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“A horde of melee attackers with mean mustaches and even meaner tempers.”

The Barbarians is a Common card that is unlocked from the Barbarian Bowl (Arena 3). It spawns five single-target, ground-targeting, melee, ground troops with moderate hitpoints and damage. Their deployment is in a star formation. They appear as bare-chested men who wield swords, have blue eyes, blonde eyebrows, close-cropped hair and horseshoe moustaches, and wear a brown kilt, a team-colored belt with a shield buckle and spiked wristbands. They are also the same as those spawned by the Barbarian Hut, Battle Ram, Barbarian Barrel, and the Barbarian Launcher. A Barbarians card costs 5 Elixir to deploy.

Strategy[]

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  • The Barbarians are a great option to use against enemy troops such as tanks and medium size pushes as the Barbarians have a moderate amount of hitpoints and damage, and are perfect for attacks with other tanks. Although they are very effective against single target troops like the Prince, Mini P.E.K.K.A, Golden Knight, Mighty Miner, Lumberjack, Monk, Boss Bandit, or Giant Skeleton, Barbarians are susceptible to spells and troops which do area damage due to their slow move-speed. Their slow attack speed also leaves them vulnerable to swarms such as the Skeleton Army.
  • Despite being a swarm unit, Barbarians are fairly effective against an Electro Giant due to their high DPS and their moderately higher hitpoints compared to other swarm units, allowing them to survive the Electro Giant's reflected damage and defeat him for a +2 Elixir trade, but they will likely die in the process or have an insignificant amount of remaining health. Note that since the Barbarians will have little health remaining, any sort of damage dealt to them besides the Electro Giant's reflected damage will often nullify their defense, so the player should account for supporting troops accompanying the Electro Giant as well.
  • Due to the amount of counters to a Barbarian and most resulting in a positive Elixir trade for the opponent, it is ineffective to deploy a group of Barbarians without support in one lane, as they can be easily countered due to their slow speed and can leave the player vulnerable to a push in the other lane. However, if the opponent is extremely low on Elixir, or their best counters are out of rotation, they can be very effective at forcing the opponent to spend Elixir poorly, as they can quickly chop down cheap troops and will completely destroy a Crown Tower by themselves.
  • They are excellent for taking out low numbers of enemy troops such as the Prince, Mini P.E.K.K.A, Bandit, Lumberjack, Hunter, or Musketeer on the player's side. The 5 Barbarians will quickly eliminate the unit if they are dropped directly on top of it, surrounding it.
    • A successful defense with Barbarians will also make for a powerful counter-push; tank for the Barbarians for a threatening push or use them to tank for a glass-cannon, which also results in a threatening push.
    • They can also defeat a splash unit if placed directly on top of the unit, but failing to surround the splasher with Barbarians will cause them to take more damage than necessary. Note that this is ineffective against a charging Dark Prince, a Valkyrie or a jumping Mega Knight, as they have 360º splash.
  • The Barbarians can be effectively countered by most ranged splash troops such as the Bomber, Bowler, Wizard, Witch, Goblin Demolisher, Sparky, Firecracker, and Executioner from a distance. However, you must be careful as the opponent can use a Tornado or Freeze to immobilize or destroy the splash attacker, allowing the Barbarians to devastate the Crown Tower.
  • An effective counter is the Fireball; the damage and radius of the spell is more than enough to OHKO the Barbarians. However, keep in mind that if the Fireball is a level lower than the Barbarians, it will not OHKO them.
    • Additionally, the Barbarians can also act as a bait for these counters, allowing you to use other cards that would be weak to Fireball, such as Zappies, Magic Archer, Mother Witch, Skeleton Dragons, and Flying Machine.
