Trophy Pushing to Legend League: How Clash of Clans' Ladder Really Works

Quick answer: Since the October 6, 2025 Ranked Battles update, Clash of Clans' ladder is a weekly tournament of 33 leagues — Skeleton 1 up to Electro 33 — where you get 6 to 18 attacks per week, earn up to 40 trophies per attack, never lose trophies, and get promoted by finishing in your 100-player group's top 15-50%; Legend League sits above Electro 33 as Legend III (24 attacks per week), Legend II (30 per week), and Legend I, the only tier with the daily 8-attack, 8-defense format, a 5:00 AM UTC reset, and a 5,000-trophy starting count granted on sign-up.

Trophy pushing in Clash of Clans changed completely on October 6, 2025, when Ranked Battles replaced the old Bronze-to-Titan Trophy Leagues with a weekly, 33-league tournament ladder, and again on April 27, 2026, when Legend League was split into Legend III, Legend II, and Legend I. Below Legend I you are promoted or demoted once a week based on where your trophy total ranks inside a group of 100 players in the same league; in Legend I the game switches to a daily format with a fixed 8 attacks, 8 defenses, and a 5,000-trophy starting count. Understanding exactly how each tier works is what separates players who burn their weekly attacks on 1-star raids from players who climb one league every week and hold Legend once they arrive.

How Does the Clash of Clans Trophy Ladder Work?

The Clash of Clans trophy ladder works as a weekly Ranked Battles tournament, unlocked at Town Hall 7, where you sign up, get placed in a matchmaking pool of 100 players from the same league, and spend a league-capped number of attacks — 6 per week in Skeleton 1 through Barbarian 6, rising to 18 in Electro 31-33 — earning up to 40 trophies per attack. There are no trophy offers and no "Next" button: every attack has the same 40 trophies on the table, a 3-star takes all 40, a 2-star pays 16 to 32 depending on destruction (16 at 50%, +1 for every 3% above it), a 1-star pays 5 to 15, and a 0-star pays up to 4.

Trophies cannot be lost once accrued. When you are attacked, you gain trophies rather than lose them — the defender collects 40 minus whatever the attacker earned, and the full 40 if the attacker scores 0 stars. Every trophy total resets at the end of the weekly tournament, so your trophy count is a weekly score, not a lifetime rating; your league is what carries over.

League band	League levels	Attacks and defenses per week	Promoted / demoted each week
Skeleton	1-3	6	50% up / 5% down (none from Skeleton 1)
Barbarian	4-6	6	50% up / 5% down
Archer	7-9	8	50-40% up / 5% down
Wizard	10-12	8	35-50% up / 10% down
Valkyrie	13-15	10	35-50% up / 10% down
Witch	16-18	10	35-50% up / 10% down
Golem	19-21	12	35-50% up / 10% down
P.E.K.K.A	22-24	12	30-50% up / 15% down
Titan	25-27	12	30-50% up / 15% down
Dragon	28-30	14	30-25% up / 15% down
Electro	31-33	18	20-15% up / 15% down
Legend III / II	Above Electro 33	24 / 30	5% / 3% up, 15% down
Legend I	Top tier	8 attacks + 8 defenses per day	Demoted below global top 10,000 or under 4,900 trophies

The practical takeaway is that pushing below Legend I is a race against the other 99 players in your group, not against your own defense. Promotion and demotion happen one league level at a time, ties are broken by highest average destruction per attack, and the only way to jump several leagues at once is to upgrade your Town Hall mid-season, which promotes you straight to the new Town Hall's league floor.

What Happens When You Reach Legend League?

When you finish in the top 15% of an Electro 33 group you are promoted into Legend III, which is still a weekly Ranked Battles tournament — 24 attacks per week, a 5% promotion cut, and a difficulty modifier that boosts defense DPS by 10% and cuts your attacking heroes' damage and hitpoints by 5%. Legend II is the same weekly format with 30 attacks per week, a 3% promotion cut, +15% defense DPS, and a 10% hero penalty. Only the top 3% of each Legend II group gets the offer to sign up for Legend I, and signing up grants a starting count of exactly 5,000 trophies.

The moment you sign up for Legend I, the rules change entirely. You no longer compete against a 100-player group over a week — you enter a global daily tournament where your trophies move only through 8 attacks and 8 defenses per League Day, defenses deduct trophies, and your global rank decides whether you stay. Any trophies above 5,000 at the end of the monthly Legend League Tournament season convert one-for-one into permanent Legend Trophies on your profile, which are the lifetime scoreboard and never reset.

