Nub’s Top 50 Tips for New Players in Raid: Shadow Legends

Hello everyone, Nub here! In today’s article, I’ve been inspired by the HellHades 2025 F2P Challenge to give you my 50 top tips for new players in Raid: Shadow Legends (updated for 2025). I’ll be covering everything you need to know from early champion leveling, building teams, gearing, and more!

Without further ado, let’s dive into it!

1. Follow my F2P 2025 playlist – See everything I’ve done in the first month of the game for step-by-step guidance.

2. Follow Other Creators – If my content isn’t your style, check out other creators also doing the challenge.

3. Use Promo Codes – Start with a promo code, new player code, and link code for multiple free champions.

4. Best Link Code – The Free-to-Play 2025 link code gives Uugo and Tagoar, two top-tier epic champions.

5. Best New Player Promo Code – Choose Sun Wukong or Sigmund the Highshield to start with a legendary champion.

6. Check for Active Promo Codes – You can use a regular promo code every 24 hours.

7. Best Deals for Spenders – If you want to spend, the best options are the Daily Gem Pack, Forge Pass, Champion Pass, or Monthly Pack.

8. Get Your Starter to Level 60 – This is your first major goal to enable campaign farming. Don’t bother ranking up other champions until this is done.

9. Farm Campaign Stage 12 – For any difficulty, this gives the most Account XP for unlocking new content areas.

10. Brutal 12-3 is Best – This specific stage has the best balance of silver, XP, and energy efficiency.

11. Use Gems for Masteries – Spend 800 gems for full masteries on your starter champion.

12. Grinding vs Buying Masteries – Buying costs 800 gems, farming Stage 15 Minotaur costs 620 gems and gives you champ XP and silver.

13. Get Masteries for a Second Champion – This is optional, but will help you farm your 3rd champ’s masteries more quickly.

14. Unlock the Gem Mine – Takes 3 months to pay off, then it’s free gems forever.

15. Unlock the Sparring Pit – It also takes months to pay off but long-term translates to tons of free XP.

16. Kael is the Best Starter Champion – His Poisons are great for early Demon Lord, Chimera, Dragon, etc.

17. Get Decrease Defense for your 2nd Champion – Uugo (if using our Promo Code) or Warmaiden (farmable in campaign).

18. The 3 Key Debuffs – Decrease Defense, Decrease Speed, Decrease Attack are the most important debuffs in the game.

19. The 2 Key Buffs – Increase Speed and Block Debuffs are the most important buffs in the game.

20. The 5 Key Effects – Healing, Removing Debuffs, Increase Turn Meter, Decrease Turn Meter, and Revive are the most important effects in the game.

21. Demon Lord Clan Boss Team – Key elements:

• Starter champion (Kael)
• Decrease Defense (Uugo)
• Decrease Attack (Sigmund the Highshield)
• Defensive Buffs (Sigmund)
• Increase Speed (Tagoar)

22. Nightmare and Ultra Nightmare Demon Lord – These difficulties are where you get Shards and Skill Tomes; make it your top priority.

23. Chimera Clan Boss Team – Use the same team as Demon Lord, but add in remove debuffs for your 5th slot champion if struggling.

24. Dragon & Ice Golem Teams – Use the same team as Demon Lord and Chimera.

25. Fire Knight Team – Needs:

• Turn Meter Reduction (e.g. Armiger)
• Decrease Speed (e.g. Prosecutor)
• Multi-Hit Attacks to break the shield (e.g. Apothecary)
• Heal Reduction (optional but helpful)

26. Spider Dungeon Team – Use:

• HP Burn for easy damage (e.g. Mordecai)
• Decrease Speed & Turn Meter control (e.g. Coldheart and Prosecutor)
• Make sure to get your fragments for Drexthar Bloodtwin (Tag Team Bazaar Reward) every day to get a HP Burn champion.

27. Speed is the Best Stat – Prioritize gear with speed substats on most champions. Use Speed boots for every champion.

28. Stats Over Sets – Focus on good stats over perfect gear sets.

29. Faction Wars for Gear (Forge Materials) – After your first month, this should become your main source of gear.

30. Faction Wars Progression – Aim to farm Stage 8 (epic materials) then Stage 13 (legendary materials).

31. Use Charms on Perception Gear – Perception is the best early-game set.

32. Craft Gear During CvC – easy CvC points to push CvC milestones.

33. Early Game Stat Goals:

• 170+ Speed Minimum
• 200+ Speed for Supports
• 250+ Speed for Speed Boosters or CC champions
• 85% Crit Rate (Starter Champion), 100% (Regular Damage Dealers)
• 200 Accuracy for Dungeons & Clan Bosses

34. Discard 3-4 Star Gear – Focus on 5-6 star gear.

35. Best Early Gear Pieces:

• Speed Boots
• Crit Rate Gloves
• Accuracy Chest

36. War Master Mastery for Damage – Best damage mastery for bosses.

37. Brimstone Blessing – This legendary blessing is extremely strong and adds a ton of free damage against bosses.

38. New Relics System – new type of gear for 2025, make sure to do Chimera every week to start getting relics.

39. Equip Relics on Everyone – Even bad relics provide free stats.

40. Craft Relics Carefully – always use 100 of the same rarity when crafting.

41. Arena Strategy – One-Man Defense Trick

• Refresh every 15 minutes to find easy fights.
• Players will leave one-man defences so they don’t earn too many points.
• Your defense can only lose 10 battles daily, so win more to climb.

42. Get to Gold V Arena – Push to Gold V ASAP for Arbiter Missions.

43. Upgrade Accuracy or Crit Damage in the Great Hall – You need to focus on one at a time for Arbiter Missions.

44. Avoid Farming Gear Dungeons – These are not worth farming.

45. Best Dungeon Stages:

• Stage 11 (If you can’t do better)
• Stage 16 (Decent and still fairly easy)
• Stage 20 (Best efficiency, only 5-6 star gear drops)
• Spider Stage 10 (Best efficiency for Spider early on)

46. Fusions – One per month, but only 3-4 per year are truly great.

47. To Complete a Fusion you will need:

• 1,000 Gems for energy refills
• 45M+ Silver
• Have reached Stage 16-20 Dungeon Progress
• Roughly 5 Sacred, 40 Ancients, and/or 15 Voids saved up

48. Save Permanent Fusion Champions – Summon them during Champion Chase Events to make future fusions easier.

49. Resource Management is Key – Patience and saving resources is essential for success.

50. Titan Events – Not Worth It for New Players – Consider them after 1+ year into the game.