Are you planning to or already running Cao Cao in Rise of Kingdoms in one of your marches and want to see how you should invest the talent points, what equipment works best and what other commanders you should pair with? Well, then you’re in the right place, below you will find answer to each one of those questions and this will help you make your Cao Cao perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.
Current Ranking – is Cao Cao S-Tier, A-Tier, or D-Tier?!
- Cao CaoC+Full Tier ListHere is a quick overview of the rankings of Cao Cao for the different game modes. Please refer to the full tier list linked below to see the ranking of all commanders in Rise of Kingdoms and full evaluation and priority.Open Field: ARally: CCanyon: BDefense: DFull Tier List
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Best Troops
Cao Cao is all about cavalry, no doubt about that. If you’re early and you only hunt barbarians you might think about using a mixed army, but also with his march speed for cavalry it doesn’t make much sense using any other troops in his marches.
Best Commander Pairing for Cao Cao
Minamoto with Cao Cao and you have one of the best possible pairs to hunt barbarians in Rise of Kingdoms. If you’re going for forts use Minamoto as primary commander. Saladin is a super solid pair for the open field and Cao Cao primary for march speed. Genghis Khan is a pairing for insane damage that you should consider. Pairing with Takeda is possible but also with low synergy. Pelagius is pretty much an epic mini-Minamoto and with Boudica you can also have a nice streak against barbarians. Sun Tzu can also be an amazing pairing overall with the extra rage you will be nuking a lot.
Find out more about the most useful commander pairings here.
Best Equipment Forge Order
In terms of equipment, here’s what I recommend to use as the route for Cao Cao. I have tailored this priority order that you can follow step-by-step to prevent forging and running equipment that is not useful or only provides a very small improvement. Follow the equipment path step-by-step and you will have the best and most economical gear:
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And for the artifacts I have tested the different ones here so you can see which ones perform the best (of course I only tested/list the ones that make sense):
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Best Builds For Cao Cao
Below you will find the talent tree builds for Cao Cao that make sense when running as the primary commander in any march in Rise of Kingdoms. Please also refer to the description below each talent tree as I explain a general route on how you should spend your talents there + some additional background for each talent build that I very likely will appreciate.
Conclusion
I hope this guide for building Cao Cao helped you investing without wasting much time and resources. If you liked it or you further questions (or maybe also annnotations that you believe should be added here in this guide), please don’t hesitate to post them below in the commen section. Thanks for reading and have a great day and see you out in the kingdoms.
Hey, can you please edit or fix the builds for Cao Cao? The PvE one is incomplete and the one with the speed I think is bad written, thanks!