“She is fast, deadly and hard to catch. Beware of her crossbow bolts and try not to blink - you might miss her!”
The Archer Queen card is unlocked upon reaching King Level 14. She is a single-target ranged troop who targets both Ground and Air units with moderately high damage per second and hitpoints. Being a 英雄 card, she will stay out of the player's card cycle, and only return once she is destroyed. The Archer Queen's ability makes her invisible and decreases her attack speed significantly for a short time. She appears as an Archer except she has a crown, purple hair, a bigger quiver and wields a crossbow while still being barefoot. An Archer Queen card costs 5 Elixir to deploy, and her ability costs an additional 1 Elixir.
Ability: Cloaking Cape[]
“Activates stealth mode and shoots her arrows faster!”
The Archer Queen has a special ability, accessible from the rightmost side of the screen just above the player's card slots in battle. After a 1 second delay, the Archer Queen activates her "Cloaking Cape", becoming invisible (untargetable by enemy troops) and gaining a thirded attack speed for 3 seconds. The ability goes on a 15 second cooldown after the duration ends. The Cloaking Cape ability costs 1 Elixir to activate.
Strategy[]
- For the purposes of determining Elixir trades, the Archer Queen and her activated Ability count as 6 Elixir, as the player must play the 5 Elixir Queen and then spend a further 1 on her Ability.
- The Archer Queen does high damage even without her ability, so a response is always needed to prevent too much damage on your tower. Due to her high DPS and ranged capabilities, she is a very good response to any big single unit.
- Defensively, the Archer Queen can wreck small to medium size pushes, and with a building such as Tesla, she can even defend a large Golem or Lava Hound push.
- If you do not have enough Elixir to put down another unit and help the Queen defend, consider using her ability instead. The extra damage per second and compensate for the lack of another unit, and as it is rechargeable, it can be used on a counterpush.
- The Archer Queen will be one-shot by an equivalently-levelled Lightning spell. Although it is a slight negative Elixir trade alone, the player can hit up to 2 other units or buildings to make up for the cost. Additionally, since it is a spell, the player can reliably hit the Archer Queen even while her ability is active.
- Do NOT use her ability when combating an X-Bow. It will target the next closest thing, which can be your tower if you don't have another distraction ready for it.
- The Archer Queen, combined with her ability, is excellent at stopping almost any single unit when placed 5 tiles from the bridge and 3 from the river, as demonstrated in her in-game card demo against a P.E.K.K.A.. The ability should be used when the unit is roughly 1 second from hitting the Archer Queen.
- If additional distraction is needed, or if the Cloak seems unnecessary, it may be worth using an additional cheap unit such as Skeletons or an Ice Golem.
- This is not recommended against the Giant Skeleton due to the high risk of his bomb exploding the Crown Tower.
- Once a Tower has been taken, an Archer Queen in the centre of the enemy's territory combined with an immediate Cloaking Cape is capable of massive damage on the remaining Crown Tower. This can be easily countered with high-damage units such as Mini P.E.K.K.A or Lumberjack, negating a large amount of damage, as the ability takes a fair amount of time to activate.
History[]
- The Archer Queen was first mentioned in an update teaser on 10/24/21.
- The Archer Queen was formally announced on 10/26/2021.
- The Archer Queen was released on 10/27/2021.
- On 11/04/21, a maintenance break increased the Cloaking Cape's cooldown (from 11 seconds to 15 seconds) and decreased its duration (from 3.5 seconds to 3 seconds).
Trivia[]
- The Archer Queen is 1 of 17 troops which first existed in Clash of Clans, the others being Archers, Minions, Goblins, Barbarians, Giant, Valkyrie, Wizard, Hog Rider, Witch, Bowler, P.E.K.K.A., Wall Breakers, Balloon, Golem, Lava Hound and Cannon Cart.
- She is the only 英雄 card that originated from Clash of Clans.
- The Archer Queen's Royal Cloak ability in Clash of Clans functions similarly to the Cloaking Cape in Clash Royale. In addition to its Clash Royale effects, it partially heals the Archer Queen and summons Archers when used in Clash of Clans.
- Unlike her CoC counterpart, the Archer Queen in Clash Royale isn't enlarged in battle.
- The Archer Queen is 1 of the first Champion cards to be added to the game, alongside the Skeleton King and Golden Knight.
- Occasionally upon death, she may say "But I'm the Queen!", and upon activating Cloaking Cape, she may say "Sneaky!". The former is often misheard as "buramdecuin :'v" among the community.
- The Archer Queen is the subject of an Emote.
- The Archer Queen is currently the only female Champion.
- The Archer Queen is currently the only ranged Champion.
- The Archer Queen is currently the most expensive Champion, costing 5 Elixir.
- The Archer Queen is currently the Champion that has least amount of hitpoints.
- The Archer Queen is currently the only Champion to target both ground and air.
- The Archer Queen is currently the Champion that deals the most amount of damage per second.
