How to Get Berserker in Command An Army — Stars, Counters & Tier

How do I get a Berserker?

From summons, paid with Gems. There’s no quest or shop route. Gems come from quests, milestone rewards and codes, so redeem everything on the codes page first, then summon in a batch. Keep duplicates: Ascension merges two copies into a stronger one (how units work). Berserker sits in the 4-star band, so on a small account it competes with Spartan, Samurai and Lancer for your star limit.

What the Berserker is

Berserker is a 4-star special unit — the same rarity band as Spartan, Samurai, Lancer and Immortal — and it is pure damage. It has no defensive role, no utility and no ranged option. You buy it to shred units, and everything else about the unit follows from that.

The 1.5 patch made it

The Berserker is the clearest example of how much one balance patch can move this game.

The 1.5 patch cut archer range hard. That nerf was aimed at Archers, but its largest effect landed on every melee unit that used to die on the approach. Creators put it directly: “With the archer nerfs, I really think they could shine more.”

The result is a unit that moved up to S tier without being changed itself. Its worst matchup got worse for the other side.

That is worth internalising for how you read tier lists in this game: a ranking is a snapshot of the current patch, not a property of the unit. The tier list says so at the top, and the Update 2 guide covers the other half of the balance story.

The October 19 buff

Five weeks later the developers came back and buffed it directly — the first change to the Berserker itself in the patches we have tracked:

For scale, the same creator puts Samurai at 33 DPS, Immortal at 21.8 and Spartan at 18.6 — so the Berserker now hits hardest of the four, on top of being faster than an average unit. What it still does not have is health: in the same test it kept getting wiped when it was sent in alone, and it only produced its damage behind a shield line or a committed charge.

Creator read on the change: “a pretty nice buff… they’re very fast, very high damage,” but also “these are not the type of unit you want to charge in by themselves.” The buff does not change the advice in the next section — it makes the payoff for protecting it bigger.

What it still loses to

The archer nerf did not delete ranged units — it moved the problem to the 3-star Flame Archer, which stayed S tier.

Creators are specific about the matchup: the Berserker “won’t survive against flaming archers unless you charge them directly.” A gradual approach loses. A committed charge wins.

That is a mechanical distinction, not a numbers one. Flame Archer has arched shots and ignite damage, so it can keep hitting a Berserker during the walk in. A direct charge shortens the window that damage can land.

Berserker versus Samurai

Both are 4-star damage units and both are rated highly, so the choice comes down to how much protection you can give them.

The practical read: Samurai is the safer pick and both current tier lists put it a tier above the Berserker. If your lineup has shields to hide behind, Berserker converts that protection into more damage. If it does not, Samurai survives long enough to matter, and its parry is what decides the one-on-one.

There is a second argument for Samurai that is easy to miss: it beats cavalry in prolonged fights, which means it can hold ground against the unit class that exists to kill your back line. Berserker does not do that.

How to use it

Send it behind shields, not in front. The shield line exists to eat the first volley — that is exactly the damage that would otherwise kill a Berserker. The Shieldman line is the cheap version of that protection.

Commit the charge. Half-committing a Berserker against Flame Archers is the way to lose it for nothing. If you send it, send it at the target.

Do not use it to hold a point. It has no defensive tools and no ranged option, so standing still is the worst thing it can do.

Check the star cost against your budget. At 4 stars it competes directly with Spartan, Samurai, Lancer and Immortal. On a small account, fielding a Berserker usually means not fielding something else — the star limit guide walks through the maths with a worked example.

Where it sits

Berserker is S tier on the best units tier list as of September 2026. For what it is good against, see the unit counters guide; for the unit that protects it, the Shieldman line; and for the account-level decision, the star limit guide.