How Does the Legend League Daily Format Work?

The Legend I daily format gives every player exactly 8 attacks and 8 defenses per League Day, with the League Day resetting every 24 hours at 8:00 AM Helsinki time (5:00 AM UTC). You can earn a maximum of 40 trophies per attack and lose a maximum of 40 trophies per defense, so your daily net is the difference between the trophies your 8 attacks earn and the trophies your 8 defenses lose — unused attacks are lost at the day's end, and the trophy scale is identical to Ranked Battles: 40 for a 3-star, 16-32 for a 2-star, 5-15 for a 1-star, up to 4 for a 0-star.

Defending in Legend I is the one place in the modern ladder where trophies go down: each defense costs you exactly what the attacker earned, except that a 0-star attack costs nothing. Every battle also runs under the Legend I difficulty modifier — +20% defense DPS, +20% defending hero and Guardian DPS and hitpoints, and -20% damage and hitpoints on your attacking heroes — so a perfect day is netting close to +320 from attacks while your snapshot base costs attackers stars. There is no luck-farming your way up in Legend I — it rewards raw attacking skill against maxed, modifier-boosted bases.

A subtle but important rule governs missed defenses: if you do not take all 8 defenses in a League Day, the game "fills in" the missing ones and deducts trophies equal to the average of the trophies you lost in defenses across the current and previous day, for each missed defense. In practice this means you cannot dodge defensive losses by not being attacked — the format accounts for unused defenses so the daily math stays fair. (Below Legend I the same fill-in rule works in your favor: missed defenses are awarded at the average of the defenses you actually took.)

How Does the Legend League Season Reset Work?

The Legend League Tournament season resets monthly, at which point every Legend I player above 5,000 trophies returns to the 5,000 starting line and every trophy above 5,000 is converted into one permanent Legend Trophy on the player profile. This is the fundamental Legend I rhythm: you spend about four weeks climbing from 5,000, and at reset your seasonal gains convert into lifetime Legend Trophies while the ladder starts fresh — a player who ends on 5,100 banks 100 Legend Trophies.

Because everyone resets to 5,000 together, each season is a clean competition rather than an ever-inflating number. Staying in Legend I is a weekly check, not a seasonal one: if your global ranking is outside the top 10,000 at the end of a week, or your trophies fall below 4,900 before the next League Day starts, you are demoted back to Legend II and re-enter the weekly Ranked Battles system. Four weeks without signing up also demotes you through league decay. Legend Trophies are the only thing that carries over, which is why dedicated pushers treat every season as a fresh sprint.

Does Trophy Matchmaking Change by Trophy Range?

Yes, matchmaking changes as you climb, but by league rather than by trophy count: every Ranked Battles group is 100 players from the same league level, so a Barbarian 5 player only ever faces and is faced by Barbarian 5 bases, while an Electro 33 player faces the 99 other Electro 33 accounts in the group. Your weekly attack allowance also grows with the league — 6 in Skeleton and Barbarian, 8 in Archer and Wizard, 10 in Valkyrie and Witch, 12 in Golem, P.E.K.K.A, and Titan, 14 in Dragon, 18 in Electro — so higher leagues give you more attacks and a smaller promotion cut at the same time.

This progression is why the same account can climb one league every week through Skeleton and Barbarian on 50% promotion cuts and then stall in Electro, where only the top 20% (Electro 31-32) or 15% (Electro 33) of the group moves up. The promotion cut per week shrinks as you rise, and from Legend III upward the difficulty modifiers start boosting defenses and shrinking your heroes. The transition point most players feel is around Dragon 28-30, where the cut drops to 25-30% and casual armies stop reliably 3-starring the group.

The strategic implication is to match your army and effort to the league. Below Wizard, a reliable 2-star army with high destruction percentages wins promotion, because a 90% 2-star pays 29 trophies against a 3-star's 40. From Dragon upward, you need a strong, upgraded offense and a snapshot defense layout built to cost attackers stars, because every trophy a defender denies is a trophy the attacker does not get — and once you reach Legend III, you are fighting under the same modifiers that populate Legend I.

What Is a Realistic Pushing Schedule by Town Hall Level?

