Best Heroes in Age of Empires Mobile

Age of Empires Mobile is a popular base-building mobile MMO that allows you to create your own civilization from the ground up. You can raise a massive army, recruit powerful heroes, and join alliances to become the strongest in the empire. But there are over 40 different heroes to choose as commanders.

With so many heroes to recruit but limited resources, using them on the ones that provide the greatest value should be your priority. But knowing which heroes are better than others can be quite difficult. So, to help you with that, here’s a complete tier list for Age of Empires Mobile.

This tier list consists of heroes that are currently available in Age of Empires Mobile and of rarity, Legendary and above. Moreover, it’s a subjective ranking from the author’s perspective and might change in the future with new additions or balance changes.

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Age Of Empires Mobile Hero Tier List

S-Tier Heroes

The S-tier heroes in Age of Empires Mobile are the strongest characters that you can get your hands on. Any investment of EXP books and Skill Points into these heroes will be worth it both in the early and late game. Their base skills are also quite powerful from the get-go and become even stronger when ranked up.

King Arthur

King Arthur is the only Mythical rarity hero in Age of Empires Mobile and for a good reason. His skills are absolutely broken, and he can deal insane amounts of damage. His commander skill, ‘Glory of Knigh,’ deals high damage and also boosts his stats significantly.

Moreover, his secondary skill allows him to deal additional damage while ignoring enemy defenses. If you can get him, using him as your primary commander for a Swordsmen or Cavalry regiment is a must.

Attila The Hun

Attila the Hun is an extremely strong secondary commander, especially because of his skill, ‘Annihilator,’ which allows every allied hero in the army to enter the ‘Double Attack‘ state, which essentially doubles the DPS of your heroes. Moreover, he’s an excellent pairing unit for any Archer or Cavalry regiment because he provides additional stat boosts to those regiment types.

Hua Mulan

Hua Mulan is the strongest archer regiment commander in Age of Empires Mobile. Her skills allow her to deal damage multiple times whenever she launches a normal attack. This, when paired with the likes of Attila, who can double normal attacks, makes a truly broken combination.

Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi is a must-have hero for any Swordsmen regiment in your army. He also has one of the most broken secondary skills, called ‘Moment of Yin.’ This skill can make another hero in your army immediately trigger their signature active skill. When paired with heroes like King Arthur or Tribhuwana, your army will have a monstrous DPS.

Hannibal

Hannibal is similar to Hua Mulan regarding skill set and provides almost the same effects, but it caters to the Cavalry instead of the Archers. Moreover, he can also debuff enemy heroes when triggering his secondary skills. The only downside is that there aren’t many Cavalry hero commanders to pair him with. But, you can pair him with supporters like Justinian the Great or Ashoka to get the most value.

Leonidas

Leonidas is one of the four Legendary Pikemen commanders in Age of Empires Mobile and is by far the strongest among them. He specializes in counterattacks and has a unique active skill, ‘Firm Strike,’ which strengthens as you lose more units.

Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu is the strongest strategy damage dealer in Age of Empires Mobile. His active and secondary skills trigger the ‘Ultimate Strategist’ buff, which deals additional strategy damage whenever a skill is used in battle. This effect cascades into more damage every time his skills are triggered, making his damage potential unbelievably high.

Queen Seondeok

Among all the archer commanders, Queen Seondeok is the only one who can deal Strategy damage while also inflicting strong debuffs like Silence and Burn. Her Silence debuff is extremely strong for PvP fights, which can disrupt any enemy army formation.

Tribhuwana

Tribhuwana is the strongest support for any Swordsmen regiment and is a must-have character in the late game. Her support skill ‘Ode to Java’ is extremely broken, and can turn the tide of any battle in your favor.

This skill increases the activation chance of the main commander’s signature skill and heals your army every four times an active skill is used. When placed alongside heroes with broken signature skills like King Arthur or even Miyamoto Musashi, you can make your army quite overpowered.

Diao Chan

Diao Chan is support type hero in Age of Empires Mobile. Unlike other heroes, she specializes as a gathering hero rather than any combat. Her entire skillset is geared towards boosting gathering speed and efficiency, making her the best hero for collecting resources.

Not just that, her signature skill, ‘Unit Charge, ‘ multiplies a significant chunk of gathered resources by 1.5 times every day. This skill basically creates resources out of thin air without any downsides.

A-Tier Heroes

The A-tier heroes in Age of Empires Mobile are great options to include in your army, and with a bit of investment, skill changes, and rank ups, they can even rival the likes of S-tier characters.

Cleopatra VIII

Cleopatra VIII is one of the free Legendary heroes you can unlock at the beginning, but is a good support unit for most Cavalry or Swordman armies. She can also deal lots of Strategy damage, making her a good fit with the likes of Sun Tzu and Hannibal. She can decrease the enemy heroes’ damage significantly while buffing your heroes, making her ideal in PvP and PvE scenarios.

