Top Ladder Stats (2025-09)

---

Authors:

Alpe

Last updated: 2025-10-08

Page change log:

• Created: 2025-10-08

Page contents:

• About Season Stats
• Deck Meta
  • Top 10 Players
  • Best Players by Win Condition
  • Deck Variety
  • Deck Elixir Cost
  • Most Popular Decks
• Tower Troops
• Evolutions
  • Main Evolution Stats
  • Evolution Unlock Rate
  • Evolutions VS Normal Cards
• Champions
• Spells
• Buildings
• Win Conditions
• Checks and Balances
  • Balance results
  • New changes
• All Cards
  • Top 10 Popular Cards
  • Unused Cards
  • Top 10 Trending Up
  • Top 10 Trending Down
  • Data Dump
• Top 20 Countries

About Season Stats

The Path of Legends (PoL) leaderboard is a great place to consistently find the best players and to see how they adapt to the meta. The first Monday of every month, the season ends and a new one begins. While players are competing to reach the top, we are tracking their results and deck choices.

With this blog, we present a summary and a few insights of all the data that we collected during the last days of the season, with a focus on the decks that players used to obtain their final rank.

Stats Format Basics

These stats are based on the decks and card collections of the best players, the ones who finished among the top 1,000 players in Path of Legends.

Over this blog, we'll look at card stats with tables that use the following format:

• Usage refers to the share of players who used the card in their main deck. This stat is paired with a change %, which is the difference when compared to last season's usage.
• Average Rank is the mean of all the placements from players who used this card. The center point is 500, so if the value is below 500, it means the card is quite good.
• Have It Maxed refers to the share of players who have that card at Level 15, which is the ideal level to compete in PoL. The companion bar chart also shows the amount of players who have this card at Level 14 (in light blue). If the light blue range is wide, it implies that a lot of players don't consider this card worthy to spend Elite Wild Cards on it, because EWCs are a scarce resource.
• Usage/Maxed (U/M) shows the amount of players who use a card from those that have it maxed. Some cards can be harder to unlock and level up, so usage may not be a good indicator if it's being held down by other factors. It's also relevant to know that every season boosts a few cards, which allows players to use them without the need to level them up.

Win Rate VS Rank

Due to the nature of the ladder system, card win rates aren't useful to understand the strength of a card. We think a mix of the stats listed above can paint a more accurate picture of the state of each card.

The main reason for this is that system which are based in score matchmaking aims to pair players with others of similar strength. If the amount of battles played is sufficient, the score of the player stabilises, leading to a win rate of ~50%.

Better players stabilise at higher scores than worse players, but in the long term, the winrate becomes similar. This causes this metric to be fairly irrelevant when compared to rank and usage.

Deck Meta

Top 10 Players

These were the main decks used by the Top 10 players of the season.

#1 - 🇪🇬 Mohamed Light (4,155)

#2 - 🇮🇱 Asaf (4,141)

#3 - 🇺🇸 Ian77 (4,109)

#4 - 🇩🇪 Sasuke (4,053)

#5 - 🇬🇧 Fan (4,053)

#6 - 🇧🇷 Pedro (4,041)

#7 - 🇯🇵 Mugi (4,032)

#8 - 🇸🇦 Rakan (4,032)

#9 - 🇪🇬 Mohamed Light (4,025)

#10 - 🇰🇿 Tourist (4,018)

Best Players by Win Condition

This section is a list with the highest ranked player for each win condition, and all the decks are available below to copy into the game.

Some of the players run decks with dual win conditions, causing them to appear also multiple times in the leaderboard.

Previous Season Stats

Miner - 🇪🇬 Mohamed Light ( #1 )

Evolved Wall Breakers - 🇪🇬 Mohamed Light ( #1 )

Evolved Skeleton Barrel - 🇮🇱 Asaf ( #2 )

Golem - 🇩🇪 Sasuke ( #4 )

Balloon - 🇬🇧 Fan ( #5 )

Evolved Mortar - 🇯🇵 Mugi ( #7 )

Lava Hound - 🇸🇦 Rakan ( #8 )

Evolved Battle Ram - 🇷🇺 Tourist ( #10 )

Evolved Goblin Barrel - 🇨🇦 Ryley ( #11 )

Hog Rider - 🇫🇷 Viiper ( #13 )

Goblin Drill - 🇲🇽 Tucar ( #15 )

Graveyard - 🇲🇽 Jorge Luis ( #22 )

