RAID: Shadow Legends: 10 Free Champions to Build First

To maximize account progression in RAID: Shadow Legends, focus your early resources on accessible champions that solve specific bottlenecks in Clan Boss, Dungeon waves, and Faction Wars. Building champions who apply mandatory debuffs like Decrease Attack and Decrease Defense will yield faster progression than relying on raw damage from high-rarity units.

Top 10 Accessible Champions Overview

Priority Champion Roles

Clan Boss and Speed Support

Building a stable Clan Boss team is your top priority because Clan Boss chests are the most consistent source of Skill Tomes and Shards.

• Kael: Operates as your early campaign farmer and primary Poisoner for Clan Boss and Dragon dungeons.
• Coffin Smasher: Provides a consistent Decrease Attack debuff on his primary skill (A1). This single debuff is essential for lowering Clan Boss damage so your team survives enough turns to trigger poisons and Warmaster masteries.
• Apothecary: Functions above his Rare status by granting Turn Meter boosts and fast single-target heals, enabling your team to take more turns per Boss cycle.
• High Khatun: Acts as an accessible Speed lead. Her turn-meter control and Speed Aura ensure your team acts before enemy waves in both Arena and Dungeons.

Wave Control and Boss Amplification

As you push into higher Dungeon floors and Doom Tower, enemy waves will wipe your team if left uncontrolled.

• Scyl of the Drakes: Delivers passive passive turn-based healing and an AoE Stun skill, stabilizing difficult waves without requiring heavy manual setup.
• Visix the Unbowed: Locks down hostile waves through turn-meter reduction and continuous crowd control, protecting squishier damage dealers.
• Ninja: Delivers heavy HP Burn damage that scales rapidly against high-health boss encounters like Clan Boss and Hydra.
• Rhazin Scarhide: Available via permanent fusion, Rhazin provides the combination of Decrease Defense and Weaken, maximizing total physical and warmaster damage dealt to bosses.

Utility and Faction Wars

• Tagoar: Serves as a primary support and reviver for the Shadowkin faction, offering high team survivability and Speed support.
• Mavara: Offers defensive utility and buffs to keep teams alive through long wave encounters where raw damage is insufficient.

Resource Allocation and Building Strategy

When developing these champions, manage your resources according to these rules:

1. Prioritize Stats Over Tier: A properly geared Rare champion with high Speed and Accuracy will consistently outperform an ungeared Legendary. Ensure debuffers meet the Accuracy thresholds required for your target dungeon stage, and equip support champions with enough Speed to cycle their skills rapidly.
2. Conserve Skill Tomes: Epic and Legendary Skill Tomes are scarce. Do not book support or damage champions until you have a specific target threshold in Clan Boss or Dungeons that their skill cooldowns will directly help you achieve.
3. Build One Champion at a Time: Fully ascend, level, and gear one key champion to 6-Star before starting another. Half-built champions fail to clear higher stage content and stall progression.