Martyr

Last Updated: June 4, 2025

Martyr Overview

Martyr is dressed head to toe in chainmail and has a glowing sword to slay her foes.

She is a Spirit affinity legendary from the Sacred Order faction. Martyr was often considered the no:1 legendary in Raid: Shadow Legends in its first year of release and she continues to be one of the strongest in the game. She has a kit full of fantastic buffs and debuffs however is best known for her A2 skill that increases your whole teams defence and place a counter-attack buff on your entire team for 2 turns. Martyr is one of only 3 champions in Raid able to place a team counter-attack and it is a valuable skill especially in Clan Boss where you have a limited amount of time to output maximum damage before the Clan Boss enrages and destroys your team.
A lot (me included) would suggest Martyr has lost her crown as no:1 champion in the game, she still remains a top 15 champion and able to compete in all content. Her strongest areas of the game are Clan Boss and Faction War where she still gets MVP status.

She still is a solid champion to have in your team because she just brings a lot that you will need in your teams!

Martyr 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.