Hunter – Best Tips and Decks
Hey guys! It’s Zigge back with another guide.
For the last couple months, I’ve been busy studying and I also wanted to spend more time with family and friends.
Anyhow, I will today give you best tips and decks when using the Hunter, which is by the way my new favorite defensive card.
Let’s get going!
Clash Royale Hunter
Basic Stats
Cost | Hit Speed | Speed | Deploy Time | Range | Target | Projectile Range |
4 | 2.2 sec | Medium (60) | 1 sec | 5 | Air & Ground | 6.5 |
Level | Hitpoints | Damage | Damage per second |
1 | 524 | 52 x10 | 23 x10 |
2 | 576 | 57 x10 | 25 x10 |
3 | 634 | 62 x10 | 28 x10 |
4 | 696 | 69 x10 | 31 x10 |
5 | 765 | 75 x10 | 34 x10 |
6 | 838 | 83 x10 | 37 x10 |
7 | 922 | 91 x10 | 41 x10 |
8 | 1,011 | 100 x10 | 45 x10 |
Hunter is not a direct replacement for Executioner
Many might think of comparing the Hunter to Executioner, but it’s quite the opposite.
While Executioner throws his axe in a straight line, Hunter has a spray sort-of attack.
Imagine it like all bullets coming out from the same spot, then spreading out in front of the Hunter, extending a bit further than his actual range (one of the only similarities to Executioner).
Hunter also doesn’t benefit from Tornado at all, since his attacking is already spread out, so clumping all units together is just hurting you when playing Hunter.
At a glance, it might look like Executioner is just the stronger card, but wait, there’s a lot more depth to it!
Depending on how many or how strong the attacking units are, you can place the Hunter at different ranges to maximize efficiency.
This may sound counter-intuitive to you, since he’s a ranged card and should therefore be played as far away from your opponent’s units as possible to make the most out of his range.
But as a matter of fact, if he’s right on top of an enemy unit, his bullets will all go onto the same target, since the don’t have a chance to spread out before hitting the enemy.
Defense
The Hunter is an absolute beast on defense and can take out most units.
The fact that you can either have him as a DPS card or a ranged splash damage card makes for insane versatility on defense, and he can counter nearly every card in the game.
If all 10 of his bullets hit, that’s between Mini P.E.K.K.A and Lumberjack DPS, even with his slow hitspeed.
For example, against a Knight, the Hunter will easily win if you place him a little closer to the Knight, allowing most if not all of his bullets to hit at the same time.
This is a great pairing with Ice Spirit, since it let’s you play the Ice Spirit, then the Hunter on top of the opposing Knight. This way, their Knight won’t get the first hit and it gives your Hunter an edge in the duel.
The opposite is also true, against a Skeleton Army, place him as far away as possible to make the most out of his spread bullets. They will quickly take out the skeletons, especially if they’re just walking over the bridge so they’re not able to surround the Hunter.
In between a Knight and a Skeleton Army, we have Goblin Gang!
Place the Hunter at medium range, so most of his bullets hit the Goblins and Spear Goblins, but not so close that he’ll get surrounded and killed.
Offense
With everything you have heard so far, you might think that this is the most overpowered card in the game, but truth is, he’s very weak on offense.
Due to his spread attack, he does very little damage to an arena tower, with only 2-3 bullets hitting.
He also is very easy to counter with a Lightning or Fireball+Zap combo.
Even though he counters a Skeleton Army well on defense, on offense he just gets surrounded and killed before being able to do any severe damage to it.
For four Elixir though, he has a lot of health and will actually take out a Mini P.E.K.K.A if it’s dropped on top of the Hunter.
Therefore, it’s best to treat the Hunter more as a Mini P.E.K.K.A than a Wizard, since you will most likely be defending by dropping stuff on top of him.
It’s very easy to surround a Hunter, and if placed right Goblins can completely take him out. Because of his larger hitbox, this isn’t much of a challenge.
Best Hunter Decks
Shared by Bull3tst0rm
Miner Poison Hunter
This deck is currently used by betelgeuse (Nova player) and tested by me via Challenges.
