Top 5 Best Low Elo Strategies in AoE2

[@teddyhaines6613]

Number one strategy for low-ELO players: hope the opponent disconnects.

[@CoffeeAndBusiness]

And that’s how I reached 1,000 elo. Never played a 1v1 RM since

[@sp4tz339]

i got from 950 to 1100 due to people mostly leaving. I mean i dont want to have a higher elo that fast :D

[@lekhakaananta5864]

It's a great strategy that works in any ELO. When you're high ELO your games are still difficult because you get high ELO opponents, but disconnecting rewards you just as much as at low ELO.

[@Denis-vr3sh]

I find hoping they stuff up the boar lure is a better strategy

[@forcelightningcable9639]

Hope is always a free tech

[@pitlessboy3430]

Improve macro and micro knowledge of game ❌ Castle drop ✅

[@PremiumToad]

'Hera talking about the top 5 best Low Elo Strategies' ❌ 'Hera absolutely roasting low elo players for 10 mins' ✅

[@punjabhero9706]

Be prepared to see nothing but 1st place strategy pickers on the 700-950 ladder for the next few weeks.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

noooooooooo

[@TheCowai]

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 I mean it's Spreadsheet build by Herrra!

[@uninsightful7627]

I'm trying to get into the game again, and I've been practising Roman scouts into halb + scorpion against the AI until I can reliably beat moderate so that I don't have to get curbstomped so many times when I start playing. Maybe I should pick another civ.

[@Defy_Gravity]

@@uninsightful7627 scorpions sound good, until your opponent build like 3 mangonels and flattens your 10 scorps with 1-2 shots

[@patrickyeh6101]

Hera: 'META for noobs' ME: Finally a video dedicated for me!

[@AmbientCinematics]

“Both Low ELOs at 800” Me looking up in awe from down at 450 🤩

[@TheYired]

Conquistadors (usually comes with a foward castle) are godlike in low elo if you are not ready.

[@JoycenatorGaming]

I don’t play much these days but the last game I played I won doing exactly this. It was a team game, fast castle, dropped back to back castles on my opponent’s base and raided his teammate with my conqs. Easy dub, even functionally 1v2

[@Denis-vr3sh]

The notion of being low elo, means by definition you will not be ready... conclusion - conq's rock and need to be nerfed!

[@Toschi23]

Donjon Rush feels OP at Low elo and win rates Back it Up. Just going for one strong melee unit directly defending against attacks of the donjon also helps.

[@DefekacjaOdbyta]

What could also be interesting is an opposite video: Low Elo counters to OP strategies. For example, a counter to a forward castle.

[@Jordanmillerceo]

I love this idea!

[@snap-313]

1. Don't panic and focus on your economy 2. Make 1-2 mangonels And ofc you should be fully walled before 12-15 minutes

[@AnkaraAnkaraMessiMessiMessi]

What I love about romans is that you dont need 2 upgrades to get Legionary wich is huge so once you are imp you get them very fast. Also the unic tech allows you to sorta spam them. Add couple of centurions and you can hard engage with the higher speed. One of my fav civs.

[@NossTeam]

Katılıyorum, Romalıları satın alıp oynayabilirim belki tekrar ama bıraktım oynamayı.

[@Nawels94]

I am 1400+ and still find really difficult to stop romans full infantry

[@hadeshades2365]

This is a cuman main here. Try stopping 3 feudal rams + 4 archers. It’s an all in. All food workers switch to gold and wood. And the banked food is for new farmers. The double range archers will need constant reinforcements and when affordable the attack upgrade. Most people quit out right when they hear the alarm. Some try to repair the tc and shoot down the rams. This strategy doesn’t work however when they just relocate or do a base race, because I won’t recover from loosing my lumberjacks. Probably one of the funniest things was when my opponent went for castleage and i destroyed his tc before he could get it. He was done spent all his resources to get to castle age and trying to save his tc.

