How heavy is Barbarian?

There is no official number. Supercell gives the Barbarian no weight and no height, so this is our estimate. What the game does say is that he “relies on his bulging muscles and striking mustache”. The Clash of Clans Wiki describes the level 1 Barbarian as short, muscular and shirtless, in a brown kilt with a red leather belt and a steel buckle, spiked wristbands and leather sandals, carrying a short claymore.

So we made him short but heavy: 1.70 to 1.75 m (5 ft 7 in to 5 ft 9 in) and 90 kg (198 lb). That is a body mass index of about 29 to 31 (90 ÷ 1.75 ÷ 1.75 = 29.4, and 90 ÷ 1.70 ÷ 1.70 = 31.1). On paper that borders on obese, but BMI cannot tell muscle from fat, and on a stocky, heavily muscled build like his the extra weight is muscle. A full-size claymore averaged about 2.5 kg. His is a short one, but with the belt and buckle, the wristbands and the sandals, about 5 kg of gear is a fair guess. That brings him to roughly 95 kg (209 lb).

The build is the shakiest part. At the same height with an ordinary build, a body mass index of 25, he would weigh about 74 kg, or 79 kg with his gear. At the other extreme, the Clash Royale Wiki notes his resemblance to Hulk Hogan, who was billed at 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) and 302 lb (137 kg). A Barbarian that size would be about 140 kg, but he would no longer be short.

Low-level Barbarians fight almost naked, but upgrades pile on gear. A horned helmet arrives at level 5, a fur coat with gold armor at level 11, and at level 13 he wears a fully metal helmet, metal shoulder guards and a chainmail skirt in place of his kilt, with a bigger claymore.

That is far from a full suit of plate armour, which weighed 15 to 25 kg. A helmet, shoulder pieces and a mail skirt plausibly add 8 to 10 kg, which puts a max-level Barbarian at about 105 kg (231 lb).

Clash Royale gives every troop a mass value that decides who gets pushed aside when units collide. The Barbarian has a mass of 4. Elite Barbarians and the Hog Rider also have 4, the Valkyrie 5, the Knight 6, a Skeleton 1 and P.E.K.K.A 18. The Clash Royale Wiki notes that their high mass and slight spread force Hog Riders and Ram Riders to walk around a group of Barbarians.

If mass 4 stood for 95 kg, each point would be about 24 kg, which would put the Knight, the Barbarian’s armored “handsome, cultured cousin”, at about 143 kg and P.E.K.K.A at about 428 kg. Those are not crazy numbers, but mass is a balance setting with no unit, not a measurement: the Hog Rider gets the same 4 with his whole hog.

In Clash of Clans, housing space is the closest thing to size. The Barbarian takes 1 space, the smallest amount any troop needs, which he shares with the Archer and the Goblin. Five of them fit in the room of one Giant. That also makes him easy to throw around: even a level 1 Spring Trap can fling 10 housing spaces, so it always launches a Barbarian off the map. Only troops with a speed of 32 or more cross the trap before it fires, and his is 18. A Mortar shell knocks Barbarians back by 2 tiles.