X-Bow

What it looks like

The X-Bow is an Epic card that is unlocked from the Hog Mountain (Arena 10). It spawns a single-target, ground-targeting, very long-ranged, building with high hitpoints and very low damage. It appears to be a crossbow with wooden, stone, and metallic features along with a shining steel bolt for ammunition mounted on top of a base with a metal rim and team-colored plates. An X-Bow card costs 6 Elixir to deploy.

Trivia

• The name "X-Bow" is a pun on "Crossbow", which the device resembles. The letter "X" resembles a cross (十), leading to this abbreviated name. In the Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Finnish language settings of the game, the X-Bow's name translates to "Crossbow". In the Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Vietnamese language setting of the game, the X-Bow's name translates to "X-Crossbow", "Giant Crossbow", "Large Crossbow", "Bow", and "Bow Tower" respectively. The X-Bow 1 of 10 cards associated with archery, with the others being Archers, Arrows, Tower Princess, Princess, Magic Archer, Super Magic Archer, Super Archers, Archer Queen, and the Little Prince. Strangely enough, despite crossbow bolts reaching higher speed than arrows shot from regular bows and thus landing on their target with a higher force which means more damage, the X-Bow does less damage than equal-level Archers, Tower Princess, Princess, and Magic Archer. This is likely for balancing reasons.
• The X-Bow is 1 of 7 buildings which first existed in Clash of Clans, the others being Cannon, Mortar, Tesla, Goblin Hut, Inferno Tower, and Elixir Collector. Similar to its Clash of Clans counterpart in ground mode, the X-Bow cannot target air troops, but boasts massive range to compensate. Unlike the Clash of Clans X-Bow, the Clash Royale iteration cannot be set to target air troops and fires regular crossbow bolts instead of Elixir bolts.
• While not available as a building in Squad Busters, the X-Bow reappears there when spawned by an X-Bow Spell.
• The X-Bow, along with Barbarian Hut and Elixir Collector, are the most expensive buildings, costing 6 Elixir.
• The X-Bow's stats are the highest or lowest among all buildings. More specifically: Among all buildings that can attack, the X-Bow is tied with Mortar, Barbarian Launcher, and Party Hut for the longest range of all buildings, with a range of 11.5 tiles. The X-Bow is tied with Mortar, Barbarian Launcher, and Party Hut for the longest deployment time of all buildings, with a deployment time of 3.5 seconds. Among all buildings that can attack, the X-Bow has the highest attack speed of all buildings, with an attack speed of 0.4 seconds. Among all buildings that can attack, the X-Bow has the highest first attack speed of all buildings, with a first attack speed of 0.3 seconds. Among all buildings that attack with projectiles, the X-Bow has the highest projectile speed of all buildings, with a projectile speed of 1600.
• Out of all the cards in the game, the X-Bow is the only card to have a hyphen in its name in English.
• An empty X-Bow can be seen on the Trophy Road as a decoration.
• In the card's description, the "Would be a shame if this X-Bow whittled it down from this side of the Arena..." line is from the old meme that says "It would be a shame if something happened to it."
• The X-Bow is unavailable in multiple special game modes. More specifically: It is 1 of 20 cards that is unavailable in Mirror mode, the others being Minions, Cannon, Mortar, Tesla, Goblin Hut, Tombstone, Bomb Tower, Inferno Tower, Barbarian Hut, Furnace, Elixir Collector, Freeze, Clone, Golden Knight, Skeleton King, Archer Queen, Mighty Miner, Little Prince, and the Monk. It is unavailable in The Floor is Healing sub-mode of the Global Spell game mode, much like other building cards, as well as the Cannon Cart.
• On 1/4/2016, certain Content Creators were given a different version of the game, with an X-Bow that could also target friendly troops and buildings if they were in range.
• Before the X-Bow's card release, the X-Bow's hitpoints and damage were increased by 11%.