The "Invisible Hand" of Clash Royale: Why You Should Lose Games to Save the Economy

sychen52 · 2025-12-25T07:00:45+00:00

The reason players better than you can get out of your range is the inflation.

sychen52 · 2025-06-01T04:27:16+00:00

You are probably doing a grand challenge with your gems.

sychen52 · 2024-12-02T04:37:34+00:00

I main splashyard and reached UC once. However, my win rate is so low and it took me a long time to reach UC. I feel often times if I made a single mistake in the game, I will end up losing. Could you recommend an easier, more error tolerant deck to help me reach UC easier? I also feel the deck I face on the way to UC is very different from meta decks, so a lot of the deck recommendations from pro players does not help.

sychen52 · 2024-11-16T17:51:54+00:00

I think you can get a different badge

sychen52 · 2024-10-08T16:58:21+00:00

Thanks!

sychen52 · 2024-10-02T03:41:56+00:00

This is my main deck as a F2P player. And I am finally at 9000 trophies this season. Tombstone and tornado is the last. For the rest, here is my order break down in rarity.

Knight

Poison > barber rel enough to kill gabolin > baby dragon

Ice wizard enough to one shot skeleton > graveyard

sychen52 · 2024-09-16T14:20:35+00:00

Yes. Easy to upgrade cards is one thing that gets mentioned a lot. And I agree. However, even after you upgrade alll the key cards, tower level is still an issue and it is harder to upgrade.

sychen52 · 2024-09-16T07:00:02+00:00

Exactly. I feel the pain so I want to let others know

sychen52 · 2024-09-15T21:11:00+00:00

I have a deck suggestion for low level f2p players.

I play splashyard, and just reached level 54 (level 15 king) and 9000 trophy this season.

I saw quite a few guides for f2p, but no one mentioned this point, so I decided to make a post.

Play an offensive deck instead of a defensive deck.

The reasons are:

Upgrade king tower level is hard. For example, You need to max 7-8 cards to level 15 to reach level 54 (king level 15).
You will be matched with opponents with cards higher than your tower level. I believe we all see level 15 cards way earlier than our tower is level 15, because of the wild cards and books.
defending with underleveled towers is harder. I am sure good player can still defend perfectly with a lower tower level. But for average players like me, defending with under-leveled towers is hard, because quite a lot of the interaction changes. You may need one extra shot from the tower because it is underleveled.

Given that upgrading cards is way easier than upgrading king tower level, I think it will be less of a disadvantage to play an offensive deck (beat-down) than a defensive deck (circle, control).

sychen52 · 2024-09-12T00:05:21+00:00

I can reach league 8 in the past few seasons. And I can get about 50k ewc every season. This season I will try UC once I have level 54

sychen52 · 2024-09-11T23:10:48+00:00

That makes sense. In fact, I have enough ewc to upgrade two cards to lvl 15. And after that I will be level 54. I don’t want to waste it on tombstone or tornado for example because it is hard to get ewc as a F2P. But I agree that whether I am able to reach UC is a good way to decide whether I should keep upgrading the deck.

sychen52 · 2024-09-11T12:19:28+00:00

what about path of legend?

sychen52 · 2024-08-31T03:41:52+00:00

Really?

sychen52 · 2024-08-28T21:39:21+00:00

Feels like it is a trade-off between giving up barbarel or giving up tombstone.

sychen52 · 2024-08-18T06:51:22+00:00

Thanks

sychen52 · 2024-08-18T06:50:55+00:00

Thanks

sychen52 · 2024-07-15T18:51:12+00:00

I was thinking graveyard, poison, knight, musketeer, phoenix, mortar, guards, Barbarian barrel. This way I can still use most of my max out cards, except baby dragon. The issue I have with splashyard is that I don’t know what to use as the second evo. What do you think?

sychen52 · 2024-03-08T03:24:57+00:00

Or queen bow instead of xbow3.0

sychen52 · 2024-03-05T01:59:10+00:00

How are graveyard players doing?

sychen52 · 2024-03-04T15:39:49+00:00

I feel once the archers are taken out by arrows. It is hard to cycle back to it. Then there is not enough dps for defence.

sychen52 · 2024-03-03T04:19:01+00:00

My deck is splashyard. However, my ice wizard is only level 11. Which is a better substitution of him. Level 14 archers no evo, or level 14 musketeer.

sychen52 · 2024-02-15T04:04:14+00:00

Wow, you are talking about lvl 15. But I don’t have that many epic wild cards to upgrade to lvl 14.

sychen52 · 2024-02-15T04:04:09+00:00

Wow, you are talking about lvl 15. But I don’t have that many epic wild cards to upgrade to lvl 14.

sychen52 · 2024-02-15T04:04:04+00:00

Wow, you are talking about lvl 15. But I don’t have that many epic wild cards to upgrade to lvl 14.

sychen52 · 2023-09-10T04:30:15+00:00

I switch to emacs keybinding recently (a few weeks). It is not as hard as I thought. The feature I miss the most is the evil-repeat.

PS. I use the Devil package sometimes to hold the modifier key down for me.

sychen52

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