Hello and welcome to the best Trajan commander guide for beginners. Trajan is a brand new legendary commander who is affiliate with the Rome civilization. He comes with several powerful skills that makes him one of the awesome support commanders to partner with attacking and defending commanders in the game. To unlock Trajan, your kingdom has to be open for more than 300 days and players can get him through Wheel of Fortune.
Rarity: Legendary
Civilization: Rome| Title: Optimus Princeps
Leadership | 
Versatility | 
Support
Trajan Summary:
- Deals 400 damage with active skill.
- Applies 30% skill damage buff upon activating active skill.
- Generates 50 rage per second for 3 seconds after using active skill.
- Troops Defense increased by 20%.
- Troops Health increased by 20% while on map.
- Whenever there are 3 or more troops type in the army, troop capacity increased by 10%.
- Whenever there are 3 or more troops type in the army, deals 300 additional damage.
- Whenever there are 3 or more troops type in the army, enemy troops takes 20% extra damage,
- Normal attack have a chance to grant a Charge stack, increasing defense by 6% up to 10 times.
Why Trajan is the Best Commander?
- Incredible adaptable and versatile commander.
- Powerful active skill with fast rage generation ability.
- Awesome buff that grants massive damage boost.
- Charge mechanism that makes Trajan very tanky.
- Cool support skills, easy to pair with commanders.
- Nice defense and health bonuses, which makes him an ideal commander.
Background Information
Trajan was a successful solider-emperor who ruled Rome from 98 to 117 A.D. The Rome Senate declared and remembered him as the Optimus Princeps (meaning best ruler). Trajan presided one of the second-greatest military expansion in Roman history after Augustus, which led the Rome Empire to attain its maximum territorial by the time of his death.
Trajan is also known for his philanthropic rule and oversaw several public building programs as well as implementing social welfare policies. Which has earned him the reputation as the second of the Five Good Emperors who ruled the Rome Empire with peace and prosperity in the Mediterranean World.
Introduction
Welcome to our in-depth Rise of Kingdoms guide for Trajan. This informative guide was created to help provide an overview of Trajan skills, talent trees, gameplay, strategies, and guides in Rise of Kingdoms. The purpose of this overview guide is to help new and experienced players understand how to play Trajan right and maximize strategic advantages.
Trajan is a new legendary commander in Rise of Kingdoms. To obtain Trajan, your kingdom server has to be at least 300 days old. Additionally, Trajan can be obtained only through the Wheel of Fortune event. This is a very strong commander with awesome skill set and flexible combat playstyle. Which makes him an excellent choice to have in your commander roster.
To summon Trajan in Rise of Kingdoms, you will need to gather 10 Trajan sculptures. Once you have the required materials, navigate to the Commander Selection tab on the lower right corner. Tap on the button to summon Trajan.
Trajan Skills
In this section, we will talk about Trajan’s skills and how you can use his skillset to your advantage. Trajan is a flexible commander, which means he is capable of dealing damage as well as relying on major buffs to further boost his combat capabilities — especially when paired with powerful commanders like Guan Yu, Jadwiga and Ragnar Lodbrok.
If you are looking to grow your commander roster, you will definitely want to have Trajan on the list due to his awesome support skill. His skills can greatly enhance your troops’ overall combat capabilities and turn the tide of battle into your favor.
That being said, let’s look at Trajan’s skills and see what he has in the store for you in Rise of Kingdoms:
Trajan’s Column
Active Skill
Deals direct damage to the target. Troops led by this commander and nearby allied troops gain bonus skill damage and 15 additional rage per second for 3 seconds. However, at the same time, incoming damage is increased by 25% for 3 seconds.
- Damage Factor: 100/150/200/250/300
- Skill Damage Bonus: 10% / 13% / 16% / 20% / 25%
- Rage Bonus: 15/20/25/30/40
Trajan’s Column: A solid active skill that does a minor damage, but applies debuff on a target, causing them to take 25% extra skill damage and grants 40% additional rage per hit. Which makes this active skill important to have high up time.
Expanding Borders
Passive Skill
Increases the defense of troops led by this commander. Troops also get HP bonus when they are not in the Alliance territory!
- Defense bonus: 5% / 8% / 11% / 15% / 20%
- Health bonus: 5% / 8% / 11% / 15% / 20%
Expanding Borders: A simple passive skill that grants 20% increased defense and health for all the troops led by Trajan. Solid passive skill.
