What is the best army in Clash of Clans right now?

The table above ranks every tracked attack archetype by real usage share and three-star rate, recomputed daily from ranked ladder battles. The highest-usage army is not always the highest three-star army — check both columns before committing your camps.

Where does this army meta data come from?

TrophyCoach continuously collects battle logs from the official Clash of Clans API and decodes the attacker army in each battle. Only ranked battles count toward this table: regular village attacks mix in farming armies and limited-time event modes, which measure something different. Every battle is deduplicated by fingerprint, and an archetype only appears once it clears a 30-battle minimum sample.

How is an army archetype like "Root Rider" or "Hybrid" detected?

Each attack log entry carries the attacker's army composition. TrophyCoach decodes it and classifies the composition into a named archetype — specific comps first (Root Rider, LavaLoon, Hybrid Miner-Hog, E-Drag Spam), then mass-unit families, then Mixed.

How often does the Clash of Clans army meta update?

The aggregates recompute every 24 hours over a rolling 7-day battle window, and this page reads the latest snapshot, at most an hour old. The snapshot date and sample size are shown above the table.

Do limited-time events skew the Clash of Clans army meta?

They can, and TrophyCoach says so on the page when they do. October 2026 hands out the Totem Thrower, the season's temporary troop, through Battle Options (October 1-5 and 17-21), the Medal Event (October 8-25) and a mass-troop grant of 50 Totem Throwers to Town Hall 10+ on October 7-8; August 2026 did the same with a mass-troop grant on August 9-10 (50 Elephant Riders and 20 Super Valkyries). Any army whose troops exceed its Town Hall camp capacity — 352 housing at Town Hall 18, 340 at Town Hall 17 and 320 at Town Hall 16 — is physically impossible to train, so it is labelled an event army instead of being counted as a real strategy. Whenever the snapshot window overlaps one of these events, a dated notice appears above the table.

Does this include farming, event and war attacks?

No. This table is built from ranked battles only. Regular village attacks are excluded because they blend farming armies — which are not trying to three-star — with limited-time event modes that hand out armies far larger than any camp can hold. Clan-war attacks are not exposed in battle logs by the official API, so war-specific performance is not included either.

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Clash of Clans Army Meta

32 attack archetypes ranked by real usage and three-star rate — 123,588 classified battles shown, from a larger deduplicated corpus over the last 7 days (snapshot: 2026-10-24). Decoded straight from attacker army compositions in official ranked battle logs — not polls, not guesses.

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How do your own attacks compare to this meta?

The Battle Report reads your recent attacks from the official API and grades them against these same archetypes — which armies you actually three-star with, and where you are leaking stars.

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This snapshot covers a live event

Portal Panic Medal Event (2026-10-08 → 2026-10-25) — Collecting Sour Elixir in battles unlocks rewards, temporary troops and Rift Medals (Town Hall 6+). The event track hands out temporary troops, so compositions during this window include units that will not exist after October.
Battle Options: The Second Curse (2026-10-17 → 2026-10-21) — Town Hall 6+ can pick Clash-O-Ween temporary troops or Sour Elixir mid-attack. Attacks that took the temporary-troop option carry units the player did not train, so some armies in this window are not the army the player chose.

Ranked battles are the only ones counted here, which excludes limited-time event modes — but these events add troops to a player's regular army, and that army still gets taken into ranked. The filter does not remove them.

Rising

E-Drag Spam+0.5pp usage

This table pools every Town Hall, so it leans toward the Town Halls that play the most ranked battles. Open an army to see exactly what goes in it.

