Conquest is Kingshot’s single-player PvE hero campaign. You send a five-hero formation against fixed enemy teams, clear stages in sequence, earn first-clear rewards, and improve the idle rewards generated through the Conquerors’ Camp. Battles are automatic, but formation changes, hero development, Conquest skills, gear, and repeated attempts can make a major difference when you reach a difficult stage.
The basic formation uses two heroes in the front row and three in the back row. A durable two-frontline setup with damage, control, or support behind it is a strong starting point, but Conquest is not a mode where one five-hero team solves every stage. As enemy formations change, positioning and counter-picks become increasingly important.
Use five heroes, protect your important back-row damage dealers, upgrade the Conquest skills of heroes you actually field, and keep pushing stages whenever your hero levels or gear improve. When a battle is close, retry it before spending resources.
How Conquest Works in Kingshot
You access Conquest through the Conquerors’ Camp in your town. The mode is built around sequential PvE stages: defeat the current enemy formation and the next stage becomes available.
| Conquest Mechanic | How It Works |
|---|---|
| Battle Type | Single-player PvE hero battles |
| Team Size | Five heroes |
| Formation | Two front-row and three back-row positions |
| Skills Used | Conquest skills |
| Progression | Clear stages sequentially to unlock higher stages |
| Retries | Losing does not block you from attempting the stage again |
| Rewards | First-clear rewards plus improving idle income |
No world-map march is being sent when you enter a Conquest stage. The battle revolves around your heroes and their Conquest combat statistics, abilities, equipment, and formation.
Conquest Skills Are the Skills That Matter
Each Kingshot hero has separate Conquest and Expedition skill sets. For this mode, evaluate the Conquest side of the hero’s skill page.
This distinction is important because a hero can be exceptional in normal marches or rallies while providing a very different level of value in Conquest. When deciding which heroes deserve Conquest Skill Books, look at what their Conquest abilities actually contribute to a five-hero fight.
Useful effects include:
- Area-of-effect damage
- Stuns and other crowd control
- Healing and self-healing
- Damage reduction
- Team Defense or offensive buffs
- Attack Speed manipulation
- Damage amplification and debuffs
- Direct attacks against vulnerable back-row heroes
Do not spend Conquest Skill Books across every hero simply to increase account power. Concentrating them on heroes that remain part of your active Conquest roster produces more useful combat strength.
Do not judge a Conquest hero by Expedition bonuses such as troop Lethality or rally-oriented effects. Those belong to a different combat system. Open the hero’s Conquest skills before deciding where to spend your skill materials.
Best Kingshot Conquest Formation
The safest general formation is two durable frontliners with three protected back-row heroes. This gives your damage dealers and support heroes enough time to activate their abilities.
| Position | Recommended Role | Main Job |
|---|---|---|
| Front Left | Tank, bruiser, or situational bait | Absorb pressure and influence enemy targeting |
| Front Right | Durable tank | Survive heavy opening pressure |
| Back Left | Carry, control, or support | Remain protected while contributing skills |
| Back Middle | Damage, healing, or utility | Support the frontline and control the fight |
| Back Right | Damage or utility | Add pressure while benefiting from frontline protection |
The front-right position commonly receives considerable basic attack pressure at the beginning of a stage, making durability particularly important there. Front-left can also be used strategically: in some matchups, allowing one hero to fall earlier can alter targeting in your favor.
That is why blindly using Quick Deploy can eventually become inefficient. Automatic deployment may select strong heroes, but it does not necessarily create the best matchup against the specific enemy formation blocking your progress.
Positioning Matters More Than It First Appears
Conquest is not simply a comparison of your total power against the enemy’s power. Heroes interact through positioning, attack ranges, crowd control, area damage, and target-selection rules.
When you are stuck, watch what happens during the opening part of the battle:
- Which frontline hero receives the most pressure?
- Which of your heroes dies first?
- Does your main damage dealer survive long enough to use important skills?
- Which enemy hero is causing the loss?
- Is a healer keeping the opponent alive?
- Is one enemy back-row carry dealing most of the damage?
The answers tell you whether you need more raw power or simply a different arrangement.
Do Not Assume Every Tank Must Stay in Front
Two tanks in front and three damage dealers behind them is an excellent beginner template, not an absolute rule. Some stages can reward an unusual placement, an extra support hero, a frontline damage dealer, or a back-row hero chosen specifically to absorb a targeted skill.
The correct formation is the one that changes the battle sequence in your favor.
