Royal Guard

Last Updated: May 4, 2024

Royal Guard Overview

Royal Guard uses his awesome joust as his weapon that can inflict some serious damage to his foes! He is an Epic from the High Elves faction and one of the most desired Epics in Raid: Shadow Legends! Royal Guard is the hardest-hitting Epic in the game versus Dungeon Bosses and one of the hardest-hitting overall champions in the game! He has an A2 ability which scales from the Enemy Max HP. Therefore the further you get through the game and fight tougher enemies, the higher their HP and the harder this ability hits for!
Royal guard also has a single target decrease Defence on his A1 and a multi hitting A3 which decreases turn meter and speed making him a truly amazing champion.

You will want to build your Royal Guard to have 100% Crit rate, High Accuracy (200 for level 20 dungeons), good speed but less than your decrease defence debuffer in your team and as much Crit Damage as possible. To ensure your Royal Guard stays alive it is best to have a HP% chest and an HP ring.

Overall Royal guard will be part of some of the best speed farm teams in the end game in Dragon, Ice Golem and Spider and a staple in Faction War teams. Since release of Doom Tower his signature A2 is also running the show against Agreth provided you one shot the spiderlings or nuke before they even spawn and against Kuldath the Magma Dragon. he also shines well in the Iron Twins Dungeon because he is just such a beast!

Royal Guard Ratings

Key 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.