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
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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! Also, makes sure to check the pairings guide to see which heroes go well together + our new mount guide to help you breed the mounts you need for your heroes here.
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Tier A2nd Anniversary hero and she is actually more than solid with her movement speed and damage reduction. She is not top of the meta if you're on a high-season pioneer server but complements many players tactician lineup until they can get better specialized heroes.
Season 8
These heroes become available with the start of Season 8 and during the season
Tier SNice AoE damage potential but everything here revolves around his signature skill and needs high star invest honestly to be really at his potential. With his crit boost potential and many possible pairings of strong heroes still an important hero for the season.
Tier S+Powerhouse for single-target damage and boosts secondary strike skill activation and can trigger secondary strike skills an additional time and with the right setups she is extremely competitive.
Tier A+Turn-based damage dealer with lots of skill cycling and more versatile than meets the eye in term of pairing him but leans more into rally.
Season 7
These heroes become available with the start of Season 7 and during the season
Tier S+Provides damage reduction, heals units, and boosts the damage output of main commanders and is for me the key support for Season 7 espcially with her continous rage recovery.
Tier S+Designed for dual-attack formations that grants massive damage reduction and unit recovery based on skill damage instances. Looks very much as an essential Season 7 hero honestly.
Tier SIncapacitating enemies while increasing the strategy damage of his troop and subsequent heroes and the master of field in Season 7.
Tier A+Excels at rapidly firing his signature skill multiple times per turn to overwhelm enemies with high strategy damage. He snowballs a lot but is more geared towards rally usage.
Tier A+A super-healer who triggers unit recoveries and forces high-strategy heroes to activate their signature skills. Super useful for longer fights but also more geared towards rally usage.
Season 6 Heroes
These heroes become available with the start of Season 6 and during the season
Tier A+Recovery and strategy buffer gives her quite a versatile setup, espcially as she is quite open for troops types as well. Feels like she will be a very natural evolution for quite some marches going into Season 6.
Tier SThe future of cavalry here in S6 and absolutely elevates cav to new hights if you used a hero like Attila before, Zhao is a massive upgrade.
Tier AHe is not bad but actually his desired spot is already taken by other heroes so I really question right now if he really becomes all too relevant for the overall meta.
Tier ACould be such a savage but his limiting conditions about heroes signature skill types prevents the crazy combos to really take off (maybe for the better, looking at the bigger picture of the meta in Age of Empires Mobile), but that limits his overall power a bit. Still a good hero in Season 6, but they all are.
Tier S+Healing and skill damage boosting other commanders is already a huge hit and for sure will make infantry a lot stronger but I don't even see him as primary hoenstly athe signature skill that will send your commanders into a crit frenzy is pretty good. For me probably the strongest Season 6 hero in Age of Empires Mobile.
Season 5 Heroes
These heroes become available with the start of Season 5 and during the season
Tier SReally crazy with the immunity to fatal strike but also that is not a cure-them-all and if some situations are that close, having something else than his Divine Radiance in the march would have prevented getting a fatal hit in the first place. Very depending on the pairing you do honestly.
Tier S+Absolutely great kit that not only supports defensivly throuh healing but also increases skill damage.
Tier B+Can we talk about the fact that from all available historic figures, why is Robin Hood cavalry and not archers?!?! Anyway, very focused on secondary strike synergies here which puts him a bit in a cage when it comes to combining him.
Tier AHas a little bit of a wonky setup I found while testing but I think later in the season he will be able to actually do some serious work if you manage to build the team around that.
Tier SVery interesting for the damage mitigation or the upsclaing stats honestly and a hero that will be important this season.
Season 4 Heroes
These heroes become available with the start of Season 4 and during the season
Tier SWarrior - will put counterattacking back on the map. Like big time! If you have something running there and the pairing heroes, you will not regret getting him.
Tier SWarrior - absolutely elevates any might dealing setup you ca make as he burst like crazy.
Tier BMarshal - ignore those theorycrafting icky builds and pairings that claim to make her a powerhouse that she isn't. She is a free event hero and you will love her as gathering hero since most of her kit as healer would her require to be the commander which makes literally no real sense at all. Build her as the amazing free legendary gathering hero you get her as and be happy is my recommendation here.
Tier S+Marshal - basically will charge the other heroes in her pairing to deal more might damage which opens qiote some possibilities. And the fact that she doesn't have to be the commander to do so makes her a ery interesting and strong pickup that I predict into the meta for a while and even later, you can use her to use her percentage-based kit on future might meta commanders and with her quite open synergy tags, she will be a worthy pickup.
Tier A+Tactician - Seems to be an activation trigger for secondary skills so I already have a few pairings here in mind that will be fun to test. Will see more once he is released.
