Balance Changes — May 2026 (Season 83)
Season 83 trims the strongest Evolutions and Hero cards — Royal Hogs Evolution loses nearly half its landing damage — while Electro Giant gets a major buff and Giant Skeleton is reworked into a troop-killer.
The Siege & Swish season focuses on pulling back overperformers: four Evolutions are toned down, Spirit Empress loses durability in both forms, and Hero Barbarian Barrel and Hero Mega Minion take follow-up hits.
Electro Giant's big attack-speed package is the standout buff, while the Giant Skeleton rework doubles down on its death bomb as an anti-troop tool rather than a tower-damage threat.
Rework
(1)
- Hitpoints: 1413 → 1313 (-7%)
- Collision Radius: 1 tile → 0.75 tiles (-25%)
- Death Bomb Damage: 209 → 269 (+29%)
- Death Bomb Tower Damage: 418 → 269 (-36%)
The death bomb now hits troops harder but towers softer.
Buff
(1)
- Hit Speed: 2.1s → 1.8s (-14%)
- First Hit Speed: 1.5s → 1s (-33%)
- Reflected Tower Damage: 50 → 38 (-24%)
A substantial package aimed at making him a viable win condition again.
Nerfs
(9)- Reroll Range: 4 tiles → 3 tiles (-25%)
- Warp Damage: 412 → 373 (-9%)
- Evolution Goblins Spawned on Second Submerge: 2 → 1 (-50%)
Evolution change — reverts February's extra-goblin buff.
- Evolution Landing Damage: 84 → 43 (-48%)
Evolution change — second landing-damage cut in a row.
- Hit Speed: 1.3s → 1.4s (+8%)
- Ground Form Hit Speed: 1.1s → 1.2s (+9%)
- Ground Form Hitpoints: 1152 → 1121 (-3%)
- Air Form Hitpoints: 1177 → 1121 (-5%)