#	Army	Usage	Δ Usage	3★ rate	Avg ★	Battles
1	Mass Dragons	31.1%	+0.0pp	45.1%	2.29	38,636
2	Mass Thrower	18.9%	-0.4pp	56.0%	2.44	23,427
3	E-Drag Spam	16.1%	+0.5pp	29.8%	2.08	20,010
4	Root Rider	10.0%	-0.1pp	48.0%	2.35	12,433
5	Super Bowler Smash	4.4%	-0.1pp	57.2%	2.48	5,487
6	Mixed	3.5%	+0.0pp	55.2%	2.38	4,311
7	Mass Super Yeti	3.3%	-0.1pp	53.0%	2.42	4,104
8	Mass Super Dragon	1.9%	+0.0pp	41.5%	2.25	2,347
9	Yeti Smash	1.8%	-0.0pp	38.2%	2.23	2,200
10	Mass Meteor Golem	1.6%	-0.1pp	45.1%	2.31	1,992
11	Mass Dragon Rider	1.4%	-0.1pp	54.2%	2.42	1,676
12	Mass Witches	1.3%	+0.1pp	38.4%	2.16	1,647
13	Mass Valkyrie	1.1%	-0.1pp	15.2%	1.49	1,403
14	Mass Loons	0.5%	+0.1pp	38.9%	2.15	568
15	Electro Titan	0.4%	+0.0pp	32.7%	2.16	486
16	Mass P.E.K.K.A	0.3%	+0.0pp	19.1%	1.67	362
17	Hog Rider	0.2%	+0.0pp	22.6%	1.82	301
18	Hybrid (Miner-Hog)	0.2%	0.0pp	41.4%	2.16	295
19	Mass Miners	0.2%	+0.0pp	37.0%	2.16	278
20	LavaLoon	0.2%	0.0pp	28.9%	1.97	211
21	Pekka Bowler	0.2%	0.0pp	21.0%	1.93	205
22	Sneaky Goblin Farm	0.2%	-0.0pp	5.9%	1.68	204
23	Mass Ruin Witch	0.1%	-0.0pp	43.7%	2.21	183
24	Mass Super Archer	0.1%	-0.0pp	50.7%	2.33	142
25	Mass Rocket Balloon	0.1%	-0.0pp	44.6%	2.20	139
26	Mass Furnace	0.1%	-0.0pp	36.0%	2.10	125
27	Golem Smash	0.1%	+0.0pp	20.8%	1.83	106
28	Mass Super Barbarian	0.1%	+0.0pp	9.8%	0.94	102
29	Mass Healer	0.1%	0.0pp	26.7%	1.36	90
30	Mass Super Minion	0.0%	-0.0pp	26.0%	2.02	50
31	Mass Super Hog Rider	0.0%	0.0pp	50.0%	2.33	36
32	Mass Bowler	0.0%	0.0pp	12.5%	1.69	32

Which armies three-star at each Town Hall?

Ranked attacks where both bases are the same Town Hall, last 30 days. An army is listed once it clears 300 battles at that Town Hall, the same floor the coach chat uses, and sorted by battles played. The baseline is the three-star rate of every attack at that Town Hall, and share is each army's part of those attacks.

TH1825 armies over the floor · baseline 44.0% three-star over 436,609 attacks

Army	Share	3★ rate	vs baseline	Avg ★	Battles
Mass Dragons	27.0%	44.3%	+0.3 pp	2.31	117,896
Mass Thrower	25.9%	52.9%	+9.0 pp	2.40	112,987
E-Drag Spam	11.7%	21.6%	−22.4 pp	2.01	51,112
Root Rider	9.3%	39.9%	−4.1 pp	2.25	40,410
Super Bowler Smash	6.2%	56.0%	+12.0 pp	2.46	27,214
Mass Super Yeti	4.3%	49.8%	+5.8 pp	2.38	18,705
Mixed	4.0%	54.9%	+10.9 pp	2.40	17,387
Mass Meteor Golem	2.3%	40.2%	−3.8 pp	2.25	10,088
Yeti Smash	1.9%	35.4%	−8.6 pp	2.20	8,505
Mass Dragon Rider	1.8%	51.2%	+7.2 pp	2.39	7,973
Mass Super Dragon	1.7%	41.5%	−2.4 pp	2.27	7,308
Mass Witches	0.7%	43.4%	−0.6 pp	2.23	2,984
Mass Valkyrie	0.6%	11.1%	−32.9 pp	1.51	2,834
Mass Loons	0.4%	39.1%	−4.9 pp	2.18	1,736
Electro Titan	0.3%	24.8%	−19.1 pp	2.06	1,272
Mass Ruin Witch	0.2%	56.5%	+12.5 pp	2.41	1,055
Mass Miners	0.2%	24.1%	−19.9 pp	1.98	780
Sneaky Goblin Farm	0.2%	12.6%	−31.4 pp	1.73	738
Mass Super Archer	0.2%	60.2%	+16.3 pp	2.46	694
Mass P.E.K.K.A	0.1%	3.0%	−41.0 pp	1.43	541
Mass Furnace	0.1%	40.0%	−4.0 pp	2.18	515
Pekka Bowler	0.1%	9.2%	−34.8 pp	1.80	434
Hybrid (Miner-Hog)	0.1%	26.3%	−17.6 pp	2.03	433
Hog Rider	0.1%	8.4%	−35.6 pp	1.67	380
LavaLoon	0.1%	13.9%	−30.1 pp	1.90	309

