Clash Royale Game Modes / Visualization / RoyaleAPI.com

This is a visualization of all the game modes that people have played in Clash Royale in the last 30 days, using close to 15 million battles as samples. I’ve created it mostly to answer some questions that a few people have asked me:

 

**Challenges**

 

Q: With the amount of accounts being banned, are people playing significantly less challenges since no one has any gems left?

 

A: No, there is no evidence to support that claim.

 

**Ladder**

 

Q: Is Ladder dead?

 

A: Far from it. 1v1 Ladder is still the primary mode that people play in, with 2v2 Ladder being a close second. The third most popular mode that people are playing in is challenges, followed by the various Clan War Battles.

 

**Special Game Modes**

 

Q: What happens on the weekends when there are special challenges?

 

A: People usually jump in and play those challenges immediately (contributing to 50% of their games). Its percentages exponentially decrease as players complete them.

 

**Friendly**

 

Q: Do people play friendly battles?

 

A: Not very often. In the visualization, you can barely see them showing up at the top of the chart.

 

**Notes**

 

This is a close approximation of the entire Clash Royale base. It represents the user behavior of RoyaleAPI.com, which may not be the same as everyone in the game. However, the sample size should be large enough to be representative.

 

**Methodology**

 

- Data source: Users visiting player battle logs on RoyaleAPI.com — which gets saved to Elastic Search (ES) for indexing.

- Visualization: Compiled using live data in Kibana, the visualization and admin interface to ES.

 

Special thanks to /u/MWolverine63 for suggesting that I post this to Reddit after I had originally posted to Twitter twitter.com/smlbiobot/status/1001562233682395136

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