Age of Empires Mobile is probably the most polished and complex city-building war game for mobile so far, with a lot more heroes than any other similar game had and free choice of skills that make the synergies complex and challenging. Also, you pair up 3 heroes together instead of 2, like many other games like Call of Dragons, Rise of Kingdoms, etc have shown before.
But this also will leave many players pretty confused at start what heroes make good commanders, what skills to choose and so on, right? Well, we played it from beta so we saw everything that happened to the game early on and want to help you with our tier list and our hero builds in Age of Empires Mobile!
Best Heroes in Age of Empires Mobile
Updated! We fine-tuned some ranks and builds, added Mehmed and Mansa Musa.
Alright, let’s get into the tier list. Please mind to also check out the Ranks, since some heroes need a certain Rank to be actually good and others don’t really need that!
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King Arthur
S+
Warrior - his base stats and kit scale extremely powerful and individually looked at, he is probably the strongest hero in Age of Empires Mobile right now.
Rarity:Legendary
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Lu Bu
S+
Warrior - if you see Lu Bu on the map, run. Like RUN. He is the wild vacalry that brawls around and if he catches anything they will be in trouble. If you want to hunt down players on the map, build him and you will have a ton of fun, espcially if you have the heroes to make hhm a tad less glass cannon.
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Hannibal
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Warrior - are the devs seriously obsessed with Hannibal as a hostorc figure? That is the only reason to explain his kit that is so strong, dealing so many instances of damage and on top even debuffs the target stats. There can't be two opinions about him being one of the strongest heroes in Age of Empires Mobile in the current state!.
Rarity:Legendary
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Leonidas
S+
Warrior - incredibly strong with his mechanic that will hit multiple targets, counterattacks a lot and scales damage the lower he gets in troops. If you don't like him, you built him wrong and for me he is easily one of the strongest heroes in Age of Empires Mobile at this point.
Rarity:Legendary
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Octavian
S+
Marshal - overall a great hero that can (or better almost must be) used in all pikemen marches you build.
Rarity:Legendary
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Suleiman
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Tactician - has for me one of the most interesting kits in Age of Empires Mobile and not just the way how he triggers from status effects he applies himself, this opens a lot of crazy synergies with other heroes as well making him one of my favorites right now.
Rarity:Legendary
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Mulan
S+
Warrior - strightforward nuker who hits multiple strikes which can be used to make interesting synergies with other heroes.
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Miyamoto Musashi
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Warrior - honestly pretty crazy and even not being the commander his signature skill can make every pairing roll a lot.
Rarity:Legendary
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Boudica
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Warrior - honestly she is the queen of counterattacking and that can hurt enemies so badly if they don't know what they're coming into. Build her sturdy and then let the enemies melt themselves here. her healing can be mostly ignored unless you absolutely have no other hero to make your synergy pairings.
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Sun Tzu
S+
Tactician - hard nuker and can be used quite versatile. Only downside for me is that he is a single-target attacker.
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Yodit
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Warrior - can potentially deal nasty amounts of damage but also has some requirements in pairings, targets and also build that hae to be met to be great. No plug-and-play hero in Age of Empires Mobile.
Rarity:Legendary
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Richard
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Warrior - he is the hunter in the open field and whenever he catches a march, he keeps it. Can also make good synergies with strong counterattacking heroes so overall a fun and strong hero in Age of Empires Mobile.
Rarity:Legendary
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Ram Khamhaeng
S
Marshal - really great universally useful hero in Age of Empires Mobile with healing, damage buffing and damage taken reduction. There's not many possible apirings here that wouldn't benefit from him.
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Attila
S
Warrior - incredibly strong, fast and when he is on the field, the legions all over the place want to hide. Very strong commander that is able to hunt down marches and make synergies that also deal a ton of damage.
Rarity:Legendary
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Guan Yu
S
Warrior - a critical strike beast but needs adjustment or will glass-cannon himself out of the battlefield very easily. Use with caution and also requires more synergy heroes that enable/profit from critical strikes to make a big impact on the meta.
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Tribhuwana
S
Warrior - good healer and support if you build her correctly.
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Julius Caesar
S
Marshal - relatively straightforward kit but can make quite a lot of synergies with other heroes that makes him versatile overall.
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Ashoka
A+
Tactician - pretty nice kit and when paired with the right heroes, he will do some work for sure.
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Constantine
A+
Warrior - sturdy hero with a lot of sustain. Not sure overall how this will play out in the meta in Age of Empires Mobile in the long run so where you place him in your investment priority list is up to you. He is not bad, he works but I feel like the bursting heroes work better here and the use-cases where you really want him are rather slim. The only reason to build him I can really think of right now is to counter the Suleiman Seondeok status marches but we will have to see how popular they really get..
