How to Build a Hydra Quick Battle Team

Quick Battles for the Hydra Clan Boss are coming in the next patch for Raid: Shadow Legends, so in this guide we break down everything you need to know to build an auto-friendly team that will maximise your runs and get you the best rewards possible in the shortest time!

These are the most important debuffs to bring in your Hydra Quick Battle team.

NECESSARY

1. Block Buffs – stops the Heads applying Poison Cloud, Reflect Damage, Increase Attack, etc.
2. Provoke – stops the Head of Decay from removing debuffs and placing shields.
3. Decrease Speed – slow down Hydra turns.
4. Decrease Defence – the Hydra has very high defence, so this is needed to do good damage.

GREAT

5. Hex – do more damage and target Mischief when devoured.
6. Weaken – do more damage.
7. Decrease Attack – take less damage.

OPTIONAL

8. HP Burn – easy damage and lets you land hits through Poison Cloud.
9. Decrease Accuracy – helps you resist Poisons, Provokes, etc.
10. Leech – helps keep your damage dealers and champions with Warmaster or Giant Slayer alive.

These are the most important buffs to bring in your Hydra Quick Battle team.

NECESSARY

1. Increase Speed – take more turns.

GREAT

2. Perfect Veil – prevents the Head of Torment placing True Fears whenever you attack it.
3. Block Debuffs – blocks Poisons, Heal Reduction, etc.
4. Increase Attack – more damage from ATK-based damage dealers.
5. Shield – survivability.
6. Strengthen – survivability.
7. Increase Defence – survivability, more damage from DEF-based damage dealers.

OPTIONAL

8. Increase Accuracy – hit ACC requirements.
9. Continuous Heal – survivability.
10. Ally Protection – survivability.

These are the most important effects to bring in your Hydra Quick Battle team.

NECESSARY

1. Revive – saves your run if anyone dies to bad RNG, Reflect Damage, etc.

GREAT

2. Ally Attack – big damage boost.
3. Increase Buff Duration – keeps buffs consistent.

OPTIONAL

4. Cleanse – keeps poisons, heal reduction, CC in check.
5. Reduce Skill Cooldown – more uses of key skills.
6. Healing – survivability.
7. Increase Turn Meter – take more turns.
8. Remove Buffs – remove nasty buffs such as Reflect Damage.
9. Increase Debuff Duration – keeps debuffs consistent.
10. Debuff Spread – keeps debuffs consistent.

These are the some other things you can bring in your Hydra Quick Battle team.

AURAS

1. SPD – take more turns.
2. ACC – hit requirements.
3. ATK – do more damage.
4. HP – survivability.
5. RES – hit requirements.

OTHER

1. Mischief tank – high resist, often slowest champ with most buffs to be targetted by mischief

CHAMPIONS

1. Visix the Unbowed – provoke, dec spd, ally prot (Cursed)
2. Uugo – dec def, block buffs, healing, cleanse, leech (Relentless)
3. Rector Drath – revive, perfect veil, healing (Reflex)
4. Golden Reaper – increase spd, dec atk, reduce skill cooldown (Relentless)
5. Geomancer – damage, burn, weaken, dec acc (Reflex)
6. Royal Guard – damage, dec def, dec spd (Savage)

Note: it is very hard to find good provoke, inc spd, dec spd champs amongst epics.

HOW THE TEAM WORKS

This example team covers our key buffs and debuffs:
– Block buffs
– Provoke
– Dec. SPD
– Dec. Def
– Inc. SPD
– Revive

It covers some high priority:
– Weaken
– Perfect Veil
– Dec. ATK

It covers some optional priority:
– HP aura
– Burn
– Dec. ACC
– Leech
– Ally Prot.
– Healing
– Reduce Skill Cooldown
– Inc. Turn Meter

We are missing some high priority:
– Hex – can be replaced with a cursed set, ideally on Visix
– Block Debuffs – we will be relying on Rector’s passive RES boost and Geo’s Dec. ACC to help
– Inc ATK – our damage dealers are MAX HP focussed
– Shield – we will rely on ally prot, veil, and healing instead
– Strengthen – we will rely on ally prot, veil, and healing instead
– Inc DEF – our damage dealers are MAX HP focussed
– Ally Attack – we can’t fit it in
– Inc Buff Duration – we can’t fit it in

Some Champion Upgrades

1. Krisk the Ageless instead of Visix.
2. Nekmo Thaar instead of Golden Reaper.
3. Marius the Gallant instead of Royal Guard.