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CRL 2022 20-Win Challenge Cards and Decks
Cards and Win-Condition Stats at the Clash Royale 20-Win Challenge in August 2022.
20win infovis stats
The 20-Win Challenge in 2022 ran for five days in August. How do the cards perform?
Table of Contents
- Methodology
- Country Preference
- Win Conditions and Decks
- Royal Hogs
- Graveyard
- Goblin Barrel
- Lava Hound
- Hog Rider
- Elixir Golem
- Balloon
- Battle Ram
- Royal Giant
- Goblin Drill
- Decks
Methodology
We took all the decks that have won the 20-win challenge, and grouped them by their win-conditions.
Decks with multiple win-conditions will only belong to a single win conditions. For example, Lava Loon decks will appear under Lava Hound only, so card usage for Balloon only includes decks that use Balloon as its sole win-condition. This differs from our previous card analyses which tends to give the impression that Balloon has a disproportionately higher usage — even though the card itself does have such high usage.
Country Preference
Besides the global use rate and win rate, we thought that it would be interesting to look at the player choices in different regions.
The chart above shows the most popular win conditions used by players in the top 10 countries with the most 20-win winners. It further shows how many times that win-condition was used to complete the challenge, and a multiplier of the norm.
For example, Brazil is the 6th most popular country in the world, with 213 players who had finished the challenge. The most popular win-condition used was Giant, which was used 47 times. In contrast, Giant was used to win the 20-win challenge 185 times out of the 5712 winners. This means that Brazil’s use of Giant as a win condition is 6.81 times the baseline figure.
multiplier = country win-con use rate / global win-con use rate
| rank | c | country | wci | wc | count | mult |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇯🇵 | Japan |  |
Royal Hogs | 155 | 1.34 |
| 2 | 🇲🇽 | Mexico |  |
Balloon | 91 | 2.29 |
| 3 | 🇺🇸 | USA |  |
X-Bow | 47 | 3.39 |
| 4 | 🇫🇷 | France |  |
Graveyard | 44 | 1.59 |
| 5 | 🇩🇪 | Germany |  |
Lava Hound | 46 | 2.06 |
| 6 | 🇧🇷 | Brazil |  |
Giant | 47 | 6.81 |
| 7 | 🇰🇷 | South Korea | |
Graveyard | 51 | 2.65 |
| 8 | 🇵🇪 | Peru | |
Balloon | 24 | 1.83 |
| 9 | 🇮🇷 | Iran | |
Giant | 26 | 4.84 |
| 10 | 🇮🇹 | Italy |  |
Hog Rider | 22 | 2.23 |
| 11 | 🇪🇸 | Spain | |
Royal Hogs | 16 | 1.19 |
| 12 | 🇷🇺 | Russia | |
Graveyard | 21 | 1.79 |
| 13 | 🇨🇴 | Colombia | |
Hog Rider | 11 | 1.91 |
| 14 | 🇦🇷 | Argentina | |
Royal Hogs | 13 | 1.57 |
| 15 | 🇨🇦 | Canada |  |
Goblin Drill | 10 | 1.48 |
| 16 | 🇹🇷 | Turkey | |
Lava Hound | 21 | 3.57 |
| 17 | 🇨🇳 | China | |
Hog Rider | 8 | 1.63 |
| 18 | 🇳🇱 | Netherlands |  |
Goblin Barrel | 14 | 2.21 |
| 19 | 🇬🇹 | Guatemala | |
Giant | 10 | 5.23 |
| 20 | 🇺🇦 | Ukraine |  |
Mortar | 13 | 4.54 |
Win Conditions and Decks
Royal Hogs
Royal Hogs have the highest wins among all the 20-win decks.
This is likely due to a unexpected rise of a deck that seemed to have come from nowhere when there were only 3 days left to play the challenge. This deck had 100k games with a 61% win rate when we first tweeted it. As of this writing, more than 700k games have been played and it still maintains a whopping 58% win rate!
Some interesting facts about this deck:
- First known battle. Played by ʕ•̫͡•ʔ✧あみったん♡ on Ladder at 2022-08-05 11:59:45 UTC.
- First Grand Challenge 12-Win Winner. Played by たぁ (Taa) at 2022-08-05 18:24:39 UTC.
- First 20-Win Winner. Played by bebbefan at 2022-08-07 17:16:41 UTC.
- 234 players have won the 20-win challenge with this deck, making this the most successfully deck in the challenge.
Another successful deck is the Archer Queen Hoggies cycle 2.9. This deck is one of those evergreen cycle decks that have been successful for more than a year.
Graveyard
Graveyard came closely second in the overall winners. Here are a few decks that were used to win the challenge:
Goblin Barrel
Coming in at third overall is Goblin Barrel, which is due in no small part to the popularity and success of the Mighty Miner 2.9 Cycle. At the end of the 20-win challenge, 135 players have won with this deck.
It’s worth noting that although Goblin Barrel had a lot of success, its overall battle win rates are lower than 50% baseline. This usually means that many players have tried to play the deck unsuccessfully — even though the skilled players do finish more challenges overall.
Lava Hound
Is the 20-Win Challenge difficult? What about winning the 20-Win Challenge 20 times?! That’s exactly what Carl the Legend (@CarltheLegendCR) did. Besides finishing the challenge multiple times, he was also the fastest player to finish (one of) his runs!
The deck he used to finish most of these challenges? This Lava Loon with Mighty Miner. You can often catch him streaming on Twitch with this deck throughout the season. Tune in if you want to learn to play the deck!
Hog Rider
Ever more popular — Hog Rider has the second highest battle use rate (12%) but a less than stellar 44% battle win rate.
For the 385 players who have completed the challenge, nearly a third of them (120) did it with Hog 2.6 Cycle. Long considered deadly in the hands of very skilled Hog player, this deck is tough to master for beginning players.
Elixir Golem
Despite the rework, Elixir Golem had the least amount of 20 wins — at 27 times.
These two decks each had 4 completions in the challenge.
Balloon
The 5th most successful decks in the challenge had 102 20-wins:
Battle Ram
The 7th most successful decks is the classic Pekka Bridge Spam (84 wins).
Royal Giant
This Royal Giant deck had 82 wins and came in 8th overall.
Goblin Drill
Goblin Drill had two top decks. One with Giant Skeleton at 72 wins.
The other with Skeleton King and Wall Breakers at 71 wins.
Decks
If you’re interested in seeing all the decks that have won the 20-Win Challenge:
- Deck Search: CRL 20-Win Challenge
- Deck Search: CRL 20-Win Challenge: 20 Wins
- Winners: CRL 20-Win Challenge 2022
If you prefer a more explorative view, we have also made a treemap visualization of all the decks. This visualization works best on a desktop computer.
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