Tier A+Tactician - Her kit has the ability to convert damage dealt into your troops back. If you go through your combos and see potential where this is something that looks promising you're on the right track as she seems really interesting once released.
Tier SWarrior - I am not just excited for her as a huge Vikings fan, also as hero in Age of Empires Mobile she seems to have a kit around ignoring defense which has a huge potential once she gets released.
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Season 3 Heroes
Here are the Seasonal 3 heroes on your server
Tier STactician - Wild primary commander with his movement speed reduction to lock targets in and then extra chain signature skills. Paired correctly a pairing to be feared up into the last corners of the map of Age of Empires Mobile.
Tier A+Marshal - Incredible rage battery that charges up all pairings he is viable in due to troops type and synergy.
Tier A+Primrily interesting for his instant triggering of your commander skill signature that opens. a ton of possibilities although I have problems seing him take over any relevant meta comps right away he is a invest in the future since his main trait, his signature skill, is universal enough to play a role no matter how heroes will evolve in the comong years in Age of Empires Mobile.
Tier AWarrior - 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.
Tier B+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.
Season 2 Heroes
Here are the Seasonal 2 heroes on your server
Tier SWarrior - 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.
Tier SMarshal - overall a great hero that can (or better almost must be) used in all pikemen marches you build.
Tier STactician - 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.
Tier SWarrior - 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.
Tier SWarrior - 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.
Tier AWarrior - 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.
Tier You get her for free in the Audience Event by logging in but there are quite some catches with her. Fiest, she will not synergize with any valuable swordsmen marches so archer is the way to go. She also needs actually to be 5-Star to really become good and then you actually have quite some options with her kit.
Tier SGood news he is very strong, bad news you have to go through the full anniversary hoops to get him and build him and also have Henry V built to really unlock his full potential. Too much for the average player honestly with the way this event is designed but if you do you get an incredibly strong commander and for the fact that he is so boxed in and ahs to be used with Henry I deducted some of his rating.
Tier B+Get him for free in the anniversary event but he is absolutely 100% designed to play into Napoleon. He is bad by himself and there is not really much other hero you can pair him with looking at his kit so there you go with him.
Season 1 (Release Heroes)
These heroes are available at the start of each kingdom and gradually unlock when you start. They gradually drip on the servers on a weekly schedule
Tier 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.
Tier SWarrior - 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!.
Tier SWarrior - 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.
Tier SWarrior - strightforward nuker who hits multiple strikes which can be used to make interesting synergies with other heroes.
Tier SWarrior - honestly pretty crazy and even not being the commander his signature skill can make every pairing roll a lot.
Tier STactician - hard nuker and can be used quite versatile. Only downside for me is that he is a single-target attacker.
Tier SWarrior - 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.
Tier A+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.
Tier A+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.
Tier A+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.
Tier A+Warrior - good healer and support if you build her correctly.
Tier A+Marshal - relatively straightforward kit but can make quite a lot of synergies with other heroes that makes him versatile overall.
Tier ATactician - pretty nice kit and when paired with the right heroes, he will do some work for sure.
Tier AWarrior - 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.
Tier AMarshal - 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.
Tier B+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.
Tier B+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.
Tier B+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.
Tier B+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.
Tier B+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.
Tier B+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.
Tier B+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?.
Tier B+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.
Tier B+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.
Tier B+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.
Tier BTactician - nice active support buffer that works with a lot of heroes and pairings. Not overpowered but a solid one if you use tactician heroes a lot.
Tier BMarshal - 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.
Tier BTactician - 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.
Tier C+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.
Tier C+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.
Tier C+Marshal - interesting kit with some pitfals but for sure one of the best denfesive heroes in the game.
Tier C+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.
Tier C+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.
Tier C+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!!.
Tier C+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.
Tier C+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).
Tier C+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.
Tier C+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.
Tier C+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.
Tier C+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.
Tier C+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.
Tier C+Marshal - good hero for the later-game important gathering team along Cleopatra.
Tier C+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.
Tier C+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!.
Tier C+Tactician - makes the King Derrick late-game gathering march with swordsmen, which makes it worth building him.
Tier C+Marshal - his only real long-term use is in the gathering setups.
Tier CUnlike 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.
Tier CUnlike 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.
Tier CUnlike 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.
Tier CUnlike 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.
Tier CUnlike 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.
Tier CUnlike 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.
Tier CUnlike 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.
Tier CUnlike 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.
Conclusion
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Tribhu is listed as Pikemen+Cavalry, she is actually Swordmen
what is the S rating? And why does Isabella not rated?
Where is jeanne d arc ?
I think you mean “Joan of Arc”