Totem Thrower Guide 2026: Stats, Tiny Totems and Dates

That's the whole troop in one breath. The rest of this guide covers what the totems really do, how strong it is at your Town Hall, and when it's worth picking over extra loot.

Every stat here is as of October 2026. Temporary troops get tuned between seasons, so treat the numbers as this month's numbers.

He's a big ranged ground troop with a boulder for a friend.

I checked Supercell's season post for the exact wording. It says he deals high damage at 6 tiles range and can target anything on the ground. His first attack, and every 4th attack after that, throws a totem instead of a rock.

That totem does two jobs. It stuns nearby defenses when it lands. Then it stays there as a Tiny Totem, a stationary decoy that defenses waste shots on.

So you're paying 28 housing space for three things at once. You get steady damage from range, short stuns on defense clusters, and a stream of tanks that spawn right where the fighting is.

That mix is what makes him more than a reskinned Thrower.

A Tiny Totem is a stationary unit with a lot of hitpoints and a built in timer.

I pulled the totem table from the community wiki. Each totem stuns defenses within 5 tiles when it lands. Then it loses 500 hitpoints every second, whether anything shoots it or not.

That decay sets a hard ceiling on how long a totem can last:

Those are the upper limits, worked out from the decay alone. A totem under fire dies faster.

The stun itself is short. The wiki lists it at a fraction of a second per totem. Don't think of it as a freeze. Think of it as a hiccup that resets a defense's targeting while your army closes in.

The Totem Thrower has 18 levels, and his level matches your Town Hall. A Town Hall 14 player gets a level 14 Totem Thrower. Nothing to research, nothing to upgrade.

Here's the table for the Town Halls that can join the mass event:

Two jumps stand out. Town Hall 15 gets a level 3 totem, and Town Hall 17 gets the level 4 totem with 12,400 hitpoints.

At Town Hall 18, each hit lands for 1,125 damage. That's a big number for a troop that never needs a lab slot.

Same range, same swing timer, very different troop.

I compared the two stat tables side by side. Here's what changes:

The big one is the targeting line. The regular Thrower can hit air units. The Totem Thrower can't.

He also walks faster. That sounds minor, but a faster pack reaches the core before your Healers or spells run out.

If you already run the Thrower and Healer army, the habits carry over. You funnel the same way. You just get fewer bodies and more stuns.

He's a temporary troop, so the calendar matters more than the stats.

These dates come from Supercell's Cosmic Curse: Portal Panic season post, published October 1:

The season runs October 1 to 31. After that, expect him to leave the army tab.

If you missed the first Battle Options window, the mass event is your cleanest chance to learn him with zero risk.

For two days, you'll get an army of 50 Totem Throwers. It's open to Town Hall 10 and up.

Mass events are where a troop's real behavior shows. One Totem Thrower drops a totem now and then. Fifty of them drop totems everywhere.

That means stuns stack across the whole base, and Tiny Totems pile up in front of every defense.

Use the two days well. Watch where the first totems land. Watch how fast the pack melts a Scattershot. Then you'll know whether the troop suits your normal army when Battle Options returns on October 17.

It's practice with no trophy cost and no troop cost, which is rare.

The opening throw is always a totem. That's the one throw you control.

Wherever your Totem Throwers first engage, the first totems land. So your deploy point decides which defenses eat the first stun.

Deploy them in range of a defense pair, like an Inferno next to an Air Defense. The opening totems stun both, and the Tiny Totems sitting there pull fire while your pack starts shooting.

Deploy them in front of a storage, and you've wasted your best stun on a building that doesn't fight back.

After that first volley, the 4th attack rule takes over. You can't aim those. They land wherever each Totem Thrower happens to be shooting.

Like the regular Thrower, he has no preferred target. He shoots the nearest thing.

That's predictable, which is good. It also means he'll happily chew on outside huts while defenses chew on him.

Clear the buildings on both sides of your entry first. Then the nearest targets are inside the base, and the pack walks in.

The funnel matters more with this troop, not less. A Totem Thrower stuck on the edge drops his totems on the edge. That's a stun on nothing and a tank nobody needs.

A good funnel puts both the damage and the totems in the core. A bad one spreads them along the perimeter, where neither helps.

He targets ground only. That's the catch most people miss.

A defending Clan Castle full of air troops is a real problem. Dragons, Balloons and Minions will hover over the pack, and your Totem Throwers can't shoot back.

So plan for the Clan Castle before the pack goes in. Lure it out and kill it with spells, or bring something in the army that hits air.

The same goes for Air Sweepers and air defenses. Those don't attack ground troops, so they don't threaten him. But they're still buildings, and he'll shoot them when they're nearest.

In short, he's a building and ground troop killer. Air troops on defense are your job to handle another way.

In Battle Options, picking a troop usually means passing on extra loot. So is he worth it?

Take him if you're pushing trophies or practicing for war. A free 28 space troop that spawns tanks and stuns is a strong swap for one or two slots of a normal army.

Take the loot if you're farming at a Town Hall where upgrades are stalled on gold or elixir. A temporary troop helps one month. Loot helps every upgrade after.

A middle path works too. Take him in the first window, learn him in the mass event, then take loot in the second window if he didn't click.

Want to see what bases he'll face at your level? Browse current base layouts by Town Hall before you pick.

Yes, and before most players ever used him.

The wiki's history shows the troop was added to the game files on August 31, 2026. Then on September 22, Supercell raised his damage and hitpoints at almost every level.

A few examples from that change:

Hitpoints rose too. Level 15 went from 3,720 to 4,200.

That's a buff before release, so old previews you watched in September may undersell him. The October numbers in the table above are the ones that count.

The Totem Thrower isn't the main event this month. The Portal Pendant is.

The Portal Pendant is a new Epic equipment for the Minion Prince. You earn Rift Medals in the Portal Panic medal event from October 8 to 25, then spend them in the Trader. Supercell also boosts the Pendant to max level from October 20 to 25.

The October 6 challenge ties the two together. It lets you try the Pendant alongside the season's temporary troops before the medal event opens.

So here's a simple plan for the month. Learn the Totem Thrower early, while he's cheap to try. Then put your attention on the Pendant once the medal event starts. If you're still choosing equipment for your Prince, the Minion Prince equipment guide covers the current picks.