can be played again.

• Evolutiononce a recruit's shield is destroyed, the Evolution lets it charge the last 2.5 tiles into its target for double damage — 266 instead of the normal 133 — turning a purely defensive card into a real damage threat once the shields crack.