
Best Cleanse Champions in RAID: Shadow Legends
Discover the best Cleanse (Remove Debuffs) champions in Raid Shadow Legends. Learn which champions can remove debuffs and keep your team fighting.
What Cleanse Does in Raid

How Cleanse Abilities Work
Remove Debuffs does exactly what it says on the tin: it removes debuffs from allies!
The amount of debuffs vary from champion to champion. The most powerful versions of this will remove all debuffs from all allies!
Why is it called “Cleanse”?
This is a carry-over from MMO games like World of Warcraft where the original Paladin ability to remove debuffs was named “Cleanse” and this became a common umbrella term for it. In game, it is found under the “Remove Debuff” tab in the filters.
Why Cleansing Debuffs Is Important
Debuffs are incredibly crippling–or even deadly–in RAID, so removing them (or preventing them) is essential in most fights.
For example, Decrease DEF debuffs will cripple your DEF and drastically increase the damage your team takes. Bomb debuffs in arena might one-shot your champions when they expire. Getting rid of these debuffs will keep your team alive.
Crowd control debuffs such as Stun or Freeze are also crippling, and are a priority to remove or prevent.
Tips for Using Cleanse Champions

Remove Debuffs Quickly
Most bosses or enemies have a single ability which places multiple debuffs at a time. Saving your cleanse for when those abilities go out is essential to getting maximum value.
Combine Cleanse With Protection
The best buff to pair with Remove Debuffs is Block Debuffs. This buff prevents debuffs from being reapplied, giving you the ultimate protective combo against nasty debuffing enemies. To be honest, Block Debuffs is often the more important of the two, but Remove Debuffs provides a valuable safety net in situations where you cannot maintain Block Debuffs 100% of the time (something which is very difficult to do).
Healing, Shielding, and other survivability buffs are also valuable things to layer on top of these buffs/effects, further bolstering your team’s survivability.
Best Cleanse Champions in Raid
Here we’ve listed 10 of the most best Freeze champions in RAID: Shadow Legends. This list is not exhaustive, but it should steer you in the right direction for knowing what makes these types of champions so powerful! Check out our Champion Tier List for more info.
Reliquary Tender

Reliquary Tender is a massive standout champion here due to her rarity; the ability to remove debuffs is usually very weighted towards legendary and mythical champions, so having a rare who can do it is exceptional! She also brings decent healing and a weak revive if things go wrong, making her a fantastic support for early-game players.
Runekeeper Dazdurk

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Donatello

Donatello was a time-limited champion from the TMNT collaboration event. He is an incredible champion, combining debuff removal with tons of healing and team survivability, a cheat death passive, and a cooldown reduction A2. For players lucky enough to be playing at the time, Donatello is a must-use champion.
Pythion

Pythion represents the classic archetype of tanky reviver: he removes all debuffs and places Block Debuffs; he brings tons of healing; he brings a full team revive; and he brings damage reduction to help your team stay alive. He has basically no offensive benefits to offer whatsoever, but if you want to stay alive he’s a fantastic pick.
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Tuhanarak

Tuhanarak is a standout debuff remover for a simple reason: she removes debuffs from your team every time she takes a turn! Although she will struggle against a large amount of debuffs, she is incredibly good against smaller regular amounts of debuffs. She also synergises extremely well with sets like Relentless, or relics like the Perched Shadow which can give her extra turns.
Glorious Pallas

Pallas is the new hottest debuff remover, bringing one of the most consistent sources of Fervor to the team–a relatively new buff which provides a 10% damage boost and 10% damage reduction. She has a powerful team revive and an insane passive which provides both survivability and tons of Turn Meter to your team. Her A1 is a massive highlight as well, providing a Lady Mikage-style Ally Attack for members of the Argonites Faction: pair her up with a powerful A1 champion like Hekaton for maximum effect.
Joan the Luminant

Joan the Luminant is a newer mythical and often more valued for her damage-dealing Alternate Form, but don’t underestimate her supporting Base Form. She brings full debuff removal with Increase RES and offensive boosts in Increase ATK and Turn Meter Fill. She also provides a juicy 15% damage boost to high RES champions on your team! She also has a powerful single-target revive, and gets tons of free ability uses if the enemy team has a reviver too!
Starsage Galathir

Galathir is the ultimate choice in the cleansing world, bringing that classic “tanky reviver” energy in his Base Form, alongside the massive offensive benefit of tons of Turn Meter boosting and a cheat death for himself. His passive damage reduction boost from RES allows him to build high-RES while maintaining extreme survivability, setting him ahead of other champions. Finally, he has an entire Alternate Form as well which brings extremely powerful control effects to the fight!
How to Build Cleanse Champions

Speed Requirements
SPD is the most important stat for cleansers, enabling them to quickly cycle through their cooldowns and quickly remove debuffs as soon as they land.
If your cleanser also brings Block Debuffs, you will want them to be very fast, as this is a preventative measure. If your champion is a cleanser only, you can run them slower, since cleansing is reactive (i.e. it’s only worth removing debuffs if the enemy has actually placed some).
Survivability Stats
Survivability is extremely important on these kinds of champions: you can’t remove debuffs if you are dead!
RES is also highly worth considering on champions who can remove debuffs. Removing crowd control debuffs like Stun is extremely important–but you can’t remove them if you have been stunned too.
ACC is sometimes needed if you cleanser is a hybrid who also brings debuffs, but this is fairly uncommon.
Recommended Artifact Sets
Any sets which increase HP%, SPD, or RES are top-tier picks.
High impact sets include Relentless or Reflex, which let you use abilities more often, or sets like Regeneration or Mercurial which can help your cleanser stay alive.

