Clash Royale is releasing on April 15 one of the most important updates for a long time, as they’ve changed the ladder concept and much more. This video explains all the updates:

https://youtu.be/fe6vI5RiqAQ

Ladder Progression System Updated

First of all, one of the main problems in Clash Royale Ladder system, is that progressing from one arena is a pain. You progress by amassing trophies. Say you progress from 3900 trophies to 4000, you’ve entered a new arena. However, the problem is that if you lose trophies and go below the certain arena threshold, you are “downgraded”. Basically until now if you’ve reached a particular arena, you could fall back to the previous one if you lost trophies.

Evidently this discouraged many players from risking too much, playing it safe to stay within the trophy count they had. However, this is about to change in the new update, by adding new “Trophy Gates” or floors, that name isn’t really pinned down. Basically once you reach a certain arena (say Legendary Arena above 4000 trophies), you cannot fall back below 4000 trophies no matter what you do.

Draft Chests Removed

A downside to the new trophy gates system is that the season-ending Draft Chest were removed. Every player that had above 4000 trophies would get a Draft Chest every 30 days when the season ended, assuming they still had that many trophies. With the new update the draft chests were replaced by trophy road rewards.

Trophy Road Rewards

Trophy Road Rewards

This is another important update in Clash Royale. They’ve introduced trophy road rewards for ladder. Between each arena there are several rewards that you can unlock. For example, you are at 3900 trophies and receive 3000 gold for reaching it. When you advance to 3950 trophies, right before entering the new arena at 4000, you receive a Legendary King’s Chest.

This is only one example, there are so many more trophy road rewards to receive. And the best part is that you’ll get all those that you passed already. So if you have 4000 trophies, you’ll receive all the rewards from Arena 1 upwards.

This is the main reason the Draft Chest was removed too, because the trophy road rewards give actually twice as many rewards.

Below is the full list of all trophy road rewards in Clash Royale:

Arena 1 – Goblin Stadium

  • 50 trophies: Goblins or Spear Goblins
  • 100 trophies: Golden Chest
  • 150 trophies: 4x Goblin Hut or Hog Rider
  • 200 trophies: 200 gold
  • 250 trophies: 1x Goblin Barrel or Hunter

Arena 2 – Bone Pit

  • 350 trophies: 25x Skeletons or Bomber
  • 400 trophies: Golden Chest
  • 450 trophies: 6x Tombstone or Valkyrie
  • 500 trophies: 400 gold
  • 550 trophies: 1x Witch or Giant Skeleton

Arena 4 – Barbarian Bowl

  • 650 trophies: 50x Barbarians or Cannon
  • 700 trophies: Golden Chest
  • 750 trophies: 8x Battle Ram or Barbarian Hut
  • 800 trophies: 600 gold
  • 850 trophies: 1x Golem or Barbarian Barrel
  • 900 trophies: 50 gems
  • 950 trophies: Giant Chest

Arena 5 – P.E.K.K.A’s Playhouse

  • 1050 trophies: 50x Zap or Minion Horde
  • 1100 trophies: Golden Chest
  • 1150 trophies: 10x Inferno Tower or Mega Minion
  • 1200 trophies: 800 gold
  • 1250 trophies: 1x P.E.K.K.A or Lightning

Arena 6 – Spell Valley

  • 1350: 50x Fire Spirits or Bats
  • 1400: Magical Chest
  • 1450: 10x Furnace or Wizard
  • 1500: 1000 gold
  • 1550: 1x Poison or Tornado

Arena 7 – Builder’s Workshop

  • 1650 trophies: 50x Mortar or Skeleton Barrel
  • 1700 trophies: Golden Chest
  • 1750 trophies: 10x Flying Machine or Rocket
  • 1800 trophies: 1250 gold
  • 1850 trophies: 1x X-Bow or Balloon
  • 1900 trophies: 1500 gold
  • 1950 trophies: Legendary Chest

Arena 8 – Royal Arena

  • 2050 trophies: 50x Royal Giant or Royal Recruits
  • 2100 trophies: Golden Chest
  • 2150 trophies: 10x Three Musketeers or Heal
  • 2200 trophies: Knight Emote
  • 2250 trophies: 2x Dark Prince or Guards

Arena 9 – Frozen Peak

  • 2350 trophies: 50x Snowball or Ice Spirit
  • 2400 trophies: Epic Chest
  • 2450 trophies: 10x Ice Golem or Elixir Collector
  • 2500 trophies: 1750 gold
  • 2550 trophies: 2x Bowler or Freeze

