Raid Shadow Legends: Ultimate Beginner Guide to Dominate

Getting Started: Free Champions and Resources

Before you even download Raid Shadow Legends, make sure you use a referral code! This will give you a massive headstart in the game. Using a code provides several benefits, most importantly:

• Two Free Epic Champions: You’ll usually get an awesome epic champion like Tayrel and Fayne, saving you time and resources in the early game.
• Extra Rewards: Referral codes often come with other free items to jumpstart your account.

Don't miss this easy opportunity to get a strong start. Look for a code from your favorite content creators or use the QR code in the video.

Promo Codes: Your Path to a Free Legendary

Within your first few days of playing, make sure to use a promo code. These codes often grant you powerful legendary champions such as Sun Wukong, otherwise known as Monkey King. This can give you a substantial advantage early on in the game, especially in arena battles.

Don't miss out on this free champion!

Early Game Essentials: Gems, Quests, and the Gem Mine

Raid Shadow Legends has many areas to learn, but these should be your top priority:

• The Gem Mine: Unlock the gem mine as soon as possible. This provides passive gem income, although it may not be the quickest route, it's important to unlock early for consistent rewards.
• Daily and Advanced Quests: Complete these quests daily to get gems, chickens (used to upgrade champions), skill tomes, and other valuable rewards. They're key to fast progress.

Arbiter Missions: A Free Legendary Champion

Make it a priority to grind through the Arbiter missions as you progress. While it can be a grind, the rewards are definitely worth the effort, especially the legendary Arbiter champion herself and all the other rewards.

These rewards include gems, sacred shards, legendary skill tomes, and of course, Arbiter. Focus on completing these to receive huge benefits.

The Market: What to Buy and What to Skip

When navigating the market, keep these tips in mind:

• Always Buy Mystery Shards: Always purchase mystery shards as you never know when you might need them.
• Ancient Shards: If you see an ancient shard in the shop, buy it! They are extremely valuable.
• Avoid: Don't waste your resources on buying Champions or gear from the market.

Shards: Understanding the Different Types

Understanding the different shards will improve your odds of getting powerful Champions. Here's a breakdown:

• Mystery Shards: These are your go-to for "food" champions to use as upgrades.
• Ancient Shards: Great for getting a mix of rare and epic champions.
• Void Shards: These shards give you unique and powerful void champions.
• Primal Shards: Your only chance to get the illusive mythical champions.
• Sacred Shards: Your best option to get Legendary Champions, save these for special events.

Double Dipping: Maximizing Rewards Through Events

Raid Shadow Legends has frequent events that you should use to maximize your rewards. The key is to double dip rewards in events:

• Participate in tournaments: If you can progress through a dungeon tournament while also working on a dungeon divers event, you get the rewards from both!
• Shard pulling events: Only pull shards when an event is going on to gain additional rewards or when a 2x chance event is happening to improve your odds of pulling a legendary.

The Starting Champion: Why Kael Is King

When you start Raid, choose Kael, the dark elf. This is a common mistake new players make. Kael is an absolute beast, especially in early and mid game.

• Poison Attacks: Kael's poison attack is essential in early progression through the campaign and dungeons.
• Masteries: Fully max out his skills and masteries. This will make Kael even stronger.

Guardian Ring: Passive Champion Leveling

The Guardian Ring passively levels up your champions while you are away. Even if you are only leveling up food, this helps in the background and is a great feature.

• Passive Leveling: Choose champions to passively gain experience.
• Efficient Leveling: Level up champions whether they are good or just food.

Great Hall: Prioritize Accuracy

In the Great Hall, focus on accuracy first, especially for the blue faction, which is the one Kael will be a part of.

• Importance of Accuracy: Accuracy is essential for placing debuffs and buffs in the game.
• Start with accuracy: Max out accuracy for the blue faction before moving on to others.

Join a Clan: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

Joining a clan unlocks powerful rewards and opportunities. Key advantages:

• Clan Rewards: Work together to earn rewards.
• Clan Shop: Purchase items that benefit your account.
• Clan vs Clan Events: These are a great way to participate and get bonus rewards!

Be sure to join an active clan so everyone benefits.

Campaign: How to farm efficiently

The campaign is the best way to level up your champions efficiently. Start on normal, then hard, then brutal, then nightmare.

• Brimstone Path Stage 6: This stage is optimal for farming XP and resources, especially when leveling up new champions, especially Kael.
• 3-Starring Stages: Use only 1 or 2 champions to three star the stages and progress to the next difficulty.

Dungeons: Types and Benefits

Each dungeon provides its own unique benefits:

• Keeps (Spirit, Arcane, Void, Magic, Force): Farm potions to upgrade your champions skills in the color appropriate to that keep. Make sure to farm the correct dungeons when they are open.
• Minotaur: Farm scrolls to unlock champion masteries.

Minotaur Dungeon: Masteries and Efficiency

Minotaur is the best way to farm mastery scrolls for your champions. However, it does take quite a few runs.

• Efficient Grinding: To be most efficient, run only one champion needing scrolls, and max out their masteries fully before moving on to the next.
• Gems and Masteries: You can also buy masteries, however, you will save gems by farming them. It's also a good way to level champions up.

Gems: The Best Purchase

Gems are very valuable in the game. If you are going to spend money, prioritize the daily gem pass!

• Daily Gem Pass: The best purchase in the game, this will provide a continuous stream of gems.
• Energy Refills: Use gems to buy energy refills to run dungeons, minotaur, and progress in events.

Free Champions: How to Obtain Them

Raid has many different avenues to obtaining free champions:

• Fusion Champions: These can be obtained through grinding in events.
• Login Champions: Some free champions are obtained through daily logins.

Faction Wars: Daily Keys

Use all 12 faction war keys every day. This will advance your progression and gives great rewards for free. They can be done on auto and is not a time intensive task.

Clan Boss: The Best Way to Get Free Items

Clan boss is the absolute best way to get free rewards in Raid Shadow Legends. These rewards include shards, skill tomes, and other rare and very powerful items.

• Daily Rewards: The more damage you can do to the clan boss, the better your rewards are. The key is to join a clan that can defeat the Ultra-Nightmare boss.
• Building a Team: Join a community such as the one linked down below, and ask for help in building your team. There are many guides on the web too.

Doom Tower and Cursed City

Doom tower is another daily activity you should participate in. They take no energy and allow you to obtain fragments of unique and powerful champions. The cursed city is another area to progress in, although it is not needed for early to mid game progression.

Arena: Speed Is King

Arena is the main way to participate in the PvP portion of the game. To be successful you need to:

• Speed Lead: Prioritize a team with a speed Aura as the lead, as speed is very important in arena battles.
• Easy Fights: Refresh often to find easy teams for easy wins and daily energy and progress.

Tag Team Arena

The Tag Team Arena is a way to earn additional rewards, although it takes quite a bit of time to progress through the battle. It is a good place to get gold bars for the bazaar.

The Bazaar: Energy, Shards, and Chickens

The Bazaar is a store to obtain various items using the gold bars obtained in Tag Team Arena. The most valuable items here are:

• Energy: This can be used to farm dungeons and level your champions.
• Shards: This will allow you to pull more champions.
• Chickens: This is used to level up your champions skills.

Fusions: How to Get Free Legendaries

Fusing champions can allow you to get some of the most powerful legendaries in the game. Make sure to save any champion that has the spiral fusion logo and avoid using them as food.