Raphael

Last Updated: September 11, 2025

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Raphael Overview

Raphael is a PvP-focused nuker who trades survivability for massive damage. He excels at killing protected enemies, chaining turns, and blocking revives, but needs protection or quick kills to avoid dying under Berserk.

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 Raphael, the damage machine from the Barbarians faction!

This champion’s kit is built around dealing heavy damage, with a strong focus on PvP, though he can still perform well in PvE content. A key part of his abilities is the Berserk debuff, which is triggered when any champion dies, or if Raphael’s A3 fails to kill his target. This ability is a triple hit single-target attack that ignores 20% of the enemy’s defence. If needing protection, you’ll want to target the weakest enemy to secure a kill, as doing so grants him Perfect Veil and Unkillable buffs. If the target survives, Berserk activates instead, boosting his damage but also increasing the damage he takes by 50%. This effect will always trigger when fighting bosses.

Berserk powers up his A2, turning it into an AoE that ignores both Shield and Block Damage buffs – perfect for countering champions like Odin or Marichka in Arena. Even without Berserk active, the skill still deals 50% more damage to enemies under Shields, giving you strong value against protected targets. On top of that, Raphael gains 10% Turn Meter with each critical hit, allowing him to rotate turns more quickly, and his passive grants a 20% chance to gain an Extra Turn while under Berserk, letting him chain attacks to take down enemies efficiently.

Like his fellow Turtles, he can join attacks whenever an ally hits an enemy, giving him more chances to use his A1. This skill is particularly deadly, as killing a target with it will Block Revive while also filling his Turn Meter by 10%. The more often it procs, the more pressure he can put on enemies, making him a real threat. Overall, Raphael is a strong damage dealer – while Berserk makes him more vulnerable, the extra damage it provides can make the risk well worth it.

Raphael 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.