Great Expeditions
Passive Skill
Increase troop capacity of the Trajan’s dispatch. When there are 3 or more different types of units in the army, they deal additional direct damage to the current target when using an active skill and increase the damage dealt to the target by 4 sec.
- Troop capacity bonus: 2% / 4% / 6% / 8% / 10%
- Direct damage Factor: 100/150/200/250/300
- Target takes more damage: 5% / 8% / 11% / 15% / 20 %
Great Expeditions: If Trajan is leading more than three troop types, then the troop capacity is increased by 10% and deals 300 extra damage with active skill. Furthermore, the target takes 20% increased damage for the next 4 seconds.
Battle of Tapae
Passive Skill
Normal attacks offers a charge bonus to the unit defense for 10 seconds. The duration resets when a new charge occurs. Can stack up to 10 times. The effect can only occur once every 8 sec.
- Defense bonus: 2% / 3% / 4% / 5% / 6%
Battle of Tapae: This is actually a very strong passive skill. Each normal attack have a chance to grant a charge that increases defense by 6% for 10 seconds. It can be stacked up to 10 times, which equates to 60% defense bonus.
Five Good Emperors
Enhanced Skill: Trajan’s Column
Deals direct damage to the target (Damage Factor 400). Troops led by this commander and nearby allied troops gain +30% bonus skill damage and 50 rage per second for 3 seconds. At the same time, damage taken is increased by 25% for 3 seconds.
Five Good Emperors: This is a solid expertise skill that increases the direct damage to 400, grants nearby allied troops 30% bonus skill damage and generates 50 rage per second for 3 seconds. Targets also take more damage which makes Trajan a very powerful support commander.
Best Trajan Talent Trees
If you are wondering what is the best Trajan talent trees. We have assembled several talent builds that you can choose to go with this legendary commander. Depending on your current playstyle preference and what you want to do with Trajan, there are several to choose. However, Trajan is predominantly a strong commander for supporting primary commanders. He also can be a solid primary commander thanks to versatility. Here’s a list of best Trajan talent trees to choose from:
PvP Talent Build
The Trajan’s PVP talent build is a good choice. Since majority of the talent points are focused on improving rage generation so that Trajan can maintain high uptime with his active skill for the bonuses to take effect. Additionally, when he leads three or more troops type, they all gain attack and defense bonus which is a big factor. Since this is PVP talent build, it is important to have some healing effect increase. This talent build grants 18% healing effect bonus and that is a big boost. If Trajan gets healed, then his troops will do even more damage that actually helps tide the battle into your favor — especially as a support commander.
Field Talent Build
If you like to play offensively, then the Trajan’s field support talent build is a solid choice. This talent tree focuses heavily on increasing overall damage output as well as strengthening your troops’ combat capabilities against enemy forces. Majority of talent points are invested in increasing troops’ defense, attack, and health passively. Which makes Trajan a very strong and solid pick for open field battles such as Sunset Canyon, KvK Battles and even Osiris League. This is by far the most popular talent build pick for Trajan.
PVE Talent Build
Lastly, if you prefer to play against barbarians and destroying the barbarian camps. Then this Trajan’s PVE talent build is a good choice. It focuses on increasing rage generation and boost troops’ combat capabilities through large passive defense, health and attack bonuses. Trajan also gets less damage from incoming skill attacks which helps a lot as you battle against high-level barbarians. With this talent build, Trajan will require less action points to initiate march. This is helpful if you are looking for ways to stretch your action points and to go into farm mode for a while.
Star Level & Talent Point Upgrade Priority
In the next part of our best Trajan commander guide, I am going to talk about star level & talent point upgrade priority to maximize your commander’s combat potential. Here’s how to prioritize your Trajan effectively:
PvP Talent Build:
- Keep Trajan at 1 ⭐ until you max out his first skill.
- Level Trajan to 2 ⭐ and max out his second skill.
- Level Trajan to 3 ⭐ and max out his third skill.
- Level Trajan to 4 ⭐ and max out all of his skills.
Field Support Talent Build:
- Keep Trajan at 1 ⭐ until you max out his first skill.
- Level Trajan to 3 ⭐ and max out his third skill.
- Level Trajan to 4 ⭐ and max out all of his skills.
PvE Talent Build:
- Keep Trajan at 1 ⭐ until you max out his first skill.
- Level Trajan to 2 ⭐ and max out his second skill.
