Choose Kael as your starter champion in RAID: Shadow Legends. Your immediate priority after picking him is to pour all early energy and upgrade material into raising Kael to 6-star status (level 60) before investing heavily in any other unit.
Why Kael Is the Best Starter Choice
Kael provides the most versatile kit among all starter options, allowing a new account to handle campaign wave clearing and early boss encounters simultaneously.
- AoE Damage: His area-of-effect skills wipe out multi-enemy campaign waves quickly, speeding up overall progression.
- Poison Scaling: His poison debuffs deal percentage-based damage, keeping him highly effective against high-health bosses like the Clan Boss and Dungeon Bosses where flat damage skills begin to fall off.
- Campaign Solo Capability: Once built, Kael can solo campaign stages while carrying weaker units to level them up.
Priority 1: Upgrade Kael to 6 Stars First
The most common early-game mistake is distributing experience evenly across a broad team of 5-star units. A single 6-star Kael outperforms a full roster of 5-star champions due to base stat increases and access to higher-tier gear slots.
- Use Kael to carry common (1-star) and uncommon (2-star) champions through campaign stages.
- Level these low-rarity units to maximum rank, rank them up, and use them as "food" sacrifices to promote Kael.
- Keep Kael as your sole focus until he reaches rank 6, level 60.
Campaign Target: Unlock Brutal Stage 12-3
Push through campaign difficulties as quickly as Kael's power permits. Your target destination is Chapter 12, Stage 3 on Brutal difficulty.
Brutal 12-3 is the standard baseline for efficient progression because it provides the best ratio of experience points and silver per energy spent. Once unlocked, run this stage repeatedly with Kael carrying three food champions to prepare your next roster upgrades.
Stat Priorities and Gear Upgrade Strategy
Build Kael strictly for damage and speed. Do not spend gear slots on tank or support stats like Health Percentage or Defense.
| Stat | Primary Benefit | Target Priority |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | Increases turn frequency so Kael acts before enemy waves | Highest |
| Critical Rate | Ensures AoE skills land critical hits consistently | High |
| Attack % | Scales the raw damage output of his direct damage skills | Medium |
| Critical Damage | Multiplies the impact of successful critical hits | Medium |
If you hit a wall in campaign progression:
- Do not keep gear pieces at low enhancement levels. Upgrade your equipped damage-focused gear to level 12 or level 16 to get the full benefit of their primary stats.
- Avoid hoarding low-rarity artifacts with weak sub-stats; sell unneeded pieces for silver to fund Kael's gear upgrades.
Early Resource Rules
- Rare Skill Books: Save all Rare Skill Books and allocate them strictly to Kael until his skills are fully upgraded. Do not waste rare books on temporary champions.
- Shards and Energy: Reserve your daily energy recharges and double-experience boosts for campaign food farming rather than running low-level potion or gear dungeons prematurely.
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Nice guide. I am checking the other RAID: Shadow Legends articles next.
The tips are practical and easy to follow.
Can you add more details about early game in a future update?
This helped me understand early game much better.