Clash Royale Dev Tracker

SEASON 8 BALANCE CHANGES!

This Season we take a look at the infamous Zappies - a card that has been the center of balance discussion since it faded out of the meta.

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ZAPPIES

• Damage: +20%
• Hit Speed: 1.6s -> 2.0s (25% slower)
• Faster ‘First Attack’ on target: 1.4sec -> 1sec
• Staggered Deploy Time: 0.15sec (like Goblin Gang, Minion Horde)

WHY?

Zappies is a tough design to balance – while they are fragile and low damage, they had the ability to stunlock enemies unless they could be dealt with. We want you to be able to play your cards, so having other cards that shut down interaction is a no-no. When Zappies were competitively viable before, the meta became overly defensive and difficult to break through.

HOW?

Ultimately, the stun-locking is the biggest problem with Zappies so it made the most sense...

this is super cool...

downloading it now.

i'm not sure how you're doing it right now but if you wanted to DM me your email i could hook you up with our official API and get you in touch with our server engineers?

if that's something you'd be interested in i'd love to give you some more info!

thanks!

yep, balance changes revealed on saturday

thanks for this post. we're digging into why this is happening!

I can pretty confidently say Recruits will not be changed any time soon. They are weak, but fine. Like Freeze, I don't think we want Recruits to be truly competitively viable in every meta. They sometimes pop up in CRL (during the Fisherman meta) and are good in Draft or 2x/3x Elixir modes. That's good enough for them, no plans to buff Royal Recruits.

i personally feel it gives a lot of value in other situations so its one of those risk/reward cards.

Zappies.... February.

Heal? Welllllll.... *maybe* March. There's a bit more art assets in that rework :)

and i would like to point out we gave out a free magical chest to all players from 30th dec - jan 2nd 😉

it's in the works. i can't say much else other than that right now!