RAID: Three New Champions Arrive

A new wave of champions is landing in RAID: Shadow Legends, bringing a Mythical Banner Lord with a dual-form kit, a powerful Bomb-focused Fusion for November, and a Void Legendary Orc built for cleansing, shielding and disruption. This patch introduces three very different archetypes, but each stands out with unique mechanics and high-end potential across Arena, Hydra and late-game PvE.

Below is a full overview of what each new champion brings to the table, how their abilities flow together, and where they are likely to shine.

Joan enters the game as a flexible dual-form Mythical, starting as a high-end support before transforming into a deadly single-target executioner. Her entire kit revolves around Resistance scaling, making her one of the few champions whose offensive and defensive power both benefit from high RES investment.

In her initial form, Joan is an elite support for resistant, defensive teams. Her basic skill attacks once and heals all allies based on their RES and Max HP, with a chance to spread buffs across the team — a powerful mechanic that multiplies team utility quickly.

Her main team skill acts as a full cleanse followed by Increase ATK, Increase RES, and Turn Meter boost, allowing her to maintain near-permanent uptime on key buffs. She also brings a premium revive, restoring an ally with high HP, applying Unkillable, and immediately giving them an extra turn.

Her transformation skill lets her cleanse, revive or buff first, then instantly shift into her alternative form when needed.

Joan’s passive pushes her further into RES-based gameplay by increasing all allies’ damage against targets with lower RES. It also triggers one of her major support skills whenever enemies revive — a built-in anti-revive response that keeps momentum firmly on your side.

Once transformed, Joan switches to a relentless single-target damage role. Her main attack hits each enemy individually and ramps up ignore DEF every time she counterattacks, stacking to potent levels and doubling in power when counterattacking.

Her AoE skill steals Turn Meter from all enemies before attacking — and cannot be resisted — making it a powerful tempo tool in Arena. It also gains bonus damage against targets with lower RES and places Block Damage on herself.

Her final attack is a triple-hit finisher that ignores Shield, Block Damage, Unkillable and part of the enemy’s DEF when their RES is lower. Killing such enemies applies Block Revive, while failing to kill grants her another turn, letting her cycle quickly into follow-up damage.

Her passive in this form reduces incoming damage from low-RES targets and applies a protected Counterattack at the end of every turn, essentially keeping her in a permanent retaliation stance and accelerating her ignore DEF stacking.

Joan the Luminant is a champion who rewards smart form swapping, strong RES builds, and well-timed transformations. She’s equally capable of anchoring a defensive RES-heavy Arena lineup or tearing through bosses and waves once she flips into offensive mode.

Gaellut brings a blend of cleansing, protection and crowd control, making him one of the most versatile HP-based supports in the Orcs faction. His basic attack reduces buff duration and places Block Buffs, and against bosses this debuff becomes protected, giving him strong utility in late-game PvE.

His AoE skill combines stuns, Decrease DEF and Turn Meter reduction, ensuring that either enemies are locked down or slowed significantly. This ability alone makes him a fantastic control champion for Doom Tower waves and Arena.

His main team skill cleanses all allies, heals them heavily, and applies both a large shield and Fortify, the latter dampening ignore-DEF mechanics that commonly break defensive teams. This creates enormous sustain, especially in long battles.

Gaellut’s passive is what makes him exceptional: every time your team accumulates a certain number of debuffs, he automatically triggers his full cleanse + shield + heal rotation, and the buffs become protected when activated this way. This works even during heavy poison waves, Burn-heavy bosses and any content where debuffs stack quickly, keeping your team permanently safe without managing cooldowns.

He is one of the strongest reactive supports RAID has added in some time and will likely be a staple in Hydra, Spider, debuff-based Doom Tower bosses and survival-heavy Arena defenses.

Kroz Wallbreaker is November’s Fusion and one of RAID’s most versatile Bomb champions to date. His kit revolves around affinity-friendly Bomb placement, countdown reduction and the ability to punish Stoneskin teams — an increasing concern in high-end PvP.

His basic attack hits three times and can shorten the countdown on existing Bombs while also providing a chance to place Stun, giving him natural control even outside of Bomb setups.

His most important skill places two Bombs on each enemy without attacking, meaning it cannot weak hit and will land reliably with enough Accuracy. It then boosts his Turn Meter for every enemy affected, often launching him directly into his next rotation.

His AoE attack reduces the Bomb countdown for all enemies and places Block Active Skills for two turns. This is particularly powerful against Mythical champions, as it prevents their transformation mechanics and can shut down many meta-defining kits.

Kroz’s passive ties everything together by giving all allies Turn Meter whenever any Bomb detonates, and granting him a chance at an instant turn whenever a Bomb secures a kill. This enables explosive tempo swings during wave content and Arena fights.

While Bomb champions traditionally struggle in sustained PvE, Kroz’s affinity bypass and skill cycle improvements make him extremely consistent for Faction Wars, Doom Tower waves and, most importantly, Arena offenses where Stoneskin remains prevalent.

This patch brings real diversity to the game: Joan provides a rare dual-form Mythical that scales with Resistance and rewards hybrid team building, Gaellut introduces some of the strongest reactive cleansing and shielding mechanics RAID has seen, and Kroz offers an accessible Fusion with tremendous PvP potential through Bomb manipulation and Stoneskin counterplay.

Each champion serves a different purpose — sustain, control, burst or utility — but all three have a clear identity and high-end use cases. Players who invest in these champions will find powerful roles for them across Arena, Doom Tower and late-game PvE, marking this patch as one of the more impactful champion drops of the year.