Basim Ibn Ishaq

Last Updated: January 12, 2026

Basim Ibn Ishaq Overview

Basim is a Sacred Order Assassin built around Perfect Veil, dealing heavy scaling damage against buffed and debuffed enemies while locking them down with Block Active Skills and Weaken, making him a strong Arena and PvE damage-control hybrid, especially alongside other Assassins like Ezio.

This master assassin, featured in both Mirage and Valhalla, enters Teleria as part of the Assassin’s Creed x Raid: Shadow Legends collaboration. From the shadows, Basim has long watched over the realm, witnessing countless warriors fall to the powerful beings that roam the land. Now, the Hidden One steps forward, ready to strike from the darkness… with his sights firmly set on Augustin!

Basim naturally pairs well with Ezio as the only other Assassin within the Sacred Order for content such as Faction Wars, though his synergy with other Assassins, and his strength as a standalone champion extends beyond that. At its core, his kit is focused on dealing damage, scaling against enemies with buffs and debuffs, while self-applying Perfect Veil to make his effects more powerful while the buff is active.

Starting with his A3, Basim unleashes a double-hitting single-target attack that deals 5% increased damage for each buff and debuff on both himself and the target, scaling up to 100%. Then, he places Perfect Veil on himself and gains an Extra Turn. Target selection is crucial to maximise value here, along with ensuring Basim is properly buffed to push his damage as high as possible. The Extra Turn then allows him to seamlessly cycle into either his A2 or A1.

His A2 is an AoE attack that increases its defence ignore from 15% to 30% while under Perfect Veil, and also places Block Active Skills, which ignores Block Debuffs when veiled. This creates a strong blend of damage and control, shutting down key enemy abilities and preventing Mythical champions from switching forms. While veiled, Basim’s A1 gains a 100% chance to place Weaken – a perfect pairing with Ezio’s Decrease DEF – and also increases his chance to spread a random debuff to additional enemies.

Lastly, Basim shares the familiar Assassin passive: whenever an enemy drops below 25% HP after taking damage from any Assassin, they receive bonus damage based on Basim’s ATK, adding extra pressure to targets that survive the initial onslaught. His second passive allows him to steal a random buff and transfer a debuff from himself to the attacker, ignoring Polymorph. While under Perfect Veil, he also ignores 25% of enemy Resistance, further increasing the chances of landing key effects such as Block Active Skills and Weaken.

Basim Ibn Ishaq Ratings

Core Areas

Dungeons

Hard Mode

Doom Tower

Faction Wars

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Arena Roles

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.