April 14, 2025

Best Tokugawa Ieyasu Builds (Talents, Skill Order, Pairing & Equipment) In Rise of Kingdoms

Are you planning to or already running Tokugawa Ieyasu 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 Tokugawa Ieyasu perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.

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Tokugawa Ieyasu

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Skill Order

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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: 5555 and this is the recommended way to get there:

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Best Troops

As garrison troop types isn’t something he actually cares all too much about (depending where you use him). Ideally you want as much infantry with you as possible because of his 2nd skill, though

Best Commander Pairing for Tokugawa Ieyasu

Gorgo

Heraclius

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Gorgo for mixed garrison you for sure want to pair him up with Gorgo and you will have quite a nice setup going on that will be hard to crack. Heraclius is an altenrtive for mixed garrison pairing if Gorgo is not possible for you. – -. – -. – -.

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 Tokugawa Ieyasu. 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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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 very important accessory for Sargon as it will allow him to get his active skill going quicker, making normal attacks deal skill damage and stacking up the skill debuff from his 2nd skill. Now that the enemy takes 30% more skill damage, cycling through his active skill gets even more important.Ring of Doom is probably the other best choice to increase the damage as you will gain more damage without requirements.

Best Builds For Tokugawa Ieyasu

Below you will find the talent tree builds for Tokugawa Ieyasu 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.If you’re actively using him for garrison, this is the talent build you want to rock him withThis talent tree here is for using him primarily for the sake of boosting Smite damage, which is often not the optimal situation but I feel I still want to show it

Conclusion

I hope this guide for building Tokugawa Ieyasu 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.