GAME PLAY CLASH ROYALE

Game Play Clash Royale

Game Play

In Clash Royale, players are ranked by their level and trophy count. The highest level is thirteen, with players levelling up by gaining more experience points through donating or upgrading cards. Trophies are won and lost through multiplayer battles: a player wins a battle by destroying more towers than the opponent (each destroyed tower being represented as 'crowns'), or by destroying the opponent's King's Tower, granting an automatic three-crown victory.

There are 11 playing arenas in total (excluding the tutorial Training Camp), with each arena corresponding to a certain trophy count range. The 11 Arenas are Goblin Stadium, Bone Pit, Barbarian Bowl, P.E.K.K.A's Playhouse, Spell Valley, Builder's Workshop, Royal Arena, Frozen Peak, Jungle Arena, Hog Mountain and Legendary Arena.

Cards

Playable units and spells are represented as cards. Prior to each game, players construct a deck of eight cards used to attack and defend from their opponent's units, spells and towers. At the start of each game, both players begin with four randomly chosen cards from their deck of eight.

Each card costs a certain amount of elixir to play: one elixir point is replenished every 2.8 seconds (or 1.4 seconds in the final 60 seconds of the game), with a maximum of 10 elixir points at any one moment. Once a card is played, a new card is automatically drawn from the player's eight card deck.

There are currently 74 cards in the game, coming in four rarities: Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary.

Currency

As a free-to-play game, Clash Royale offers players the ability to purchase gems in the card shop using currency. Gems can be used to start tournaments, enter challenges, and purchase chests, cards, and gold from the shop.

Chests

When a player wins a multiplayer battle, they will obtain a 'chest', which takes a certain amount of time to open depending on the rarity of the chest. Chests take a certain amount of time to unlock: Silver Chests take three hours to unlock, Golden Chests take eight hours, Giant, Magical and Epic Chests take 12 hours, while Super Magical and Legendary Chests take 24 hours. Gems may be used to speed up unlocking or can be used to purchase a chest. Chests contain cards and gold, and free chests and crown chests will also contain gems. Different levels of chests contain different numbers or types of cards. When the player has a certain number of a troop's cards, they can upgrade it, using gold, to increase its statistics. A player can hold a maximum of four chests at one time; to open up chest slots, a chest will need to be opened.^[7] Free chests are also given to the player once every four hours, and only two of these can be stored. Every 24 hours, the player also has the chance to win a Crown Chest by claiming ten 'crowns' from battle victories. A Clan Chest appears from Friday midnight to Monday midnight (time varies for different countries). There are ten stages to it, with each stage increasing the reward. Crown chests are only allowed to be stacked twice. Both the Free Chests and Crown Chests can be unlocked instantly.

Clans

From level one, players can form and join clans. Clan members may engage in 1vs1 or 2vs2 friendly battles with one another, the outcome of which does not affect trophies or chests. The friendly battle feature allows for live spectating from other clanmates. Clan members may also donate or request cards from one another starting from level three. Joining a clan allows you to take part in the weekly Clan Chest (where you earn crowns with your clan) and Clan Battles (where you battle against another clan with your clanmate) These two clan-bonding activities alternate each week .

Tournaments

In July 2016, Supercell introduced a new Tournament feature. This feature is unlocked at Level 8. Tournaments can only be created by using gems, and the creator can choose to make it password protected or open. Based on tournament performance, players are rewarded with tournament chests. As well as tournaments, there are two types of Victory Challenges in which the goal is to win 12 times while losing no more than two times. A Grand Challenge costs 100 gems to enter, and a Classic Challenge costs 10. Completing (or getting 12 wins) a Classic Challenge gives you 2000 gold and 100 cards, and a Grand Challenge will reward you 22,000 gold and 1,100 cards.^[8] Supercell has also added various event challenges, for limited periods of time, that add special features to the battles, or allow players to receive special cards. These event challenges can also be played in Friendly Battles.^[9]

Leagues

In March 2017, "Leagues" were added to the game. Once above 4000 trophies, players are placed in one of nine different leagues ranging from Challenger I to Ultimate Champion.^[10] At the end of each season, players receive rewards based on the highest league achieved during that season. Another feature that was introduced is Clan Battles. Two players get to battle side by side with another member of their clan facing off against two other opponents from another clan. This is the first update to include a new game mode.