Giant - 🇲🇽 Jorge Luis ( #22 )

Evolved Goblin Giant - 🇻🇪 Tanjiro ( #25 )

Royal Hogs - 🇸🇦 Kai ( #26 )

Ram Rider - 🇨🇳 Eriyi ( #32 )

X-Bow - 🇩🇪 Omar ( #34 )

Wall Breakers - 🇩🇪 Hypno ( #37 )

Three Musketeers - 🇯🇵 Techi ( #69 )

Electro Giant - 🇧🇷 PedroBaguncinha ( #149 )

Elixir Golem - 🇪🇨 Hulk Maklaot ( #156 )

Suspicious Bush - 🇩🇪 Sevan ( #195 )

Evolved Royal Giant - 🇨🇴 Rocket ( #234 )

Mortar - 🇨🇦 BainsV8 ( #316 )

Skeleton Barrel - 🇩🇪 Adnan ( #499 )

Battle Ram - 🇺🇸 Nemesis ( #541 )

Royal Giant - 🇨🇱 Gary ( #623 )

Goblin Barrel - 🇨🇳 Aoyun ( #675 )

Goblin Giant - 🇩🇪 Kail ( #799 )

Deck Variety

Across the top 1K leaderboard, there are many kinds of players. Some regularly use the same deck, regardless of the meta (one-tricks), others like to create their own for each meta, and others run with the most popular decks of the leaderboard.

This chart compares deck variety with previous seasons. In the first category, you find decks that are unique in the leaderboard.

Moving to the right, each group represents a different threshold of deck popularity. In the last category, you can see the amount of players using decks with more than 20 users.

Usage of the most popular deck in recent seasons:

• Season 73: 54
• Season 74: 53 uses
• Season 75: 28 uses (this season)

Unusual decks had a moderate decrease this season, and the most popular deck had a big drop.

Previous Season Stats

Deck Elixir Cost

This is not a stat we usually cover because it's quite stable and not very interesting. But this season we had a very noticeable shift towards heavy decks which is worth highlighting.

The chart shows the average cost of cards in decks used. In this last season, a move upwards can be seen in all the percentiles. This implies that the change didn't just affect a few heavy decks, but was consistent across the meta.

The win conditions section will later show one of the heaviest win conditions becoming the new king.

Another way to look at deck cost is to see the shortest cycle of each deck. This can be measured by the cheapest 4-cards or cheapest 5-cards, depending on what you need. This chart uses 5-cards:

Most Popular Decks

The 10 most popular decks of the leaderboard were:

#1 - 28 Uses (#471 Average Rank)

#2 - 28 Uses (#502 Average Rank)

#3 - 26 Uses (#347 Average Rank)

#4 - 22 Uses (#425 Average Rank)

#5 - 20 Uses (#198 Average Rank)

#6 - 20 Uses (#450 Average Rank)

#7 - 19 Uses (#505 Average Rank)

#8 - 18 Uses (#396 Average Rank)

#9 - 17 Uses (#579 Average Rank)

#10 - 15 Uses (#349 Average Rank)

Tower Troops

• Tower Princess recovered some usage this season, although Royal Chef had the biggest increase.

• Cannoneer dropped after the nerf, but maintained a great average rank.

Previous Season Stats

Evolutions

Main Evolution Stats

• Evolved Baby Dragon jumped to the top in popularity during its release month, with more than 30% of usage.

• Furnace is dethroned, and has the biggest fall of the season. It still has more than 13% usage.

• Evolved Valkyrie and Witch had the biggest usage increases aside from Furnace.

• This season, 4 players finished in the top 1,000 with a 1-evo deck. No one used a deck without evolutions.

Top 3 evolutions:

1. Skeletons
2. Mortar
3. Wall Breakers

Previous Season Stats

Evolution Unlock Rate

Evolutions are arguably the most challenging progression limitation for players who don't purchase Pass Royale regularly. This means they are also a great indicator for seasonal revenue from the competitive players.

Over time, players find evolution shards through other means, so older evolutions lose that strong correlation with Pass Royale purchases. To avoid that, it's best to keep comparisons to very recent evolutions from the last 2 seasons.

Monetisation performance of recent evolutions:

• Skeleton Barrel (S73): 42% on release
• Furnace (S74): 60% on release
• Baby Dragon (S75): 62% on release

Evolution buyers history chart

These are all the unlock rates of evolutions during their respective release season. They are not the current unlock shares for the evolutions.

