Pairing Commanders in Rise of Kingdoms can give you amazing synergies but using the wrong commander as your secondary commander can put you on a disadvantage as well. In this guide I wanted to show you the best option of secondary commanders to use with every commander that’s in Rise of Kingdoms.
So, my biggest problem when trying to create this list was… how should I do it? My first approach was listing every commander and then show which commander will be a good pairing. This was something I gave up pretty fast because some commanders are only good as secondary commanders and there wasn’t much benefit for you when I make such a list.
So, I was thinking that it will be a lot more helpful for you when I put here the main objectives (like raiding other people’s cities or hunting barbarians, etc.) and give you the best pairing that you should use for that.
Please note that I have this in close conjunction with my commander tier list so I only show pairing that work well for every cause. You can find my commander tier list here.
How The Pairing Overview Works
I decided to put the pairings here that work well so you can take the ones that you can run or want to work on without bloating the list completely. You will find the best pairings for the different game modes in the color blue in the table, very strong ones are in green and the ones in light green are the ones that are more suitable in the earlier stages of a kingdom but will fade off quite quickly.
Hope this makes sense in the way I described it 🙂
Best Commander Pairing Ranking Open Field
Open Field Meta (5 Marches)
Mixed marches for making the 5 strongest marches possible right now for open field, including 1 cavalry march
Best Talents, Formations + Gear for the different commanders and marches:
- Qin Shi Huang + Yi-Seong Gye (YSG): Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- Sun Tzu (Prime) + Bai Qi: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- Arthur Pendragon + Achilles: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- Hermann (Prime) + Alp Arslan: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- Liu Che + Philip II: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- x + x: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- x + x: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
Open Field Meta (7 Marches)
With 7 marches I recommend having 3 archer marches in there to make these setups
Best Talents, Formations + Gear for the different commanders and marches:
- Qin Shi Huang + Zhuge Liang: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- Sun Tzu (Prime) + Liu Che: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- Achilles + Gang Gamchan: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- Hermann (Prime) + Alp Arslan: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- Philip II + Bai Qi: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- Arthur Pendragon + Hector: Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
- Scipio Africanus (Prime) + Ragnar (Prime): Primary Commander Build and Deputy Info
I like your pairings list, however, if you haven’t unlocked most of the ones you list it’s useless.
Maybe I haven’t searched the page enough, but I’m level 23 Castle and focused on building power and reaching Tier 5 troops with research on combat and tactics.
if you dont know the game, STOP right now. T5 are the most powerful troop, however;without great commanders, those t5 are not worth the money your are blowing…
Order of operations for this game: Get to. T4, VIP 15. do that by investing in City Builds, Tech, Geared Up Packs and buy out the Ancients (Twice a Month) and New World packs (Once a month)
Create enough T4 for 4 full marches 310K ea
get Charles M, YSG, Minamoto to expert level and exp level 60 (6 stars)
DO NOT WASTE SCUPLTS
You can get Epics experted all day long, but be very careful about your investments in Legendaries.
All the BS you just wrote in you comment is based on you spending your way to T5, STOP NOW or you are a DUMAzz.
Strong commanders, great gear, 3 million troops (1M ea Inf, Cav, Arch)
Learn the game before you go T5
Shutup lol you dribble nonsense… gunning for T5 is what everyone should be doing. That being said… along the way of achieving T5s, the original poster and anyone else on the same path will have plenty of time to strengthen their troop total and getting themselves the right commanders/setting up 3 strong marches for whatever type of soldier they are following (cav/inf/arch) one thing you missed on mentioning and for me personally I think is a massive thing to always be doing + collecting (besides obviously working on getting legendary gear) is farming… and by farming I mean farming HARRRDDDD!!! Biggest mistake I made was not farming enough and being left dry of resources… especially in SOC and especially when you have T5s… your resources will diminish quickly otherwise.