Are you planning to or already running Kusunoki 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 Kusunoki perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.
Current Ranking – is Kusunoki S-Tier, A-Tier, or D-Tier?!
- KusunokiB+Full Tier ListHere is a quick overview of the rankings of Kusunoki for the different game modes. Please refer to the full tier list linked below to see the ranking of all commanders in Rise of Kingdoms and full evaluation and priority.Open Field: BCanyon: AFull Tier List
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Skill Order
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Best Troops
Although Kusunoki is a Archery Commander, only his 3rd skill is about buffing archery units. In reality, you need to use the archer talent tree heavily for open field or rally builds. Only for defense not but I really don’t recommend using Kusunoki as your primary commander for city defense…
Best Commander Pairing for Kusunoki
Yi-Seong Gye (YSG) is probably one of the best pairings with Kusunoki as you can a ton of area damage, espcially in Canyon this is a very nice early pairing. El Cid has a kit that works well with kusunoki with his additional stats and disarm abilities. Hermann has a great rage engine and damage reduction for open field and they have a very similar kit. It#s a cheap and acccessible pairing that you can use early in Rise of Kingdoms and get great results with. Boudica works similar well like Herman but they don’t share as many similarities and you’ll miss that rage engine a little bit. Sun Tzu can also work with his rage engine but you will lack march speed so this is more of a backup pairing to run with Kusunoki if you don’t have any of th above commanders available.
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 Kusunoki. I have tailored this priority order that you can follow step-by-step to prevent forging and running equipment that is not useful or only provides a very small improvement. Follow the equipment path step-by-step and you will have the best and most economical gear:
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And for the artifacts I have tested the different ones here so you can see which ones perform the best (of course I only tested/list the ones that make sense):
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Best Builds For Kusunoki
Below you will find the talent tree builds for Kusunoki 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.
Conclusion
I hope this guide for building Kusunoki 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.
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