Galek

Last Updated: June 23, 2025

Galek Overview

At the start of your journey in Raid: Shadow Legends, you’re faced with a decision: who will your starter Rare champion be? One of the four options is the Orc you see before you – Galek – a familiar face featured in many of the game’s ads and promotions. Unfortunately, he’s not considered the strongest choice among the starters, though with the abundance of free champion Link Codes and Promo Codes available today, your initial pick isn’t as critical as it once was.

The more popular Rare choices tend to be Kael, an AOE damage dealer who also brings Poisons, and Athel, who enhances her own damage, hits with AOE damage, and applies Weaken on her A1. As for Galek, he offers a random hitting Decrease Defence ability that applies the stronger version if the target is under two or more debuffs. He also brings AOE damage with a self applied Increase Speed buff, which is a useful synergy for outpacing enemies and increasing team damage through Decrease Defence. His 4 hit random A3 also makes him a decent pick for early Fire Knight teams, helping to knock down the boss’s Shield counters.

Galek Ratings

Core Areas

Dungeons

Hard Mode

Doom Tower

Faction Wars

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.