Rarity:Legendary
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Bellevue
A+
Warrior - kind of funky kit overall and actually there are many more reliable options compared to her that don't require that much fine-tuning to work so I wonder why you should even consider her altogether. I mean, she works if you build her right and found her pairings but that is such a hustlye compared to other heroes that doe the same at the end of the day.
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Cid
A+
Marshal - great for the healing reduction but his role in the meta will be very much defined how strong the healing heroes are and how well the marches with the healing heroes will do. Right now, this doesn't seem to really kick that much..
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Mansa Musa
A+
Warrior - himself he is alright but what makes him really interesting is that he goes well with warrior heroes that deal counterattack so there is for sure some cool teams possible with him, espcially with how strong you have heroes like Leonidas, Richard, etc. but that also means his high rank here depends on them. If you don't run counterattackers, he is not that useful.
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Queen Seondeok
A
Tactician - she silences and is a real support hero to bring to battle, espcially when you can pair her with heroes that make use of status effects like silence and burn, she can make great synergies.
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Rani Durgavati
A
Warrior - works well since she does deal quite some damage herself and also with the right skills enables other double-attack heroes so a lot of good pairings are possible here..
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Josephine
A
Warrior - she is honestly a littl funky. Most players can ignore the siege effect but the way she uses might to deal damage and recover with quite some crazy percentages is good and paired with other heroes that can synergize with it, she is a solid hero but by no means as overpowered as some sources state.
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Joan of Arc
A
Warrior - needs heavy counterattack synergy and be build for that and then she really can shine and do a lot, espcially when looking at heroes like Leonidas here with her..
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Tariq
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Marshal - I don't want to say missed opportunity since there is something in his kit taht makes sense, but if his signature and commander skill but be the other way round, he would be an amazing hero overall.
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Philip IV
A
Tactician - yes in the right setup with the right skills he works well but he is not as universally good and easy to use with many heroes like the heroes ranked on top of the tier list so unless you really want to build him I wouldn't recommend him for most players.
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Yi Seong Gye
A
Marshal - has a great kit for survivability and combined correctly there is some stuff you can do. I don't like that his flexible skills are really not working all too well with him and he probably would need more synergies to make really cool pairings but you never know what heroes can come in the future, right?.
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
A
Marshal - I am not the biggest fan of his synergies but I think there is potential in the future and his kit overall is flexible and versatile enough. For most players, rather wait it out a bit and spend conservatively on him.
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King Derrick
A
Warrior - has the wirdest skill selection in the game with siege, combat and gathering skills wildly mixed. I wouldn't build his as gathering hero and also siege is only for a small percentage of players. That leaves him being a might damage dealer which he does alright but also not outstanding.
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Frederick Barbarossa
A
Marshal - technically you can use him to make any march more sturdy but I believe that he only really fits into marches that are defensive and sustaining a lot and the use-cases for that is not too much right no.
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Mehmed II
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Warrior - interesting in terms of that he will buff troop damage dealt and heals which makes him quite universal but my big question mark (at this point) is that the pairing options are a bit limited in what akes sense. Still, with the upcoming release of many new heroes I see a lot of potential and I think he is universal enough to be viable in 2025.
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Oda Nobunaga
B+
Marshal - he is alright overall but there's nothing he can do that other heroes can't do at leat as good as he does it..
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Cleopatra
B+
Tactician - yes she has some support buffing debuffing parts in her kit but she is, for me, after all a gathering hero. Here's where I come from with this... if you do build her as support hero and you really want to make her run as what she is, you have to also run her as commander and level her skills that are used for battle. Just to have a sfull support march around which makes this incredibly expensive and other heroes can get you there as well. Why not just invest a lot cheaper in her gathering and use her as gathering hero in Age of Empires Mobile? I am convinced that this is the way to go for most players.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
B
Marshal - lives a lot by what you pair him up with and by himself doesn't do much but is able to make any pairing survive longer and that is sometimes worth a lot. Just a universally well-working hero overall but none that will shine on his own.
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Bushra
B
Marshal - she is one of the few heroes that have the gathering tree tag but honestly are no gathering heroes but great support heroes. The only bad thing is that without the gathering tag she could me so crazy much better synergies but her damage reduction against everything is really well in almost all cases, synergy or not.
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Sejong the Great
B
Marshal - interesting kit with some pitfals but for sure one of the best denfesive heroes in the game.
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Theodora
B
Tactician - her overall performance depends heavily what you pair her with but she is one of the good active support heroes in Age of Empries Mobile so building her is for sure worth it at one point.