[@VictorHugo-yz2vn]

As a low elo, I agree with everything. Now would you mind creating a video on how to stop those?

[@salvadorseekatzrisquez2947]

Sounds perfect. Well thought!! For fun I will try them. I feel celts unique infantry is nice for early attack. One of my saddest defeat this weekend

[@BirdMoose]

The Mongol step lancer plays destoys me as a low elo player. They are such a big power spike early castle age.

[@robergroso]

the problem is pikeman can't kill step lancer, even Bohemians with his +25% atk bonus.

[@IamHopers]

1st) You have to wall pretty tight, with houses. You can't miss your walling. Palisade is not enough, and leave no gap at all.. zero gaps. 2nd) you have to make at maximum 3 scouts, and go castle aswell. If you take too long, he will have advantage. You should reach castle at maximum 1 minute after. 3rd) When reach castle, make a TC in a woodline where you can defend part of your base, and make a monastery. 1 monk + wall stop his agression. Then you prepare to expand your economy, leave your base. If you're Cavalry civ, you can counter with knight + monk easily.. If he keeps spamming, I like to go cav + pike (only in castle pike + cav works, and with upgrades), MAKE SURE I HAVE GOOD WALLS, make 3rd TC, maybe 4th, and boom to imp.

[@matthewmcneany]

Armenians do full infantry play pretty well too. Little surprised not to see feudal age longswords or castle age champions make an appearance in the list.

[@belisarian6429]

For Armenians better choice for castle age are warrior priests, for low elo seemingly uncounterable, with decent stats, heals and ability to take all relics before opponent.

[@matthewmcneany]

@@belisarian6429 worse play at higher elo 'cos nobody knows what their hotkey for warrior priest is.

[@brentanderson8460]

Fully upgraded castle age champions is pretty expensive to tech into at that point of a game

[@matthewmcneany]

@@brentanderson8460 part of the point of low ELO strategies is that high cost isn't an impediment, 'cos the slower rate of progress of the game means that lower Elo players are usually floating much larger banks of res.

[@zekidolen3791]

I've had so much fun with Malian all in MAA/longsword strategies at 800-1000 elo, glad to see them getting some love! Always makes for an exciting match whether you win or lose. Started using it after losing badly to someone who went with that strat against me and the person explained how to counter it, which I always appreciated

[@2575623]

900 elo here. I barely see Romans, Georgians, Armenians at my elo, few people will spend any more money if they're just trying to learn the basics

[@szponiasty4652]

I am around 900 elo, and I stopped huskarl + pike spam few times using persian war elephants combined with thrashbows. War elephants destroy huskarls and small groups of pikes, with crossbows you kill monks and pikes if there is too much.

[@SOUPNPC]

I did as well with the Vikings. Beserks hold up pretty well against the infantry spam. I just cycled groups of 30 out of my castles and let them heal over and over.

[@benedictjajo]

​@@SOUPNPCor just create 20 teutonic knights 😂 because, 200 TKs comfortably beat 1000 Huskarls.

[@derikaem8021]

trashbow is very good against goth in general

[@geheimeWeltregierung]

@@SOUPNPC hmm the normal way to stop a Goth player is to kill him before he gets to imp , goths dont get stone walls so they are easier to harass. i think normally a goth player should not have problems with Vikings if he goes for champions

[@gebhard128]

tower rush is in my opinion a bit advanced for low elo and invites mistakes in execution, huns all in knights or all in CA without getting housed is a really strong play that allows the low elo player to make mistakes and focus on other things

[@croskoal]

As a low elo player myself, I think it's more about the reaction, not so much the execution. Yeah, you can mess it up, but if the opponent doesn't nail the reaction, then you are winning anyway.