Arena 10 – Jungle Arena

  • 2650 trophies: 50x Rascals or Goblin Gang
  • 2700 trophies: Golden Chest
  • 2750 trophies: 10x Dart Goblin
  • 2800 trophies: 2000 gold
  • 2850 trophies: 2x Goblin Giant
  • 2900 trophies: 50 gems
  • 2950 trophies: Giant Chest

Arena 11 – Hog Mountain

  • 3050 trophies: 50x Elite Barbarians
  • 3100 trophies: Lightning Chest
  • 3150 trophies: 10x Royal Hogs or Bomb Tower
  • 3200 trophies: 2250 gold
  • 3250 trophies: 2x Cannon Cart or Rage

Arena 12 – Electro Valley

  • 3350 trophies: 50x Tesla
  • 3400 trophies: Magical Chest
  • 3450 trophies: 10x Zappies
  • 3500 trophies: 2500 gold
  • 3550 trophies: 2x Electro Dragon or Clone

Arena 13 – Spooky Town

  • 3650 trophies: 50x Common Cards
  • 3700 trophies: 2750 gold
  • 3750 trophies: 50x Rare Cards
  • 3800 trophies: Royal Ghost Emote
  • 3850 trophies: 2x Executioner or Mirror
  • 3900 trophies: 3000 gold
  • 3950 trophies: Legendary King’s Chest

Challenger I

  • 4075 trophies: 2000 gold
  • 4150 trophies: 1x Common Trade Token
  • 4225 trophies: Lightning Chest

Challenger II

  • 4375 trophies: 2000 gold
  • 4450 trophies: 1x Rare Trade Token
  • 4525 trophies: Legendary Chest

Challenger III

  • 4700 trophies: 3000 gold
  • 4800 trophies: 1x Epic Trade Token
  • 4900 trophies: Lightning Chest

Master I

  • 5075 trophies: 3000 gold
  • 5150 trophies: 1x Legendary Trade Token
  • 5225 trophies: Lightning Chest

Master II

  • 5375 trophies: 4000 gold
  • 5450 trophies: 100 gems
  • 5525 trophies: Magical Chest

Master III

  • 5700 trophies: 4000 gold
  • 5800 trophies: 1x Common Trade Token
  • 5900 trophies: Legendary Chest

Champion

  • 6075 trophies: 5000 gold
  • 6150 trophies: 1x Rare Trade Token
  • 6225 trophies: Lightning Chest

Grand Champion

  • 6375 trophies: 5000 gold
  • 6450 trophies: 1x Epic Trade Token
  • 6525 trophies: Magical Chest

Royal Champion

  • 6700 trophies: 5000 gold
  • 6800 trophies: 1x Legendary Trade Token
  • 6900 trophies: Legendary King’s Chest

New EarthQuake Clash Royale Card

I’m using Furnace in most of my decks so I’m not too fond of the new card that’s called EarthQuake. This will cost 3 elixir and it is intended to do heavily damage to buildings while slowing down ground troops and damaging them a bit too. It will wreck havoc on buildings for sure, so we’ll see how that affects our decks. The new card doesn’t have any effect on flying troops.

New Game Modes

They’ve also included 3 new game modes: Elixir Rush, Mega Deck and Dragon Hunt:

Elixir Rush basically features several drops of elixir in the middle of the map that players can fight over to get an advantage. This will reward aggressive players and force the ones that are waiting to push troops onto the middle of the map.


Elixir Rush Game Mode

Mega Deck adds 10 additional cards to the classic 8 card deck. Right now with 8 cards you can pretty much understand what your opponent has and how you can counter those. But with 18 cards that will be almost impossible to do, as it takes a while to cycle back. This way players will be forced to play with decks they’re don’t know that well.


Mega Deck Game Mode

Dragon Hunt is the last of the new game modes that’s coming. It’s basically similar to the Elixir Hunt game mode, however instead of elixir in the central target there’s a dragon egg. The first player that destroys it gets a new dragon (electro, baby dragon, …).

Dragon Hunt Game Mode

There are a few other changes that don’t seem as important to me, like new emote style (you’ll be able to recognize the exclusive ones), new decorations for maxed up cards (i.e. goblin riding the flying bomb) and a few others.

As I was saying this is one of Clash Royale’s biggest update so far, and it’s coming on April 15. If you have any comments regarding this update, feel free to post them.