Octavian

Octavian is a unique attack hero who excels as a secondary commander. Unlike most other heroes, his skill set relies on using ‘Marks.’ This is a status effect that can be inflicted whenever he uses a skill in battle. When he lands eight marks, he can increase the DPS of your army by almost 10 percent, and this effect repeats till the battle ends. This makes him ideal for large-scale battles that take a lot of time to finish.

Justinian the Great

Justinian the Great is one of the strongest healers in Age of Empires Mobile. While he might not be the best fit as a main commander, he is extremely potent as a secondary commander. He continuously heals your army, which gets boosted every time another commander triggers their secondary skill.

When paired with other Cavalry commanders that trigger their skills multiple times, like Ashoka, Cleopatra or even Hannibal, you can get a strong formation that can be quite tough to beat.

Josephine

Josephine is the first hero in Age of Empires Mobile and is also one of the most useful in the long term. While she might not have an absolutely broken skillset, she can be quite a good substitute until you get an S-tier commander.

Moreover, her medals are quite easy to acquire, which makes it easy for you to rank her up. If you can get her up to rank three or above, then she becomes quite useful both as a main commander and a secondary one, as her secondary skill’s effect is increased by 65 percent.

Rani Durgavati

Based on skillset alone, Rani Durgavati is quite similar to Attila the Hun and can trigger the ‘Double Attack’ effect with her secondary skill. If you aren’t able to get Attila, then Rani Durgavati is your next best option.

The only factor that separates her from the S-tier is that while she can allow heroes to enter the secondary attack state, her double attack doesn’t trigger a secondary attack for skills and is limited to normal attacks.

Ashoka

Ashoka, similar to Justinian, is a strong support commander and can provide a significant edge if paired with the right commanders. He can increase the chance of the main commander’s secondary strike skill and provide control immunity when they trigger a secondary skill. Since he’s a dual-unit type commander, you can pair him with Hannibal alongside Justinian or Cleopatra to get the most value.

Harald III

Harald III is one of the most versatile heroes you can acquire. Not only is he a dual unit type commander, but his skills are also catered towards providing strong offensive support.

Not only do his skills deal significant damage, but he also increases the damage dealt by every other commander in the army. You can pair him with almost any Cavalry or Swordsman regiment, and he will provide good value.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Unlike most other heroes, Tokugawa Ieyasu has quite a simple skill set, but its effects are quite powerful. He’s similar to Justinian and is a support hero focused on recovering as many of your troops as possible while in battle. However, what sets him apart from others is that not only does he recover units, but he also significantly decreases the skill damage taken by the army.

B-Tier Heroes

The B-tier heroes in Age of Empires Mobile are decent commanders that you can mostly use either as a substitute or with a specific lineup of commanders to get value out of them. Investing EXP books or Skill points in them is not recommended, as these heroes are replaceable and would provide more value for any hero in the tier above.

Richard I

Like most pikemen commanders in Age of Empires Mobile, Richard I has a skillset that revolves around counterattack and taking more damage. His signature skill is more likely to be activated the more normal attacks he takes.

While the skillset inherently isn’t bad and can be useful for a pikemen regiment, it’ll cost you the same amount of coins to get him as it would cost you to get other Legendary Advent characters, like Atilla. This makes him not viable.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Toyotomi Hideyoshi is a decently strong commander, and he has a good DPS as well. His signature skill deals great damage and continuously increases the damage dealt as many times it is triggered. The reason why he lacks is that he is only viable as a main commander, has no versatility, and is outclassed by every other swordsman commander above him.

Theodora

Theodora is another support hero in Age of Empires Mobile, but she’s in the B-tier because her support skills are not significant. The ones above her play a crucial role in the lineup. Theodora provides a standard damage boost and a slight damage reduction of around three percent.

King Derrick

King Derrick is a versatile unit that is decent for both PvP and Gathering. Gathering heroes are commanders whose skills increase the resource-gathering speed, and King Derrick can provide a good boost to that. But he’s not great at it either, so he’s not in a higher tier.

In combat, he inflicts the ‘Rout’ debuff with his signature skill and deals additional damage. You can use him as a decent substitute for almost any Archer or Swordsman regiment.

Frederick Barbarossa

Frederick Barbarossa is a defensive powerhouse with a relatively strong skillset, ideal for pikemen regiments. He also enhances your troops when you’re losing units during combat, making him ideal for your army.

The reason why he’s in the B tier is because he is limited to pikemen units, which don’t have great commanders to support him, and the cost it’ll take you to acquire him can give you other better heroes in the tiers above.

