Current Ranking – is Emrys S-Tier, A-Tier, or D-Tier?!
Here is a quick overview of the rankings of Emrys for the different game modes. Please refer to the full tier list linked below to see the ranking of all heroes in Call of Dragons and full evaluation and priority.
See how Emrys is ranking in the different game modes of Call of Dragons in my current tier list here and also make sure that you’re running the best faction in Call of Dragons or you might really affect your progress negatively – I have an updated guide on the best factions in Call of Dragons here
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Skill Order
Upgrading the skills of your hero is probably the part where you can gain the most value – or optimize value – since higher skill level upgrade their abilities linear (for example gain 5% of stats per level) but the costs are getting higher and higher. We have designed ideal upgrade sweetspots for every player that will help you pick how far you should upgrade your hero without overspending. That means you can use resources for other heroes that you might have invested in skills not really needed for your cause.
Active Skillactive
Skill 2passive
Skill 3passive
Skill 4passive
Awakened Skillawaken
- 1
5–––Active SkillLv 1 to Lv 5Start hereRequiredPush Active Skill to Lv 5 first. No other skill upgrades before that. - 251––Upgrade to 2 StarsRequiredThis upgrade is for the unlock: Skill 2 already helps as it is, so don't upgrade it yet.
New skillSkill 2- 3511–Upgrade to 3 StarsRequiredThe point of this upgrade is unlocking Skill 3. It pulls its weight as it is for now.
New skillSkill 3- 45111Upgrade to 4 StarsRequired
New skillSkill 4Unlocks now, but don't upgrade it yet: it comes later in the order.
This is the bare minimum setup to make Emrys usable as a secondary deputy hero behind a maxed primary cavalry commander like Bakshi or Alistair. It locks down his primary active skill (Shattering Blows), ensuring you instantly secure his massive 1,500 physical damage factor single-target nuke without draining your universal token stash.
- Open Field Budget Sweetspot
- Flanking Strider
- Meta Build
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Best Troop Types
Without over-complicating things, you want to run Emrys with a full Cavalry legion for the simply fact that several talent builds only affect cavalry units and his scaling 3rd skill is also only buffing cavalry units + you want to make use of the quick cavalry units in the open field when hunting down your enemies.
Best Hero Pairing for Emrys
Bakshi has amazing buffs for cavalry and you can easily run a 5111 Bakshi along Emrys for an incredible cavarly leagion. They are a basic ambush army but require some investment to be viable but youc an run around the open field and easily ambush other players’ marches with that combo (See full build here).
Hosk is a good pairing although the investment is quite high here – but you gain a ton of buffs, survivability, damage and also legion capacity so you can use this quick interception setup to run and tank away any forces that are incoming. Not too interesting for the average player but for spenders a valid one so I have it not listed on top although I beleive that might be strongest combo with Emrys on paper (See full build here).
Theodore give the crazy damage-dealing kit of Emrys some good sustain as this is what he struggles with the most (See full build here).
Alistair is a good pairing, deals damage himself that is alright but also has more rage accumulation in his skill kit and as soon as Emrys is expertised, Emrys will turn that rage accumulation instantly into 100 rage. They will just spam their active skills a lot and have great buffs together. Great pairing to intercept flag construction OR enemies tring to destroy one of your flags (See full build here).
Forondil can work as well but there is one big part that will have a negative impact and that is that they seem like the top damage-dealing pair but Emrys needs to be hit to trigger and with Forondil you will most likely hunt legions fleeing from you (See full build here).
Theia along the Springwardens as your faction can do scary things as you suddenly get Theia’s 3rd skill buff and shielding along with the damage and mobility from Emrys. Not the dream team as Emrys boosts skill damage and Theia doesn’t deal any skill damage. But, again, only interesting to you if your have the Eagles of the Springwarden faction (See full build here).
Eliana is more like a budget pairing with Emrys, she adds survivability whcih can sometimes be an issue you run into with cavalry (See full build here).
Best Artifacts
Let’s now take a look at the numerous artifacts that you can possible use. We have tested many of them and some have amazing synergy and others are more in for the stats but no matter what artifacts you have possibly available, you will find the one that works best. Please also check out the full tier list of all artifacts here to see which ones are worth the invest in general.
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Sorland’s Blade will buff your cavalry a lot plus you can teleport anywhere, hunting down targets has never been that deadly and along the march speed you have with Emrys legion, there’s no getting away. This is THE ambush open-field artifact with Emrys. Storm Arrows will buff your cavalry a lot plus you can teleport anywhere, hunting down targets has never been that deadly and along the march speed you have with Emrys legion, there’s no getting away. This is THE ambush open-field artifact with Emrys.
Best Pet Synergies For Emrys (NEW)
With the new war pet system in Call of Dragons it’s aso important to pair Emrys with the right pet to gain more synergies. Please also check out the full tier list of all war pets in Call of Dragons here to see which ones are worth the invest in general.
Best Builds For Emrys
Below you will find the talent tree builds for Emrys that make sense when running as the primary commander in any legion in Call of Dragons. 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 last talent build and it is actually the only one that is used these days with the way additional heroes came into the game and what else all happened since the game was released. This is the ideal talent tree I recommend.
Conclusion
I hope this guide for building Emrys 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 comment section. Thanks for reading and have a great day.