RAID: Shadow Legends Champion Buffs and Debuffs Guide

Author : Skylar Mar 04,2025

Mastering Buffs and Debuffs in RAID: Shadow Legends: A Guide to Strategic Combat

Buffs and debuffs are pivotal in RAID: Shadow Legends battles. Buffs empower your champions, while debuffs cripple enemies, significantly impacting both PvE and PvP encounters. Effective utilization of these mechanics is key to victory.

This guide details common buffs and debuffs, explaining their functions and strategic applications.

Buffs: Enhancing Your Champions' Prowess

Buffs amplify champion capabilities, bolstering their offensive and defensive capabilities.

  • Increased Attack (ATK): A 25% or 50% boost to attack power, directly increasing damage output.
  • Increased Defense (DEF): A 30% or 60% increase in defense, mitigating incoming damage.
  • Increased Speed (SPD): A 15% or 30% increase to turn meter speed, allowing champions to act more frequently.
  • Increased Critical Rate (C. RATE): A 15% or 30% increase in the chance of landing critical hits.
  • Increased Critical Damage (C. DMG): A 15% or 30% increase in the damage dealt by critical hits.
  • Increased Accuracy (ACC): A 25% or 50% boost to accuracy, improving the likelihood of successfully applying debuffs.
  • Increased Resistance (RES): A 25% or 50% increase in resistance, reducing the chance of enemy debuffs taking effect.

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Debuffs: Disrupting Enemy Strategies

Debuffs hinder enemy champions, weakening their abilities and disrupting their plans.

Sustain Disruption:

  • Heal Reduction: Reduces healing by 50% or 100%, limiting enemy recovery.
  • Block Buffs: Prevents the target from gaining any buffs, neutralizing supportive effects.
  • Block Revive: Prevents revival after death, eliminating resurrection strategies.

Damage-Over-Time (DoT):

  • Poison: Inflicts damage equal to 2.5% or 5% of the target's maximum HP at the start of their turn.
  • HP Burn: Deals 3% of maximum HP damage to the afflicted champion and allies at the start of their turn (only one HP Burn per champion).
  • Poison Sensitivity: Increases damage taken from Poison debuffs by 25% or 50%.
  • Bomb: Explodes after a set number of turns, dealing defense-ignoring damage.

Unique Mechanics:

  • Weaken: Increases damage taken by 15% or 25%.
  • Leech: Heals attackers for 18% of the damage dealt to the affected enemy.
  • Hex: Inflicts additional damage when allies are hit, ignoring defense.

Crowd control debuffs like Stun and Provoke can neutralize high-damage threats, while strategically using Block Buffs can counter defensive teams. The skillful application of buffs and debuffs is the cornerstone of effective strategy in RAID: Shadow Legends. A balanced team expertly employing both will dominate the battlefield.

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