Best Ragnar Lodbrok Builds (Talents, Skill Order, Pairing & Equipment) In Rise of Kingdoms

Are you planning to or already running Ragnar Lodbrok 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 Ragnar Lodbrok perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.

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Skill Order

When you star up Ragnar Lodbrok, you also unlock a new skill. This helps you fine-tune in what order you want to upgrade the skills of your commander as not all skills are equally good and worth maxing or worth maxing first (in general) – this helps to invest your sculptures more reasonably to get the biggest bang for your buck.

His 1st skill is really nice, it will boost all damage your troop deal (include counterattacking) and also reduce the damage taken. As with every legendary commander in Rise of Kingdoms, you want to max out Ragnar’s 1st skill before you take him higher.

Then i’d also max out his 2nd skill. Not for the attack buff, but for the healing reduction that will be really nice earlier in the game to balance out the Richard combos you see very often. If you have passed that stage in Rise of Kingdoms, don’t even invest here much.

For the other skills, I wouldn’t invest here Universal Sculptures at all. Also the expertise skill is not really worth it as it will only give his active skill a minor buff that will not be that relevant later in the game. So, long story short, if you’re starting out right now, get him to 5-5-0-0, if you’re longer into Rise of Kingdoms, only take 5-0-0-0 and that’s it.

Best Troops

Ragnar doesn’t care much about troop types, so you can use whatever march you want. Especially in the earlier stages that’s what is the reality anyway.

Best Commander Pairing for Ragnar Lodbrok

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Best Equipment

The situation with Ragnar Lodbrok is that you will not have great equipment available when he’s a viable commander in early kingdoms to rally and then he’s absolutely not useful anymore when you have access to the good equipment

Best Builds For Ragnar Lodbrok

Below you will find the talent tree builds for Ragnar Lodbrok 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.

With Ragnar you can run 3 possible talent builds – the first one is optimized for open field and probably the one most will use. The 2nd one is for Sunset Canyon and the last one is more like a bonus build for attacking other player’s cities (which will only work with Ragnar if you’re on a new kingdom).

For using Ragnar in the open field I recommend you to run this talent build here. Here’s the best order how to build this setup:

Attack Tree – would be your first step here and getting Effortless and Fight To The Death are really helpful bumping up the damage that your and your troops deal.

Leadership Tree – is your next step here and Strategic Prowess should be your primary goal here. You will pick up some nice march speed and also some extra rage here on the way. Then go after Armored To The Teeth.

The last points are actually spent in the way you feel it. I’d spend them in the Leadership Tree first (as shown above), then in the Attack Tree and then the last ones into Buckler Shield. In my opinion this build will give you the most out of Ragnar in the open field.

If you’re using Ragnar in Sunset Canyon, this is the talent build you want to use. This talent build is really similar to the open field build above (please read through my description), the only difference is that you don’t need Buckler Shield in the Conquering Tree in favor of getting Close Formation, this will be really helpful in Sunset Canyon in many situations.

Please mind that you should only use Ragnar in really new kingdoms to attack other player’s cities, in older kingdoms this will fail miserably! This is the build to use. You would go deep into the Conquering Tree and spend your last points in the other trees. The longer I think about this build, the less I want to recommend it. Not because the build is bad, more because the only situation when you can hit other cities with Ragnar well is when a new kingdoms starts sorting things out and you will not do yourself a huge favor running around hitting other cities… but, yes, if you want to this is the build you want to use.

Conclusion

I hope this guide for building Ragnar Lodbrok 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.