Balance Changes — June 2026 (Season 84)
The biggest patch of the year so far: 27 changes headlined by a sweeping cut to Crown Tower damage on twelve spells, nerfs to Hero Balloon, Hero Bowler and several Evolutions, and a Hero Dark Prince rework.
Season 84 (Stone Cold) opens with Supercell's broadest spell pass in recent memory — every popular damage spell from Zap to Rocket now deals noticeably less Crown Tower damage, a clear push away from spell-cycle finishes and toward troop-led offense.
Hero cards keep getting trimmed after their dominant spring: Hero Balloon's Skeletrooper lands softer, Hero Bowler's ability window shrinks, and Hero Dark Prince loses his guaranteed Rhino tower damage in exchange for a faster deploy.
On the buff side, Goblin Giant and Electro Dragon get durability bumps, the Dart Goblin Evolution's poison stacks harder, and Rune Giant receives a hefty 28% damage increase.
Rework
(1)- Deploy Time: 2s → 1s (-50%)
- Tiles Needed for First Charge: 0 → 2.5
- Rhino's Crown Tower Spawn Damage: 307 → 0 (-100%)
Faster to deploy, but the Rhino no longer guarantees Crown Tower damage on spawn.
Buffs
(4)
- Evolution Poison Damage (Stage 1): 51 → 64 (+25%)
- Evolution Poison Damage (Stage 2): 115 → 128 (+11%)
Evolution change — the poison ticks meaningfully harder.
- Hitpoints: 998 → 1049 (+5%)
- Hitpoints: 3020 → 3110 (+3%)
- Damage: 120 → 153 (+28%)
Nerfs
(21)- Skeletrooper Landing Damage: 307 → 263 (-14%)
The landing hit no longer finishes off several mid-HP troops in one blow.
- Ability Duration: 9s → 7.3s (-19%)
Roughly one fewer boulder per ability activation.
- Evolution Charge Duration: 9s → 7s (-22%)
Evolution change — the supercharged beam window is shorter.
- Evolution Deploy Time: 0.2s → 0.5s (+150%)
Evolution change — slightly more time to react to the placement.
- Evolution Heavy Troop Knockback: 4 tiles → 2.5 tiles (-38%)
Evolution change — heavy troops are shoved back much less.
- Range: 6 tiles → 5.5 tiles (-8%)
- Skeleton Count: 13 → 12 (-8%)
- Rascal Boy Hitpoints: 1940 → 1832 (-6%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 93 → 75 (-19%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 159 → 147 (-8%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 207 → 172 (-17%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 45 → 37 (-18%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 54 → 45 (-17%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 286 → 265 (-7%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 184 → 168 (-9%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 54 → 45 (-17%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 371 → 342 (-8%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 41 → 35 (-15%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 76 → 70 (-8%)
- Crown Tower Damage: 58 → 48 (-17%)
Adjustment
(1)
- Lifetime: 30s → 25s (-17%)
- Hitpoints: 1152 → 1182 (+3%)
A shorter lifetime traded for slightly more durability while active.