Best Sun Tzu Builds (Talent Tree | Skill Order | Best Pairing) In Rise of Kingdoms

Are you planning to or already running Sun Tzu 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 Sun Tzu perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.

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Skill Order

Best Troops

Sun Tzu is an Infantry Commander, so running infantry is really helpful. Although only one skill is only for infantry units, it doesn’t require a full army of infantry to run with Sun Tzu, so you can also run him easily as secondary commander with any type of army.

Best Commander Pairing for Sun Tzu

Yi-Seong Gye (YSG) paired with Sun Tzu is one of the craziest AoE combination in Rise of Kingdoms and Eulji’s debuff along with Sun Tzu can give crazy damage boosts. Eulji Mundeok is an alternative pairing that makes sense and works similar to YSG, but of course a little less crazy as both are epic commanders. But this can also be a decent defensive pairing very early in the game. Charles Martel or Richard are also great apiring to defend your city early in the game as you get a lot of defense throut them but gain more power through the extra rage that Sun Tzu adds. Alexander the Great can also be an option that gives you durability along SUn Tzu. Aethelflaed can be a good pairing to hunt down barbarians. If you want the extra EXP, use Aethelflaed primary.

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 Sun Tzu. 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:

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):

Wind Scars -.Call of the Loyal -.

Best Builds For Sun Tzu

Below you will find the talent tree builds for Sun Tzu 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 a build for Lost Canyon & Sunset Canyon. March speed doesn’t matter in canyon modes, so this build doesn’t use any march speed at all and focus on what you really need in canyon with Sun Tzu – generating rage and damage. Here’s the path to build this… the first spot will be getting Rejuvenate because it simply boosts the rage machine that Sun Tzu already has so you generate more rage, use the skill more often and then generate even more rage and so on. This is mandatory! Next up will be Feral Nature as the ultimate talent in the skill tree and it will also add additional rage to your already nice extra rage generation and kicks up the total damage that Sun Tzu will generate. Then go to the Infantry Tree and get Undying Fury for even more rage and Double-Handed Axe for more damage. If you have sun Tzu maxed, make your way to Hold The Line and you have a really strong build for any canyon. If you use Sun Tzu in the open field (what’s absolutely not a bad idea), this is the build you want to use with him. It’s not that much different from the canyon build shown above, but in the open field you know that march speed is really important, so this is the build we recommend. If you haven’t maxed out your Sun Tzu by now, here’s the best order in which you want to spend those talent points. First of all, without any hesitation, go your way to Rejuvenate in the Skill Tree first. You’ll pick up Burning Blood on the way that will also generate additional rage but Rejuvenate is killer here. With Rejuvenate, you will get 60 rage each time a skill is used and this also applies to your secondary commander! This means you will get a lot of rage each time you got enough rage to use your skill and this will start getting you to pop your skill faster which also generates extra rage. Now put this in relation to the extra rage you will get from Sun Tzu’s expertise skill and you will gain so much rage that you get you skill running every few seconds, dealing massive damage! It’s now time to get into the Infantry Tree and you want to go to Snare of THorns first because it helps with reducing march speed of the enemy as well and you have some more march speed and rage in the right side of the Infantry Tree as well. Now it’s time to get the minimum talents required for Elite Sordiers, which is a huge buff and several talents on the way there will also buff your whole army significantly. Now you can spend the leftover points in Tactical masteries, Heraldic Shield and Strong of Body to get a really well-working and balanced open field build for Sun Tzu, Defending is also one of Sun Tzu’s finest aspects and there are several builds. For most of you the normal garrison defense build will do it when you defend you city and that’s the one I will show you now. To spend the talent points in the right order, follow this strategy… Start off by putting them in the Garrison Tree and get Nowhere To Turn first for some extra rage and then go over to Impregnable. That’s actually all the points you should spend in this tree for this solid garrison build. Now head over to the Skill Tree and get Rejuvenate. I have explained to you why Rejuvenate is the best talent to get for Sun Tzu above in the open field build and even if you want to use Sun Tzu as your garrison commander I highly recommend you to still read the open field build above to understand why we need Rejuvenate so badly for him. From here make your way to Feral Nature as well and now you have a crazy rage engine going on and attacking armies will have a hell of a bad time dealing with that. Now go into the Infantry Tree where we also have some nice talents to get. Start off with getting Undying Fury for some more extra rage and then get Call of the Pack. If your city gets attacked, it’s likely that you need to fight till the end and that extra defense comes in very handy. Last points go into Double-Headed Axe for some damage buff and you have a really solid build that will serve you best for defending your city 🙂

Conclusion

I hope this guide for building Sun Tzu 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.