[@cameron8779]

Before I hung up my cleats as a low elo weekend warrior, I played a dirt nasty Goths feudal all-in. The goal was to use the huge carry capacity of Goth hunters to steal a boar with 3-4 forward vills then stick around and put up enough forward barracks that I could make constant maa with a direly stunted economy. I had tested the numbers necessary to brute force a fully garrisoned TC with just Maa. It was like 30 or so with Goths. So I just harass and try to deny wood gold and houses until I collected enough to dive the TC. Felt good when it worked. Strats that never worked were full stone wall Hun's boom and Korean boom. Also I used to try to wall-in my enemy on Africa nomad with stone walls but that almost never worked. I beat Goth huskarl/pike spam with Saracen market abuse CA+Mamelukes. But I always lost to Mongol steppelancer.

[@imchris5000]

one of the hardest things to learn is how to counter and recover from a rush. when I get castle rushed I just move into their base 90% of the time vills and all

[@offydannerson8049]

A streamer called "Hera" taught us the most important thing when being castle dropped is not to panic. So I stopped panicking and found out you can actually still win the game. At low elo chances are high that they rely heavily on that castle drop and they do not expect you to recover. Move your vils, raid, boom...it often works. What I do not have an answer for, is Mongols FC steppe lancers. I lose to that every single time.

[@ozberkoz]

If still in feudal and waiting for the castle, gotta resource wall with stone walls around gold and wood. Then mass enough camels/knights to repel the horde. If you spot it really early though, sending 2-3 archers with your own scout to harrass opponents wood vils would put its eco in a bad spot too.

[@IamHopers]

1st) You have to wall pretty tight, with houses. You can't miss your walling. Palisade is not enough, and leave no gap at all.. zero gaps. 2nd) you have to make at maximum 3 scouts, and go castle aswell. If you take too long, he will have advantage. You should reach castle at maximum 1 minute after. 3rd) When reach castle, make a TC in a woodline where you can defend part of your base, and make a monastery. 1 monk + wall stop his agression. Then you prepare to expand your economy, leave your base. If you're Cavalry civ, you can counter with knight + monk easily.. If he keeps spamming, I like to go cav + pike (only in castle pike + cav works, and with upgrades), MAKE SURE I HAVE GOOD WALLS, make 3rd TC, maybe 4th, and boom to imp.

[@droger1448]

Best low elo strategy.. pick Khmer and spam scorpion elephants or Persians and tc drop right next to their tc

[@benedictjajo]

The best way to beat the goth spam in low elo is to have a better infantry civ.

[@Artharon]

I think the biggest push is to play the game how you like it, and if you can find the perfect build in your playstyle, dont let the pros or the meta define what you really are. Play the game how you like it! That's what it's all about!

[@Taydris0]

Excellent tips. TY very much.

[@benz_aoe2]

I am low elow and usually use the Gurjaras ... I stop Huskarl + pikeman with Chakrams. the Goths absolutely MELT like butter

[@p3rp351]

The all in feudal archers with hopefully some sneak ranges works even without Saracens market

[@itsmrsimplicity6195]

That’s me and i like playing with the Romans so thanks for the advice. Love it when I can get scorpion upgrades because they are really tough to stop.

[@parkerbond9400]

OP low elo strat: continue to produce vils out of your starting TC and keep idle TC time low.

[@dearestcomrade8638]

Someone def used this strategy on me yesterday. OP AF

[@crownofglory1264]

Don't forget the OP Fast Imp into straight GG strat.

[@williamwolfe9335]

Vills are so op. How do you counter an opponent who never stops making vills?! That eco play is brutal.😂

[@jorgea5426]

I am 1100 ELO and I stop Goths with all in xbow. When they get to huskarl, I trade my xbow for vils. Then go imp and go full hand cannoner. Also, I like byzantines, so Catas.

[@olli1886]

So the counter to an attack of ancient Roman sword fighters is ... guns? Who would've guessed!

[@micheleeichstetter4627]

Especially the Mongol lame + FC steppis is so common at 1500 level. I face that strat so often.

