Rise of Kingdoms: Sun Tzu and YSG KvK 1 March Guide

To run Sun Tzu and Yi Seong-Gye (YSG) effectively in Rise of Kingdoms Kingdom versus Kingdom Season 1 (KvK 1), deploy a pure infantry march with a level 60 Sun Tzu as the primary commander and YSG as the secondary commander. This pairing creates a powerful area-of-effect (AoE) damage engine for open-field team fights, provided you stay inside allied group formations to avoid being swarmed.

Commander Roles and Synergy

Place Sun Tzu in the primary commander slot and YSG in the secondary slot. Because Sun Tzu is an Epic commander, you can advance him to level 60 and unlock his full 74 talent points using epic star sculptures rather than scarce legendary materials. Displaying Sun Tzu as the primary commander also conceals YSG on the open field, preventing enemy players from immediately identifying and swarming your march.

The mechanical engine of this march relies on rage regeneration and overlapping damage buffs:

• Sun Tzu's Art of War: Striking up to five targets in a fan-shaped AoE restores 50 rage per target, granting up to 250 rage instantly when hitting dense groups.
• Rage cycling: Firing active skills rapidly causes YSG's circular AoE skill, Rain of Arrows, to launch right after Sun Tzu's skill.
• Skill amplification: YSG's fourth skill increases active skill damage by up to 50%, boosting both his own attack and Sun Tzu's subsequent skill rotations.

Talent Tree Allocation

Build Sun Tzu's talent tree with a hybrid setup that prioritizes the Skill tree before picking up frontline survivability in the Infantry tree.

1. Skill Tree (Core Engine):

• Take Rejuvenate first to recover 150 rage over three turns whenever an active skill triggers.
• Maximize Burning Blood to accelerate rage generation during normal attacks.
• Pick up Tactical Mastery for flat skill damage increases and Heraldic Shield to lessen incoming skill damage.

1. Infantry Tree (Durability):

• Unlock Iron Spear and Undefeated to raise baseline infantry combat stats.
• Invest in Hold the Line to trigger damage mitigation effects during sustained clashes.
• Allocate the remaining points to pick up available health, defense, and march speed nodes.

Troop Type and Equipment

Fill this march strictly with infantry units. Although YSG possesses archer-oriented passives, deploying archers in KvK 1 leaves your march vulnerable to prominent cavalry commanders such as Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Cao Cao. Pure infantry benefits fully from Sun Tzu’s passive 10% infantry health bonus and 10% damage reduction, giving the unit enough endurance to stay alive on the frontline.

Focus your equipment crafting on defensive stats to offset YSG's lack of natural survivability:

Equipping both the Windswept Bracers and Windswept Boots activates a two-piece set bonus that grants extra march speed, helping you reposition away from collapsing frontlines.

Open-Field Positioning and Casualty Control

Sun Tzu and YSG depend entirely on allied positioning to survive. Never isolate this march or engage in solo open-field duels.

• Stay behind the frontline vanguard: Position your march within the center of friendly death balls, directly behind durable commanders like Richard I or Charles Martel. Angle your march so Sun Tzu's fan-shaped AoE clips clustered opponents without exposing your flanks.
• Disengage when targeted: If multiple enemy cavalry marches target your squad, pull back toward a friendly pass, fortress, or garrison immediately.
• Manage hospital capacity: Hitting multiple targets triggers counterattack damage from every enemy unit you strike. Disengage whenever your march drops below 60% troop strength, as lower unit numbers decrease your damage output while rapidly accumulating severely wounded troops in your hospital.
• Avoid structures: Restrict this pairing to open-field field skirmishes. Do not use Sun Tzu and YSG to rally enemy structures or reinforce garrison defenses under heavy siege.