Best Heroes for Kingshot Conquest
There is no permanent five-hero Conquest team because available generations change with server age and individual accounts have different star levels, gear, widgets, and skill investment.
However, several heroes have demonstrated useful Conquest roles across different stages:
| Hero | Typical Conquest Value |
|---|---|
| Howard | Accessible frontline durability, team Defense support, and damage reduction |
| Zoe | Strong frontline option with self-sustain and offensive team utility |
| Jabel | Damage and control with usefulness in multiple back-row setups |
| Gordon | Flexible support option when sustain is more important than another pure damage hero |
| Marlin | Back-row damage and control for later early-game progression |
| Alcar | Later-generation frontline option capable of supporting difficult stages |
| Triton | Later frontline alternative when additional durability or utility is needed |
| Vivian | Powerful back-row pressure and area damage |
| Yang | Later-generation back-row option appearing in successful higher-stage formations |
| Thrud | Area damage and control that can contribute against grouped enemy formations |
Treat these as examples, not a mandatory tier list. Heroes such as Chenko, Quinn, Yeonwoo, Amane, Saul, Rosa, Margot, and others can also solve particular stages depending on positioning and account development.
Do Newer Heroes Automatically Replace Older Heroes?
No. New generations generally expand your options, but a newly obtained hero may not immediately outperform a highly developed older hero.
Compare the replacement’s stars, level, Conquest skills, gear, widget progression where applicable, and role in the exact formation. Keep an older hero when it still performs its job better.
How to Beat a Conquest Stage You Are Stuck On
When your progress stops, use a structured approach instead of immediately upgrading everything.
- Watch the battle. Identify exactly why your formation collapses.
- Swap the two front positions. A small positioning change can redirect pressure.
- Move your back-row carry. Protect whichever hero must survive for your team to win.
- Change one hero. Add healing, control, mitigation, or another damage source depending on the problem.
- Improve the weakest important hero. Prioritize gear, level, stars, or Conquest skills where they actually affect the battle.
- Retry a close fight. Critical hits, targeting, and skill timing can produce different outcomes.
- Return after a meaningful upgrade. A new hero generation or major gear improvement can turn a hard wall into an easy clear.
If a stage repeatedly ends with only one enemy hero alive, your formation may already be capable of winning. Retry it several times before spending scarce materials. If several enemies survive every attempt, change the lineup or improve your heroes instead.
Why Retrying the Same Stage Can Work
Conquest battles contain enough combat variance that identical formations do not always produce identical results. Critical hits, crowd-control timing, target transitions, and the order in which heroes or their accompanying units fall can change the battle.
This makes retries especially useful with heroes whose abilities contain random effects or critical damage opportunities.
There is an important difference between a close loss and a bad matchup. If you regularly reach the final enemy hero, repeated attempts are reasonable. If your entire team collapses while most of the opponent remains alive, luck is unlikely to solve the underlying problem.
Hero Gear Strategy for Conquest
Unlike three-hero march content, Conquest benefits from developing a complete five-hero formation. That creates an important resource-management decision: your best three heroes may already have excellent equipment, while the fourth and fifth members are much weaker.
Do not divide rare materials equally merely to make all five equipment sets look similar. A more efficient approach is to:
- Keep your strongest gear on the heroes carrying most of the battle.
- Give frontline heroes enough survivability to remain functional.
- Protect your primary back-row damage dealer with meaningful offensive investment.
- Maintain usable gear on the fourth and fifth heroes without overinvesting in temporary pieces.
Be particularly careful with Mastery Forging on gear you may soon replace. Reforging Mastery does not return all spent Forgehammers, making premature heavy investment expensive to reverse.
Conquest Rewards and Idle Income
Clearing a Conquest stage provides its first-clear reward and improves the long-term reward generation associated with your Conquest progression. Depending on your current stage and progression, Conquest contributes resources such as Gold, Hero XP, hero-development items, Hero Gear, and eligible hero shards.
The accumulated idle rewards are collected through the Conquerors’ Camp. Idle storage has a maximum capacity, so collecting it regularly prevents rewards from sitting at the cap.
Why Hero XP Makes Conquest Important
Hero XP becomes increasingly valuable as your roster grows. You may have five main heroes today, but new generations introduce replacements and situational alternatives that also need development.
Pushing Conquest therefore provides more than an immediate stage reward. Higher passive production helps support a deeper hero roster over time.
Best Daily Conquest Routine
Conquest does not require a complicated daily schedule. A practical routine is:
- Collect the accumulated rewards from the Conquerors’ Camp.