    • Poison can also be an effective counter to use. Its damage over time will eliminate the Barbarians and any supporting troops. However, as with Fireball, it will not defeat Barbarians with a Level higher than the Poison.
    • If the Barbarians survive, try supporting them with a tank in front to get some use out of them.
    • A Rocket can also defeat them, however it is a negative Elixir trade. It is best to be used if the Barbarians are assisted with another card such as a Sparky, Inferno Dragon, Lumberjack, or Elite Barbarians.
  • Rage used with Barbarians can do severe damage to a Crown Tower or even take it out, as it is hard to stop because Rage increases movement and attack speed. The Barbarians together have high damage and can make short work of a tower before the opponent stops them. However, spells such as Poison still make quick work of this combo.
  • They are very effective at defeating enemy tanks due to their numbers, high combined damage, and ability to tank most spells. Support troops will have trouble defeating them due to their combined hitpoints. If the combo happens to be any ground-based splash damage card + ground-based melee tank, wait for the troops to cross the river. As soon as they cross, immediately drop the Barbarians upon the splash card. They will surround and destroy it quickly before moving on to eliminate the now unsupported tank. This can result in a large positive elixir trade. However, if there is more than one splash unit, the Barbarians are likely to be taken out immediately. Note that this may be ineffective against a P.E.K.K.A as she can OHKO Barbarians up to 2 Levels higher.
  • Barbarians cannot target air troops, so any air troops like Minions, Bats, Baby Dragon, Electro Dragon, Flying Machine, Mega Minion, Phoenix, and Skeleton Dragons can counter them easily unharmed, with the particular examples also being a positive Elixir trade.
    • Although situational, the player can use the Barbarians to distract air troops on defense. Compared to other ground swarms, they have the hitpoints to survive multiple attacks from the air troops, while the Crown Tower slowly chip them down.
  • They are very effective against Hog Riders and Ram Riders. Not only do they deal a lot of damage to these troops, but their high mass and slight spread forces the Hog Rider and Ram Rider to go around them, extending their distance from the Crown Tower. Because of this, the Barbarians can easily defeat these units with no damage to the Crown Tower.
  • The Barbarians, if placed early enough, can surround the Crown Tower, making it less vulnerable to attacks from a Goblin Barrel. They can handle it quite well with only minimal damage done. However, this is a 5 Elixir investment so only consider using it if you lack better counters.
  • Like other swarms, they are a great counter to Graveyard. Their large unit count allows them to spread out enough to cover most of the spell's area, while their hitpoints allows them to survive weak incoming spells, like Arrows, Zap, Log, and Giant Snowball. However, they can still be defeated with stronger spells, like Fireball and Poison.
  • Splitting the Barbarians in the back can discourage the opponent from attacking either Crown Tower, due to the Barbarians' defensive presence, and spells will not have as much value. However, they are slow moving and as such, the opponent might deal some unnecessary damage before the Barbarians arrive on their target.
  • Because there are 5 of them, they can block three Lightning strikes for more fragile units like a Magic Archer, Mother Witch, Firecracker, Princess, Zappies, Bomber, Dart Goblin, Skeleton Dragons, or a Flying Machine. 2 of them will also survive for extra protection for the guarded fragile units.
  • Barbarians can be used to increase the troop count for the Void, allowing the player to possibly save their other troops from the spell. The card spawns enough troops that it can save any single troop with just the Barbarians.
  • Guards can be used as an alternative to Barbarians in certain decks. They have a lower 3 Elixir cost, slightly longer range, move faster, and come with a shield that makes them more resistant to spells, with the exception of Poison. In exchange, they have less hitpoints, deal a lot less damage, and come with less units.

