Evolved Valkyrie

“If you thought her battle cry was scary...wait until you see her new axe! Evolved Valkyrie draws all enemies towards her with each swing.”

The Valkyrie's Evolution is a Rare card that is unlocked with 6 Evolution Shards. It spawns a Valkyrie, with identical stats to the original. Every time she attacks, a Tornado will appear for half a second, pulling all units towards her, and dealing damage within a 5.5 tile radius around her. She takes an appearance as a woman who bears orange hair and eyebrows, have purple eyes and two piercings in her right ear, wears a purple suit, loincloth, wristcuffs and bands on her legs, brown straps with spikes on them and a Card Evolution symbol in the middle, and a team-colored waistcloth, wields a purple-tipped double-sided axe with a large, silver-plated golden knob on the bottom, and attacks with a powerful whirl of her axe along with a tornado effect. The Valkyrie's Evolution costs 4 Elixir and requires 2 cycles to deploy.

Strategy[]

The Evolved Valkyrie is best utilized as a defensive wall due to her high health, high damage, and massive pull effect whenever she attacks.
The Evolved Valkyrie should never be ignored if the Tower Princess is used as leaving her alone while on full health can take away a large majority of the Crown Tower's health. Dealing more than the regular Valkyrie due to the Tornado's repeated chip damage and increased health.
However, if the Cannoneer or Dagger Duchess are used, their higher DPS will cause the Evolved Valkyrie to deal less damage. Thus making it somewhat situational to ignore her.
Like the regular Valkyrie, the Evolved Valkyrie is very effective against all types of grounds swarms, such as Skeleton Army, Barbarians, Royal Hogs, and Royal Recruits, due to her large splash damage and radius.
The Evolved Valkyrie can be substituted for the Evolved Knight and Evolved Barbarians depending the type of deck the player is using.
The Evolved Valkyrie has great synergy with the Evolved Bomber and Evolved Firecracker as the Evolved Valkyrie can pull opposing troops into her. Allowing the Evolved Bomber and Firecracker to hit more troops at once. A similar strategy works with Tornado.
The Evolved Valkyrie is very effective against slow, building-targeting troops, such as Giant, Elixir Golem, and Golem, due to the Tornado effect constantly pulling them to her. Making it very difficult for them to reach the Crown Towers.
High-damage air cards, such as Minions, Bats, Mega Minion, Inferno Dragon, or Phoenix, are optimal when countering the Evolved Valkyrie as her attacks can't hit air and their high DPS can dispose of her high hitpoints quickly, but be careful not to put a ground troop near them or else Valkyrie's Tornado will damage them.
The Evolved Valkyrie is very good when used as a combo with cards, such as Executioner, Goblin Demolisher, Sparky, Bomber, Hunter, Firecracker, and Wizard, because the Tornado effect pulls enemies to their splash damage radius. The Ice Wizard is especially effective as he will further slow opposing troops down, making them less likely to escape from the Evolved Valkyrie's Tornado radius.
Despite her regular attack being incapable of attacking air, the Tornado's ticks of damage can chip air troops. This chip is especially effective against Bats as they'll only take one tick to kill.
You can activate your King Tower with enemy troops like Magic Archer and Bowler with the Evolved Valkyrie alone by using its Tornado effect to pull these troops in. A similar strategy is with Tornado and the Evolved Valkyrie to pull opposing large tanks to your King Tower, such as Golem.
If placed behind a Hog Rider, the Evolved Valkyrie can fully stop him due to the Tornado effect constantly pulling him back until he's defeated.
When placed properly, the Evolved Valkyrie can fully counter the Evolved Royal Giant and Goblin Giant for a +2 positive Elixir trade due to the Tornado constantly pulling them back into the Valkyrie.
The Evolved Valkyrie has decent synergy with the Goblin Drill as she can pull opposing troops that are defending the Goblin Drill into her. Potentially allowing the Goblins to get more damage on the Crown Tower.
- Conversely, the Evolved Valkyrie is a great counter to the Goblin Drill as her splash damage disposes of the Goblins very easily while her high health allows her to take any damage the Goblin Drill may do to her. Leaving her at nearly full health for a potential counter push.
Using Skeletons or Goblins and an Ice Golem, the user can activate their King Tower against an opposing Evolved Valkyrie on the inside of the bridge. The Ice Golem must be played 3 tiles below the river to kite her into the other lane. Then, Skeletons should be played 4 tiles above the King Tower and near one of the Crown Towers to kite it back, causing the Tornado to hit the King Tower and activate it.

Statistics

Evolved Valkyrie Attributes

Cost	Hit Speed	First Hit Speed	Speed	Deploy Time	Range	Splash Radius	Target	Count	Transport	Type	Rarity
4	1.5 sec	0.1 sec	Medium (60)	1 sec	Melee: Medium (1.2)	2	Ground	x1	Ground	Troop	Rare

Evolution Attributes

Cycles	Radius	Duration	Target
2	5.5	0.5 sec	Air & Ground

Card Statistics

Level	Hitpoints	Area Damage	Damage per second	Tornado Damage	Tornado Crown Tower Damage
3	901	125	83	40	18
4	990	138	92	44	19
5	1,087	151	100	48	21
6	1,192	166	110	52	23
7	1,311	183	122	58	26
8	1,437	200	133	64	28
9	1,579	220	146	69	31
10	1,735	242	161	76	34
11	1,907	266	177	84	37
12	2,093	292	134	92	41
13	2,302	321	214	102	45
14	2,525	352	234	112	50
15	2,771	386	257	123	55

History[]

2024

The Valkyrie's Evolution card was added to the game on 1/1/2024, in the January 2024 Update.
On 5/3/2024, a Balance Update, added a 15% hitpoint boost to the Evolved Valkyrie.
On 14/5/2024, a Balance Update, increased the Evolved Valkyrie’s Tornado damage by 11%, and decreased her hitpoints to 110% of the original's (from 115%).
On 16/12/2024, the 2024 Quarter 4 Update, added a sound effect to the Evolved Valkyrie after death.

2025

On 31/3/2024, the 2025 Quarter 1 Update, decreased the Evolved Valkyrie's hitpoints by 0.09% and her damage by 0.45%.
On 6/10/2025, a Balance Update removed the Evolved Valkyrie's hitpoints boost.
On 1/12/2025, a Balance Update decreased the Evolved Valkyrie's tornado radius by half a tile, from 5.5 down to 5.

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Trivia[]

In Norse mythology, Valkyries collect spirits of the dead to take to Valhalla, one of the Norse afterlives. Most depictions show them riding on horseback, however, in Clash Royale, they do not ride horses and instead travel on foot.
The Valkyrie's Evolution resembles the Super Valkyrie from Clash of Clans.
The Valkyrie was the first Rare card to receive a Card Evolution.
When attacking, the Valkyrie sings opera, which is a reference to the opera called Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) by Richard Wagner.
The Valkyrie's Evolution is the subject of 3 Emotes.