Skeleton Barrel

common

3 Elixir

It's a Skeleton party in the sky, until all the balloons pop... then it's a Skeleton party on the ground!

Card TypeTroop

ArenaJungle Arena

Released17 Nov 2017

Elixir Cost3

Raritycommon

Max Level16

Evolution2 Cycles

Combat Attributes

Attack

Targets: Buildings
Range: Melee: Short (0.35)

Movement

Movement Speed: Fast (90)
Transport: Air

Deployment

Deploy Time: 1 sec

Special Mechanics

Skeleton Container

Death Damage Splash Radius: 2
Deploy Time: 0.6 sec
Target: Air & Ground

Skeleton

Hit Speed: 1.1 sec
Speed: Fast (90)
Range: Melee: Short (0.5)
Deploy Time: 0.5 sec
Target: Ground
Count: x7
Transport: Ground

Stats include official balance changes through October 2026.

Level Statistics

See how Skeleton Barrel's stats scale from Level 1 to Level 16

Skeleton Barrel stats at each card level, Level 1 to Level 16. One row per level; columns are the stats that change with level.
Level	Skeleton Barrel		Skeleton
Level	Hitpoints	Death damage	Hitpoints	Damage	Damage per second
Level 1StartYour level	208	56	32	31	28
Level 2Your level	228	61	35	34	30
Level 3Your level	251	68	38	38	34
Level 4Your level	276	74	42	42	38
Level 5Your level	303	82	46	46	41
Level 6Your level	332	90	51	50	45
Level 7Your level	366	99	56	55	49
Level 8Your level	401	109	61	61	55
Level 9Your level	440	120	67	67	60
Level 10Your level	484	132	74	74	67
Level 11TournamentYour level	532	145	81	81	73
Level 12Your level	584	160	89	89	80
Level 13Your level	642	175	98	98	89
Level 14Your level	705	193	108	108	98
Level 15Your level	773	212	119	119	108
Level 16MaxYour level	850	234	130	130	118

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

Verified 2026-08-19

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

Skeleton Barrel is a 3-Elixir Common troop that flies straight for the nearest building, ignoring troops along the way. When it lands on its target or gets shot down in the air, it bursts into seven Skeletons and deals a splash of damage at that spot, making it a cheap way to chip a tower or force a reaction from the defense. Its Evolution carries two barrels instead of one: it drops the first swarm early, once it's taken meaningful damage, and the second on death, roughly doubling the total Skeleton output for the same 3 Elixir. It's strong on defense against building-targeting threats and as a cheap poke on offense, but a well-timed cheap spell or a defensive building usually shuts it down efficiently.

Skeleton Barrel is a Common, 3-Elixir flying troop that heads straight for the nearest building, then bursts into seven Skeletons and a burst of splash damage when it lands or gets shot down.
At tournament-standard level 11, the barrel itself has 532 hitpoints and deals 145 splash damage on impact, while each of the seven Skeletons it releases has 81 hitpoints and hits for 81 damage roughly every 1.1 seconds (about 73 damage per second).
Skeleton Barrel has been in Clash Royale since 17 November 2017, when it was added as a reward from the Jungle Arena (Arena 9).
Cheap defensive buildings like Cannon or Tombstone are efficient answers, since they usually trade evenly with the barrel and its Elixir cost. Bigger buildings like Bomb Tower or Tesla also work, but can leave you slightly behind on Elixir if that's the only thing they counter.
A cheap spell such as The Log, Zap, or Barbarian Barrel is normally enough to wipe out the Skeleton swarm for a favorable Elixir trade, since the Skeletons individually have very little health.
EvolutionThe evolved Skeleton Barrel carries two barrels instead of one — it releases the first automatically once it has taken about a quarter of its health in damage, and drops the second on death or on reaching its target, doubling the total Skeleton swarm to fourteen.
EvolutionEach of the evolution's two barrels deals its own 238 splash damage on impact rather than one combined hit, so a target only takes the full 476 if it happens to be caught by both drops — which in practice usually only happens right at the building or tower the barrel was heading for.
EvolutionThis evolution first became available on 7 July 2025 and needs the base Skeleton Barrel to be played twice in a match before it's charged and can be deployed in its upgraded form.

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