Call of Dragons Best Heroes Tier List (Season 1-3) 2025 – with Thundelyn & Thaleia

Investing into a hero in Call of Dragons is not only a very long-term project, it also costs a lot of resources and you absolutely don’t want to end up having done all of this just for a hero that is not that good, right? For that reason I have below a frequently updated tier list of all the heroes in Call of Dragons to help you decide which heroes you invest your time in.

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Also find here the full artifact tier list and the Tier List for the War Pets and the best hero pairings with a priority in what order to build them for each unit type. Looking for the ideal hero pairings for your legions? Find the marksman hero pairings here, the mage pairing here and the infantry pairing here.

The Best Heroes in Call of Dragons

Alright, let’s jump right into the tier list…

Please mind that the tier list is completely reworked to show you how well a hero holds up for upcoming seasons. Also, gathering heroes are at the end

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Thundelyn

NEW

Such a beast with aoe damage, incredible buffs and debuffs and the way she puts mages back on the map where the action is makes her incredibly strong and shakes up quite some things with her release.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

S+

Best Build

Best Magic Marches

Thaleia

NEW

She is really strong and when she is maxed along Thundelyn the meta is set for a while. But there is one detail that puts a hair in her soup and that is the fact that Thundelyn as the main meta hero here also works well without being maxed with Theia so that makes building Thaleia a bit of a powercreep overall and for most players 5111 Thundelyn with maxed Theia makes a lot more sense than 5555 Thundelyn and Thaleia.

Rarity:Legendary

Best Build

Best Magic Marches

Zayda

S

Dethroing Ffraegar and Syndrion in terms of DPS with Maggrat - but she is an amazing marksman hero that goes well with pretty much all marksman heroes in the game.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

S

Season 3:

B

Best Build

Best Marksman Marches

Maggrat

S

The new hero you want to garrison OR you can use along Zayda for the highest DPS legion to run - which obviously puts her that high on the list. Incredible hero overall.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

S

Season 3:

B

Best Build

Best Marksman Marches

Urag

A+

Incredible kit overall, really crazy stuff. But also needs some survivability. Still, we know how new heroes are introduced in the game and this is just a straightforward damage-dealing monster cavalry commander.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

A+

Best Build

Best Cavalry Marches

Skogul

A+

So far infantry was used for meatshielding and now you have Goresh and Skogul that can force enemies to attack them and melt them with counterattack which had a huge impact on the meta and they are quite a mandatory infantry march to have in the endgame in Call of Dragons.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

S+

Season 3:

A+

Best Build

Best Infantry Marches

Goresh

A+

So far infantry was used for meatshielding and now you have Goresh and Skogul that can force enemies to attack them and melt them with counterattack which had a huge impact on the meta and they are quite a mandatory infantry march to have in the endgame in Call of Dragons.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

S+

Season 3:

A+

Best Build

Best Infantry Marches

Liliya

A

Liliya has really nice area damage from her active skill. Her passive skills only buffs damage against Darklings and Dark Creatures and the other one only buffs magic units but especially with the release of the game and how (comparable) cheap you can obtain her compared to some other legendary heroes in Call of Dragons. Great damage and probably THE hero you will see brawling around most right now for a reason. You need to invest some money but .still today a year after release she is the one hero you see for magic marches all the time which makes me rank her on the very top (still) and I am willing to die on that hill in 2024.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

S+

Season 2:

S

Season 3:

B

Best Build

Best Magic Marches

Velyn

A

Similar to Liliya and works with freeze and magic damage but has overall a great kit and is a great hero to run in the open field. Why not ranked above Liliya? I really like his control kit but Liliya can overall deal a lot more damage and although they make a amazing apir together, Liliya is just a small tick better because of the damage she deals and also she's easier to build with a small invest compared to Velyn. Still Velyn can be build quite well through the Daily Packs and with the Season 1 Stones you got and is overall just an incredible hero in Call of Dragons right now. He will still be meta in Season 2 for mage legions along Liliya.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

S+

Season 2:

A+

Season 3:

B

Best Build

Best Magic Marches

Ffraegar

A

As a marksman hero she has very far range with her active skill (while all other marksman heroes in Call of Dragons have medium range) and the way her self-buff works seems like she is more about dealing with Behemoths but all her kit is about critting and she can also reduce the target rage accumulation..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

S+

Season 3:

A+

Best Build

Best Marksman Marches

Syndrion

A

His synergy and value in Season 2 when paired with Ffraegar secondary is pretty good and they make one of the best pairings in Call of Dragons right now for all kinds of situations, espcially with the new artifacts and now war pets as well..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

