Are you planning to or already running Yi Sun-Sin (YSS) 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 Yi Sun-Sin (YSS) perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.
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Skill Order
Skill 1
Skill 2
Skill 3
Skill 4
Expertise
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Best Troops
YSS works best with all troop types and actually his expertise skill wants you to use at least two different troops types (which is the case when defending).
Best Commander Pairing for Yi Sun-Sin (YSS)
Theodora is one of the two commanders that make sense pairing along YSS. She has incredible anti-swarm abilities and deals damage to multiple targets at once so they work really well together (See full build here).
Wu Zetian deals well with rally armies and along YSS they will make a great defensive team (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 Yi Sun-Sin (YSS). There are different builds for wherever you are right now, from beginner to veteran:
Start
Advanced
Progressed
Final
Starter Build
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Best Talent Tree Builds For Yi Sun-Sin (YSS)
Below you will find the talent tree builds for Yi Sun-Sin (YSS) 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, in my opinion, the best talent build to use with YSS as the primary commander for defending structures. As you don’t want to use YSS as the primary commander unless you have him upgraded fairly well, there’s no real recommended order here as all talents will add damage reduction, more damage when defeding or increasing stats and counterattack damage.
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 Yi Sun-Sin (YSS) 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.
would you recommend this commander for my farm accounts, is your build still up to date? I have no other garrison commander as legendary
well, if it’s for your farm account you won’t spend money on it so I don’t think it’s dramatic to run him honestly especially if you have no other choices. The talent tree is up to date I mean the commander was very short in meta so there is not much to update or not. With a farm account I wouldn’t overthink it anyway since you don’t bulk up there too much anyway