Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: Spooky Chess is the competitive league event of Clash Royale's Season 88 "Shocktober," and it runs from 5 October to 19 October 2026...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: The best deck for Arena 11 (Electro Valley, 3,400–3,799 trophies) in October 2026 is a fast-cycle Hog Rider deck at 2.6 Elixir — it is cheap, hard...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Supercell revealed Season 88 "Shocktober" in the late-September 2026 TV Royale stream, and alongside the Hero Electro Wizard it is shipping the season...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Supercell revealed Season 88 "Shocktober" in the late-September 2026 TV Royale stream, and its headliner is not a brand-new card — it is a new form of...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The best Clash Royale decks for October 2026 are the ones Supercell didn't touch. The October balance update — landing with the Season 88 "Shocktober&q...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Clash Royale's October 2026 balance changes are live with the October 6 maintenance, and they are unusual: Supercell confirmed the patch is solely nerfs — n...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: The best deck for Arena 10 (Hog Mountain, 3,000–3,399 trophies) in 2026 is the Hog Rider 2.6 cycle — Hog Rider, Musketeer, Cannon, Skeletons, Ice ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Gems are the only currency in Clash Royale you can buy with real money — which is exactly why every "free gem generator" you have ever seen is a scam....
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Season 87 "Minion Academy" is on its last week, and every Clash Royale player asking about Season 88 is running into the same wall: a wave of leaks, a...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: The best deck for Arena 12 (Spooky Town, 3,800–4,199 trophies) in September 2026 is the classic Hog Rider 2.6 cycle — Cannon, Fireball, Hog Rider,...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The Clashroom is Clash Royale's limited-time trivia event for Season 87 "Minion Academy," and it runs for a handful of days in late September 2026...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The fastest way to get Gold in Clash Royale is to stop leaking it and stack the four highest-yield sources: Pass Royale, Classic and Grand Challenges, the Gold ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Clash Royale has one of the deepest card systems on mobile, and it changed more in the last year than in the five before it. If you are trying to work out what ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The single best Evolution to unlock in September 2026 is Evo Firecracker — it is the most versatile Evolution in the game, it slots into more decks than anythin...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Clash Royale Princess Gambit returns as a Global Tournament from September 21–26, 2026, and its rules change what makes a good decision. There is no King Tower ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Royale Shuffle is the new limited-time mode headlining the back half of Clash Royale's Season 87 "Minion Academy", and it does something the game ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Updated 24 September 2026 — two patches this season: September 8 (18 cards) and September 16 emergency nerf (Hero Ice Wizard freeze 7s → 5s; Minion Giant d...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Updated September 27, 2026 — current for Season 87 (Minion Academy, live September 7, 2026). Hero Ice Wizard is the newest Hero as of this update. The single-us...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: The best deck for Arena 15 (Miner's Mine, 5,000–5,499 trophies) in September 2026 is a 2.6 Hog Cycle deck — it is cheap, it out-cycles the slo...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: The best deck for Arena 13 (Rascal's Hideout, 4,200–4,599 trophies) in September 2026 is a fast-cycle Hog Rider deck — it is cheap (2.6–3.1 av...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: Clash Royale Clan Wars (the current version is Clan Wars 2) is a weekly clan-vs-clan mode played through the River Race. Every week your clan sail...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: The best deck for Arena 14 (Serenity Peak, 4,600–5,000 trophies) in September 2026 is a fast-cycle Hog Rider deck — it is cheap (2.6 average Elixi...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: The September 2026 Balance Changes landed on 8 September 2026, one day after Season 87 "Minion Academy" began, and touched 18 cards. The...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Merge Tactics Season 11 is the biggest shake-up the mode has had since it launched, and it arrived with an emergency balance patch three days later — proof of h...