Highlighted evolutions are the ones not featured with Pass Royale, which are usually released as a separate in-app purchase.

Evolution buyers history data

Season	Season	Evolution	Share
55	January 2024	Valkyrie	38%
56	February 2024	Bomber	53%
56	February 2024	Wall Breakers	30%
57	March 2024	Tesla	39%
57	March 2024	Zap	37%
58	April 2024	Battle Ram	55%
59	May 2024	Wizard	57%
60	June 2024	Goblin Barrel	40%
61	July 2024	Goblin Giant	35%
61	July 2024	Goblin Drill	24%
62	August 2024	Goblin Cage	33%
63	September 2024	Pekka	47%
63	September 2024	Mega Knight	83%
64	October 2024	Electro Dragon	48%
65	November 2024	Musketeer	42%
65	November 2024	Cannon	14%
66	December 2024	Giant Snowball	44%
67	January 2025	Dart Goblin	42%
68	February 2025	Lumberjack	51%
69	March 2025	Hunter	36%
70	April 2025	Executioner	31%
71	May 2025	Witch	40%
72	June 2025	Inferno Dragon	40%
73	July 2025	Skeleton Barrel	42%
74	August 2025	Furnace	60%
75	September 2025	Baby Dragon	62%

Pass Royale buyer share remains at all-time highs, but now the increase has been very minor compared to last season. This suggests we may be reaching the peak of the Clash Royale trend.

Unlock rate by rank chart

This chart shows a distribution of the Pass Royale buyer proxy by rank in the leaderboard. Higher-rank players are more likely to buy Pass Royale.

Previous season chart

Evolutions VS Normal Cards

Comparing evolutions to their normal cards is a great way to see how relevant each evolution ability actually is.

If we also look at the usage of the normal card, we can get a better sense of their place in the meta, helping us answer:

• Is the normal card strong and usable by itself?
• Is the evolution necessary and what makes it strong?

Several evolutions take this to an extreme, where the normal card is completely unused and only the Evolution has usage. For these cases, it seems fair to argue that the normal card has been weakened so that the evolution buff turns it into a balanced one.

It seems incompatible to have both the normal card and the evolution in a balanced state, at least as long as the evolution provides a relevant advantage.

What is LUR?

This chart introduces a new stat: Log-based Usage Ratio (LUR). This is a value that directly compares the usage of an Evolution with the usage of it's normal variant.

$$\mathsf{LUR}={\log }_{10}\left(\frac{\mathsf{Evolution}\mathsf{Usage}}{\mathsf{Normal}\mathsf{Card}\mathsf{Usage}}\right)$$

The basic way to read it is:

• A positive value means that the Evolution is more popular
• A negative value means that the Normal Card is more popular

The logarithm is simply used to translate this ratio into a simpler number that's easier to read. E.g.:

• LUR=1: Evolution is used 10x more
• LUR=2: Evolution is used 100x more

Cards that have been completely overshadowed by their evolutions:

• Valkyrie
• Witch
• Tesla
• Wizard
• Archers
• Electro Dragon

And a few that very close to the complete replacement were Baby Dragon, Goblin Giant, Goblin Cage, Executioner and Goblin Barrel.

Most unappealing evolutions compared to their counterparts:

1. Goblin Drill
2. Ice Spirit
3. Dart Goblin

Previous Season Stats

Champions

Champions are always an interesting category because they exclude each other in decks. But players don't always have a Champion in their deck, so that's why "No Champion" is listed as well.

• This season finished right after the 3-card cycle from Champions was removed. It probably has not been enough time for the meta to stabilise this category of cards, but we can see stats as preliminary results.

• "No Champion" usage has increased by 8%, but average rank isn't great.

• Mighty Miner remains as the best Champion, and Boss Bandit a rival with less popularity.

• Little Prince remains unpopular and with a very weak rank average.

Previous Season Stats

Spells

• Vines became incredibly popular during the release season, almost reaching 60% usage.

• Barbarian Barrel keeps gaining popularity after dethroning The Log last season.

• Several spells (The Log, Rage, Goblin Curse and Zap) had significant drops in usage. These are probably the spells that were replaced by Vines.

• Rocket had the best average rank among all spells.

Previous Season Stats

Buildings

• There were 50.6% of decks without any buildings at all, slightly less than last season (53.2%).

