HOW to get to LEGENDARY Arena [F2P] NO EPIC/NO LEGENDARY

Hey everyone, Doc Storm here,

I finally made it to Legendary Arena! Very excited and happy. Looking forward to the perks of being able to buy Legendary cards now!

Legendary Arena Perks:

For those who don't know they come randomly in the 24hour shop but costs 40,000 gold. Now its quite expensive and if you converted to real money it costs around 25-30USD. But a level 1 legendary card is suppose to scale to a level 7 rare, so if you look at it that way, its far cheaper to buy it for 40k than to upgrade to a level 7 rare.

But by far the biggest perk is the bragging rights! No, just kidding, or am I? haha. Well I personally feel complete. Almost like beating the game.

Anyhow, So today I want to share with you some of my SECRETS and PRO TIPS to help you all get to legendary arena.

10 Secrets and PRO Tips:

1) Hover over Card and Hold to Display Info:

If you hover on the card during battle, you can see how much damage your spell and units do. This way you can better gauge if its worth it to throw that fireball at that tower or to kill the troops ahead to force a draw.

2) NEVER ever hit the KING Tower:

Until before you have at least eliminated one Arena Tower, because that activates him once he's damaged. Effectively you gave your opponent a free tower. Opponent's King Tower activates himself after you eliminated one of their Arena Tower.

3) Make MINOR changes in deck:

We all get frustrated with losing streaks, but don't give up on a deck once you figured out how to use it. Especially if you know your deck has potential. How to tell is looking at other decks at higher levels in TV Royale or you know someone at higher trophies than you with same deck.

You should only make small changes to reflect the current Meta. What I mean is, the game changes and so do most common and popular decks. So you may need a different card to counter those decks (i.e. Barbs or Mini Pekka for those Royal Giants). Small changes don't affect your consistency as much as a total revamp. However at some point in your game it is wise to change up decks just to learn and discover new cards and decks. Usually I do this earlier as it won't affect my trophies as much when I climb higher.

Know your deck well, so you know exactly what cards compliment what and what you need to counter which decks. Remember most wins come from anticipating your opponent's moves.

4) Spend your gold wisely:

As a FTP player especially true. Spend only your gold to upgrade key cards. I usually limit myself with the amount of Epic cards I rely on also as they are expensive. By Arena 6 and 7, you should have discovered what deck you feel comfortable with.

Buy cards from shops usually to make a profit. I only buy commons up till it costs 6 gold for the cards I use (8 or 10 gold if they are good commons like Minion Horde, Barbarians, and Cannon).

Not all cards are the same value. I find Barbarians and Minion Horde are very strong cards, that have potential for the future. So you can buy those up to 8 or 10 gold also even if you don't current use.

Same goes for Rare, I buy up till 60 gold for ones I use and if they are very powerful rare's like the Hog Rider, I may buy up till 80 or even 100.

Epic you should only buy 1 at 2000 gold if you use.

5) Spend your Gems even wiser:

FTP:
Save your gems! Don't use them till you hit 500 gems to buy a bucket of gold for 10,000 gold if you are FTP. That is all you do. You can also save up to buy Legendary once you get to Arena 8 for 40,000 gold.

50-300USD:
If you pay 50-300USD real money, then you can start "gemming the cycle" at Arena 6 and beyond. Higher Arena offers more cards per chests. So don't waste your gems at lower arena levels. Also because at lower Arena's you should be trying new things and won't know which cards you may like to use. For example, Skeleton Army is a great card Arena 1-4, but it really becomes obsolete after.

500USD+:
You can afford to buy some Super Magical Chests to get lucky at the Legendaries. BUT if you want pure cards, then Giant Chests are the way to go.
But still gemming the cycle is still the most efficient Gem versus Money wise (just not time wise :))

Gemming the Cycle: Chests you get from battle are NOT random, they follow a grid and pattern. So the faster you can unlock the silver and gold chests, the faster you will race through the line to get to a Magical and Giant Chests during Battle. The better the chests, the MORE value you get gemming it to open, because of the time versus gem ratio. So open all the Giant, Magical and Super Magical Chests you got.

6) After 3 Defeats, take a break and Don't play more than 4-5 Games at Once:

For various reasons. If your superstitious, then of course you should stop. But I think honestly it is because you get frustrated and stop playing normally. Your skills are deteriorating.

Also another factor is, you start to get confused of what cards your opponent has. Like I always try to remember what cards my opponent has so I make sure I SAVE a card I have if I need to counter theirs. For example if they have 3 musketeers, then I should hold off my fireball on that Princess. It is not worth it. I should save it for the musketeers. After a few continuous games, I forget if it was this play that an the Barbarians or if it was the game before. So I make the wrong calls.

7) Play during a Specific Time Frame:

Now, Im not sure if this is entirely true or if it's my own psyche. But I do better playing in the Evenings around the time of 9pm-12pm EASTERN time. Maybe its the group of people playing at that time? Mind you I play all parts of the day to get chests and what not.

Some rumor say that North American players are not as competitive as Asian players therefore playing at our time zone is beneficial, but who knows if that is true. As I said, I like playing at 9pm which means the morning in Asia.

8) Watch TV Royale:

After the change, its harder to only watch quality matches from top players. But you can still do that! I learn the most from these players. Sometimes they may do something you didn't know about or can't know about.

For example, I don't own any legendary, but I face them regularly. So I need to know the potential of those cards. When I throw a Hog Rider down, how many hits can I get off on tower if he just defends with an Ice Wizard? These are the things I look at during these videos. I also get inspiration on deck ideas and what the current meta is so I'm prepared to fight against it.

9) Practice:

Like anything else in life, you need to practice to master something. I play with clan members and training mode for that. That is how I learn how to split troops and do the hog jumps like you see in my videos.

Also, another idea is to make an ALT account. That way you don't have to be as stressed about your trophies and get more practice.

10) Don't get too caught up on Trophies:

I know we are all racing to the top, but stress makes you play horrible! Just focus on playing the best you can. I know this is hard as I was hovering around 2900 for a week before I finally took it home. The first few times at 2980+, the stress got to me and I started playing really bad. So don't let it get to you! If you play consistent, you will get there fore sure. So don't sweat it!

Hope we can all get to Legendary Arena and beyond! Take care everyone and CLASH ON!

- Doc Storm