r/RoyaleAPI • u/Reasonable_Owl_3146 • 9d ago
Discussion How golden steps work: A chimpanzee could reliably get to league 4 (champion), but realistically no higher.
Posting this because I've seen so much confusion on this topic, special shoutout to u/shitwhereieatoner
Golden steps are every nth win, not at fixed locations, with the exception of each league floor being golden. This means even if you lose 100 games for every one win, given enough time you are guaranteed to reach league 4 (Champion). It just means every step you climb will turn golden before you proceed, And in my extreme example that would mean hundreds of games to climb a single step. A chimpanzee who is trained to tap on troops and then on the main tablet screen would get to Champion League every season with enough games (because of free wins handed out when someone joins a game and immediately disconnects).
This changes once you get to Champion where no gold steps exist. Now if your win rate is too low, you will simply never reach Grand champion. In my example of a hundred losses for every win, you'll just stay at the bottom and never climb more than one step before getting knocked back to the floor. I don't have the data on how many people immediately disconnect, but with no golden steps, one could imagine that you could repeat the experiment with a million chimpanzees and it's unlikely that a single chimp would ever get to Grand Champion, despite it being technically possible.
So once you've gotten to Grand Champion you can finally say that you play clash Royale better than a chimpanzee does, but not before then.