Theodora in Age of Empires Mobile guide: All skills, best tree builds, and more

Theodora, in Age of Empires Mobile, is an iconic and powerful character. In real life, she is a heroic figure in Byzantine history, who rose from humble beginnings to become Empress alongside her husband, Justinian I. Known for her intelligence and political acumen, she played a crucial role in shaping the Byzantine Empire during the 6th century.

This guide explores the skills of her in-game character while highlighting the best talent tree builds to optimize her effectiveness in battles. Understanding Theodora's strengths will help you while fighting your enemies in Age of Empires Mobile.

All skills of Theodora in Age of Empires Mobile explained

Theodora's stats in Age of Empires Mobile (Image via Level Infinite)

Skill 1: Taking the Purple (Commander skill)
Skill 2: Dynastic Co-Rule (Signature skill)
Skill 3: Suppression
Skill 4: Manuever
Skill 5: War Tactic
Skill 6: Conflagration
Skill 7: Ultimate Strategy
Skill 8: Immortal Army

Taking the Purple (Commander skill)

This skill deals strategy damage to 2 enemy troops in the area of effect (damage rate: 178.80%, strategy bonus). Meanwhile, increases all your heroes’ strategy by 29.80 for 9s. Grants 100 initial rage upon entering battle.

Dynastic Co-Rule (Signature skill)

This skill helps in reducing your troop’s damage taken by 2.09% (strategy bonus). Every time when your commander uses 3 signature active skills, the next signature active skill deals 5.96% 6.32% extra damage (or 7.45% extra damage for charging skills).

Suppression

This skill is used for dealing strategy damage to the enemy troop (damage rate: 40.14%, strategy bonus) and reduces the enemy commander’s might or strategy by 7.45 (strategy bonus) for 6s.

Maneuver

When the commander activates the charging skill, there is a 16.72% chance of skipping the charging state.

War Tactic

Deals strategy damage to the enemy troop (damage rate: 56.56%, strategy bonus) and recovers your troop’s units (recovery rate: 31.31%, War Tactic strategy bonus).

Conflagration

Deals strategy damage to the enemy troop (damage rate: 59.60%, strategy bonus) and inflicts the burn effect, dealing strategy damage every second (damage rate: 6.06%, strategy bonus) for 6s.

Ultimate Strategy

Deals 1 instance of strategy damage to the enemy troop (damage rate: 70.70%, strategy bonus).

Immortal Army

Recovers your troop’s units (recovery rate: 66.66%, strategy bonus) and has a/an 29.80% chance to purify all your heroes’ attribute debuffs (only those debuffs obtained in battle).

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Theodora in Age of Empires Mobile: All stats

Here are all the base stats for Theodora in Age of Empires Mobile:

Might: 67.58 (+0.65)
Armor: 71.55 (+0.70)
Strategy: 84.05 (+0.84)
Siege: 50.61 (+0.46)

Best tree build for Theodora in Age of Empires Mobile

Theodora's best tree build in AOE Mobile (Image via Level Infinite)

Let's go over the best tree build for Theodora in Age of Empires Mobile:

Talent 1: Military Tactics Mastery

Activate Commander Normal Attack Damage, Commander Skill Damage, Commander's Damage, Siege Increase, and Field Battle XP.

Talent 2: Strategic Preparation

Left Nodes - Activate all.
Right Nodes - Activate Normal Attack Damage Reduction, Skill Damage Reduction, Damage Reduction, Field Battle Damage Increase, Siege Increase, Strategy Increase, and Gathering Defense.

Talent 3: Strength in Numbers

Left Nodes - Activate Commander's Damage.
Right Nodes - Activate only Strategy Increase.

Talent 4: Crushing Blow

Left Node - Activate Normal Attack Damage Reduction and Gathering Protection.
Right Node - Activate Skill Damage Reduction, and Gathering Defense.

Talent 5: Form the Ranks

Left Node - Activate Troop's Health Bonus, Rally Damage, and Solo Damage.
Right Node - Activate Strategy Increase, and Troop's Health Bonus.

Talent 6: Bulwark

Activate Troop's Attack Bonus and Troop's Defense Bonus.

Best pairings for Theodora in Age of Empires Mobile

Theodora in Age of Empires Mobile is best used by combining these heroes:

Suleiman
Queen Seondeok
Yi Sun Shin
Sun Tzu
Philip IV
Baldassi
Cleopatra

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