Spear Goblins

common

2 Elixir

Three unarmored ranged attackers. Who the heck taught these guys to throw spears!? Who thought that was a good idea?!

Card TypeTroop

ArenaGoblin Stadium

Released4 Jan 2016

Elixir Cost2

Raritycommon

Max Level16

EvolutionNone

Combat Attributes

Attack

Hit Speed: 1.6 sec
First Hit: 0.5 sec
Targets: Air & Ground
Range: 5
Projectile Speed: 500

Movement

Movement Speed: Very Fast (120)
Transport: Ground

Deployment

Deploy Time: 1 sec
Count: x3

Stats include official balance changes through October 2026.

Level Statistics

See how Spear Goblins' stats scale from Level 1 to Level 16

Spear Goblins stats at each card level, Level 1 to Level 16. One row per level; columns are the stats that change with level.
Level	Hitpoints	Damage	Damage per second
Level 1StartYour level	52	32	20
Level 2Your level	57	35	21
Level 3Your level	62	38	23
Level 4Your level	69	42	26
Level 5Your level	75	46	28
Level 6Your level	83	51	31
Level 7Your level	91	56	35
Level 8Your level	100	61	38
Level 9Your level	110	67	41
Level 10Your level	121	74	46
Level 11TournamentYour level	133	81	50
Level 12Your level	146	89	55
Level 13Your level	160	98	61
Level 14Your level	176	108	67
Level 15Your level	193	119	74
Level 16MaxYour level	212	130	81

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.

Spear Goblins send a trio of lightly armored goblins onto the battlefield who throw spears from range, letting them chip away at troops, buildings, and even air units without having to get into melee. At just 2 Elixir, they're one of the cheapest cards in the game, making them a flexible piece for cycling, supporting a tank, or punishing an overcommitted push. Their tradeoff is fragility: splitting into three separate bodies means the squad can keep fighting even if some die, but each individual goblin has very little health, so a single well-placed spell or a splash-damage troop can wipe out most or all of them in one hit.

Spear Goblins is a Common troop that costs 2 Elixir and is unlocked in Goblin Stadium (Arena 1), making it one of the first and cheapest cards new players get access to.
Each card deploys a squad of three Spear Goblins that throw spears at range rather than fighting in melee, letting them hit both air and ground targets, plus buildings, from a distance.
Spear Goblins move at Very Fast speed and are ready to fight just 1 second after being placed, so they're often used to react quickly to an incoming push or to add fast support behind a tank.
Spear Goblins throw their first spear just 0.5 seconds after landing, noticeably faster than their normal attack cycle, so they can often get one extra hit in against a fast-approaching swarm or small troop.
As of the August 2026 balance update, Spear Goblins attack every 1.6 seconds instead of the previous 1.7 seconds, a roughly 6% faster attack rate that Supercell introduced specifically to make the card more reliable on defense.
At tournament-standard level 11, a single Spear Goblin's spear hits for 81 damage; after the August 2026 attack-speed buff that comes out to roughly 51 damage per second per goblin, up from about 47 before the patch.
Each Spear Goblin only has 133 hit points at level 11, so the whole trio is fragile — a single small spell like Zap, The Log, or Arrows, or almost any splash-damage troop, can wipe out two or three of them at once.
Spear Goblins have been in Clash Royale since the game's earliest days: they were part of the card pool during the January 2016 regional soft-launch (limited to a handful of countries, including Canada, Australia, and several Nordic countries) that preceded the game's full worldwide release on 2 March 2016.

Also in Merge Tactics

Spear Goblins also appears as a troop in Clash Royale's Merge Tactics mode, bought from the shop and merged for star upgrades rather than cycled through a deck.

View Spear Goblins in Merge Tactics

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does Spear Goblins work?

Spear Goblins send a trio of lightly armored goblins onto the battlefield who throw spears from range, letting them chip away at troops, buildings, and even air units without having to get…

What is Spear Goblins's elixir cost and rarity?

Spear Goblins costs 2 elixir and is a common card.

Early Spear Goblins Decks

6 distinct decks seen in ranked battles

This is an early sample. CrownStats has observed 6 distinct decks using Spear Goblins in the last 7 days — enough to list what has actually been played, not enough to rank it. The list grows as more ranked battles are crawled.

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