Raid Medals are one of the most valuable currencies in Clash of Clans. They can be spent in the Trader's shop on resources, magic items, and even Builder Base loot, which makes every Raid Weekend a chance to speed up your home village progress. Yet many players earn far fewer medals than they could, simply because they do not know how the reward system works.
This guide breaks down how Raid Medals are calculated and gives you practical steps to increase your weekly income.
What Is Raid Weekend?
Raid Weekend is the Clan Capital's attack event. It runs from Friday to Monday each week. During the event, your clan attacks the Capitals of other clans while defending its own. Each member gets five attacks (six if you destroy a district with your last attack), and the clan is matched against a series of enemy Capitals one after another.
When the weekend ends, every participating member receives Raid Medals based on two things: your clan's offensive performance and your Capital's defensive performance.
How Raid Medals Are Calculated
Offensive Rewards
Offensive medals come from the districts and Capital Peaks your clan destroys during the weekend. Higher-level districts award more medals, and the Capital Peak awards the most. The total is pooled and shared: members who used their attacks receive the full share, so the single most important rule is simple — use all of your attacks, every weekend.
Defensive Rewards
Every time your Capital successfully defends, your clan earns defensive medals based on how many enemy attacks each district absorbed before falling. A district that takes three attacks to destroy earns more than one that falls instantly. This is why base layouts matter for your income: a strong layout literally pays your clan every weekend.
Seven Ways to Earn More Raid Medals
1. Use Every Attack
Unused attacks are the biggest source of lost medals across almost every clan. Set a reminder for the weekend, and if you lead a clan, make attack participation a stated expectation.
2. Finish Districts, Do Not Wound Them
Rewards come from destroyed districts, not damaged ones. Coordinate in clan chat so attacks finish districts instead of leaving three districts at 70 percent when the weekend ends.
3. Climb Capital Leagues Steadily
Higher Capital Leagues multiply medal rewards significantly. League placement depends on Capital Trophies, which you gain by both attacking well and defending well. Consistent full clears plus a solid defense will move you up a league every few weeks until you find your level.
4. Strengthen Your Base Layouts
Since defensive medals scale with how many attacks your districts absorb, upgrading defenses and using proven layouts directly increases everyone's weekly income. Do not leave default layouts in place — they are the first thing experienced raiders practice against.
5. Attack With a Plan, Not With Leftovers
Cheap spam armies are fine for cleanup, but opening attacks on a fresh district should target the defenses that threaten your clanmates' follow-up attacks. Taking out key splash defenses first can turn a three-attack district into a two-attack district, saving attacks for more loot elsewhere.
6. Match Your Attacks to Your Skill Budget
If your clan is in a league where every attack matters, save the Capital Peak for your strongest attackers and let newer members open on outer districts. Everyone still shares the rewards.
7. Do Not Skip Weekends After a Bad Start
Medal rewards are cumulative across the whole weekend. Even if the first raids go badly, finishing the event still pays far more than abandoning it.
What to Spend Raid Medals On
Earning medals is only half the story. The best value purchases for most players are:
- Builder Potions, which are consistently among the best magic-item values in the shop for pushing home village upgrades.
- Resource purchases when you are saving for a large upgrade and your storages are nearly full anyway.
- Wall Rings if walls are your current bottleneck.
Avoid spending medals on small resource amounts early in the week out of impulse. Decide what your home village needs first, then spend deliberately.
Understanding the Weekend Rhythm
Raid Weekend is not a single event so much as a three-day cycle, and clans that treat it that way consistently outperform clans that log in whenever they remember. The weekend opens on Friday and closes on Monday, which gives most members two full evenings plus a weekend day to spend their attacks. The trap is that everyone waits for someone else to open, and then half the clan scrambles on Monday morning against a base list nobody scouted.
A simple rhythm fixes this. Assign a small group to open on Friday and clear the first enemy Capital methodically. Let the middle of the weekend belong to whoever is available, with the expectation that they finish whatever district is currently damaged rather than starting a new one. Reserve Sunday evening for cleanup, when your most reliable attackers close out anything left standing. The clans that squeeze the most medals out of a weekend are rarely the ones with the best individual attackers; they are the ones where nobody's attacks expire unused.
Scouting Before Spending
Before your first attack of the weekend, look at the enemy Capital as a whole rather than jumping into the nearest district. Note which districts are at the lowest levels, since those fall fastest and generate quick progress. Note also where the enemy has clearly invested, because those districts will eat multiple attacks and are better handled by your stronger players. Two minutes of scouting regularly saves an entire attack, and an attack saved is medals earned.
Why Defensive Medals Deserve Equal Attention
Most clans think about Raid Medals purely as an offensive reward, which quietly costs them a large share of their weekly income. Every attack your districts absorb before falling adds to the defensive pool that every member receives, whether or not they were online. That makes your base layouts a permanent, passive contributor to the clan's earnings.
The practical implication is that layout work pays better per minute than almost anything else a leader can do. Refining a single district so it survives one extra attack does not just help once; it helps every weekend, for every member, until the enemy meta changes. If your clan has one member who enjoys base building, giving them Co-Leader permissions and a mandate to iterate on layouts is one of the highest-return decisions available to you.
Common Habits That Quietly Cost Medals
- Starting fresh districts late in the weekend. A district left at 60 percent when the weekend ends pays nothing extra. Finishing beats starting, every time.
- Hoarding attacks for a "better" moment. There is no better moment. Unused attacks simply expire.
- Ignoring the clan chat. When nobody communicates, three players open three different districts and none get finished.
- Spending medals impulsively. Decide what your home village actually needs before the rewards arrive, or the balance evaporates on small purchases.
- Leaving the Capital layouts on default. Defensive medals depend entirely on how long your districts hold, and default layouts hold the least.
Turning Medals Into Real Progress
Earning is only half the equation. The Trader offers a rotating selection, and the value gap between the best and worst purchases is large. Builder Potions consistently deliver the most practical value for players actively upgrading their home village, because saved hours compound across every builder you own. Resource purchases make sense when you are one storage short of a major upgrade and would otherwise spend days farming the difference.
What rarely pays off is spending medals the moment they arrive on whatever happens to be listed. Treat the balance the way you would treat gems: decide the goal first, then spend toward it. Members who plan their medal spending tend to progress noticeably faster than members who earn the same amount and spend it reactively.
What to Do Next
Raid Medals reward consistency more than brilliance. Attack every weekend, finish districts, defend with layouts that absorb extra attacks, and climb leagues at a sustainable pace. Do that for a month and your weekly medal income will noticeably grow.
Want the defensive half handled? Explore our Clan Capital base layouts with copy links for every Capital Hall level.
