RAID: Shadow Legends – Champions Tier List (September 2023)

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There are hundreds of champions to acquire and use on your team in RAID: Shadow Legends, with more being added continuously.

It is, however, not wise to spend resources on just any champion if you wish to play efficiently. So what champions should you aim for and invest in?

To help you get an idea of how strong the different champions in the game are, all champions of Legendary, Epic, and Rare rarity are ranked in this tier list.

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Some of the very best champions of Legendary rarity in Raid: Shadow Legends include Kris the Ageless, Kyoku, Lydia the Deathsiren, Arbiter, Mithrala Lifebane, Dracomorph, and Warlord. All of these champions will perform well on any late-game team. Thus, they are all safe to invest significant resources into once you acquire them.

Find more information on these champions, as well as all other Legendary, Epic, and Rare champions, in the full tier list below.

Table of Contents

• RAID: Shadow Legends best champions tier list
• Best Attack, HP, Defense, and Support champions ranking

RAID: Shadow Legends best champions tier list

When you start playing RAID: Shadow Legends, you’ll quickly realize just how many champions there are in the game. There are hundreds!

Some resources in RAID: Shadow Legends are very scarce and take a long time to obtain, which means that you do not want to spend them on a champion that you aren’t going to use later.

To help you spend your resources wisely, this guide gives you an overview of how strong the different champions are in the game through a complete champion ranking.

The following tier list ranks all Legendary, Epic, and Rare champions in RAID: Shadow Legends based on their overall performance.

The current rankings in this tier list are calculated based on rankings by AyumiLove, ASH, and HellHades, as well as the RAID: Shadow Legends community.

While the top-rated champions will all do well in the game and can be used in end-game compositions, it’s more important to build a team with a strong synergy, CC, and setup, rather than just having a team full of “top-rated champions”. Learn more about these factors in our RAID: Shadow Legends team building guide.

Explanation of tiers

S Tier – The very best champions in the game. Champions in the S tier will perform well on any team, and thus you can safely invest many resources into these champions. S+ champions go even beyond this and are unbelievably strong in the game.

A Tier – Champions in this tier are above average and have a lot of potential. You can safely use these champions on your team, especially if they have great synergy with other champions currently on your team.

B Tier – These champions perform as you’d expect; they aren’t strong per se, but they aren’t weak either. If you a champion with a specific role, ability, etc., you can look for them here if need be.

C Tier – In the C tier, you’ll find champions who are underperforming, and thus resources shouldn’t be invested heavily into these champions.

D Tier – Champions in the D tier are not great. If you have any of these on your team, you should aim to replace them if you wish to maximize your team’s potential.

F Tier – The weakest champions with the least impact reside in this tier. You only want to use them if you have no other option.

Best Attack, HP, Defense, and Support champions ranking

When building your perfect team, you’ll likely find yourself in the situation of needing a champion of a specific role to balance out your team.

To help you out, we’re featuring some of the best champions from each role in this section. Note that a strong team for a specific part of the game doesn’t necessarily contain champions of all roles.

We have, however, found that having too many champions of the same role can be damaging to the team. Usually, it’s best to bring a variety of roles.

Best Attack champions

As the name suggests, champions of the attack role specialize in dishing out tons of damage at the enemy, but often at the expense of not having buffs and high defenses.

Nevertheless, attackers are crucial for having enough damage to take down the enemy.

Here are some of the very best attackers in the game:

• Acrizia
• Dracomorph
• Leorius the Proud
• Nethril

Best HP champions

Champions of the HP role have a higher HP stat and defenses than other roles.

HP champions possess powerful healing abilities and buffs that increase the defenses of the entire team.

Because of this, HP champions are great for avoiding your team getting taken out too quickly because of a lack of tankiness.

Some of the best HP champions in the game are:

• Sir Nicholas
• Taras the Fierce
• Miscreated Monster
• Ursuga Warcaller

Best Defense champions

Similar to the HP category, defense champions possess buffs that increase the defenses and stats of ally champions.

Champions of the defense role usually also possess skills that place debuffs on the enemy or skills that protect allies from damage.

Some of the best Defense champions in the game are:

• Krisk the Ageless
• Valkyrie
• Nekhret the Great
• Kyoku
• Martyr
• Visix the Unbowed

Best Support champions

Support champions excel at, as their role suggests, supporting ally champions.

They possess skills that buff ally champions stats, including attack stats and critical rate, which HP and Defense champions usually do not.

Many support champions can decrease the duration of enemy buffs and debuffs on ally champions as well.

Some of the best support champions in Raid: Shadow Legends are:

• Lydia the Deathsiren
• Warlord
• Underpriest Brogni
• Marichka the Unbreakable
• Mithrala Lifebane
• Arbiter
• Bad-El-Kazar
• Prince Kymar
• Arbiter
• Lyssandra
• Venus

That’s the tier list on what the best champions in RAID: Shadow Legends are!

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