Archer Queen

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"This graceful huntress is a master of destructive force, though modest in health. She snipes targets in her territory when defending, and can summon stealth and terrifying damage when attacking once her Royal Cloak ability is unlocked!"

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Skins

Archer Queen	Gladiator Queen	Valkyrie Queen	Autumn Queen
Ice Queen	Warrior Queen	Primal Queen	Clockwork Queen

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• Summary
  • The Archer Queen is essentially a more powerful version of the Archer. In addition to possessing much higher damage and hitpoint amounts, the Archer Queen also shoots 1.5 tiles farther than a normal Archer (5 tiles instead of 3.5).
  • The Archer Queen shoots 3 rapid arrows per shot (they cannot affect multiple targets, however).
  • She is automatically summoned once the Archer Queen Altar is constructed, which costs 20,000 Dark Elixir.
  • The Archer Queen is an immortal unit, so she only has to be summoned once. However, if she is injured or falls in battle, she must regenerate her health by sleeping for a long period of time before she can be used again. If you attack a village while its Archer Queen is still regenerating, its Altar will be empty.
  • The amount of time she sleeps to regenerate is directly proportional to the health she has left at the end of the battle. If the Archer Queen is not damaged then she is ready to fight immediately; if she gets hit or falls in battle then she must sleep for some time to regenerate. The higher level the Archer Queen, the more time it will take to fully regenerate her health.
    • Hero regeneration after a Multiplayer Battle starts as soon as the player starts to search for a Multiplayer opponent. So, if the player spent some time searching for an opponent to attack before completing an attack, part of the regeneration will be completed by the time the player returns to his/her village. However, if the player cancels the attack by pressing "End Battle" before completing an attack, the regeneration will be reset. This effect is more noticeable in the highest leagues where a significant amount of time can be spent searching for such opponents.
  • You can temporarily quadruple the hero's healing rate for 1 hour by spending 5 Gems.
  • In the January 29th, 2014 update, the Archer Queen gained a new special ability: Royal Cloak. This ability allows her to become invisible to enemy defenses for a short period of time in addition to greatly increasing her damage, restoring some of her health, and summoning up to 16 Archers to aid her in battle. The Archer Queen gains this ability at Level 5 and it becomes more powerful every five subsequent levels.
    • The Archer Queen's Royal Cloak ability summons Archers of the same level that the player has researched in his or her Laboratory. For instance, if the player has researched level 5 Archers, the Archer Queen will summon level 5 Archers. If Archers have not been unlocked in the Barracks, they will spawn at level 1.
    • If the ability has not been used before the Archer Queen is about to be defeated, it will by default automatically activate. However, this feature can be toggled off in the settings (by turning off "Automatically use Hero Abilities on KO").
  • Unlike the Barbarian King, the Archer Queen can attack air units like Balloons, Dragons, or Minions, making her effective in guarding a village against players who conduct air raids.