[@drz0b]

One of the few good counters to Mongols FC is Mongol scout rush lol. 18 pop scouts in their base and get in the wood line or delay the market going up or force a defensive tower so they can't sell the stone

[@vunguyenxuanhoang7422]

The tower rush and castle drop are the same thing. You need a lot of stone-mining villagers and some units to escort builders to the enemy bases in both situations. I'd rather go knight rush like normal with Goths since they have FU knights in Castle Age and many low ELO players can't react fast enough if I split my knight to attack multiple locations in his wall. I once defeated a Byzantine player who all-in with Cataphract by sending Cavalier instead to crush his non-elite Cata on early Imp because he thought that Cataphract would crush Goth infantry and didn't train camel. And Saracen knight rush is actually quite good. They are FU and shared tech with both Camel and Mameluke, and they didn’t fall behind Cavalier much in the first 3 minutes of Imp

[@jasonsmith1950]

I'm about 900 ELO (mid-ELO). I've used Saracen archer in tournaments against players who are a fair bit higher ELO than me and gotten good results with it (most extreme example: winning 500 ELO gap with only a 5% handicap). In team games, I think the #1 low ELO strategy would be Goth Condos. Roman full infantry: In early game, it can sometimes be countered by going infantry yourself (especially if you're an infantry civ) - missing supplies really hurts Roman MAAs. But that is more mid-ELO than low-ELO.

[@nabiljimenez848]

900 Elo … STILL Low Elo

[@QuintemTA]

@@nabiljimenez848 Statistically speaking it's not. It's on the low end of the average. The bell curve distribution of players is mostly between 800-1200 ELO. Which is average range. People need to stop acting like average is low ELO. Low ELO is T90 low ELO legends. 400-600 range, maybe 700. The closer you get to 1000 ELO the more "normal" people play with standard builds.

[@FriendlyDirt]

For anyone wanting the easiest (but also most vulnerable to rams) castle drop, I’d recommend the Bulgarian Krepost drop. You put 8 on the stone the second you click castle, and you can place 5 krepost back to back without a pause to collect more stone. It’s incredibly easy and super annoying

[@menel3]

I counter Goth Huskarl+Pikemen spam with knights, because Hera taught me knights counter pikemen

[@CoconutJewce]

I know you don't do a ton of team games, but I'd love to see a video like this but for team games.

[@miguelbahamonde6321]

"Infantry in general is very strong in low elo.." that hurt right in the 1300s 💀

[@arn0000]

ill say, youre pretty right about this one. roman spam is op if youre able to keep the production going 11. i once struggled in a 2v1 with me having scorpions and my teammate having something too, just because the roman guy was able to freely boom and spam legionaries. even tho he fought in choke points vs 2 players, these units were crazy and spammed out of like 12 forward barraks.... we only won cuz his res got depleeted eventually...

[@p3rp351]

If I see a castle drop at low elo, I just ignore it and build another TC somewhere else. Cuz you know that guy has (attempted) small walls and had 12 vils on stone for entirely too long and is just gonna drop a second one if I ignore it or fight it. Just counter attack, 25 knights in their base is truly the low elo win condition

[@31eGGy31]

Thought about the Pike Huskarl comb for years and always wondered how noone plays that. So the Pro answer to that is just Mangonels? Would you consider playing a game against a pro player that showcases that scenario? Would be really interesting to see.

[@BYRONSLAM09]

i have 2 low elo strats: first with bohemians: mass halbs mass handcannoners and houfnices, it is more stronger that it seems. second strat with vietnamieses: mass imperial skirms, rattans archers (obviously) and maybe some phants or halbs too

[@mellow7938]

Next video, using these techniques in High elo

[@tomasdirocco]

Oh my goddes this is the video i was waiting for so many years. I agreeeeeeee most of it Forward castle is no good at all, many players overate them but you can throw all your edge by doing a dangerous castle, better at home and chill thanks for the contento

[@Not-The-Expert]

How to stop Goth spam? Cataphracts! Pikes do very little damage, Husks and champs do about the same, and the Cataphracts perform even better in large battles. If Goths are full boomed, Byzantines should be as well.