• Average ranks for siege buildings keep improving, now below 400. This season Mortar and Evolved Mortar proved to be about as good as X-Bow.

• Goblin Hut became the most popular building while maintaining a great average rank.

Previous Season Stats

Win Conditions

Win Conditions are one of the best ways to look at archetype performance. Unlike support cards, which can fit in several archetypes, these are the core cards that define them.

• Normal Mortar had the best average rank out of all the win conditions, although with very anecdotal data, as only 2 players used it.

• Golem jumped to the top of win condition usage, above 14%.

• Evolved Goblin Giant had the most significant fall among win conditions.

Top 3 Win Conditions:

1. Evolved Mortar
2. Miner
3. Evolved Wall Breakers

Previous Season Stats

Checks and Balances

Balance results

The start of the season introduced balance changes, what was their outcome?

Balance Changes

• The nerfs were very effective at reducing the popularity of targeted cards.

• The buffs increased the usage of Dark Prince and Goblinstein, but didn't make a difference for Little Prince.

State before balance changes

New changes

The balances for next season were already announced, so we can take a look at their current stats.

This time it's a huge round of nerfs to prepare for the Clash Royale World Finals of 2025.

Balance Changes

All Cards

Here is a quick summary of the full card collection, leaving aside all the card categories.

Top 10 Popular Cards

Unused Cards

Top 10 Trending Up

Top 10 Trending Down

Data Dump

This data can be used as long as we are properly credited as the source.