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Khalid
B
Marshal - he can be an enabler but only to specific heroes and overall this is not enough for me to recommend investing too much into him.
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Diao Chan
B
Tactician - I am not a big fan of recommending gathering heroes because they have somewhat support to be built as support heroes. Diao Chan is an amazing gathering hero so why building her to be a somewhat okay-ish support hero? Use her for gathering and you will get a ton of bang for your buck! But don't invest any universal material into her!!.
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Hammurabi
B
Warrior - I am not the biggest fan of his kit since a significant part of his damage comes from amage-over-time and there are so many things that can go wrong there that will make him quite a mediocre hero on the battlefield.
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Darius the Great
B
Warrior - build ideally as gahtering hero since hsi damage kit is not working and while a hero like Cleopatra can do some support, he can't do damage and should focus on his gathering role (which is great, just don't spend money to invest in him and build him over time).
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Queen of Sheba
B
Marshal - oh boy, her evaluation is not easy. So technically she is a gathering hero but none of her skills are about that. You can use her as support hero but other than some healing which isn't really doing anything makes her not the best choice for me either. That makes her only real value to be a commander in your gathering march that helps disarm/heal if another player is hunting your gahtering march down on the map and for that case building her or investing in her seems quite an overkill for me, at least for most players.
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Harald
B
Warrior - his whole kit seems really random. Is he a supporter/enabler? DOes he scale, heal or deal damage? None really works well with him and even his damage reduction is only against pikeman which makes him barelyunasable as commander.
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Yi Sun-Shin
B
Tactician - super weird kit that is quite specific and doesn't do much in combat so just build him as a gathering hero and you will get the most out of him.
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Narses
B
Warrior - can make an early cavalry epic pairing and becomes later part of the strong go-to gathering teams so actually a hero you will use in all stages in Age of Empires Mobile to a certain degree..
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Nino
B
Tactician - is important later for one of the important gathering lineups. Other than that, not so much. But that already make him one of the few epic heroes that make sense building in Age of Empires Mobile.
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Yuan Xia
B
Tactician - honestly, I saw sources recommend him paired with all types of heroes for the buff tag, but honestly his skillset is not working too well there. Where he is working well is with Cleopatra in the late game gathering team and this is what you actually would build him for..
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Leon
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Marshal - good hero for the later-game important gathering team along Cleopatra..
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Leo
B
Marshal - In general a nice support and recovery hero that you will, unless you are quite a spender in Age of Empires Mobile, probably use for a while until you build the legendary counterparts and then degrade him to be a gathering pairing. Just don't invest too much into him with that in mind and he has his uses..
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Kaso
B
Warrior - He is solid overall and you can fit him early into many cavalry/warrior teams until you build your legendaries. Ignore the gathering parts of his optinal skills, though, he does a lot better dealing damage!.
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Baldassi
B
Tactician - makes the King Derrick late-game gathering march with swordsmen, which makes it worth building him.
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Thanius
B
Marshal - his only real long-term use is in the gathering setups..
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Cui Ruyi
C
Unlike other epic heroes that will make the later-game used gathering teams, this epic hero has no long-term use in the game so don't invest any universals here as you will replace it more early than not..
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Axel
C
Unlike other epic heroes that will make the later-game used gathering teams, this epic hero has no long-term use in the game so don't invest any universals here as you will replace it more early than not..
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Clyde
C
Unlike other epic heroes that will make the later-game used gathering teams, this epic hero has no long-term use in the game so don't invest any universals here as you will replace it more early than not..
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Gatos
C
Unlike other epic heroes that will make the later-game used gathering teams, this epic hero has no long-term use in the game so don't invest any universals here as you will replace it more early than not..
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Li Daoxuan
C
Unlike other epic heroes that will make the later-game used gathering teams, this epic hero has no long-term use in the game so don't invest any universals here as you will replace it more early than not..
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Luki
C
Unlike other epic heroes that will make the later-game used gathering teams, this epic hero has no long-term use in the game so don't invest any universals here as you will replace it more early than not..
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Gao Meng
C
Unlike other epic heroes that will make the later-game used gathering teams, this epic hero has no long-term use in the game so don't invest any universals here as you will replace it more early than not..
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Wu Wei
C
Unlike other epic heroes that will make the later-game used gathering teams, this epic hero has no long-term use in the game so don't invest any universals here as you will replace it more early than not..
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Cao Cao
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Not released yet.
Rarity:Legendary
Charlemagne
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Not released yet.
Rarity:Legendary
Henry V
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Not released yet.
Rarity:Legendary
Alexander the Great
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Not released yet.
Rarity:Legendary
Conclusion
I hope this list helps you and if you have further questions please let us know in the comments and we’ll be happy to help.
