Rise of Castles hero combos, ranked

Open the Combo Generator and select the heroes you own. It compares them against 1,393 ranked combos and shows the best matches — complete combos first, near-misses after that, plus the most valuable heroes to unlock next. Your selection saves to your free account automatically, so it follows you between devices.

The Combo Simulator fields any two 3-hero formations against each other — yours against an enemy's, shared heroes welcome — and fights them 2,000 times on our servers, reading every skill card: damage, legion buffs, all nine control effects, healing and prep. The verdict always ships with its 95% confidence interval, and every battle is fought on level ground: identical troops both sides, with dragons, research, equipment and artifacts stripped away, so you are comparing formations, not wallets. It is honest about its limits on the page — the percentage is a structural comparison, not a predicted win rate.

The Combo Rater works two ways. Give it one trio — any three heroes, including combinations that appear on no published list — and it returns the scorecard: the score out of 100, where that score would rank, the eleven checks it passed or failed, which hero carries it and which hero's skill feeds which. Or give it your whole roster and it scores every trio you can field — 40 heroes is 9,880 combinations, done in seconds — then hands back your ten strongest plus the best lineup in each category. The number it prints is the same scorecard as the ranked lists.

Member Tools is where the three tools live: the Combo Generator (which published lineups can I field?), the Combo Simulator (who wins?) and the Combo Rater (how good is this?). All three are free — the account exists so your roster and results follow you between devices, not as a paywall. You can read the hub page itself without an account.

In game you field five sets at once, and a hero can only stand in one of them. So your five strongest combos usually can't all be played together — they share heroes. Select your heroes and the army builder works out the best five lineups that use no hero twice: Class down to Legion 3 under whichever army plan you pick, then the Defensive Queue, which takes the highest-scoring lineup still left on your bench from any troop type. Fifteen different heroes is the minimum, though not always enough on its own: the five lineups have to be legal and share nobody, so a roster of 15–17 can leave a row unfilled. The builder says so when it happens, and names the reason.

Yes. A hero belongs to an account, so two players can each own Attila — and the Simulator supports that, right up to a full mirror match. Within one formation a hero still holds exactly one row, and one account's five in-game rows never reuse a hero, which is why the army builder keeps its lineups strictly separate.

Based on the current rankings: Cavalry — Cyrus · Saladin · Zhao Yun; Archer — Robin Hood · Zhuge Liang · Oliver; Footmen — Geraint · Alberich · Zhao Yun; Mixed — Thorven · Penthesilea · Thorvi. See the full ranked lists, or read how the rankings are made — every score is provable from the heroes' own skill text.

Cavalry, Archer, Footmen, and Mixed hero combos — 1,393 ranked lineups across 131 heroes.

So your work can follow you — not because anything is paid. The account is free and takes under a minute: it keeps your hero roster synced across devices, powers share links, gives the Simulator somewhere to keep your matchups, and lets the Combo Rater score the roster you already saved. There is no paid tier on ROCMeta and nothing is held back for one. Everything else on the site — every ranked list, hero page, guide and the methodology — is readable without an account at all.

Yes, after you create an account. Your current hero selection saves automatically to your account so it works across devices—there is no separate save step. A public share link stores only the selected hero IDs needed to open that selection. See the privacy policy.

Yes — it's a free, fan-made tool for Rise of Castles players. Every members' tool is free too — see Member Tools. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the official Rise of Castles game publisher.