Are you planning to or already running Diaochan 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 Diaochan perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.
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Best Troops
Diaochan doesn’t care at all about troops types so bring whatever you have – also you will most of the time run her as the secondary commander anyway.
Best Commander Pairing for Diaochan
Yi-Seong Gye (YSG) boosts skill damage and generates rage with the aerea of effect you will have a great pairing. Use Diaochan as the secondary commander, though (See full build here).
Cao Cao deals more damage against barbarians and is overall a commander that works really well as the primary commander when you go up against barbarians with Diaochan as the secondary commander (See full build here).
Minamoto deals tons of skill damage and also has the extra damage against neutral units that makes him a great pair with Diaochan as the secondary commander (See full build here).
Sun Tzu is an amazing epic commander open field pairing for lots of rage and good skill damage. Use Sun Tzu as the primary commander and you’ll fly through the active skills with the rage engine he provides (See full build here).
Hermann is similar to Sun Tzu but use a full archery march with him and get additional rage and deal quite some skill damage (See full build here).
Eulji Mundeok can also be a good primary commander to pair Iaochan with (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 Diaochan. There are different builds for wherever you are right now, from beginner to veteran:
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Advanced
Progressed
Final
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Best Talent Tree Builds For Diaochan
Below you will find the talent tree builds for Diaochan 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.

This is the general talent build that I recommend if you want to hunt down barbarians on the map that gives you the quickest time to take them out.

This is a slightly modified talent build and you would use it against barbarian forts as it skips out some talents that you will not use against forts but swap some in that work well for that.

This here can be your early-game open field build and mind that it is all about generating rage but also have march speed as you don’t want your targets to run away from you when apply that massive damage over time active skill on them.
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 Diaochan 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.