Clash Royale weekly meta report: October 24, 2026
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This report compares 4,158 battles (8,259 decks) collected from the latest battles of the top 196 players on the global Ranked leaderboard with the data from a week earlier (October 17, 2026). Below you’ll see which decks climbed, which cards were dropped and how the share of each deck type changed. Data from October 24, 2026.
This week’s highlights
- The most played deck is now Royal Hogs deck, up from #3 last week (win rate 48%).
- New in the top 10: Electro Giant deck, Goblin Drill deck.
- Biggest riser: Bandit, from 5.5% to 10.4% of decks.
- Biggest faller: Minion Giant, from 15.9% to 6.9% of decks.
- Among deck types, Hog Rider / fast cycle (+5.7 pts) gained ground while Lava Hound / air (−6.9 pts) lost it.
- Among decks with at least 50 battles, the best win rate belongs to Minion Giant deck (77.5% in 71 battles).
- No balance changes were released this week, so the shifts above come from players’ deck choices, not from card stat changes.
Top 10 decks
This week’s most played decks and their rank last week (“new”: not in last week’s top 25). Decks that differ by a single card count as the same deck.
| Deck | Win rate | Battles | Last week |
|---|---|---|---|
1. Royal Hogs deck        | 48% | 408 | 3. ▲ |
2. Hog Rider deck    | 47.6% | 246 | 4. ▲ |
3. Goblinstein + Mortar deck       | 52.6% | 230 | 5. ▲ |
4. Minion Giant deck    | 59.8% | 199 | 1. ▼ |
5. Royal Giant deck     | 63.8% | 196 | 12. ▲ |
6. Giant + Graveyard deck        | 48.4% | 184 | 2. ▼ |
7. Electro Giant deck      | 44.8% | 181 | new |
8. Goblin Barrel + Wall Breakers deck      | 47.9% | 165 | 7. ▼ |
9. Minion Giant deck · Lightning | 49.3% | 146 | 11. ▲ |
10. Goblin Drill deck    | 54.9% | 144 | new |
Most popular deck of the week: Royal Hogs deck
Average elixir 2.9 · 4-card cycle 7
408 battles · win rate 48%
Rising and falling cards
The share of top players’ decks that include the card; cards above 2% in at least one of the two weeks.
Rising
| Card | This week | Last week | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bandit | 10.4% | 5.5% | +4.9 pts |
| Electro Wizard | 14.1% | 9.2% | +4.9 pts |
| Lightning | 12.4% | 8% | +4.4 pts |
| Ice Wizard | 14.9% | 11.3% | +3.6 pts |
| Archer Queen | 8% | 4.4% | +3.6 pts |
Falling
| Card | This week | Last week | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minion Giant | 6.9% | 15.9% | −9.0 pts |
 Little Prince | 0.4% | 7.9% | −7.6 pts |
 Rune Giant | 1.1% | 6.8% | −5.7 pts |
 Mega Minion | 3.6% | 9% | −5.4 pts |
 Minions | 4.2% | 8.9% | −4.7 pts |
Deck types
Grouping decks by their win conditions, here are each type’s share and win rate:
| Deck type | Share | Change | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy beatdown | 26.3% | −4.5 pts | 49.6% |
| Hog Rider / fast cycle | 17.3% | +5.7 pts | 48.6% |
| Bridge spam | 15% | +1.8 pts | 49% |
| Bait (Log Bait) | 13.7% | +4.1 pts | 52.2% |
| Lava Hound / air | 9.8% | −6.9 pts | 53.4% |
| Siege (X-Bow / Mortar) | 7.3% | −0.4 pts | 51.3% |
| Miner / Graveyard control | 3.9% | −0.7 pts | 46.9% |
| Royal Giant | 3.4% | +1.9 pts | 57.1% |
| Balloon / Lumberjack | 2.1% | −0.2 pts | 43.4% |
| Mega Knight / P.E.K.K.A | 0.7% | +0.4 pts | 38.6% |
Highest win rate decks
Decks played in at least 50 battles:
| Deck | Win rate | Battles |
|---|---|---|
Minion Giant deck | 77.5% | 71 |
Goblin Barrel deck   | 66.7% | 66 |
Hog Rider deck  | 66.1% | 59 |
| Mortar deck | 65.6% | 64 |
| Royal Giant deck | 63.8% | 196 |
Highest win rate deck of the week: Minion Giant deck
Average elixir 3.0 · 4-card cycle 7
71 battles · win rate 77.5%
Evolutions and heroes
The forms played most in the special slots; the percentage is the share of decks that play the card in that form.
Evolutions
| Card | This week | Last week |
|---|---|---|
 Zap | 13.6% | 17.3% |
| Cannon | 13.2% | 15% |
| Giant Snowball | 12.3% | 9.3% |
| Baby Dragon | 9.3% | 7.4% |
| Royal Ghost | 9.2% | 7% |
Heroes
| Card | This week | Last week |
|---|---|---|
| Ice Wizard | 14.2% | 10.8% |
| Bowler | 10.9% | 6.8% |
| Knight | 7% | 5.7% |
| Giant | 7% | 7.5% |
| Valkyrie | 6.9% | 4.5% |
Which of these decks can you play?
Meta decks come from players whose cards are all maxed. The ElixirDeck deck builder takes your player tag and builds the most balanced decks for your own cards and levels.
How this report is made
- Data comes from the official Clash Royale API: the latest battle logs of the top 200 players on the Ranked leaderboard. Only Ranked battles count, both sides’ decks are included, and each battle is counted once.
- Each week the data, collected the same way, is compared with the week before. The report is published automatically every week; the daily list lives on the meta decks page.
- Win rates over few battles can be luck; check the battle count too. Player names and tags are never published.
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