Donatello

Last Updated: September 4, 2025

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Donatello Overview

Donatello is a top tier support fusion who excels at keeping teams alive and rotating skills faster, bringing full cleanses, healing, Strengthen, Speed boosts, and powerful cooldown reduction that make him valuable across PvE & PVP content.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have arrived in Teleria through a special collaboration event in Raid: Shadow Legends, bringing Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, April O’Neil, and the fearsome Shredder into the game. This time, April sets aside her journalism to rally the Turtles – not for pizza, but to face Shredder in a brand-new Event Dungeon before he seizes control of the kingdom. Let’s take a look at what Donatello offers as the Fusion champion from the Lizardmen faction!

Donatello’s kit focuses on supporting allies and manipulating cooldowns to help the team cycle active skills faster, making him valuable across nearly all content. His A3 stands out by cleansing all debuffs from allies, applying both Continuous Heal and Strengthen, and boosting Turn Meter by 20%. This combination is excellent for countering debuffs like Poisons from the Dragon, Spider, or Nether Spider, as well as debuffs from other waves and bosses. At the same time, he keeps the team’s health sustained, reduces incoming damage, and accelerates their turn rotation.

With his Shellshocker (A2), Donatello decreases ally skill cooldowns by two turns, places Increase Speed on the team, and attacks all enemies. This allows allies to cycle back to their key abilities faster, thanks to the combined speed boost and cooldown reduction. It’s especially effective in areas like Dungeons or Doom Tower, where champions like Gnut or Seer can reach their heavy-hitting skills more often to clear waves and bosses quicker. The same applies in Hydra, where keeping ahead of the heads and rotating skills faster is ideal.

Like the other Turtles, Donatello can passively join attacks when a fellow turtle hits an enemy. His A1 heals allies by 5% and activates a random Continuous Heal buff, giving the team more sustain. His passive’s active effect can also be clutch – it can prevent an ally from dying to a fatal hit, then equalizes their HP with the team’s average, pulling them back from the brink. Altogether, Donatello is a well rounded support champion who brings strong sustain, utility, and survivability to any team.

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Donatello 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.