Art Of War: Legions - What are the Best Troops to Upgrade for Max Combat & Durability Rating? (Ranking included)

A) Preface

While you're upgrading the troops in the mobile strategy game Art of War: Legions (AoW), you may notice there are extra gains on the Troop Count from some troops. The troop count acts as ability multiplier on properties like Health, Attach, ...etc. On the other hand, there are other types of troops having very high Attack or Health per unit, but they don't raise count while upgrading. So, based on the different behavior on upgrading, troops in AoW are analyzed here in multiple aspects like Battle Rating per Unit or with Count, or Durability Rating per Unit or with Count in this article. Each of them will be detailed in its paragraph below:

B) The Growth of Troop Count Along with Upgrading

As shown in the following figure, we divided the troops into two groups - one of them has a count gain with upgrading, while the other group doesn't benefit from upgrading. The Group One has 11 troops, and their unit reach the maximum value 9 at level 4.

Figure 1: Level versus Count

Table 2: Troop Count Statistics

C) The Performance of Troops with Count

While you are deploying troops on the battlefield, keep in mind that the troop count is an ability multiplier. Even a troop with average performance could benefit from the raise of count while upgrading, thus its overall performance is better than superior troops having only one unit, like Demon. So in this report, we recommend the troops according to their overall performance calculated with troop count.

Here we define two indexes to measure the performance on Durability and Battle Ratting.

Durability Rating: Health * (90+Defense)/90 * TroopCount

Battle Rating: Attack * AttackSpeed * TroopCount

At level 7, top troops with high Durability Rating: Paladin >> Iron Guards >  Inquisitor > Pilgrims > Infantry ＆ Hell Jailers > Undead Soldier > Bandits  > Archers > Ghost Assassins >> Harbinger Of Fire

Table 3: Level 7 Durability Statistics with Troop Count

At level 7, top troops with high Battle Rating: Ghost Assassins > Bandits > Undead Soldier > Hell Jailers > Infantry > Paladin > Iron Guards > Pilgrims & Inquisitor > Archers > Harbinger Of Fire

Table 4: Level 7 Battle Statistics with Troop Count

Avoid those troops with low Battle Rating: Priest Mage, Necromancer, Ice Mage, Fire Mage, Catapult, Bomber, Scholar

Compound Charts

Figure 5: Level 1, 4, 7 Battle Statistics with Troop Count

Figure 6: Level 1, 4, 7 Durability Statistics with Troop Count

D) The performance of Troops per Unit

Some troops are very performant in one unit on the battlefield like Demon, Ogre Warrior. So, we also provide analytics from unit-based measurement. Here shows how we measure Durability and Battle Rating per Unit:

Durability Rating per Unit: Health * (90+Defense)/90

Battle Rating per Unit: Attack * AttackSpeed

At level 7, top troops with high Durability Rating per Unit: Demon & Witchcraft Totem & Meteor Golem > Viking Warrior & Beast Master > Templar Knight

Table 7: Level 7 Durability Statistics per Troop Unit

At level 7, top troops with high Battle Rating per Unit: Demon > Ghost Assassins > Bandits > Soul Hunter & Templar Knight > Undead Soldier > Yasha > Viking Warrior > Beast Master

Table 8: Level 7 Battle Statistics per Troop Unit

Compound Charts

Figure 9: Level 1, 4, 7 Battle Statistics per Troop Unit

Figure 10: Level 1, 4, 7 Durability Statistics per Troop Unit

E) Average Performance of Troops

The Average Performance of Troops is measured by the average value of Battle Rating and Durability Rating with their maximum scaled to 1 respectively.

At Level 7, top troops are: Paladin >> Bandits > Ghost Assassins > Undead Soldier >> Iron Guards > Hell Jailer > Infantry ~= Pilgrims > Inquisitor

Average Rating: (Battle Rating/Max Battle Rating Amongst Troops + Durability Rating/Max Durability Rating Amongst Troops)/2

Table 11: Level 7 Average Performance with Troop Count

Figure 12: Level 1, 4, 7 Average Performance with Troop Count

F) Conclusion

If you want to maximize Battle Rating, Ghost Assassin is the best choice for you. If you want to have a battle durability balance or increase survival, Paladin is your good friend. If you need a rock star on your battlefield, Demon is that villain.