Best Clash Royale decks for Arena 3 (Barbarian Bowl)

Clash Royale’s Arena 3 requires you to pull off the right combos and strategies if you want to progress to the next level. The best decks for this arena will help you complete it in a breeze.

The best thing about completing Arenas in Clash Royale is that you’ll get to expand your card pool, allowing you to get access to even more characters, buildings, spells, and so much more that’ll be useful for your deck.

Arena 3, also known as the Barbarian Bowl, is where things start to look quite interesting. For beginners, this level will feel like a bit of a step up compared to the previous one as, at this point, oftentimes the enemies already understand basic combos and strategies, including countering pushes and using Elixir efficiently.

While it’s still relatively forgiving compared to higher-level ones, you can still be stuck if you don’t have a decent deck. To help you out, we’ve laid out all the best decks for Arena 3 to help you clear this level easily.

Best Arena 3 decks

With only 20 cards to work with, creating a suitable deck that can secure a win in Arena 3 can be challenging. However, you don’t need to worry, as you’ll find three solid builds below, each tailored to different playstyles.

Battle Ram-Valkyrie-Musketeer deck

Deck composition:

• Battle Ram 
• Mini P.E.K.K.A.
• Valkyrie.
• Musketeer.
• Mega Minion
• Bomber
• Fireball
• Arrows

This deck lets you apply consistent pressure with the Battle Ram while maintaining strong defense and reliable anti-air support. At an average of 3.6 Elixir, it’s fairly cheap, allowing you to cycle back to your win condition quickly.

The core strategy is to defend first, then counterpush. After holding off an enemy push, drop Battle Ram in front of your surviving troops to create a dangerous offensive push. Support with Valkyrie and either Musketeer or Bomber to handle swarms and melee defenders.

Against tanks, the Mini P.E.K.K.A is your shredder, while Mega Minion covers enemy swarms and air units.

Finally, don’t forget to use the spells to round out the deck. Fireball secures value trades against medium troops, while Arrows provides cheap, reliable swarm control and helps you cycle back to Battle Ram faster.

Giant-Battle Ram-Musketeer deck

Deck composition:

• Giant
• Battle Ram
• Musketeer
• Mega Minion
• Valkyrie
• Mini P.E.K.K.A
• Fireball
• Arrows

The Giant-Battle Ram-Musketeer deck offers a versatile, dual win condition that lets you send big pushes to constantly pressure the enemy. While it costs slightly a bit more compared to the previous deck, with an average cost of 3.8 Elixir, it’s still balanced and you can cycle through it well as long as you play your cards right.

The main idea of this deck is to use the Giant for slow, tanky pushes and support it with the Musketeer. Then, deploy the Battle Ram for fast bridge pressure. The latter can also be used to punish the enemy easily when they overspend. With two win conditions, you can also adapt depending on the enemy.

Despite being able to play a bit more aggro, this deck still gives you a solid defense, too. Musketeer and Mega Minion cover threats from the air, Valkyrie clears swarms, while the Mini P.E.K.K.A shreds tanks.

Meanwhile, Fireball and Arrows give you flexibility in dealing with medium and small troops. With no clunky spawner, it’ll be easier for you to rotate back to the Giant or Battle Ram pushes.

What is the best Arena 3 deck in Clash Royale?

Deck composition:

• Giant
• Musketeer
• Mega Minion
• Valkyrie
• Cannon
• Minions
• Arrows
• Spear Goblins

The Giant–Musketeer–Mega Minion deck offers both strong offense and reliable defense, making it the best choice for Arena 3. With an average cost of 3.5 Elixir, it’s well balanced and cycles decently, as long as you avoid overspending.

Your Giant is the win condition of this deck. Drop him first, then support with Musketeer and Mega Minion to provide steady DPS and cover air threats.

For chip pressure, you can rely on Spear Goblins, especially when you don’t have Giant in the cycle.

On defense, Cannon and Valkyrie work together to stop tanks and swarms. Valkyrie can also serve as a mini-tank on counterpushes. Be sure to place Cannon at the right time to pull enemy troops into range, allowing Valkyrie or your tower to finish them off.

Finally, keep Arrows handy to clear cheap defenders like Archers, Minions, or Spear Goblins, which are common at this stage.

All cards in Barbarian Bowl

In Arena 3 or the Barbarian Bowl, there are a total of 20 cards you can choose to take into battle. The number of cards will continue to increase as long as you keep progressing through the levels in-game.

Below is a full list of all the character cards that can be used, their rarity, and the respective Arena in which they are unlocked:

All Arena levels

Clash Royale has 24 unique Arenas to climb through, and the only way to unlock them is by stacking up trophies in multiplayer battles.

It can be tricky to keep track of every Arena and the trophy requirements to unlock them, so we’ve put together a full list of all Arenas in Clash Royale and the exact trophies you’ll need to reach each one.

So, that’s everything you need to know about the best decks in Clash Royale for Arena 3, the Barbarian Bowl.

While you’re here, check out the complete tier list as well as the best decks for Arena 4, Arena 5, and Arena 6 to help you breeze through all these levels easily.