Are you planning to or already running Chandragupta 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 Chandragupta perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.
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Tier CHere is a quick overview of the rankings of Chandragupta 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.
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Skill Order
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Best Troops
Chandragupta is all about cavalry and although the only skill part that requires having only cavalry is the 3rd skill – and that’s JUST a higher chance to apply the Exhaust effect, not the full skill. Overall you can run him with a mixed army, but bring as many cavarly as possible to gain the maximum effect out of his buffs.
Best Commander Pairing for Chandragupta
Genghis Khan makes a really great pairing with Chandragupta secondary and they can do savage work the way they interact, epscially if you run them with a full cavarly march. But also keep in mind that they have nothing they can do against getting swarmed so they will have an issue as soon as that happens (See full build here).
Saladin paired with Chandragupta as the secondary commander is a graet rally setup because both see a lot of extra rage and you gain a ton of tankiness from it. This makes Chandragupta a little less glass-cannon, which is always a big issue for him (See full build here).
Takeda Shingen is also a good secondary commander to run along Chandragupta as he does care so much that you do normal attack damage to apply his debuff – and Chanragupta’s mechancis are all about doing extactly that (See full build here).
William I is also a good pairing as you gain the area of effect buffings and damage but it has the restriction that you want to get swarmed (which is the opposite of using Khan), but for that use-case a very powerful commander pairing (See full build here).
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 Chandragupta. There are different builds for wherever you are right now, from beginner to veteran:
Start
Advanced
Progressed
FinalStarter Build
Advanced Build
Progressed Build
Maximum Possible Build
Best Talent Tree Builds For Chandragupta
Below you will find the talent tree builds for Chandragupta 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.

There’s, in my opinion, not too many options you have building Chandragupta’s talent tree. He’s a lot about cavalry and as you really want to run him in a full calvary march, investing all the points into the Cavalry Tree is no mistake. I’d go first into the Skill Tree, though and pick up Rejuvenate for the extra rage so you cycle faster through his active skill that makes normal troops deal much more damage and trigger his 4th skill more frequently. Some players prefer Heraldic Shield but i prefer Latent Power as this will affect his hugeh direct damage factor from his 4th skill + making him more durable is not worth it as he is such a glass-cannon that you need to run him with a commander that helps out with durability. Then go all-inn with the Cavalry Tree and see some crazy results happening.
Best Formation + Armaments
Formation and Armaments are supposed to work perfectly with your commanders kit or you will find yourself very quickly in a disadvantage on the battlefield – and with so many variations it can be tough to stay on top. Here is what the works best in today’s meta:

Conclusion
I hope this guide for building Chandragupta 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.