[@Juan_Laurino]

They can mass before you can mass cataphracts with cramped damage, but yeah, they destoy them. The problem is that's one civ, what about the rest XD

[@geheimeWeltregierung]

If you want to know how to counter goths , just play goths and players will show you​@@Juan_Laurino

[@petervarsa3541]

As a low ELO player ;) yes, I use mass swordsmen against huskarl and it works pretty well

[@WackyConundrum]

I can confirm this analysis. I'm dying to these strats on a daily basis.

[@nysh8]

Would love to see "top 5 on arena" version too, turks FI etc

[@dagkaan2]

Wake up, hera dropped a new vid

[@IskoJakobsson]

Celts infantry and siege rams. I tried this when I was new to the game and I never had an easier time winning games. The celts siege ram is so op along side the faster infantry. People going archers to counter it will have a tough time dealing with it.

[@jonasolsson5572]

Honestly forward castles is how Hera dies most of the times the few games he actually looses. Vivi and Yo have been grabing quite a few games from Hera last 2 weeks and what most of them have in common is that forward castle in mid-late castleage

[@C_ZU]

nice content! ggwp

[@akashchowdhury5871]

With oasis and wooden wall arena(forgot map name) in the team game maps, i see saracen archer every time. Saracen flank and frank/magyar pocket.

[@kevinkirschenheuter1479]

How can low elo beat Goths spam? Fight unique unit with unique unit. Elite teutonic knights will obliterate them. Maybe something like samurai too.

[@ozberkoz]

Pulling a Morley rush(FC Mongol fast castle) is not that easy in around 800 elo I think. People usually have problem with deer pushing and improvising if smth is missing in their builds, its not gonna be as fast as intended.

[@MorleyGames1]

Haha i love that you called it a morley rush

[@shacolin6546]

Is Ethiopians no mining camp FC into crossbows good?

[@sp4tz339]

Stop Huskarl spam in 1100 elo: Mameluke In general, Mameluke is mostly my answer if i dont know how to counter a unit. 😂

[@jshally1852]

Imo anything super aggressive and cheesey rakes up wins as people ragequit early lol

[@icymcspicy9511]

looks like I'm playing Romans for the foreseeable future

[@imchris5000]

roman fast castle into nonstop scrop spam is super strong you can hit castle on just the sheep + berries and boars after that 10 on gold 20 on wood and u can spam nonstop out of 4 siege workshops. I have had so many people just GG the moment they charge the scorps with their massive army only for it to get flattened

[@wassapdude94]

I think 800 elo are a little quicker than 15 minute feudal times, I am stuck in 800 atm and 10 minute feudal times are common, if not less

[@FlorianMoreau-en8fn]

5 still works at mid elo 11. Funny because I'm just out of I game where I went into full wall FC archer with Saracens

[@CrnaStrela]

Any civ with decent fully upgraded champ line can deal with goth late game comp, for some reason, low elo goth players seems to just refuse switching to hc.

[@juncheok8579]

3:56 i mostly only play byz (i have like 20 games lmao) so theoretically, i would go cataphract

[@salvamari]

In my opinion, Jaguar warrior + monks, or Eagle warrior + monks are amazing!

[@gonzalomartinez8453]

I think you are giving us waaaay a lot of credit. The best strat at low elo is just wait till die 11.

[@craig4170]

This checks out, absolutely dunked on someone with Roman infantry a few days ago But random civ is the only way, don't be a dirty civ picker

[@mrskinny8555]

I deffs think the market is OP at low elo, so long as they remember it exists 😅

[@Caleb-gf2oq]

With fun strats like this, why would I ever wanna leave low elo? Rome shall rise again!

