有“手游界暴雪”之称的supercell公司，在开发了《部落冲突》和《海岛奇兵》两款力作后，近期又推出了酝酿已久的大作——《皇室战争》（Clash Royale）。就像当年的《部落冲突》那样，《皇战》一问世就掀起了巨大的热潮，不但玩家们玩得不亦乐乎，恐怕还有很多厂商会打算跟风玩山寨。
可能有很多玩家都听说了“钟培生”的大名。这位hkesports战队的富二代老板，在《皇战》一掷千金，在游戏中打出了相当优异的排名。他的两个号“钟培生”和“钟培生的小号”长期霸占着排行榜前列。作为一款F2P（Free to Play，即免费游戏）手游，在游戏里怎么氪金是很多玩家关心的话题。《皇战》玩起来花钱吗？0元党能够玩好这游戏吗？让我们来看看国外小伙伴们的评价吧！
玩家：PSGetBeer
Free Players: Did you reach a plateau where you stagnated for awhile?
I started a few days ago, and I'm currently stuck in the 900 trophy range. Prior to reaching Arena 3, I won most of my games and most of those were by 3 towers. Since hitting 900, I feel like I can't get an offense going. I'm at about 50/50 for wins now with some ties, and all but 2 games have ended in 1 tower being destroyed total in the game.
I've studied counter cards pretty well and I can cancel out my opponents cards consistently, but I get can't get any towers down anymore.
免费玩家们，你们在游戏中会遇到瓶颈吗？
我开始玩这个游戏有好几天了，但我一直卡在900分左右。在达到Arena3的段位之前，我能赢下大多数比赛且基本都能拆掉3座防御塔。但到了900分时，我发现我不能再这么碾压下去了，很多局比赛都是平局，只有两场能勉强拆掉1座塔。
我学习了很多克制对方卡牌（部队）的技巧，而且我能一直不断见招拆招，化解掉对方的部队，但我却很难再摧毁敌人的防御塔。
玩家：UVladBro
Nothing is more annoying than be lvl 3 against lvl 5 players and having barely any good cards good card. But those good cards you have are outleveled.
Lvl 1 prince vs lvl 3, lvl 2 pekka vs lvl 5, lvl 1 valkyrie vs lvl 3.
It feels rewarding when you win those matches but damn, your opponent has to do some incredibly dumb shit for that to happen. When you're both paying the same elixir for the same stuff but they're getting more power as well as having stronger towers, you really shouldn't be winning.
当你在3级时匹配到5级玩家（级别越高的玩家，防御塔的攻防就越高）；当你的对手拥有的卡牌比你好，卡牌等级比你高（重复获取同一张卡牌时会升级，使其数值提升）——没有什么比这更闹心的事了。
1级王子对3级，2级皮卡对5级，1级女武神对3级……
当你赢下比赛时才可以获得奖励。但操蛋的是，你匹配到的对手往往比你强很多。当你们都花掉相同的圣水去造相同的兵时，人家的兵比你强，人家的塔也比你强，这你还想赢？（奖励也就浮云了）
玩家：I_Love_Pearls
Exactly! The Prince and the Baby Dragon are always the two hardest cards for me to deal with. I don't understand what I'm supposed to do about either. And I do have a Baby Dragon myself, but it never seems as effective when working for me. They must like my opponents better.
一点不错！王子和龙宝宝总是最难对付的两张卡，我都不知道我遇到他们时该怎么做（把我打得满地找牙）。其实我也有一张龙宝宝，但我用它的时候感觉就不咋地，完全没有对手拿龙宝宝虐我的时候那么厉害啊！
玩家：KarsaOrlong42
For prince I use skeleton army and a cheap ranged unit outside the skeletons to do damage (the army is mostly to distract and slow down).
For baby dragon I use ranged units like archers or musketeer, I'll often spawn them behind a tower so the dragon hits the tower while my ranged units destroy it quickly.
