Champion Spotlight: Rotos the Lost Groom

Yesterday we had a very exciting 10x event on Ancient Shards, followed by 2 more amazing summoning days over the weekend, and picking someone to dive in-to from yesterday’s batch was incredibly hard due to how amazing they all are – so I decided to pick the one I wanted, but didn’t get – just to remind myself exactly what I’m missing out on!

Rotos the Lost Groom, is a Magic affinity legendary from the Undead Hordes faction.

Rotos was introduced as a fusion to Raid: Shadow Legends in February 2020. Rotos became the strongest Arena champion ever to enter the game and when partnered with Siphi the Lost Bride it resulted in him being a one-man killing machine!

In September 2020 he was nerfed and now he sits in the meta as a strong legendary for Arena and Clan Boss and GOD tier for Ice Golem (mainly due to his ability to block revive on an enemy).
In January 2022 he was then buffed to be able to reduce enemy MAX HP to bosses enabling his to be a good option to destroy the Scarab bosses shield and stay alive with his A2 ability!

Rotos could become one of the best tanks to absorb the hex from Koldath in Doom Tower due to his scaling HP pool and passive ability to take 50% damage and then stop further damage.

When building Rotos make sure you have 100% Crit rate, high Crit damage and a strong HP% pool. Rotos has an amazing passive allowing him to take a hit but lose a maximum of 50% of his health. When attacking with his A2 he can also drain HP to build up a very high HP pool. He has one of the most interesting kits of any champion in Raid: Shadow Legends.

Skills:

Terror Scourge [ATK] [HP]
Attacks 1 enemy. Has a 75% chance of placing a 60% Decrease DEF debuff for 2 turns. Also has a 25% chance of granting an Extra Turn.
Level 2: Damage +5%
Level 3: Damage +5%
Level 4: Damage +5%
Level 5: Damage +5%

Damage Rating
Multiplier: 1.9*ATK+0.19*HP
Overall Grading*: Average

Vitality Plunder [ATK] [HP] – 3 Turn Cooldown
Attacks 1 enemy. Decreases the target’s MAX HP by 20%, then adds that HP to this Champion’s own MAX HP.

Cannot decrease a single Champion’s MAX HP by more than 60% in one Battle. Cannot increase this Champion’s MAX HP by more than 60,000. Decreases the MAX HP of Bosses by 30% of the damage inflicted instead. This Champion’s MAX HP will be increased by 15,000 when this Skill is used against Bosses.

Level 2: Damage +10%
Level 3: Damage +10%
Level 4: Damage +10%
Level 5: Cooldown -1

Damage Rating
Multiplier: 3.5*ATK+0.3*HP
Overall Grading*: Average

Fated Destruction [ATK] [HP] – 4 Turn Cooldown
Attacks 1 enemy. Will ignore 60% of the target’s DEF. Will also ignore Unkillable and Block Damage buffs. Enemies killed by this skill cannot be revived if this champion has gained maximum amount of HP from the Vitality Plunder skill. Grants an Extra Turn if this skill kills an enemy.
Level 2: Damage +10%
Level 3: Damage +10%
Level 4: Damage +10%
Level 5: Damage +10%
Level 6: Cooldown -1

Damage Rating
Multiplier: 2.1*ATK+0.19*HP
Overall Grading*: Strong

Spurn Oblivion (Passive)
Will decrease damage from enemy hits so that incoming damage from any single hit will not exceed 50% of this champion’s MAX HP. Grants an Extra Turn if this damage reduction occurs (Does not work against bosses). Decreases the damage taken from bosses by 15%. Decreases the damage taken from bosses by 30% if Siphi the Lost Bride is on the same team.