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Golem Smash (230), Mass Rocket Balloon (177), Mass Healer (162), Mass Super Barbarian (130), Mass Super Minion (130), Mass Super Hog Rider (109), Mass Bowler (75), Mass Inferno Dragon (50), Mass Baby Dragon (38), Mass Giant (37), Mass Super Valkyrie (30).

TH1711 armies over the floor · baseline 47.3% three-star over 35,930 attacks

Army	Share	3★ rate	vs baseline	Avg ★	Battles
Mass Dragons	35.1%	48.3%	+1.0 pp	2.33	12,620
E-Drag Spam	21.8%	29.8%	−17.5 pp	2.09	7,847
Root Rider	15.5%	57.6%	+10.3 pp	2.49	5,582
Mass Thrower	11.8%	70.3%	+23.0 pp	2.64	4,234
Mass Super Yeti	1.9%	65.8%	+18.5 pp	2.59	675
Yeti Smash	1.9%	40.7%	−6.6 pp	2.23	673
Mixed	1.7%	54.0%	+6.7 pp	2.32	600
Mass Super Dragon	1.5%	33.1%	−14.2 pp	2.09	526
Super Bowler Smash	1.1%	71.1%	+23.8 pp	2.65	394
Mass Valkyrie	1.1%	22.4%	−24.9 pp	1.87	380
Mass Witches	0.9%	28.2%	−19.2 pp	2.06	309

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Mass Meteor Golem (289), Mass Dragon Rider (270), Mass Loons (149), Electro Titan (140), Mass P.E.K.K.A (126), Mass Super Barbarian (108), Mass Miners (106), Sneaky Goblin Farm (98), Hog Rider (96), Hybrid (Miner-Hog) (81), Mass Furnace (70), Pekka Bowler (69), LavaLoon (46), Mass Ruin Witch (45), Golem Smash (41), Mass Super Archer (32).

TH168 armies over the floor · baseline 44.3% three-star over 23,285 attacks

Army	Share	3★ rate	vs baseline	Avg ★	Battles
Mass Dragons	37.2%	46.4%	+2.1 pp	2.28	8,660
E-Drag Spam	26.6%	30.8%	−13.5 pp	2.02	6,194
Root Rider	14.2%	63.3%	+19.0 pp	2.54	3,301
Mass Thrower	6.3%	69.1%	+24.8 pp	2.61	1,456
Yeti Smash	1.8%	42.4%	−1.9 pp	2.27	408
Mass Super Dragon	1.7%	36.0%	−8.2 pp	2.07	397
Mixed	1.6%	38.1%	−6.1 pp	2.01	375
Mass Witches	1.4%	38.1%	−6.1 pp	2.13	328

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Mass Valkyrie (274), Mass Super Yeti (225), Electro Titan (163), Mass P.E.K.K.A (147), Mass Loons (128), Mass Dragon Rider (116), Mass Super Barbarian (112), Hog Rider (86), Super Bowler Smash (84), Mass Miners (73), Mass Rocket Balloon (71), LavaLoon (68), Hybrid (Miner-Hog) (62), Pekka Bowler (61), Sneaky Goblin Farm (59), Mass Super Archer (44), Golem Smash (32).