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• Offensive Strategy
  • The Archer Queen is basically like the counterpart of the Barbarian King, and vice versa. The Archer Queen is the damage specialist, while the Barbarian King is the tank specialist, with the Grand Warden as the support specialist.
  • She has a better range than an Archer (5 tiles instead of 3.5), so a good strategy is to place a group of Giants, P.E.K.K.As, Golems, or the Barbarian King as a meat shield, then a group of Archers, and finally the Archer Queen. That minimises the chance of her being defeated or even hit and may allow you to use her many times in a row without waiting for her to regenerate.
  • You can use an Archer Queen with a Royal Cloak Ability in raids to help you clean up buildings for 50%. As damage approaches 50%, simply deploy your Archer Queen and use the ability immediately so that she can destroy a few extra buildings, not taking damage at all.
  • The Archer Queen and Healer combination, better known as Queen Walk, is a very viable strategy when you're targeting for loot. She can rip apart cores of bases with the assistance of Rage Spells and make sure the Healers aren't touched. This, however, requires a high-level Queen due to the fact that the Queen alone cannot deal enough damage and will eventually run out of time. Air Defenses Bombing the Healers can easily destroy this, but this does not happen very often since the Archer Queen's range and the Healer's range allow the Healers to stay out of most Air Defense's range.
    • Seeking Air Mines can also destroy this. Periodically place Balloons to soak them up. These balloons are often called "Coco Loons".
  • The Royal Cloak Ability prevents Defenses from targeting the Archer Queen, but she can be affected by splash damage; for instance, if the nearby Archers summoned by the Archer Queen via her Royal Cloak are targeted by a Mortar, the splash projectile of the Mortar will damage the Archer Queen if she is in range, regardless of whether her ability is active or not. Royal Cloak does not prevent the Archer Queen from triggering Bombs and Giant Bombs and she will still be damaged by them if she is in range when they explode.
    • The Royal Cloak ability will also not prevent any projectiles (such as Cannon shots) that are targeting the Archer Queen at the time of the ability's activation from hitting her. If the Eagle Artillery has already locked on and fired on the Queen, activating the Royal Cloak will not prevent the shots from hitting, which will result in great damage against your Queen. Activating the Cloak just before it fires will stop the Eagle from firing on your Archer Queen, however, and render the Queen temporarily not target able by the Eagle as normal.
  • The Archer Queen is not affected by the Spring Trap, like all other heroes.
  • A good idea is to put the Archer Queen with the other heroes. The Barbarian King soaks up hits, the Archer Queen attacks from behind, and the Grand Warden supports them with his Life Aura. If there are troops in the Clan Castle, they also get benefits from the Grand Warden and they can assist the Barbarian King and Archer Queen in terms of defending and stalling.
    • Sending the Archer Queen and any other heroes like this with little support(Up to about 25 Housing Space) Is known as a Sui Queen. This is best used to destroy outer portions of the base and a few key targets further in.
  • Beware of the Barbarian King, as he can kill the Archer Queen in a 1v1.
  • The Royal Cloak ability's mechanism will cause her to be considered as a new target different from the original Archer Queen. Against a defending Electro Dragon, this ability may backfire, as it may cause her to take two hits from the Electro Dragon's Chain Lightning ability.
    • The Royal Cloak is excellent against single-target Inferno Towers. When used, the Inferno Tower's damage will not only reset, but is often redirected onto a summoned Archer. The queen can quickly finish off the Inferno with her damage under the cloak, while the Archers can provide great cover and overwhelm the Inferno if it is not defended well by splash defenses (or other multi-targeting Infernos).
• Defensive Strategy
  • The Archer Queen is more suitable for defense than the Barbarian King because of her faster attacks and harder hits, and she is able to attack from a longer range (as well as being able to strike air units), but she has dramatically lower health than the Barbarian King. The Queen's altar must be placed 3-4 spaces from the nearest wall to prevent the Queen from jumping out and getting targeted by melee troops.
  • Protect your key defenses by keeping them more than 5 tiles away from the nearest open space, so the queen cannot snipe them.

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• Against an Archer Queen
  • The best strategy against an Archer Queen is often another Archer Queen. A Queen Walk or an Archer Queen behind a tanking troop can take down an enemy Queen quickly, especially if the Royal Cloak ability is activated.
  • Tanking troops can be of some use, but they will not last long against an Archer Queen. For example, a maxed Golem will last only 10-11 seconds against a max-level Archer Queen, not accounting for any other defenses that may be targeting it.
    • If you are using a similar level, using the Barbarian King as a tank and the enemy Archer Queen is not hiding behind a wall, then the Barbarian King himself will be sufficient to defeat the Queen unless nearby defenses or the defending Clan Castle troops or Barbarian King are also attacking him. Activating the King's ability will allow him to defeat the Queen quicker.
  • Consider bringing a spell or spells to make the takedown process easier, such as a Poison Spell to slow the Queen's attacks, a Skeleton Spell to distract her, or a Freeze Spell to keep her from killing your troops too quickly.
  • The Grand Warden's Eternal Tome ability can keep troops alive while they destroy an Archer Queen. Because the Queen's health is so low, the short duration of the Eternal Tome ability is rarely a problem.
  • You can kill the defending Archer Queen with high leveled Lightning Spells if she is low leveled. However, this isn't a recommended strategy because you cannot easily guarantee that she will be hit by most of the strikes.

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• Trivia
  • If you tap on the Archer Queen, she will yell a high pitched battle cry and stand still for a moment, similar to the Barbarian King. Her default skin will wave a hand towards the player.
    • If she is wearing her Gladiator skin, she will instead bow down towards the player.
    • If she‘s in her Valkyrie Queen skin, she’ll raise her modified X-Bow and stand tall.
    • The Autumn Queen skin will spin counter-clockwise, with a bow in hand.
  • If the Archer Queen attacks while her Royal Cloak ability is active, her arrows change from their normal Elixir-like color to bright orange.
  • When she is injured or falls in battle, a small explosion occurs, she yells in pain, and a red beam shoots to the sky. After that, like all other heroes, the Archer Queen stands still and a "dizzy" animation is engaged.
  • While attacking, if your opponent's Archer Queen Altar is empty and the Archer Queen wakes up during the battle, the Altar will have a short sparkling animation but the Archer Queen will not appear to defend the base.
  • If your Archer Queen wakes up while you are in Village Edit Mode, a sparkle will appear wherever in the Altar's original location (even if you moved it already).
  • Each successive upgrade of the Archer Queen adds approximately 2.1% health and 2.5% damage, but every five levels add a constant three minutes to her total regeneration time. As a consequence, the Archer Queen's regeneration rate changes as she levels up.

