In RAID: Shadow Legends, most Lizardmen Rare (3-star) champions are best used as rank-up material ("food") to promote your main damage dealers and campaign farmers. Because the Lizardmen faction has relatively weak Rare-tier options, you should only hold onto units that offer essential debuffs like Poison, Decrease Defense, or Decrease Attack when you lack Epic or Legendary substitutes.

How to Evaluate Lizardmen Rares

Lizardmen Rare champions generally feature low base stats and limited skill utility, making them poor choices for long-term progression in high-level Dungeons, Arena, or Clan Boss fights. However, early-game accounts with limited rosters can still extract temporary value from specific kits.

When auditing pulled Lizardmen Rares, check for the following functions before deciding to use them as sacrifice fodder:

  • Debuff Utility: Keep champions that land consistent Poison, Decrease Defense, or Decrease Attack debuffs if your core roster lacks those effects.
  • Faction Wars Placeholders: Retain niche support units—such as those providing minor heals, defensive buffs, or crowd control—temporarily to clear early Faction Wars stages for progression rewards.
  • Redundant Kits: Immediately designate units as fodder if their primary role is already filled by more versatile Rares from other factions.

Strategic Resource Management

Investing silver, experience, ascension potions, and skill books into weak Lizardmen units delays progress on higher-value champions. To keep account growth efficient, follow these investment rules:

  1. Limit Skill Books: Save Rare skill books for high-impact champions in other factions. Only book a Lizardmen Rare if you are strictly gated by Faction Wars progression and require skill cooldown reductions to pass a stage.
  2. Cap Leveling Investment: Avoid taking Lizardmen Rares to Rank 6. Keep temporary placeholders at Rank 4 or Rank 5, using them to clear immediate content bottlenecks until stronger Epic or Legendary champions drop from shards.
  3. Minimize Ascension: Do not spend high-tier ascension potions on Lizardmen Rares unless the stat boost or skill upgrade is mandatory for your current Faction Wars stage clear.
  4. Feed Obsolete Units: As soon as you pull stronger alternatives from shards, sacrifice your temporary Lizardmen Rares to promote your primary campaign farmer or Clan Boss champions to 6-star status.
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