RAID: Shadow Legends Promo Starter Account Guide

When creating a new RAID: Shadow Legends account using promotional links—which offer starter rewards such as one guaranteed Legendary hero and three free Epic champions—your immediate priority is to concentrate energy and growth items into a single primary carry champion rather than splitting development across your entire roster.

Early Progression Steps

To establish a clear path through the campaign, follow this sequence:

1. Designate a Core Carry: Select your highest-impact damage dealer (typically the Legendary champion or a high-capacity wave-clearing Epic) to serve as your main campaign clearer.
2. Funnel Early Upgrades: Concentrate experience potions, gear enhancements, and skill tomes into this primary unit first.
3. Raise Rank 60 (6-Star): Level lower-rarity "food" champions solely to sacrifice them as rank-up material for your primary carry until it reaches Rank 60.
4. Target Stage 12-3 Brutal: Use your maxed carry champion to clear campaign stages until you can farm Stage 12-3 on Brutal difficulty, which provides an optimal balance of experience points and Silver yield per energy spent.

Gear Priorities and Resource Hoarding

Even high-rarity starter heroes require proper stat matching to clear higher-difficulty stages efficiently.

Once your primary carry is capable of clearing Brutal Stage 12-3 consistently with lower-tier food units in tow, pause aggressive champion pulling. Because a promotional start gives you a ready-made core team, save your earned Gems and Sacred Shards for timed double-probability summoning events or guaranteed champion rewards later in progression.