Summary
Due to the numerous numbers of civilizations inCivilization 6, many of the civilizations have multiple leaders that can be chosen with their own sets of unique abilities. For example, the American civilization will have a warmonger tendency while playing with Teddy Roosevelt (Rough Rider persona), but they will play passively with a focus on production while playing with Abraham Lincoln as the leader.
Therefore, each leader’s unique abilities are tailored suitably to complement their civilization. Some leaders are also exclusive to their civilization since they might only have one leader available, but the unique ability can be a huge synergy towards the civilization to be considered as a leader with the best unique ability.
7Seondeok
Governors Become More Powerful Than Ever
Governors are one of the most important aspects in Civilization 6, as they allow a city to have a specialization and use the city’s advantage to massively benefit the civilization. For example, a governor can be assigned to a city-state towrest control of suzerainty, while there is also another governor that is useful to boost both Science and Culture gain.
With Seondeok’s unique ability, these governors become an integral part of the civilization as they are capable of boosting Science and Culture gain, in conjunction with their own modifiers. Cities will be able to provide a huge yield of both Science and Culture, making it easier for the Korean civilization to gain a victory.
6Eleanor Of Aquitaine
A Terrifying Way Of Conquering Peacefully
If conquests by civilizations could usually be held off by several measures, such as World Congress Resolutions, Embargoes, and Joint War, Eleanor could circumvent all of those measures by simply ‘conquering’ other cities with peaceful means. Her unique ability grants a city with a huge number of Great Works to passively conquer other civilizations' cities due to pressure gain.
In multiplayer games, other players will quickly notice the attempt, and attempt to either reinforce the city with various means of increasing loyalty or simply declare war against Eleanor. However,AI players lack the mechanicto notice such attempts and usually will simply let the city go into Eleanor’s clutch.
Fund A Warmongering Campaign With Continuous Conquest
A player who is interested in thearts of warmongering and conquestinCivilization 6would be interested in trying out Julius Caesar as the leader of the Roman civilization. His unique ability makes him able to acquire wealth rapidly through the conquest of both other civilizations' cities and Barbarian Outposts, funding the campaign rather easily.
Moreover, his unique Legions will be able to acquire experience rapidly thanks to the fact that they can gain rapid promotions by hunting Barbarians all over the world. Fully promoted Legions can take down a heavily fortified city with ease, making him a formidable warmongering leader.
Strong Coastal Presence Coupled With Districts Rush
At first glance, Hojo Tokimune’s unique ability can be perceived to be quite basic and too reliant on random situations such as having Hurricanes as a defensive measure or fighting near the coastline. However, a crucial strong point lies within the fact that Tokimune could build Encampments, Holy Sites, and Theater Squares at half the time, making him able toacquire cultural victory easily.
Moreover, this also complements the Japanese civilization’s ability to grant bonus adjacency for districts, making him able to build a huge cluster of districts that grant bonus yields to each other.
Rapidly Grow Humongous Cities And Benefits From Them
The Chinese civilization inCivilization 6is more commonly known to be a wonder-rushing civilization due to their bonuses towards Eureka and Inspirations after constructing a world wonder. However, Yongle breaks this stereotype by having his cities focus on his special project Lijia instead, which can rapidly grow a newly constructed city into a metropolis with 10+ population in no time.
Moreover, his cities hugelybenefit from this rapid population growth, as crossing the 10+ population threshold will allow a city to gain a massive bonus in Gold, Science, and Culture yield. In total, a city with 10 population will generate +20 gold, +10 science, and +1 culture per turn, without including the yields of the tiles that they are working on.
Never Fall Behind From Leading Rivals
Aside from their ability to settle in Tundra tiles and make it beneficial even with its low yield gain, Russian civilization is also quite formidable to face since their leader, Peter, can create a catch-up mechanic with its unique ability. Sending a trade route to a more advanced civilization than Russia would allow them to gain Science and Culture rapidly.
This complements Russia’s main playstyle to rapidly expand through the map without prioritizing both Science and Culture. Combined withtheir heavily favored pantheon, Dance of the Aurora, Russia will be able to claim a victory quickly if left unchecked.
Build Up Districts And Amass Envoys Easily
Babylonia is notorious for its ability to gain technologies by acquiring Eureka, at the cost of having conventional technology acquirement heavily slowed down. Hammurabi’s unique ability to acquire the first buildings built after constructing them works well with it, as he will be able to use the excess production to gain Eurekas that might require certain military units to be built.
Moreover, building a district for the first time will grant him an Envoy, which can be used to become a suzerain of a city-state that can advance his specific way of victory, suchas the Science Victory.
