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0.5% of metaOpen deck file
Giant
Hero Giant· Hero form
Balance data: July 2026 (Season 85 — Ronin counter pass) · Updated Aug 2, 2026
Giant is a 5-elixir Rare Troop in Clash Royale with a Hero form (Hero Giant), played in 5.0% of ranked meta decks. Below: the best decks with Giant and Hero Giant from live ladder data, what counters Giant, what Giant beats, and its top synergies.
Hero Giant is fielded as the Hero variant of Giant. Ladder decks below include both forms — ranked by real play rate, not the win-chance model.
Usage shares and “best decks” below rank live ladder play rate for Giant, not win-chance model scores. To score a full 8-card list with the machine-learning model and search automatic upgrades, open the Deck Lab. Open the Deck Lab
Card stats
- Elixir
- 5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Troop
- Meta usage
- 5.0%
- Win rate
- 48.4%
Share of ranked-meta decks in our live popular panel that run this card. Win rate across 320 analyzed ladder battles played with this card.
Best Giant & Hero Giant decks
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Most-played ranked decks featuring Giant or Hero Giant, from live ladder leaderboard data (no model score).
What counters Giant
- Inferno TowerHard counter
- P.E.K.K.AHard counter
- Mini P.E.K.K.AHard counter
- Inferno DragonHard counter
- HunterSolid counter
- BarbariansSolid counter
- Minion HordeSolid counter
- Skeleton ArmySolid counter
- Mighty MinerSolid counter
- TeslaSolid counter
- Bomb TowerSolid counter
- CannonSoft counter
Strength comes from our curated interaction table — a hard counter shuts the card down outright, a soft counter only trades favourably.
What Giant counters
Strength comes from our curated interaction table — a hard counter shuts the card down outright, a soft counter only trades favourably.
Best synergies
- Sparky33% of its decks
- Heal Spirit19% of its decks
- Prince21% of its decks
- Witch26% of its decks
- Rage21% of its decks
- Mini P.E.K.K.A46% of its decks
- Dark Prince30% of its decks
- Graveyard31% of its decks
Cards played alongside Giant far more often than chance in the current ranked meta.
Quick answers
- What is the best deck with Hero Giant?
- The most-played ranked deck featuring Giant or Hero Giant right now is Arrows, Bowler, Giant, Giant Snowball, Graveyard, Mini P.E.K.K.A, Minions, Witch, at 0.5% of the live ladder panel.
- What counters Giant in Clash Royale?
- The strongest curated counters to Giant are Inferno Tower, P.E.K.K.A, Mini P.E.K.K.A, Inferno Dragon.
- What cards go well with Giant?
- In the current ranked meta Giant is played most often alongside Sparky, Heal Spirit, Prince, Witch.
- How popular is Giant right now?
- Giant appears in 5.0% of ranked meta decks in our live popular panel.
- What is the win rate of Giant?
- Decks running Giant win 48.4% of the 320 ladder battles we analyzed in the current window.
Cards like Giant
Same role and a close elixir cost — the usual swaps when Giant does not fit the deck.