Kingshot Bear Hunt: damage, troop ratio, leaders and joiners

How Bear damage is worked out

Only rallies can hit the Bear. The fight lasts 10 turns, your troops don't die, and every turn each troop type deals damage. That damage grows with:

• the square root of how many troops of that type you send,
• your attack × lethality for that type (the numbers in your battle report),
• the skills: the leader's 9 hero skills, 4 joiner skills, widget skills and Truegold troop skills.

The square root is why the best split isn't "all archers". Moving troops to your strongest type helps less and less, so the best share for each type follows the square of its strength. Archers are usually much stronger, so they get most of the march.

With the calculator's example account (T11 TG8 archers, Amadeus, Petra and Yang leading at 5★ and W10, 2 Chenko + 2 Amane joining) the best split is 1% infantry / 2% cavalry / 97% archers, for about 919 million points in a typical rally. Your own split depends on your stats, so enter yours in the calculator.

Chance skills (Petra, Amadeus, Liz and others) roll every turn, so the same setup scores differently from rally to rally. Expect about ±15%.

What counts in a rally

• The leader brings all 9 Expedition skills of their 3 heroes.
• Joiners bring only the first skill of their first hero, and only the first 4 joiners count (official Combat FAQ, and community tests).
• Same-type buffs add, different types multiply. Two lethality joiners (Chenko) plus two attack joiners (Amane) multiply to ×2.25 instead of ×2.0 for four Chenko. In the example rally that is 8.9% more damage.
• Good joiners matter: the 4 joiner skills add 96% to the example rally.
• Bear Trap (Pitfall) gives +5% attack against the Bear per level, +25% at level 5. Keep it at level 5 before every Bear.
• Valora (Master): Hunter Instinct up to +30% Bear points. Together with Savage Advantage's extra troops she adds 30% here.

Best rally leaders

Extra Bear damage each hero adds when leading for its troop type, compared with an empty slot (example account, 5★, W10).

Infantry

Hero	Gen	Damage
Amadeus	1	+77%
Helga	1	+57%
Diego	8	+40%
Alcar	4	+29%
Zoe	2	+21%

Cavalry

Hero	Gen	Damage
Ava	7	+123%
Petra	3	+86%
Thrud	5	+45%
Sophia	6	+33%
Jabel	1	+31%

Archers

Hero	Gen	Damage
Luna	8	+103%
Yang	6	+101%
Rosa	4	+79%
Wee & Woo	7	+74%
Marlin	2	+68%

Widgets matter a lot as leader: an attack or lethality widget adds a rally skill of up to +15% at W10.

Best joiner heroes

Only the first skill of your first hero counts when you join, so put one of these first. Damage is what one joiner adds to the example rally.

Hero	Type	Damage
Vivian	Archers	+25%
Ava	Cavalry	+25%
Wee & Woo	Archers	+21%
Amadeus	Infantry	+20%
Chenko	Cavalry	+20%
Yeonwoo	Archers	+20%
Amane	Archers	+20%
Margot	Cavalry	+20%

Their first skill does nothing against the Bear, so don't join with them first: Helga, Jabel, Saul, Zoe, Marlin, Eric, Jaeger, Alcar, Rosa, Long Fei, Thrud, Triton, Sophia, Yang, Charles, Diego, Liz.

Troops, pets and common mistakes

• Archers: Howling Wind (TG5, 30% chance for +50% damage) and Truegold Wind (TG8, +25% more when Howling Wind triggers). Ranged Strike gives +10% against infantry, which is what the Bear is.
• Cavalry: Assault Lance (TG5, 15% chance for double damage). Infantry Truegold skills are defensive and add nothing here.
• Pets that help: Giant Rhino (attack), Alpha Black Panther (lethality), Ironclad War Bear (lowers the Bear's defense) and Mighty Bison (more troops). Moose doesn't help: it lowers health, and the Bear only has defense.
• Re-check your march size. Since the 19 October 2026 update, Legendary Governor Gear adds deployment capacity.
• Save your best split as one of your formations in the game, so every rally uses it.

Truegold 6–8 and T11 base stats aren't published anywhere. The calculator uses estimates for them and marks them "(est.)".

Try it with your own numbers

The calculator uses your battle-report stats, heroes, pets and Masters, and shows your best split, a typical score and your best next upgrades.

Sources: the damage model follows the kingshotguides.com Bear example; joiner rules from the official Kingshot Combat FAQ; Pitfall levels from the kingshot.net wiki; checked against 76 Frakinator simulator runs (about 1% mean error) and 9 real rallies.