Complete list of cards

#		Card	Usage	Rank
1		Tower Princess	61.6%	503
2		Vines	57.9%	508
3		Barbarian Barrel	45.7%	495
4		Evolved Baby Dragon	30.2%	503
5		Minions	25.1%	508
6		Berserker	25.0%	488
7		Royal Chef	23.4%	520
8		Evolved Valkyrie	22.7%	519
9		Guards	19.0%	494
10		Goblin Machine	17.5%	516
11		Evolved Witch	15.9%	524
12		Arrows	15.5%	504
13		Ice Wizard	14.8%	430
14		Golem	14.2%	533
15		Poison	14.0%	475
16		Evolved Furnace	13.6%	540
17		Cannoneer	12.9%	437
18		Mini P.E.K.K.A	12.7%	536
19		Miner	12.2%	417
20		The Log	12.2%	467
21		Goblin Gang	11.9%	476
22		Tornado	10.9%	524
23		Skeletons	10.8%	509
24		Ice Spirit	10.6%	517
25		Balloon	10.2%	496
26		Graveyard	10.1%	508
27		Rage	10.1%	514
28		Evolved Goblin Giant	9.8%	526
29		Fireball	9.6%	471
30		Goblin Hut	9.6%	449
31		Electro Spirit	9.3%	490
32		Evolved Cannon	8.9%	457
33		Mighty Miner	8.8%	405
34		Evolved Wall Breakers	8.8%	420
35		Evolved Goblin Cage	8.7%	493
36		Lightning	8.1%	585
37		Evolved Skeleton Barrel	8.1%	470
38		Dart Goblin	7.9%	503
39		Evolved Giant Snowball	7.7%	441
40		Evolved Skeletons	7.4%	395
41		Hog Rider	7.1%	485
42		Elixir Collector	6.9%	530
43		Minion Horde	6.7%	455
44		Fisherman	6.7%	543
45		Evolved P.E.K.K.A	6.7%	510
46		Zappies	6.5%	485
47		Evolved Executioner	6.2%	502
48		Fire Spirit	6.1%	461
49		Evolved Mortar	6.0%	406
50		Prince	5.9%	536
51		Evolved Goblin Barrel	5.7%	515
52		Dark Prince	5.5%	567
53		Ice Golem	5.0%	477
54		Wall Breakers	4.5%	530
55		Skeleton King	4.5%	466
56		Lava Hound	4.3%	452
57		Bowler	4.1%	509
58		Royal Hogs	4.0%	511
59		Ram Rider	3.9%	458
60		Royal Delivery	3.7%	500
61		Goblin Drill	3.7%	456
62		Goblinstein	3.7%	515
63		Rocket	3.6%	424
64		Cannon Cart	3.5%	406
65		Evolved Battle Ram	3.5%	575
66		Princess	3.4%	539
67		Giant	3.1%	485
68		Evolved Royal Recruits	3.1%	484
69		Mother Witch	3.0%	518
70		Flying Machine	2.9%	443
71		Freeze	2.9%	490
72		P.E.K.K.A	2.9%	579
73		Golden Knight	2.9%	565
74		Goblin Curse	2.8%	564
75		Boss Bandit	2.7%	375
76		Lumberjack	2.6%	490
77		Evolved Lumberjack	2.6%	576
78		Bomber	2.4%	515
79		Electro Giant	2.4%	552
80		Evolved Barbarians	2.4%	522
81		Battle Healer	2.3%	581
82		Evolved Zap	2.3%	570
83		Evolved Inferno Dragon	2.3%	558
84		Giant Snowball	2.2%	528
85		Zap	2.2%	520
86		Cannon	2.1%	565
87		Musketeer	2.1%	461
88		Dagger Duchess	2.1%	613
89		Earthquake	2.0%	427
90		Furnace	2.0%	370
91		Knight	2.0%	470
92		Bomb Tower	1.9%	579
93		Rascals	1.9%	598
94		Evolved Musketeer	1.9%	473
95		Goblins	1.8%	512
96		Evolved Royal Giant	1.8%	589
97		Evolved Tesla	1.8%	453
98		Bandit	1.7%	543
99		Sparky	1.7%	594
100		X-Bow	1.7%	399
101		Elixir Golem	1.7%	649
102		Barbarians	1.6%	580
103		Inferno Tower	1.5%	559
104		Evolved Firecracker	1.4%	514
105		Evolved Wizard	1.4%	612
106		Suspicious Bush	1.4%	601
107		Evolved Mega Knight	1.4%	672
108		Electro Wizard	1.3%	667
109		Mega Minion	1.3%	564
110		Tombstone	1.3%	495
111		Monk	1.3%	542
112		Evolved Knight	1.3%	444
113		Evolved Bomber	1.1%	557
114		Skeleton Army	1.0%	628
115		Three Musketeers	1.0%	538
116		Heal Spirit	1.0%	540
117		Archer Queen	1.0%	482
118		Evolved Bats	1.0%	578
119		Evolved Archers	1.0%	461
120		Evolved Electro Dragon	1.0%	688
121		Evolved Dart Goblin	1.0%	533
122		Royal Ghost	0.9%	486
123		Spear Goblins	0.9%	601
124		Evolved Ice Spirit	0.9%	488
125		Royal Recruits	0.8%	474
126		Baby Dragon	0.7%	774
127		Bats	0.7%	768
128		Giant Skeleton	0.7%	587
129		Inferno Dragon	0.7%	693
130		Skeleton Dragons	0.5%	804
131		Mega Knight	0.4%	795
132		Skeleton Barrel	0.4%	596
133		Battle Ram	0.3%	621
134		Clone	0.3%	679
135		Elite Barbarians	0.3%	533
136		Night Witch	0.3%	590
137		Royal Giant	0.3%	752
138		Little Prince	0.3%	684
139		Mirror	0.2%	933
140		Mortar	0.2%	389
141		Firecracker	0.2%	590
142		Executioner	0.1%	520
143		Goblin Barrel	0.1%	675
144		Goblin Giant	0.1%	799
145		Magic Archer	0.1%	904
146		Goblin Cage	0.1%	813
147		Phoenix	0.1%	161
148		Spirit Empress	0.1%	695
149		Archers	0.0%	-
150		Barbarian Hut	0.0%	-
151		Electro Dragon	0.0%	-
152		Hunter	0.0%	-
153		Tesla	0.0%	-
154		Valkyrie	0.0%	-
155		Witch	0.0%	-
156		Wizard	0.0%	-
157		Void	0.0%	-
158		Goblin Demolisher	0.0%	-
159		Evolved Goblin Drill	0.0%	-
160		Rune Giant	0.0%	-
161		Evolved Hunter	0.0%	-
162		Evolved Skeleton Army	0.0%	-
163		Evolved Royal Ghost	0.0%	-

Top 20 Countries

This leaderboard sorts countries based on the amount of players in the Top 1,000.

The amount of players for each country is displayed in the "Count" column; to the right, you can see a ±value, which is the change compared to last season.

Signature Cards are cards which were disproportionately used in the region when compared to the global average. The 5 displayed cards are sorted, meaning that the first card is the Top 1 signature card. Usually signature cards hint towards a specific archetype that is unusually popular in the country.

Previous Season Stats

---

Do you have any questions or requests for future content? Join our Discord Server and let us know!