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    Regeneration rate for each level; click to enlarge

    The Archer Queen's regeneration rate fluctuates each level, with drops in the regeneration rate every fifth level and small increases for every other level. From an initial regeneration rate of 72.5 HP per minute at level 1, it reaches a maximum of 77.1 HP per minute at level 4 and shows a downward trend up to level 30, where there is a minimum of 47.29 HP per minute. Beyond level 30, the drops at every fifth level are outweighed by the increases from the other levels, eventually reaching 63.33 HP per minute at level 65.
  • The level n Archer Queen has$\lfloor160*1.025^{n-1}\rfloor$ DPS and $\lfloor725*1.021^{n-1}\rfloor$ hit points.
  • The Archer Queen's regeneration time has been reduced multiple times. The most recent reduction occurred on June 22nd, 2020.
  • Before Archer Queen's texture was converted into a CGI model, it had visual changes at levels 10, 20, and 41.
  • Initially, the Archer Queen is similar to a giant Archer, but with a modified X-Bow, a silver crown, purple hair, and a green dress.
  • At level 10, her crown became golden.
  • At level 20, the stock of her modified X-Bow became golden as well. Her shots used to change from Elixir-colored to gold.
  • At level 41, her cloak received a golden rim, and her golden modified X-Bow stock became a darker gold color or gained a purple glow outline.
  • The total upgrade time for the Archer Queen to get from level 1 to level 75 is 396 days.

Levels 1-9	Levels 10-19	Levels 20-40	Levels 41-60

Preferred Target	Attack Type	Movement Speed	Attack Speed	Range	Search Radius
None	Ranged (Ground & Air)	24	0.75s	5 tiles	10 tiles

