Buffs and debuffs play a major role in battles in RAID: Shadow Legends. Buffs provide positive effects that strengthen your team, while debuffs weaken enemies by reducing their stats or limiting their actions. Using the right combination of these effects in this RPG can turn the tide of any fight, whether in PvE or PvP.

Some buffs and debuffs are straightforward, like increasing attack power or reducing defense, while others are more strategic, such as preventing revives or forcing enemies to target a specific champion. Below, we’ll break down the most common buffs and debuffs, explaining how they work and how to use them effectively.

Buffs: Strengthening Your Champions

Buffs enhance a champion’s abilities, making them stronger, tougher, or more resistant to enemy attacks. These effects are an important part of the combat system in Raid: Shadow Legends. They are critical for both offense and defense, helping your team survive longer and deal more damage.

• Increase ATK: Boosts the champion’s Attack by 25% or 50%, increasing their damage output.
• Increase DEF: Raises Defense by 30% or 60%, reducing incoming damage.
• Increase SPD: Speeds up a champion’s turn meter by 15% or 30%, helping them take turns more frequently.
• Increase C. RATE: Increases Critical Rate by 15% or 30%, improving the chances of landing critical hits.
• Increase C. DMG: Raises Critical Damage by 15% or 30%, making critical hits more powerful.
• Increase ACC: Boosts Accuracy by 25% or 50%, improving the chance of landing debuffs on enemies.
• Increase RES: Raises Resistance by 25% or 50%, making it harder for enemies to apply debuffs.

Some buffs focus on protecting your champions from damage or controlling the flow of battle:

• Block Damage: Makes the champion immune to all damage for the duration of the buff.
• Unkillable: Prevents the champion’s HP from dropping below 1, keeping them alive through heavy attacks.
• Shield: Grants additional HP in the form of a shield that absorbs damage before affecting the champion’s actual health. Invaluable for clearing the Scarab King fight.
• Strengthen: Reduces incoming damage by 15% or 25%, making champions more durable.
• Ally Protection: The caster takes 25% or 50% of the damage received by an ally, helping squishier champions survive.
• Block Debuffs: Prevents all debuffs from being applied, but does not stop instant effects like Turn Meter reduction.
• Revive on Death: Automatically revives a fallen champion with 30% HP and 0% Turn Meter when they die.

There are also buffs that manipulate enemy targeting and counterattacks:

• Veil & Perfect Veil: Hides the champion from direct attacks, unless they are the last one standing. Perfect Veil also reduces AoE damage received.
• Taunt: Forces enemies to target the champion with the Taunt buff, drawing attacks away from allies.
• Counterattack: Causes the champion to retaliate with their default attack when hit, dealing extra damage.
• Reflect Damage: Reflects 15% or 30% of incoming damage back at the attacker.

Buffs play a crucial role in both offense and defense. Properly timing buffs like Unkillable or Block Damage can save your team from devastating attacks, while offensive buffs like Increase ATK and Increase C. DMG can amplify damage output in key moments.

Debuffs: Weakening the Enemy

Debuffs hinder enemy champions by lowering their stats, limiting their actions, or making them more vulnerable to attacks. A strong debuff strategy can completely shut down an opponent.

Stat-reducing debuffs make enemies weaker and easier to defeat:

• Decrease ATK: Lowers Attack by 25% or 50%, reducing enemy damage.
• Decrease DEF: Decreases Defense by 30% or 60%, making enemies take more damage.
• Decrease SPD: Slows the target’s speed by 15% or 30%, making them take fewer turns.
• Decrease C. RATE: Reduces Critical Rate by 15% or 30%, lowering the chances of critical hits.
• Decrease C. DMG: Lowers Critical Damage by 15% or 25%, weakening critical strikes.
• Decrease ACC: Reduces Accuracy by 25% or 50%, making it harder for enemies to land debuffs.
• Decrease RES: Lowers Resistance by 25% or 50%, making the enemy more susceptible to debuffs.

Control debuffs restrict enemy actions and disrupt their strategy:

• Stun, Freeze, and Sleep: Prevent the target from taking a turn, but Sleep is removed if the champion is attacked.
• Provoke: Forces the target to attack only the champion who applied the debuff, using their default skill.
• Fear & True Fear: Adds a 50% chance that the champion’s skill will fail. True Fear also puts the failed skill on cooldown.
• Block Active Skills: Prevents the champion from using any active skills except their default attack.
• Block Passive Skills: Disables passive abilities, making some champions far less effective.

Healing and buff prevention debuffs can shut down enemy sustain:

• Heal Reduction: Reduces healing effects by 50% or 100%, preventing enemies from recovering HP.
• Block Buffs: Stops the target from receiving any buffs, negating defensive and offensive support.
• Block Revive: Prevents the target from being revived if they are killed while the debuff is active.

Damage-over-time debuffs apply continuous damage throughout the battle:

• Poison: Deals 2.5% or 5% of the target’s MAX HP as damage at the start of their turn.
• HP Burn: Causes the afflicted champion and their allies to take 3% MAX HP damage at the start of their turn. Only one HP Burn debuff can be active per champion.
• Poison Sensitivity: Increases the damage taken from Poison debuffs by 25% or 50%.
• Bomb: Explodes after a set number of turns, dealing damage that ignores defense.

Some debuffs have unique mechanics that add extra utility:

• Weaken: Increases the damage the target takes by 15% or 25%.
• Leech: Heals any champion that attacks the affected enemy for 18% of the damage dealt.
• Hex: Makes the target take extra damage when their allies are hit, ignoring DEF.

Debuffs can completely change the outcome of a fight. Properly managing crowd control debuffs like Stun or Provoke can shut down high-damage enemies, while strategic use of Block Buffs can weaken defensive teams in PvP battles.

Buffs and debuffs are the foundation of strategy in RAID: Shadow Legends. Mastering how to use them effectively can be the difference between victory and defeat. Buffs keep your team strong and protected, while debuffs cripple enemies and leave them vulnerable. A well-balanced team will use both to control the battlefield.

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