骷髅巨人

“The bigger the skeleton, the bigger the bomb. Carries a bomb that blows up when the Giant Skeleton dies.”

The Giant Skeleton card is unlocked from P.E.K.K.A.'s Playhouse (Arena 4). He is a single-target, melee troop with high hitpoints and moderate damage, hitting only ground units with slow attacks. If defeated, he drops a bomb which inflicts moderate damage after 3 seconds in a small radius, and deals double damage to Crown Towers. He appears as a colossal skeleton wearing a brown (team-colored in-game) ushanka with a large gunpowder barrel on his back and a bomb in his hand. A Giant Skeleton card costs 6 Elixir to deploy.

Strategy[]

The Giant Skeleton is effective to use as a meat shield for other troops. This makes it a good card to use as a buffer for spawner buildings, as any unit that takes out the Giant Skeleton will be taken out by its bomb afterwards while the spawner cooks up troops. They will continue unopposed to the Crown Tower. However, it is not very interchangeable with a Giant, as the Giant Skeleton can be distracted with any ground unit.
The Giant Skeleton's death bomb is useful for weakening or destroying troops that are close together. The death damage is very similar to a Fireball, and it is the same amount of damage as an equivalent level Mega Knight's jump and spawn damage. Combined with The Log or a Barbarian Barrel, the combo can one-shot Musketeer, Wizard, and the like. Tornado also works well with the Giant Skeleton, helping its death bomb and support troops to hit more units, and also allowing Zap and Giant Snowball to one-shot the weakened troops.
Clone can forcibly push an allied Giant Skeleton forward, allowing its death damage to hit the Crown Tower reliably. The Cloned bomb can also help clean up the troops that the opponent used to defend the first Giant Skeleton. If the Giant Skeleton was already attacking the Crown Tower before being Cloned, it is almost a guarantee that its Clone's bomb will also detonate on top of the tower, dealing much more damage for just 3 extra Elixir.
Since it moves quite slowly and has a low damage per second, players may need to back it up with splash damage Troops, such as the Witch or Wizard. This gives the Giant Skeleton a higher chance to connect to the Tower.
Spells with an unrestricted placement also support a Giant Skeleton well once it has crossed the bridge, decimating swarms placed to destroy it.
Fast troops can push the Giant Skeleton forward and allow it to reach the tower more quickly. However, depending on the unit that is used, the main weakness of the push may become amplified (eg. a Mini P.E.K.K.A. combined with a Giant Skeleton is still weak to swarms and air units), so often times more than 1 layer of offense will be necessary.
Pairing the Giant Skeleton with another threatening troop can cause the opponent to split their defenses too thin, allowing one or the other to connect. For example, a Giant Skeleton paired with a Balloon can block air units and protect the Balloon long enough for it to reach the tower. Additionally, the defending units will almost certainly die to one or both of the death bombs, eliminating or weakening the opponent's opportunity to counterpush.
The Giant Skeleton is a good way to stop a large push, since he can group the enemies up and his death bomb will cripple the push, allowing other cards to finish everything off.
Despite being a negative Elixir trade, the P.E.K.K.A. is a good counter to the Giant Skeleton, since it can easily defeat it and not let the Crown Tower take any death damage.
The Inferno Tower is an effective counter. Not only does it cost 1 less but is also less vulnerable to most enemy spells. If needed to be, the Giant Skeleton can be pulled away with another cheap card such as Skeletons.
The Giant Skeleton should never be ignored, as it will can fully destroy a Princess Tower.
- However it is easily countered.
The Giant Skeleton can be a good tank for pushes in Rage Battles, as its increased speed will force the opponent to put more focus on it to prevent colossal damage to Towers. However, on defense, enemy troops may be able to leave the bomb's range before it detonates.

