Hermann Prime
archer silence + skill damage
Skills
Skill 1Forest of Fallen EaglesStrikes up to three marches in a forward fan and poisons them, which makes them take more skill damage for a while.
Skill 2GermaniaHis archers hit harder, defend better and march faster.
Skill 3Alpha WolfOn the map his area skills hit harder and briefly strip enemy defence; archers do more to infantry but suffer against cavalry.
Skill 4Mandrake RootTakes less damage from poisoned foes, and normal attacks sometimes lash a fan of enemies and poison them.
AwakenedGive Me Back My Legions!Once enough poison has piled onto enemies, recasts skill 1 at full level for free, on a cooldown.
Community builds
Builds for Hermann PrimeOverview
Applies silence and heavy skill damage; silence timing can cancel an enemy nuke.
Pairings
- Boudica Prime · as primary
Hermann Prime's silence buys the ramp time Boudica Prime wants, and both kits feed the same skill-damage lane.
- Zhuge Liang · as primary
Silence plus two stacked skill-damage passives: the enemy nuke gets cancelled and yours does not.
Counters & matchups
Archer holds the edge over infantry and gives it up to cavalry, whatever the scenario.
Best matchups
Open field · Marches meeting on the map.
- Qin Shi Huang · ArcherS+
Hermann's silence, timed to Qin Shi Huang's rage, can cancel the AoE nuke that march is built around.
- Zhuge Liang · ArcherS+
Zhuge Liang is a skill-damage nuke first, so a well-timed silence takes away most of his output.
- Guan Yu · InfantryS
Archers over infantry, plus a silence that can cancel Guan Yu's active before it lands.
- Scipio Africanus Prime · InfantryS+
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
- Bai Qi · InfantryS
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
- Liu Che · InfantryS
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
8 more
- Alexander the Great · InfantryA
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
- Cheok Jun-gyeong · Infantry
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
- Leonidas · Infantry
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
- Pyrrhus · Infantry
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
- Ragnar Lodbrok Prime · Infantry
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
- Sargon the Great · Infantry
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
- William Wallace · Infantry
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
- City Keeper · Infantry
Archers over infantry, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
Countered by
Open field · Marches meeting on the map.
- Achilles · CavalryS
Cavalry over archers; Hermann's silence cannot make up the troop disadvantage on its own.
- Alexander Nevsky · CavalryS+
Cavalry over archers, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
- Arthur Pendragon · CavalryS+
Cavalry over archers, and both are built for the field (Versatility talents). By troop type.
Favoured, not guaranteed: equipment, talents, skill levels and troop counts decide real fights. Rows marked “by troop type” come from the troop triangle and each commander’s talent trees; the rest are written by hand. Checked against the meta on 2026-09-23.