A realistic pushing schedule depends on your Town Hall level, because Ranked Battles assigns each Town Hall a league floor you cannot be demoted below, and upgrading your Town Hall mid-season promotes you straight to the new floor. A Town Hall 18 account starts no lower than Titan 26 — 8 league levels from Legend III — while a Town Hall 12 account starts at Archer 8 and has 26 promotions to earn before Legend III.

The honest framing is that Legend League is primarily a maxed-account destination: promotion is one league per week at best, so a Town Hall 12 sitting on its Archer 8 floor needs at least 26 consecutive promotion weeks to reach Legend III, and its Archer 8 group is still 99 other Town Hall 12s. A lower Town Hall should push for the highest league its Town Hall bracket can sustain — every league level raises the league bonus and Star Bonus — but reaching and holding Legend is realistic mainly for accounts with strong, upgraded heroes and troops. If your offense is not yet maxed for your Town Hall, the fastest route to Legend League is finishing those upgrades first, which the Upgrade Priority Advisor can sequence for your specific account.

How Do You Push Trophies Efficiently Below Legend League?

You push trophies efficiently below Legend League by spending every one of your weekly Ranked attacks — 6 to 18 depending on league — with a reliable 2-star-plus army, maximizing destruction percentage on every attack, and setting a snapshot defense layout that denies attackers stars. Because trophies cannot be lost and promotion is decided by your group ranking, the two levers that matter are how many of the 40 available trophies you take per attack and how many trophies your defenses hand back to you.

The most common inefficiency is spending weekly attacks with a farming army that only reaches 40-50% destruction, which pays 5 to 15 trophies for a 1-star when a 2-star at 50% already pays 16 and a 98% 2-star pays 32. A dedicated push week uses a genuine 2-star-or-better army — the same armies you would use in war — and every attack is a committed one, because Ranked Battles has no "Next" button, shows you a war-style confirmation screen, and logs the battle even if you back out. Temporary troops and event-only Super Troops are stripped from your deployment bar, so build your Ranked army from permanent troops only.

Defense is a second income stream rather than a bleed. Your Ranked defenses use a snapshot of whichever layout you choose in the Defense tab (any Home Village or War layout, with your chosen Clan Castle troops), traps are always armed, and upgrading heroes still defend — so a layout that holds attackers to 1-star pays you 25-35 trophies per defense. Unranked Battles are uncapped but award no trophies, so they are for loot, not for climbing; the constraint on the Ranked ladder is your weekly attack cap, not your army's training time.

For players who also run clan wars, the War Coaching tool reads your clan tag and gives a live read on attack performance, which translates directly to Ranked Battles — the confirmation screen, the no-scout commitment, and the army discipline are identical. Both reward reliable 2-star-plus attacks over flashy, inconsistent ones.

How Do You Hold Legend League Once You Arrive?

You hold Legend I by treating it as a daily commitment rather than a one-time achievement, because your rank depends on netting more from your 8 attacks than you lose across your 8 defenses every single League Day, and demotion is checked weekly: finish a week outside the global top 10,000, or drop below 4,900 trophies before a League Day starts, and you are sent back to Legend II. Four weeks without signing up also demotes you through league decay — missed defenses are filled in and deducted at your recent average, so an inactive stretch bleeds trophies whether you play or not.

The daily routine that holds Legend I is disciplined: use all 8 attacks with a strong, consistent army that 3-stars near-maxed bases under the -20% hero modifier, and accept that defense is half the equation. Because you cannot control when your 8 defenses come, the lever you control is your attacking output — a player who averages high 2-star and 3-star attacks nets positive even against tough defensive losses. Watch your daily net in the Battle Log tab rather than any single battle, since the format's symmetry means one bad defense is offset by one good attack.

Sustaining that performance requires a maxed or near-maxed offense for your Town Hall, which loops back to upgrade priority. If your heroes or key troops are not yet finished, the fastest path to holding Legend I is completing those offensive upgrades — sequenced for your account by the Upgrade Priority Advisor and explained in the Upgrade Priority Guide. The loot to fund those upgrades comes from the farming guide routine, and the extra builder from the Builder Base guide gets you there faster.

What Are the Most Common Trophy Pushing Mistakes?

The most common trophy pushing mistake is treating Ranked Battles like farming — spending a 6-to-18-attack weekly allowance with a cheap army that cannot reliably 2-star — because a 1-star pays at most 15 of the 40 trophies on offer and the group's top 15-50% is decided by exactly those margins. Pushers who climb fastest attack deliberately with a real army and treat every one of the week's attacks as a war hit.

