Legend League Tournaments

Needs changes for the October update

Introducing the Legend League at 5,000 Trophies and a new, monthly Legend League Tournament in the Top Players list.

Summary

Added in the July 1, 2015 update, the Legend League Tournaments were added for those who entered the Legend League, which is joined when reaching 5,000 or more trophies.
Revised in the June 2019 update, Legend League uses a different rule to Multiplayer matches (ladder). This new rule prevents players from gaining/losing massive trophies.
Following the introduction of Ranked Battles in October 2025, the Legend League was incorporated into the new ranked system, where it is accessible to players who promote from Ranked Battles' highest league (Electro League 33).

About Legend League Tournaments

Your current global rank is featured on your League badge in your profile.
Your final global rank and trophies will be permanently saved to your profile when the Tournament ends.
The Top Player tab will feature last season’s Legend League Tournament winners.
Trophies above 5,000 will be reset down to 5,000 when the Tournament ends, and the deducted trophies will be converted into Legend trophies.
Legend trophies will be permanently featured in your profile and cannot be lost.
The Legend League features a different matchmaking system compared to the other leagues, detailed below.

Matchmaking in Legend League

Ranked matchmaking in Legend League occurs on a daily basis, unlike Ranked Battles which occur weekly. The season is divided into 24-hour cycles called League Days, which start at 8AM Helsinki time (5am GMT).
When promoting from Electro League 33 (the highest Ranked Battles league below Legend), players will be given the opportunity to sign up for Legend League. When this is done, players will be given a starting trophy count of 5,000 . In order to attack and defend in Legend League, players will have to sign up to Legend League beforehand, which will add the player into the Legend League matchmaking pool. Doing so once will keep the player signed up to the league for as long as they stay in Legend League.
- If the player does not sign up for Legend League, they will be considered inactive after a week and will be automatically demoted back to Electro League 33 due to the league decay system.
During each League Day, each player will be given the opportunity to attack 8 other players, and their village can be attacked by 8 different players (meaning they may defend up to 8 times in the same day). The players which can attack you are often different from the players you attack. Players can choose to attack at any time during the League Day, but any unused attacks at the end of the day will be lost. If players have completed their 8 attacks, they will no longer be able to attack for the remainder of the League Day.
- For a player's first day in the Legend League, the number of attacks and defenses a player can have may be reduced, depending on when they joined in relation to the League Day.
Like in normal matchmaking, players' Trophies are taken into account during matchmaking, so for example, a player with 5,200 trophies will be matched with other players at similar trophy levels, rather than players at, say, 6,000 trophies.
Players will be demoted from Legend League if they are below 4,900 trophies at the end of a week. Players can remain in Legend League while below 4,900 trophies as a result of defending, though they must attack to regain that trophy level by the end of the week in order to stay in the league. Demotion drops the player back to Electro League 33, where they will reenter the Ranked Battles system.
While in Legend League, players can continue to participate in unranked Multiplayer Battles without risk to trophies.

Mechanics

Attacking in Legend League

Legend League attacking mechanics work identically to Ranked Battles. However, there is a minor difference to trophy calculations. Attacking yields trophies using the same calculation as in Ranked Battles, but defending deducts trophies instead of awarding trophies. The number of trophies lost from defending is equal to the number of trophies earned by the attacker, except in the case of a 0-star, in which case no trophies are lost.
Battles in Legend League are conducted under the Legend difficulty modifier. This provides a 10% penalty to attacking Hero damage and hitpoints, a 20% buff to defense damage per second, and a 20% buff to defending Hero damage and hitpoints.
- For more specifics on how the difficulty modifier interacts, see Ranked Battles#Difficulty Modifiers.

