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RAID: Shadow Legends is a strategy RPG mobile game featuring more than 400 unique champions, each with their own set of skills and playstyle.
The objective of the game is to beat stages of enemies, collect champions, build your ultimate team, upgrade and customize your champions, and read new heights with your clan.
Plarium is the developer and publisher of RAID: Shadow Legends – they are also behind other popular mobile titles like Viking: War of Clans.
You can create an unimaginable number of unique teams and customize your champions in a ton of ways, including gear sets, masteries, and glyphs.
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Because of the endless possibilities in RAID: Shadow Legends, new players can easily feel lost at the beginning.
That’s why we’ve created this guide to teach you tips and tricks on how to become a better player.
Basic combat mechanics
Combat in RAID: Shadow Legends is turn-based, which means you get to choose skill and target for each champion, and then the enemy gets to do the same.
All champions have one or more skills that are turn-cooldown based, which means they can’t be used every turn.
Skills with cooldowns are more powerful than regular skills and often buff allies, debuff enemies, higher crit chance, or other powerful attributes.
In battle, new players tend to use exclusively use damaging skills.
However, using damage boosting buffs often result in a higher damage output in the end.
Later on in the game, once you reach more difficult stages, you need to bring defensive buffs, and healing skills to survive.
If you only bring damaging skills, you will not be able to sustain the enemy before they take you out.
When you start playing RAID: Shadow Legends, using the auto-battle feature is very useful.
You can quickly beat stages and progress through the game, even if you don’t have time to focus on playing entirely.
However, once you reach later stages, you want to start playing on manual instead, as decisions of skills will impact the outcome of the stage.
Another feature you should take advantage of when in a battle is the in-battle indicators.
These are small symbols above the head of enemies, which shows whether your selected skill does extra, less, or normal damage to a given enemy.
A green symbol means extra, yellow means normal, and red indicates less.
We’ve written a complete guide on in-game mechanics and the affinity system in much more detail, check out our combat and affinity guide here.
Improve your champions’ power
There are a ton of ways to improve the stats and power of your champions in RAID: Shadow Legends, and you should take advantage of them all.
In short, these are all the ways to upgrade your champions.
- Level up
- Ascend
- Upgrade rank
- Upgrade skills
- Upgrade and enhance artifacts
- Unlock masteries
Only leveling up your champions can be done without spending in-game resources, and even with this method, you can level up your champions significantly faster by spending XP brews, silver, and sacrificing other champions.
All other ways to improve the power of a champion require some in-game currency you can collect by playing the game.
Some resources related to upgrading champions are a lot easier to gather than others.
Mastery tomes for unlocking masteries, potions for ascending, common champions for leveling, and silver for enhancing artifacts are the easiest to obtain.
Therefore, if you wish to quickly improve the power of a champion, farm one of these four resources.
You can find information about what resources you need for each way to upgrade champions in our guide on how to upgrade and rank up champions in RAID: Shadow Legends.
Furthermore, we’ve written a guide on how to get all resources in the game to help you acquire your desired resources.
Though we recommend you upgrade your champions as you play, there are some resources you should spend wisely, which is exactly what we’re covering in the next section of this guide.
