Ultimate Deathknight

Last Updated: May 5, 2023

Ultimate Deathknight Overall Rating:4

Key Areas

Clan Boss:
Hydra:
Doom Tower:
Iron Twins:
Sand Devil:
Shogun Grove:

Dungeons

Spider:
Fire Knight:
Dragon:
Ice Golem:

Hard Mode

Spider:

Fire Knight:

Dragon:

Ice Golem:

Doom Tower

Faction Wars

Magma Dragon:
Frost Spider:
Nether Spider:
Scarab King:

Eternal Dragon:
Celestial Griffin:
Dreadhorn:
Dark Fae:

Faction Wars

Decrease Attack: Godlike
Damage: Legendary
Crowd Control: Great
Protection and Support: Godlike

Arena Roles

Arena Roles Breakdown

Understanding Arena Roles

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

Champions with the Cleanser role will use their skills to remove debuffs and keep them from being re-applied.

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

Champions with the Damage role will have skills that deal significant damage and are designed to defeat enemy champions.

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

Champions with the Healer role will have skills that restore your champion's Health including Continuous Heals.

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.

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

Champions with the Skill Manipulator role will have skills that increase enemy skill cooldowns or reduce your ally skill cooldowns.

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.

Live Arena

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Mythical Champions have multiple forms with different roles. We are currently re-working our ratings to support this dynamic.

DEF

9/10

Book Value

A2, A3

Book Priority

Ultimate Deathknight Overview

Ultimate Deathknight was released in Raid Shadow Legends as a free Legendary login reward champion in August 2022 following a huge marketing campaign showing the original Deathknight desperate to ascend to greatness!

Ultimate Deathknight has a solid kit that will help players progress through Dungeons, especially Ice Golem and Spider. His AOE Decrease Attack ability is a really powerful ability in both of these dungeons and his team shield mechanic is also powerful to help sustain the team. Those same abilities will also be useful in early Clan Boss and Hydra Clan Boss.
One of the most interesting parts about his kit is a passive with the ability to block single target damage and transfer it to Ultimate Deathknight. This is really cool against spiderlings to ensure the damage is always directed at a tank. The same passive could be put to good use against single target hitters in Arena such as Rotos or Mountain King and no doubt will be used in Doom Tower waves against nasty opponents.

Ultimate Deathknight will have some good use cases in Doom Tower specifically against the Magma Dragon where he can provoke and protect the main target from damage & The Scarab Boss where his shield will help to overcome the provoke debuffs.

Books are certainly valuable in his A2 and A3 abilities reducing cooldowns and improving those skills but it is worth noting he is not the best Legendary in the game and will be used less and less towards end game. A more realistic end game build will be to use him to solo Dragon 25 & Ice Golem 25 with specific Niche builds (toxic gear & specific masteries see video below) or as an Arena Specialist.

Ultimate Deathknight Skills

Heckler of Legends

Attacks 1 enemy. Has a 30% chance of placing a [Provoke] debuff for 1 turn. The chance increases to 55% against Legendary Champions.
Level 2: Damage +10%
Level 3: Buff/Debuff Chance +10%
Level 4: Damage +10%
Level 5: Buff/Debuff Chance +10%

Damage Rating

Multiplier: 3.5*DEF
Overall Grading*: Strong

Rats Off To Ya - 4 Turn Cooldown

Attacks all enemies. Has an 80% chance of place a 50% [Decrease ATK] debuff for 2 turns. Also has an 80% chance of placing a [Fear] debuff for 1 turn on each Legendary Champion.
Level 2: Damage +10%
Level 3: Buff/Debuff Chance +10%
Level 4: Buff/Debuff Chance +10%
Level 5: Cooldown -1

Damage Rating

Multiplier: 4*DEF
Overall Grading*: Strong

Get Comfy Everyone - 5 Turn Cooldown

Places a [Shield] buff and a 15% [Continuous Heal] buff on all allies for 2 turns. The value of the [Shield] buff is proportional to this Champion’s DEF.
Level 2: Cooldown -1
Level 3: Cooldown -1

Damage Rating

Multiplier: Shield: 2.5*DEF
Overall Grading*: -

Too Awesome To Die [P]

Whenever an ally is attacked, has a 100% chance of completely blocking 1 hit, decreasing the incoming damage to zero. This champion will receive that damage instead. It will also redirect any debuffs from the hit to this champion. The chance of blocking a hit and redirecting the debuffs decreases to 50% if the attacker is a Boss. Does not work if the attack on the ally was an AoE attack.

Whenever an enemy is healed, heals this champion by 20% of that heal.