Defending in Legend League

Like in Clan Wars, players can choose a layout they wish to use in Legend League for taking defenses. This change can be done in the "Defense" tab. Changing this layout will only take effect starting from the next League Day, provided the player remains in Legend for the next day.
- However, it can also include Home Village layouts and not only War layouts.
The layout can be different from the active layout, so players can prevent others from copying good layouts by simply setting an inferior layout (such as one with all the defenses exposed and easy to destroy) as the active layout which players view when visiting while using another layout for actual defense.
The layouts are subject to cooldown in the same manner as Friendly Challenges; if a layout is newly modified it will be unavailable to be selected as a layout for the next day.
They can also choose defensive Clan Castle troops to defend their village for the same day. These troops are taken from what the player has in their Clan Castle at the time; for example, if a player has two Dragons in the Clan Castle, clicking the "Choose" option will allow the player to fill their defensive Clan Castle with two Dragons.
At the start of a League Day, a "snapshot" of the chosen layout will be used in matchmaking; this snapshot functions almost identically to that of a Clan War base. It is the snapshot of the layout that other players attack. There are two main consequences of this snapshot feature:
- Any Traps will always be armed for defenses, and Heroes will always be available for defense even when they are being upgraded. Any upgrading defenses will remain active, at the level it is being upgraded from.
- Players do not lose any loot from defense, unlike in lower leagues. Any loot earned by attackers are newly generated by the game.
Players can defend a maximum of 8 times in each League Day. If they are given fewer attacks for that League Day, the number of defenses they can take is lowered to match this number.
Shields do not function in the same way as they do in lower leagues (see "Shields in Legend League" below). Players can be attacked while they are online, unlike in lower leagues, and when attacked, players will not be granted a shield.
If a player is attacked while they are online, they can spectate the battle live through the usual defense log. It is also possible for multiple players to attack the same player at the same time.

Battle Log

With the August 27, 2019 optional update, players in Legend League can view a special "Battle Log" tab.
The Battle Log tab tracks the player's attacks and defenses for the day and the corresponding trophy gains and losses. It is a summary of the Attack and Defense Logs, which can be viewed in their original location.
At the top of the log, a display shows the player's trophy change for the day; this is broken down into trophies gained by attacking and trophies lost by defending. The "Attacks" column has an entry in a green box for each attack the player made, while the "Defenses" column has an entry in a red box for each defense the player has taken. Both types of entries detail the name of the opponent, the damage done and trophies gained or lost from the battle. Any empty boxes indicate the attacks and defenses that have not yet been done.

Shields in Legend League

In Legend League, a special type of shield, the Legend Shield, is available to purchase in the Shop. This shield acts independently of the Magic Shield and both can be active at the same time. It is only available for Gems.
A Legend Shield prevents the player from taking defenses in Legend League, thus preventing trophy loss. However, the player cannot attack in Legend League while under a Legend Shield. The player is still allowed to partake in unranked Multiplayer Battles or in other forms of battle (e.g. Clan Wars).
A Legend Shield's effects can only span whole League Days and not parts of it; if a shield is bought, its effects will only apply starting from the next League Day. Similarly, if an active Legend Shield is dismissed, the effects of this dismissal will only occur starting from the next League Day, and the player will remain shielded for the remainder of the current League Day.
Legend Shields have no effect if the player is demoted from Legend League before it can come into effect.

Trophy Resetting

At the end of every Legend League Tournament season, everyone's final standings will be recorded, featured on the global Top Players list for the entire next season, and Legend League players who are above 5,000 trophies will have their trophy count reset to 5,000. Thus, all players in Legend League get a fresh start and another chance to push for global rank #1.
Legend Trophies permanently preserve the extra trophies that get reset to 5,000 at the end of each Legend League Tournament season. One Legend trophy is earned for every trophy that is lost to the reset. As an example, if the Legend League Tournament has ended if you have 5,100 trophies, you will gain 100 Legend Trophies when your trophies get reset to 5,000 at the end of the season.
- This rule still applies to players who did not sign up to the Legend League Tournament until the League Season ends.
Legend trophies will accumulate season after season, and nothing will ever reset or reduce Legend trophies.
Legend trophies are visible to everyone else.

Trivia

The first player to get into the Legend League was shaheen uae on July 4, 2015.
It is possible for clanmates to attack one another, but only if both of them were in different clans at the start of a League day, when matchmaking takes place.
- In exceptionally rare cases, the players themselves may join the same clan and attack each other at the same time in Legend League, provided with the same rule.