Are you planning to or already running Xiang Yu 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 Xiang Yu perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.
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Skill Order
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ExpertiseLevel 5
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Best Troops
Xiang Yu is about cavalry. His 2nd skill is only applied to cavalry units and also most of his talent points go toward the Cavalry Tree so I recommend running him with all cavalry.
Best Commander Pairing for Xiang Yu
Chandragupta will help you gain valuable tankiness and the buffs/debuffs work really well together, a great apiring to run right now (See full build here).
William I along Xiang You will gain a lot of extra march speed and AoE nuke power but you will lack some tankiness, so you can consider which of the above hit your goals more (See full build here).
Saladin is a pairing that also makes sense as Saladin will reduce damage/skill damage taken and adds the much-needed tankiness to your march (See full build here).
Takeda Shingen as secondary commander in the open field is also working really well as Takeda rely on a rage-engine which Xiang Yu provides and adds nice debuffs to the enemy (See full build here).
Genghis Khan also works great but you will get the problem that both will reduce march speed when attacked and this can become devastating. Cao Cao is possible as well, but you will get a pretty glass-cannon pairing and Minamoto will make it a rage beast (See full build here).
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 Xiang Yu. There are different builds for wherever you are right now, from beginner to veteran:
Start
Advanced
Progressed
FinalStarter Build
Advanced Build
Progressed Build
Maximum Possible Build
Best Talent Tree Builds For Xiang Yu
Below you will find the talent tree builds for Xiang Yu 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 Rage-Engine (Skill Tree) Build and here’s the best order how to build this setup… the Skill Tree is obviously the first step when creating this build and Rejuvenate is your first goal here because it will give such a nice extra rage that Xiang Yu can use so much. I think that’s the biggest bang for your buck early. Then make your way to Feral Nature as quick as possible for the next extra rage bonus. Moving to the Cavalry Tree will now be your next step and Undying Fury is the next piece of the puzzle here, adding another good bunch of extra rage that you will directly see on the battlefield. Then go to Emblazoned Shield, that will give you some versatility and reduce some damage taken and buff your whole march as well. From here spend the last points as shown in the image.
Here’s an alternative build for Xiang Yu in the open field where you have many situations where you go into a battle and then back off after a short time. This doesn’t favor his mechanics of being in the battle for a long time and roll more and more rage. Here’s the best order how to build this setup… the Skill Tree is obviously the first step when creating this build and Rejuvenate is your first goal here because it will give such a nice extra rage that Xiang Yu can use so much. I think that’s the biggest bang for your buck early. Now the Cavalry Tree is now your goal and make your path towards Rallying Cry. Then get Tactical Mastery and Heraldic Shield in the Skill Tree and Undying Fury in the Cavalry Tree and spend the last points in the skill tree to finish this build.
Best Formation + Armaments
Formation and Armaments are supposed to work perfectly with your commanders kit or you will find yourself very quickly in a disadvantage on the battlefield – and with so many variations it can be tough to stay on top. Here is what the works best in today’s meta:
Conclusion
I hope this guide for building Xiang Yu 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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