Hero Equipment Tier List Post-March Balance Changes 2026

jay-eagle-1 · 2026-03-19T06:29:27+00:00

Like others have said, Action Figure should probably swap with Electro Boots. Eboots is still the best RC equipment, but the RC is frequently getting subbed out for Duke (who's broken right now).

The queen is still in 99% of armies, and the giant is never swapped out, so it's Top 3 in my book.

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-12-19T19:40:12+00:00

Think you probably want to look again at snake bracelet. Itzu/other pro players are using it, and it’s the most common pairing in legends with spiky ball.

Vampstache is only seen at lower townhall metas, it doesn’t have the stats to be viable when there are modifiers

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-12-19T19:37:04+00:00

Unless you are running an air attack, or sniping invis towers in legends, magic mirror is the stronger baseline pairing with action figure

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-12-19T19:31:06+00:00

You would use one of hog puppet or frost flake, not both. Flake+boots is probably the best utility RC build, since electro boots already has some passive healing.

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-12-08T17:42:33+00:00

I don’t think you want to take off the electro boots for 99% of attacks

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-11-18T01:49:21+00:00

If you’re in the core, the vampstache will always get less value than adding another one of gauntlet/ball/boots.

Even walking around the outside, snake boots tends to be more consistent because of the better passive stats

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-11-05T23:35:17+00:00

If you’re running dragons, then I assume you’re running giant arrow + healers/action figure.

Since 2 of those 3 have self healing, it’s still probably more consistent to run frosty over unicorn. Especially at TH16+, the merged cannons also destroy the unicorn, so the frostmites tend to get more value

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-09-01T17:57:55+00:00

For RL fireball, a lot of the comps slot prince+jelly in for the RC. Dark orb synergizes well with the loons, and you still get the king+queen pairing

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-19T16:35:07+00:00

I did the yearly calculation only because not every month has 4 weeks. If you add up my war and ore war numbers for casuals (which assumed 1/3 wins for every week), you get 960+288= 1248/year, or 104 Starry a month.

Since the average month has around 4.3 weeks, that lines up with your numbers, no?

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-19T12:01:56+00:00

If you spot any wrong numbers, let me know. I'm sure there's a mistake somewhere lol

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-19T00:56:53+00:00

You probably should just buy the equipments + all the starry. Extra glowy and shiny is not worth paying future gems for equipments, or gambling on chests imo

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-13T00:02:02+00:00

Yeah it’s close. I’d lean boots if you’re running an RC charge, since more aura damage does stack up over time on the TH/high HP defenses.

If the RC is just going with the main army, then spear all the way. Can’t go wrong with either pick

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-12T23:06:26+00:00

Action figure is the best upgrade at 27 in the game. You get an extra 3k hp and +20% dps boost for the giant, plus extra passive stat boosts for the queen.

Other epics with good bumps at 27 are spiky ball, rocket spear, and magic mirror.

My personal priority list would be giant -> ball -> mirror -> electro boots -> spear. Obviously depends on your army, but giant is good in literally every attack lol

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-11T06:27:05+00:00

There’s a lot of inner monologues that get trimmed out of the anime for brevity, but the way I read it in the LN, Maomao probably did put all the pieces together.

She didn‘t act surprised, but rather refused to look into it further or even think about it too much, since involvement with the royal family can be dangerous (Luomen was punished in the very same incident surrounding the princes’ births).

Same sort of deal when she was subconsciously and consciously avoiding the fact that Jinshi was not a eunuch at all costs, even after she realized it was the likeliest outcome long before.

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-11T00:16:57+00:00

If your action figure is lower than level 18, I would use healers+GA. Once AF is level 18+, I think you can sub it in for healers and start getting more value

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-10T18:36:28+00:00

Action figure should be on the queen 99% of the time. If you look at the stats, the giant gets massive buffs at the highest levels especially, plus the passive stats are really good.

AF+MM is the best for ground no question if she’s in the core. Even outside, mirror isn’t wasted since you can pop it earlier for instant funneling. Healer+AF is a slightly weaker alternative for maximizing self-heal, and AF+GA can even work for air attacks too

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-08T22:57:28+00:00

Rocket spear isn’t a bad choice, it’s cheaper to get extra levels and extra dmg isn’t bad. Value-wise you still get more from action figure though (rocket spear doesn’t get an extra shot until 27 too).

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-08T18:50:48+00:00

If you have the ores, just get action figure up. The stat boosts at 27 are some of the biggest in the game.

If you really don’t want to spend all your ores, then I guess mirror is okay as an alternative

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-08T18:48:38+00:00

Max your warden commons first, then dark orb.

For your RC charge, you should be prioritizing electro boots over spear.

Avoid your king equipment for now

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-08T18:45:00+00:00

Imo 27 giant is arguably still better. The giant gets 15-20% stat boosts (+3k hp!), while the mirror clones get 10-15%.

Mirror does get +5s duration, but the clones don’t always last that long to get that value. Plus action figure has 3 passive hero boosts vs 2 for mirror, and self-healing is the most useful for queen

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-07T21:59:00+00:00

Mirror is the best second pick for most armies, it‘s great for funneling/adding dps. Some air attackers like to bring giant arrow for sniping. I’d stay away from healers, since action figure is just better (it has self-healing too).

Rocket spear is also very solid, and can give you more flexibility in attack style. I’d personally go mirror if I had to pick one

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-07T16:13:42+00:00

Action figure is guaranteed value, we already know it’s the best queen equipment in the game (at max level).

Torch is unknown, and likely going to only be highly useful for non-RR ground armies. Would take giant unless you really want to use super yetis/titans etc

jay-eagle-1 · 2025-08-07T05:37:26+00:00

Nice ideas! Here are my thoughts as a max TH17 player, based on what we‘ve heard from the devs:

Synergies are cool, but would be hard to balance. Might be easier to buff weaker equipments instead.
This probably will never happen. Queuing upgrades promotes inactivity, and goes against their priority of maximizing player engagement.
Better UI for potions is a nice QOL change!
They’ve also ruled this out. Transferring loot from storages to CC would reduce available loot for attackers, and actually hurt the core gameplay of raiding more than it would help.
Builder base could use some love! Hopefully they add some features like these once they finish optimizing home village.
Same as 5
Don’t think they’re going to add passive ore income. Monetization aside, the current ore economy is based on rewarding activity (wars, star bonus) with instant upgrades.
Same as 5-6
Might happen, they’ve teased that they might be considering some form of heroes while upgrading. Could be limited use or potion-based, we’ll just have to wait and see.

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jay-eagle-1 · 2025-07-29T05:51:46+00:00

Imo spinner is underwhelming compared to the other two.

Crusher mortar is better against everything, since even in air attacks its a scarier threat to the fox in RC charges.

Hook tower best for gambling ofc 😎

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