Kingdom Rush Origins — Elven Builds, Heroes & Farming 2025
Updated: 16 Aug 2025
Origins leans into elves, mobility, and crowd control. This guide focuses on practical builds for campaign and endless modes.
Early Game Priorities
- Poison + Kiting: Open with archer lines and pick up poison early to soften swarms.
- One-lane commitment: Bring your best tower to T3 quickly on the heaviest lane; cover the other with hero + barracks.
- Rally micro: Move flags forward to start stalls early; pull back before artillery detonations.
Top Tower Paths
Elven Archers → Golden Longbows / Hunters
Poison/bleed + single-target finish deletes runners. Upgrade poison/bleed first; add crit/rapid fire once lanes are stable.
Stone Druids / Arch-Druid line
Provides rooting and area control. Skill CC first, then damage—CC multiplies artillery value.
Artillery → Sylvan/Entangling options
Prioritize the artillery with the widest AoE or reliable knockback. It scales with every second of stall you create.
Barracks → Bladesinger / Forest Guard
Use durable frontliners on side lanes. Invest in dodge/evade tools and short CD actives to chain stalls.
Hero Recommendations
- Alleria-style archer: Max burst/active first to snipe elites and runners, then sustain.
- Forest mage: Skill AoE/CC and cooldown talents to extend clump windows for artillery.
- Bruiser elf: Take survivability and gap-closer; anchor the main choke.
Map Tactics
- Water/bridge maps: Place artillery to splash both paths; poison handles the trickle.
- Armor lanes: Bring mage tech earlier; debuffs convert armor to free DPS.
- Boss phases: Save spells for add waves; heroes body the boss while towers clear the swarm.
Endless & Efficient Farming
Choose mid-campaign maps with short wave timers and controllable splits. Build around root + poison + artillery to perma-clump. End runs once rewards plateau to save time.
Common Pitfalls
- Greeding double side lanes instead of stabilizing the main choke.
- Overbuying archers without CC—damage needs stall to land.
- Leaving hero idle; rotate to the lane about to break, not the one already stable.