- Attempt the next available stage.
- Retry if the loss was extremely close.
- Test one or two formation changes if the stage exposes an obvious weakness.
- Stop spending resources solely for Conquest when the stage clearly requires more overall development.
- Return after meaningful hero, skill, gear, or generation upgrades.
This keeps your passive progression moving without turning every difficult stage into a resource sink.
Conquest Strategy for F2P Players
Free-to-play players benefit from treating Conquest as an efficiency problem rather than trying to overpower every stage immediately.
Focus first on heroes you already use elsewhere when their Conquest kits are also strong. Build a reliable five-hero core, concentrate Conquest Skill Books instead of spreading them across the roster, and use positioning and free retries before investing additional materials.
Accessible heroes can remain useful for surprisingly long periods when their kit solves the stage. Do not bench a well-developed Epic simply because a new Mythic hero has appeared but is not yet properly upgraded.
Common Kingshot Conquest Mistakes
- Using only three heroes: Conquest uses a five-hero battlefield with two front and three back positions.
- Confusing skill systems: Judge heroes by their Conquest skills for this mode.
- Always using Quick Deploy: Raw power does not guarantee the best positioning.
- Running fragile heroes in front: Losing the frontline too quickly exposes your back row.
- Ignoring the enemy formation: A stage may require a specific positional answer.
- Giving up after one loss: Close battles can change through normal combat variance.
- Retrying a hopeless formation endlessly: Several surviving enemies usually signal a structural problem.
- Spreading skill resources too widely: Build heroes that actually contribute to your active team.
- Replacing developed heroes too soon: New generation does not automatically mean immediate upgrade.
- Overinvesting in temporary gear: Protect scarce gear materials, especially Forgehammers.
FAQs
What is Conquest in Kingshot?
Conquest is the PvE hero campaign accessed through the Conquerors’ Camp. You clear enemy stages sequentially to earn first-clear rewards and improve your accumulated idle rewards.
How many heroes do you use in Conquest?
You use five heroes arranged into two front-row positions and three back-row positions.
Does Conquest use troops?
Conquest does not deploy one of your normal world-map troop marches. It is a hero-focused battle mode, although heroes fight with accompanying combat units on the battlefield.
Which skills work in Conquest?
Use the Conquest skills shown on each hero’s skill page. Expedition skills belong to world-map and march-based combat and should not be used to evaluate a hero specifically for Conquest.
What is the best Conquest formation?
Two durable frontliners and three damage, control, or support heroes in the back is the best general starting template. Difficult stages can require different positioning or specialized counter heroes.
Why can the same team win after several retries?
Combat can vary because of critical hits, skill timing, crowd control, and targeting transitions. Retrying is worthwhile when your previous attempts were already close.
Should I always use my five highest-power heroes?
No. Hero power matters, but Conquest skills, positioning, durability, control, healing, and matchup interactions can make a lower-power hero more useful against a particular stage.
Should I upgrade every hero’s Conquest skills?
No. Concentrate Conquest Skill Books on heroes you regularly use or expect to keep in your active roster. Spreading scarce materials across unused heroes reduces the impact of each upgrade.
Do higher Conquest stages improve rewards?
Yes. Advancing through Conquest improves the idle reward generation tied to the mode in addition to providing stage-clearing rewards.
When should I stop trying a difficult stage?
If multiple enemies consistently remain alive despite formation changes, the problem is probably overall hero development rather than luck. Return after improving heroes, gear, skills, or unlocking stronger options.
Is It Worth Prioritizing Conquest?
Conquest is worth progressing because it continuously supports your hero development through stage rewards and idle production. However, it should not consume every scarce combat material on your account simply to clear one more stage.
The best approach is to push aggressively when your heroes are strong enough, experiment with positioning when a stage is close, and accept temporary walls when further progress would require inefficient investment.
Players who prefer starting from a more developed roster can also explore Kingshot accounts for sale on Heaven Guardian. This is separate from Conquest itself and is an optional alternative for players who do not want to progress a fresh account from the beginning.
Conclusion
The Kingshot Conquest system rewards more than raw hero power. Build a complete five-hero team, keep durable heroes where they can absorb pressure, protect your main damage and support heroes, invest in the correct Conquest skills, and study each stage before assuming you need another upgrade.
Most importantly, distinguish between a close battle worth retrying and a formation that needs a real change. Consistent Conquest progress improves your long-term idle rewards and helps fund future hero development. For more hero builds, progression advice, and event strategies, explore our additional Kingshot guides.
