To run a 4:3 speed tune against the Demon Lord in RAID: Shadow Legends, tune a specific support champion's speed stats so they take four turns for every three turns the boss takes. This turn ratio allows your support champion to refresh essential defensive skills—such as Increase Defense, Shield, or Ally Protection—right before the Demon Lord's most damaging attacks, extending your overall team survival and damage per key.
Setting Up a 4:3 Speed Tune
Executing a 4:3 ratio requires strict turn-meter management to prevent your key support champions from drifting out of sync during long fights.
- Calculate Total Speed: Determine your champion's actual final speed in combat, combining their base speed, gear speed bonuses, and any Speed Aura provided by your lead champion.
- Audit Mastery Trees: Remove any masteries that grant chance-based turn-meter boosts or skill cooldown reductions.
- Align Ability Cooldowns: Match your champion's key defensive skill cooldown with the 4:3 turn cycle so the buff refreshes right before the boss lands an area-of-effect strike.
- Verify Team Consistency: Ensure no other team members use unmanaged turn-meter boosting skills that disrupt the turn order.
Masteries and Speed Hazards
A single unintended turn-meter gain can ruin your synchronization, causing defensive buffs to drop right before major boss hits. When gearing and skilling champions for a 4:3 ratio, avoid specific random triggers:
- Rapid Response: Avoid this mastery because it grants a chance to boost turn meter when a buff expires, which desynchronizes your turn order.
- Cycle of Magic: Avoid this mastery because unexpected cooldown reductions break the strict skill rotation required for 4:3 timing.
- Aura and Roster Changes: Swapping your team leader or changing a Speed Aura alters the total speed calculation for all champions, requiring a full recalibration of your speed stats.
Stat Priorities and Gear Trade-offs
Reaching high speed thresholds often forces trade-offs with other stats. Pushing speed at the expense of core durability or accuracy reduces your team's total effectiveness.
| Stat Consideration | Role in 4:3 Speed Tuning | Tuning Priority |
|---|---|---|
| Total Speed | Establishes the 4:3 turn ratio against the Demon Lord | Mandatory requirement |
| HP and Defense | Keeps champions alive through high-damage later turns | High priority alongside Speed |
| Accuracy | Ensures debuffs land reliably throughout the encounter | High priority for debuffers |
| Critical Damage | Increases total damage output once survivability stats are met | Secondary priority |
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