BOSS SKILLS REVEALED – GRIM FOREST

The Grim Forest is shaping up to be one of the most dangerous and unpredictable regions ever added to Raid: Shadow Legends. While most threats in the Gloom Lands follow patterns you can study and strategise around, two new special bosses break that rule entirely. These encounters can strike without warning, appearing spontaneously as you explore—turning every step into a potential ambush.

Today we’re taking a first deep dive into their skillsets: the ravenous Mimic, a grotesque predator that weaponises deception, and Phrygius the Trovemaster, a treasure-hoarding fiend whose greed becomes his greatest weapon. Understanding how these bosses operate could mean the difference between survival and becoming yet another lost soul swallowed by the Forest.

Once the game mode becomes available, we will provide in-depth guides for these bosses, but for now… let’s take a look!

The Mimic brings a layered, tactical design that continually disrupts your team’s rhythm. It specialises in punishing buff-heavy teams, dismantling your composition with Turn Meter manipulation, enemy replicas, and a unique Ingestion mechanic that can temporarily remove your champions from battle.

Its attack patterns immediately pressure your team. Plunder Pounce deals bonus damage for every buff active on your champions, discouraging heavy buff cycling. Meanwhile, Lashing Spiral introduces reliable control through Stuns and Turn Meter reduction.

The signature threat, however, comes from Feeding Time. This ability summons a Mini-Mimic built from the stats of your highest C.DMG champion. The clone grows stronger based on the original and remains a persistent danger until defeated or expired. Once on the field, the Mini-Mimic can Ingest one of your champions, removing them from combat and protecting itself with the champion’s stats. If the clone isn’t destroyed quickly, your unit is lost for several turns—often enough to doom the run.

The Mimic reinforces this pressure with Fortune’s Feast, reducing the cooldown of Feeding Time based on the number of buffs your team generates. The more buffs you use, the more frequently the Mimic summons new Mini-Mimics and heals itself. Coupled with its full suite of boss immunities—blocking crowd control, HP exchanges, and fear effects—the Mimic becomes a high-pressure encounter where momentum control is everything.

Surviving this fight requires both speed and precision. You must break Mini-Mimics quickly, avoid over-buffing your team, and prevent the Mimic from repeatedly resetting its cycle. Teams relying heavily on buffs or slow-turn setups may find this boss especially punishing.

Where the Mimic threatens your champions directly, Phrygius attacks your tempo, your buffs, and your ability to burst him down. His entire kit revolves around the Goldplated mechanic—stacking defensive layers that turn him into a moving fortress.

Phrygius opens battles by placing multiple Goldplated layers on himself. These layers behave like durable HP shields that cannot be removed or stolen. Every time your team damages him, the hit is first applied to these layers, and destroying a layer deals additional damage based on his MAX HP. This damage isn’t limited to Phrygius alone; enemies also take their portion of reflected damage whenever a layer collapses. Uncontrolled damage can quickly snowball into disaster.

His rotation further compounds the challenge. Can’t Catch Me! not only inflicts Decrease ATK and Decrease SPD but steals 30% of each target’s Turn Meter. This constant disruption makes it difficult to maintain momentum. The skill’s damage also scales with his Goldplated stacks, making him increasingly threatening the longer the fight continues.

Phrygius’s kit constantly feeds back into itself. As layers are destroyed, Hardened Avarice fills his Turn Meter, accelerating him into more debuffs and more buff-stealing. Meanwhile, 24-Karat Thief rewards him for maintaining Goldplated stacks by increasing his SPD every turn and granting a growing chance to Evade incoming hits. At high stacks, he becomes extremely difficult to pin down, and breaking layers too rapidly risks triggering repeated waves of reflected damage.

With full boss immunities—covering stun, freeze, provoke, petrification, and more—Phrygius becomes a marathon battle rather than a burst encounter. The trick is to control your damage output, pace the destruction of his layers, and avoid giving him free buffs to steal. Teams reliant on AoE nukes will need to rethink their approach entirely.