Statistics

Cost
Elixir 		Hit Speed
Damage Speed 		First Hit Speed
Damage Speed 		Speed
Speed 		Deploy Time
Deploy Time 		Range
Range 		Target
Targets 		Count
Troop Count 		Transport
Transport 		Type
Type 		Rarity
Rarity
5 1.3 sec 0.4 sec Medium (60) 1 sec Melee: Short (0.7) Ground x5 Ground Troop Common
Level
Level 		Hitpoints
Hitpoint 		Damage
Damage 		Damage per second
DPS
1 262 75 57
2 288 82 63
3 317 90 69
4 348 99 76
5 382 109 83
6 419 120 92
7 461 132 101
8 505 144 110
9 555 159 122
10 610 174 133
11 670 192 147
12 736 210 161
13 809 231 177
14 888 254 195
15 974 279 214
16 1,071 306 235

Card Mastery

Type Level/Tier Objective Rewards
Damage Dealer
Damage Dealer 		1 Deal a total of 110,000 damage to enemy Troops or buildings 200 Barbarians cards
25 Experience
2 Deal a total of 330,000 damage to enemy Troops or buildings 2,000 Gold
25 Experience
3 Deal a total of 550,000 damage to enemy Troops or buildings 100 Gem
25 Experience
Troop Destroyer
Troop Destroyer 		1 Destroy 350 enemy Troops 3,000 Gold
100 Experience
2 Destroy 1,000 enemy Troops 200 Common Wild Card
100 Experience
3 Destroy 1,750 enemy Troops 300 Gem
100 Experience

History[]

2016

  • The Barbarians card was added with Clash Royale's game launch on 4/1/2016.
  • On 2/2/2016, the February 2016 Update, decreased the Barbarians' hitpoints by 3%.
  • On 29/2/2016, the March 2016 Update, decreased the Barbarians' sight range to 5.5 tiles (from 6 tiles).
  • On 3/5/2016, the May 2016 Update, increased the Common card Level cap to 13 (from 12). The update also fixed the “range bug”, which decreased the Barbarians' range to 0.7 tiles (from 1.2 tiles), but their effective range was unchanged.

2018

  • On 4/6/2018, a Balance Update, decreased the Barbarians‘ attack time interval to 1.4 seconds (from 1.5 seconds). It also increased the distance between the Barbarians upon deployment.

2019

  • On 28/1/2019, the January 2019 Update, fixed an issue where the Barbarians' Star Level used the sound effects of the Elite Barbarians.
  • On 4/3/2019, a Balance Update, decreased the Barbarians' hitpoints by 13%. It also increased the Barbarians' count to 5 (from 4) and gave the Barbarians a new 0.15 second deploy stagger from each other.
  • On 26/11/2019, the End of November 2019 Update, added a card render to the Barbarians' card info screen.

2020

  • On 2/6/2020, a Balance Update, decreased the deploy stagger for each Barbarian to 0.1 seconds (from 0.15 seconds).

2021

  • On 27/10/2021, the Champions Update, increased the Level cap of all cards to 14 (from 13).

2022

  • On 7/6/2022, a Balance Update, decreased the Barbarians‘ attack time interval to 1.3 seconds (from 1.4 seconds).
  • On 1/8/2022, the August 2022 Update, changed the Barbarians' card image and card render, by making them look pixilated.
  • On 2/9/2022, a maintenance break, reverted the Barbarians' card image and card render to their state before 1/8/2022.

2023

  • On 19/6/2023, the Card Evolution Update, increased the Level cap of all cards to 15 (from 14), and added the Barbarians' Evolution. It also changed the Barbarians' card image and card render.

2025

  • On 31/3/2025, the 2025 Quarter 1 Update, made it so that Barbarians' spawn formation would be correctly mirrored depending on which side of the Arena they were placed.

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In other languages[]

In other languages

Language Title Meaning
Flag of China 野蛮人 Same as its English name.
Flag of South Korea 바바리안 Same as its English name.
Flag of Japan バーバリアン Same as its English name.
Flag of France Barbares Same as its English name.
Flag of Germany Barbaren Same as its English name.
Flag of Spain Bárbaros Same as its English name.
Flag of Italy Barbari Same as its English name.
Flag of Netherlands Barbaren Same as its English name.
Flag of Norway Barbarer Same as its English name.
Flag of Brazil Bárbaros Same as its English name.
Flag of Turkey Barbarlar Same as its English name.
Flag of Finland Barbaarit Same as its English name.
Flag of Russia Варвары Same as its English name.
Flag of Hong Kong 野蠻人 Same as its English name.
Flag of Saudi Arabia برابرة Same as its English name.
Flag of Iran بربرها Same as its English name.
Flag of Malaysia Orang Gasar Same as its English name.
Flag of Indonesia Orang Barbar Same as its English name.
Flag of Thailand คนเถื่อน Same as its English name.
Flag of Vietnam Man di Same as its English name.
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