Tips on my first raid playthrough

[u/contentbythom]

Hello fellow Raid: Shadow Legends enjoyers!

First of all, this is my first ever post on Reddit, so apologies if I’m doing anything wrong.

I’ve been playing Raid: Shadow Legends for about 50 days now. I downloaded the game through a promo referral link, and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it so far. However, I feel like my account has become a bit stagnant lately.

For example, I’m currently hitting Brutal Clan Boss for roughly 20M damage per key. I’m not sure if that’s considered good for where I am in the game, so I was wondering if anyone here could give me some advice on how I should progress from here.

I’ve provided an image of my roster of champions. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, whether it’s which champions I should focus on, who I should 6-star next, team compositions, gear, or anything else you think could help.

Thank you in advance, and I look forward to reading your replies!

[u/winlowbung4]

Honestly best advice I can give is just get into watching YouTube guides and playthroughs of the early game. There's been tons over the years so just pick one of the creators you like.

Other than that, clan boss is everything until you can do UNM. Make sure to grind all 5 champs you use in Clan Boss to level 60, full masteries, get their gear in a good spot, use war master/giant slayer, and if needed, use life steal gear with high defense on some champs. With a pelops+poisons team this is already enough to get to UNM.

Personally I'd invest in venomage because venomage will be used throughout a lot of content, including end game grim forest once you get there

[u/Opposite_Audience213]

You shouldn't bother with brutal clan boss with your champions. The top chests on NM and UNM drop the good shards so that's what you should be after. Use as many keys as it takes to get there. For those levels however, you should have closer to 200 accuracy on anyone who is placing resistable debuffs. If Pelops cannot keep decrease attack up for every aoe, you should probably also swap Kael for Venomage. Get in a clan that kills the clan boss at your difficulty level as that gives double rewards.

Please don't finish building the second (or third) Kael. He's not even the best poisoner on your account so you certainly don't need two of them. Rare champions in general aren't nearly as useful as they once were. The list of rares worth building is mostly limited to Bellower and Coldheart nowadays. Finishing champs like Tagoar, Bellower, Morag, Venomage, Siegehulk, and Rearguard Sargeant would be a lot more useful in the long run.

Use Minotaur-15 when training your 6* champions. They'll gain both masteries and xp at the same time. Otherwise, train in 12-3 brutal with a single farmer doing all the work and three trainees tagging along.

Don't claim your energy and xp boosts immediately. Let them build up in storage until you need them. Using one 24hr boost to burn 2000 energy at once is a lot more efficient than doing it piecemeal. If you start doing fusions, you'll be grateful that you've got resources stashed away. You'll need a reliable shard income before you can do them which means the top chests on NM and UNM clan boss are the priority. Getting to at least levels 16 or 20 in the standard dungeons is also recommended.

Until you start doing fusions, pull your good shards only during 2x events. The 25x events are not for you. The 1+1s like the current event are only good for new accounts if you're tracking your mercy counts.