How to Spend Gems in Clash Royale

Hello guys, do you know how to spend Gems properly in Clash Royale? Let’s talk about this topic today. I have received loads of questions about this lately. I hope this guide is good enough to satisfy you. Also, I want to give a big thanks to The Rum Ham for helping me finish this guide (he is the top 1 player in game right now).

How should I spend Gems in Clash Royale?

At first, let’s take a look at our Chests, which can be found or buy in Clash Royale:

Name	Unlocking time	Gem Timer	Description
Silver Chest	3 Hours	18 Gems	Fewest Cards, most common. You can get Rare, Epic or even Legendary Cards but they are extremely rare.
Golden Chest	8 Hours	48 Gems	Pretty popular, you can usually get 1 after every 5 wins. You can always obtain Rare Cards from Golden Chest. Epic and Legendary Cards are pretty rare. The Crown Chest is most likely the same as the Golden Chest
Giant Chest	12 Hours	72 Gems	The Giant Chest is a overstuffed version of the Golden Chest. You will obtain a lot of common cards, a few Rare Cards and a small chance of Epic/Legendary Cards.
Magical Chest	12 Hours	72 Gems	You can get a few Epic and Legendary Cards from Magical Chest. How sweet!
Super Magical Chest	24 Hours	144 Gems	Tons of Common and Rare Cards, couples of Epic Cards, a few Legendary Cards!

I don’t want to buy any Gem!

If you don’t want to purchase any Gem and want to be Free-to-play in Clash Royale.

Your goal in game should be getting level 3 Epic Cards, level 6 Rare Cards and level 8 Common Cards, along with getting to Arena 7 to unlock all Cards. This is very attainable for free-to-play players. In order to do that, you should:

• You are not going to make regular purchases because this is free-to-play. Save your Gems religiously and use them for 1-2 game-changing buys in the future.
• Use 500 Gems to purchase 10,000 Gold. You can save up to 100 Gems over the 1,000 Gold Bundle by doing this. Use Gold to upgrade your Cards, soon, you will find it extremely hard to have enough Gold in your progression.
• Don’t forget to visit Shop daily, spend your Gold to purchase a few Rare Cards everyday as the first ones are very cheap, you can even donate them and make profit. You can purchase the Epic card If you are really looking for it.
• Just focus on only one Epic card you really want. Buy it 6 times and you can get it to level 3. That is 2,000 x 6 = 12,o00 Gold.

Buying Big Chests are very inefficient because you are not guaranteed to get what you want. Also, after that, you may even don’t have enough Gold to upgrade the cards you opened.

I can sometimes buy Gems

• A single purchase of Gems can last for weeks or even months before you are out of Gems.
• After purchasing Gems, you should immediately buy a bundle of Gold (either 10,000 Gold or 100,000 Gold). Just save the rest of your Gems.
• Use Gems to open Chests when you are full of Chests.

The most common complaint I have seen so far in Clash Royale is players feel blocked they the chest row is totally full. 1 Gem in Clash Royale is roughly a penny so you are paying a quarter to open every Silver Chest. It’s better than opening Chests in shop. Opening Chests when your Chest row is full is much cheaper (it’s 50% discount on Chests). You need to spend 80-120 Gems to buy Golden Chests in the Shop but you just need to spen 48 Gems to speed up the timer. At Arena 8, speeding up the Magical Chest just costs 72 Gems, that’s over 90% cheaper than buying in the Shop.

If you want to optimize this a bit, open the Silver Chests during the day and save Gold, Giant or Magical Chests for overnights as you can get better discount for better Chests.

When Should I Buy Chests in the Shop?

Although buying Chests in the Shop is very inefficient but it’s the fastest way to level you up and get all the cards in game.

You can reach level 5 in approximately a week of play and you can learn how to properly play the game during this time. Immediately rushing to high level is not good at all. These are the estimates of cost I did in case you want to level up asap (assuming that you can earn a few Gold everyday from the free Chests)

• Level 5 to 6: $25 ($25 total, F2P takes 2 Weeks)
• Level 6 to 7: $50 ($75 total, F2P takes 1 Month)
• Level 7 to 8: $150 ($225 total, F2P takes 2 Months)
• Level 8 to 9: $250 ($475 total, F2P takes 4 Months)
• Level 9 to 10: $500 ($975 total, F2P takes 8 Months)
• Level 10 to 11: $1000 ($2000 total, F2P takes 16 Months)
• Level 11 to 12: $2000 ($4000+ total, F2P takes 32 Months)

When should I buy Cards in the Shop?

Although it depends on your Gold but first 3 Common Cards, first 2 Rare Cards and the first Epic Cards are definitely worth the money. If you have purchased 100,000 Gold with Gems, getting the 2nd Epic Card for 3,600 Gold is also pretty worth it. It’s much better than waiting for the next time you see it in the Shop (about 1 month). Sometimes, I buy Rare Cards up to 150 Gold If it’s a good card and Common Cards up to 20 Gold If I really want to upgrade it.

Clan Donations?

Just donate whenever you can. You need Gold and XP more than Cards. I did write about this before, you can earn up to 4200 Gold every week If your Clan is active. 

Okay so that’s it. I hope you enjoyed this guide. Please share it with your friends and Clan mates If you found this guide helpful, that will help this blog a lot as Clash Royale is just released in Global today!