S+

Season 3:

A+

Best Build

Best Marksman Marches

Tobin

A

Please mind, he is designed to run with Urag and this is when he really performs well. If you don't build Urag, there is no real reason to even think about Tobin!.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

A

Best Build

Best Cavalry Marches

Kinnara

A

Kinnara is a very strong open field hero and all of her skills are about debuffing her target legion, dealing damage and locking the target in, making her one of the best PvP heroes in Call of Dragons. I love her but the way to obtain her through the wheel is quite expensive so I ranked her here slightly lower but she is an amazing marksman hero and with the war pet that deals damage on DEF break even better..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

S

Season 2:

A

Season 3:

B+

Best Build

Best Marksman Marches

Forondil

A

His kit is super interesting and extremely anti-makrsman so this could actually elevate the cavalry into the meta and he also has the control tree along his control-heavy active skill. There needs to happen a lot to not hear a lot about him in Season 2. I don't want to rank him final here and then everyone is building him as I feel we need some more testing, but I see him in the High A Tier at this point as he is not that mandatory for normal players.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 2:

S

Season 3:

A

Best Build

Best Cavalry Marches

Madeline

A

Madeline has a nice attack bonus and shield with her active skill, that you can combine very well with any other hero that has active skill damage on the primary skill. Also, the increased legion capacity and anti-swarming tech she has when surrounded make her a great hero (although building her through wheel is quite expensive). At the end she has proven her value for every situation that requires tanking and staying alive and with the new war pets her value became even more versatile and even with the infantry meta of Skogul and Goresh, you can easily run two infantry marches where she leads the other one..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

A

Season 2:

B+

Season 3:

A+

Best Build

Best Infantry Marches

Theodore

A

I like the skill tree combination with garrison and cavalry and his skills have extra defense what cavalry really needs. I feel paired right so you can make sue of the extra skill damage through a secondary hero that debuffs can make him a strong option as well. I see him running the show with Forondil as pairing towards end of Season 2 but for the average player a tough invest..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 2:

B+

Season 3:

B+

Best Build

Best Cavalry Marches

Danfel

B+

Quite infantry heavy invest and worth it if you want to do it but for most players I don't really see it.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

S

Best Build

Best Infantry Marches

Bertrand

B+

A few words of caution here to explain the (not)ranking. Usually new heroes a super strong but take some time and magic flying archetype is new. But, right now there is nothing else to do with Bertrand to pair with Tohar as this is the only real pairing that makes sense and the current flying and magic marches do a good job already. I see them a lot more used and valuable in a couple months but right now I would rank them quite low in the B Tier. Not because they are weak, just because the invest versus what you get is pretty bad. I am certain this will change and if you feel adventerous and invest the money to build them you probably will have them at the point when they do really well ready, but for most players I don't want to recommend them on speculations as you really don't need them right now..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 2:

B+

Season 3:

B+

Best Build

Best Magic Marches

Hosk

B+

Hosk offers a great buff on all stats plus his passive skill makes him an outstanding rally leader himself and he can be paired with pretty much any other hero in Call of Dragons as his skill kit and active skill is a universal buff. The only big downside is that the early stages of the game are not really about him unless you lead the rally and you need a lot of Honour Levels to be able to actually purchase him. I think investing in him is nothing you will regret in the long run but right now in the early season(s) you don't actually need him neccessarily unless you aim for the top and are one of the leading players in your alliance..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

A

Season 2:

A

Season 3:

A

Best Build

Garwood

B+

Garwood can heal wounded units with his active skill and be paired well with any other hero that is more on the glass cannon side with less survivability, offering the full package of defensive and surviving passive skills. The only issue with garrisoning this hero is that there's literally no damage you will deal and is more about exhausting attackers and if you think that the new infantry heroes in Season 2 pushed him out of the meta, well, I have a surprise here. More and more players use two infantry marches and the sturdy one is using Garwood so he is even more used than before now..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

B+

Season 2:

B

Season 3:

B

Best Build

Best Infantry Marches

Mogro

B

Can do nasty stuff with his kit but not so much a hero for every player and needs the specific artifacts, Danfel maxed and all together more a powercreep than an universal hero to use..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

A

Best Build

Best Infantry Marches

Tohar

B

A few words of caution here to explain the (not)ranking. Usually new heroes a super strong but take some time and magic flying archetype is new. But, right now there is nothing else to do with Bertrand to pair with Tohar as this is the only real pairing that makes sense and the current flying and magic marches do a good job already. I see them a lot more used and valuable in a couple months but right now I would rank them quite low in the B Tier. Not because they are weak, just because the invest versus what you get is pretty bad. I am certain this will change and if you feel adventerous and invest the money to build them you probably will have them at the point when they do really well ready, but for most players I don't want to recommend them on speculations as you really don't need them right now..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 2:

B

Season 3:

B

Best Build

Best Magic Marches

Nico

B

Nico has some debuffing and damage and makes a quite accessible marksman legion hero to run. I love this little red bubblehead and he is a fine marksman, but he does fall off recently in the ways the meta transitions towards Season 2. Still, if you. pull him it is no mistake to invest in him..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

B+

Season 2:

B

Season 3:

C

Best Build

Best Marksman Marches

Emrys

B

Emrys has a great active skill that deals a lot of damage to the target + paired with his extra rage accumulation when entering a battle makes him a real threat all the time when he's out there in Call of Dragons. He's that damage dealer you want to run with cavalry legions but he has a similar fate like Bakshi that cavalry is just not that great and new cavalry commanders don't really improve his situation and I feel that flying cavalry will come more into meta in Season 2 and beyond but cavalry is getting more and more used to get flags that are far away so he still maintins a solid spot here..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

A

Season 2:

B+

Season 3:

B

Best Build

Best Cavalry Marches

Bakshi

B

Bakshi's buffs and skill damage is simply powerful and on point - his only downside is that multiple targets are simply not working well with him as everything he does is for single-target damage. You can get him through Gold Chest but building his skills can become quite a bottleneck but if you're into cavalry you should have him on the list. He is not the best cavalry hero anymore but since cavalry is used more and more to capture flags he still remains important enough..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

S

Season 2:

A+

Season 3:

B+

Best Build

Best Cavalry Marches

Theia

C+

Shielding and buffing makes her a gereat support hero to run along but on her own she really has trouble as attacks can literally go forever with her not dealing damage but also barely taking damage. I rank her now higher as she is simply a very universal legendary hero that can be added to pretty much any legion you want to make more durable or makes a great rally support legion or whenever you need to harden a legion to sustain more. Also, as marksman marches don#t have that much of range you can use her to make one of the marksman heroes more durable as off-tank legion..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

B+

Season 2:

C+

Season 3:

C+

Best Build

Waldyr

C+

Waldyr is the highest-ranked epic hero in Call of Dragons as his kit is just extremely great, building him is quite easy compared to the legendaries and his talent tree is just on point to do PvP in the early stages. I think no player should refuse to have him very high on the priority list right now and you can combine him well with any other magic unit legendary or epic hero. He did slay in Season 1, espcially with the synergies of the top mage unit heroes but in reality Season 2 put him a little more to the ground with more legendaries running around..

Rarity:Epic

Season 1:

A+

Season 2:

B+

Season 3:

C

Best Build

Best Magic Marches

Kregg

C+

Kregg has good direct skill damage plus delayed area damage plus an amazing buff from the first passive skill. BUT, from here the other passive skills are really tough and require you only to use flying units in your legion and you need to build barricades and alliance buildings to trigger. He has his role but he shouldn't be too high on your priority list right now. Overall you can get away with combining him with many other heroes and he is a great option but overall not too strong compared to the top heroes in Season 2 but with the flying meta he still remains a hero you should have on your list..

Rarity:Epic

Season 1:

B+

Season 2:

B+

Season 3:

B+

Best Build

Best Marksman Marches

Nika

C

Nika is a great direct damage dealer but only useful for early players. There are so many strong infantry heroes and it's hard to find a perfect pairing with her as she deals damage but there is no damage infntry hero that goes well with her and if you need a tanky infantry march she is not providing much sustain so I see her falling out of the meta since Goresh and Skogul appeared..

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

A

Season 2:

B

Season 3:

B

Best Build

Best Infantry Marches

Indis

C

Technically a gather hero but can also be a decent support hero and unlocking her through Dragon Trail is also not too bad. Don't prioritize her but also don't neglect her too much I think she will get a more important role in the upcoming seasons in Call of Dragons. Right now, she is not important so only build her with whatever comes along and be good with it, you really don't want to actively run her right now.

Rarity:Legendary

Season 1:

B

Season 2:

B

Season 3:

B

Best Build

Atheus

D+

Is a good epic commander to brawl the open field with his active skill dealing damage and the passive skills that grant more rage and have a chance to heal. The best bonus is only for flying units, though, but can also be worked with. Building him is absolutely nothing you'll regret mid-term and you can also combine him with other magic heroes quite well but overall he is falling off and I wouldn't recommend starting to actively invest and build him if you haven#t so already..