Guan Yu

Guan Yu is one of the high DPS damage dealers, but he has quite equally limited usability. Like Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he’s only viable as a main commander and is limited to Cavalry-type units. These factors significantly affect his versatility; other commanders and cavalry heroes outclass him .

Constantine the Great

Constantine the Great is a support-type hero who can trigger recovery effects whenever he activates his secondary strike skills. Unfortunately, the recovery you receive is outclassed by most other healers, like Justinian.

Moreover, he only caters to Swordsman regiments, which are already filled with much stronger commanders, making him only a temporary substitute until you get someone better.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar is a turn-based attack hero in Age of Empires Mobile. His skill set isn’t anything special, nor does he provide anything unique. His viability is again limited to being used as a main commander, which he is decent at best.

You can use him as a pikeman or maybe a swordsman regiment commander if you don’t have anyone better in the early game, but switch him out as soon as you can.

Oda Nobunaga

Oda Nobunaga is an attack-type hero who, like Julius Caesar, deals turn-based damage, basically fixed damage after regular intervals. His skills are not special, nor does he provide much versatility. The best use would be to pair him with the Toyotomi and Tokugawa, but even with that strong lineup, it won’t be enough in late-game PvP battles.

Sejong the Great

Sejong the Great is a support hero used only in Cavalry armies. He can provide slight damage reduction with his skills and has a chance to recover units when taking damage. His support skills are much weaker than those of other support heroes in higher tiers, and his skills cannot provide guaranteed recovery. You can use him as a substitute support if you don’t have a better one.

C-Tier Heroes

The C-tier heroes in Age of Empires Mobile are by far the weakest ones you can have in your army. They neither provide significant value nor are their skills worth leveling up. Any investment of EXP books or medals you make in these heroes won’t be worth it.

Cid

Overall, Cid is an attack-type hero who can provide decent DPS, slow down enemies, and, to some extent, prohibit them from healing. These collectively can sound quite powerful, but they don’t provide much value in actual PvP scenarios.

Moreover, the biggest downside of Cid is that you can only get him from the Legendary Advent event, which has far better heroes to unlock on their roster, some of whom are in the S tier and provide much greater value.

Tariq

Tariq is a support hero who also specializes in providing DPS. He can only be used in Cavalry armies and has a skill set that is beneficial for Secondary Strike commanders that increases critical strike rate, which is only Cid, because he’s the only Cavalry commander that can benefit from Tariq’s support skill. Because of his limited support abilities, the only lineup he’s viable in is with Cid and Bushra. This lineup isn’t very strong either, thus landing him in tier C.

Philip IV

Philip IV is another strategy damage dealer in Age of Empires Mobile. Moreover, he can command only Swordsman regiments, which narrows down the heroes you can pair him with. Optimally, you could use him as a secondary commander for the likes of Sun Tzu, but he would still be outclassed by Cleopatra.

Bushra

Bushra is arguably the best hero in tier C. She’s a dual unit type support hero that can continuously recover units while boosting your heroes’ armor momentarily and also dealing a bit of Strategy damage. Her not being at a higher tier is because the extent of her support abilities is quite limited. Every support hero in the above tiers can recover and provide much more value to their commander, which Bushra doesn’t.

Hammurabi

Even though being a support hero, Hammurabi is also a subpar damage dealer. His signature skill enhances the commander’s attack but is limited to only the commander’s Might damage. Because of his limited support skills, he can, at best, be used as a substitute till you get someone like Miyamoto Musashi or Tribhuwana.

Joan of Arc

Similar to Josephine, Joan of Arc is one of the first heroes you unlock for free in Age of Empires Mobile. She’s a damage dealer with subpar DPS and heavily relies on counterattacks to be viable in combat. Moreover, her signature skill only has a 20 percent chance of counterattacking. Apart from her barely decent skills, she can only be used in a Pikemen army, which already lacks any other good commander to lead or support on the roster.

Yi Sun-Shin

Yi Sun-Shin is a damage-dealing hero, but his skills are nothing special. He does not have any buffs or special effects. Rather, he inflicts himself with a debuff to trigger his signature skill, which is prone to being interrupted, so more often than not, his secondary skill won’t trigger.

Yi Seong-Gye

Yi Seong-Gye is an attack-type hero limited to being a main commander, which is also true for only Cavalry units. His commander doesn’t have anything impressive, nor does his signature skill. If you do get him, you can, at best, use him in the early game, but he’ll be useless once you reach castle level 17.

Darius the Great

Darius the Great is a hero you can use at best for gathering. Even though you might find a use for him in early-game PvP because of his defense skill, he doesn’t fare well in the late game because the chance to ignore defense is limited to only him, and that too, at a 30 percent chance.