[@zharkabat]

Spanish Conquistador is also very good

[@jacobwood3326]

We need LEL players to use these strats while T90 casts on Tuesdays!

[@CoffeeAndBusiness]

FINALLY Hera is showcasing my builds!!

[@MusicaBrunoC]

I was feeling so well with the intro beeing 14** myself and so bad when i realize i usually die to 3/5 the strats

[@melissagrenier2200]

Only problem with romans is that if you go too low they're not getting blacksmith upgrades anyway.

[@GeoffreyRonan]

Me watching this as a low elo player who lost a 3v1 against Hera where he went Romans full infantry

[@ryzae6202]

BUILD CASTLE IN FRONT OF ENEMY AND MINE STONE is definitely number 1 imo if we are going by popularity (800-1100elo)

[@mikeng1805]

For me the best strategy is to build castle in defense area and try to go to lategame with hussar raid to economy. Because low elo cant defend

[@Klajusa]

I once faced the goth pikes + huskarls I just made teutonic knights

[@mormril]

Honestly, iI feel like if you are goths going up against the teutons that seems like a bad matchup for the goth player. I'm not saying it's unwinnable especially at lower elo (which I am), but I'd be kind of depressed if I was matched against the teutons. The teutonic knights would absolutely shred most infantry, all else being equal. Going archers is not really a great option. Probably best bet to win is to rush imp and get hand cannoner/cannons.

[@Klajusa]

That's the problem with gimmicky civs. You either hard counter or get hard countert No middle ground

[@derikaem8021]

hp of buildings getting build should only increase quadratically imo. So a castle would only have 1%/9%/25% hp when it is 10%/30%/50% built. castle drops would finally be fixed

[@TheIntermediatePianist]

I don't have Romans so can you suggest one that can replace them please?

[@Rupar5974]

I'm in low elo and got teuton tower rushed twice so far. Won both times by just moving villagers away to collect resources elsewhere and just ignored the towers.

[@XFlyingDutchmanX]

Great strategies

[@MoRDekai1364]

How about roman fc scorpion rush. After reaching 15 units, they become basically unstoppable. With small numbers of light cav for meat shield and anti-mangonel

[@murkboywonder32]

Samurai shred Karls

[@ortolanmba]

Forgot the top two: 1. Low Elo Franks Abusers; 2. Low Elo FC Phosphorus 😂wannabes;

[@dodgydondbo1361]

Phosphoru has ruined me. I sit at 1000 elo. I play normal I lose. I phosphoru, I win. I try to play normal and lose, get sick of losing so I play phosphoru and I win again so elo never drops. It’s a viscous cycle

[@Dnw15]

GOOD GAME

[@tomasbolgac2520]

I believed i find here Incas scout eagle rush :D

[@skipper472]

Dang, the video got recommended to me 28 seconds after the upload and now I'm here.

[@fedelercari]

52 seconds let's gooo

[@CydeWeys]

Yeah, KZbin knows that I like Hera videos. I started watching it 4 minutes after upload.

[@jaseytv]

cataphracts for goths?

[@BA_AJC]

All in M@A as romans with tower on their gold sure is yummy.

[@chrisbowler3073]

Anyone have a potential build order for Teuton Tower, w/ 10 vils going forward?

[@smaruhmaruh6955]

All in knights are also really strong in lower elo!

[@edupignatelli]

Honestly, I die to infantry spam every time.

[@MaximusLight]

*laughs in Mongol Step Lancers until the Goths show up*

[@AsvuCZ]

I win against 4 Castle strategy this weekend on gold rush map, but I must talk, that I play Bohemians against Byzantium... So I destroy his Cavalry and try waiting to Imp, build cannons + uprage to houfnica and win game ( but I must talk, that this was very hard )

[@basileohl8003]

What about the fast imp turks ?

[@konradpyszniak976]

I cannot believe that castle drop in your face isnt nr 1.

[@tofuchicken2]

>try all these strategies >get fucking shredded anyway