Rarity:Epic

Season 1:

B+

Season 2:

B

Season 3:

C+

Best Build

Gwanwyn

D+

Gwanwyn has the active skill with the highest damage of all epic heroes in Call of Dragons but overall lacks some good passive skills to really make her viable. So, normally you want a epic hero that also can benefit a legendary hero. With Gwanwyn you don't have that and although her damage is good for an epic hero, it gets outclassed by any legendary hero so build her early until you can replace her with one of the better options above..

Rarity:Epic

Season 1:

B

Season 2:

C+

Season 3:

D

Best Build

Best Marksman Marches

Bakhar

D+

Bakhar has actually a decent direct skill damage and the additional debuff that increases all damage dealt to the enemy legion, but he is overall maybe only useful to run as early-stage garrison commander which will also bring problems. I'm really not too much of a fan of him right now and I doubt that he will out of a sudden claim a good spot in Season 2. He is just not useful in the meta.

Rarity:Epic

Season 1:

B+

Season 2:

C+

Season 3:

D

Best Build

Best Infantry Marches

Alwyn

D

Alwyn deals solid direct damage with his active skill but also adds damage over time that is quite nice and the march speed debuff can be handy to prevent the enemy from trying to get away. Just overall a super nasty kit to deal with and probably one of the best heroes to build in the early stages of the game and also a great hero to combine with epic magic hero like Waldyr or Alwyn or with one of the top magic legendary heroes like Liliya or Velyn. Now with entering Season 2, though, he is falling off more and more and is more a backup pair if you need another mage for you march than a hero you want to actively invest in and build. Still a very early game hero and the fact that Waldyr is so strong and Lilya is so easy accessible for small money never really gave him a chance..

Rarity:Epic

Season 1:

B+

Season 2:

C

Season 3:

D

Best Build

Best Magic Marches

Eliana

D

Eliana has this shield and damage in her active skill but she is primarily a hero to have in the legion to make it tankier and more sustain and not run the show by her own. She is more like a backup-pairing for many heroes if you don't have better options although she is quite easy to build through the events where you can obtain a lot of tokens by rally Dark Eliana legions. Still not in the meta at no point in the game..

Rarity:Epic

Season 1:

B

Season 2:

C

Season 3:

D

Best Build

Alistair

D

Alistair is not that great as he is cavalry, his kit is partly about rally cities which is nothing many players should care much about in the earlier stages and the only interesting thing about his active skill is that he deals damage to multiple targets as a cavalry commander. But cavalry works differently and is not for every player and espcialy not with an epic commander. Not relevant at all..

Rarity:Epic

Season 1:

C+

Season 2:

D

Season 3:

D

Best Build

Best Cavalry Marches

Pan

F

If you stretch her kit out she could be an early-stage support hero to run but in reality her role more converts towards being a gather hero as her heals are not good, the attack damage boost can be alright and the debuff removing effect is maybe the only thing you might care about. Just no hero to invest more than you have to right now..

Rarity:Epic

Season 1:

C+

Season 2:

C

Season 3:

D

Gathering/Engineering Heroes

These heroes are not included in the tier list as they are practically not relevant for combat and you don't want to spend any universal resources into building them. Still, level them as you get the materials as gathering is something you will do and need all the time

Naernin

-

Just like Tarra, don't try to make something funky here. She is a great gathering hero and that's what she does. No universals to build her and you will be good to go.

Rarity:Epic

Best Build

Tarra

-

Okay before everyone gets too excited about the new F2P epics in Call of Dragons. Yes, Tarra heals and has the support tree but at the end of the day the mechanics in the game are the mechanics in the game and there is no real secret way to pair her up. She is an epic gathering hero and this is what she should be used for - and this is what she does great as well..

Rarity:Epic

Best Build

Chakcha

Chakcha is a pure gather hero and you will pretty much max her out from the tokens you get from Silver Chests easily..

Rarity:Rare

Kella

Kella is a pure gather hero and you will pretty much max her out from the tokens you get from Silver Chests easily..

Rarity:Rare

Best Builds & Pairings

Ordo

You'll probably max him out and not use him after a few days, so no reason to dive too deep into him. He is good for engineering so either something on a very new server or something not too interesting for most players anyway.

Rarity:Rare

Best Builds & Pairings

Conclusion

I hope this list helps you and I will try to update it whenever there’s a new update or balancing that changes the meta in Call of Dragons. If you have further questions or anything else you want to share, please post a comment below and I’ll be happy to reply.

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