History[]

The Giant Skeleton was added with Clash Royale's soft launch on 4/1/16.
On 2/2/16, the February 2016 Update added the death damage on the Giant Skeleton's card info screen.
On 29/2/16, the March 2016 Update increased the Giant Skeleton's hitpoints by 11% and bomb timer to 3 sec (from 1 sec).
On 4/7/16, the Tournaments Update increased the Giant Skeleton's damage by 20%.
On 1/11/16, the November 2016 Update changed the Giant Skeleton's sound effects, and he now laughs when deployed.
On 15/12/16, a Balance Update increased the Giant Skeleton's damage by 8%.
On 12/12/17, a Balance Update increased the Giant Skeleton‘s hitpoints by 5%.
On 1/4/19, a Balance Update made the Giant Skeleton’s first attack delay shorter (from 0.5s to 0.3s) and increased his mass from 15 to 18.
On 30/3/21, a Balance Update decreased the Giant Skeleton's death damage by 54% and increased his attack damage by 29%.
On 7/6/21, a Balance Update gave Giant Skeleton's bomb the ability to inflict double damage on Crown Towers. The 2021 Quarter 2 Update also moved the Arena to unlock the Giant Skeleton from Bone Pit (Arena 2) to P.E.K.K.A's Playhouse (Arena 4).
On 27/10/21, the 2021 Quarter 3 Update added the level 14 Giant Skeleton.

Trivia[]

The Giant Skeleton is one of the 13 cards associated with Skeletons, including the Bomber, Skeleton Army, Witch, Tombstone, Bomb Tower, Balloon, Guards, Skeleton Barrel, Graveyard, Wall Breakers, and Skeleton Dragons.
The bomb and barrel of the Giant Skeleton appear to be taken from a Giant Bomb trap from Clash of Clans.
He and the Skeleton King share the same walking sound.
He also appears to have an underbite as his card picture shows. The Guards and Minions share the same trait as the Giant Skeleton.
He, the Goblin Giant, and the Mega Knight are currently the only tanks to move at medium speed, making them the fastest tanks. He is the only one of them that does death damage.
The Giant Skeleton makes a laughing sound when deployed, possibly a reference to the Clash Royale commercial, Giant Skeleton.
He is 1 of 12 cards which bring an excited reaction from the audience upon spawning and brings a collective groan from the audience when defeated, the others include Sparky, Giant, Goblin Giant, P.E.K.K.A., Electro Wizard, Night Witch, Bowler, Inferno Dragon, Golem, Lava Hound, and Royal Giant.
The Giant Skeleton is 1 of 10 troop cards that inspired a troop in Clash of Clans, along with the Miner, the Baby Dragon, the Cannon Cart, the Ice Wizard, the Bomber, the Skeleton Barrel, the Night Witch, the Battle Ram, and the Ice Golem.
- In his info image from Clash of Clans, his hat is revealed to be brown. However, when used in battle, he is shown to have a red hat, similarly to an opponent's Giant Skeleton troop in Clash Royale. His hat is also shown to be red in his icon.
- Unlike his Clash of Clans counterpart, the Giant Skeleton in Clash Royale attacks anything in sight instead of just buildings.
- His pose image displayed above his stats screen came from his Clash of Clans counterpart's info image, only with blue hat instead of brown.
- Unlike his Clash of Clans counterpart, the Giant Skeleton has unique sounds when deployed and attacking instead of sharing sounds with a Giant.
The Giant Skeleton is 1 of 4 cards to be unavailable in Triple Draft, the others being Mirror, Clone, and the Three Musketeers.
The Giant Skeleton is the first and currently the only card that does extra damage to Crown Towers.
His description may refer to how the Bomber is a tiny skeleton carrying a much smaller bomb.
The Giant Skeleton is 1 of 3 cards that drops a bomb upon death, the other two being the Bomb Tower and the Balloon.

数据

花费	攻击速度	移动速度	部署时间	射程	目标	数量	行进方式	类型	稀有度
6	1.5秒	中等（60）	1秒	0.8（短距离近战）	地面目标	x1	地面	军队	史诗

等级	生命值	伤害	每秒伤害值	死亡附加伤害	对皇家塔死亡附加伤害
6	2,100	167	111	334	668
7	2,310	183	122	367	734
8	2,541	202	134	404	808
9	2,793	222	148	444	888
10	3,066	243	162	487	974
11	3,360	267	178	534	1,068
12	3,696	293	195	587	1,174
13	4,053	322	214	644	1,288
14	4,452	354	236	708	1,416