RAID: Shadow Legends Early Progression and Champion Farming Guide

To optimize early progress in RAID: Shadow Legends, focus your energy on taking your starter champion to 6-star Level 60 through food farming ("Jjol-jak") while equipping them with high primary-stat gear. Developing one strong carry champion before leveling other heroes gives you the power required to solo campaign stages, efficiently generate silver, and climb progression milestones.

How Food Farming Works

Food farming is the practice of using a single strong champion to carry three weak, lower-rank champions through campaign stages. While your main hero clears the wave, experience is distributed equally among all four slots, allowing you to level up common and uncommon champions to use as rank-up material (food).

Your primary objective is to make your starter carry capable of clearing Stage 12-3 on Brutal difficulty solo. Stage 12-3 yields the most effective balance of experience per energy point while dropping shields that sell for high silver values. Once your starter champion can solo this stage, ranking up future champions becomes significantly faster.

Gear Priorities: Raw Stats over Set Bonuses

Early in account progression, raw primary stats provide far more impact than completing four-piece gear set bonuses. Equipping broken sets—mixing gear from different sets to achieve specific primary stat targets—is more effective than completing a set with poor primary stats.

Select gear for your primary carry based on the following priorities:

• Boots: Look for Speed as the main stat to increase turn frequency.
• Gloves: Focus on Crit Rate% or ATK% main stats to boost overall damage output.
• Chest: Select ATK% main stats for damage scaling, avoiding flat Attack values.

Upgrade your core offensive pieces to +12 first, as this level provides a cost-effective power increase before the higher silver costs of +16 upgrades. Sell low-rarity gear with flat primary stats on gloves, chests, or boots to maintain silver reserves for artifact upgrades.

Starter Champion Development and Masteries

Your starter champion drives early progress across campaign clearing, dungeon progression, and initial Clan Boss runs. Focus all initial ascension materials and rank-up food on bringing this starter to 6 stars and full ascension before investing heavily in secondary champions.

Once your starter hero reaches Level 60, spend gems to unlock their full masteries. Purchasing complete masteries bypasses early Minotaur runs, immediately scaling your champion's damage output to help farm dungeons and contribute effectively to Clan Boss encounters.

Progression Roadmap

To maintain steady progression without wasting resources, follow this priority sequence:

Avoid ranking up every low-tier champion summoned from shards. Treat common and uncommon heroes strictly as food, and follow the game's main mission system to guide your daily tasks.