This is nothing but a variation of Miner Poison deck where Hunter replaces Inferno Tower and Tornado added to gain more value out of Hunter by bringing all troop near Hunter and using Ice Spirit so that Hunter can melt em all.
The objective is to get as many Miner Poison as possible while defending with the remaining troops.
X-Bow Hunter
This deck is currently used by Electr1fy.
After playing few matches with it, I felt that this deck being no different than any other X-Bow deck until I faced some beatdown decks.
Beatdown decks never felt like real hard counter while having Hunter in this deck.
He helps melting Golem, Giant etc while Guards help me distract opponent’s Inferno placed to kill our X-Bow which would otherwise not be possible without Hunter’s high DPS.
This card completely nullifies the only hard counter X-Bow has.
Mega Miner Poison
This deck is currently used by Hatcher (a famous player from Crucible Wrath).
This deck is the variation of Mega Knight Miner control deck. Believe me guys, this is by far my favorite deck. It was so much fun playing with this deck.
I dare say, this deck has the strongest defense on this entire game for now. (while it suffers a bit against aerial decks :/)
I can define this deck in 3 steps
- Defend with any appropriate cards (other than Miner ofc)
- Throw in Miner on the counter push and hover Poison
- Throw in emotes
Flying Machine can be used to snipe buildings.
Mega Graveyard
This deck was played by SirTagCR (so Pero) in one of his video (below) where he showcased a beautiful Graveyard control deck with Hunter.
As he said in the video, Hunter complements Mega Knight as Hunter melts tanks which will improve the decks quality by overcoming its weakness.
Wanna learn more about this deck? Watch his video and show him some support for his great content 🙂
Golem Miner
This deck was played by Nova I Oktay (famous ladder player) and was showcased in a CWA’s video.
To be honest, I am not a great fan of this deck just because it requires too much skill to get it to work and 1 misplay will easily cost you the game.
Nevertheless, a fun deck to toy around and It was played by a top player in a 2k card tourney. Must be good!
Hog Cycle
This deck is nothing but 2.6 Hog cycle deck with Hunter instead of Musketeer.
This deck has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages are it’s cheap cycle allows us to cycle quick and no possibility of us being out cycled;
Beatdown decks with huge tanks can be dealt with easily with our Hunter.
Disadvantage is that due to its cheap cycle so much decisions has to be made and a small mistake may cost us the game.
Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments and whether you agree or disagree with me. I will do my best to answer them as quickly as possible, in a few days I will have my favorite Giant Hunter deck coming out, stay tuned!
FIRST
f no…
First reply
First reply to the first reply
I got 7 wins, so…
Luckily he is available. Good luck finding him via chests!
I got 8
First
To say second
lol
I don’t understand why is there an Ewiz+Zappies in 1 deck
3rd
Oh wow, another nice guide Zigge 😉 But how to play that LavaLoon deck with him? In this case (LavaLoon deck) you should use him mainly on defense, right?
Yep! In lava loon decks Goblin Gang and Tombstone are your two main defensive cards exept he swapped hunter for G Gang.
fifth
Nooooo
Whut https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8056848a415bd1f7a39f168f1a1785feb36f53979c03a223b6185aaea4b7302c.png
I got a ddck that has 203 avarage stars per game ._.
I dont understand what it means by average stars… Can you plz explain?
Stars=Crowns
But here is the explanation,if you don’t get it. Say you play 3 games: the first 1-0, the second 3-0 and the third 2-0. Your average stars is 2, because 1+3+2=6 and 6:3(games)=2
If you go to statsroyale.com, every deck has it’s avarage stars per game. Idk why stars. It means literally avarage crowns (per game)
Nice 😉
does anyone notice this is fake?
*cough inspect element *cough *cough
*Cough* inspect element *cough* *cough*
Awesome deck Zigge, didn’t see better in a while! I fell in love with Hunter too haha 😀 But I wouldn’t say he has a lot of HP…
I still don’t have hunter 🙁
rip, I had him in shop first day after update
I created a great Hunter deck today, which uses almost every buffed card and it really works!
Giant Skeleton
Miner
Guards
Hunter
Zappies
Heal (use it to heal GSkele!)
