Kingshot King’s Castle Battle Guide – Pet Skills & Buffs

The King’s Castle Battle is one of the most important events in Kingshot, taking place every two weeks. Occasionally, the first couple of battles in a season can run off schedule, but after that, the timing stays consistent.

Each battle lasts six hours, and to claim victory, your alliance must either:

• Hold the Castle continuously for three hours, or
• Accumulate the longest total hold time during the six-hour window.

Winning is huge because it allows your alliance to crown the King of the Kingdom, unlocking powerful perks and rewards for everyone. Even if you don’t manage to win, just participating grants valuable charm materials to help with upgrades.

This guide will walk you through the essentials to prepare your alliance for both regular Castle Battles and the tougher KvK Castle Battle.

Kingshot King’s Castle Battle Guide – Pet Skills & City Buffs

1. Start with Coordination

Before anything else, make sure your alliance has a Discord server (or another reliable communication tool). Get everyone in voice chat during the event—this makes it far easier to synchronize rallies, call out troop setups, and adjust on the fly.

Your alliance leader should take charge of calling rally timings, assigning heroes, and managing troop formations in real-time.

2. The Double Rally Strategy

One of the most effective ways to take the Castle is through double rallies. This requires your two strongest players to lead back-to-back marches:

• First Rally (Attack): By Gen 3, the best lineup is Amadeus, Petra, and Marlin.
• Second Rally (Garrison): Launched about 5 seconds later with Eric, Jaeger, and Hilde, the top garrison heroes.

Here’s why it works:

1. The attack rally weakens or dislodges the defending lineup.
2. The garrison rally immediately follows to occupy the Castle with defensive-focused heroes.
3. If the attack rally captures the Castle first, recall those heroes before the garrison rally lands—this ensures the Castle switches over to your garrison team, which is built to hold.

Key Tip: Always check the Widgets of your rally leaders. Use heroes with attack Widgets for the first rally, and heroes with garrison Widgets for the second. Widgets provide stat boosts that scale with your existing stats, making them extremely powerful.

3. Troop Formations

Default formations work well, but you should adjust based on the situation:

• Attack Rally (Default): 50% Infantry, 20% Cavalry, 30% Archers (50:20:30).
• Vs Infantry-heavy Defense: 30% Infantry, 20% Cavalry, 50% Archers.
• Garrison Rally: 60% Infantry, 20% Cavalry, 20% Archers (60:20:20).

Infantry-heavy formations are best for defending, while adding more Archers helps shred through Infantry defenders.

4. Rally Joiners

Rally leaders aren’t the only ones who matter—joiners must send the right heroes too.

• Attack Rally Joiners: Ideally 2 Amanes and 2 Chenkos, or 4 Chenkos if that’s easier for your alliance.
• Garrison Rally Joiners: 4 Gordons is best, thanks to his massive health boost for Infantry.

This synergy amplifies your leader’s setup and keeps rallies efficient.

5. Holding the Castle

Once your alliance secures the Castle, the real work begins. You must refill constantly:

• Keep an eye on troop counts, especially Infantry.
• If your Infantry numbers drop, queue up a new Infantry-heavy garrison rally to reinforce.
• Leaders should call this out on voice chat to avoid gaps in defense.

Enemy rallies will come non-stop, so active coordination and quick refills are the key to holding.

6. Don’t Forget the Turrets

Turrets surrounding the Castle will keep attacking. If you ignore them, they’ll build up and start dealing significant damage. Once your hold stabilizes, assign strong members to rally turrets to reset them. This lightens the pressure on your Castle defense.

7. Infirmary & Healing

Castle Battles will flood your Infirmary, so preparation is vital:

• Upgrade your Infirmary before the event.
• Stockpile healing speedups a few days in advance.
• Use batch healing to save on speedups.
• Get as many members online as possible to help coordinate healing cycles.

The more prepared your alliance is, the longer you’ll stay in the fight.

8. Pet Skills & City Buffs

Just like Widgets, Pet Skills and City Buffs scale with your stats, making them crucial for Castle Battles.

• Rally Leaders should always activate buffs; joiners don’t need to.
• Pets like Moose and Grizzly Bear are excellent choices.
• City Buffs can be found under the arrow below your avatar.

Never go into the event without activating these boosts.

9. KvK Castle Battle Strategy

During Kingdom of Power, the Castle Battle escalates into a kingdom vs. kingdom showdown, and coordination becomes even more important.

• Form a Mega Alliance with your kingdom’s strongest players ahead of time.
• Ideally, create two Mega Alliances: one dedicated to rallies on the Castle, the other to handle turrets.
• The reigning King should organize a kingdom-wide Discord to unify strategy across alliances.

Without this large-scale coordination, it’s nearly impossible to hold the Castle in cross-kingdom battles.

10. NAP Rules & Rotations

Some kingdoms establish a Non-Aggression Pact (NAP) where top alliances rotate the King title. Instead of holding the Castle for a full 3 hours, they purposely drop it before the timer completes.

This way:

• More alliances get rewards during the 6-hour window.
• Kingdom stability is maintained, and player retention improves.

If you’re leading a top alliance, knowing how to manage or negotiate NAP rules is just as important as battle tactics.

The King’s Castle Battle is where alliances prove their strength, coordination, and strategy. Double rallies, smart troop setups, constant refills, and kingdom-wide teamwork are what separate winners from everyone else.