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Symmachean Paladins
235Base Leadership
Leadership Doctrine
Standard-16% leadership197
Premium-10% leadership211
Attributes
Basic
- Health
- 7,189
- Strength
- 28
- Speed
- 5.5
- Labour
- 5.04
Attack
- Piercing damage
- 1,209
- Blunt damage
- 717
- Piercing armour pen.
- 1,633
- Blunt armour pen.
- 486
Defence
- Piercing defence
- 707
- Slashing defence
- 599
- Blunt defence
- 329
- Block
- 550
- Block recovery
- 27
Strength
Where this unit shines, by fight type
Blob6/10
Flank3/10
Skirmish4/10
Duelling5/10
Skill Tree Veterancy nodes unlocked as the unit levels. Hover or focus a node for detail.
Recommended veterancy- Topline (Recommended): Average 1.68% Heal per second / More Offensive Nodes / CD on Bleed - Bot line: Average 1.2% Heal per second / More Defensive Nodes / More Armor
Hero pairingAny
Filled nodes show the recommended points, out of each node's max.
Increases health by 6%Max level 1
Each level increases blocking by 40Max level 3
Each level reduces Shield Rush cooldown by 2 secondsMax level 2
Each level increases piercing armour penetration by 5%Max level 3
Each level reduces Battle Prayer's cooldown by 2 secondsMax level 2
Each level increases health by 3%Max level 2
Each level reduces Shield Rush cooldown by 3 secondsMax level 2
Each level increases critical value by 4%Max level 3
Reduces Battle Prayer cooldown by 6 secondsMax level 1
Each level increases piercing damage by 3%Max level 3
Each level increases piercing defence by 3%Max level 3
Each level reduces ranged damage taken by 5%Max level 2
Each level increases slashing defence by 3%Max level 3
Each level increases piercing armour penetration by 5%Max level 1
Each level increases blunt defence by 3%Max level 3
Each level reduces damage taken from rear attacks by 5%Max level 2
Increases all defences by 10%Max level 1
Unique doctrines The unit's own doctrine slots from the game data. Amya's picks live in the guide below.
- Paladin Piety DoctrineEpic
- Paladin Sword DoctrineRare
- Noble Blood Doctrine IEpic
- Noble Blood Doctrine IIEpic
Guide
Counters
- Loses to: High dmg units
- Struggles vs: Cav
- This unit counters: Pikes
Playstyle
- Don’t charge in unless you have a lot of front-lane with you, as it will stack them
- Once in fight, just let them on V, which will unlock their counter-attack stance
- After pressing heal (Press 2), cancel the animation with a V
- Unique Bleed-Skill on Units that damaged you recently: focus on taking aggro and activating the skill. Remember you can disengage and play around your healing
- Good tanking with Ironside doctrine into disengage into heal and repeat potential
- Paladins are the best Unit to X+V cancel of the game: V, as soon as dmg pop-up X-move and instantly V, repeat. Cancels majority of attack animation to increase DPS
Only do the X+V cancel when Free DPS, as doing this will stop them from blocking attacks and using counter-attack.
Doctrines
Highest level you can.
Mandatory
- Iron Damage Doctrine V (Ironsides)
- Unit Damage Doctrine V
- Anti-Infantry Doctrine V (+200 dmg infantry, +250 block)
Top Pick
- Noble Blood Doctrine I (Chivalric bleed/speed buff)
- Siege Fighter Doctrine (+8% all-type dmg in sieges)
Anti-Inf V slot can be swapped for an LS doctrine if you need more sustain.
Example Build
- Anti-Infantry Doctrine V (or LS doctrine if available)
- Unit Damage Doctrine V
- Iron Damage Doctrine V (Ironsides)
- Noble Blood Doctrine I
- Siege Fighter Doctrine
Tips & Tricks
- Cancel heal by insta pressing V after it, the heal will still go thru
Seasonal Challenges
Tier 1 quests10 quests
- In Siege Battles, deploy or destroy an artillery piece in 0/8 battles.
- In Siege Battles, earn 40 capture points or interrupt a capture in 0/7 battles.
- In Siege or Field Battles, use charge-type skills to kill 0/80 troops.
- In 0/7 Siege or Field Battles, you or your group collectively kills a total of 240 soldiers.
- In Field or Siege Battles, kill 0/15 heroes.
- Win 0/4 Field or Siege Battles.
- Get an A rating or better in 0/6 Ranked Battles or get an A+ rating or better in 0/8 Field or Siege Battles of any type.
- Complete 0/14 Fief Quests.
- Earn 0/8 'Shatter the Ranks' badges.
- In Free Battles, kill 0/400 troops.
Tier 2 quests10 quests
- Use a trebuchet or interrupt a capture in 0/7 Siege Battles.
- In Siege or Field Battles, get ranked in the top 5 0/8 times.
- In Siege or Field Battles, you or your group collectively kills a total of 8 heroes in 0/8 battles.
- Use four units from different eras in a Siege or Field battle 0/8 times.
- In Field or Siege Battles, kill 0/600 soldiers.
- Win 0/5 Field or Siege Battles.
- Win 0/8 Expeditions.
- In Free Battles, use units to deal 0/250,000 Critical damage to enemy units.
- Win 0/5 Free Battles.
- Achieve victory in 0/8 Raider Camps or Bandit Raids.
Tier 3 quests10 quests
- In 0/7 Siege or Field Battles, kill 80 troops or destroy 2 artillery pieces.
- Take Men-at-Arms into a Siege or Field battle 0/9 times.
- In Siege or Field Battles, you or your group members get 0/45 ratings of B+ or better.
- In 0/6 Siege Battles, destroy a siege engine or get 40 capture points.
- In 0/7 Siege or Field Battles, use artillery to kill 30 troops or kill 2 enemy heroes.
- In Field or Siege Battles, use Men-at-Arms to deal 0/1,500,000 damage.
- Win 0/5 Ranked Battles or win 0/10 Field or Siege Battles.
- Take part in 0/5 Territory War battles.
- Earn 0/6 'No Quarter' badges.
- Take Men-at-Arms into Expeditions 0/8 times.
Tier 4 quests10 quests
- Take Men-at-Arms into a Siege or Field battle and win 0/5 times.
- Take Men-at-Arms into a Siege or Field battle and get a kill/death ratio greater than 1 0/8 times.
- In Field or Siege Battles, use Men-at-Arms to kill 0/300 troops.
- In Siege or Field Battles, get an S rating or better 0/6 times.
- In Siege Battles, deploy or destroy an artillery piece in 0/9 battles.
- In Siege or Field Battles, you (or your group collectively) defeat 0/70 heroes.
- Get ranked in the top 5 in 0/6 Ranked Battles, or get MVP in 0/6 Field or Siege Battles of any type.
- Earn 0/100 badges.
- In Expedition Mode get an A+ rating or better 0/7 times.
- In Free Battles, kill 0/15 enemy heroes.