对付王子的话，我会使用骷髅军团充当肉盾，然后在骷髅军团外围放上投矛哥布林或弓箭手这种便宜的远程部队来杀掉王子（骷髅军团能很好的限制住王子的进攻步伐）。
对付龙宝宝的话，我会使用弓箭手或火枪这种远程兵。而且我喜欢把这些兵放在塔后面，这样的话龙宝宝只能打到我的塔，但我的塔和远程兵可以迅速杀掉它。
玩家：azLaR
Started in late February and had no trouble early on (completely f2p). I think I had a starting recording of 30-3 or so until I reached Arena 4. Then I started having a 50% win rate. I tried to analyze my deck, locate it's weaknesses and counter what I was often losing to. Swapped one card in my deck and bam! I was winning 80% of my games and advanced to Arena 5.
Guess what? Same-thing happened, my winrate dropped to 50%. What did I do? Analyze which cards were the least effective in my deck, swapped one card and I'm moving on up. I've peaked at 1615 as a level 6 (level 6 commons, level 3/4 rares, and level 1/2 epics).
Try to understand why your deck is losing. Ineffective cards? Bad decisions? Obviously you're at a huge disadvantage if the opponent has higher level cards but it's still winnable. I've been beating level 8s as a fresh level 6!
我是在2月底才玩这游戏的，一开始也是一路碾压过来（我一分钱没花），一路打出30胜3负的战绩直冲到Arena4分段。然后我就慢慢掉到了50%左右的胜率。我开始研究我的卡组，找出并去克服掉那些经常导致我输掉比赛的弱点。我把卡组充分调整后，我的胜率又达到了80%且顺利打到了Arena5分段。
猜猜接下来发生了什么？又是相同的事情，我的胜率再次掉到50%。我该怎么做呢？继续分析我的卡组，看看哪一张是里面效率最低的，然后不断进行尝试。现在我打到了1615分也升到了6级（拥有6级普通卡、3~4级稀有卡和1~2级史诗卡）。
（我说了这么多，其实意思就是）尝试去理解为什么你的卡组会输。有低效率的卡牌？战略选择失误？讲道理，当你遇到一个比你厉害很多（卡牌等级比你高，塔比你厉害）的玩家时，你的赢面没那么大但还是有可能赢的。我就在只有6级的时候，打败过8级玩家！
玩家：KamahlFoK
I mean that makes sense, some dingus with more money than brain cells will always make up a top player early on in these F2P games. Also explains a lot of youtubers who throw $10k gemming and hope to fuck they can manage to make it back.
这事情在免费游戏里其实很正常。要想成为处在排行榜前列的玩家，多花一些钱肯定比单纯耗费脑细胞要来的效率一些。很多youtube的主播就在这游戏里花了一万美刀，奢望着能（通过直播游戏）来把这投资收回来。
玩家：IAmShyBot 17
But in the end, skill pretty much always ends up climbing the leader board. You can only pay-to-win so much before you actually have to use your brain and not be braindead every match.
但到了最后，还是技术好的玩家才能登上排行榜前列。你可以花点钱在游戏前期打的顺利一些，但归根结底还是要靠脑子才行。
玩家：Wilzy7890
however F2P players, no matter how skilled they are, will have to spend much more time to reach top ranks than P2W players. No matter how much skill someone has, a gemmer with all maxed cards and a high level will still have a much greater advantage.
然而免费玩家，不管他们的技术多么娴熟，在冲榜的过程中还是要比那些土豪玩家费力的多。在不考虑技术好坏的情况下，氪金玩家的满级卡牌和高等级防御塔，总会成为一个巨大的优势。
笔者总结：
在游戏免费化的大趋势下，通过充值让玩家获得强度或便利，是每个游戏都或多或少存在的现象。对于《皇战》来说，根据自己的经济实力在游戏里充点钱，确实会让自己玩的更轻松一些。
但这个游戏也给了0元党玩家不少活路，最具说服力的就是“亚洲之鹰”这位中国的0元党玩家，打败了众多土豪玩家一路冲上传说组，并且在一些论坛比赛中击败了“梵战神”（仅次于钟培生的大神玩家），堪称0元党中的英雄。国民老公王思聪想必也投入了大量金钱，但他目前在游戏中还在20名开外，可见《皇战》并不是一个P2W（Pay to Win，氪金就能赢）的游戏