How these rankings are made

Why DeckBeacon computes its own rankings

The official Clash Royale API has no “top decks” endpoint at any access tier. There is no list to fetch. So DeckBeacon builds one: it samples the Path of Legends leaderboard, pulls those players’ battle logs, normalizes every deck to a stable playable identity, and ranks what it finds.

No third-party deck site is scraped, copied, hotlinked, or used as a derivative source. Every number on this site traces back to the official API.

What “a bounded sample” means

This is a sample of top-ladder battles inside an observed time window — not a global census, and not a seven-day history. A deck that is popular outside the sampled leaderboard range will not appear here, and the numbers move between snapshots.

A snapshot must clear documented thresholds for sampled players, successful battle logs, unique battles, mapped decks, pagination, known cards, and validated copy links before it can be published at all. A crawl that fails any of them is discarded and the previous snapshot keeps serving — the site never shows half-validated data.

Rating, win rate, and usage

• Rating is DeckBeacon’s own 0–100 scale, derived from a 95% Wilson lower bound over decisive games. It is not RoyaleAPI’s Rating. The Wilson bound deliberately discounts decks with few battles, which is why a deck with a spectacular win rate on a small sample does not top the list.
• Decks with fewer than 50 decisive games are not rated and show “—” instead of a score. A zero would be a claim; a dash is the truth.
• Win rate is wins over decisive games, so draws never dilute it.
• Usage is a deck’s share of all deck appearances in the sample.

Deck identity

Two decks are the same deck when they play the same eight cards, in the same special forms, with the same Tower Troop. That identity is hashed, which is what lets a deck keep the same page across snapshots even as its ranking moves.

Cards are shown in Clash Royale’s own slot order — Evolution slot, Hero slot, Wild slot, then the rest by elixir. Where the battle log leaves a card’s form genuinely ambiguous, it is badged neutrally rather than guessed at.

The copy link’s one limitation

Copy links use the official link.clashroyale.com handoff, and every link on this site is validated against the deck it belongs to before it is rendered. That format carries the eight cards and the Tower Troop — it does not carry Evolution or Hero information, a limitation confirmed three independent ways. A copied deck therefore arrives in game without its special forms set, and every affected deck page says exactly which cards to change by hand.

Freshness

The catalog is regenerated on a schedule and this site follows it — the snapshot above is the live one. Decks move in and out of the ranked pool between snapshots.

Browse the current ranked list →