- Level Trajan to 3 ⭐ and max out his third skill.
- Level Trajan to 4 ⭐ and max out all of his skills.
Best Trajan Commander Pairs
Trajan is an awesome legendary commander to have in the roster. He can pair with pretty much any commanders that excels at fighting against other enemy commanders. Being a support commander means his skills can benefit the other commander and improve their combat capabilities by miles compared to other commanders. That’s why we have assembled a list of best commanders to pair with Trajan. Check them out below:
Hannibal Barca
Easily one of the best legendary commanders to pair with is Hannibal Barca. He comes with a strong healing abilities and powerful offensive skill that does ton of damage. Not to forget to mention that his active skill applies damage and defense reduction debuff which benefits a lot when fighting against strong commanders like Mehmed II and Guan Yu.
Trajan and Hannibal Barca makes the perfect pairing because Trajan gives 20% health and defense bonus on the map, while Hannibal Barca further enhances troops’ damage on the go. This means both commanders have each other’s base covered and they do really get very powerful due to massive stat boost thanks to skill damage bonus factor that Trajan has to offer.
Frederick I
If you are looking for a solid commander with strong leadership capabilities. Then look no further because Frederick I is one of the best commanders that deals powerful direct damage with his active skill. Trajan’s 30% skill damage bonus means Frederick I can easily deal over 1,000 damage and increase the amount of damage that the troops does.
Just like Hannibal Barca, Frederick I comes with healing capabilities which goes nicely with Trajan’s talent build that grants 18% additional healing effect. Plus whenever Trajan gets healed, all the troops does 9% extra damage for the next few seconds and that can play an important role in shifting the tide of battle into your favor.
Scipio Africanus
For some of you who do not have legendary commanders in your roster yet, Scipio Africanus is a decent choice. He offers a solid combination of damage reduction and counterattack bonus. Furthermore, he has healing capabilities just like Hannibal Barca and Frederick that benefits Trajan a lot if you invest talent points into improving the amount of healing effects as well as the temporary damage bonus.
Scipio Africanus have good skill set that greatly enhance the troops damage, which makes him one of the most compatible commander to pair with. Alternatively, you can pair Julius Caesar with Trajan if you do have him and that his skills is maxed out. Essentially, Julius Caesar is a much stronger version of Scipio Africanus for highly developed governors.
Lu Bu
Another stellar legendary commander to pair with is Lu Bu. This commander can dish out incredible amount of damage within short timeframe. Thanks to Trajan’s improved rage generation means Lu Bu can cause high amount of damage in matter of time. Along with 30% skill damage bonus, health and defense buffs will help improve the troops’ combat capabilities in the long run.
If you like to play an offensive playstyle, we recommend Lu Bu as the primary commander and Trajan as the secondary commander in order to take advantage of Lu Bu’s talent build so that it aligns closely to his skill set. Trajan will be able to support afar thanks to his adaptable skill set.
Charlemagne
Governors who likes to play offensively will absolutely love to pair Trajan with Charlemagne. This legendary commander does a lot of damage. With the 30% skill damage bonus and fast rage generation means Charlemagne can do even more damage in matter of minutes compared to other commanders. The 20% troops health and defense is also nice to have as Charlemagne is mainly a city attacker commander and stands to benefit a lot from this skill bonus.
While this legendary commander is strong in attacking cities, he does comes with a mini shield which benefits from the 30% skill damage bonus. Instead of generating a shield that have a value of 1,000 points. Charlemagne can create a slightly stronger shield up to 1,300 points that will help this pairing withstand incoming damage for slight longer.
Moctezuma I
If you are looking for an alternative commander to level up fast and to kill barbarians quickly. Moctezuma I is one of the best barbarian commanders that can make a quick work out of burning barbarian camps to ground. However with Trajan’s skills, both commanders will be able to benefit from each other.
Moctezuma brings 50% damage bonus against barbarian and deals 1,400 damage with his active skill. In addition to that, he reduces the target health by 50% and recovers portion of the troops by healing whenever he is hit with an active skill. Trajan can help Moctezuma I big time with his 30% skill damage bonus, +20% defense and health bonus. Plus if both commanders are running 3 or more troops type, then that is another 20% additional damage on top of it.
Best Trajan Equipment
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Heart of the Saint |
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Abyssal Visage |
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Dark Lord’s Blessing |
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Revival Gauntlets |
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Revival Greaves |
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Flame Treads |
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