To unlock and upgrade free Champions in Evony, reach key building milestones, exchange tokens earned from recurring events, and funnel daily free Palace visits into one companion until you reach major buff thresholds. Champions provide permanent, account-wide Monarch bonuses that apply across all marches and city functions without requiring assigned Generals or Dragons.

How to Unlock Free Champions

Free Champions unlock through building progression and event currency rather than premium packages. Structure your routine around these unlock sources:

  1. Advance your Keep level: Upgrading your Keep unlocks starter companions such as Helen in the Palace automatically, providing immediate baseline boosts to construction and gathering.
  2. Upgrade internal buildings: Certain companions require meeting Tavern level thresholds or completing city patrol interactions before they become accessible.
  3. Save event currencies: Participate in recurring events—including Monarch Competitions, holiday carnivals, and alliance monster rallies—to collect champion recruitment tokens and fragment chests.
  4. Redeem recruitment items: Exchange event currencies in event shops specifically for companion unlock tokens rather than temporary speedups or basic resources.

Favor Priority and Gift Allocation

To upgrade companion intimacy efficiently, concentrate all gifts and daily visits on a single Champion until you unlock their major milestone buffs. Spreading gifts across multiple companions dilutes your intimacy gains and delays high-tier percentage multipliers.

Champions require specific favor items—such as Silk, Agate, Bouquets, and Perfume—to increase intimacy levels. Higher favor ranks unlock passive account buffs and talent points. Shift your primary focus based on your current Keep level and immediate operational bottleneck:

Champion FocusCore Buffs ProvidedTarget Progression PhaseAccount Priority
Development & EconomyConstruction speed, gathering speed, resource productionEarly to mid-game (Keep 1–32)Reduces infrastructure timers and sustains high resource demands
Defense & RecoveryHospital capacity, healing speed, subordinate city buffsMid-game transition (Keep 30–35)Minimizes permanent troop losses during rallies and city defense
Military & MarchesTroop attack, defense, HP, march size capacityLate-game PvP and SvS (Keep 33+)Delivers raw combat multipliers needed for competitive rallies

Early in progression, prioritize economic companions. Building and research timers expand drastically as your Keep approaches level 30, making percentage reductions valuable. Once your account transitions to Server vs. Server (SvS) wars or battlefields like the Battle of Constantinople (BOC) and Battle of Gaugamela (BOG), redirect all favor gifts toward combat companions to boost march size, survivability, and troop attack.

Daily Routine and Talent Investment

Maximize companion progression daily without consuming Monarch Gems:

  • Use free visits at reset: The Palace resets free interactions daily. Visit your designated priority companion immediately at server reset to claim these points before using inventory items.
  • Avoid Gem refreshes: Never spend Gems on paid interaction refreshes or premium gift chests. Stockpile gifts organically by joining high-level alliance Boss rallies and checking the Black Market for resource-based gift purchases.
  • Specialize talent trees: High intimacy awards talent points for companion trees. Specialize points entirely into your active operational need—either full economic yield or full military march attack—rather than splitting points across multiple branches.
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