Rocket
Tornado
I know it looks weird af, but give it a try, really!
What about a cheap tower-damaging spell?
Nah, you can swap Log for Heal if you want to lol
What is your trophy range,?
4K
you hit 4k?
Talking about radius
PB 4133
I would swap heal for clone lol
Maybe, but I have more success with healing GSkele than with cloning him tho
GG Zigge. Hunter is a very interesting card and will take a while for people to know how to play properly! I like the concept of the card but it’s slightly complicated, like you mentioned.
Zappies are actually terrible. They are quite slow, cost four elixir, is rare, don’t target air, deal really low damage, and their only upside is their stunning ability.
Agreed. They’re only good when they are against building targeting troops like hog, rg and giant
They have potential
Agreed. They’re only good when they are against building targeting troops like hog, rg and giant
They also die to fireball
Yes, i thought they can target air
And their dps is even lower than spear goblins
they don’t want to kill electro wizard!
Zappies die to fireball while ewiz doesn’t, also zappies have a lower dps
SC should make them target air as well cuz right now zappies are serioulsy not a good card
They aren’t that bad. Place behind a tower for them to go in a single-file line and they will perfectly keep a tank from moving further towards your tower. Mix with ice wizard if you want and you have 7 elixir practically freezing the tank. Of course, you could just use poison or mega knight to deal with support.
same lol
I think I just broke clash royale… My silver just gave 10 different things
Sure…
check the new post i posted xd
Where? Lol
Ermm.. My comment I think above this one
Yeah…. and i just pulled the Royal Ghost out of a legendary chest
I’m not lying I swear.. Wanna. See
Ok…….
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/08aebe280f1a4185592bcc21325b53b79c9f22dc2f937dbfad3675bdc800994b.jpg I tapped it twice which is why is shows 8
Wth
WTF!!!!!!!
OP FIX THIS
waaaaaaaat, this isnt in the book!
Whaaaaaaaaaaa?
No I got like 6 epics tho
Woahwoah (plz tell me this is not an edit)
It’s not
Lol it’s not
Nice guide Zigge! GOISON IS BACK PEOPLE
Goison meta strikes back confirmed?
FIRST after repost
second after repost
3rd after repost, but why a repost?
How? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b28810585c13ff4309d05007285068bcca54c227bc2ad62a3c927093b48b70d1.png
How what?
The beam.
What beam
XD
FOURTH after repost!
Any decks for me? I’m at 3.8K
I use xbow Inferno drag ice golem ice wizard fire ball zap ice spirit mega minion at challenger 1
old deck no?
golem nightwitch is what i used to grind to 3992
use hog mortar, it is awesome
5th after repost!
Hunter is musketeer’s dad using shotgun
i MADE LEGENDARY ARENA!!!! FINALLY!!!!!
Using Mega Hog E-Wiz ID Goblins Ice Spirit Zap Poison
Congratz!!!
Hope u reach 4k soon
Thx!! I might stop trophy pushing until my cards get higher level
never heard of that deck lol
It’s a variant of classic Mega Hog. Also great in challenges.
i was being sarcastic
Gee lol
congrats,I dropped out of league again
Goddammit I got my 4th inferno dragon…
I just got my 4th LH from giant chest :’)
Wow lol
I just got my 8th sparky from my legendary chest
RIP
Rip, i hate challenges, especially mirror challenges so 0% chance of getting RG (royal ghost ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) )
Im gonna grind gold (if he comes in the shop soon)
Lol I already have gold saved up
damn, nice guide
now where’s my shotgun?
Oh no royal ghost is real good
Lol I bet it will get nerfed like night witch did
I guess so… ripperoni
WOW! Just smashed my PB by 300 trophies. At 3918 now
Nice bro
Just smashed mine by 4, was at 3963 but then lost
I’m at 3787. Tilting..
I actually had the exact same idea for a hunter x-bow deck and was a bit disappointed to see that I wasn’t the only one with it when I saw electrify’s video.
Hey guys does anyone know if we can get the royal chests from normal battle? Probably not. But I’m not sure
I’m talking about the lightning, fortune and legendary King’s chest
No. You can only get them from the shop or from quests