RAID: Shadow Legends Starter Guide: How to Build Mavara and Tagoar

When creating a new account in RAID: Shadow Legends with promotional starter rewards, your immediate priority is funneling experience and equipment into your starting core of Mavara and Tagoar. Instead of spreading early resources across common or uncommon champions, use Mavara as your main damage carry to push through early campaign stages while relying on Tagoar to sustain the squad.

Setting Up Mavara and Tagoar for Campaign Progression

Mavara serves as your primary wave-clearer, handling the bulk of your team's damage output. Tagoar functions as a dedicated support unit whose main task is keeping Mavara alive through heals, buffs, and defensive utility. To maintain this core, structure your initial builds and squad around their complementary roles.

To optimize team performance during early campaign clearing:

• Build Tagoar for turn order: High Speed allows Tagoar to cycle abilities quickly, ensuring defensive buffs and healing stay active before enemies strike Mavara.
• Maximize Mavara’s offensive stats: Focus gear stats on Attack and Critical Rate to finish fights quickly, minimizing the damage your team takes over long battles.
• Protect your support: If Tagoar dies, Mavara loses sustain and risks failing harder campaign boss encounters. Keep Tagoar's defensive stats high enough to survive focus attacks.
• Fill remaining team slots with utility: Add champions that inflict Defense Down or provide crowd control. These abilities cover the main utility gaps left by a Mavara and Tagoar core.

Managing Early Resources and Currency

Starting with high-tier champions changes how you should spend early currency, gems, and energy. Because Mavara and Tagoar can handle initial stage progression, you do not need to spend resources pulling additional units immediately.

Summoning Shards and Gems

Save your starting gems and shards rather than spending them on early starter summons. Reserve your summons for limited-time fusion events or boosted summon pools later in progression when higher pull rates or guaranteed milestones are active.

Energy Refills

Store your claims for energy refills in your inbox until you hit a progression bottleneck or need to farm specific gear sets. Use extra energy during active event windows to gain secondary rewards while leveling your main champions.

Experience Brews and Silver

Avoid upgrading every common or uncommon champion you pull. Concentrate your silver, gear upgrades, and experience brews exclusively on Mavara, Tagoar, and any essential debuffer you bring into campaign stages. Completing daily missions daily will maintain a steady influx of silver and upgrade material to support this focused leveling strategy.