RAID: Shadow Legends Taras and Marichka Live Arena Guide

To win with Taras the Fierce and Marichka the Stout in RAID: Shadow Legends Live Arena, run them as a resilient bruiser core by securing Marichka early in the draft, building both champions with high survivability, and banning enemy skill-lockout champions.

Marichka provides cleanses, damage reduction, and an immediate full–Turn Meter revive for Taras. In turn, Taras gains Turn Meter and cooldown resets whenever Marichka takes damage, converting active buffs into scaling area-of-effect damage.

Live Arena Drafting Sequence

Drafting both halves of the duo requires protecting your composition from counter-bans and crowd-control lockouts:

1. Pick Marichka first: Marichka functions as an independent cleanser, healer, and reviver. Locking her in first secures your support backbone without forcing an obvious offensive setup.
2. Take Taras and a flex support second: Pair Taras with a high-priority support or turn-meter champion such as Duchess Lilitu, Siphi the Lost Bride, or Armanz the Glorified. This forces your opponent to address two distinct high-threat targets during bans.
3. Draft secondary counters last: Fill slots four and five with secondary damage dealers or cleansers such as Harima, Georgid the Breaker, or Pythion. If the opponent bans Taras, your backup damage dealer inherits Marichka’s protection.

Gearing and Stat Priorities

Both champions require substantial defensive stats. Taras needs bruiser bulk to leverage his maximum-health damage scaling, while Marichka requires high Speed and Resistance to keep cycling cleanses.

Marichka the Stout Build

Marichka should run either a Bolster set to provide an undeniable opening shield for the team or a Protection set to prevent enemies from stripping her buffs.

Taras the Fierce Build

Taras scales his damage directly from his own maximum health while punishing the total buff count on both sides of the field. Equip him with HP% chestplates and prioritize offensive substats:

• Critical Rate: 100%
• Critical Damage: 220% or higher
• Speed: 200–230
• Health: High HP pool from main stats and substats
• Artifact Sets: Lethal or Savage combined with Cruel for maximum burst damage; alternatively, run a Stoneskin set to guarantee survival against high-speed cleave teams.

Handling Bans and Counter-Picks

Evaluate the opponent's roster during the ban phase to neutralize champions that disrupt passive interactions:

• Ban skill-lockout champions first: Champions with cooldown lockouts, such as Warlord and Yumeko, prevent Marichka from using her active cleanses and revives.
• Ban turn-meter dominators: High-speed lock champions like Armanz can prevent the duo from taking a turn.
• Ban block-revive abilities: Opponents running extinction-style mechanics bypass Marichka’s revive passive on Taras.
• If the enemy bans Taras: Pivot Marichka to protect and cycle turns for your secondary damage dealer.
• If the enemy bans Marichka: Rely on Taras's Stoneskin or raw HP bulk alongside your secondary cleanser to survive the opening turn before retaliating.