Rush Royale Best Cards Tier List (July 2023) with Sea Dog

The Occultist works similar to the Engineer but doesn't deal as much damage (without talents). Still, the Occultis is able to deal area damage and that can make a huge difference and makes it one of the strongest cards in Rush Royale. In the right setup it will just wreck with fast area damage.

Already in first tests absolutely strong and I believe it will become a meta-defining pawn in the nexts weeks/months.

Super viable and strong, used in several decks and can even counter strong cards well.

The Rogue deals high amounts of damage, has a good fire rate and also targets first enemies. All things that make it a useful and valuable card and it's also more reliable than the Hunter. The higher the crits, the crazier the damage gets.

Crystalmancer is overall great at dealing damage and the more it hits, the more damage it deals. Synchronizes well with speed-increasing buffs like the Banner provides or many other cards. That viability makes me rank it here in the A Tier.

The Executioner can help a lot in late-game decks by killing so much that has only some health left so your other cards don't need to deal much with it. It's really helpful and helps everything you have on the board unless you're dealing with a boss, which makes it A Tier for me.

Wind Archer is a faster-shooting version of the regular Archer and you can read below why I see the regular Archer as a good card, so I ranked this one here in a higher tier. Good damage, fast, does always what it should.

Lvy is not only fun to watch, she's also really effective once her effect triggers. Especially in lower stages she simply wrecks, there's no other way to say this. But also versatile and nasty to deal with later. The main reason I have her here in the A Tier is that she has the potential to deal so much damage and, very importantly, her poison effect CAN stack, unlike the other cards' poison effect. The only reason she's not in S Tier is that this targets the max health enemies and not the first ones.

Frost can be effective but not too much and it has the pitfall that it can leave you cloaking up the minions and get you in trouble for the boss.

Catapult is, first of all, amazing in early-game of Rush Royale. Just one is enough to wreck the minions and you can focus on building your setup for later stages. The problem is that it falls off late-game a lot because of the slow attack speed and also the damage output not that impressive that it won't insta-kill anymore. Still a card you will use at some point.

Hex does buff your minions plus the extra chance to directly kill. This is amazing, but it won't help at all with bosses or mini-bosses, just minions. That's why it's ranked B Tier (hey, still solid).

The Archer is a well-rounded card and although it's quite basic, it scales quite well and increases damage and fire rate when you upgrade. It can shoot fast, which makes it versatile. I didn't rank it higher because you will get better substitutes later in the game, but overall versatile enough to enhance pretty much all decks.

Cold Mage has one job, and that's freezing. Yes, upgrading makes it more versatile and it can synergize well with certain decks, but on its own it is there to freeze and help you take out the enemies without much more to it, and that makes it a solid card in Rush Royale.

Pyrotechnic is also one of the cards with that weird even/odd number mechanics that simply makes your gameplay so much more complicated. Yes, the area damage is quite high and makes up for the lack in speed but not my most favorite card in Rush Royale.

The Thunderer is fast and deals a ton of damage... once merged enough. And that's the problem, you need it at least at Tier 4 and that makes this card a little less effective for me and cards like the Bruiser are simply better options if you can run it.

Zealot can deal a lot of damage, comparable to the Rogue. So why is it ranked in a lower tier here? Well, the downside is that you should not use mana for Zealot to increase damage. I mean there are solid decks in Rush Royale that use Zealot successfully, but needs to be built in very well and things have to fall in places or it will simply not work well.

The Priestess is great at producing mana but that's about it. Your strategy should be to get some of them on the board early game to get the benefit and you will do fine and merge them. If that doesn't happen (for whatever reason), this card will not help too much.

The Plague Doctor is actually a better version of the Alchemist (see below). It struggles with the general problem that poison won't stack and also that the enemy has to die to actually trigger the effect.

The Vampire is hard to rank as it deals poor damage but is fast. If you manage to get two on the board early and you will start gaining mana frequently, Vampire is not bad to use. But, and that's the big downside, that's not always happening. So, bottom line, can make a lot of mana but you need to be able to be a little lucky and also sacrifice that position for any other card with damage.

The Hunter targets randomly which makes it having, by far, the worst targeting system in Rush Royale. Overall, I have zero problems with this card, but it simply switches in between targets just to get DPS in. Although, I have to mention, the first hit deals more damage and by switching targets a lot the Hunter is able to get some proper DPS in and for that reason I have him ranked in the B Tier. Also mind, it's more viable early game with the massive damage but falls off later.

The Lightning Mage does good what he does and also better than the Fire mage, but has diminishing returns on what he does. You have the full damage on the first target, then 70% on the next and tickling the third target with only 30%. It's useful and there are some decks that make it useful, but overall not the best splash/multi-target cards you can use in Rush Royale.

The Thrower, for me, is a bad version of the Hunter. Attacks a random target but doesn't deliver as much DPS and also doesn't bring anything else to the table to make me rank it any higher.

Portal Mage is not very useful in grinding ranks but in Co-op, it can deliver quite well with the setback that works on every enemy. For the reason that Co-op isn't the most important aspect of Rush Royale and regular PvP and tournaments are more, I rank him here in the C Tier.

Stasis is for me a very inconsistent Ice Mage and I don't find it very useful.

The Poisoner is also in the lowest tier, although dealing decent damage but paired with a poor attack rate. Also, the venom damage is pretty underwhelming as it doesn't stack. Just not really worth going into much more.