Level	Damage per Second	Damage per Hit	DPS in Ability	Hitpoints	Regen Time	Ability Level	Upgrading Cost	Upgrading Time	Town Hall Level Required
1	160	120	N/A	725	10m	N/A	20,000	N/A	9
2	164	123	N/A	740	10m	N/A	22,000	12h	9
3	168	126	N/A	755	10m	N/A	24,000	12h	9
4	172	129	N/A	771	10m	N/A	26,000	1d	9
5	176	132	476	787	12m	1	28,000	1d	9
6	181	135.75	481	804	12m	1	30,000	1d	9
7	185	138.75	485	821	12m	1	32,000	1d 12h	9
8	190	142.5	490	838	12m	1	34,000	1d 12h	9
9	194	145.5	494	856	12m	1	36,000	1d 12h	9
10	199	149.25	554	874	14m	2	38,000	2d	9
11	204	153	559	892	14m	2	40,000	2d	9
12	209	156.75	564	911	14m	2	42,000	2d	9
13	215	161.25	570	930	14m	2	44,000	2d 12h	9
14	220	165	575	949	14m	2	46,000	2d 12h	9
15	226	169.5	642	969	16m	3	48,000	2d 12h	9
16	231	173.25	647	990	16m	3	50,000	3d	9
17	237	177.75	653	1,010	16m	3	53,000	3d	9
18	243	182.25	659	1,032	16m	3	56,000	3d	9
19	249	186.75	665	1,053	16m	3	59,000	3d 12h	9
20	255	191.25	738	1,076	18m	4	62,000	3d 12h	9
21	262	196.5	745	1,098	18m	4	65,000	3d 12h	9
22	268	201	751	1,121	18m	4	68,000	4d	9
23	275	206.25	758	1,145	18m	4	71,000	4d	9
24	282	211.5	765	1,169	18m	4	74,000	4d	9
25	289	216.75	846	1,193	20m	5	77,000	4d 12h	9
26	296	222	853	1,218	20m	5	80,000	4d 12h	9
27	304	228	861	1,244	20m	5	83,000	4d 12h	9
28	311	233.25	868	1,270	20m	5	86,000	5d	9
29	319	239.25	876	1,297	20m	5	89,000	5d	9
30	327	245.25	965	1,324	22m	6	92,000	5d	9
31	335	251.25	973	1,352	22m	6	98,000	5d 12h	10
32	344	258	982	1,380	22m	6	106,000	5d 12h	10
33	352	264	990	1,409	22m	6	114,000	5d 12h	10
34	361	270.75	999	1,439	22m	6	122,000	6d	10
35	370	277.5	1,095	1,469	24m	7	130,000	6d	10
36	379	284.25	1,104	1,500	24m	7	138,000	6d	10
37	389	291.75	1,114	1,532	24m	7	146,000	6d 12h	10
38	398	298.5	1,123	1,564	24m	7	154,000	6d 12h	10
39	408	306	1,133	1,597	24m	7	162,000	6d 12h	10
40	419	314.25	1,238	1,630	26m	8	170,000	7d	10
41	429	321.75	1,248	1,664	26m	8	180,000	7d	11
42	440	330	1,259	1,699	26m	8	182,000	7d	11
43	451	338.25	1,270	1,735	26m	8	184,000	7d	11
44	462	346.5	1,281	1,771	26m	8	186,000	7d	11
45	474	355.5	1,394	1,809	28m	9	188,000	7d	11
46	486	364.5	1,406	1,847	28m	9	190,000	7d	11
47	498	373.5	1,418	1,885	28m	9	192,000	7d	11
48	510	382.5	1,430	1,925	28m	9	194,000	7d	11
49	523	392.25	1,443	1,965	28m	9	196,000	7d	11
50	536	402	1,556	2,007	30m	10	198,000	7d	11
51	547	410.25	1,567	2,058	30m	10	200,000	7d	12
52	558	418.5	1,578	2,110	30m	10	204,000	7d	12
53	570	427.5	1,590	2,163	30m	10	208,000	7d	12
54	582	436	1,602	2,218	30m	10	212,000	7d	12
55	594	445.5	1,714	2,274	32m	11	216,000	7d	12
56	606	454.5	1,726	2,331	32m	11	220,000	7d	12
57	619	464.25	1,739	2,390	32m	11	224,000	7d	12
58	632	474	1,752	2,450	32m	11	228,000	7d	12
59	645	483.75	1,765	2,512	32m	11	232,000	7d	12
60	658	493.5	1,878	2,575	34m	12	236,000	7d	12
61	671	503.25	1,891	2,639	34m	12	240,000	7d	12
62	684	513	1,904	2,705	34m	12	240,000	7d	12
63	698	523.5	1,918	2,773	34m	12	240,000	7d	12
64	712	534	1,932	2,842	34m	12	240,000	7d	12
65	726	544.5	2,026	2,913	36m	13	240,000	7d	12
66	739	554.25	2,039	2,980	36m	13	250,000	7d 12h	13
67	751	563.25	2,051	3,040	36m	13	260,000	7d 12h	13
68	762	571.5	2,062	3,095	36m	13	270,000	7d 12h	13
69	772	579	2,072	3,145	36m	13	280,000	7d 12h	13
70	781	585.75	2,151	3,190	38m	14	290,000	8d	13
71	789	591.75	2,159	3,230	38m	14	292,000	8d	13
72	796	597	2,166	3,270	38m	14	294,000	8d	13
73	802	601.5	2,172	3,310	38m	14	296,000	8d	13
74	808	606	2,178	3,350	38m	14	298,000	8d	13
75	814	610.5	2,244	3,390	40m	15	300,000	8d	13

Royal Cloak Ability

Ability Level	Damage Increase	Health Recovery	Ability Time	Summoned Units
1	300	150	3.6s	5
2	355	175	3.8s	6
3	416	200	4.0s	7
4	483	225	4.2s	8
5	557	250	4.4s	9
6	638	275	4.6s	10
7	725	300	4.8s	11
8	819	325	5.0s	12
9	920	350	5.2s	13
10	1,020	375	5.4s	14
11	1,120	400	5.6s	15
12	1,220	425	5.8s	16
13	1,300	450	6.0s	17
14	1,370	475	6.2s	18
15	1,430	500	6.4s	19

Skin Availability

The below table denotes the months in which Archer Queen skins were available. They typically could only be obtained by reaching a predetermined tier of Season Challenges after purchasing that season's corresponding Gold Pass.

Skins that are still available from an ongoing season are highlighted in yellow. Skins that are not available from a Gold Pass are highlighted in blue. Skins that are purchasable with Gems are highlighted in green.

Skin	Season Available	Gem Cost
Gladiator Queen	May 2019	1,500
Valkyrie Queen	July 2019	1,500
Autumn Queen	September 2019	- - - - - - - -
Ice Queen	November 2019	- - - - - - - -
Warrior Queen¹	January 2020	- - - - - - - -
Primal Queen	March 2020	- - - - - - - -
Clockwork Queen	June 2020	- - - - - - - -

¹ The Chinese style skin available in the 2020 Lunar New Year (literally "Heroic Mulan", but simply known as Warrior Queen outside of China) was only available through the Shop as a separate purchase; it cost $9.99 USD (or equivalent).
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