Heroes that pair well with Saul based on role synergy and community tier lists.
Jabel + Zoe for garrison. Marlin for offense. Chenko for rally joining. Saul for construction speed + garrison stacking.
Add Petra as cavalry rally lead. Zoe and Marlin remain core. Start saving shards for Gen 6 Yang.
Saul is F2P accessible. Shards are obtainable through events, daily play, and alliance activities without spending money.
As a Legendary F2P hero, prioritize shard collection during featured events. Patience is key — this is a marathon, not a sprint.
Saul is the most useful hero on this page that nobody will tell you is useful. He's a Gen 1 Legendary Archer with a Growth sub-class — the only Gen 1 Legendary whose skill kit extends outside direct combat into city management. His combat skills are solid: Rapidfire delivers multiple hits at up to Attack × 75% per hit with 2-second stuns, Final Prayer boosts his Defense by up to 150% when his own Health drops below 50%, and Superior Techniques adds +30% Attack Speed as a passive multiplier. His Expedition tree buffs squad defense and health (Taskforce Training), squad lethality (Positional Batter), and — the critical skill — Resourceful, which boosts Construction Speed by up to 15% and reduces Construction Costs by up to 15%. This is the only Gen 1 Legendary skill that affects city development, making Saul a dual-purpose hero: he fights in your garrison AND he speeds up the walls, barracks, and upgrade queues that determine your empire's growth ceiling. His exclusive gear Rabbitgear Cannon adds +546 Attack (highest exclusive-gear Attack bonus of any Gen 1 hero), plus +50% Lethality and +50% Health, and unlocks two more skills: Fearless Advance (scaling conflict between 10-30% and 6-24% across sources — flagged for audit) and Defend to Attack (+15% Attack for defender troops at max). Community tier lists place him at A-tier Garrison, S-tier Joiner, B-tier Rally and Bear Hunt. He's F2P-accessible through five different routes (Hero Roulette, Hall of Heroes, Daily Deals, Mythic General Hero Shard, Swordland Shop) — the most F2P methods of any Gen 1 Legendary documented. He's also a traumatized survivor: the lone walker-out of the cursed Golden City expedition where his teammates turned to stone, carrying his captain's last words as a command — 'Just smile! Smile because you lived!'
Rally — B. Not a rally lead. His kit is defensive and utility-focused.
Garrison — A. Strong garrison defender with Rapidfire AOE stun and Final Prayer defensive boost when his own HP drops. Taskforce Training buffs squad defense and health.
Bear Hunt — B. Adequate but not a priority for bear hunt.
Joiner — S. S-tier joiner specifically via garrison stacking. His Positional Batter squad-wide lethality buff and his exclusive gear's Defend to Attack make him a stacking powerhouse.
Rapidfire. Saul delivers multiple hits, each dealing damage and stunning the target for 2 seconds. Scaling by level (percent of attack per hit): 55, 60, 65, 70, 75.
Final Prayer. When Health is below 50%, Saul's Defense is significantly increased. Scaling by level (percent defense boost): 50, 75, 100, 125, 150.
Superior Techniques. Increases Attack Speed. Scaling by level (percent attack speed): 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
Taskforce Training. Increases total squads' Defense and Health.
Resourceful. Increases Construction Speed and reduces Construction Costs. Unique city-management utility.
Positional Batter. Increases the Lethality of all squads. Scaling by level (percent lethality all squads): 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.
No source provides Saul's upgrade order. Pattern inference: Rapidfire first (AOE + stun battlefield control), then Superior Techniques and Final Prayer for combat kit, then Resourceful for city value, then exclusive gear.
Confidence: VERIFIED community consensus. Sources: allclash.com build guides via Perplexity, kingshotguide.org, lootbar.gg, heaven-guardian.com
Rabbitgear Cannon reaches 225,000 power at max.
Conquest bonuses: attack 546, defense 450, health 3375.
Expedition bonuses: lethality % 50.0, health % 50.0.
Unlocks: Fearless Advance, Defend to Attack.
Exclusive to Saul. Highest Attack bonus among Gen 1 exclusive gear pieces (+546 vs Jabel's +450, Amadeus's Aegis of Fate Conquest stats).
Confidence: high 2 source convergence. Sources: kingshot-data, kingshotwiki
Stat focus by piece: helmet → archer lethality · gloves → archer health · chest → archer health · boots → archer lethality
Minimum build: helmet Archer Rare Lv 40, gloves Archer Epic Lv 32, chest Archer Epic Lv 32, boots Archer Rare Lv 40.
Standard archer archetype at legendary tier. The piece split is the same for all three archetypes — chest and gloves for health, helmet and boots for lethality — with only the troop-type prefix changing; allclash.com's Zoe guide is the canonical worked example, and Zoe is an infantry hero. Confirmed across allclash, heaven-guardian and kingshothandbook build guides.
Confidence: VERIFIED community template. Sources: allclash.com Zoe build guide (canonical infantry template), community consensus, Perplexity cross-verification
Zoe, Hilde, Saul — garrison defense. Source: kingshotguides.com + lootbar.gg + kingshotmastery.com (verified 3+ sources)
No public source documents explicit hero-vs-hero counter matchups for Kingshot. Community discussions reference troop-type rock-paper-scissors (Infantry > Cavalry > Archer > Infantry) and formation-based counters but not specific hero counters. Check Discord/Reddit for player-tested matchups.
Checked 9 public sources for this and found nothing published.
Free-to-play viable: yes.
Obtainable from: Hero Roulette, Hall of Heroes, Daily Deals, Mythic General Hero Shard, Swordland Shop.
Shards to unlock: 10.
Shards per star: 0 star to 1 star 1, 1 star to 2 star 5, 2 star to 3 star 15, 3 star to 4 star 40, 4 star to 5 star 100, total shards from unlock to 5 star 171.
Confidence: VERIFIED 3 independent sources. Sources: kingshot.fandom.com/wiki/Hero_Star_Upgrade_Requirements, kingshotdata.com/database/hero-shards/, kingshot.net/hero-shard-calculator
Saul has the MOST F2P access methods of any Gen 1 Legendary documented so far — 5 distinct routes to shards. Hall of Heroes and Daily Deals are standard F2P pools, Hero Roulette is a rotating free option, Swordland Shop and Mythic General Hero Shard are additional F2P drops. His construction-speed utility makes him a top F2P priority even if he's not the strongest combat hero.
Attack: 2,697 · Defense: 2,220 · Health: 16,650 · Expedition attack %: 200.16 · Expedition defense %: 200.16
Highest Attack among verified Gen 1 Legendaries (vs Amadeus 2128, Jabel 2220, Helga 1873). Lowest Health (16650). Glass cannon archer.
Confidence: 9x3x3 VERIFIED 4 sources kingshotwiki plus kingshothandbook plus kingshotdata. Sources: kingshot-data, kingshotwiki, kingshothandbook.com/heroes/database, kingshotdata.com/heroes/saul, kingshotguide.org/heroes/saul
Saul survived the cursed Golden City expedition, a doomed adventure where his teammates were turned to stone one by one. His captain's last words to him were 'Just smile! Smile because you lived!' — a command forged from the knowledge that survival is itself a debt owed to the dead. Saul carries that survivor's gratitude into battle, the memory of petrified friends shaping every strike.
Hero research verified 2026-04-14. Figures are community-sourced and cross-checked; where no public source documents a value, this page says so rather than estimating.