Mistake 1 - pushing with an under-maxed offense. Trying to reach Legend before your heroes and troops are strong enough for your Town Hall means grinding against 99 same-league bases you cannot 3-star. Finish key offensive upgrades first, then push, or you will sit in the same league for weeks with nothing to show.

Mistake 2 - ignoring your snapshot defense layout. In Ranked Battles every defense pays you 40 minus the attacker's take, so a layout that holds attackers to 1-star earns 25-35 trophies a defense while an exposed layout earns 0 against a 3-star. Set a real layout and real Clan Castle troops in the Defense tab; it takes effect from the next weekly season.

Mistake 3 - misreading the Legend I defense rule. New Legend I players assume they can dodge defensive losses; in reality, missed defenses are filled in and deducted at the average of recent defensive losses. Plan around all 8 defenses counting, not just the ones you happen to see.

Mistake 4 - pushing at the wrong Town Hall. Expecting a Town Hall 12 or 13 account to reach Legend from an Archer 8 or Wizard 11 floor ignores the one-league-per-week promotion ceiling. Push for the highest league your bracket can sustain, but treat Legend as a maxed-account goal unless you are upgrading your Town Hall and jumping floors.

Frequently Asked Questions

What trophy count do you need to reach Legend League?

You do not need a trophy count to reach Legend League in Clash of Clans: since October 6, 2025 you reach it by finishing in the top 15% of an Electro 33 group, which promotes you into Legend III, then the top 5% of Legend III into Legend II, then the top 3% of Legend II into Legend I. The 5,000 figure is the starting trophy count you are granted when you sign up for Legend I, not an entry threshold.

How many attacks and defenses do you get per day in Legend League?

You get exactly 8 attacks and 8 defenses per League Day in Legend I, with the day resetting at 5:00 AM UTC, and each battle is capped at a maximum of 40 trophies gained or lost. Legend III and Legend II are weekly tournaments instead, with 24 and 30 attacks per week and no trophy losses on defense.

How does the Legend League season reset work?

The Legend League Tournament season resets monthly, returning Legend I trophies to 5,000 and converting every trophy above 5,000 into one permanent Legend Trophy on your profile. Legend Trophies are the lifetime scoreboard and never reset, so they measure a pusher's long-term achievement.

What happens if you miss a defense in Legend League?

If you miss a defense in Legend I, the game fills in the missing defenses and deducts trophies equal to the average of the trophies you lost in defenses across the current and previous day, for each missed defense. Below Legend I the fill-in works the other way: each missed weekly defense is awarded at the average of the defenses you actually took.

Can a low Town Hall reach Legend League?

A low Town Hall can climb from its league floor — Skeleton 1 at Town Hall 7, Archer 8 at Town Hall 12, Wizard 11 at Town Hall 13 — but promotion is capped at one league per week, so a Town Hall 12 needs at least 26 straight promotion weeks to reach Legend III, and every group is 100 same-league players. Legend League is realistically a Town Hall 14-and-above goal, and strongest for TH17-TH18 accounts that start at P.E.K.K.A 23 and Titan 26.

How many trophies can you gain per attack in Legend League?

You can gain a maximum of 40 trophies per attack in every Ranked league including Legend: 40 for a 3-star, 16-32 for a 2-star (16 at 50% destruction, +1 for every 3% above it), 5-15 for a 1-star, and up to 4 for a 0-star. In Legend I you also lose up to 40 per defense, so a strong day means netting close to +320 from your 8 attacks while limiting defensive losses.

What is the best army for trophy pushing?

The best trophy pushing army is a reliable 2-star-or-better composition built from permanent troops — typically the same strong armies you use in clan war — because Ranked Battles strips temporary and event-only troops, has no "Next" button, and pays 16-32 trophies for a 2-star versus 5-15 for a 1-star. Pair that army with a snapshot defense layout that costs attackers stars, because below Legend I every star you deny on defense is paid to you as trophies.

Do trophy pushing events help you climb faster?

Trophy pushing events cannot shortcut the Ranked ladder, because promotion is decided by your rank inside a 100-player group with a fixed weekly attack cap rather than by a trophy total. The fastest legitimate jump is a Town Hall upgrade mid-season, which promotes you straight to the new Town Hall's league floor — Titan 26 at Town Hall 18 — regardless of your placing that week.