Clash Royale The Undead March Balance Changes for May 2025 (Season 71): All buffs, nerfs, and card reworks explained

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / May 5, 2025, 17:59 IST

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Clash Royale's Season 71, "The Undead March," introduces significant balance changes, with eight cards reworked, buffed, and nerfed. Key adjustments include nerfs to Guards, Evolved Cannon, and Evolved Witch, buffs to Evolved P.E.K.K.A. and Royal Chef, and reworks to Cannon Cart, Golden Knight, and Goblin Hut. New card evolutions and game modes also debut.

Clash Royale The Undead March Balance Changes for May 2025 (Season 71): All buffs, nerfs, and card reworks explained

Clash Royale Balance Changes for Season 71 (Image via Supercell)

Supercell just released the final Clash Royale Season 71 Balance Changes in The Undead March update. A total of eight cards have been balanced as of May 5, 2025. As expected from the WIP changes, three cards are nerfed, two cards are buffed, and three cards have been completely reworked. Clash Royale Season 71 introduces new card evolutions, game modes, exclusive rewards, and balance changes.
This article will brief you on all the balance changes of Clash Royale Season 71, The Undead March update.

Summary of all buffs and nerfs in Clash Royale Season 71

Buffs	Nerfs	Reworks
Evolved Pekka	Guards	Cannon Cart
Royal Chef	Evolved Cannon	Golden Knight
	Evolved Witch	Goblin Hut

Breakdown of All Balance Changes in Clash Royale Season 71

Nerfs

Card	Attribute	Change %	Before	After
Guards	Damage	-4%	—	—
	Hit Points	-6%	122 HP	117 HP
Evolved Cannon	Barrage Radius	-20%	2.50 Tiles	2.00 Tiles
Evolved Witch	Heal per Skeleton	-33%	109 HP	73 HP
	Max Overheal	-4%	130%	125%

Buffs

Card	Attribute	Change %	Before	After
Evolved P.E.K.K.A	Heal per Small Kill	13%	142 HP	160 HP
	Heal per Medium Kill	8%	282 HP	304 HP
	Heal per Large Kill	2%	565 HP	577 HP
Royal Chef	Hit Points	8%	2,703 HP	2,921 HP

All card reworks in Clash Royale Season 71 explained

REWORKS EXPLAINED: Golden Knight, Cannon Cart & Goblin Hut!

Cannon Cart

Cannon Cart’s shield has now been removed and replaced with a segmented health bar like Boss Bandit. The Rocket now deals full damage to Cannon Cart, instead of just breaking the shield. Inferno Tower no longer resets its charge upon breaking the Cannon Cart into its immobile state. Furthermore, Evolved Pekka will no longer heal twice upon dealing damage to the Cannon Cart in its two states.

Golden Knight

Golden Knight can now dash backwards and deal damage to multiple enemies in a full 360-degree radius. This means he cant be brutally countered by placing the goblin gang behind him. He is now able to dash anywhere around him and take down single or hordes of enemies, making it more intuitive to play him.

Goblin Hut

Goblin Hut has had a complete overhaul of its mechanics and visual aspects. It now features a brand new card icon, new sprites, and a different logic. Instead of passively spawning spear goblins over time, it now reactively spawns spear goblins when an enemy troop is closeby. This makes Goblin Hut an anti-air defensive unit, countering the current meta of Lava Hounds and Skeleton Dragons.

Also read: The Undead March invades Clash Royale: Season 71 announced with new Card Evolutions, balance changes, game modes, exclusive rewards, and more

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