TH157 armies over the floor · baseline 37.4% three-star over 24,088 attacks

Army	Share	3★ rate	vs baseline	Avg ★	Battles
Mass Dragons	41.8%	42.4%	+5.0 pp	2.22	10,059
E-Drag Spam	30.6%	27.4%	−10.0 pp	1.97	7,369
Root Rider	10.4%	58.4%	+21.0 pp	2.48	2,502
Mass Witches	2.5%	39.8%	+2.4 pp	2.16	591
Yeti Smash	2.1%	35.8%	−1.6 pp	2.14	495
Mass Super Dragon	1.7%	25.1%	−12.3 pp	1.90	411
Mixed	1.3%	34.3%	−3.1 pp	2.01	321

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Mass Valkyrie (295), Mass Super Yeti (223), Electro Titan (188), Mass Loons (178), Super Bowler Smash (150), Hybrid (Miner-Hog) (121), Mass Dragon Rider (120), Mass P.E.K.K.A (120), Hog Rider (116), LavaLoon (98), Mass Rocket Balloon (82), Pekka Bowler (80), Mass Miners (79), Mass Super Barbarian (66), Golem Smash (37), Sneaky Goblin Farm (32), Mass Super Archer (31).

TH145 armies over the floor · baseline 34.6% three-star over 16,719 attacks

Army	Share	3★ rate	vs baseline	Avg ★	Battles
Mass Dragons	44.0%	42.4%	+7.8 pp	2.24	7,360
E-Drag Spam	33.4%	26.7%	−7.9 pp	1.98	5,589
Mass Witches	4.7%	41.8%	+7.2 pp	2.22	792
Yeti Smash	3.0%	40.8%	+6.2 pp	2.24	503
Mass Super Dragon	2.6%	24.7%	−9.9 pp	1.95	433

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Mass Valkyrie (237), Hybrid (Miner-Hog) (191), Mixed (188), Mass Loons (140), Hog Rider (137), Electro Titan (122), Super Bowler Smash (108), Mass Dragon Rider (104), Mass P.E.K.K.A (94), Pekka Bowler (91), LavaLoon (86), Mass Super Yeti (78), Mass Rocket Balloon (62), Mass Miners (56), Golem Smash (37).

TH135 armies over the floor · baseline 38.2% three-star over 14,950 attacks

Army	Share	3★ rate	vs baseline	Avg ★	Battles
Mass Dragons	38.7%	45.2%	+7.0 pp	2.21	5,782
E-Drag Spam	35.4%	33.4%	−4.8 pp	2.04	5,296
Mass Witches	6.8%	47.8%	+9.6 pp	2.24	1,016
Mass Super Dragon	3.4%	32.3%	−5.9 pp	2.00	502
Yeti Smash	2.8%	42.7%	+4.5 pp	2.22	412

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Mass Valkyrie (264), Mixed (236), Hybrid (Miner-Hog) (189), Mass P.E.K.K.A (169), Mass Loons (150), Hog Rider (141), Mass Dragon Rider (99), Pekka Bowler (80), LavaLoon (72), Mass Super Yeti (70), Super Bowler Smash (64), Mass Rocket Balloon (59), Mass Miners (43), Golem Smash (34).

TH123 armies over the floor · baseline 38.5% three-star over 5,583 attacks

Army	Share	3★ rate	vs baseline	Avg ★	Battles
Mass Dragons	37.2%	43.3%	+4.8 pp	2.17	2,077
E-Drag Spam	36.1%	36.9%	−1.6 pp	2.05	2,015
Mass Witches	7.2%	46.0%	+7.6 pp	2.20	402

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Mass Super Dragon (176), Mass Valkyrie (128), Mixed (120), Mass P.E.K.K.A (80), Yeti Smash (80), Hybrid (Miner-Hog) (69), LavaLoon (66), Mass Loons (64), Hog Rider (63), Pekka Bowler (41).

TH112 armies over the floor · baseline 46.4% three-star over 3,547 attacks

Army	Share	3★ rate	vs baseline	Avg ★	Battles
Mass Dragons	48.5%	51.5%	+5.1 pp	2.28	1,721
E-Drag Spam	28.3%	49.5%	+3.1 pp	2.26	1,005

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Mass Witches (179), Mass P.E.K.K.A (112), Mass Valkyrie (105), Mixed (90), Hog Rider (70), Mass Loons (48), Pekka Bowler (34).

