Bystophus

Last Updated: July 18, 2023

Bystophus Overview

Bystophus is the formal representative of the Blue Man Group band in Teleria. His most famous asset is that he has the highest base attacks in Raid Shadow Legends which would make you think he also is the hardest hitting champion in Teleria. Unfortunately, he actually is not in the top 10 damage dealers due to his multipliers. He does have a pretty unique kit, being able to place AoE Decrease Defence and Block Active Skills debuffs, which was recently buffed to 100% chance when booked in Patch 5.20. His A2 has a 100% chance to critically hit any enemy under Block Active Skills.

You can use Bystophus in a few ways. If you opt for a Damage build, you should probably look to pair him with a Countess Lix, Karato Foxhunter or Lugan the Steadfast all of which can place the Block Active Skills debuff on an AoE with 100% chance (books may be required). This will allow you to ignore the need for critical rate in your build and focus on Attack and critical damage stats. If you opt for a debuff build then you should focus on reaching high Accuracy levels to enable his A3 to lockdown enemy waves from using their abilities. He can also help setup Konstantin the Dayborn‘s A2 that require both debuffs to gain Ignore Defence. In addition his A1 can apply a fear to any enemy under Block Active Skills. I would avoid blending your builds as generally you will find you won’t hit hard enough if your goal is to Nuke or you will resist in many cases.

His best areas are probably as an Arena nuker (although he will probably not have viability in high end arena), as a Wave control champion in places like Doom Tower or to help lock down those tricky 3 Valkyrie waves in Faction Wars.

Bystophus Ratings

Key Areas

Dungeons

Hard Mode

Doom Tower

Faction Wars

Arena Roles

Understanding Arena Roles

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Champions normally form specific roles within an arena team. Our ratings define the roles that the champion fits and rates them on their ability to perform the roles. Below you can see a breakdown of all of our roles.
Cleanser
Cleanser
Champions with the Cleanser role will use their skills to remove debuffs and keep them from being re-applied.
Crowd Control
Crowd Control
Champions with the Crowd Control role will use their skills to place soft (i.e. Provoke or Taunt) and hard (i.e Freeze or Stun) debuffs to disable enemy champions.
Damage
Damage
Champions with the Damage role will have skills that deal significant damage and are designed to defeat enemy champions.
Damage Absorption
Damage Absorption
Champions with the Damage Absorption role will have skills or effects that reduce the incoming damage your team takes. This can be through passive damage reduction or by applying skills such as Strengthen or Shields.
Healer
Healer
Champions with the Healer role will have skills that restore your champion's Health including Continuous Heals.
Debuffer
Debuffer
Champions with the Debuffer role will have skills that place debuffs that don't fall into Crowd Control or Skill Manipulator roles i.e. Decrease Defence. These champions may also have skills that remove Buffs.
Reviver
Revive
Champions with the Revive role will have skills that bring your ally champions back from the dead including Revive on Death buffs.
Skill Manipulator
Skill Manipulator
Champions with the Skill Manipulator role will have skills that increase enemy skill cooldowns or reduce your ally skill cooldowns.
Speed Manipulator
Speed Manipulator
Champions with the Speed Manipulator role will have skills that affect the turn meter of your allies or enemies. This includes speed buffs and debuffs aswell as direct turn meter effects.

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Bystophus Skills

7/10

Book Value

A2, A3

Book Priority

Bystophus PVE Masteries

Standard PvE
Offense
blade-disciple
deadly-precision
heart-of-glory
keen-strike
shield-breaker
grim-resolve
single-out
life-drinker
whirlwind-of-death
ruthless-ambush
bring-it-down
wrath-of-the-slain
cycle-of-violence
opportunist
methodical
kill-streak
blood-shield
stoked-to-fury
warmaster
helmsmasher
giant-slayer
flawless-execution
Defense
tough-skin
defiant
blastproof
rejuvenation
might-endurance
improved-parry
shadow-heal
resurgent
bloodthirst
wisdom-of-battle
solidarity
delay-death
harvest-despair
stubbornness
selfless-defender
cycle-of-revenge
retribution
deterrence
iron-skin
bulwark
fearsome-presence
unshakeable
Support
steadfast
pinpoint-accuracy
lay-on-hands
shieldbearer
exalt-in-death
charged-focus
healing-savior
rapid-response
swarm-smiter
arcane-celerity
merciful-aid
cycle-of-magic
lore-of-steel
evil-eye
lasting-gifts
spirit-haste
sniper
master-hexer
elixir-of-life
timely-intervention
oppressor
eagle-eye

Bystophus PVP Masteries

Nuker
Debuffer
Offense
blade-disciple
deadly-precision
heart-of-glory
keen-strike
shield-breaker
grim-resolve
single-out
life-drinker
whirlwind-of-death
ruthless-ambush
bring-it-down
wrath-of-the-slain
cycle-of-violence
opportunist
methodical
kill-streak
blood-shield
stoked-to-fury
warmaster
helmsmasher
giant-slayer
flawless-execution
Defense
tough-skin
defiant
blastproof
rejuvenation
might-endurance
improved-parry
shadow-heal
resurgent
bloodthirst
wisdom-of-battle
solidarity
delay-death
harvest-despair
stubbornness
selfless-defender
cycle-of-revenge
retribution
deterrence
iron-skin
bulwark
fearsome-presence
unshakeable
Support
steadfast
pinpoint-accuracy
lay-on-hands
shieldbearer
exalt-in-death
charged-focus
healing-savior
rapid-response
swarm-smiter
arcane-celerity
merciful-aid
cycle-of-magic
lore-of-steel
evil-eye
lasting-gifts
spirit-haste
sniper
master-hexer
elixir-of-life
timely-intervention
oppressor
eagle-eye
Offense
blade-disciple
deadly-precision
heart-of-glory
keen-strike
shield-breaker
grim-resolve
single-out
life-drinker
whirlwind-of-death
ruthless-ambush
bring-it-down
wrath-of-the-slain
cycle-of-violence
opportunist
methodical
kill-streak
blood-shield
stoked-to-fury
warmaster
helmsmasher
giant-slayer
flawless-execution
Defense
tough-skin
defiant
blastproof
rejuvenation
might-endurance
improved-parry
shadow-heal
resurgent
bloodthirst
wisdom-of-battle
solidarity
delay-death
harvest-despair
stubbornness
selfless-defender
cycle-of-revenge
retribution
deterrence
iron-skin
bulwark
fearsome-presence
unshakeable
Support
steadfast
pinpoint-accuracy
lay-on-hands
shieldbearer
exalt-in-death
charged-focus
healing-savior
rapid-response
swarm-smiter
arcane-celerity
merciful-aid
cycle-of-magic
lore-of-steel
evil-eye
lasting-gifts
spirit-haste
sniper
master-hexer
elixir-of-life
timely-intervention
oppressor
eagle-eye

Bystophus Blessings

We recommend you use these blessings for Bystophus.
Team Blessings should be limited to 1 per team. For more information, please read our Team Blessings guide here.

Damage Dealer

soul reap

Debuffer

brimstone

Team Blessing Consider an alternative blessing if this already exists in your team.

Bystophus Gear Recommendations

Recommended PVE Stats

ACC, SPD, C.Rate, ATK %

Recommended PVE Artifact Sets

Speed, Perception, Cruel, Relentless

Recommended PVP Stats

For Nuke: SPD, C.Rate, C.DMG, ATK%
For Debuff: SPD, ACC, HP%

Recommended PVP Artifact Sets

Savage, Cruel, Lethal, Speed, Perception

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