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"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, just Harry, Larry, Terry and a dozen friends, heading for the nearest building in a barrel of bones!"
Level 1-9
Summary
The Skeleton Barrel is a temporary Halloween troop added with Giant Skeleton in the Halloween 2018 season. It was subsequently made available again for the Halloween 2020 season.
When deployed, it moves towards the nearest building, and attempts to attack it. If it is successful, the Skeleton Barrel will deal an initial blow before spawning several Skeletons. However, if the barrel is destroyed by defenses, it will still spawn its Skeletons.
Skeleton Barrels have no preferred target when attacking; they will simply attack the closest building. However, once they become aware of enemy Clan Castletroops, Heroes, or Skeleton Trap skeletons (either by being attacked themselves or by being near another friendly troop under attack), they will leave their previously targeted building and instead engage the enemy troops. Once all of the nearby enemy troops are defeated, the Skeleton Barrels will proceed to attack the nearest structure.
Trivia
You can have a maximum of 60 Skeleton Barrels at one time in a complete set of fully upgraded Army Camps. This number increases to 69 if you include the 9 that can fit into a fully upgraded Clan Castle. On the battlefield, you can clone an additional 18 Skeleton Barrels with three level 5 or higher Clone Spells.
The Skeleton Barrel can't be upgraded in the Laboratory. Instead, their DPH, HP and Training Cost are equal to Balloons of the same level. However, starting from level 7, they are unlocked one Town Hall level earlier than Balloons.
The Skeleton Barrel look exactly the same as the opponent SB in Clash Royale. This is the same as the Giant Skeleton and Ice Wizard. The Skeleton Barrel was added to Clash Royale on 31/10/2017.
The description of the barrel claims that the skeletons are Harry, Larry, Terry and a dozen friends. When the Skeleton Barrel was initially introduced, the highest-level Skeleton Barrel spawned 14 skeletons, as opposed to the 15 implied by the description. This discrepancy appears to have been rectified when a 9th level was added in 2020 (which spawned 15 Skeletons).
Statistic Modifiers
Input values into these modifiers below to modify the statistics in the tables below accordingly
*The "level" column is the numeral level shown in-game, while the "tier" column is for purposes of clarity between different Town Hall levels, which have different statistics. Tier counts from the lowest usable level.