Clash Royale Rune Giant: Ability, stats, and more 

The Clash Royale Rune Giant is the upcoming Epic rarity ground troop that will be released as the 117th card in-game. This 4-elixir troop enables players to enhance the damage of all allied forces within the specified range. They can unlock this card alongside the latest Dart Goblin Evolution in the upcoming season.

This article provides further details on the Clash Royale Rune Giant, explaining her ability and stats.

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Ability of Clash Royale Rune Giant

Rune Giant making her weapon (Image via Supercell)

The Rune Giant attacks the nearby enemy with the handmade traditional weapon, causing up to 120 Damage at upgrade level 11.

Furthermore, it has a standout feature to boost the damage of nearby allied troops. This ability works as follows:

• When an allied troop is within a 7-tile radius, the ability activates.
• The two closest friendly troops within an 8.5-tile radius are enchanted.
• The enchantment grants a 220 HP damage boost to these troops at tournament standard (Level 11). The boost increases by 10% per level.
• The enchantment persists unless the Rune Giant or the enchanted troop dies.

The buff applies only to projectiles, not direct attacks. This provides strong synergies with troops that have multi-projectile attacks.

Key synergies include:

• Electro Wizard: +67% DPS due to multiple rays.
• Executioner: +43% DPS as each projectile hits twice.
• Goblin Giant: +91% DPS with sack Spear Goblins.
• Hunter: +87% DPS from enhanced shotgun projectiles.
• Firecracker: Best synergy, with a +115% DPS increase from her explosive rockets.

Apart from the above advantages, there are some limitations to this ability:

• The damage buff does not affect AOE abilities, such as Valkyrie’s Spin Wind or Firecracker’s Explosive Sparks.
• The buff does not apply to buildings, excluding X-Bow or Mortar from benefiting.

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Stats of Clash Royale Rune Giant

Cave of the Rune Giant (Image via Supercell)

The Rune Giant is a ground troop that targets buildings, placing her in the win condition category. Here are the required stats of this troop at level 11:

• HP: 2803
• Damage: 120
• Speed: Medium
• DPS: 80
• Elixir cost: 4
• Hit Speed: 1.5 seconds
• Bonus Damage: 220
• Enchant Limit: 2

Compared to other win conditions, the HP of Clash Royale Rune Giant is lower than the Giant and Golem but higher than Goblinstein. Additionally, her Damage is higher than Ice Golem and lower than Goblinstein.

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Possible release date and how to unlock Clash Royale Rune Giant

As per RoyaleAPI, the game's leading news outlet, the Rune Giant will be released on January 6 at the start of the new Clash Royale season.

Players can unlock the Rune Giant for free during her release. She will be featured in a chained offer, providing the first card for free. Subsequent upgrades will be locked behind in-app purchases (IAPs), similar to recent card releases.

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