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Royal Recruits
Evo Royal Recruits· Evolution
Balance data: July 2026 (Season 85 — Ronin counter pass) · Updated Aug 2, 2026
Royal Recruits is a 7-elixir Common Troop in Clash Royale with an Evolution (Evo Royal Recruits), played in 5.9% of ranked meta decks. Below: the best decks with Royal Recruits and Evo Royal Recruits from live ladder data, what counters Royal Recruits, what Royal Recruits beats, and its top synergies.
Evo Royal Recruits is the Evolution of Royal Recruits. 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 Royal Recruits, 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
- 7
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Troop
- Meta usage
- 5.9%
- Win rate
- 55.6%
Share of ranked-meta decks in our live popular panel that run this card. Win rate across 189 analyzed ladder battles played with this card.
Best Royal Recruits & Evo Royal Recruits decks
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Most-played ranked decks featuring Royal Recruits or Evo Royal Recruits, from live ladder leaderboard data (no model score).
What counters Royal Recruits
Strength comes from our curated interaction table — a hard counter shuts the card down outright, a soft counter only trades favourably.
What Royal Recruits counters
Strength comes from our curated interaction table — a hard counter shuts the card down outright, a soft counter only trades favourably.
Best synergies
- Flying Machine60% of its decks
- Royal Hogs64% of its decks
- Goblin Cage62% of its decks
- Zappies65% of its decks
- Arrows82% of its decks
- Spirit Empress4% of its decks
- Goblin Gang12% of its decks
- Golden Knight15% of its decks
Cards played alongside Royal Recruits far more often than chance in the current ranked meta.
Quick answers
- What is the best deck with Evo Royal Recruits?
- The most-played ranked deck featuring Royal Recruits or Evo Royal Recruits right now is Arrows, Barbarian Barrel, Electro Spirit, Flying Machine, Goblin Cage, Royal Hogs, Royal Recruits, Zappies, at 1.2% of the live ladder panel.
- What counters Royal Recruits in Clash Royale?
- The strongest curated counters to Royal Recruits are Earthquake.
- What cards go well with Royal Recruits?
- In the current ranked meta Royal Recruits is played most often alongside Flying Machine, Royal Hogs, Goblin Cage, Zappies.
- How popular is Royal Recruits right now?
- Royal Recruits appears in 5.9% of ranked meta decks in our live popular panel.
- What is the win rate of Royal Recruits?
- Decks running Royal Recruits win 55.6% of the 189 ladder battles we analyzed in the current window.
Cards like Royal Recruits
Same role and a close elixir cost — the usual swaps when Royal Recruits does not fit the deck.