Stellaris: The 7 Best Renowned Paragon Leaders (2024)

With the arrival of the Stellaris' DLC Galactic Paragons, player-controlled empires have a chance to acquire powerful leaders through different means, with one of them being the Xeno-Linguistics technology. After researching this technology, the player will have a chance in every decade to be contacted by renowned paragons who share their ethics.

These renowned paragons have their strengths and weaknesses, although their disadvantages can be negated quite easily by their powerful traits. Some might be focused on technological advances, while others offer a powerful increase in fleet strength with their admiralty prowess. Some can also be prioritized above others due to their specific traits.

7 Factorator Shuladun

Perfect Governor For Industrialist Empires

• Galvanizer: Increase unity, society research, and trade value from population.
• Polluter: Reduce population growth speed by 5% as Governor

Resources have always been one of the most important aspects of Stellaris that need focusing on, especially when an empire is facing hostile threats from every corner of its domain. With the help of Factorator Shuladun, an empire can obtain a large amount of alloys easily without too much problem with Shuladun's Forge Focused trait, which increases alloys from specialist workers.

Moreover, his Destiny trait further increases unity, society research, and the trade value of the planet he governs, making him quite powerful in different areas as well. Unfortunately, his Polluter negative trait makes him a little undesirable for certain empires, especially ones that have traits that reduce their population growth.

6 Jynn

The Perfect General For A Fortress World

• Supreme Warrior: Increase army damage, morale, and collateral damage when leading
• Reclusive: Reduce diplomatic weight by 5% as Councilor

Sometimes, an empire will need to rely on a Fortress World to hold out against a hostile threat that is unbeatable at that point of the game, such as a Crisis or even a rogue roaming Leviathan. With the help of a Fortress World, a hostile fleet will be forced to either bombard the planet first or successfully invade it to progress, a process that numerous armies can hinder.

To top it off, having Jynn commanding the defending army will make the planet unbeatable due to his traits. Supreme Warrior enables him to increase the army's damage and morale. Moreover, there is also a 15% chance for Jynn to instantly kill a hostile army during every 10 days of combat, making him more desirable as the guardian of a planet.

5 Borin

A Leader Focused On Engineering Studies

• Brilliant Shipwright: Increases the chance for voidcraft research option, increases engineering research speed, increases ship hull points, and ship upkeep as Councilor
• Substance Abuser: Leader lifespan is reduced by 10 years.

The Engineering technology tree is one of the most important research trees to focus on due to its importance in unlocking numerous technological advantages, such as ship types, a starting point in megastructure building, and alloy creation. Borin, as a Scientist leader, specializes in such studies with his Expertise: Materials trait.

Moreover, his Destiny trait is quite powerful as it increases various modifiers for the empire, particularly a ship's hull points, although it also increases their upkeep costs. The only downside he has is the Substance Abuser negative trait, which reduces his lifespan by a large margin.

4 Judge Uld Dagr

A Pacifist Admiral To Keep The Empire Stable

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• Peacekeeper: Increase stability, piracy suppression, reduce crime, and increase pacifist ethics attraction as Councilor
• Lethargic: Reduce evasion and sublight speed as Fleet Admiral

When playing as a pacifist empire, a player will try to prioritize internal growth as opposed to aggressive expansion, as they are not well-equipped for an offensive war deep in the rival's empire, especially when their ethics prevent them from doing so. Judge Uld Dagr'sunique set of traits encourages such peaceful behavior.

His Destiny trait, Peacekeeper, enables him to create a sense of calm inside the empire by increasing stability, suppressing piracy, and reducing crime. However, when employed as an admiral, the Judge will function on the weaker side as his negative traits make him vulnerable against enemy fleets.

3 Nasuz Demetor

A Suitable Veteran To Explore The Galaxy

• Vibrant Storyteller: Increases monthly unity, increases survey speed, and has a chance to discover strategic resources while on a Science Ship.
• Stubbornness: Reduces leader experience gain.

Exploring the vast cold galaxy can sometimes be more beneficial to do with a high-level scientist who is capable of finding extra resources or anomalies during surveys. Moreover, this will increase the chance of finding archaeological sites that can reward the empire with powerful relics capable of extraordinary things.

Nasuz Demetor is more than capable of filling in this role with his Destiny trait, which enables him to increase unity passively, while also increasing survey speed and the chance to discover strategic resources while on the survey. His negative trait can be negated by the fact that he will often be out on the field surveying planets, enabling him to gain experience nevertheless, although at a slower rate.

2 Aturion

Perfect Strategist For Xenophobic Empires

• Gray Eminence: Reduce empire size effect, increase governing ethics attraction, and reduce happiness.
• Intolerance: Reduce trust cap for other empires.

Every empire will need a Ministry of Defense to complete their council positions, and having a proper leader to fit in that particular position can be challenging. For Xenophobic empires that decide on a path to become a Fanatic Purifier, Aturion could become the perfect candidate for that council position.

With his Gray Eminence destiny trait, Aturion can keep the empire size low while also increasing governing ethics attraction, ensuring the population falls in line with the government's policy. The negative traits such as happiness reduction and trust cap for other empires should not matter too much as a Purifier will be able to address those concerns by simply decimating the galaxy.

1 Zosira K'Tun

The Perfect Candidate For Head Of Research

• Driven Educator: Increase leader experience gain.
• Gullible: Reduce empire encryption.

To fill the Head of Research Council position, a player will need to find the best scientist leader with the right traits to maximize research bonuses from the position. Fortunately for Egalitarian empires, Zosira K'Tun can be recruited should they find themselves lucky, leading to a technological renaissance as her traits enable massive research advancement.

Moreover, her Destiny Trait, 'Driven Educator,' enables her to train other leaders as well by increasing their experience gain by a massive 25%. This will rapidly level up other leaders, scientists included, which will also impact research speed as well. The negative Encryption modifier she has is inconsequential, as espionage is unfortunately not utilized well by other rival empires, particularly AI empires.

Stellaris

Platform(s)

PC , PS4 , Xbox One

Released

May 9, 2016

Developer(s)

Paradox Development Studio

Genre(s)

4X , Grand Strategy