AoE2 Live Coach

Learn every AoE2 civ, one question at a time.

Bonuses, unique units, tech tree gaps, who wins which matchup, when each civ peaks and which openers work. Every answer comes from real ranked 1v1 data.

Pick an answer. Keys 1–4 work too.

Look up a matchup

Pick your civ and your opponent to see the real head-to-head win rate, the openings that work, when each civ peaks and a game plan.

MatchupHead-to-head win rate, best opener from real games, power curves, game plan and army check. CivsBonuses, tech tree gaps, typical age-up times, army mix and win rate by game length. Win ratesAll 56 civs by Elo bracket, last month or last year, with trends after patches. AboutWhere the data comes from, how the advice is built, and what the numbers mean.

Your weak spots

Civs you got wrong most often. They come up more often in the quiz. Tap one to open its profile. Saved in this browser only.

Live game

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Open this on your phone before you queue. When your ranked game starts, your opponent's civ shows up here with a game plan. Data from aoe2companion.com, checked every 20 seconds while this page is open.

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Pick civs by hand · if live lookup fails or for a quick check

Live match data: aoe2companion.com (used with permission). Win rates and openers: aoestats.net. Army composition and game length: aoe2insights.com. Units and tech trees: aoe2techtree.net. Your profile ID stays in this browser.

Age of Empires II © Microsoft Corporation. AoE2 Live Coach was created under Microsoft’s “Game Content Usage Rules” using assets from Age of Empires II, and it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.

You play

Opponent

Your Elo (1v1 RM)

Army plan

data + counter rules

Win rates at your Elo

Expected edge over time

Why?

Your opener ranking

From real games: aoestats.net · ranked 1v1 · Arabia · last year · all Elo.

Army check

Your tech tree gaps

Their gaps = your chances

Bonuses and tech trees come straight from the game data. Win rates: aoestats.net, ranked 1v1, last month and last year, as of 13 Nov 2026 (no head-to-head data). Power curves come from win rate by game length (aoe2insights.com, read from chart screenshots, ±1 point; Feudal ≈ 5–15 min, Castle ≈ 15–25 min, Imperial ≈ 25+ min). Core strengths, TC plan and eco ratings are rules of thumb. Civs marked new have a provisional rating. Map, Elo and play style shift a lot.

Civ

Strength by age

Win rate by game length · aoe2insights.com · RM 1v1

Your ratings

Disagree with a rating? Change it here. Matchups use your values. Saved in this browser only.

Tech tree gaps

Civ win rates by Elo

Ranked 1v1 from aoestats.net (as of 13 Nov 2026). The column for your Elo is highlighted. “Trend” compares last month with last year for your bracket and marks civs that moved more than the noise, usually after a buff or nerf. In the 2000+ bracket the average win rate is 54–56%, so the “vs avg” column compares each civ with the bracket average. Below about 700 games, differences of ±2 points can be noise.

About Learn AoE2 Civs

A study tool for ranked 1v1 in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. It combines public statistics with civ bonuses and tech trees so you can read a matchup in a few seconds.

Data sources

Civ bonuses and tech trees: aoe2techtree.net (SiegeEngineers), from the game data.
Head-to-head win rates, openings, Elo brackets: aoestats.net · ranked 1v1 · Arabia · last year · all Elo.
Overall win rates by Elo, last month and last year: aoestats.net · ranked 1v1 · all maps.
Win rate by game length, age-up times, army composition: aoe2insights.com · RM 1v1.
Live game (Live tab): aoe2companion.com · your browser asks for your latest match every 20 seconds while the Live tab is open. Nothing is stored on a server.

Data snapshot: 13 November 2026. Numbers do not update automatically.

How the advice is built

Power curve: win rate by game length, mapped to ages: Feudal ≈ 5–15 min, Castle ≈ 15–25 min, Imperial ≈ 25+ min. Values were measured from chart images and are accurate to about ±1 point. Bars outside the 40–60% axis are shown as “<40%” or “60%+”.
Best opener: how often your civ wins with an opening, combined with how often the opponent’s civ loses against it. Small samples are pulled toward 50%.
Head-to-head: the win rate of exactly this pairing on Arabia, with a 95% margin.
Play style, TC plan, Extended Feudal: rules that compare the two power curves. Eco ratings, core strengths and counters are hand-written rules of thumb.
Your Elo: shifts the weighting toward the early or late game and picks the matching win-rate bracket.

Your settings

Your Elo, edited ratings and quiz progress are saved in this browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Credits

Thanks to the teams behind aoestats.net, aoe2insights.com and aoe2techtree.net. Age of Empires II © Microsoft Corporation. Learn AoE2 Civs was created under Microsoft’s “Game Content Usage Rules” using assets from Age of Empires II, and it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.