Tayrel

Last Updated: June 4, 2025

Tayrel Overview

In the majestic halls of Aravia, Tayrel protects the kingdom in his silver armour, engraved with intricate elven designs. He wields a spear that’s enchanted with sacred powers from Arbiter herself, so he can vanquish enemies that pose a threat to Teleria. Tayrel is an Epic Defense Champion from the High Elves faction.

Tayrel is an OG classic in the world of Raid: Shadow Legends, famous for his powerful Debuff combination. The ability to place an AOE Decrease Defence on enemies, and a single target Decrease Attack, is strong against the likes of The Clan Boss. This will not only enhance the damage of your team, but will mitigate the incoming damage from the enemy, therefore surviving longer in battle. This synergy can be strong universally, whether that be for waves, or bosses such as The Eternal Dragon to reduce the incoming damage if your skills are put on cooldown [as examples]. Tayrel also has a hard hitting A3 that can Decrease a target’s Turn Meter by 50%, which can be handy in progression to control enemies such as The Fire Knight or the Faction Wars boss. Overall, Tayrel may not be as dominant as he once was, but he still brings effects that players desire to progress, and holds later game value in content such as Sintranos.

Tayrel 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.