Best Traits & Back to BACK MYTHIC Traits! Age of Empires Mobile

Horse Traits and Breeding in Age of Empires Mobile

The guide’s main advice is to match horse traits to a hero’s skills and role, and to keep breeding toward useful traits rather than keeping a poor trait just because it is Mythic.

Choosing traits

Rarity affects trait strength. Mythic traits provide their maximum listed value, while Legendary and lower rarities can roll a range of values. Mythic is ideal—but only when the trait is useful.

Prioritize traits that match the hero’s damage type and skill:

• Active Force damage: Choose Advantage for heroes such as Miyamoto, King Arthur, and Lagertha.
• Secondary-strike Force damage: Choose Gallantism for heroes such as Liu Bu, Lady Chieu, and Mulan.
• Active strategic damage: Choose Spiritual Connection for Strategists such as Ramses II and Sun Tzu.
• Secondary-strike strategic damage: Choose Stratagem for Strategists such as Belisarius, Hannibal, and Shaka.

Check the hero’s skill description to see its damage type and whether it deals active damage or a secondary strike.

Other useful options include:

• Army Rift increases all damage by 9%.
• Tiebreaker boosts damage by 10% in rallies. Pairing it with a matching damage trait can be especially effective for rally-focused builds.
• Savior can benefit support heroes whose troop-restoring skills trigger its damage reduction. For a second trait, choose Renewal to improve the hero’s own healing or Healing Armor to improve healing across the squad.
• The Rock reduces several types of skill damage, while Iron Fury is more specialized against Force-damage marches. Choose based on the opponents and formations you face.
• Lightning Strike is recommended for heroes who can deal skill critical damage, particularly Liu Bu and Zhao Yun.
• For heroes such as Attila, who do not directly deal damage, heal, or drain resources, Furious can boost basic attacks. Defensive traits are another option when survival is the priority.

The guide considers several other traits low-value for current heroes and potential candidates for reworking. Speed and Prosperity are exceptions for gathering squads.

Breeding strategy

Use a horse’s temperament to target traits available in its trait pool. The guide uses Fearless to pursue universal traits and Protective to pursue healing-related traits.

Breed toward traits that suit your account and formation. Don’t keep an undesirable Mythic trait solely because it is Mythic; be willing to sacrifice it for a more useful result. Pair horses with relevant temperaments, discard unwanted results, and keep trying to improve both the trait and its rarity.

In the demonstrations, the creator obtains a useful Savior trait, a horse with 3.65% damage reduction, and a healing upgrade reaching 11.5% recovery. The creator also gets two Mythic upgrades in succession.

Strong results are possible without high-level breeding research. The core of the process is understanding the trait pools and repeatedly replacing unwanted traits.

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MrSneakyy of MrSneakyy AOEM refers to his “Fix My Account” series and earlier horse-breeding guides.