Skeletons

Skeletons is a 1-Elixir Common troop that drops three fragile skeleton units at once, unlocked back in the Bone Pit arena. Individually each one is barely a threat, but together they're the cheapest way to distract a tank, finish off a low-health unit, or chip a tower for almost no investment. Their big weakness is durability: all three share very low hitpoints, so a single small spell can erase the whole group. Their evolved form leans into the swarm concept further, spawning a fresh skeleton with every attack it lands until the group grows to a small horde.

• Skeletons is a Common troop card that costs just 1 Elixir, the cheapest possible deploy, and summons three Skeleton units at once. It unlocks in the Bone Pit arena.

• Each Skeleton has 81 hitpoints and deals 81 damage per hit at level 11, attacking once every 1.1 seconds for roughly 73-74 damage per second.

• Skeletons move at Fast speed and land their very first swing just 0.5 seconds after touching down, well ahead of their normal 1.1-second attack cycle, letting them snipe a low-health target or start chipping a tower almost immediately.

• Because all three Skeletons share such low hitpoints, a single small-radius spell like Zap, Arrows, or Snowball wipes the whole group, so many players throw Skeletons down cheaply as a 1-Elixir distraction or spell bait rather than a real damage threat.

• The number of Skeletons spawned per cast has changed three times: a 21 June 2016 update cut it from four down to three, a 13 February 2017 update brought a fourth Skeleton back (justified at the time by Ice Spirit's arrival making the 1-Elixir slot more competitive), and a 12 June 2017 update cut it back down to three, the count that has held ever since.

• Skeletons entered Clash Royale on 4 January 2016 as part of the game's limited regional soft-launch (iOS only, in countries including Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, and several Nordic countries); the worldwide release didn't arrive until 2 March 2016.

• EvolutionSkeletons' Evolution costs the same 1 Elixir as the base card but needs two cycles of playing it in a match before the evolution is fully charged and ready to trigger.

• EvolutionOnce evolved, Skeletons spawn an extra skeleton with every attack they land, growing the group from 3 up to a maximum of 8 skeletons on the field at once.