RAID: Shadow Legends Live Arena Poison and HP Burn Guide

Running a Poison and HP Burn composition in RAID: Shadow Legends Live Arena bypasses high-Defense tank defenses by dealing direct, percentage-based damage that ignores standard damage reduction. To execute this strategy, secure turn order with crowd control or buff removal, apply debuffs across the enemy board, and activate them using a detonator before enemy cleansers can cycle their turns.

How Damage-over-Time Bypasses Live Arena Defenses

High-tier Live Arena defenses frequently rely on massive Defense pools, passive team damage reduction (such as Duchess Lilitu or Harima), and Stoneskin gear. Stoneskin reduces incoming direct skill damage by up to 85%, which often prevents conventional critical-hit nukers from securing first-turn knockouts.

Poison and HP Burn ignore these armor ratings and direct-damage thresholds:

• HP Burn: Deals 3% of the target's maximum HP on every active tick and inflicts passive damage to adjacent allies in Arena battles.
• Poison: Inflicts 5% of the target's maximum HP per standard debuff whenever the afflicted champion takes a turn.
• Stoneskin Interaction: While Stoneskin mitigates direct attack impacts, it remains fully vulnerable to percentage-based debuff damage ticks.

Core Team Roles

A functional damage-over-time draft requires specific role distribution to place debuffs, detonate them, and keep your engine alive.

Relying purely on passive debuff ticks gives opponents time to cleanse your setup. Pairing an applicator with an activator compresses several turns of percentage damage into a single action, eliminating high-health targets before they move.

Drafting Rules and Priority Bans

Revealing your debuff champions early allows opponents to counter-pick heavy Resistance, passive cleansers, or Polymorph blessings.

1. Pick neutral cores first: Secure flexible support units, Speed leads, or Turn Meter boosters on your first two picks before drafting your placers and detonators.
2. Identify enemy cleansers: Watch for cleansers such as Pythion, Mithrala Lifebane, or Elva Autumnborn.
3. Use targeted bans: Ban the enemy cleanser that threatens your specific turn order.
4. Draft secondary disruption: If the opposing team drafts multiple cleansers, pick a secondary crowd control champion with Provoke or Skill Lockout to buy an opening for your placers.

Stat Benchmarks and Gear Priorities

Damage-over-time champions do not need Critical Rate or Critical Damage. Reallocate your gear stats entirely into Accuracy, Speed, and effective durability:

• Accuracy: Target 450 to 550 Accuracy on placers and control units to land debuffs against high-Resistance opponents.
• Speed: Tune placers and detonators between 240 and 280 Speed, ensuring your debuff placer moves immediately ahead of your detonator.
• Survivability: Aim for at least 80,000 HP and 4,000 Defense on primary setup champions.
• Gear Sets: Equip setup units in Stoneskin, Bolster, or Protection sets to absorb first-turn attacks.
• Masteries: Take the Support mastery tree down to Eagle Eye for flat Accuracy, along with masteries that boost Turn Meter when placing debuffs.

Turn Sequencing in Combat

Execute your combat turns in this order to avoid losing key cooldowns to enemy defensive buffs:

1. Strip or control: Remove enemy Block Debuffs or apply hard crowd control (such as Stun or Provoke) to prevent defensive reactions.
2. Apply debuffs: Cast your primary Poison and HP Burn abilities. Monitor the 10-debuff limit per champion; avoid filling all slots with standard Poisons if you still need space for HP Burn or crowd control.
3. Detonate: Fire your activation skill immediately after debuff placement to trigger maximum-health damage before the enemy team acts.