January 8, 2023

Best Scipio (Prime) Builds (Talents, Skill Order, Pairing & Equipment) In Rise of Kingdoms

Are you planning to or already running Scipio Africanus (Prime) 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 Scipio Africanus (Prime) perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.

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Scipio Africanus (Prime)

S+

Here is a quick overview of the rankings of Scipio Africanus (Prime) 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:

S+

Rally:

Canyon:

Defense:

A+

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Skill Order

Skill 1

Skill 2

Skill 3

Skill 4

Expertise

Skill Order Finetuning

Below you will find the best order to unlock and level up skills by how useful they are so you don’t have to level the skills up one by one and spend a lot of extra sculptures on it. This will let you use this commander earlier and also saves you important Universal Sculptures in the long run!

Your sweetspot of skills to make this commander useful is: 5551 and this is the recommended way to get there:

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Best Troops

Scipio Prime is an Infantry commander but none of his skill per-se is limiting you to only run a full-infantry march – however, pairing him with other infantry commander plus the talent builds you see below kind-of do. So, I’d just run a full infantry march with him and have a ton of fun without overthinking.

Best Commander Pairing for Scipio Africanus (Prime)

Guan Yu

Alexander the Great

Trajan

Cheok Jun-Gyeong (CJ)

Honda Tadakatsu

Guan Yu has, for me, the best synergy as you gain shield through Scipio that makes Guan Yu deal more damage and overall they benefit so much from each other. Alexander the Great makes along Scipio a march that will add a ton of tankiness and durability and there’s a lot shielding going on along the high-scaling direct damage skills that will give your enemies a tough time. Trajan can also work along Scipio and you might even run a mixed troop march when doing so. It’s a way better version of the well-known Trajan & Aethelflaed march. Cheok Jun-Gyeong (CJ) works mazingly well due to one great synergy both of these commanders share… So, Scipio will shield and decrease skill damage dealt by the enemy while CJ will shield and deal AoE damage. This is a ton of shielding your enemy has to deal with, by taking extra damage and dealing less skill damage. Honda Tadakatsu . Along with other commanders as you can pair Scipio with pretty much any other commander! Mehmed, Harald and even Aethelflaed make sense. If Scipio is your first legendary commander you can also pair him up with an epic commander even a Sun Tzu or Joan of Arc (the epic version) are pairs that will work relatively well.

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 Scipio Africanus (Prime). 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:

Iron Helm is the first gear piece to forge and equip and has good attack stats for the invest

Cloth Gloves is like the Iron Helmet a really low-hanging fruit with solud stats for the investment

Blessed Blade is an amazing piece with massive additional health for infantry and a must-gear piece at this point

Infantry Breastplate has some decent defense for infantry and is a solid next gear item especially as you can use any defensive stats that you can get at this point and they deliver just that

Ranger Trousers are the only gear piece that you can use here that have infantry stats, although it's attack

Boots of Reverence is like the Ranger Trousers the only green option with infantry stats but the attack it offers is in general not that important but rather have it than leaving this slot without anything

Windswept Bracers are the first blue gear to equip and it changes the defense to health, which is great. As I mentioned in so many other spots, health is the strongest stat in Rise of Kingdoms so this is a switch that makes absolutely sense

Windswept War Helm is the next item to use. It will make the set bonus for the Windswept set with additional attack and has more attack than the Iron Helm you had here so it's definitely an improvement

Windswept Boots is not the most obvious next step as most players tend to rather choose The Scarlet Hounds but hear me out. Your previous gear here had attack and the Scarlet Hounds looks very juicy with the 4% health, but with infantry at this point you struggle so much with march speed that the additional march speed in the Windswept Boots is more than worth it and you NEED this gear item to get the second Windswept Set Bonus of 4 items (as there is no Windswept leg gear), and this set bonus will give you additional 4% march speed. For that reason take the hit and skip the health and take the Windswept Boots here

Windswept Breastplate has solid defense and gives you the 2nd Windswept Bonus with 4% march speed so that should be your next step here

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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):

Horn of Fury

Ring of Doom

Vengeance

Scolas Lucky Coin

Concealed Dagger

Wind Scars

Moras Web

Greatest Glory

Call of the Loyal

Horn of Fury is a perfect accessory to use with Scipio Prime as it will help chaining his primary skill as much as possible and keeps it running.Ring of Doom is the other accessory that I recommend for Scipio Prime for more damage. You might conisder Mora’s Web, but I personally like running the ring.

Best Builds For Scipio Africanus (Prime)

Below you will find the talent tree builds for Scipio Africanus (Prime) 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.

This is porbably the talent tree that works best for the majjority of players as very balanced with some exxtra rage and treats from the Support Treee and thenn all-inn with the Infantry Tree as this is where Scipio’s power is. Please also mind that Rejuvenate in the Support Tree does a lot more extra rage compared to the Skill Tree, so two points will be enough here or you very likely go over the rage cap and that point is wasted. If you pair Scipio up with a commander that does healing, however, you might consider getting Coutnerattack and Healing Elixir in the Skill Tree and cut it a little short in the Infantry Tree.

Here’s more a support build that I think will also run pretty great with Scipio Prime, but I would not get Snare of Thorns. Not because it’s useless or it might not work, I don’t take it as I think the other ones are just more valuable but if you decidet o put your points there it probably won’t be too dramatic.

Conclusion

I hope this guide for building Scipio Africanus (Prime) 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.