Clash Royale: 10 Best Decks, Ranked (2024)

Clash Royale is a game that centers around cards in a group of eight and to progress and win you build a deck that is versatile, effective, and able to counter other decks easily. With the number of cards in the game, all manner of combinations exist, and balance changes force you to adapt to the meta.

Some decks are far superior to others because all cards have their own strengths and weaknesses and synergize differently with each other, which frequently determines their effectiveness. It’s up to you to figure out a combination that will blast you from the confines of mid-ladder to the much more competitive top-ladder and these decks are a perfect way to mix and match your playstyle.

10 Log Bait

Overwhelm Your Opponent With Swarm Cards And Rocket Till You Win

Log Bait has been around for a long time, ever since the Log came out, and will probably be around for as long as the Log stays the best spell in the game. In this deck, the main goal is to use cards that easily die to the log like the Princess, the Goblin gang and the Goblin Barrel.

This way, once your opponent uses their log, it won’t have a better counter for the next card that you place, like baiting the log with the princess and then ambushing the tower with a Goblin Barrel. The best variation of the Log Bait deck often has an evolved knight in the mix that you can play as a bullet sponge for your other troops.

9 Electrogiant Bowler MW Nado

The Best Electro Giant Deck In The Meta

The cards in this deck synergize perfectly with each other in a way that has the potential to dominate in the top ranks with Electro Giant as the main win condition. The deck is used by many players in top ladder and has a fairly low skill ceiling, which means even average players can manage with it.

The trick is to use the tornado to drag all enemy troops to your Electro Giant or Bowler to take them out all at once and destroy any potential defense. Mother Witch can be employed to build a nice counter push and can be used to destroy any potential Giant Graveyard players you’re matched with.

8 Royal Giant Ghost

Cycling To Your Evolved Royal Giant Has Never Been Easier

Another popular deck that has somehow found its way among the top players, is the Royal Giant Ghost cycle deck. The aim of this one is to cycle to your Royal Giant as frequently as possible and if your opponent is running a hog or something similar, use the Fisherman to activate the King Tower.

The problem with this deck is that it only really works if you have the Evolved Royal Giant and evolutions are in short supply, especially for free to play players. The deck also has three legendaries in it, which makes it almost impossible to level up if you’re an F2P player.

7 Lava Loon Deck

A Simple Concept For A Deck That Works Really Well

Lava Loon is perhaps the most unique deck currently in the meta with few players in top ladder even considering playing it. Since air troops are relatively ignored to an extent, many players don’t have a meaningful counter to the Lava Hound.

You can do chip damage with the Lava Hound at the start of the game and then pair it with the balloon to overwhelm your opponent as much as you can. It’s easy to make a mistake when playing against a Lava Loon deck and a single mistake can win the game.

6 LumberLoon

A Raged Balloon And Evolved Royal Recruits Lead To Three Crowns

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The Lumber Loon deck is the easiest to play deck in the game, especially if you pair it with the Evolved Royal Recruits. Getting the cards to complete the deck and level it up to a decent point is its only downside, but once you get the feel for this deck, there are few cards that can properly counter it.

All you have to do is use the Recruits defensively and possibly build a counter push in combination with the Lumberjack and the Balloon, raging everything when the Lumberjack dies. It’s easy to quickly overwhelm your opponent with this combo, which is why it’s so popular in top ladder.

5 Giant Graveyard

The Counter To The Canoneer Tower Troop

The Giant Graveyard deck is another extremely popular deck in top ladder, where the meta has allowed the perfect synergy between the Giant and the Graveyard in response to the Canoneer tower troop.

You can use your choice of evolution between the Firecracker and the Archers and swap out other cards as well, based on what you have. This deck is great for free to play players since it doesn’t cost much and is extremely effective in a lot of match-ups. Using the Little Prince as the go-to champion is a plus point as well, since many players were gifted that card for free.

4 Wall Breaker Miner Poison Cycle

Wall Breakers Combined With The Miner Have Great Synergy

The Wall Breaker Miner Poison Cycle is an up-and-comer deck that has performed really well in the double evolution meta. Unfortunately, for this deck to be at its best, you need those two evolution slots, with either a Knight or the Bats and Supercell has the second slot locked behind level 15.

Those who do have access to that second evolution slot have a slight advantage that many players consider unfair. However, just the Miner Poison cycle along with the occasional Wall Breakers is enough to win the game if you know what you’re doing.

3 Hog 2.8 Cycle

The Hog Cycle Deck That Uses Two Evos

The Hog Rider has been around for so long and is probably the most balanced win condition in the game right now, with new variations of a cycle deck coming out every season. The most recent rendition of the Hog Cycle makes use of the double evolution slots along with the Earthquake and Tesla.

Everyone and their mother have played a Hog Cycle deck at some point, so the basics of this deck are fairly simple, and if you’re a low-level player, a single evolution slot is still viable, just make sure to use the knight.

2 Hog 2.6 Cycle

Longest Running Cheap Cycle Deck

The Hog 2.6 Cycle has been around for many seasons now, and you see it pop up so often in Trophy Road that is can sometimes be really frustrating to play against. The Hog 2.6 Cycle is not for everyone since the key to success with this deck is placement. How else are you going to somehow defend against a Mega Knight Sparky combo with just a Musketeer and skeletons?

Seriously though, it may not look like it, but the defensive capability of this deck is out of proportion and good players can squeeze a lot of value with this cheap cycle deck.

1 Miner Poison 2.8 Cycle

Mohamad Light's Iconic High Ranking Deck

The mind-blowing cheap and easy to use Miner 2.8 cycle is used by a player that has ranked number one more times in the world every season than any other player, Mohamed Light. It’s a high skill ceiling to make full use of this deck, but Miner Poison is such a great combo that even average players can do good with these cards.

Since it’s super easy to max out this deck, and is fairly flexible, it’s a go-to for free to play players. It’s also recommended to use it for pushing the ladder, because once you have the basics of these cards down, you’ll notice a constant winning streak that might push you to the top ranks.