Clash Royale's Champions is a set of cards that introduced the "Champion" rarity when it debuted. Included with the first Champions card drops were three characters: the Archer Queen, Golden Knight and Skeleton King. The popular mobile card game from Supercell became even more popular with this drop.
The Skeleton King is the King of the Undead and has abilities focusing on his uncanny gift to collect the souls of the dead with "Soul Summoning" and resurrect them as skeletons to do his bidding. The more slain enemies the Skeleton King piles up, the more his Skeleton count grows.
The Skeleton King is a flexible card Champion that can be used in a variety of different builds. You unlock Skeleton Knight at Level 11 and continue to upgrade him from there as you would any other card. But if you're unfamiliar with the Skeleton King, you might be reticent about how to play with him.
We've got all the information you need to know about the Skeleton King Champion's abilities, stats and the best decks to employ him in. You'll be dominating with the Skeleton King in Clash Royale in no time.
Skeleton King Abilities, Stats, Best Decks
The Skeleton King is unlocked at Level 11 and continues to earn abilities from there.
Skeleton King Stats
Here are the stats you can expect from the Skeleton King at Level 11:
- Area Damage: 180
- Hit Points: 2,300
- Damage Per Second: 112
- Hit Speed: 1.6 seconds
- Speed: Medium
- Targets: Ground
- Range: Melee (Medium)
Skeleton King Abilities
The Skeleton King's special ability is the aforementioned Soul Summoning, which allows him to summon a variety of different Skeletons in a 4-tile radius around him. Skeletons will continue to spawn one at a time in random positions every 0.25 seconds. The number of Skeletons that spawn is based on how many troops end up dying while your Skeleton King is active, from you or your opponent. This effect remains even when Skeleton King dies.
If the Skeleton King has no vanquished souls, it will spawn six Skeletons by default, but if he has a maximum of 10 collected souls, he can summon 16 Skeletons, making him a force to be reckoned with for anyone looking to overpower their enemy through sheer brute force and numbers alone.
Best Skeleton King Deck
One of the best proven decks to use with Skeleton King is one crafted by Clash Royale player Master Diddy San. It utilizes the Fireball and Log to start clearing out clusters of enemies, and helps you deploy a PEKKA for damage dealing and tanking.
The card list is as follows:
- Skeleton King
- Log
- Magic Archer
- Electro Wizard
- Fireball
- Bandit
- Barbarian Barrel
- PEKKA
Clash Royale is available now to play for free on iOS and Android devices.
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