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Best civs on Ancient Spires (AoE4, ranked 1v1)

Best win rate on Ancient Spires: Golden Horde, 55.8% in its 1,672 ranked 1v1 games here. Biggest gain from this map: Mongols, 3.3 points above its win rate on all maps. Biggest drop: Zhu Xi’s Legacy, 3.4 points below its win rate on all maps.

Map type
HybridLand and water both count.
Ranked 1v1 games
29,565On the current patch, all ranks.
Best win rate
Golden Horde55.8% over 1,672 games.

Ancient Spires win rate by civ

AoE4 civs on Ancient Spires in ranked 1v1: win rate, gap to the civ's win rate on all maps, games
#CivWin ratevs. its averageGames
1 Golden Horde 55.8% +2.1 1,672
2 Macedonian Dynasty 55.7% +0.9 2,226
3 Knights Templar 55.4% +1.8 5,816
4 Order of the Dragon 53.2% +0.6 3,253
5 Ayyubids 53.0% +2.6 1,222
6 Mongols 52.2% +3.3 2,624
7 Japanese 52.0% +0.6 3,362
8 Jeanne d’Arc 51.8% +2.8 888
9 French 51.4% +0.7 7,151
10 Tughlaq Dynasty 51.1% +1.5 947
11 Holy Roman Empire 49.5% +1.4 3,004
12 Delhi Sultanate 49.3% +0.5 1,116
13 Jin Dynasty 49.3% −2.0 851
14 Zhu Xi’s Legacy 49.1% −3.4 1,512
15 Byzantines 48.7% +1.4 1,666
16 Abbasid Dynasty 48.1% −0.7 1,489
17 House of Lancaster 47.1% −2.9 1,380
18 Ottomans 46.9% −0.8 2,830
19 Rus 46.9% −1.2 1,852
20 Malians 46.5% −2.0 1,552
21 Sengoku Daimyo 44.6% −1.5 635
22 Chinese 44.5% −0.7 2,270
23 English 44.2% −3.1 7,628

“vs. its average” compares each civ's win rate on Ancient Spires with its win rate on all maps, in points: green means the map suits it. Civs with fewer than 200 games here are left out.

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Ranked 1v1 win rates from AoE4 World public data on 2026-10-16 (current patch, all ranks). MetaAOE is not affiliated with AoE4 World and these are not official statistics.