TH101 army over the floor · baseline 50.9% three-star over 1,594 attacks

Army	Share	3★ rate	vs baseline	Avg ★	Battles
Mass Dragons	67.4%	57.5%	+6.7 pp	2.34	1,074

Only one army clears the floor at TH10, so this is not a ranking: nothing here is the best option, only the one with enough battles to measure.

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Mass Witches (95), Mass P.E.K.K.A (78), Hog Rider (76), Mass Valkyrie (65), Mixed (64).

TH91 army over the floor · baseline 61.0% three-star over 1,260 attacks

Army	Share	3★ rate	vs baseline	Avg ★	Battles
Mass Dragons	57.2%	68.4%	+7.3 pp	2.52	721

Only one army clears the floor at TH9, so this is not a ranking: nothing here is the best option, only the one with enough battles to measure.

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Hog Rider (84), Mixed (78), Mass Valkyrie (78), Mass P.E.K.K.A (76), Mass Witches (65), Mass Loons (57), LavaLoon (34).

TH80 armies over the floor · baseline 57.0% three-star over 407 attacks

No army has reached 300 battles at TH8 yet.

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Mass Dragons (178), Hog Rider (71).

TH70 armies over the floor · baseline 67.1% three-star over 228 attacks

No army has reached 300 battles at TH7 yet.

Under 300 battles, not ranked: Mass Dragons (94), Mixed (35).

Not enough same-Town-Hall ranked battles to show yet: TH6.

How is this computed?

TrophyCoach collects multiplayer battle logs from the official Clash of Clans API, deduplicates every battle by fingerprint, and decodes each attacker's army composition into a named archetype. Usage share is measured against all deduplicated battles in the window — including unclassified armies — so shares reflect the real meta, not just what we can label. Archetypes below a 30-battle sample are hidden rather than shown with noisy rates.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best army in Clash of Clans right now?: The table above ranks every tracked attack archetype by real usage share and three-star rate, recomputed daily from ranked ladder battles. The highest-usage army is not always the highest three-star army — check both columns before committing your camps.
Where does this army meta data come from?: TrophyCoach continuously collects battle logs from the official Clash of Clans API and decodes the attacker army in each battle. Only ranked battles count toward this table: regular village attacks mix in farming armies and limited-time event modes, which measure something different. Every battle is deduplicated by fingerprint, and an archetype only appears once it clears a 30-battle minimum sample.
How is an army archetype like "Root Rider" or "Hybrid" detected?: Each attack log entry carries the attacker's army composition. TrophyCoach decodes it and classifies the composition into a named archetype — specific comps first (Root Rider, LavaLoon, Hybrid Miner-Hog, E-Drag Spam), then mass-unit families, then Mixed.
How often does the Clash of Clans army meta update?: The aggregates recompute every 24 hours over a rolling 7-day battle window, and this page reads the latest snapshot, at most an hour old. The snapshot date and sample size are shown above the table.
Do limited-time events skew the Clash of Clans army meta?: They can, and TrophyCoach says so on the page when they do. October 2026 hands out the Totem Thrower, the season's temporary troop, through Battle Options (October 1-5 and 17-21), the Medal Event (October 8-25) and a mass-troop grant of 50 Totem Throwers to Town Hall 10+ on October 7-8; August 2026 did the same with a mass-troop grant on August 9-10 (50 Elephant Riders and 20 Super Valkyries). Any army whose troops exceed its Town Hall camp capacity — 352 housing at Town Hall 18, 340 at Town Hall 17 and 320 at Town Hall 16 — is physically impossible to train, so it is labelled an event army instead of being counted as a real strategy. Whenever the snapshot window overlaps one of these events, a dated notice appears above the table.
Does this include farming, event and war attacks?: No. This table is built from ranked battles only. Regular village attacks are excluded because they blend farming armies — which are not trying to three-star — with limited-time event modes that hand out armies far larger than any camp can hold. Clan-war attacks are not exposed in battle logs by the official API, so war-specific performance is not included either.

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